A mason contracted with a general contractor to build an exterior wall from 8-inch CMUs. The wall is 82 feet long and 8 feet high. The mason must finish the wall in 3 days and gets paid $4 per block. At the end of day 1, the mason has installed 220 blocks. Her actual cost (including overhead and profit) is $836. Analyze the situation with regard to both the budget and the schedule. Draw the S curve for the masonry job in

The bonds issued by the south foot bear a coupon rate of 7.5 percent, payable semiannually. the bonds mature in 6.5 years, sell at par, and have a $1,000 face value. what is the yield to maturity

You are evaluating two different silicon wafer milling machines. the techron i costs $285,000, has a three-year life, and has pretax operating costs of $78,000 per year. the techron ii costs $495,000, has a five-year life, and has pretax operating costs of $45,000 per year. for both milling machines, use straight-line depreciation to zero over the project’s life and assume a salvage value of $55,000. if your tax rate is 24 percent and your discount rate is 11 percent, compute the eac for both machines.

Gulliver travel agencies thinks interest rates in europe are low. the firm borrows euros at 5 percent for one year. during this time period the dollar falls 11 percent against the euro. what is the effective interest rate on the loan for one year? (consider the 11 percent fall in the value of the dollar as well as the interest payment.)