A barrier to entry is:

A. A law established by the government to protect new industries.
B. A commitment on the part of big business to allow smaller companies to compete.
C. An obstacle that prevents additional workers from entering an industry, such as a union.
D. An obstacle that makes it difficult for new firms to enter a market.

Assuming no direct factory overhead costs (i.e., inventory carry costs) and $3 million dollars in combined promotion and sales budget, the deft product manager wishes to achieve a product contribution margin of 35%. given their product currently is priced at $35.00, what would they need to limit the material and labor costs to?

The link between volume of production and the cost of building manufacturing operations is particularly important in industries characterized byanswers: process innovations.product manufacturing.product innovation.process manufacturing.

Granby foods' (gf) balance sheet shows a total of $25 million long-term debt with a coupon rate of 8.50%. the yield to maturity on this debt is 8.00%, and the debt has a total current market value of $27 million. the company has 10 million shares of stock, and the stock has a book value per share of $5.00. the current stock price is $20.00 per share, and stockholders' required rate of return, r s, is 12.25%. the company recently decided that its target capital structure should have 35% debt, with the balance being common equity. the tax rate is 40%. calculate waccs based on book, market, and target capital structures. what is the sum of these three waccs?