Orchard farms has a pre-tax cost of debt of 7.68 percent and a cost of equity of 15.2 percent. the firm uses the subjective approach to determine project discount rates. currently, the firm is considering a project to which it has assigned an adjustment factor of -0.5 percent. the firm's tax rate is 34 percent and its debt-equity ratio is 0.45. the project has an initial cost of $4.3 million and provides cash inflows of $1.27 million a year for 5 years. what is the net present value of the project

Mr. beautiful, an organization that sells weight training sets, has an ordering cost of $40 for the bb-1 set. (bb-1 stands for body beautiful number 1.) the carrying cost for bb-1 is $5 per set per year. to meet demand, mr. beautiful orders large quantities of bb-1 seven times a year. the stockout cost for bb-1 is estimated to be $50 per set. over the past several years, mr. beautiful has observed the following demand during the lead time for bb-1: demand during lead time probability40 0.150 0.260 0.270 0.280 0.290 0.1total 1.0the reorder point for bb-1 is 60 sets. what level of safety stock should be maintained for bb-1?