Stellar inc. manufactures cycling equipment. recently, the vice president of operations of the company has requested construction of a new plant to meet the increasing demand for the company’s bikes. after a careful evaluation of the request, the board of directors has decided to raise funds for the new plant by issuing $3,409,700 of 9% term corporate bonds on march 1, 2017, due on march 1, 2032, with interest payable each march 1 and september 1, with the first interest payment on september 1st, 2017. at the time of issuance, the market interest rate for similar financial instruments is 8%.
as the controller of the company, determine the selling price of the bonds. (round factor values to 5 decimal places, e. g. 1.25124 and final answer to 0 decimal places, e. g. 458,581.

Michigan mattress company is considering the purchase of land and the construction of a new plant. the land, which would be bought immediately (at t = 0), has a cost of $100,000 and the building, which would be erected at the end of the first year (t = 1), would cost $500,000. it is estimated that the firm's afterminustax cash flow will increase by $100,000 starting at the end of the second year, and that this incremental flow would increase at a 10 percent rate annually over the next 10 years. what is the approximate payback period?

Cosmetic profits. sally is the executive vice president of big name cosmetics company. through important and material, nonpublic information, she learns that the company is soon going to purchase a smaller chain of stores. it is expected that stock in big name cosmetics will rise dramatically at that point. sally immediately buys a number of shares of her company's stock. she also tells her friend alice about the expected purchase of stores. alice wanted to purchase stock in the company but lacked the funds with which to do so. although she did not have the funds in bank a, alice decided to draw a check on bank a and deposit the check in bank b and then proceed to write a check on bank b to cover the purchase of the stock. she hoped that she would have sufficient funds to deposit before the check was presented for payment. of which of the following offenses, if any, is alice guilty of by buying stock?

As a finance manager at allsports communication, charlie worries about the firm's borrowing requirements for the upcoming year. he knows the benefit of estimating allsports' cash disbursements and short-term investment expectations. facing these concerns, a(n) would provide charlie with valuable information by providing a good estimation of whether the firm will need to do short-term borrowing. capital budget cash budget operating budget line item budget