Acompany's perpetual preferred stock currently sells for $92.50 per share, and it pays an $8.00 annual dividend. if the company were to sell a new preferred issue, it would incur a flotation cost of 5.00% of the issue price. what is the firm's cost of preferred stock? a. 7.81%b. 8.22%c. 8.65%d. 9.10%e. 9.56%

Suppose general motors demands labor according to the labor demand function 푤푤= 40−0. 5퐸퐸, where 푤푤 is the hourly wage and 퐸퐸 is the number of employees. the united auto workers union has a utility function given by 푈푈=푊푊∗퐸퐸. a.in 1984, the united auto workers union started negotiations with general motors by assuming that they were a monopoly union. find the wage and employment demands that the united auto workers union would have demanded before any bargaining began. b.if general motors and the united auto workers union both had excellent bargaining representatives, would this be the final labor contract? if not, then explain in words and graphically where they would end up after the bargaining process.

True or false: a fitted model with more predictors will necessarily have a lower training set error than a model with fewer predictors.

Match the different financial task to their corresponding financial life cycle phases