The reynolds corporation buys from its suppliers on terms of 2/11, net 60. reynolds has not been utilizing the discounts offered and has been taking 60 days to pay its bills. mr. duke, reynolds corporation vice president, has suggested that the company begin to take the discounts offered. duke proposes that the company borrow from its bank at a stated rate of 16 percent. the bank requires a 12 percent compensating balance on these loans. current account balances would not be available to meet any of this compensating balance requirement. a. calculate the cost of not taking a cash discount. (use a 360-day year. do not round intermediate calculations. input your answer as a percent rounded to 2 decimal places.) b. what is the effective rate of interest on the bank loan?

Lasting peace is possible today because we have learned from the experiences of the last 30 years that peace is a process requiring mutual restraint and practical arrangements. this conference is a part of that process – a challenge, not a conclusion. we face unresolved problems in europe; we face them with very real differences in values and aims. but if we deal with them with careful preparation,…we have the right to expect real progress

Identify an organization with the low-total-cost value proposition and suggest at least two possible measures within each of the four balanced scorecard perspectives.

Stocks a, b, and c are similar in some respects: each has an expected return of 10% and a standard deviation of 25%. stocks a and b have returns that are independent of one another; i.e., their correlation coefficient, r, equals zero. stocks a and c have returns that are negatively correlated with one another; i.e., r is less than 0. portfolio ab is a portfolio with half of its money invested in stock a and half in stock b. portfolio ac is a portfolio with half of its money invested in stock a and half invested in stock c. which of the following statements is correct? a. portfolio ab has a standard deviation that is greater than 25%.b. portfolio ac has an expected return that is less than 10%.c. portfolio ac has a standard deviation that is less than 25%.d. portfolio ab has a standard deviation that is equal to 25%.e. portfolio ac has an expected return that is greater than 25%.