Summit Record Company is negotiating with two banks for a $157,000 loan. Fidelity Bank requires a compensating balance of 24 percent, discounts the loan, and wants to be paid back in four quarterly payments. Southwest Bank requires a compensating balance of 12 percent, does not discount the loan, but wants to be paid back in 12 monthly installments. The stated rate for both banks is 8 percent. Compensating balances will be subtracted from the $157,000 in determining the available funds in part a. a-1. Calculate the effective interest rate for Fidelity Bank and Southwest Bank. (Do not round intermediate calculations. Input your answers as a percent rounded to 2 decimal places.)

Jillian wants to plan her finances because she wants to create and maintain her tax and credit history. she also wants to chart out all of her financial transactions for the past federal fiscal year. what duration should jillian consider to calculate her finances? from (march or january )to (december or april)?

Which of the following best explains why online retail companies have an advantage over regular stores? a. their employees make less money because they mostly perform unskilled tasks. b. they are able to keep distribution costs low by negotiating deals with shipping companies. c. their transactions require expensive state-of-the-art technological devices. d. they have a larger number of potential customers because people anywhere can buy from them.

P8-4b dropping unfavorable division based on the following analysis of last year's operations of groves, inc., a financial vice president of the company believes that the firm's total net income could be increased by $160,000 if its design division were discontinued. (amounts are given in the thousands of dollars.) required provide answers for each of the following independent situations: a. assuming that total fixed costs and expenses would not be affected by discontinuing the design division, prepare an analysis showing why you agree or disagree with the vice president. b. assume that the discontinuance of the design division will enable the company to avoid 30% of the fixed portion of cost of services and 40% of the fixed operating expenses allocated to the design division. calculate the resulting effect on net income. c. assume that in addition to the cost avoidance in requirement (b), the capacity released by discontinuance of the design division can be used to provide 6,000 new services that would have a variable cost per service of $60 and would require additional fixed costs totaling $68,000. at what unit price must the new service be sold if groves is to increase its total net income by $180,000?