Use the following information to answer next three questions:

IO PI IRR LIFE

Project 1 $300,000 1.12 14.38% 15 years

Project 2 $150,000 1.08 13.32% 6 years

Project 3 $100,000 1.20 16.46% 3 years

Assume that the cost of capital is 12%.

If the firm has a maximum capital expenditures budget of $450,000, and if the projects are independent and mutually exclusive but not repeatable, which project(s) should be accepted?

Projects 1 and 2

Projects 1 and 3

Projects 2 and 3

Projects 1, 2, and 3

Project 1

Minneapolis federal reserve bank economist edward prescott estimates the elasticity of the u. s. labor supply to be 3. given this elasticity, what would be the impact of funding the social security program with tax increases on the number of hours worked and on the amount of taxes collected to fund social security?

Your take on decision making process

Which of the following differentiates cost accounting and financial accounting? a. the primary users of cost accounting are the investors, whereas the primary users of financial accounting are the managers. b. cost accounting measures only the financial information related to the costs of acquiring fixed assets in an organization, whereas financial accounting measures financial and nonfinancial information of a company's business transactions. c. cost accounting measures information related to the costs of acquiring or using resources in an organization, whereas financial accounting measures a financial position of a company to investors, banks, and external parties. d. cost accounting deals with product design, production, and marketing strategies, whereas financial accounting deals mainly with pricing of the products.