a friend wants to borrow money from you. He states that he will pay you $3000 every 6 months for 12 years with the first payment exactly 3 years and six months from today. The interest rate is an APR of 5.3 percent with semiannual compounding. What is the value of the payments today?

ernst's electrical has a bond issue outstanding with ten years to maturity. these bonds have a $1,000 face value, a 5 percent coupon, and pay interest semiminusannually. the bonds are currently quoted at 96 percent of face value. what is ernst's pretax cost of debt?

Vital industries manufactured 2 comma 200 units of its product huge in the month of april. it incurred a total cost of $ 121 comma 000 during the month. out of this $ 121 comma 000, $ 46 comma 000 comprised of direct materials used in the product and the rest was incurred because of the conversion cost involved in the process. ryan had no opening or closing inventory. what will be the total cost per unit of the product, assuming conversion costs contained $ 10 comma 900 of indirect labor?

Greater concern for innovation and quality has shifted the job trend to using more broadly defined jobs. t/f