Enrique runs a flower stall in the local shopping mall. The stall rents for $1,600 a month. Enrique buys the flowers at $2 a bunch and sells them for $3 a bunch. He'll be open seven days a week, eight hours a day, and plans to sell 100 bunches of flowers a day. He's hired Rosita to work three hours each of the five school days and eight hours each day on Saturday and Sunday. Enrique pays Rosita $6 an hour. He works at the stall whenever Rosita is not working.

a. If Enrique didn't work at the flower stall, he'd make $10 an hour as a cook. How much accounting profit and how much economic profit does Enrique make a week?

Christopher kim, cfa, is a banker with batts brothers, an investment banking firm. kim follows the energy industry and has frequent contact with industry executives. kim is contacted by the ceo of a large oil and gas corporation who wants batts brothers to underwrite a secondary offering of the company's stock. the ceo offers kim the opportunity to fly on his private jet to his ranch in texas for an exotic game hunting expedition if kim's firm can complete the underwriting within 90 days. according to cfa institute standards of conduct, kim: a) may accept the offer as long as he discloses the offer to batts brothers.b) may not accept the offer because it is considered lavish entertainment.c) must obtain written consent from batts brothers before accepting the offer.

Beranek corp has $720,000 of assets, and it uses no debt--it is financed only with common equity. the new cfo wants to employ enough debt to raise the debt/assets ratio to 40%, using the proceeds from borrowing to buy back common stock at its book value. how much must the firm borrow to achieve the target debt ratio? a. $273,600b. $288,000c. $302,400d. $317,520e. $333,396

Effective capacity is the: a. capacity a firm expects to achieve given the current operating constraints.b. minimum usable capacity of a particular facility.c. sum of all the organization's inputs.d. average output that can be achieved under ideal conditions.e. maximum output of a system in a given period.