As a junior analyst at an investment bank, your boss asks you to analyze the financial statements of two companies and report what you think. One company is a commercial bank and the other is an industrial company. Having studied their financials carefully, several findings came to your attention: a) one of the two firms has a higher return on assets, almost three times as high as the other firm; b) one of the two firms has a much higher leverage level, which means it has more debt in terms of the ratio of debt-to-asset; c) one of the two firms has a larger portion of its debt in deposits. Please explain which firm is more likely to be the firm in Scenario (a):

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Vortex company operates a retail store with two departments. information about those departments follows. department a department b sales $ 800,000 $ 450,000 cost of goods sold 497,000 291,000 direct expenses salaries 125,000 88,000 insurance 20,000 10,000 utilities 24,000 14,000 depreciation 21,000 12,000 maintenance 7,000 5,000 the company also incurred the following indirect costs. salaries $36,000 insurance 6,000 depreciation 15,000 office expenses 50,000 indirect costs are allocated as follows: salaries on the basis of sales; insurance and depreciation on the basis of square footage; and office expenses on the basis of number of employees. additional information about the departments follows. department square footage number of employees a 28,000 75 b 12,000 50 required: 1. determine the departmental contribution to overhead and the departmental net income for department a and department b.

Global tek plans on increasing its annual dividend by 15 percent a year for the next four years and then decreasing the growth rate to 2.5 percent per year. the company just paid its annual dividend in the amount of $.20 per share. what is the current value of one share of this stock if the required rate of return is 17.4 percent? $1.82 $218 $2.03 $2.71 $3.05