Sandia Inc. wants to acquire a $360,000 computer-controlled printing press. If owned, the press would be depreciated on a straight-line basis over 10 years to a book salvage value of $0. The actual cash salvage value is expected to be $25,000 at the end of 10 years. If purchased, Sandia will incur annual maintenance expenses of $3,000. These expenses would not be incurred if the press is leased. If the press is purchased, Sandia could borrow the needed funds at an annual pre-tax interest rate of 10%. The lease rate would be $48,000 per year, payable at the beginning of each year. If Sandia has an after-tax cost of capital of 12% and a marginal tax rate of 40%, what is the net advantage to leasing? a. $37,737 b. $65,543 c. $60,713 d. $57,173

A) plot the m1 and m2 money stock in the us from 1990-2015. (hint: you may use the data tools provided by fred.) (b) plot the nominal interest rate from 1960 to 2014. (hint: you can either use the daily interest rates for selected u.s. treasury, private money market and capital market instruments from or the effective federal funds rate fromfred.) (c) the consumer price index (cpi) is a measure of the average change over time in the prices paid by urban consumers for a market basket of consumer goods and services. intuitively, the cpi represents the cost of living or the average price level. plot the cpi from 1960 to 2013.(d) the inflation rate is the yearly percentage change in the average price level. in practice, we usually use the percentage change in the cpi to compute the inflation rate. plot the inflation rate from 1960 to 2013.(e) explain the difference between the ex-ante and ex-post real interest rate. use the fisher equation to compute the ex-post real interest rate. plot the nominal interest rate and the ex-post real interest rate from 1960 to 2013 in the same graph.

The silverside company is considering investing in two alternative projects: project 1 project 2 investment $500,000 $240,000 useful life (years) 8 7 estimated annual net cash inflows for useful life $120,000 $40,000 residual value $32,000 $10,000 depreciation method straightminusline straightminusline required rate of return 11% 8% what is the accounting rate of return for project 2? (round any intermediary calculations to the nearest dollar, and round your final answer to the nearest hundredth of a percent, x.xx%.)

Instructions: use the following information to construct the 2000 balance sheet and income statement for carolina business machines. round all numbers to the nearest whole dollar. all numbers are in thousands of dollars. be sure to read the whole problem before you jump in and get started. at the end of 1999 the firm had $43,000 in gross fixed assets. in 2000 they purchased an additional $14,000 of fixed asset equipment. accumulated depreciation at the end of 1999 was $21,000. the depreciation expense in 2000 is $4,620. at the end of 2000 the firm had $3,000 in cash and $3,000 in accounts payable. in 2000 the firm extended a total of $9,000 in credit to a number of their customers in the form of accounts receivable. the firm generated $60,000 in sales revenue in 2000. their cost of goods sold was 60 percent of sales. they also incurred salaries and wages expense of $10,000. to date the firm has $1,000 in accrued salaries and wages. they borrowed $10,000 from their local bank to finance the $15,000 in inventory they now have on hand. the firm also has $7,120 invested in marketable securities. the firm currently has $20,000 in long-term debt outstanding and paid $2,000 in interest on their outstanding debt. over the firm's life, shareholders have put up $30,000. eighty percent of the shareholder's funds are in the form of retained earnings. the par value per share of carolina business machines stock is