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Cantu Custom Auto has sales of $987,400 and costs of goods sold of $362,300. Beginning inventory is $64,300 and ending inventory is $60,900. What is the inventory turnover rate?

Theresa’s Flower Garden has 650 bonds outstanding that are selling for $1,007 each, 2,100 shares of preferred stock with a market price of $68 per share, and 42,000 shares of common stock valued at $44 per share. What weight should be assigned to the preferred stock when computing the weighted average cost of capital?

Mayhew Pet Foods has a beginning accounts payable balance of $43,100 and an ending accounts payable balance of $39,700. Sales for the period were $565,300 and costs of goods sold were $216,900. What was the payables turnover rate?

National Home Rentals has a beta of 1.06, a stock price of $17, and recently paid an annual dividend of $.92 per share. The dividend growth rate is 2.2 percent. The market has a rate of return of 11.2 percent and a risk premium of 7.3 percent. What is the estimated cost of equity using the average return of the CAPM and the dividend discount model?

When determining a firm’s weighted average cost of capital, the item with the least amount of impact is the:

A strength of the average accounting return (AAR) method of project analysis is the fact that AAR:

A stock had annual returns of 5.3 percent, −2.7 percent, 16.2 percent, and 13.6 percent over the past four years. Which one of the following best describes the probability that this stock will produce a return of 20 percent or more in a single year?

Kelley Couriers just paid its annual dividend of $5.25 per share. The stock has a market price of $58.25 and a beta of 1.2. The return on the U.S. Treasury bill is 1 percent and the market risk premium is 8.5 percent. What is the cost of equity?

Money deposited by a borrower with a bank in a low or non-interest-bearing account as a condition of a loan agreement is called a:

Lakeside Winery is considering expanding its winemaking operations. The expansion will require new equipment costing $653,000 that would be depreciated on a straight-line basis to zero over the 6-year life of the project. The equipment will have a market value of$170,000 at the end of the project. The project requires $40,000 initially for net working capital, which will be recovered at the end of the project. The operating cash flow will be $147,600 a year. What is the net present value of this project if the relevant discount rate is 12 percent and the tax rate is 21 percent?