Suppose fuzzy button clothing company is evaluating a proposed capital budgeting project (project alpha) that will require an initial investment of $400,000. the project is expected to generate the following net cash flows:

year 1 $325,000

year 2 $500,000

year 3 $500,000

year 4 $500,000

fuzzy button clothing company's weighted average cost of capital is 7%, and project alpha has the same risk as the firm's average project. based on the cash flows, what is project alpha's net present value (npv)?

a. $1,455,054

b. $1,356,065

c. $1,130,054

d. $730,054

fuzzy button clothing company's decision to accept or reject project alpha is independent of its decisions on other projects. if the firm follows the npv method, it should accept or reject project alpha.

Which of the following statements about brand names is true? brand names give the seller an incentive to provide consistently high-quality products and services in order to protect the reputation of the brand. brand names are always economically wasteful since they dupe consumers into buying more expensive goods and services that are no different from generic versions. it is always rational to prefer brand names over generic substitutes. read the following example and determine whether it illustrates a common critique or defense of advertising. musashi sees a commercial for a brand x clothing company that depicts the wearers of the clothes out having a good time with friends. although he doesn't particularly need new clothes, the commercial prompts him to buy a brand x t-shirt.

Universal containers(us) has an integration with its accounting system that creates tens of thousands of orders inside salesforce in a nightly batch. us wants to add automation that can attempt to match leads and contacts to these orders using the email address field on the insert. us is concerned about the performance of the automation with a large data volume. which tool should uc use to automate this process?

Investment x offers to pay you $5,700 per year for 9 years, whereas investment y offers to pay you $8,300 per year for 5 years. if the discount rate is 6 percent, what is the present value of these cash flows? (do not round intermediate calculations and round your answers to 2 decimal places, e.g., 32.16.) present value investment x $ investment y $ if the discount rate is 16 percent, what is the present value of these cash flows? (do not round intermediate calculations and round your answers to 2 decimal places, e.g., 32.16.) present value investment x $ investment y