City Rentals has 44,000 shares of common stock outstanding at a market price of $32 a share. The common stock will pay a $1.50 annual dividend and has a dividend growth rate of 3.5 percent. There are 7,500 shares of 9% preferred stock outstanding at a market price of $92 a share. The outstanding bonds mature in 11 years, have a total face value of $825,000, a coupon rate of 6.5 percent, a face value per bond of $1,000, and a market price of $989 each. The tax rate is 35 percent. What is City Rentals' pre-tax cost of debt?

Arapid increase in the population of a city or town is most likely to lead to which of the following? a. higher-paying jobs. b. low housing prices. c. a seller's market. d. a drop in population density. 2b2t

Which of the following is an example of the use of fiscal policy by the u.s. government? a. congress makes it illegal for the police union to go on strike. b. the federal reserve bank lowers the interest rate on loans to corporations. c. the department of transportation increases spending on highway repairs. d. the supreme court rules that unions have the right to collective bargaining. 2b2t

Management discovers that a supervisor at one of its restaurant locations removes excess cash and resets sales totals throughout the day on the point-of-sale (pos) system. at closing, the supervisor deposits cash equal to the recorded sales on the pos system and keeps the rest.the supervisor forwards the close-of-day pos reports from the pos system along with a copy of the bank deposit slip to the company’s revenue accounting department. the revenue accounting department records the sales and the cash for the location in the general ledger and verifies the deposit slip to the bank statement. any differences between sales and deposits are recorded in an over/short account and, if necessary, followed up with the location supervisor. the customer food order checks are serially numbered, and it is the supervisor’s responsibility to see that they are accounted for at the end of each day. customerchecks and the transaction journal tapes from the pos system are kept by the supervisor for 1 week at the location and then destroyed.what control allowed the fraud to occur?