In practice, a common way to value a share of stock when a company pays dividends is to value the dividends over the next five years or so, then find the "terminal" stock price using a benchmark pe ratio. suppose a company just paid a dividend of $1.25. the dividends are expected to grow at 11 percent over the next five years. in five years, the estimated payout ratio is 30 percent and the benchmark pe ratio is 23. after five years, the earnings are expected to grow at 7 percent per year. the required return is 12 percent. what are the projected dividends for each of the next five years?

What is the most important type of decision that the financial manager makes?

Harwood company uses a job-order costing system that applies overhead cost to jobs on the basis of machine-hours. the company's predetermined overhead rate of $2.50 per machine-hour was based on a cost formula that estimates $240,000 of total manufacturing overhead for an estimated activity level of 96,000 machine-hours. required: 1. assume that during the year the company works only 91,000 machine-hours and incurs the following costs in the manufacturing overhead and work in process accounts: compute the amount of overhead cost that would be applied to work in process for the year and make the entry in your t-accounts. 2a. compute the amount of underapplied or overapplied overhead for the year and show the balance in your manufacturing overhead t-account. 2b. prepare a journal entry to close the company's underapplied or overapplied overhead to cost of goods sold.

You speak to a business owner that is taking in almost $2000 in revenue each month. the owner still says that they are having trouble keeping the doors open. how can that be possible? use the terms of revenue, expenses and profit/loss in your answer