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A project with an initial cost of $39,700 is expected to provide cash flows of $11,280, $11,100, $9,590, and $11,050 over the next four years, respectively. If the required return is 12.3 percent, what is the project’s profitability index?

Alt’s is contemplating the purchase of a new $163,000 computer-based order entry system. The system will be depreciated straight-line to zero over the system’s five-year life. The system will be worthless at the end of five years. The company will save $40,750 before taxes per year in order processing costs and will reduce its net working capital by $16,000 immediately. The net working capital will return to its original level when the project ends. The tax rate is 21 percent. What is the internal rate of return for this project?

Sixty-one percent of US families with young children

What is the yield to maturity of a $1,000-face value bond that matures in 24 years and pays a 10.5 percent, semiannual coupon if it trades at $931.25?

A company purchased an asset for $2,750,000 that will be used in a 3-year project. The asset is in the 3-year MACRS class. The depreciation percentage each year is 33.33 percent, 44.45 percent, and 14.81 percent, respectively. What is the book value of the equipment at the end of the project?

A project that costs $17,000 today will generate cash flows of $4,100 per year for seven years. What is the project’s payback period?

A project has a unit price of $19.45, a variable cost per unit of $7.07, fixed costs of $415,000, and depreciation expense of $30,000. Ignore taxes. What is the accounting break-even quantity?

The recovery in jobs has not been as quick as after previous recessions. Why is this?

What percentage of African American children are born to a single mother?

What is the value of one share of stock whose most recent dividend was $4.00 if the dividend is expected to grow 3.75 percent next year and every year thereafter and if the appropriate required return is 15.25 percent per year?