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Use the prompt below to answer questions #20-23: Rise N’ Roll Bakery is the only producer of Amish-made donuts, pies, breads, and cookies in northern Indiana.The demand for a license that will enable someone to open a national franchise is: QD = 4,160 – (1/3)P where Q is the quantity of Rise N’ Roll national franchise licenses per year and  P is the price per unit. Rise N’ Roll Bakery total costs are:

The following scenarios provide examples of the various degrees of price discrimination related to the University of Notre Dame: Scenario 1: After the final exam schedule is released, students are able to determine when to book their flights home for the summer break. Airfares for students that purchase their tickets to a particular location on March 1st are lower than airfares for students that purchase their tickets on May 1st. Scenario 2: Notre Dame’s tuition and fees are $57, 699 (2020 – 2021). However, individual students often pay different prices as a result of financial aid. Scenario 3: To join Notre Dame’s Sorin Society, members must make annual lump-sum contributions to the university and they receive numerous benefits as a result. One benefit is the ability to purchase tickets to attend exclusive dinners at the Morris Inn after Notre Dame home football games. Members pay a price for each dinner they attend in addition to an annual fee of $1,500. The more dinners member attend, the more the annual fee is spread out over the dinners. Identify the degree of price discrimination for each of the aforementioned examples.

The chart below depicts three of the firm’s relevant short-run production curves that were estimated by the consultant: Name the short-run cost curve that is derived from each short-run production curve. Please label your solutions accordingly (i, ii, iii).

Describe at least five financial principles you learned from your Proverbs project.

List the five categories of financial ratios discussed in the textbook and in the lectures, and then give the following additional information: How are the ratios in each category primarily used? Why do investors & creditors care about those kinds of ratios?  For each category give at least one specific ratio that fits into the category and give a brief description of what we learn from analyzing that specific ratio.

What are the similarities and differences between a sport organization using bonds to finance its future growth or issuing common stock to finance growth?

The feeling of belonging to __________ involves a sense that others care what happens to us and that we can depend on the people around us.

Smoking cigarettes causes lung cancer. This reflects __________.

Describe what analysts mean by horizontal analysis when they look at financial statements. Then describe vertical analysis. Give some specific ways that each of these two perspectives help investors & creditors make decisions about a sport organization.

Explain the concept of future value as if you were talking to a relative who is interested in sports but who doesn’t have a financial theory background. You may use simple numbers if you want to, but if you can explain the concept without numbers, that’s fine, too. Now explain the concept of present value to that same relative. Your relative is unusually inquisitive about future value and present value – so inquisitive, in fact, that you decide to hit him/her with the pièce de résistance – annuities! Tell them what annuities are and why sport settings sometimes have to deal with annuities.