Patty owes samantha $5,000 under a contract for maid services that samantha performed. samantha owes her landlord, alec, $6,000 in rent. samantha wants to assign to alec the right to receive the $5,000 from patty, but the contract between patty and samantha contains a clause prohibiting its assignment. if samantha assigns the rights anyway, a court will most likely
a. not honor the clause because if honored, it would be a restraint upon alienation.
b. not honor the clause prohibiting assignment because a contract cannot prevent assignment for one to receive monetary payments.
c. honor the clause prohibiting assignment only if the assignment was in writing.
d. honor the clause prohibiting assignment because as a general rule, assignments are forbidden when a clause against it exists in the contract.

Assume today is december 31, 2013. barrington industries expects that its 2014 after-tax operating income [ebit(1 – t)] will be $400 million and its 2014 depreciation expense will be $70 million. barrington's 2014 gross capital expenditures are expected to be $120 million and the change in its net operating working capital for 2014 will be $25 million. the firm's free cash flow is expected to grow at a constant rate of 4.5% annually. assume that its free cash flow occurs at the end of each year. the firm's weighted average cost of capital is 8.6%; the market value of the company's debt is $2.15 billion; and the company has 180 million shares of common stock outstanding. the firm has no preferred stock on its balance sheet and has no plans to use it for future capital budgeting projects. using the corporate valuation model, what should be the company's stock price today (december 31, 2013)? round your answer to the nearest cent. do not round intermediate calculations.

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What additional information about the numbers used to compute this ratio might be useful in you assess liquidity? (select all that apply) (a) the maturity schedule of current liabilities (b) the average stock price for the industry (c) the average current ratio for the industry (d) the amount of current assets that is concentrated in relatively illiquid inventories