Company x has a higher degree of financial risk than company y. company x can offset this by lowering its operating leverage. true or false? firm a has more business risk than firm b, but they both have the same total risk. which of the following statements must be true? a. in order to offset its higher business risk, firm a will increase its operating leverage so that its total risk is the same as firm b's. b. because firm a has more business risk than firm b, its debt ratio will be greater than firm b's. c. because firm b has less business risk than firm a, its debt ratio will be lower than firm a's. d. none of the statements above are true.

Apharmaceutical packaging company (ppc) has decided to reorganize its processes into cells. the company has four different production operations, each requiring a unique piece of equipment. the names and functions of the four pieces of equipment are sort, count, place, and package. the company packages five different families of products (a, b, c, d, and e). the tables below indicate the demand (total units/day by product family), required operations, and operation cycle times for each product family. assume that any individual piece of equipment is available to operate 16 hours/day, but 2 hours (in total) are lost each day on each piece of equipment due to breaks and meetings when operators are not available to operate the equipment. how many minutes/day are available for production

What is free trade? a. trade that is not subject to taxes or fees b. trade that governments do not interfere with c. trade with a high level of government regulation d. trade between states in the u.s. b

Boone brothers remodels homes and replaces windows. ace builders constructs new homes. if boone brothers considers expanding into new home construction, it should evaluate the expansion project using which one of the following as the required return for the project?