Roger has landed his first big contract. He is thinking of purchasing or leasing a Bentley 1. He can buy his dream car by taking out a 5 year loan for $20,000 at 7.30% interest rate per annum. He will need to repay in fixed monthly payments. 2. He can lease the vehicle from a local dealership instead. This 5 year lease option will require a $4,000 down payment and monthly payments of $230. The salvage value of the new vehicle after 5 years is S6,500 and you can invest at a rate of return of 4%. Buy Personal Investment Rate 4.0% 7.30% Interest Rate Number of years Value of Loan $20,000.00 6,500 Salvage Value Car Loan Payments Lease Down Payment 4,000 Monthly Payments 230 NPV of Buying Your sign matters here! NPV of Leasing Your sign matters here! Buy or Lease?

Which of the following actions is most likely to result in a decrease in the money supply? a. the discount rate on overnight loans is lowered. b. the government sells a new batch of treasury bonds. c. the federal reserve bank buys treasury bonds. d. the required reserve ratio for banks is decreased. 2b2t

Afinancial institution, the thriftem bank, is in the process of formulating its loan policy for the next quarter. a total of $12 million is allocated for that purpose. being a full-service facility, the bank is obligated to grant loans to different clientele. the following table provides the types of loans, the interest rate charged by the bank, and the possibility of bad debt as estimated from past experience.type of loaninterest rateprobability of bad debtpersonal.140.10car.130.07home.120.03farm.125.05commercial.100.02 bad debts are assumed unrecoverable and hence produce no interest revenue either. competition with other financial institutions in the area requires that the bank allocate at least 40% of the total funds to farm and commercial loans. to assist the housing industry in the region, home loans must equal at least 50% of the personal, car, and home loans. the bank also has a stated policy specifying that the overall ratio for bad debts on all loans may not exceed .04. formulate this problem as a linear program. define your variables clearly and write all the constraints explaining the significance of each.

howard, fine, & howard is an advertising agency. the firm uses an activity-based costing system to allocate overhead costs to its services. information about the firm's activity cost pool rates follows: stooge company was a client of howard, fine, & howard. recently, 7 administrative assistant hours, 3 new ad campaigns, and 8 meeting hours were incurred for the stooge company account. using the activity-based costing system, how much overhead cost would be allocated to the stooge company account?