"farmer joe is trying to decide whether he should purchase a piece of land. he knows that he can rent the ground to a neighboring farmer for $165/acre, and increase that rent by 2% each year. furthermore, the capitalization rate is 5% and inflation is expected to hold at 2%. what is the current return rate? "

Big trail running company has started to produce running apparel in addition to the trail running shoes that they have manufactured for years. they feel that a departmental overhead rate would best reflect their overall manufacturing overhead usage. based on research the following information was gathered for the upcoming year: machining department finishing department estimated manufacturing overhead by department $ 600 comma 000 $ 400 comma 000 trail running shoes 440 comma 000 machine hours 11 comma 000 direct labor hours running apparel 60 comma 000 machine hours 39 comma 000 direct labor hours manufacturing overhead is driven by machine hours for the machining department and direct labor hours for the finishing department. at the end of the year, the following information was gathered related to the production of the trail running shoes and running apparel: machining department finishing department trail running shoes 442 comma 000 hours 10 comma 500 hours running apparel 57 comma 000 hours 40 comma 000 hours how much manufacturing overhead will be allocated to the trail running shoes

Ajax corp's sales last year were $435,000, its operating costs were $362,500, and its interest charges were $12,500. what was the firm's times-interest-earned (tie) ratio? a. 4.72b. 4.97c. 5.23d. 5.51e. 5.80

In footnotes to its 2016 annual report, bancfirst corp. reported that held-to-maturity debt securities with an amortized cost of $4,365 thousand had an estimated fair value of $4,403 thousand. the balance sheet reported: