Mike is the director of human resources for a 120-employee family-owned manufacturing firm. mike has been quite busy the last year reforming the benefit offerings to comply with recent changes in healthcare laws. given the many changes, mike took the opportunity to completely overhaul the employee benefits program including replacing the old medical plans with three brand-new plans. mike is preparing to tell employees about their new benefit offerings a few months prior to the benefits open-enrollment period. given the number of employees, he decides to design a nicely formatted powerpoint slide deck explaining the changes and to send this presentation via email to all employees. one day into the open-enrollment period, his inbox is flooded with over 50 emails from confused employees. mike is puzzled, but realizes he may have made a mistake in communication. which of the following best describes the primary communication mistake he made select: 1 assuming that employees would understand the content of the powerpoint slides. failing to match the communication medium (or channel) with the intended outcome. failing to develop core ideas that adhere to the rules of "sticky" communication. forgetting to alert managers that the communication was "coming their way."

Calculate the cost of each capital component—in other words, the after-tax cost of debt, the cost of preferred stock (including flotation costs), and the cost of equity (ignoring flotation costs). use both the capm method and the dividend growth approach to find the cost of equity.calculate the cost of new stock using the dividend growth approach.what is the cost of new common stock based on the capm? (hint: find the difference between re and rs as determined by the dividend growth approach and then add that difference to the capm value for rs.)assuming that gao will not issue new equity and will continue to use the same target capital structure, what is the company’s wacc? e. suppose gao is evaluating three projects with the following characteristics.each project has a cost of $1 million. they will all be financed using the target mix of long-term debt, preferred stock, and common equity. the cost of the common equity for each project should be based on the beta estimated for the project. all equity will come from reinvested earnings.equity invested in project a would have a beta of 0.5 and an expected return of 9.0%.equity invested in project b would have a beta of 1.0 and an expected return of 10.0%.equity invested in project c would have a beta of 2.0 and an expected return of 11.0%.analyze the company’s situation, and explain why each project should be accepted or rejected g

Effective capacity is the: a. capacity a firm expects to achieve given the current operating constraints.b. minimum usable capacity of a particular facility.c. sum of all the organization's inputs.d. average output that can be achieved under ideal conditions.e. maximum output of a system in a given period.

Investors who put their own money into a startup are known as a. mannequins b. obligators c. angels d. borrowers