An asset with a first cost of $21,500 has an annual operating cost of $11,800 and a $4200 salvage value after its 6-year life. If the project will be needed for 10 years, what would the salvage value of the 4-year-old asset have to be for the annual worth to be the same as it is for one life cycle of the asset? Use an interest rate of 11% per year. Draw the cash flow diagram. Always use factor notation.

A) If the cost of debt is typically significantly less than the cost of equity (especially on an after-tax basis), what do you think about the idea of capitalizing (or funding) a business entirely with debt? Explain your reasoning in 200-500 words.

B) If you were a venture capitalist considering providing funding to a cash-constrained firm, what criteria could you use to assess the accuracy of their cash flow forecasts and the adequacy of their requested cash injection? Explain in 200-500 words.

The following sets of data represent the cost of living index for utilities and the cost of living index for transportation for 46 randomly chosen metropolitan areas in the United States.

utilities=c(90,84,85,106,83,101,89,125,105, 118,133,104,84,80,77,90,92,90, 106,95,110,112,105,93,119,99,109, 109,113,90,121,120,85,91,91,97, 95,115,99,86,88,106,80,108,90,87)

transportation=c(100,91,103,103,109,109,94,114,113, 120,130,117,109,107,104,104,113,101, 96,109,103,107,103,102,101,86,94, 88,100,104,119,116,104,121,108,86, 100,83,88,103,94,125,115,100,96,127)

Include your R commands and output for each part of the problem

1. Create a single table summarizing the mean, median, mode, standard deviation, variance and 5-number summary for each data set.
2. Create a boxplot for cost of living index for utilities.
3. Create a boxplot for the cost of living index for transportation.
4. Write a short paragraph comparing the two data sets and include lots of details.

The Cost of Natural Resources The high cost of oil in the Global South continues to have a detrimental effect on its population. What are the primary natural resources that are used in your state? If this natural resource became unavailable, how would that affect the state’s economy? How does the harvesting or collecting of this natural resource affect the natural environment?

Review the posts of your classmates and respond to at least one other post discussing how the natural resource they chose to write about would influence your community.

Cost recovery is the systematic allocation of cost to an expense. Discuss the three types of cost recovery and the related assets they apply to.

What are the cost cutting methods when using low cost strategy?

6. The cost of the pouring brand of scotch is $0.58 per ounce, and the cost of club soda is $0.04 per ounce. Determine the cost of a scotch and soda from each of the following standard recipes.

a. 1 ounce of scotch and 6 ounces of club soda

b. 1 1/2 ounches of scotch and 7 ounces of club soda

c. 2 ounces of scotch and 6 ounces of club soda

7. In each of the examples in Question 6, determine sales price if the desired liqour cost percent is:

a. 20 percent

b. 25 percent

c. 18 percent

Explain how to estimate the cost of capital for a particular project, including the cost of debt and/or the cost of equity. What makes debt or equity a better choice for a given project--or is a blend always preferable? Explain your reasoning using an example