Wetzel, Inc. has 20,000 shares of cumulative preferred stock outstanding, with annual dividends paid at a rate of $2 per share. Wetzel, Inc. also has 40,000 shares of common stock outstanding. Preferred dividends are in arrears from the prior year and the number of shares remained the same for this year and last year.

If Wetzel, Inc. declares a $400,000 dividend in the current year, each outstanding share of common stock would receive: (Round your answer to the nearest cent.)

Hillside issues $4,000,000 of 6%, 15-year bonds dated january 1, 2016, that pay interest semiannually on june 30 and december 31. the bonds are issued at a price of $4,895,980. required: 1. prepare the january 1, 2016, journal entry to record the bonds’ issuance

3. saving two consumers, larry and jeff, have utility functions defined over the two periods of their lives: middle age (period zero) and retirement (period 1). they have the same income in period 0 of m dollars and they will not earn income in period 1. the interest rate they face is r. larry’s and jeff’s utility functions are as follow. = 0.5 + 0.5 and = 0.5 + 0.5 for each person is between zero and one and represents each consumer’s temporal discount econ 340: intermediate microeconomics. ben van kammen: purdue university. rate. a. write the budget constraint that applies to both jeff and larry in terms of consumption in each period and ), interest rate, and m. b. what is larry’s and what is jeff’s marginal rate of intertemporal substitution? c. what is the slope of the budget constraint? d. write each consumer’s condition for lifetime utility maximization. e. re-arrange the conditions from part (d) to solve for the ratio, . f. if > which consumer will save more of his middle age income? g. if > 1 1+ , in which period will larry consume more: = 0 or = 1?

The servers at gerry frasier's busy ice cream shop decided that putting more ice cream in the sundaes and cones would bring back more customers. after three months, gerry was surprised to discover that his profit had