A small company heats its building and spends $7 comma 800 per year on natural gas for this purpose. Cost increases of natural gas are expected to be 10% per year starting one year from now (i. e., the first cash flow is $8 comma 580 at EOY one). Their maintenance on the gas furnace is $345 per year, and this expense is expected to increase by 12% per year starting one year from now (i. e., the first cash flow for this expense is $386.40 at the EOY one). If the planning horizon is 15 years, what is the total annual equivalent expense for operating and maintaining the furnace? The interest rate is 15% per year.

Southeastern oklahoma state university's business program has the facilities and faculty to handle an enrollment of 2,000 new students per semester. however, in an effort to limit class sizes to a "reasonable" level (under 200 generally), southeastern's dean, holly lutze, placed a ceiling on enrollment of 1,600 new students. although there was ample demand for business courses last semester, conflicting schedules allowed only 1,440 new students to take business courses.the utilization rate for southeastern=%the efficiency rate for southeastern=%

The gorman group is a financial planning services firm owned and operated by nicole gorman. as of october 31, 2016, the end of the fiscal year, the accountant for the gorman group prepared an end-of-period spreadsheet, part of which follows:

Which of the following statements is correct? a. the managers of established, stable companies sometimes attempt to get their state legislatures to remove rules that make it more difficult for raiders to succeed with hostile takeovers. b. hostile takeovers are most likely to occur when a firm's stock is selling below its intrinsic value as a result of poor management. c. stockholders in general would be better off if managers never disclosed favorable events and therefore caused the price of the firm's stock to sell at a price below its intrinsic value. d. the efficiency of the u.s. economy would probably be increased if hostile takeovers were absolutely forbidden. e. in general, it is more in bondholders' interests than stockholders' interests for a firm to shift its investment focus away from safe, stable investments and into risky investments, especially those that primarily involve research and development. icon key question 6 of 10 b multiple choice 01-060