The management of Ro Corporation is investigating automating a process. Old equipment, with a current salvage value of $15,000, would be replaced by a new machine. The new machine would be purchased for $366,000 and would have a 6 year useful life and no salvage value. By automating the process, the company would save $127,000 per year in cash operating costs. The simple rate of return on the investment is closest to (Ignore income taxes.): (Round your answer to 1 decimal place.)

Maker-bot corporation has 10,000 shares of 10%, $90 par value, cumulative preferred stock outstanding since its inception. no dividends were declared in the first two years. if the company pays $400,000 of dividends in the third year, how much will common stockholders receive?

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Pennewell publishing inc. (pp) is a zero growth company. it currently has zero debt and its earnings before interest and taxes (ebit) are $80,000. pp's current cost of equity is 10%, and its tax rate is 40%. the firm has 10,000 shares of common stock outstanding selling at a price per share of $48.00. refer to the data for pennewell publishing inc. (pp). pp is considering changing its capital structure to one with 30% debt and 70% equity, based on market values. the debt would have an interest rate of 8%. the new funds would be used to repurchase stock. it is estimated that the increase in risk resulting from the added leverage would cause the required rate of return on equity to rise to 12%. if this plan were carried out, what would be pp's new value of operations? a. $484,359 b. $521,173 c. $584,653 d. $560,748 e. $487,805