Metal Fiber Industries, a fiber optic company is considering to optimize its capital structure. Its targeted capital structure consists of 20% debt, 30% preferred stocks, and 50% common stocks. Metal Fiber Industries has been paying dividend 30% of its net income regularly. Current stock price is Rs. 54, and a constant growth rate is 9%. Metal fiber Industries expecting next year earning to be Rs. 44, 000,000. Last year dividend paid Rs. 3.60 by the company. Corporate tax rate is 40%. Metal Fiber Industries considering to raise further debt at the interest rate of 12%. They are also considering to issue new preferred stock at 11% fixed dividend rate, which could be sold in the market at Rs. 110.

You are the manager of the packaging department in a cookie factory. (obviously, the packaging employees cannot eat the cookies that are transferred in during the period.) after your employees insert cookies into colorful packages (step 1) for display on store shelves, the packages of cookies are then boxed using cardboard cartons (step 2) for shipment to stores. each unit of product is represented by a carton of packaged cookies. the packaging department began the period with 1,000 units of cookies. during the period, 5,000 units of cookies were transferred in from the baking department and 5,500 units of cookies were transferred out to the finished goods department. the number of units of cookies in the ending inventory of the packaging department equals:

From a business perspective, an information system provides a solution to a problem or challenge facing a firm and represents a combination of management, organization, and technology elements. the organization's hierarchy, functional specialties, business processes, culture, and political interest groups are components of which element of information systems?

Two products, qi and vh, emerge from a joint process. product qi has been allocated $34,300 of the total joint costs of $55,000. a total of 2,900 units of product qi are produced from the joint process. product qi can be sold at the split-off point for $11 per unit, or it can be processed further for an additional total cost of $10,900 and then sold for $13 per unit. if product qi is processed further and sold, what would be the financial advantage (disadvantage) for the company compared with sale in its unprocessed form directly after the split-off point?