Advance, inc., is trying to determine its cost of debt. the firm has a debt issue outstanding with 16 years to maturity that is quoted at 107 percent of face value. the issue makes semiannual payments and has a coupon rate of 10 percent. what is the company's pretax cost of debt?

You own a nonunion company with 93 nonexempt employees. all of these employ- ees pack books into boxes for shipment to customers throughout the united states. because of wide differences in performance, you have decided to try performance appraisal, something never done before. until now, you have given every worker the same size increase. now you want to measure performance and reward the best performers with bigger increases. without any further information, which of the five types of appraisal formats do you think would be most appropriate? justify your answer. do you anticipate any complaints, or other comments, from employees after you implement your new system?