The ford motor company has re-designed its best selling truck by substituting aluminum for steel in many key body parts. this saves 720720 pounds of weight and decreases gas consumption. the fuel consumption will be 2929 miles per gallon (mpg), up from 2121 mpg of the previous year's model. ford will increase the sticker price of the re-designed vehicle by $320320. assume this vehicle will be driven 16 comma 00016,000 miles per year and its life will be 1313 years. the owner's marr is 77% per year and gasoline costs $3.453.45 per gallon. what is the present worth of the incremental capital outlay for the lighter truck?

Dr. dow jones wants to know whether a problem-based approach to teaching economics will result in higher academic performance than his traditional method. of the six sections of economics 101 at his university, dr. jones randomly assigns three sections to the traditional method and three sections to the problem-based method for unit 1 of the course. then all sections switch the instructional method for unit 2. he plans to compare the performance of the two groups of sections on their unit 1 and unit 2 exams. this study employs a design.

What two elements normally must exist before a person can be held liable for a crime

If a firm plans to issue new stock, flotation costs (investment bankers' fees) should not be ignored. there are two approaches to use to account for flotation costs. the first approach is to add the sum of flotation costs for the debt, preferred, and common stock and add them to the initial investment cost. because the investment cost is increased, the project's expected return is reduced so it may not meet the firm's hurdle rate for acceptance of the project. the second approach involves adjusting the cost of common equity as follows: . the difference between the flotation-adjusted cost of equity and the cost of equity calculated without the flotation adjustment represents the flotation cost adjustment. quantitative problem: barton industries expects next year's annual dividend, d1, to be $1.90 and it expects dividends to grow at a constant rate g = 4.3%. the firm's current common stock price, p0, is $22.00. if it needs to issue new common stock, the firm will encounter a 6% flotation cost, f. assume that the cost of equity calculated without the flotation adjustment is 12% and the cost of old common equity is 11.5%. what is the flotation cost adjustment that must be added to its cost of retaine