Eagle Elementary School is hiring teachers in its Kindergarten, 1st grade, and 2nd grade classes. After noticing several high-profile scandals around the country involving teachers participating in unethical and/or illegal behavior, Eagle Elementary decides to take a strong stance to protect its reputation. Specifically, they decide to disqualify any applicants who have been arrested. A group of African-American and Latino/a applicants argue that this is illegal discrimination because people of color are more likely than Caucasians to be arrested (this is not the same as convictions).

Reactive power generation has the following capital structure. its corporate tax rate is 40%. security market value required rate of return debt $ 30 million 4 % preferred stock 30 million 6 common stock 40 million 10 what is its wacc? (do not round intermediate calculations. enter your answer as a percent rounded to 2 decimal places.)

When slick heating company switched to an activity based costing system, it realized that it was allocating a much lower percentage of factory overhead to a product line that the marketing department was trying to push. the product line may contain which type of products?

Garrett is an executive vice president at samm hardware. he researches a proposal by a larger company, maximum hardware, to combine the two companies. by analyzing past performance, conducting focus groups, and interviewing maximum employees, garrett concludes that maximum has poor profit margins, sells shoddy merchandise, and treats customers poorly. what actions should garrett and samm hardware take? a. turn down the acquisition offer and prepare to resist a hostile takeover. b. attempt a friendly merger and use managerial hubris to improve results at maximum. c. welcome the acquisition and use knowledge transfer to impart sam hardware's management practices. d. do nothing; the two companies cannot combine without samm hardware's explicit consent.