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Carey company is borrowing $225,000 for one year at 9.5 percent from second intrastate bank. the bank requires a 15 percent compensating balance. the principal refers to funds the firm can effectively utilize (amount borrowed − compensating balance). a. what is the effective rate of interest? (use a 360-day year. input your answer as a percent rounded to 2 decimal places.) b. what would the effective rate be if carey were required to make 12 equal monthly payments to retire the loan?

Chang corp. has $375,000 of assets, and it uses only common equity capital (zero debt). its sales for the last year were $595,000, and its net income was $25,000. stockholders recently voted in a new management team that has promised to lower costs and get the return on equity up to 15.0%. what profit margin would the firm need in order to achieve the 15% roe, holding everything else constant? a. 9.45%b. 9.93%c. 10.42%d. 10.94%e. 11.49%

Apopular low-cost airline, parson corp., has gone out of business. although the service and price provided by the airline was what customers wanted, the larger airlines were able to drive the low-cost airline out of business through an aggressive price war. which component of the competitive environment does this illustrate?