One of your customers purchased a variable life insurance contract through your firm. after 14 years, he had deposited $15,000 in premiums, and his death benefit had grown to $80,000. shortly after taking out a loan against cash value of $10,000, he was killed in an automobile accident. what will be the consequences of this situation to the death benefit?

Lillypad toys is a manufacturer of educational toys for children. six months ago, the company's research and development division came up with an idea for a unique touchscreen device that can be used to introduce children to a number of foreign languages. three months ago, the company produced a working prototype, and last month the company successfully launched its new device on the commercial market. what should lillypad's managers prepare for next? a. increased competition from imitators b. a prolonged period of uncontested success c. a sharp decline in demand for the product d. a difficult struggle to move from invention to innovation

Tony prince is the project manager for the recreation and wellness intranet project. team members include you, a programmer/analyst and aspiring project manager; patrick, a network specialist; nancy, a business analyst; and bonnie, another programmer/analyst. other people are supporting the project from other departments, including yusaff from human resources and cassandra from finance. assume that these are the only people who can be assigned and charged to work on project activities. recall that your schedule and cost goals are to complete the project in six months for under $200,000.task 2identify at least eight milestones for the recreation and wellness intranet project. write a short paper describing each milestone using the smart criteria. discuss how determining these milestones might add activities or tasks to the gantt chart. remember that milestones normally have no duration, so you must have tasks that will lead to completing the milestone.

Here are the expected cash flows for three projects: cash flows (dollars) project year: 0 1 2 3 4 a − 6,100 + 1,275 + 1,275 + 3,550 0 b − 2,100 0 + 2,100 + 2,550 + 3,550 c − 6,100 + 1,275 + 1,275 + 3,550 + 5,550 a. what is the payback period on each of the projects? b. if you use a cutoff period of 2 years, which projects would you accept?