Charles (age 38) has just died. He has been credited with the last 30 consecutive credits of Social Security coverage in the last 30 quarters since he left school and began full-time employment. He had never worked before leaving school. Which of the following persons are eligible to receive Social Security survivor benefits as a result of Charles’s death?

1. Charles’s child, Bill, age 16

2. Charles’s child, Dawn, age 19

3. Charles’s widow, Maggie, age 38

4. Charles’s dependent mother, Betty, age 60

Group of answer choices

1 only

1, 2 and 4

1 and 2

2, 3 and 4

Retlaw Corporation (RC) manufactures time-series photographic equipment. It is currently at its target debt–equity ratio of 0.83. It’s considering building a new $46 million manufacturing facility. This new plant is expected to generate after-tax cash flows of $8.5 million in perpetuity. The company raises all equity from outside financing. There are three financing options: A new issue of common stock: The flotation costs of the new common stock would be 8% of the amount raised. The required return on the company’s new equity is 16%. A new issue of 20-year bonds: The flotation costs of the new bonds would be 4% of the proceeds. If the company issues these new bonds at an annual coupon rate of 8.0%, they will sell at par. Increased use of accounts payable financing: Because this financing is part of the company’s ongoing daily business, it has no flotation costs, and the company assigns it a cost that is the same as the overall firm WACC. Management has a target ratio of accounts payable to long-term debt of 0.140. What is the NPV of the new plant? Assume that RC has a 35% tax rate. (Enter the answer in dollars. Do not round intermediate calculations. Round the WACC percentage to 2 decimal places. Round the final answer to 2 decimal places. Omit $ sign in your response.) NPV $

The Cost of the Cheap Shirt Conduct some research about the working conditions and regulatory environment in clothing factories in Bangladesh. Economists warn about quick fixes for wages and the imposition of U.S. safety standards on foreign factories. They offer the following figures to illustrate that the issue of labor conditions in other countries is complex. In Bangladesh, clothing factories get about $6.75 per shirt. These are the factory costs: $4.75 for the fabric and thread $1.00 for the shirt’s labels $0.38 wage costs for each shirt (workers earn $70 to $80 a month) $0.15 per shirt for laundering That leaves $0.47 per shirt for facilities, shipment, marketing, and perhaps the interest on loans. The cost of living in Bangladesh is $40 per month for rent, and food per adult is $13 per month. Milk for a child is $5 per month. Those who work in the factories are generally the main wage earners in their families because no other jobs pay as well. Given this analysis, where do you see some fixes for the safety and wage issues? What needs to be done besides instituting codes of ethics and factory and labor standards? Assume that you are a manager for a clothing firm in the United States and you are being sent to Bangladesh to select a new manufacturer for your clothing lines. Discuss some of the issues that will affect your decisions about choosing a new facility to work with.

You need a 25-year, fixed-rate mortgage to buy a new home for $240,000. Your mortgage bank will lend you the money at a 7.1 percent APR for this 300-month loan. However, you can afford monthly payments of only $850, so you offer to pay off any remaining loan balance at the end of the loan in the form of a single balloon payment. How large will this balloon payment have to be for you to keep your monthly payments at $850?
A) $687,844.56

B) $737,482.82

C) $101,874.08

D) $709,118.1

E) $120,814.04

RAK, Inc., has no debt outstanding and a total market value of $165,000. Earnings before interest and taxes, EBIT, are projected to be $21,000 if economic conditions are normal. If there is strong expansion in the economy, then EBIT wIll be 25 percent higher. If there is a recession, then EBIT will be 35 percent lower. The company is considering a $60,000 debt issue with an interest rate of 7 percent. The proceeds will be used to repurchase shares of stock.There are currently 5,500 shares outstanding. Ignore taxes for this problem.

a. Calculate earnings per share, EPS, under each of the three economic scenarios before any debt is issued. Also calculate the percentage changes in EPS when the economy expands or enters a recession.

b. Repeat part (a) assuming that the company goes through with recapitalization. What do you observe?

Bill Guerin, an entrepreneur, has a project available for investment with two pro-duction techniques, Safe and Risky, both requiring an initial investment of $100. Next year, the Safe technique provides a payoff of $120 with certainty, and the Risky technique pays $124 if successful, but only $94 if unsuccessful, where the risk-neutral probability of success is ½. The risk-free rate is 5%.

Can Guerin obtain a $100 loan to be repaid next year to finance the project at the risk-free rate?

What is the NPV for the bank if it charges 15% interest on the loan?

What is the NPV for the bank if it charges 17% interest on the loan?

(1 mark) Suppose the bank has a monopoly on providing financing. Discuss how parts b) and c) relate to the bank’s decision about what interest rate to charge.

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You must evaluate a proposal to buy a new milling machine. The base price is $138,000, and shipping and installation costs would add another $13,000. The machine falls into the MACRS 3-year class, and it would be sold after 3 years for $62,100. The applicable depreciation rates are 33%, 45%, 15%, and 7%. The machine would require a $9,500 increase in net operating working capital (increased inventory less increased accounts payable). There would be no effect on revenues, but pretax labor costs would decline by $47,000 per year. The marginal tax rate is 35%, and the WACC is 11%. Also, the firm spent $5,000 last year investigating the feasibility of using the machine.

