You are in talks to settle a potential lawsuit. The defendant has offered to make annual payments of $23,000, $29,000, $56,000, and $84,000 to you each year over the next four years, respectively. All payments will be made at the end of the year. If the appropriate interest rate is 4.5 percent, what is the value of the settlement offer today?

Molander corporation is a distributor of a sun umbrella used at resort hotels. data concerning the next month’s budget appear below: selling price per unit $ 29 variable expense per unit $ 14 fixed expense per month $ 12,450 unit sales per month 980 required: 1. what is the company’s margin of safety? (do not round intermediate calculations.) 2. what is the company’s margin of safety as a percentage of its sales? (round your percentage answer to 2 decimal places (i.e. 0.1234 should be entered as 12.

Compare the sources of consumer credit 1. consumers use a prearranged loan using special checks 2. consumers use cards with no interest and non -revolving balances 3. consumers pay off debt and credit is automatically renewed 4. consumers take out a loan with a repayment date and have a specific purpose a. travel and entertainment credit b. revolving check credit c. closed-end credit d. revolving credit

Two assets have the following expected returns and standard deviations when the risk-free rate is 5%: asset a e(ra) = 18.5% σa = 20% asset b e(rb) = 15% σb = 27% an investor with a risk aversion of a = 3 would find that on a risk-return basis. a. only asset a is acceptable b. only asset b is acceptable c. neither asset a nor asset b is acceptable d. both asset a and asset b are acceptable