The stock of Takone, Inc. currently sells for $15.00 per share. The company just paid a dividend of $2.10 per share and the current market price per share (i. e., $15.00) is based on investor belief that the dividends of the company will remain constant forever. Unknown to the market, however, is that Takone is about to announce the introduction of a modified product line that will cause the future earnings and therefore dividends of the company to grow at a rate of 4 percent per year forever, starting today. This new growth rate will begin with the dividend to be paid one year from today. The modified product line will not in any way impact the required rate of return for the stock of Takone, Incorporated. Assuming that the market reacts rationally, what will be the new stock price of Takone, Incorporated after the announcement? a. $21.00.
b. $15.00.
c. $21.84.
d. $15.76.

In december of 2004, the company you own entered into a 20-year contract with a grain supplier for daily deliveries of grain to its hot dog bun manufacturing facility. the contract called for "10,000 pounds of grain" to be delivered to the facility at the price of $100,000 per day. until february 2017, the supplier provided processed grain which could easily be used in your manufacturing process. however, no longer wanting to absorb the cost of having the grain processed, the supplier began delivering whole grain. the supplier is arguing that the contract does not specify the type of grain that would be supplied and that it has not breached the contract. your company is arguing that the supplier has an onsite processing plant and processed grain was implicit to the terms of the contract. over the remaining term of the contract, reshipping and having the grain processed would cost your company approximately $10,000,000, opposed to a cost of around $1,000,000 to the supplier. after speaking with in-house counsel, it was estimated that litigation would cost the company several million dollars and last for years. weighing the costs of litigation, along with possible ambiguity in the contract, what are three options you could take to resolve the dispute? which would be the best option for your business and why?

Pear co.’s income statement for the year ended december 31, as prepared by pear’s controller, reported income before taxes of $125,000. the auditor questioned the following amounts that had been included in income before taxes: equity in earnings of cinn co. $ 40,000 dividends received from cinn 8,000 adjustments to profits of prior years for arithmetical errors in depreciation (35,000) pear owns 40% of cinn’s common stock, and no acquisition differentials are relevant. pear’s december 31 income statement should report income before taxes of

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