Makers Corp. had additions to retained earnings for the year just ended of $205,000. The firm paid out $185,000 in cash dividends, and it has ending total equity of $4.90 million. The company currently has 100,000 shares of common stock outstanding. 1. What are earnings per share?2. What are dividends per share? 3. What is the book value per share? 4. If the stock currently sells for $68 per share, what is the market-to-book ratio?5. What is the price-earnings ratio?6. If the company had sales of $3.41 million, what is the price-sales ratio?

Which of the following best explains why a large company can undersell small retailers? a. large companies can offer workers lower wages because they provide more jobs. b. large companies can pay their employees less because they do unskilled jobs. c. large companies can negotiate better prices with wholesalers. d. large companies have fewer expenses associated with overhead.

4. suppose that pollution in a neighborhood comes from two factories, with marginal benefit curves given by mb1 = 12 – p1 and mb2 = 8 – p2. the level of pollution in the neighborhood is given by p = p1 + p2. the government wants to limit pollution by instituting a pollution-rights market. the government’s desired level of p is 10, so it prints 10 pollution rights and offers them for sale to the firms.a)find the equilibrium selling price of a pollution right, as well as the allocation of rights (and hence pollution levels) across the two factories. b)repeat part (a) for the case where the government’s desired level of pollution equals 14. c)comment on the usefulness of a pollution rights market in achieving efficient levels of pollution abatement.

Your own record of all your transactions. a. check register b. account statement