You are the financial analyst at sew mart, an arts and crafts retail store. your boss has asked you to review the company's financial results for the past three years and to provide an analysis of your findings: sew mart ratios 20x9 20x8 20x7 sales trend 162 22.1 25.1 current ratio 0.78 1.90 2.20acid-test ratio 0.40 1.32 1.90accounts receivable turnover 41.29 33.20 10.60inventory turnover 3.58 6.25 7.80incorporate the following questions into your discussion of the company's financial performance. 1. has your company performed worse, better, or about the same? 2. should you be concerned about any ratio noted in your analysis? 3. what recommendations would you share with your boss on the financial health of the company?

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?

Afirm's before-tax cost of debt, rd, is the interest rate that the firm must pay on debt. because interest is tax deductible, the relevant cost of debt used to calculate a firm's wacc is the cost of debt, rd (1 – t). the cost of debt is used in calculating the wacc because we are interested in maximizing the value of the firm's stock, and the stock price depends on cash flows. it is important to emphasize that the cost of debt is the interest rate on debt, not debt because our primary concern with the cost of capital is its use in capital budgeting decisions. the rate at which the firm has borrowed in the past is because we need to know the cost of capital. for these reasons, the on outstanding debt (which reflects current market conditions) is a better measure of the cost of debt than the . the on the company's -term debt is generally used to calculate the cost of debt because more often than not, the capital is being raised to fund -term projects. quantitative problem: 5 years ago, barton industries issued 25-year noncallable, semiannual bonds with a $1,600 face value and a 8% coupon, semiannual payment ($64 payment every 6 months). the bonds currently sell for $845.87. if the firm's marginal tax rate is 40%, what is the firm's after-tax cost of debt? round your answer to 2 decimal places. do not round intermediate calcu

Georgia's gross pay was 35,600 this year she is to pay a federal income tax of 16% how much should georgia pay in federal income ax this year