Murray's can borrow money at a fixed rate of 10.5 percent or a variable rate set at prime plus 2.25
percent. fred's can borrow money at a variable rate of prime plus i .5 percent or a fixed rate of 12 percent.
murray's prefers a variable rate and fred's prefers a fixed rate. given this information, which one of the
following statements is correct?

a. after swapping interest rates with fred's, murray's may be able to pay prime plus 2 percent.
b. both companies can profit in a swap which will allow murray's to pay a variable rate of prime plus one percent.
c. fred's will end up with a fixed rate of 10 percent.
d. fred's has the best chance of profiting if it does an interest rate swap with murray's.
e. there are no terms under which murray's and fred's can swap interest rates.

Suppose that a firm is considering moving from a batch process to an assembly-line process to better meet evolving market needs. what concerns might the following functions have about this proposed process change: marketing, finance, human resources, accounting, and information systems?

The common stock of ncp paid $1.35 in dividends last year. dividends are expected to grow at an annual rate of 5.30 percent for an indefinite number of years. a. if ncp's current market price is $22.57 per share, what is the stock's expected rate of return? b. if your required rate of return is 7.3 percent, what is the value of the stock for you? c. should you make the investment? a. if ncp's current market price is $22.57 per share, the stock's expected rate of return is

Tony prince is the project manager for the recreation and wellness intranet project. team members include you, a programmer/analyst and aspiring project manager; patrick, a network specialist; nancy, a business analyst; and bonnie, another programmer/analyst. other people are supporting the project from other departments, including yusaff from human resources and cassandra from finance. assume that these are the only people who can be assigned and charged to work on project activities. recall that your schedule and cost goals are to complete the project in six months for under $200,000.task 2identify at least eight milestones for the recreation and wellness intranet project. write a short paper describing each milestone using the smart criteria. discuss how determining these milestones might add activities or tasks to the gantt chart. remember that milestones normally have no duration, so you must have tasks that will lead to completing the milestone.