Refer to SM1 Q2. Thomas has a ticket to go to a movie this Saturday. He was willing to pay $20, but he only paid $15 for it. After he bought the movie ticket his friend offered to take him out to dinner Saturday evening. Thomas has to choose between going for the movie or a free dinner. He can resell the ticket for $10. What is the lowest value that Thomas should place on the free dinner to make him choose the free dinner rather than the movie.

Guardian inc. is trying to develop an asset-financing plan. the firm has $450,000 in temporary current assets and $350,000 in permanent current assets. guardian also has $550,000 in fixed assets. assume a tax rate of 40 percent. a. construct two alternative financing plans for guardian. one of the plans should be conservative, with 70 percent of assets financed by long-term sources, and the other should be aggressive, with only 56.25 percent of assets financed by long-term sources. the current interest rate is 12 percent on long-term funds and 7 percent on short-term financing. compute the annual interest payments under each plan.

The servers at gerry frasier's busy ice cream shop decided that putting more ice cream in the sundaes and cones would bring back more customers. after three months, gerry was surprised to discover that his profit had

Lester's fried chick'n purchased its building 11 years ago at a cost of $189,000. the building is currently valued at $209,000. the firm has other fixed assets that cost $56,000 and are currently valued at $32,000. to date, the firm has recorded a total of $49,000 in depreciation on the various assets it currently owns. current liabilities are $36,600 and net working capital is $18,400. what is the total book value of the firm's assets? $251,000 $241,000 $232,600 $214,400 $379,000