Your text argues that investment and the interest rate are negatively correlated, because higher interest rates make borrowing money for investment by a firm from a bank a less attractive option. Firms, in fact, only finance about 20-25% of their new capital by borrowing and the remainder is financed by equity ownership (including reinvesting retained earnings). Prof. Holmes criticized the textbook explanation as illogical and incoherent. What was his criticism (Hint, it involved 4 interest rates or rates of return)

In the 1970s, kmart used blue light specials to encourage customers to flock to a particular department having a temporary sale. a spinning blue light activated for approximately 30 seconds, and then an in-store announcement informed shoppers of the special savings in the specific department. over time, loyal kmart shoppers learned to flock to the department with the spinning blue light before any announcement of special savings occurred. if kmart was employing classical conditioning techniques, what role did the spinning blue light play?

After successfully completing your corporate finance class, you feel the next challenge ahead is to serve on the board of directors of schenkel enterprises. unfortunately, you will be the only person voting for you. the company has 375,000 shares outstanding, and the stock currently sells for $40, if there are four seats in the current election, how much will it cost you to buy a seat?

Which of the following is not a factor to consider when deciding whether to accept a special order? whether this order will hurt the brand name of the company whether other potential orders would be more profitable whether additional fixed costs would need to be incurred whether the offered price is sufficient to cover prime costs and fixed overhead allocated all of the above