If there are only three firms in an industry with 50 percent, 40 percent, and 10 percent of the market share, respectively, the Herfindahl-Hirschman Index is . a. 33 b. 4,200 c. 100 d. 40 e. 200

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

Which of the following is an example of a monetary policy? a. the government requires credit card companies to protect customers' privacy. b. the government restricts the amount of money that banks can lend. c. the government lowers taxes and increases spending. d. the government pays for repairing damage from a natural disaster.

This problem has been solved! see the answerthe xyz corporation is interested in possible differences in days worked by salaried employees in three departments in the financial area. a survey of 23 randomly chosen employees reveals the data shown below. because of the casual sampling methodology in this survey, the sample sizes are unequal. research question: are the mean annual attendance rates the same for employees in these three departments? days worked last year by 23 employees department days worked budgets (5 workers) 278 260 265 245 258 payables (10 workers) 205 270 220 240 255 217 266 239 240 228 pricing (8 workers) 240 258 233 256 233 242 244 249 picture click here for the excel data filefill in the missing data. (round your p-value to 4 decimal places, mean values to 1 decimal place and other answers to 2group mean n std. dev variancesbudgets payables pricing total one factor anova source ss df ms f p-value treatment error total