The production department is proposing the purchase of an automatic insertion machine. It has identified 3 machines and have asked the accountant to analyze them to determine which of the proposals (if any) meet or exceed the company’s policy of a minimum desired rate of return of 10% using the net present value method. Each of the assets has an estimated useful life of 10 years.

The accountant has identified the following data:

Machine A Machine B Machine C

Present value of future cash flows computed using 10% rate of return $305,000 $295,000 $300,000
Amount of initial investment 300,000 300,000 300,000

a. Machines A & C
b. Machines B & C
c. Machine B only
d. Machine A only

Conner enterprises issued $120,000 of 10%, 5-year bonds with interest payable semi annually. determine the issue price of the bonds are priced to yield (a) 10%, (b) 8%, and (c) 12%. use financial calculator or excel to calculate answers. round answers to the nearest whole number.

Companies in the u.s. car rental market vary greatly in terms of the size of the fleet, the number of locations, and annual revenue. in 2011 hertz had 320,000 cars in service and annual revenue of approximately $4.2 billion. the following data show the number of cars in service (1000s) and the annual revenue ($ millions) for six smaller car rental companies (auto rental news website, august 7, 2012). excel file: data14-09.xls if required, enter negative values as negative numbers. a. select a scatter diagram with the number of cars in service as the independent variable. b. what does the scatter diagram developed in part (a) indicate about the relationship between the two variables? c. use the least squares method to develop the estimated regression equation (to 3 decimals). ŷ = + x d. for every additional car placed in service, estimate how much annual revenue will change. by $ e. fox rent a car has 11,000 cars in service. use the estimated regression equation developed in part (c) to predict annual revenue for fox rent a car. round your answer to nearest whole value. $ million hide feedback partially correct

Zoe would like to be able to save for night courses at the local college. which of these would be a good way for zoe to make more money available for savings without dramatically changing her budget? economía