Which best describes what financial planning skills ultimately enable an individual to do? to prepare for the future to determine lifetime income to determine the cost of living to learn from the past

You are opening a new store and must project in your business plan the amount of inventory shrinkage. you have forecasted $1,200,000 in sales for the first year. assuming your shrinkage will be 5%, the high end of the national average, calculate the projected annual shrinkage for your business plan. you are opening a new store and must project in your business plan the amount of inventory shrinkage. you have forecasted $1,200,000 in sales for the first year. assuming your shrinkage will be 5%, the high end of the national average, calculate the projected annual shrinkage for your business plan.

Annuity payments are assumed to come at the end of each payment period (termed an ordinary annuity). however, an exception occurs when the annuity payments come at the beginning of each period (termed an annuity due). what is the future value of a 13-year annuity of $2,800 per period where payments come at the beginning of each period? the interest rate is 9 percent. use appendix c for an approximate answer, but calculate your final answer using the formula and financial calculator methods. to find the future value of an annuity due when using the appendix tables, add 1 to n and subtract 1 from the tabular value. for example, to find the future value of a $100 payment at the beginning of each period for five periods at 10 percent, go to appendix c for n = 6 and i = 10 percent. look up the value of 7.716 and subtract 1 from it for an answer of 6.716 or $671.60 ($100 × 6.716)

Shawn received an e-mail offering a great deal on music, movie, and game downloads. he has never heard of the company, and the e-mail address and company name do not match. what should shawn do?