Solar Utility is a rapidly expanding supplier of energy in the southwestern US. The firm has 5,000,000 shares of common stock outstanding on which it recently paid a $2 dividend. The common stock is currently priced at $30 per share. The firm wishes to maintain a payout ratio of 50%. The current earnings per share of $4 are expected to increase at an annual rate of 6% for the foreseeable future.
The firm also has two long-term bond issues outstanding. An issue of 100 million bearing a 12% interest rate has been outstanding for two years and the bonds are selling at face (par) value. A prior bond issue of 60 million will mature in the forthcoming period and must be refunded with a new issue of bonds. The new 10 year bonds will have a coupon rate of 10% and are expected to sell for $900.
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Swisscom AG, the principal provider of telecommunications in Switzerland, prepares consolidated financial statements in accordance with International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS). Until 2007, Swisscom also reconciled its net income and stockholder's equity to US GAAP. Swisscom's consolidated financial statments from a recent annual report are presented in their original format in Column 1 of the following worksheet. Note 27, Differences between IFRS and US GAAP, which includes Swisscom's US GAAP reconciliation, also is provided.
Required:
1. Use the information in NOte 27 to restate Swisscom's consolidated financial statments in accordance with US GAAP. Begin by constructing debit/credit entries for each reconcilation item, and then post these entries to columns 2 and 3 in the worksheets provide
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Chocolatiers Company produces two products: Solid chocolate and powdered chocolate. Cost and
revenue data for each product line for the current month are as follows:
Product Lines
Solid Powdered
Sales . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $850,000 $870,000
Contribution margin as a percentage of sales . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45% 55%
Fixed costs traceable to product lines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $175,000 $250,000
In addition, fixed costs that are common to both product lines amount to $125,000.
Instructions
a. Prepare ChocolatiersAc€?cs responsibility income
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"Write a one page response to the following statement:
"U.S. regulators should enforce antitrust laws against the Microsoft Corporation."
Begin a response to this statement with your assertion - Agree or Disagree - then provide reasoning to support your assertion.
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Discuss with your Learning Team an existing organization with which you are familiar that is different than the one you used for the Conceptualizing a Business paper.
Write a 1,200-1,400-word paper in which you analyze the individual values and the organization’s values as reflected by the organization’s plans and actions. Include the following in your paper:
Analyze the origin(s) and subsequent evolution of your personal and workplace values.
Explain how your individual values drive your actions and behaviors, and analyze the alignment between your values and actions and behaviors.
Analyze the degree of alignment between the organization’s stated values and the organization’s actual plans and actions.
Explain the differences and analyze the degree of alignment between your values a
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Assignment 1: Strategic Management and Strategic Competitiveness
Due Week 2 and worth 300 points
Choose one (1) public corporation in an industry with which you are familiar. Research the company on
its own Website, the public filings on the Securities and Exchange Commission EDGAR database
(http://www.sec.gov/edgar.shtml), in the University's online databases, and any other sources you can
find. The annual report will often provide insights that can help address some of these questions.
Write a four page paper in which you:
1. Assess how globalization and technology changes have impacted the corporation you
researched.
2. Apply the industrial organization model and the resource-based model to determine how your
corporation could e
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BUS 520 Assignment 3 Part I: Leadership Style: How Are Leaders Leading in the 21st Century
Due Week 10 and worth 200 points
Choose the CEO of one of the following organizations for this assignment: Google, Zappos, Southwest Airlines, Hewlett Packard, Xerox, W.L. Gore, DuPont, or Procter & Gamble. Use the Internet to investigate the leadership style and effectiveness of the selected CEO.
Write a six to eight (6-8) page paper in which you:
- Describe the leadership style of the CEO.
- Analyze the CEO’s leadership style and philosophy, and how the CEO’s leadership style aligns with the culture.
- Examine the CEO’s personal and organizational values.
- Evaluate how the values of the CEO are likely to influence ethical behavior within the organization
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BUS 521 Assignment 3: Business Plan Part III – Business Initiative and Technology Paper
Due Week 9 and worth 160 points
Note: Refer to scenarios and reading assignments from previous weeks to complete this assignment.
In Part III of your business plan, you will consider how your new business initiative will affect operations in your company. You will also evaluate different technologies and introduce the type of technology that will help you make a more efficient and high quality product or service.
Write a four to five (4-5) page paper in which you:
1. Analyze the options available for producing the product or service. Next, evaluate which of the available options you can take to streamline operations.
2. Determine how the product or service will meet consumer needs.
3. Assess at least three (3) types of technologies that w
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Due Week 8 and worth 170 points
Write a three to four (3-4) page paper in which you:
- Explain, in detail, what you believe to be the greatest challenge facing law enforcement agencies investigating exploitation, cyber stalking, and obscenity. Provide a rationale for your response.
- Identify the specific challenges that overlapping of jurisdictions pose in the fight against cyber-crime. Next, propose salient solution(s) for overcoming the challenges in question. Justify your response.
- Discuss whether or not law officers from different states should have the ability to work with one another when a cyber-crime is carried out across state lines.
- Use at least three (3) quality references for this assignment. Note: Wikipedia and similar Websites do not qualify as quality resources.
- Be typed, double spaced,
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