Sommer, Inc., is considering a project that will result in initial after tax cash savings of $2.3mil at the end of the first year, and these savings will grow at a rate of 2% per year indefinitely. The firm has a target debt-equity ratio of 0.6, a cost of equity of 10%, and an after tax cost of debt of 4.6%. The cost-savings proposal is somewhat riskier than the usual project the firm undertakes; management uses a subjective approach and applies an adjustment factor of 3% to the cost of capital for such risky project. Under what circumstances should the company take on the project

Arriving and delivering a load of company executives for a business meeting at a destination far from home base requiring an overnight stay, a company’s pilot requested approval from the company finance office to pay to either have the company’s jet brought into the fbo's hangar overnight to protect it from a forecast snowfall or to have it de-iced by the fbo the following morning well-before scheduled departure. the company was under considerable financial pressure at the time, and the pilot’s requests were denied because of the cost. so, early the following morning, the pilot was up on the wing of the jet sweeping off an accumulation of snow and ice with a borrowed push broom in preparation for the scheduled departure with the executives, but slipped and fell to the ground, suffering a broken neck. the business was organized as a limited partnership, owned by 3 limited partners and one general partner. as a cost-saving measure, the company had dropped its workers’ compensation insurance before the accident. analyze the potential liability for the pilot’s injuries of each of the following, showing your reasoning clearly: the company the general partner the limited partners analyze how the outcome would have been different, if the business had been organized as a corporation and observed all of the formalities to legitimize its corporate status. analyze how the outcome would have been different, if the pilot had been covered by workers’ compensation insurance.

Identify and describe a variety of performance rating scales that can be used in organizations including graphical scales, letter scales, and numeric scales.

Adecision is made at the margin when each alternative considers