The following financial information is available on Rawls Manufacturing Company: Current per share market price $48.00 Current per share dividend $3.50 Current per share earnings $6.00 Beta 1.1 Expected rate of return on market 12.0% Risk-free rate 6.0% Expected long-term growth rate 5.0% Rawls can issue new common stock to net the company $44 per share. Determine the cost of external equity capital using the dividend capitalization model approach. (Compute answer to the nearest 0.1%.)

What other aspects of ecuadorian culture, other than its predominant religion and language, might affect that country’s culture?

Guardian inc. is trying to develop an asset-financing plan. the firm has $450,000 in temporary current assets and $350,000 in permanent current assets. guardian also has $550,000 in fixed assets. assume a tax rate of 40 percent. a. construct two alternative financing plans for guardian. one of the plans should be conservative, with 70 percent of assets financed by long-term sources, and the other should be aggressive, with only 56.25 percent of assets financed by long-term sources. the current interest rate is 12 percent on long-term funds and 7 percent on short-term financing. compute the annual interest payments under each plan.

According to management education expert ashok rao, companies can increase their profitability by through careful inventory management. a. 5% to 10% b. 10% to 25% c. 20% to 50% d. 75%