Company X has 100 shares outstanding. It earns $1,000 per year and announces that it will use all $1,000 to repurchase its shares in the open market instead of paying dividends. Calculate the number of shares outstanding at the end of year 1, after the first share repurchase, if the required rate of return is 10 percent. a) 110.0 b) 100.0
c) 90.91
d) 89.0

If you were running a company, what are at least two things you could do to improve its productivity.

Lynch company manufactures and sells a single product. the following costs were incurred during the company’s first year of operations: variable costs per unit: manufacturing: direct materials $ 12 direct labor $ 6 variable manufacturing overhead $ 1 variable selling and administrative $ 1 fixed costs per year: fixed manufacturing overhead $ 308,000 fixed selling and administrative $ 218,000 during the year, the company produced 28,000 units and sold 15,000 units. the selling price of the company’s product is $56 per unit. required: 1. assume that the company uses absorption costing: a. compute the unit product cost. b. prepare an income statement for the year. 2. assume that the company uses variable costing: a. compute the unit product cost. b. prepare an income statement for the year.

Individual consumers belong to which step of choosing a target market? possible customers competition demographics communication