The current market rate of return is 11% and the risk-free rate is 4%. You have been given the job of determining your firm's cost of capital. The company has 20 million shares outstanding with a current value of $30 per share. Debt represents 40 percent of your company's capital structure and the yield to maturity on the debt (i. e., before-tax cost of debt) is 7 percent. The (levered) beta of your firm's equity is 1.6 and the tax rate is 25%. What is the weighted average cost of capital (WACC or RWACC) of your firm

What is the advantage of developing criteria for assessing the effectiveness of business products and processes? a. assessment criteria are answers. b.assessment criteria are inexpensive. c.assessment criteria provide you with a list of relevant things to measure. d.assessment criteria provide you with a list of people to contact to learn more about process mentoring.

What is marketing’s contribution to the new product development team? a. technical expertise needed to translate designs into an actual product/service. b. deep customer insight that leads to product ideas. c. ability to assess financial viability d. feedback on design as well as how customers will actually use the product e. technical expertise needed to translate concepts into product/service designs.

You own a nonunion company with 93 nonexempt employees. all of these employ- ees pack books into boxes for shipment to customers throughout the united states. because of wide differences in performance, you have decided to try performance appraisal, something never done before. until now, you have given every worker the same size increase. now you want to measure performance and reward the best performers with bigger increases. without any further information, which of the five types of appraisal formats do you think would be most appropriate? justify your answer. do you anticipate any complaints, or other comments, from employees after you implement your new system?