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  During the 16th century, The Age of Confessional Division produced religious wars in France, Spain, and the Netherlands. Choose one of these conflicts and discuss the events, causes, and outcomes.   Your response should be at least 200 words in length. You are required to use at least your textbook as source material for […]

  Acme Company manufactures a variety of industrial products which are sold throughout the country.  Fred Riley has been manager the Eastern Branch of Acme Company for the past three years.  Starting in year 2, he was able to qualify for a $50,000 annual bonus for meeting a target growth rate of 10% of gross […]

  Allen and McConnell, Inc. (A & M) manufacture a variety of consumer products which they sell to retailers around the country.  One of their products, Pogo, normally wholesales for $180/unit.  Pogo is manufactured in a separate facility that currently operates at 7,000 units/mo below capacity.  Pogo costs $136/unit to manufacture: $36 of direct materials, […]

Assignment 2: The Prisoner’s Dilemma; What is in My Best Interest? We learned in earlier discussions that according to Aristotle and Bentham, one’s happiness was the highest goal. Enter social contract. How does one ensure one’s self-interest when one has to compromise with another to achieve the goal? David Gauthier proposes that it is possible, […]

XYZ Corporation operates a Marketing Research department.  This department compiles information from published sources, and from its own consumer studies, to assist marketing personnel in forecasting product demand and making pricing and promotion decisions.  A large marketing research firm has bid $260,000 per year for a three-year contract to perform the same services.  For the […]

Continental Industries is a diversified manufacturing company with a decentralized management structure.  Each major division is treated as a profit center.  One of the divisions is Westco, a chemical plant that produces a single product, P7.  In recent years, the entire annual output of 400,000 tons of P7 has been sold to another division, Acme […]

The owner of Work Now, a nonprofit job referral agency, has asked a few of his employees (you and your fellow group members) for help and recommendations. In the current economy employers seeking to fill professional positions are reluctant to hire applicants direct to full-time. Instead they prefer to hire though temporary agencies (like yours) so they […]

  Acme Company manufactures a variety of industrial products which are sold throughout the country.  Fred Riley has been manager of the Eastern Branch of Acme Company for the past three years.  Starting in year 2, he was able to qualify for a $50,000 annual bonus for meeting a target growth rate of 10% of […]

1.      Hinds Industries, Inc. is a manufacturer of soup and condiment products under its own standard and premium labels.  The company has been in business for many years, and is a “household name”.  Their Denver soup plant has a capacity of 120,000 cases/month, but has been operating at a normal volume of 75,000 cases/month   Hinds […]

4) Company HTA had a free cash flow for the firm (FCFF) of $1,500,000 last year. It is expected the FCFF will keep a sustainable growth rate of 5%. The company has 2 million common shares outstanding. In addition, the following information has been gathered: Capital structure: D/E=0.2:0.8, Market value of Debt: VD =$5,000,000; Required […]