Ray and carin are partners in an accounting firm. the partners have entered into an arm's length agreement requiring ray to purchase carin’s partnership interest from carin’s estate if she dies before ray. the price is set at 120% of the book value of carin's partnership interest at the time of her death. ray purchased an insurance policy on carin's life to fund this agreement. after ray had paid $45,000 in premiums, carin was killed in an automobile accident and ray collected $800,000 of life insurance proceeds. ray used the life insurance proceeds to purchase carin's partnership interest. a. what amount should ray include in his gross income from receiving the life insurance proceeds?
b. the insurance company paid ray $16,000 interest on the life insurance proceeds during the period carin’s estate was in administration. during this period, ray had left the insurance proceeds with the insurance company. is this interest taxable?
c. when ray paid $800,000 for carin’s partnership interest, priced as specied in the agreement, the fair market value of carin’s interest was $1 million. how much should ray include in his gross income from this bargain purchase?

Calculate the cost of each capital component—in other words, the after-tax cost of debt, the cost of preferred stock (including flotation costs), and the cost of equity (ignoring flotation costs). use both the capm method and the dividend growth approach to find the cost of equity.calculate the cost of new stock using the dividend growth approach.what is the cost of new common stock based on the capm? (hint: find the difference between re and rs as determined by the dividend growth approach and then add that difference to the capm value for rs.)assuming that gao will not issue new equity and will continue to use the same target capital structure, what is the company’s wacc? e. suppose gao is evaluating three projects with the following characteristics.each project has a cost of $1 million. they will all be financed using the target mix of long-term debt, preferred stock, and common equity. the cost of the common equity for each project should be based on the beta estimated for the project. all equity will come from reinvested earnings.equity invested in project a would have a beta of 0.5 and an expected return of 9.0%.equity invested in project b would have a beta of 1.0 and an expected return of 10.0%.equity invested in project c would have a beta of 2.0 and an expected return of 11.0%.analyze the company’s situation, and explain why each project should be accepted or rejected g

Buyer henry is going to accept seller shannon's $282,500 counteroffer. when will this counteroffer become a contract. a. counteroffers cannot become contracts b. when henry gives shannon notice of the acceptance c. when henry signs the counteroffer d. when shannon first made the counteroffer

Arestaurant that creates a new type of sandwich is using (blank) as a method of competition.