The owner of Koffi, the sole coffee house located in a resort area, wants to develop a forecast based on the relationship between tourism and coffee drinks sold. He has generated the following data over the past 12 months: Month Tourists (thousands) Coffee Drinks (per day)
January 22 132
February 25 175
March 34 210
April 30 150
May 15 60
June 10 50
July 8 45
August 6 40
September 10 35
October 15 75
November 18 110
December 20 140
What is the approximate intercept, a?

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?

The fiscal 2016 financial statements of nike inc. shows average net operating assets (noa) of $8,450 million, average net nonoperating obligations (nno) of $(4,033) million, average total liabilities of $9,014 million, and average equity of $12,483 million. the company's 2016 financial leverage (flev) is: select one: a. (0.477) b. (0.559 c. (0.323) d. (0.447) e. there is not enough information to determine the ratio.

Investors who put their own money into a startup are known as a. mannequins b. obligators c. angels d. borrowers