<span>The proactive efforts of company
managers to boost the stock price of the company should, of a necessity, include
such actions as raising the company's dividend each year (ideally by at least
$.05 per share) and repurchasing shares of common stock.</span>
Answer:
The amount of dividend received by common stockholders in 2017 = $7500
Explanation:
The preference shares are cumulative which means the 2015 dividend on cumulative preference shares will be paid in the next year when dividend is declatred.
The total dividend on preference shjares is = 2500 * 100 * 0.05 = $12500
In 2016 dividend of 22500 is declared and paid.
Out of this 22500, 12500 relates to prefernece dividend for 2015.
The remaining 10000 relates to 2016 preference dividend. Thus, 2500 of 2016 preference dividned is outstanding and will be paid in 2017.
In 2017 out of 22500, 15000 (12500 + 2500) dividendd is paid to preference share holders.
The amount of dividend received by common stockholders in 2017 = 22500 - 15000 = $7500
Answer:
Optimization
Explanation:
Since we were told that the brand manager has limited budget of $25,000 which makes the manager to decide that television adverts is much more effective than radio adverts making him to allocates, at least 70% of the time to television, based on this I wiill run OPTIMIZATION test reason been that optimization will help and enable me to make the best or most effective use of available resource which will in turn Reduce costs while improving the performance which is why the brand manager decide to allocate 70% to Television in order to make the business more efficient as well as cost effective.
At high price levels, demand tends to be elastic and the price effect is small relative to the output effect.
Answer:
Effect on income= $68,580 increase
Explanation:
<u>Because it is a special order, and there is unused capacity, we will not take into account the fixed costs. Only the variable ones.</u>
<u>First, we need to calculate the unitary cost:</u>
Unitary cost= 46.1 + 8.8 + 1.8 + 1.3
Unitary cost= $58
<u>Now, the effect on the income of accepting the offer:</u>
Effect on income= 2,700*(83.4 - 58)
Effect on income= $68,580 increase
