Peggy andrews has a charge account at davis jewelers, which uses the unpaid-balance method of computing finance charges. the periodic rate is 1.75%. peggy's previous balance is $9,472.08. she had payments and credits of $250.00. her new purchase of $45.00 was not included in the finance charge calculation. what is the new account balance including the new purchase? (hint: calculate finance charge before adding $45.00 to the balance.) $9,428.47 $9,222.08 $9,267.08 $9,429.25

Acompany determined that the budgeted cost of producing a product is $30 per unit. on june 1, there were 80,000 units on hand, the sales department budgeted sales of 300,000 units in june, and the company desires to have 120,000 units on hand on june 30. the budgeted cost of goods sold for june would be

Burke enterprises is considering a machine costing $30 billion that will result in initial after-tax cash savings of $3.7 billion at the end of the first year, and these savings will grow at a rate of 2 percent per year for 11 years. after 11 years, the company can sell the parts for $5 billion. burke has a target debt/equity ratio of 1.2, a beta of 1.79. you estimate that the return on the market is 7.5% and t-bills are currently yielding 2.5%. burke has two issuances of bonds outstanding. the first has 200,000 bonds trading at 98% of par, with coupons of 5%, face of $1000, and maturity of 5 years. the second has 500,000 bonds trading at par, with coupons of 7.5%, face of $1000, and maturity of 12 years. kate, the ceo, usually applies an adjustment factor to the discount rate of +2 for such highly innovative projects. should the company take on the project?

According to management education expert ashok rao, companies can increase their profitability by through careful inventory management. a. 5% to 10% b. 10% to 25% c. 20% to 50% d. 75%