American Health Systems currently has 5,700,000 shares of stock outstanding and will report earnings of $15 million in the current year. The company is considering the issuance of 1,900,000 additional shares that will net $40 per share to the corporation. Required:
a. What is the immediate dilution potential for this new stock issue?
b. Assume that American Health Systems can earn 6 percent on the proceeds of the stock issue in time to include them in the current year’s results. Calculate earnings per share.
c. Should the new issue be undertaken based on earnings per share?

Wren pork company uses the value basis of allocating joint costs in its production of pork products. relevant information for the current period follows: product pounds price/lb. loin chops 3,000 $ 5.00 ground 10,000 2.00 ribs 4,000 4.75 bacon 6,000 3.50 the total joint cost for the current period was $43,000. how much of this cost should wren pork allocate to loin chops?

Suppose that two firms produce differentiated products and compete in prices. as in class, the two firms are located at two ends of a line one mile apart. consumers are evenly distributed along the line. the firms have identical marginal cost, $60. firm b produces a product with value $110 to consumers.firm a (located at 0 on the unit line) produces a higher quality product with value $120 to consumers. the cost of travel are directly related to the distance a consumer travels to purchase a good. if a consumerhas to travel a mile to purchase a good, the incur a cost of $20. if they have to travel x fraction of a mile, they incur a cost of $20x. (a) write down the expressions for how much a consumer at location d would value the products sold by firms a and b, if they set prices p_{a} and p_{b} ? (b) based on your expressions in (a), how much will be demanded from each firm if prices p_{a} and p_{b} are set? (c) what are the nash equilibrium prices?

Identify and describe a variety of performance rating scales that can be used in organizations including graphical scales, letter scales, and numeric scales.