After reading about Wal-Mart’s CSR and ethical efforts versus their ethical issues, does it affect your interest in patronizing the company? Explain why or why not.

Alpha industries is considering a project with an initial cost of $8 million. the project will produce cash inflows of $1.49 million per year for 8 years. the project has the same risk as the firm. the firm has a pretax cost of debt of 5.61 percent and a cost of equity of 11.27 percent. the debt–equity ratio is .60 and the tax rate is 35 percent. what is the net present value of the project?

You estimate that your cattle farm will generate $0.15 million of profits on sales of $3 million under normal economic conditions and that the degree of operating leverage is 2. (leave no cells blank - be certain to enter "0" wherever required. do not round intermediate calculations. enter your answers in millions.) a. what will profits be if sales turn out to be $1.5 million?

Oliver queen buys 100 shares of stock in green arrow archery corporation, a publicly traded company with which he is not affiliated as a director, officer, or employee. he then sells his 100 shares to john diggle. the sec sues oliver because he didn't register the sale of stock to john. who wins? oliver, because the sale falls into the nonissuer exemption oliver, because the sale falls into the private placement exemption the sec, because the transaction is not exempt from registration the sec, because even exempt transactions must be registered with the sec