Answer:
BenchMark, Inc.
The current share price for the stock is:
$43.13
Explanation:
Dividend per share = $3.45
Growth rate = 5%
Investors' required rate of return = 13%
Stock value = Dividend per share / (Required Rate of Return – Dividend Growth Rate)
= $3.45/(0.13 - 0.05)
= $43.13
b) To determine BenchMark, Inc.'s current share price divide the dividend per share by the required rate of return after subtracting the growth rate from the required rate of return.
Answer:
As long as Mitch acted in good faith and tried to make the best possible decision regarding all available information, and his decision was something that any other person could have made, his mistake has to be considered a bad or negative business judgement (business judgement rule). He thought that his actions would benefit the corporation, but he was wrong and the corporation lost money. That types of mistakes are considered normal and just that, mistakes that anyone can make.
In regards with the second issue, that Mitch is a shareholder and a director of a firm that will directly compete with Numero Uno, he must inform the board about this and resign to either Numero Uno or One of a Kind.
Answer: Prior period adjustment resulting from the correction of an error.
Explanation:
The Cash basis method is not acceptable under both IFRS and U.S. GAAP accounting principles and these are the principles followed by the majority of the world so Lore Co. was using the cash basis in violation of both conventions which means that their accounting records before the change are considered wrong and full of errors.
In changing to the acceptable principles, they are correcting that error and need to adjust prior periods for that error as well.
Answer:
It will Decreases U.S. real GDP and on the other way round it will increases the well-being of a typical working person in the U.S.
Explanation:
The impact of the decline in working hours is that it will Decreases U.S. real GDP and on the other way round it will definitely lead to increase in the well-being of a typical working person in the U.S. because of the decline in the U.S work week which was formally 60 hours in the 1980 but now 40 hours today because a typical working person will have more time for him/her and the stress involved in working for 60 hours per week will reduce when compared with working for 40 hours per week because a typical working person in the U.S will preferred to work for 40 hours per week than 60hours per week for the betterment of their well being.
