"A. Machine A will cost $25,000 and have a life of 15 years. Its salvage value will be $1,000, and cost savings are projected at $3,500 per year. Compute the machine's net present value. b. How much will Prince Company be willing to pay for Machine B if the machine promises annual cash inflows of $5,000 per year for 8 years? c. Machine C has a projected life of 10 years. What is the machine's internal rate of return, to the nearest whole percent, if it costs $30,000 and w...

"Given the following information about staging a community play on Independence Day. (a) Construct a PDM/CPM diagram. (b) Determine the earliest completion time for the play and the critical path (c) Based on the critical path, what completion date are you 80% confident of achieving? 40% confident? (d) Will a 1-day delay in this project be serious? "

"Three single-phase step-up transformers rated at 10MVA, 4.6kV/13.8kV are connected in Wye-Delta configuration. The three transformers are used to feed a 20MVA load at 0.9 p.f. With an efficiency of 96%. Using per unit system, calculate: a. the secondary line voltage. b. the primary and secondary line currents when supplying this load. "

Explain what appears to be the improved trade-off between inflation and unemployment in the U.S. What factors might improve the trade-off? What factors would make it worse?

"ldentify an operational improvement initiative in your work area. Using the project management life-cycle framework as a guide, prepare a plan to implement this project. Ensure you discuss the following:a. Prepare a brief project definition document.b. Your plan for managing stockholder input/influencec. What risks might be present and how you intend to manage it.d. Generally how the performance criteria of time, cost and quarity wiil bemanaged/controlle...

"Thirty seniors at Council High School were randomly selected and are asked to report age (in years) and mileage of their primary vehicles. Here are the data that were collected:R denotes an observation with a large standardized residualX denotes an observation whose X value gives it large influence.(a) Describe the relationship between vehicle age and mileage. Include a comment on the strength of association.(b) Determine the slope of the least-square line. Int...

"1.Assume initially all firms that produce a product X in a perfectly competitive market earn normal profit. There is a drop in consumers' preference for X such that the market demand decreases.(i) What will happen to all the firms in the short run equilibrium? Explain with a suitable industry and firm diagram.(ii) How would the firms adjust to the long run equilibrium? Explain with a suitable industry and firm diagram.2.Explain with the aid of a diagram why monopoly i...

Explain with aid of a diagram why monopoly is inefficient but perfect competition is efficient. Is it valid to say that monopoly is no good and hence the government should break up all the monopolists and convert them into perfect competition?

"GROWTH, Inc.’s next year earning is expected to be $4 per share. The company pays out half of its earning as dividend. Both dividends and earnings are expected to grow by 10% a year for the first 5 years, and grow by 5% a year indefinitely thereafter. STABLE, Inc. is like GROWTH in all respects except that its growth will stop after year 5. In year 6 and afterward, it will pay out all earnings as dividends. Both companies’ expected returns are 8%.(a) What are the stock prices for e...

"The Ryan Hunt CompanyThe Ryan Hunt Company uses the dollar-value LIFO method of computing inventory. An external price index is used to convert ending inventory to base year. The company began operations on January 1, 2006 with an inventory of $150,000. Year end inventories at year-end costs and related cost indices for its one inventory pool were as follows:Required: Calculate the carrying value of inventory on each year-end balance sheet."

Crane Mechanics acquired 75 percent of Downey Enterprises on March 31, 2005, for $3,645,000. Downey’s book value at that date totaled $4,000,000. Appraisal values were greater than book values for identifiable assets in the following amounts: Inventory ($300,000) and Plant and Equipment ($700,000). The purchase differential for Inventory is to be amortized over five months and Plant and Equipment over ten years. For the remainder of 2005 Downey reports $635,000 of income and pays $100,000...

Rebello's preferred stock pays a dividend of $1.00 per quarter, and it sells for $55.00 per share. What is its effective annual (not nominal) rate of return?