Vandezande Inc. is considering the acquisition of a new machine that costs $370,000 and has a useful life of 5 years with no salvage value. The incremental net operating income and incremental net cash flows that would be produced by the machine are (Ignore income taxes.): Incremental Net Operating Income Incremental Net Cash Flows
Year 1 $ 54,000 $ 128,000
Year 2 $31,000 $105,000
Year 3 $ 52,000 $126,000
Year 4 $49,000 $123,000
year 5 $48,000 $122,000
Assume cash flows occur uniformly throughout a year except for the initial investment. The payback period of this investment is closest to:.
a. 2.9 years
b. 4.9 years
c. 3.1 years
d. 5.0 years

On january 1, 2015, jon sports has a bond payable of $200,000. during 2015, it pays off $20,000 of the outstanding bond principal and issues a new $70,000 bond. there are no other transactions related to the bond payable account. what is jon sports' december 31, 2015, bond payable balance?

Pennewell publishing inc. (pp) is a zero growth company. it currently has zero debt and its earnings before interest and taxes (ebit) are $80,000. pp's current cost of equity is 10%, and its tax rate is 40%. the firm has 10,000 shares of common stock outstanding selling at a price per share of $48.00. refer to the data for pennewell publishing inc. (pp). pp is considering changing its capital structure to one with 30% debt and 70% equity, based on market values. the debt would have an interest rate of 8%. the new funds would be used to repurchase stock. it is estimated that the increase in risk resulting from the added leverage would cause the required rate of return on equity to rise to 12%. if this plan were carried out, what would be pp's new value of operations? a. $484,359 b. $521,173 c. $584,653 d. $560,748 e. $487,805

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