You are the CEO of a company faced with a decision about what products to make and sell during the next period. To make things easy, there are only two products, P and Q. We can manufacture each of these with perfection, no defects and no rejects. We know exactly, to the penny, how much it will cost us to manufacture each of these products. Our sales force faces an eager market and no sales discounts are necessary. The selling price for P is $90 per unit and the selling price for Q is $100 per unit. The market demand for P is 100 units per week and the demand for Q is 50 units per week. We can sell any quantity up to and including these numbers but no more. Engineering tells us, with great certainty that the manufacturing process for these products is:

The treasurer for pittsburgh iron works wishes to use financial futures to hedge her interest rate exposure. she will sell five treasury futures contracts at $139,000 per contract. it is july and the contracts must be closed out in december of this year. long-term interest rates are currently 7.30 percent. if they increase to 9.50 percent, assume the value of the contracts will go down by 20 percent. also if interest rates do increase by 2.2 percent, assume the firm will have additional interest expense on its business loans and other commitments of $149,000. this expense, of course, will be separate from the futures contracts. a. what will be the profit or loss on the futures contract if interest rates increase to 9.50 percent by december when the contract is closed out

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The uptowner just paid an annual dividend of $4.12. the company has a policy of increasing the dividend by 2.5 percent annually. you would like to purchase shares of stock in this firm but realize that you will not have the funds to do so for another four years. if you require a rate of return of 16.7 percent, how much will you be willing to pay per share when you can afford to make this investment?