As a consultant, you have been thinking about choosing the "right" alpha (smoothing constant) for forecasting using exponential smoothing. which of the following is most accurate about alpha? a) if alpha is high, speed of reaction to changes in actually low. b) if a firm produces standard product with relatively stable demand, alpha should be small. c) products experiencing growth should be assigned higher alpha value. d) alpha could be more than 1.0, and in this case (1-alpha) will become negative to make up for it. e) b and c

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Evan company reports net income of $232,000 each year and declares an annual cash dividend of $100,000. the company holds net assets of $2,130,000 on january 1, 2017. on that date, shalina purchases 40 percent of evan's outstanding common stock for $1,066,000, which gives it the ability to significantly influence evan. at the purchase date, the excess of shalina’s cost over its proportionate share of evan’s book value was assigned to goodwill. on december 31, 2019, what is the investment in evan company balance (equity method) in shalina’s financial records?

Take it all away has a cost of equity of 11.11 percent, a pretax cost of debt of 5.36 percent, and a tax rate of 40 percent. the company's capital structure consists of 67 percent debt on a book value basis, but debt is 33 percent of the company's value on a market value basis. what is the company's wacc