Steele corporation has the following information for january, february, and march: february january march 10,000 units produced 10,000 10,000 7,000 8,500 units sold 10,500 production costs per unit (based on 10,000 units) are as follows: direct materials $12 direct labor 8 variable factory overhead 6 fixed factory overhead variable selling and admin. expenses 10 fixed selling and admin. expenses there were no beginning inventories for january, and all units were sold for $50. costs are stable over the three months. corporation using the variable costing method what rch ending inventory for steel th a. $15,000 b. $120,000 c. $104,000 d. $260,000

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

Karen is working on classifying all her company’s products in terms of whether they have strong or weak market share and whether this share is in a slow or growing market. what type of strategic framework is she using?

What is the difference between the contractual interest rate and the market interest rate?