Answer:
violates common law
Explanation:
A non compete is an agreement that restricts a previous employee from working for a competitor of his former company for a given period after disengagement.
This is a contract that aims to reduce to the rate at which company secrets are shared to competitors.
The rationale is that the employee's knowledge of the company's procedures will be obsolete after some years.
However non compete should not last for a very long time. Usually non compete of more than two to three years is not honoured by courts.
So in the given scenario where Harold the head chef at the Italian Olive Restaurant signed a non compete which restricts him from opening a restaurant for the next 15 years. The court will most likely not honour the non compete because the amount of time is not reasonable.
Answer:
9.94%
Explanation:
The cost of equity can be determined from the constant dividend growth model
according to the constant dividend growth model
price = d1 / (r - g)
d1 = next dividend to be paid
r = cost of equity
g = growth rate
50.60 = 2.5 / (r - 0.05)
50.60(r - 0.05) = 2.5
(r - 0.05) = 2.5 / 50.60
(r - 0.05) = 0.0494
r = 0.0494 + 0.05
r = 0.0994
r = 9.94%
Answer:
Projects Y and Z
b. Projects W and Z
c. Projects W and Y
Explanation:
CAPM equation : Expected return = Risk free rate + Beta x (Expected market return - Risk free rate)
W = 4% + [0.85 x (11% - 4%)] = 9.95%
X = 4% + (0.92 x 7%) = 10.44%
Y = 4% + (1.09 x 7%) = 11.63%
Z = 4% + (1.35 x 7%) = 13.45%
Projects Y and Z have an expected return greater than 11%
b. Projects W and Z should be accepted because its expected return is higher than the IRR
c. Project W would be incorrectly rejected because the expected rate of return is less than the overall cost of capital (i.e. 9.95 is less than 11). But its expected rate of return is greater than the IRR
Y would be incorrectly accepted because its expected rate of return is greater than the overall cost of capital but its expected rate of return is less than the IRR