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The Electronics Store begins each week with 60 gadgets in stock. This stock is depleted and reordered weekly. The carrying cost per gadget is $21 per year and the fixed order cost is $45. What is the optimal number of orders that should be placed each year?

Carland, Incorporated, has a project available with the following cash flows. If the required return for the project is 9.8 percent, what is the project’s NPV? Year Cash Flow 0 −$ 277,000 1 89,100 2 111,300 3 127,300 4 78,500 5 −13,900

Pro forma financial statements can best be described as financial statements:

The common stock of Flavorful Teas has an expected return of 16.80 percent. The return on the market is 10 percent and the risk-free rate of return is 3.2 percent. What is the beta of this stock?

Monroe Partners has received requests for capital investment funds for next year from each of its five divisions. All requests represent positive net present value projects. All projects are independent. Senior management has decided to allocate the available funds based on the profitability index of each project since the company has insufficient funds to fulfill all of the requests. Management is following a practice known as:

A company that utilizes the MACRS system of depreciation but does not use bonus depreciation:

Based on market values, Gubler’s Gym has an equity multiplier of 1.46 times. Shareholders require a return of 10.91 percent on the company’s stock and a pretax return of 4.84 percent on the company’s debt. The company is evaluating a new project that has the same risk as the company itself. The project will generate annual aftertax cash flows of $277,000 per year for 7 years. The tax rate is 21 percent. What is the most the company would be willing to spend today on the project?

By definition, which one of the following must equal zero at the cash break-even point?

Alina’s Cafe is expanding and expects the expansion to cause an increase in operating cash flows of $42,000 per year for seven years. This expansion requires $78,000 in new fixed assets. These assets will be worthless at the end of the project. In addition, the project requires an investment of $6,000 in net working capital at the start of the project, which will be recovered at the end of the project. What is the net present value of this expansion project at a required rate of return of 14 percent?

With a compromise financial policy companies will: