Answer:
There are at least 2 opportunity costs associated with of letting your colleague have another month:
- if you invested in the oil-well venture, you could have earned $5,100 x 36% = $1,836 in one year
- if you invested in the new IT stock, you could have earned $5,100 x 48% = $2,448 in one year
You could invest in one of these options, or divide your money and invest in both options, e.g. invest $2,000 in the oil company and $3,000 in the IT company. Each different investment proportion results in a different opportunity cost.
Explanation:
Opportunity costs are the benefits lost or extra costs associated to carrying out an investment or activity instead of another alternative. Sometimes you might have several opportunity costs for one investment, e.g. invest in the IT company which is risky, invest in corporate bonds which is less risky or invest in US securities which is a safe investment.
Answer:
The correct answer to the following question will be Option D (Financial distress and agency costs).
Explanation:
- A cost of an agency is a form of company's internal expense that comes from an employee working on behalf of action of the principle. Agency costs usually occur from core redundancies, confusion, and delays, such as shareholder and management conflicts of interest.
- Distress expense applies to the expenses that a financially distressed company faces beyond the business cost, such as increased capital expenses. Troubled companies tend to have a tougher time fulfilling their financial responsibilities, which turns into a higher chance of default.
- When evaluating the company's value as a feature of market structure, the present value of the tax shield gain is balanced by the current value of the anticipated financial distress and agency expenses, which results in an ideal internal market structure.
Therefore, Option C is the right answer.
I think the answer to this is A.
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