You are the beneficiary of a life insurance policy. the insurance company informs you that you have two options for receiving the insurance proceeds. you can receive a lump sum of $50,000 today or receive payments of $641 a month for ten years. you can earn 6.5% on your money. which option should you take and why?
a. you should accept the payments because they are worth $56,451.91 today.
b. you should accept the payments because they are worth $56,523.74 today.
c. you should accept the payments because they are worth $56,737.08 today.
d. you should accept the $50,000 because the payments are only worth $47,757.69 today. e. you should accept the $50,000 because the payments are only worth $47,808.17 today.

Select the correct answers. mila is at a flea market. she has $50 in her wallet. she decides that she will spend $15 on jewelry, $20 on a pair of jeans, $5 on a t-shirt, and $10 on something to eat. she likes a one-of-a-kind t-shirt, but the seller is not ready to sell it for less than $8. she thinks of five ways to deal with this situation. which two choices indicate a trade-off?

Dahlia enterprises needs someone to supply it with 127,000 cartons of machine screws per year to support its manufacturing needs over the next five years, and you’ve decided to bid on the contract. it will cost you $940,000 to install the equipment necessary to start production; you’ll depreciate this cost straight-line to zero over the project’s life. you estimate that in five years, this equipment can be salvaged for $77,000. your fixed production costs will be $332,000 per year, and your variable production costs should be $11.00 per carton. you also need an initial investment in net working capital of $82,000. if your tax rate is 30 percent and your required return is 11 percent on your investment, what bid price should you submit? (do not round intermediate calculations and round your final answer to 2 decimal places. (e.g., 32.16))

Computing equivalent units is especially important for: (a) goods that take a relatively short time to produce, such as plastic bottles. (b) goods with sustainability implications in their production processes. (c) goods that are started and completed during the same period. (d) goods that take a long time to produce, such as airplanes.