Cold duck airlines flies between tacoma and portland. the company leases planes on a year-long contract at a cost that averages $600 per flight. other costs (fuel, flight attendants, etc.) amount to $550 per flight. currently, cold duck's revenues are $1,000 per flight. all prices and costs are expected to continue at their present levels. if it wants to maximize profit, cold duck airlines should a. drop the flight now but renew the lease if conditions improve. b. drop the flight immediately. c. continue the flight. d. continue flying until the lease expires and then drop the run.

Awidower devised his fee simple interest in his residence as follows: “to my daughter for life, then to my oldest grandchild who survives her.” at the time of the widower’s death, he was survived by his only two children, a son and a daughter, and by one grandchild, his daughter’s son. a short time later, the daughter together with her son entered into a contract to sell the residence in fee simple to a buyer. the applicable jurisdiction continues to follow the common law rule against perpetuities, but has abrogated the rule in shelley’s case. at the closing, the buyer refused to purchase the residence. can the sellers compel the buyer to do so?

You are head of the schwartz family endowment for the arts. you have decided to fund an arts school in the san francisco bay area in perpetuity. every 5 years, you will give the school $ 1 comma 000 comma 000. the first payment will occur 5 years from today. if the interest rate is 5.9 % per year, what is the present value of your gift?

You are the cfo of a u. s. firm whose wholly owned subsidiary in mexico manufactures component parts for your u. s. assembly operations. the subsidiary has been financed by bank borrowings in the united states. one of your analysts told you that the mexican peso is expected to depreciate by 30 percent against the dollar on the foreign exchange markets over the next year. what actions, if any, should you take