Goal-setting is an important strategy to manage your time and stay on track with your education. reflect on the importance of goal-setting, and answer the following questions:

1. briefly, share a time when you set a goal and did not accomplish it, and then share a time when you set a goal and successfully achieved it. why weren’t you successful in your first example? why were you successful in your second example?

2. why does effective goal-setting us achieve goals? what are the characteristics of good goals?

3. based on your answer to questions 1 and 2, set three goals: one short-term, one mid-term, and one long-term.

provide a word count at the end and be sure to reference your sources.

Assume today is december 31, 2013. barrington industries expects that its 2014 after-tax operating income [ebit(1 – t)] will be $400 million and its 2014 depreciation expense will be $70 million. barrington's 2014 gross capital expenditures are expected to be $120 million and the change in its net operating working capital for 2014 will be $25 million. the firm's free cash flow is expected to grow at a constant rate of 4.5% annually. assume that its free cash flow occurs at the end of each year. the firm's weighted average cost of capital is 8.6%; the market value of the company's debt is $2.15 billion; and the company has 180 million shares of common stock outstanding. the firm has no preferred stock on its balance sheet and has no plans to use it for future capital budgeting projects. using the corporate valuation model, what should be the company's stock price today (december 31, 2013)? round your answer to the nearest cent. do not round intermediate calculations.

En major recording acts are able to play at the stadium. if the average profit margin for a concert is $175,000, how much would the stadium clear for all of these events combined?

Afinancing project has an initial cash inflow of $42,000 and cash flows of −$15,600, −$22,200, and −$18,000 for years 1 to 3, respectively. the required rate of return is 13 percent. what is the internal rate of return? should the project be accepted?