You are interested in buying coffee beans for your coffee shop. A wholesaler offers to sell you coffee beans from Sumatra at $2.00 per pound for a minimum of 500 pounds. You are not sure if this is a good price and you want to check the prices of his competitors. The wholesaler puts the offer in writing and signs it, stating that is it irrevocable for up to 90 days.

The following are budgeted data: january february march sales in units 16,200 22,400 19,200 production in units 19,200 20,200 18,700 one pound of material is required for each finished unit. the inventory of materials at the end of each month should equal 20% of the following month's production needs. purchases of raw materials for february would be budgeted to be:

The common stock and debt of northern sludge are valued at $65 million and $35 million, respectively. investors currently require a return of 15.9% on the common stock and a return of 7.8% on the debt. if northern sludge issues an additional $14 million of common stock and uses this money to retire debt, what happens to the expected return on the stock? assume that the change in capital structure does not affect the interest rate on northern’s debt and that there are no taxes.

Which external factor has enabled addition of special effects in advertisements and tracking of responses of customers over websites?