If you wanted to find out what the average salary is for a certain occupation, what could you do?

Last year if 97 percent of the revenues of a company came from domestic sources and the remaining revenues, totaling $450,000, came from foreign sources, what was the total of the company's revenues?

In 1 or 2 sentences, explain whether a monopolist uses resources efficiently.

What If the Facts Were Different? Suppose that Coca-Cola had been trying to make the public believe that its product contained cocaine. Would the result in this case likely have been different? Why?

A product may be made using machine I or machine II. The manufacturer estimates that the monthly fixed costs of using machine I are $18,000, whereas the monthly fixed costs of using machine II are $15,000.

David Ortiz Motors has a target capital structure of 40% debt and 60% equity. The yield to maturity on the company's outstanding bonds is 11%, and the company's tax rate is 40%. Ortiz's CFO has calculated the company's WACC as 9.39%.

At a recent staff meeting, the director of the centerville diagnostic imaging center told the staff, "our clients hate to waste time in a waiting room, and they may go to another center if we don't provide prompt service.

Implicit transaction

A firm plans to begin production of a new small appliance. The manager must decide whether to purchase the motors for the appliance from a vendor at $8 each or to produce them in-house.

A stock's holding period return represents: a. the return from a stock relative to the return from a specific portfolio. b. the total return earned over a specific period through buying and selling an asset. c.

Evaluate the current China/Taiwan logistics costs. Assume a current total volume of 190,000 CBM and that 89 percent is shipped direct from the supplier plants in containers.