Xplain why you believe that employees are outraged about outlandish executive compensation while their own pay has been reduced. Describe your assessment of at least 1 example of compensation packages that appeared to be for the benefit of the executives, regardless of the cost. Analyze the rationale of executives in cases when their compensation package is outwardly perceived as excessive. Explain what the government has done in the attempt to curtail these apparent abuses in compensation. Recommend what you believe constitutes an ethical executive compensation plan. Include at least 3 prope

The systems analysis phase includes three activities – requirements modeling, data and process modeling, and consideration of development strategies. choose two of these activities, explain their differences, and discuss how they are used to accomplish the main objective which is to understand the proposed project.

An annuity that goes on indefinitely is called a perpetuity. the payments of a perpetuity constitute a/an series. the equation is: a stock with no maturity is an example of a perpetuity. quantitative problem: you own a security that provides an annual dividend of $170 forever. the security’s annual return is 9%. what is the present value of this security? round your answer to the nearest cent. $

If a firm plans to issue new stock, flotation costs (investment bankers' fees) should not be ignored. there are two approaches to use to account for flotation costs. the first approach is to add the sum of flotation costs for the debt, preferred, and common stock and add them to the initial investment cost. because the investment cost is increased, the project's expected return is reduced so it may not meet the firm's hurdle rate for acceptance of the project. the second approach involves adjusting the cost of common equity as follows: . the difference between the flotation-adjusted cost of equity and the cost of equity calculated without the flotation adjustment represents the flotation cost adjustment. quantitative problem: barton industries expects next year's annual dividend, d1, to be $1.90 and it expects dividends to grow at a constant rate g = 4.3%. the firm's current common stock price, p0, is $22.00. if it needs to issue new common stock, the firm will encounter a 6% flotation cost, f. assume that the cost of equity calculated without the flotation adjustment is 12% and the cost of old common equity is 11.5%. what is the flotation cost adjustment that must be added to its cost of retaine