The TXJ Companies, Inc., which operates the T. J. Marx, Mitchells, and GoodHome chains, is the leading off-price apparel and home fashions retailer in the U. S. and worldwide. Presented here are selected recent income statement and balance sheet amounts (dollars in thousands).

Current Year Prior year
Net sales $ 33,183,744 30,944,938
Net income 2,298,234 2,277,658
Average shareholders' equity 4,408,837 4,285,653
Average total assets Current Year 12,187,120 11,239,591 Compute ROA for the current and prior years.

Burke enterprises is considering a machine costing $30 billion that will result in initial after-tax cash savings of $3.7 billion at the end of the first year, and these savings will grow at a rate of 2 percent per year for 11 years. after 11 years, the company can sell the parts for $5 billion. burke has a target debt/equity ratio of 1.2, a beta of 1.79. you estimate that the return on the market is 7.5% and t-bills are currently yielding 2.5%. burke has two issuances of bonds outstanding. the first has 200,000 bonds trading at 98% of par, with coupons of 5%, face of $1000, and maturity of 5 years. the second has 500,000 bonds trading at par, with coupons of 7.5%, face of $1000, and maturity of 12 years. kate, the ceo, usually applies an adjustment factor to the discount rate of +2 for such highly innovative projects. should the company take on the project?

Dakota products has a production budget as follows: may, 16,000 units; june, 19,000 units; and july, 24,000 units. each unit requires 3 pounds of raw material and 2 direct labor hours. dakota desires to keep an inventory of 10% of the next month’s requirements on hand. on may, 1 there were 4,800 pounds of raw material in inventory. direct labor hours required in may would be:

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