On december 31, 2017, berclair inc. had 380 million shares of common stock and 4 million shares of 9%, $100 par value cumulative preferred stock issued and outstanding. on march 1, 2018, berclair purchased 96 million shares of its common stock as treasury stock. berclair issued a 5% common stock dividend on july 1, 2018. four million treasury shares were sold on october 1. net income for the year ended december 31, 2018, was $600 million. also outstanding at december 31 were 30 million incentive stock options granted to key executives on september 13, 2013. the options were exercisable as of september 13, 2017, for 30 million common shares at an exercise price of $56 per share. during 2018, the market price of the common shares averaged $70 per share. required: compute berclair's basic and diluted earnings per share for the year ended december 31, 2018.

The mars company's new topeka, kansas, manufacturing plant is the first new facility the company has opened in north america in 35 years. the new plant is which type of tangible resource?

Consumer surplus is: the difference between the price of a product and what consumers were willing to pay for the product. the difference between the discounted price of a product and its retail price. the difference between the price paid by consumers and the price required of producers. the difference between the price of a product and consumers' valuation of the last unit of the product purchased.

Onsider the following subscription behavior information from genie, a web site that provides tools for constructing a family tree (ancestor search). subscriptions cost $9.99 per month, but you are charged for the entire year at the time of purchase. there is a one-year minimum term when you sign up for the service. once purchased, subscriptions are set to renew automatically unless the subscriber cancels them. when a membership renews, it renews for a one-year term and again you are charged for the entire year. there are no variable costs associated with providing this service to an individual customer, but genie does engage in customer relationship activities that they believe will increase customer retention. these customer relationship activities cost genie about $10 per year per customer. based on a sample of 1000 customers that joined genie five years ago, near the time when the company was founded, they were able to determine how many of those customers remained subscribers in the second year, third year etc. based on this information, genie calculated the average annual retention rate to be 20%. genie uses an annual discount rate of 8%. a. last year, genie spent $10,000 placing advertisements on google. genie management believes that these advertisements were responsible for about 300 new subscribers. would you recommend to genie management that they purchase more google ads? b. suppose a newly-introduced loyalty program increases the number of customers that remained to 30%. does this new data change your answer to 9.a? c. do you have any hesitations or concerns about making recommendations to management based on your above estimate of customer lifetime value?