Francis Company has 24,000 shares of common stock outstanding at the beginning of 2019. Francis issued 3,000 additional shares on May 1 and 2,000 additional shares on September 30. It also has two convertible securities outstanding at the end of 2019. These are: (1) Convertible preferred stock: 2,500 shares of 8.5%, $50 par, preferred stock were issued on January 2, 2013, for $60 per share. Each share of preferred stock is convertible into 3 shares of common stock. Current dividends have been declared and paid. To date, no preferred stock has been converted. (2) Convertible bonds: Bonds with a face value of $250,000 and an interest rate of 5.5% were issued at par in 2015. Each $1,000 bond is convertible into 20 shares of common stock. To date, no bonds have been converted. Francis earned net income of $72,500 during 2016. The income tax rate is 30%.

Required(1) Compute the number of shares of common stock that Francis should use in calculating basic earnings per share for 2019.
(2) Calculate basic earnings per share for 2019. If required, round your answer to two decimal places.

Consider the local telephone company, a natural monopoly. the following graph shows the monthly demand curve for phone services and the company’s marginal revenue (mr), marginal cost (mc), and average total cost (atc) curves. 0 2 4 6 8 10 12 14 16 18 20 100 90 80 70 60 50 40 30 20 10 0 price (dollars per subscription) quantity (thousands of subscriptions) d mr mc atc 8, 60 suppose that the government has decided not to regulate this industry, and the firm is free to maximize profits, without constraints. complete the first row of the following table. pricing mechanism short run long-run decision quantity price profit (subscriptions) (dollars per subscription) profit maximization marginal-cost pricing average-cost pricing suppose that the government forces the monopolist to set the price equal to marginal cost. complete the second row of the previous table. suppose that the government forces the monopolist to set the price equal to average total cost. complete the third row of the previous table. under average-cost pricing, the government will raise the price of output whenever a firm’s costs increase, and lower the price whenever a firm’s costs decrease. over time, under the average-cost pricing policy, what will the local telephone company most likely do

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?

Describe what fixed costs and marginal costs mean to a company.