Chap 17‚ Prob B1 A. Bixton’s objective is to achieve a credit standing that falls‚ in the words of the chief financial officer‚ “comfortably within the ‘A’ range.” What target range would you recommend for each of the three credit measures? To remain within the ’A’ range the following is recommended Fixed Charge Coverage 3.00–4.30 Funds From Operations/Total Debt 45%–65% Long-Term Debt/Capitalization 22%-32% So to be comfortably within the range A the company should try to maintain
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ECON Final 1. Graphically and verbally explain why an increase in retail sales during Christmas 2011 will boost GDP growth in Q1 2012. 2. Why do the Major League Baseball (MLB) owners want to hire more Latino and Asian players than African-American players? NOTE: this is NOT a political or racial question. Use your knowledge of Economics only! The economic situation is Latin and many Asian countries are a lot worse off than in America‚ so in turn hiring more Latino and Asian baseball
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Problem Set 1 1. Explain lipoprotein physiology and metabolism (Chapter 15). - Lipoproteins are a biochemical formation that aid with the transporting of lipids. The four major pathways include Lipid absorption pathway‚ exogenous pathway‚ endogenous pathway and reverse cholesterol transport pathway. All of these pathways are dependent on a particular particle know as apo-B that contains lipoproteins which‚ functions as a transport for dietary and Hepatic lipids to the outer layers of the cells
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and then process millions of responses. 3. Checking all population is physically impossible. If the population is infinite like the water at California shores‚ its is impossible to check the bacteria levels for all the water on California shores. 4. Some tests are destructive to the population. Like testing for an epidemic of e-coli bacteria in lettuce‚ we can’t take every lettuce produced in a farm and damage it while testing for the bacteria. The whole crop will be damaged. 5. Sample results
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10-4. You bought a stock one year ago for $50 per share and sold it today for $55 per share. It paid a $1 per share dividend today. a. What was your realized return? b. How much of the return came from dividend yield and how much came from capital gain? Compute the realized return and dividend yield on this equity investment. a. b. 10-20. Consider two local banks. Bank A has 100 loans outstanding‚ each for $1 million‚ that it expects will be repaid today. Each loan has a 5% probability of default
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Accounting 3 & 4 Exercises Set # 1 Lee E. 1. Fred has owned and operated a sole proprietorship for several years. On January 1‚ he decides to terminate this business and become a partner in the firm Sears and Roebucks. Fred’s investment in the partnership consists of P12‚000 in cash‚ and the following assets of the proprietorship: accounts receivable P14‚000 less allowance for doubtful accounts of P2‚000‚ and equipment P20‚000 less accumulated depreciation of P4‚000. It is agreed that the allowance
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Econ 333 10/18/13 Assignment 3 Chapter 3: Questions for Discussion 1. The distinctions among the stages-of-growth theory of development‚ the structural-change models of Lewis and Chenery‚ and the theory of international dependence is that each one takes into account different factors or focuses on specific factors. The Stages-of-growth theory has a five stage to which a developing nation must go through. The Structural-change model of Lewis focuses on a developing country transforming itself
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3-17 K Brown is the principal owner of Brown oil inc‚ after quitting his university teachihng job‚ ken has been able to increase his annual salary by a factor of over 100. at the present time‚ ken is forced to consider purchasing some more equipment for brown oil because of competition. For ex‚ if ken purchases a Sub 100 and if there is a favorable market he will realize a profit of 300‚000. On the other hand if the market is unfavorable ken will suffer a loss of 200‚000. But ken has always been
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Incentives: rewards that encourage action or penalties that discourage action. • Economics studies the allocation of scarce recourses among people • Alfred marshell (1842-1924) shaped macro economics • Joan robinson: “ the main reason to study econ is to avoid being fooled by it Two main parts: A) Microeconomics: studying the choice of individual decision makers. And how they interact in markets B) macroeconomics: how the overall economy performs. 2 big questions 1. What‚ how and
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ECON 2202-001 Intermediate Macroeconomics Chapter 8 Homework Assignment 8-1. In the United States‚ the capital share of GDP is about 30 percent‚ the average growth in output is about 3 percent per year‚ the depreciation rate is about 4 percent per year‚ and the capital–output ratio is about 2.5. Suppose that the production function is Cobb–Douglas‚ so that the capital share in output is constant‚ and that the United States has been in a steady state. (For a discussion of the Cobb–Douglas production
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