23) Company Q's current ROE is 16%. It pays out 60% of earnings as cash dividends. Current book value per share is $50. Book value per share will grow as Q reinvests earnings. Assume that the ROE and payout ratio stay constant for the next four years. After that, competition forces ROE down to 12% and the payout ratio increases to 0.8. The cost of capital is 10%. (12 points) 1.What are Q's EPS and dividends next year

Beranek corp has $720,000 of assets, and it uses no debt--it is financed only with common equity. the new cfo wants to employ enough debt to raise the debt/assets ratio to 40%, using the proceeds from borrowing to buy back common stock at its book value. how much must the firm borrow to achieve the target debt ratio? a. $273,600b. $288,000c. $302,400d. $317,520e. $333,396

Which one of the following statements is correct? process costing systems use periodic inventory systems. process costing systems assign costs to departments or processes for a time period. companies that produce many different products or services are more likely to use process costing systems. production is continuous when a job-order costing is used to ensure that adequate quantities are on hand.

Afirm plans to begin production of a new small appliance. the manager must decide whether to purchase the motors for the appliance from a vendor at $10 each or to produce them in-house. either of two processes could be used for in-house production; process a would have an annual fixed cost of $200,000 and a variable cost of $7 per unit, and process b would have an annual fixed cost of $175,000 and a variable cost of $8 per unit. determine the range of annual volume for which each of the alternatives would be best. (round your first answer to the nearest whole number. include the indifference value itself in this answer.)