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Great Corporation has the following capital situation.

Debt: One thousand bonds were issued five years ago at a coupon rate of 10%. They had 20-year terms and $2,000 face values. They are now selling to yield 8%. The tax rate is 34%

Preferred stock: Two thousand shares of preferred are outstanding, each of which pays an annual dividend of $5.50. They originally sold to yield 14% of their $40 face value. They’re now selling to yield 11%.

Equity: Great Corp has 108,000 shares of common stock outstanding, currently selling at $18.48 per share. Use the risk premium approach and assume a 3% risk premium

 
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Gree Electronics is a famous Chinese manufacturer of air conditioners. The company has a single manufacturing facility in Zhuhai, Guangdong. Gree Electronics distributes its products through five regional warehouses located in Chongqing, Hefei, Zhengzhou, Wuhan, and Shijiazhuang. In the current distribution system, China is partitioned into five major markets, each of which is served by a single regional warehouse. Customers, typically retail outlets, receive items directly from the regional warehouse in their market area. That is, in the current distribution system, each customer is assigned to a single market and receives deliveries from one regional warehouse. 

The warehouses receive items from the manufacturing facility. Typically, it takes about two weeks to satisfy an order placed by any of the regional warehouses. In recent years, Gree has seen a significant increase in competition and huge pressure from their customers to improve service level and reduce costs. To improve service level and reduce costs, Gree would like to consider an alternative distribution strategy in which the five regional warehouses are replaced with a single, central warehouse that will be in charge of all customer orders. 

(a). Describe how you would design a new logistics network consisting of only a single warehouse.

(b). Provide an outline of such an analysis: What are the main steps?

(c). Specifically, what data would you need? 

(d). What are the advantages and disadvantages of the newly suggested distribution strategy relative to the existing distribution strategy? 

 
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1.GreatSports has decided to assess the feasibility of outsourcing a portion of their in-house production. A reputable supplier has bid $.72 per product on 400,000 products over a 3- year period. Shipping will cost a fixed $.007 per unit. Additionally, we must consider the cost of additional quality control at receiving, estimated at $1,667.67 per month and the additional cost associated with ordering, estimated at $8,000 per year.Current manufacturing costs for in-house production include one supervisor at $26,800 per year, one part-time employee at $6,000 per year, direct labor at $0.05 per unit, direct materials at $0.08 per unit, equipment depreciation on a machine that will have no salvage value at the end of 3 years with a current value of $13,200, and overhead allocated to the product at the rate of $260,000 per year.Using total cost analysis, which option is best?A) Remain in-houseB) OutsourceC) It’s a tie! Cost makes no difference2.American Manufacturing Company is evaluating 2 suppliers for component sourcing. After much internal discussion, AMC’s management has determined that the critical factors in choosing suppliers are: quality, delivery, price, and service. Further, management has rated the importance of these factors as .4, .3, .2 and .1 respectively. On a scale of 1 to 5, Supplier A is rated at 5, 3, 3 and 3 respectively. Supplier B’s ratings are 4, 4, 3 and 4. Which supplier has the best weighted score?A) Supplier AB) Supplier BC) Neither, they both have the same weighted score3.Having selected outsourcing as a viable option, Cox Industries must now choose between two competing bids from potential contract manufacturers. Both Blackstone Production and Williams Widgets have made competing offers at similar prices. The summary data for the two contract manufacturers is given below:Performance Dimension

 
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I’m having problems understand the instructions.In this second assignment you are asked to write a 2- to 4-page analysis involving a) the application of a percentage of sales model to recent financial statements of your chosen company, b) the calculation of internal and sustainable growth rates for your company, and c) the recommendation of a short- and long-term financing plan for the firm. Attached is the financials for the company can you help clarify?

 
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Great Value Hardware Stores, has come to you for assistance in evaluating an opportunity to purchase a controlling interest in a hardware store in a neighboring city. The store under consideration is a closed held family corporation. Owners of 60% of the shares are willing to sell you the 60% interest, 30,000 common stock shares in exchange for 7,5000 of Great Value shares, which have a fair value of $40 each and a par value of $10 each.Your client sees this as a good opportunity to enter a new market. The controller of Great Value knows, however, that all is not well with the store being considered. The store, Al’s Hardware, has not kept paced with the market and has been losing money. It also has a major lawsuit against it stemming from alleged faulty electrical components it supplied that caused a fire. The store is not insured for the loss. Legal counsel advises that the store will likely pay $300,000 in damages. The following balance sheet was provided by Al’s Hardware as of December 31, 2011:Liabilities and EquityCurrent Liabilities

 
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I have to write a debate Essay over Greenhill Community Center and the position Im takinjg is staff should have more interaction with the 13 trustees = I have never taken debate and I don’t know how to put this all together can you give me some pointers

 
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Greener Grass Fertilizer Company plans to sell 200,000 units of finished product in July and anticipates a growth rate in sales of 5 percent per month. The desired monthly ending inventory in units of finished product is 80 percent of the next month’s estimated sales. There are 160,000 finished units in inventory on June 30. Each unit of finished product requires four pounds of raw material at a cost of $1.15 per pound. There are 700,000 pounds of raw material in inventory on June 30. 1. Compute the company’s total required production in units of finished product for the entire three month period ending September 30.2. Independent of your answer to part (1), assume the company plans to produce 600,000 units of finished product in the three-month period ending September 30, and to have raw-material inventory on hand at the end of the three-month period equal to 25 percent of the use in that period. Compute the total estimated cost of raw-material purchases for the entire three-month period ending September 30. (Omit the “$” sign in your response.)

