Ms. Alumm is the portfolio manager for a large insurance company. She is considering investing $1 million to purchase the bonds of Patriot Enterprises, Inc.
[A] All of Patriot’s bonds have market prices that imply a yield to maturity of 8% "bond equivalent yield" (that is 4% every 6-month period).1 Each Patriot bond is described here, based on a $1,000 face value (par value), which is the promised payment at maturity.

. Bond A has five years until maturity and pays a 9% coupon yield ($45 every 6 months on a $1,000 face value bond).
. Bond B has ten years until maturity, pays an 8% coupon yield ($40 semiannual payments), and is being offered in a private placement at par.
. Bond C is a zero-coupon bond that pays no explicit interest, but will pay the face amount of $1,000 per bond at maturity in ten years.

At what price should each bond sell currently?

Acompany factory is considered which type of resource a.land b.physical capital c.labor d.human capital

Marketing1. suppose the average price for a new disposable cell phone is $20, and the total market potential for that product is $4 million. topco, inc. has a planned market share of 10 percent. how many phones does topco have the potential to sell in this market? 20,0002. use the data from question 3 to calculate topco, inc.'s planned market share in dollars. $400,0003. atlantic car rental charges $29.95 per day to rent a mid-size automobile. pacific car rental, atlantic's main competitor, just reduced prices on all its car rentals. in response, atlantic reduced its prices by 5 percent. now how much does it cost to rent a mid-size automobile from atlantic? $28.45

Laval produces lamps and home lighting fixtures. its most popular product is a brushed aluminum desk lamp. this lamp is made from components shaped in the fabricating department and assembled in the assembly department. information related to the 22,000 desk lamps produced annually follows.direct materials $280,000direct labor fabricating department (8,000 dlh × $24 per dlh) $192,000assembly department (16,600 dlh × $26 per dlh) $431,600machine hours fabricating department $15,200mhassembly department $20,850mhexpected overhead cost and related data for the two production departments follow.fabricating assemblydirect labor hours 150,000dlh 295,000dlhmachine hours 161,000mh 128,000mhoverhead cost $400,000 430,000required1. determine the plantwide overhead rate for laval using direct labor hours as a base.2. determine the total manufacturing cost per unit for the aluminum desk lamp using the plantwide overhead rate.3. compute departmental overhead rates based on machine hours in the fabricating department and direct labor hours in the assembly department.4. use departmental overhead rates from requirement 3 to determine the total manufacturing cost per unit for the aluminum desk lamps.