We would call this event a <u>leveraged buyout (LBO)</u>.
<u>Explanation:</u>
A leveraged buyout is the attempt of buying a company primarily through borrowing. This purchasing involves combination of both equity and debt. The funds borrowed are used to buy out the stockholders in the company. The employees, managers, or investors now become the owners of the firm. The firm is taken private, when the managers buy all of the stock of the firm and take it off the open market.
In the above scenario, the employees of San Simeon company purchases the firm from their current owners by borrowing large sum of money.
Answer:
CAPM = 12.30%
Dividend Growth Model= 10.32%
Explanation:
According to the capital asset price model: Expected rate of return = risk free + beta x (market premium)
5% + (0.73 x 10%) = 12.30%
according to the constant dividend growth model
price = d1 / (r - g)
d1 = next dividend to be paid
r = cost of equity
g = growth rate
$35 = $1.6 x (1.055) / (r - 0.055)
r = 1.688 / 35 + 0.055 = 0.1032 = 10.32%
Answer:
Usage variance = $22,564.5 unfavorable
Explanation:
<em>A material usage variance occurs when the standard quantity required to active a particular level of production is higher or lower than than the actual actual quantity used. A favorable variance would mean than less quantity of materials were used than the standard to achieve a given output level. And an adverse variance would mean the opposite</em>
Pounds
850 units should have used ( 850× 5.9 pounds) 5,015
but did use <u> 6,550</u>
Usage variance 1,535 unfavorable
× standard price <u> $14.70</u>
Usage variance <u> 22,564.5</u> unfavorable
Usage variance = $22,564.5 unfavorable
Answer:
Option D- The unit product costs of high volume products typically decrease and the unit product costs of low volume products typically increase.
Explanation:
The reason is that the company has batch level costs which are fixed indirect costs that are to be assigned to the product and are fixed amounts say $100. Also assume that there are two type of units, Unit A and B. Suppose that the batch cost any number of units of A produced will remain the same and similarly for product B. This means if the units produced of A are at 20 unit per batch and product B produced are 10 units per batch then Activity Based Costing says that the unit cost of batch cost absorbed in Product A would be $5 ($100 / 20) and that for product B would be $10 ($100 / 10). So this example better explains cost behavior of batch cost which is fixed for different levels of production.
This means the fixed cost per unit which decreases with increase in production will keep decreasing if the number of units produced starts increasing. In other words, the similar class of units if are produced in higher quantity then the cost per unit will be decreased due to decrease in fixed cost per unit and vice versa.
Answer: Halo effect
Explanation:
In psychology the halo effect is a sort of bias in which a person tries to impress others through his/her overall appearance. The more good your appearance looks, the better your chances would be in impressing others.
In the question, many people wear formal attire because that signifies a level of good appearance that would land them a job. Even though it is not require, the candidate are doing that to get the attention of the interviewer in a way that would help them get the job.
