You are a consulting firm intern and your job is to a client choose investment projects. your client, realestate, is a young and growing commercial and residential real estate firm. after reading through all the related information of those projects, you have compiled the following cash flow projections:

col1 cf0 cf1 cf2 cf3
col2 project 1 100 50 50 50
col3 project 2 -80 40 45 50
col4 project 3 -70 30 40 50
col5 project 4 -60 30 40 60
col6 project 5 -50 25 30 70

cf0 denotes the initial investment. cf1 is the cash flow at the end of the first year. cf2 is the cash flow at the end of the second year, and so on. the units are millions of dollars.

if realestate accepts projects with payback periods of 2 years or less, which project should you reject?

(a)project 1
(b)project 2
(c)project 3
(d)project 4
(e)project 5
(f)none

Suppose that xtel currently is selling at $40 per share. you buy 500 shares using $15,000 of your own money, borrowing the remainder of the purchase price from your broker. the rate on the margin loan is 8%. a. what is the percentage increase in the net worth of your brokerage account if the price of xtel immediately changes to (a) $44; (b) $40; (c) $36? (leave no cells blank - be certain to enter "0" wherever required. negative values should be indicated by a minus sign. round your answers to 2 decimal places.) b. if the maintenance margin is 25%, how low can xtel’s price fall before you get a margin call? (round your answer to 2 decimal places.) c. how would your answer to requirement 2 would change if you had financed the initial purchase with only $10,000 of your own money? (round your answer to 2 decimal places.) d. what is the rate of return on your margined position (assuming again that you invest $15,000 of your own money) if xtel is selling after one year at (a) $44; (b) $40; (c) $36? (negative values should be indicated by a minus sign. round your answers to 2 decimal places.) e. continue to assume that a year has passed. how low can xtel’s price fall before you get a margin call? (round your answer to 2 decimal places.)

Henry crouch's law office has traditionally ordered ink refills 55 units at a time. the firm estimates that carrying cost is 35% of the $11 unit cost and that annual demand is about 240 units per year. the assumptions of the basic eoq model are thought to apply. for what value of ordering cost would its action be optimal? a) for what value of ordering cost would its action be optimal?

During 2016, nike inc., reported net income of $3,760 million. the company declared dividends of $1,022 million. the closing entry for dividends would include which of the following? select one: a. credit cash for $1,022 million b. credit dividends for $1,022 million c. debit net income for $1,022 million d. credit retained earnings for $1,022 million e. debit dividends for $1,022 million