1. How should the $5,000 spent last year be handled?
   1. The cost of research is an incremental cash flow and should be included in the analysis.
   2. Only the tax effect of the research expenses should be included in the analysis.
   3. Last year's expenditure should be treated as a terminal cash flow and dealt with at the end of the project's life. Hence, it should not be included in the initial investment outlay.
   4. Last year's expenditure is considered as an opportunity cost and does not represent an incremental cash flow. Hence, it should not be included in the analysis.
   5. Last year's expenditure is considered as a sunk cost and does not represent an incremental cash flow. Hence, it should not be included in the analysis.
   
   -Select-IIIIIIIVVItem 1

2. What is the initial investment outlay for the machine for capital budgeting purposes, that is, what is the Year 0 project cash flow? Round your answer to the nearest cent.
   $

3. What are the project's annual cash flows during Years 1, 2, and 3? Round your answer to the nearest cent. Do not round your intermediate calculations.

   Year 1 $

   Year 2 $

   Year 3 $

4. Should the machine be purchased?
   -Select-Yes or No

Delamont Transport Company (DTC) is evaluating the merits of leasing versus purchasing a truck with a 4-year life that costs $40,000 and falls into the MACRS 3-year class. If the firm borrows and buys the truck, the loan rate would be 10%, and the loan would be amortized over the truck's 4-year life, so the interest expense for taxes would decline over time. The loan payments would be made at the end of each year. The truck will be used for 4 years, at the end of which time it will be sold at an estimated residual value of $10,000. If DTC buys the truck, it would purchase a maintenance contract that costs $1,000 per year, payable at the end of each year. The lease terms, which include maintenance, call for a $10,000 lease payment (4 payments total) at the beginning of each year. DTC's tax rate is 40%. What is the net advantage to leasing? (Note: Assume MACRS rates for Years 1 to 4 are 0.3333, 0.4445, 0.1481, and 0.0741.)

A bank's operational risk includes the risk of very large losses because of employee fraud, natural disasters, litigation, and so on. Do you think operational risk is best handled by risk decomposition or risk aggregation?

assume quotes are based on units of foreign currency per dollar and the us dollar appreciated against the euro today. this means that :
a. the exchange rate between the dollar and the euro weakened
b. the us interest rate is less than the interest rate in euroland
c. the us inflation rate exceeds the inflation rate in euroland
d. it now takes more dollars to buy one euro
e. it now takes more euros to buy one dollar

a) The following information relates to open-end Mutual Fund A:

Calculate the rate of return to an investor in the fund during the year, assuming all 12b-1 fees and fund expenses were paid before year-end.

b) Fund B is closed-end fund and has the same NAVs as Mutual Fund A on 1/1/2019 and 31/12/2019. At the beginning of the year, the fund was selling at a 2% discount to NAV. By the end of the year, the fund is selling at 3% premium to NAV. Brokerage commission and expenses ratio are 1.5% of sales proceeds. No interim dividends were declared.

Present value.  Two rival football fans have made the following​ wager: if one​ fan's college football team wins the conference title​ outright, the other fan will donate ​$2000 to the winning school. Both schools have had relatively unsuccessful​ teams, but are improving each season. If the two fans must put up their potential donation today and the discount rate is 7.5​% for the​ funds, what is the required upfront deposit if we expect a team to win the conference title in 5 ​years?  10 ​years?  15 ​years? What is the required upfront deposit if we expect a team to win the conference title in 5 ​years? ​(Round to the nearest​ cent.)

Joe's retirement scheme at work pays $500 at the end of each month. Joe puts his money in an account which earns nominal 12% converted monthly, the interest is reinvested at a nominal 4% converted monthly. Carol's account also pays $500 at end of each month, but earns nominal 12% convertible monthly (principal and interest both earn 12%). After 20 years, they retire. Carol has $184,465.8246 more than Joe at this time.

Same scenario above: How long until Carol's account exceeds Joe's by $1,000,000?

Mom's Cookies Inc. is considering the purchase of a new cookie oven. The original cost of the old oven was $30,000; it is now fie years old, and it has a current market value of $13,333.33. The old oven is being depreciated over a 10-year life toward a zero estimated salvage value on a straight-line basis, resulting in a current book value of $15,000 and an annual depreciation expense of $3,000. The old oven can be used for six more years but has no market value after its depreciable life is over. Management is contemplating the purchase of a new oven whose cost is $25,000 and whose estimated salvage value is zero. Expected before-tax cash savings from the new oven are $4,000 a year over its full MACRS depreciable life. Depreciation is computed using MACRS over a five-year life, and the cost of capital is 10 percent. Assume a 40 percent tax rate. What will the cash flows for this project be? (LG5)

I have to show the work and I do not get it. There is no missing data this is the entire question. Please tell me what data is missing?