Beckingham Sports is an American sporting goods company. Based on $400,000 spent on market research and $600,000 spent on consulting prior to the project, the firm can increase its annual operating cash flow by $3,000,000 if they begin selling overseas. While the firm was thinking about the expansion, it spent $2,000,000 to purchase land for a new factory. However, someone is making an offer to pay Beckingham Sports $3,000,000 for the purchased land meant for a new factory. Which of the following is the relevant to include capital budgeting?a. $400,000 for the market study
b. $600,000 for the consulting
c. $2,000,000 to purchase the new land
d. $3,000,000 of the offer price of the land.
e. None of the above

Beta coefficients and the capital asset pricing model personal finance problem katherine wilson is wondering how much risk she must undertake to generate an acceptable return on her porfolio. the risk-free return currently is 4%. the return on the overall stock market is 14%. use the capm to calculate how high the beta coefficient of katherine's portfolio would have to be to achieve a portfolio return of 16%.

Acompany that makes shopping carts for supermarkets and other stores recently purchased some new equipment that reduces the labor content of the jobs needed to produce the shopping carts. prior to buying the new equipment, the company used 6 workers, who produced an average of 79 carts per hour. workers receive $16 per hour, and machine coast was $49 per hour. with the new equipment, it was possible to transfer one of the workers to another department, and equipment cost increased by $11 per hour while output increased by four carts per hour. a) compute the multifactor productivity (mfp) (labor plus equipment) under the prior to buying the new equipment. the mfp (carts/$) = (round to 4 decimal places). b) compute the productivity changes between the prior to and after buying the new equipment. the productivity growth = % (round to 2 decimal places)

The uptowner just paid an annual dividend of $4.12. the company has a policy of increasing the dividend by 2.5 percent annually. you would like to purchase shares of stock in this firm but realize that you will not have the funds to do so for another four years. if you require a rate of return of 16.7 percent, how much will you be willing to pay per share when you can afford to make this investment?