French corporation wishes to hire leslie as a consultant to design a comprehensive staff training program. the project is expected to take one year, and the parties have agreed to a tentative price of $60,000. leslie has requested payment of one-half of the fee now, with the remainder paid in one year when the project is complete. use appendix a and appendix b. (cash outflows amounts should be indicated by a minus sign. round discount factor(s) to 3 decimal places, intermediate calculations and final answers to the nearest whole dollar amount.)if leslie expects her marginal tax rate to be 35 percent in both years, calculate the after-tax net present value of this contract to leslie, using a 6 percent discount rate.

At which stage would you introduce your product to the market at large? a. development stage b. market testing stage c. commercialization stage d. ideation stage

The school cafeteria can make pizza for approximately $0.30 a slice. the cost of kitchen use and cafeteria staff runs about $200 per day. the pizza den nearby will deliver whole pizzas for $9.00 each. the cafeteria staff cuts the pizza into eight slices and serves them in the usual cafeteria line. with no cooking duties, the staff can be reduced by half, for a fixed cost of $75 per day. should the school cafeteria make or buy its pizzas?

Rate of return douglas keel, a financial analyst for orange industries, wishes to estimate the rate of return for two similar-risk investments, x and y. douglas's research indicates that the immediate past returns will serve as reasonable estimates of future returns. a year earlier, investment x had a market value of $27 comma 000; and investment y had a market value of $46 comma 000. during the year, investment x generated cash flow of $2 comma 025 and investment y generated cash flow of $ 6 comma 770. the current market values of investments x and y are $28 comma 582 and $46 comma 000, respectively. a. calculate the expected rate of return on investments x and y using the most recent year's data. b. assuming that the two investments are equally risky, which one should douglas recommend? why?