Elinore is asked to invest $5000 in a friend's business with the promise that the friend will repay 5500 in one year's time. Elinore finds her best alternative to this investment, with similar risk, is one that will pay her 5400 in one year's time. U. S. securities of similar term offer a rate of return of 6%. What is the opportunity cost of capital in this case? A. 6% B. 8% C. 9% D. 10%

If you were running a company, what are at least two things you could do to improve its productivity.

Apharmaceutical packaging company (ppc) has decided to reorganize its processes into cells. the company has four different production operations, each requiring a unique piece of equipment. the names and functions of the four pieces of equipment are sort, count, place, and package. the company packages five different families of products (a, b, c, d, and e). the tables below indicate the demand (total units/day by product family), required operations, and operation cycle times for each product family. assume that any individual piece of equipment is available to operate 16 hours/day, but 2 hours (in total) are lost each day on each piece of equipment due to breaks and meetings when operators are not available to operate the equipment. how many minutes/day are available for production

howard, fine, & howard is an advertising agency. the firm uses an activity-based costing system to allocate overhead costs to its services. information about the firm's activity cost pool rates follows: stooge company was a client of howard, fine, & howard. recently, 7 administrative assistant hours, 3 new ad campaigns, and 8 meeting hours were incurred for the stooge company account. using the activity-based costing system, how much overhead cost would be allocated to the stooge company account?