Bankston corporation forecasts that if all of its existing financial policies are followed, its proposed capital budget would be so large that it would have to issue new common stock. since new stock has a higher cost than retained earnings, bankston would like to avoid issuing new stock. which of the following actions would reduce its need to issue new common stock?
a. increase the proposed capital budget.
b. reduce the amount of short-term bank debt in order to increase the current ratio.
c. increase the dividend payout ratio for the upcoming year.
d. reduce the percentage of debt in the target capital structure.
e. increase the percentage of debt in the target capital structure.

Acompany is developing a new high­performance wax for cross country ski racing. in order to justify the price marketingwants, the wax needs to be very fast. specifically, the mean time to finish their standard test course should be less thanseconds for a former olympic champion. to test it, the champion will ski the course 8 times. the champion's times(selected at random) are 59.9 61.9 48.8 52.2 46.6 45.3 50.6 and 41.1 seconds to complete the test course. complete parts a and b below.a) should they market the wax? assume the assumptions and conditions for appropriate hypothesis testing are metfor the sample.assume=0.05. what are the null and alternative hypotheses? choose the correct answer below.b) suppose they decide not to market the wax after the test, but it turns out that the wax really does lower the champion'saverage time to less thanseconds. what kind of error have they made? explain the impact to the company of such anerror.

Claire wants to include animations in her presentation slides. which element of the presentation program’s interface will have the options for animation? claire should use the to include animations in her presentation slides.

On july 1, oura corp. made a sale of $ 450,000 to stratus, inc. on account. terms of the sale were 2/10, n/30. stratus makes payment on july 9. oura uses the net method when accounting for sales discounts. ignore cost of goods sold and the reduction of inventory. a. prepare all oura's journal entries. b. what net sales does oura report?