Molly goes shopping at Publix, picks up 25 items that she needs for the week, and is quickly on her way. Publix, being an intermediary, makes it possible for Molly to buy all of her items in one place with only one transaction instead of ordering each item separately from 25 different manufacturers. Even though marketing intermediaries may sometimes cause headaches for manufacturers, they are here to stay because intermediaries:
A. make the channel of distribution more efficient.
B. have a higher success rate because they are franchises.
C. cause less channel conflict. can avoid the "supply chain management" fallacy.
D. are always "channel captains".

What is the equity method balance in the investment in lindman account at the end of 2018?

Alpha industries is considering a project with an initial cost of $8 million. the project will produce cash inflows of $1.49 million per year for 8 years. the project has the same risk as the firm. the firm has a pretax cost of debt of 5.61 percent and a cost of equity of 11.27 percent. the debt–equity ratio is .60 and the tax rate is 35 percent. what is the net present value of the project?

Mae jong corp. issues $1,000,000 of 10% bonds payable which may be converted into 10,000 shares of $2 par value ordinary shares. the market rate of interest on similar bonds is 12%. interest is payable annually on december 31, and the bonds were issued for total proceeds of $1,000,000. in accounting for these bonds, mae jong corp. will: (a) first assign a value to the equity component, then determine the liability component. (b) assign no value to the equity component since the conversion privilege is not separable from the bond.(c) first assign a value to the liability component based on the face amount of the bond.(d) use the “with-and-without” method to value the compound instrument.