A project initially costs $40,500 and will not produce any cash flows for the first 2 years. Starting in Year 3, it will produce cash flows of $34,500 a year for 2 years. In Year 6, the project will end and should produce a final cash inflow of $12,000. What is the net present value of this project if the required rate of return is 18.5 percent?

Companies in the u. s. car rental market vary greatly in terms of the size of the fleet, the number of locations, and annual revenue. in 2011 hertz had 320,000 cars in service and annual revenue of approximately $4.2 billion. the following data show the number of cars in service (1000s) and the annual revenue ($ millions) for six smaller car rental companies (auto rental news website, august 7, 2012). excel file: data14-09.xls if required, enter negative values as negative numbers. a. select a scatter diagram with the number of cars in service as the independent variable. b. what does the scatter diagram developed in part (a) indicate about the relationship between the two variables? c. use the least squares method to develop the estimated regression equation (to 3 decimals). ŷ = + x d. for every additional car placed in service, estimate how much annual revenue will change. by $ e. fox rent a car has 11,000 cars in service. use the estimated regression equation developed in part (c) to predict annual revenue for fox rent a car. round your answer to nearest whole value. $ million hide feedback partially correct

Erp has all the following advantages except: modules throughout a corporation can communicate with each other while purchasing is difficult, the vendors such as sap make it worthwhile due to easy implementation have predefined software that represents "pretty good practices" or even "best practices" enables standardized procedures in an organization reduces inconsistent data stored in various locations of the organization

Which of the following is considered part of a country’s infrastructure?