A Lean Six Sigma project team is considering solutions to a problem. They have developed many ideas regarding how to improve their process. Now, they plan to try to narrow down this list of possible project ideas to select the one they will implement now. The process of rank ordering a list of ideas is best facilitated by which quality improvement tool? a) Affinity diagram
b) Brainstorming
c) Multi-voting
d) Nominal group technique

Storico co. just paid a dividend of $3.15 per share. the company will increase its dividend by 20 percent next year and then reduce its dividend growth rate by 5 percentage points per year until it reaches the industry average of 5 percent dividend growth, after which the company will keep a constant growth rate forever. if the required return on the company’s stock is 12 percent, what will a share of stock sell for today?

Abbington company has a manufacturing facility in brooklyn that manufactures robotic equipment for the auto industry. for year 1, abbingtonabbington collected the following information from its main production line: actual quantity purchased-200 units, actual quantity used-110 units, units standard quantity-100 units, actual price paid-$8 per unit, standard price-$10 per unit. atlantic isolates price variances at the time of purchase. what is the materials price variance for year 1? 1. $400 favorable. 2. $400 unfavorable. 3. $220 favorable. 4. $220 unfavorable.

If an investment has 35 percent more nondiversifiable risk than the market portfolio, its beta will be: