Stone age surfboards is a small manufacturer of two types of popular low-tide surfboards, the graystone and the lava models. the manufacturing process consists of two departments: fabrication and finishing. the fabrication department has 8 skilled workers, each of whom works 9.25 hours per day. the finishing department has 5 workers, each of whom works a 6-hour shift per day. each pair of graystone surfboards requires 2.5 labor hours in the fabrication department and 2 labor hours in finishing. the lava model requires 4.2 labor-hours in fabrication and 3.6 labor-hours in finishing. the company operates 6 days a week. it makes a per unit profit of $40 on the graystone model and $60 on the lava model. the company anticipates selling at least twice as many lava models as graystone models. use the spreadsheet below for stone age surfboards to answer the following question(s) using integer constraints on variables in the optimization models using the standard solver. what is the quantity of lava surfboards produced?

Which of the following statements is correct? large corporations are taxed more favorably than sole proprietorships. corporate stockholders are exposed to unlimited liability. due to limited liability, unlimited lives, and ease of ownership transfer, the vast majority of u.s. businesses (in terms of number of businesses) are organized as corporations. most businesses (by number and total dollar sales) are organized as partnerships or proprietorships because it is easier to set up and operate in one of these forms rather than as a corporation. however, if the business gets very large, it becomes advantageous to convert to a corporation, mainly because corporations have important tax advantages over proprietorships and partnerships. most business (measured by dollar sales) is conducted by corporations in spite of large corporations’ often less favorable tax treatment, due to legal considerations related to ownership transfers and limited liability.

If a firm plans to issue new stock, flotation costs (investment bankers' fees) should not be ignored. there are two approaches to use to account for flotation costs. the first approach is to add the sum of flotation costs for the debt, preferred, and common stock and add them to the initial investment cost. because the investment cost is increased, the project's expected return is reduced so it may not meet the firm's hurdle rate for acceptance of the project. the second approach involves adjusting the cost of common equity as follows: . the difference between the flotation-adjusted cost of equity and the cost of equity calculated without the flotation adjustment represents the flotation cost adjustment. quantitative problem: barton industries expects next year's annual dividend, d1, to be $1.90 and it expects dividends to grow at a constant rate g = 4.3%. the firm's current common stock price, p0, is $22.00. if it needs to issue new common stock, the firm will encounter a 6% flotation cost, f. assume that the cost of equity calculated without the flotation adjustment is 12% and the cost of old common equity is 11.5%. what is the flotation cost adjustment that must be added to its cost of retaine

In william rathje's garbology project that focused on household waste, front door interviews found 15 percent of respondents saying that they consumed beer. the trash discard from the same area showed what percentage of household's consuming beer