The box manufacturing division of the allied paper company reported the following results from the past year. shareholders require a return of 8%. management calculated a weightedminusaverage cost of capital (wacc) of 6%. allied's corporate tax rate is 35%.

sales $500,000
operating income 100,000
total assets 1,400,000
current liabilities 800,000

what is the division's sales margin?

(a) 57.14%
(b) 35.71%
(c) 20.00%
(d) 7.14%

Which of the following results from outsourcing jobs from the united states to other countries? a. increasing exports out the united states. b. lower wages for u.s. workers. c. reduced immigration to the united states. d. subsidies for goods made in the united states. 2b2t

Your parents have accumulated a $170,000 nest egg. they have been planning to use this money to pay college costs to be incurred by you and your sister, courtney. however, courtney has decided to forgo college and start a nail salon. your parents are giving courtney $20,000 to her get started, and they have decided to take year-end vacations costing $8,000 per year for the next four years. use 8 percent as the appropriate interest rate throughout this problem. use appendix a and appendix d for an approximate answer, but calculate your final answer using the formula and financial calculator methods. a. how much money will your parents have at the end of four years to you with graduate school, which you will start then?

Suppose a firm faces a fixed price of output, 푝푝= 1200. the firm hires workers from a union at a daily wage, 푤푤, to produce output according to the production function 푞푞= 2퐸퐸12. there are 225 workers in the union. any union worker who does not work for this firm is guaranteed to find nonunion employment at a wage of $96 per day. a.what is the firm’s labor demand function? b.if the firm is allowed to choose 푤푤, but then the union decides how many workers to provide (up to 225) at that wage, what wage will the firm set? how many workers will the union provide? what is the firm’s output and profit? what is the total income of the 225 union workers? c.now suppose that the union sets the wage, but the firm decides how many workers to hire at that wage (up to 225). what wage will the union set to maximize the total income of all 225 workers? how many workers will the firm hire? what is the firm’s output and profit? what is the total income of the 225 union workers? [hint: to maximize total income of union, take the first order condition with respect to w and set equal to 0.]