Caldwell Corporation is considering an investment proposal that will require an initial outlay of​ $816,000 and would yield yearly cash inflows of​ $212,000 for nine years. The company uses a discount rate of​ 10%. What is the NPV of the​ investment? Present value of an ordinary annuity of​ $1:

​8%

​9%

​10%
1

0.926

0.917

0.909
2

1.783

1.759

1.736
3

2.577

2.531

2.487
4

3.312

3.24

3.17
5

3.993

3.89

3.791
6

4.623

4.486

4.355
7

5.206

5.033

4.868
8

5.747

5.535

5.335
9

6.247

5.995

5.759
A.
​$251,667
B.
​$371,000
C.
​$408,000
D.
​$404,908

Pennewell publishing inc. (pp) is a zero growth company. it currently has zero debt and its earnings before interest and taxes (ebit) are $80,000. pp's current cost of equity is 10%, and its tax rate is 40%. the firm has 10,000 shares of common stock outstanding selling at a price per share of $48.00. refer to the data for pennewell publishing inc. (pp). pp is considering changing its capital structure to one with 30% debt and 70% equity, based on market values. the debt would have an interest rate of 8%. the new funds would be used to repurchase stock. it is estimated that the increase in risk resulting from the added leverage would cause the required rate of return on equity to rise to 12%. if this plan were carried out, what would be pp's new value of operations? a. $484,359 b. $521,173 c. $584,653 d. $560,748 e. $487,805

Employees at a library check out books to patrons. books have an isbn and a name. the library sometimes has multiple copies of the same book. books have one or more authors. a patron is an individual who has an active (non-expired) library card. for each library card, we store the person's first and last names and their address. for each employee, we store their employee id, current salary, first and last name and their address. we also store the employee id of their current manager. each time we check out a book to a patron we need to store the date of the transaction, the employee who checked out the book to the patron, and the library card of the patron. some employees have library cards. if an employee patron turns in a book late, the fine that they pay is a percentage of their salary. some employees are authors who have library cards—they are allowed to check out as many books as they like.

Amethod of allocating merchandise cost that assumes the first merchandise bought was the first merchandise sold is called the a. last-in, first-out method. b. first-in, first-out method. c. specific identification method. d. average cost method.