Place the following steps for developing a credit policy in the correct order of process: A: The company hopes that few customers will miss payments, so it decides to take no action to collect bad debts. B: The company decides that payments must be made within 45 days. C: The company decides that it's willing to lose sales in exchange for less bad debt risk. B, C, A C, A, B B, A, C C, B, A

Bonds often pay a coupon twice a year. for the valuation of bonds that make semiannual payments, the number of periods doubles, whereas the amount of cash flow decreases by half. using the values of cash flows and number of periods, the valuation model is adjusted accordingly. assume that a $1,000,000 par value, semiannual coupon us treasury note with three years to maturity has a coupon rate of 3%. the yield to maturity (ytm) of the bond is 7.70%. using this information and ignoring the other costs involved, calculate the value of the treasury note: