Piedmont Hotels is an all-equity company. Its stock has a beta of .81. The market risk premium is 6.8 percent and the risk-free rate is 4.6 percent. The company is considering a project that it considers riskier than its current operations so it wants to apply an adjustment of 1.6 percent to the project's discount rate. What should the firm set as the required rate of return for the project

Aaron corporation, which has only one product, has provided the following data concerning its most recent month of operations: selling price $ 102 units in beginning inventory 0 units produced 4,900 units sold 4,260 units in ending inventory 640 variable costs per unit: direct materials $ 20 direct labor $ 41 variable manufacturing overhead $ 5 variable selling and administrative expense $ 4 fixed costs: fixed manufacturing overhead $ 64,200 fixed selling and administrative expense $ 2,900 the total contribution margin for the month under variable costing is: