Congratulations you have just accepted your first full time position post graduation! Your contract states that you will recieve a bonus each year you meet your goals. The bonus will increase by 9.56% each year. You being an awesome employee expect to meet your goals every year! Give me that bonus! You are trying to save for future expenses (new car, house, boat, baby, etc.) You decide your going to put your bonus in a savings account that earns 4.65% compounded annually. Your first bonus is $513. How much is in the savings account immediatly after the 11th annual deposit? Hint: Use the correct Geometric Gradient Equation to solve for the present value of the savings accout. The account earns 4.65% and the amount deposited increases by 9.56% each period. THEN solve for the future value of the account at the end of the 11th period.

In 2007, americans smoked 19.2 billion packs of cigarettes. they paid an average retail price of $4.50 per pack. a. given that the elasticity of supply is 0.50.5 and the elasticity of demand is negative 0.4−0.4, derive linear demand and supply curves for cigarettes. the demand equation is qdequals=nothingplus+nothing times ×p and the supply equation is qsequals=nothingplus+nothing times ×p.

Roi analysis using dupont model. charlie? s furniture store has been in business for several years. the firm? s owners have described the store as a ? high-price, highservice? operation that provides lots of assistance to its customers. margin has averaged a relatively high 32% per year for several years, but turnover has been a relatively low 0.4 based on average total assets of $800,000. a discount furniture store is about to open in the area served by charlie? s, and management is considering lowering prices in order to compete effectively. required: a. calculate current sales and roi for charlie? s furniture store. b. assuming that the new strategy would reduce margin to 20%, and assuming that average total assets would stay the same, calculate the sales that would be required to have the same roi as they currently earned. c. suppose that you presented the results of your analysis in parts a and b of this problem to charlie, and he replied, ? what

During which of the following phases of the business cycle does the real gdp fall? a. trough b. expansion c. contraction d. peak