H2O Plumbing has been working on a residential subdivision project for Paradise Builders. H2O agreed to do all plumbing work on each of the houses for a fee of $5200 per house. H2O has reviewed the market and decided that most plumbers are getting between $5500 and $6000 for houses of comparable size. H2O has done the initial work on all of the houses and has told Paradise it will stop work unless the price is increased to $5500 per house. Paradise is on a tight schedule with its construction lender and with home buyers and succumbs to the demand. Later, when the houses are constructed, Paradise refuses to pay any more than $5200 per house. Explain H2O's rights to them.

Neon light company of kansas city ships lamps and lighting appliances throughout the country. ms. neon has determined that through the establishment of local collection centers around the country, she can speed up the collection of payments by one and one-half days. furthermore, the cash management department of her bank has indicated to her that she can defer her payments on her accounts by one-half day without affecting suppliers. the bank has a remote disbursement center in florida. a. if neon light company has $2.90 million per day in collections and $1.18 million per day in disbursements, how many dollars will the cash management system free up?

Burke enterprises is considering a machine costing $30 billion that will result in initial after-tax cash savings of $3.7 billion at the end of the first year, and these savings will grow at a rate of 2 percent per year for 11 years. after 11 years, the company can sell the parts for $5 billion. burke has a target debt/equity ratio of 1.2, a beta of 1.79. you estimate that the return on the market is 7.5% and t-bills are currently yielding 2.5%. burke has two issuances of bonds outstanding. the first has 200,000 bonds trading at 98% of par, with coupons of 5%, face of $1000, and maturity of 5 years. the second has 500,000 bonds trading at par, with coupons of 7.5%, face of $1000, and maturity of 12 years. kate, the ceo, usually applies an adjustment factor to the discount rate of +2 for such highly innovative projects. should the company take on the project?

Atrough in the business cycle occurs when