Sweet Company’s outstanding stock consists of 1,700 shares of cumulative 4% preferred stock with a $100 par value and 11,700 shares of common stock with a $10 par value. During the first three years of operation, the corporation declared and paid the following total cash dividends. Dividend Declared year 1 $ 3,700 year 2 $ 7,700 year 3 $ 40,500 The amount of dividends paid to preferred and common shareholders in year 3 is:-. a. $0 preferred; $40,500 common.
b. $6,800 preferred; $33,700 common.
c. $40,500 preferred; $0 common.
d. $9,000 preferred; $31,500 common.
e. $20,400 preferred; $20,100 common.

Chuck, a single taxpayer, earns $80,750 in taxable income and $30,750 in interest from an investment in city of heflin bonds. (use the u.s. tax rate schedule.) (do not round intermediate calculations. round your answers to 2 decimal places.)

Garrett is an executive vice president at samm hardware. he researches a proposal by a larger company, maximum hardware, to combine the two companies. by analyzing past performance, conducting focus groups, and interviewing maximum employees, garrett concludes that maximum has poor profit margins, sells shoddy merchandise, and treats customers poorly. what actions should garrett and samm hardware take? a. turn down the acquisition offer and prepare to resist a hostile takeover. b. attempt a friendly merger and use managerial hubris to improve results at maximum. c. welcome the acquisition and use knowledge transfer to impart sam hardware's management practices. d. do nothing; the two companies cannot combine without samm hardware's explicit consent.

The owner of firewood to go is considering buying a hydraulic wood splitter which sells for $50,000. he figures it will cost an additional $100 per cord to purchase and split wood with this machine, while he can sell each cord of split wood for $125. if, for this machine, design capacity is 50 cords per day, effective capacity is 40 cords per day, and actual output is expected to be 32 cords per day, what would be its efficiency?