Afirm wants to strengthen its financial position. which of the following actions would increase its current ratio?

a. use cash to repurchase some of the company's own stock.
b. use cash to increase inventory holdings.
c. borrow using short-term debt and use the proceeds to repay debt that has a maturity of more than one year.
d. issue new stock and then use some of the proceeds to purchase additional inventory and hold the remainder as cash.
e. reduce the company's days' sales outstanding to the industry average and use the resulting cash savings to purchase plant and equipment.

An outside manufacturer has offered to produce 60,000 daks and ship them directly to andretti's customers. if andretti company accepts this offer, the facilities that it uses to produce daks would be idle; however, fixed manufacturing overhead costs would be reduced by 75%. because the outside manufacturer would pay for all shipping costs, the variable selling expenses would be only two-thirds of their present amount. what is andretti's avoidable cost per unit that it should compare to the price quoted by the outside manufacturer?

For each of the following users of financial accounting information and managerial accounting information, specify whether the user would primarily use financial accounting information or managerial accounting information or both: 1. sec examiner 2. bookkeeping department 3. division controller 4. external auditor (public accounting firm) 5. loan officer at the company's bank 6. state tax agency auditor 7. board of directors 8. manager of the service department 9. wall street analyst 10. internal auditor 11. potential investors 12, current stockholders 13. reporter from the wall street journal 14. regional division managers

Find the zeros of the polynomial 5 x square + 12 x + 7 by factorization method and verify the relation between zeros and coefficient of the polynomials