 
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Greener Grass Company (GGC) competes with its main rival, Better Lawns and Gardens (BLG), in the supply and installation of in-ground lawn watering systems in the wealthy western suburbs of a major east-coast city. Last year, GGCâs price for the typical lawn system was $1,900 compared with BLGâs price of $2,100. GGC installed 9,960 systems, or about 60% of total sales and BLG installed the rest. (No doubt many additional systems were installed by do-it-yourself homeowners because the parts are readily available at hardware stores.) GGC has substantial excess capacityâit could easily install 25,000 systems annually, as it has all the necessary equipment and can easily hire and train installers. Accordingly, GGC is considering expansion into the eastern suburbs, where the homeowners are less wealthy. In past years, both GGC and BLG have installed several hundred systems in the eastern suburbs but generally their sales efforts are met with the response that the systems are too expensive. GGC has hired you to recommend a pricing strategy for both the western and eastern suburb markets for this coming season. You have estimated two distinct demand functions, as follows: Qw =2100 â 6.25Pgw + 3Pbw + 2100Ag – 1500Ab + 0.2Yw for the western market and Qe = 36620 – 25Pge + 7Pbe + 1180Ag – 950Ab + 0.085Ye for the eastern market, where Q refers to the number of units sold; P refers to price level; A refers to advertising budgets of the firms (in millions); Y refers to average disposable income levels of the potential customers; the subscripts w and e refer to the western and eastern markets, respectively; and the subscripts g and b refer to GGC and BLG, respectively. GGC expects to spend $1.5 million (use Ag = 1.5) on advertising this coming year and expects BLG to spend $1.2 million (use Ab = 1.2) on advertising. The average household disposable income is $60,000 in the western suburbs and $30,000 in the eastern suburbs. GGC does not expect BLG to change its price from last year because it has already distributed its glossy brochures (with the $2,100 price stated) in both suburbs, and its TV commercial has already been produced. GGCâs cost structure has been estimated as TVC = 750Q + 0.005Q2, where Q represents single lawn watering systems. Show all of your calculations and processes. Describe your answer for each item below in complete sentences, whenever it is necessary.1.Derive the demand curves for GGCâs product in each market. 2.Derive GGCâs marginal revenue (MR) and marginal cost (MC) curves in each market. Show graphically GGCâs demand, MR, and MC curves for each market. 3.Derive algebraically the quantities that should be produced and sold, and the prices that should be charged, in each market. 4.Calculate the price elasticities of demand in each market and discuss these in relation to the prices to be charged in each market. 5.Add a short note to GGC management outlining any reservations and qualifications you may have concerning your price recommendations.

1 a.Derive the demand curves for GGC’s product in each market.Qw =2100- 6.25Pgw +3 Pbw +2100Ag – 1500 Ab + 0.2 YwWestern”Qw=2100-6.25Pgw +3Pbw *2100Ag + 2100 *1.5 -1500*1.2 + 0.2*5500…

 
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Greendale Project ReDux

This assignment consists of two (2) parts: a project schedule, and a written response. You must submit both parts as separate files for the completion of this assignment. Label each file name according to the part of the assignment it is written for.

Part A: Project Schedule(Submit as one [1] Microsoft Project file)

  1. Create a multi-level work breakdown structure (WBS) and detailed project schedule, using the information from the “Greendale Stadium Case” located at the end of Chapter 6, and incorporating the following constraints.Note: When you create your MS Project schedule, you will need to update your project per the following constraints: 
    • The project must consist of at least twenty (20) tasks.
    • Each task must have a start and finish date that matches the duration noted in the assignment. 
    • Each task must be assigned to a resource (e.g., Demolishing Crew; Construction Crew; Landscaping Crew). 
    • Assume that the crew works during normal weekdays (no weekend work) under normal conditions (8 hours per day).  
    • In terms of holidays, you can assume no work will be done the following days: New Year’s Day, President’s Day, Good Friday, Good Monday, Friday before Memorial Day, Memorial Day, the business day before Independence Day, Independence Day, the Friday before Labor Day, Labor Day, the day before Thanksgiving Day, Thanksgiving Day, Black Friday (day after Thanksgiving), the business day before Christmas, Christmas Day, the business day after Christmas Day, and New Year’s Eve.

Part B: Written Response(Submit as a Microsoft Word file)

  1. Respond to the following questions in a one to two (1-2) page paper based on your project schedule. 
    • When will the project be completed? 
    • What is the critical path for the project?
    • How much slack / float is in your project? What activities have the greatest slack / float?
    • Identify the top three (3) activities that you believe could impact the project completion date.
    • What additional activities you would add to this project to make it more complete, from a project management viewpoint?  
  2. Format your assignment according to the following formatting requirements:
    • Typed, double spaced, using Times New Roman font (size 12), with one-inch margins on all sides.
    • Include a cover page containing the title of the assignment, the student’s name, the professor’s name, the course title, and the date. The cover page is not included in the required page length.
 
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Green VehicleInc., manufactures electric cars and small delivery trucks. It has just opened a new factory where the C1 car and the T1 truck can both be manufactured. To make either vehicle, processing in the assembly shop and in the paint shop are required. It takes 1/30 of a day and 1/75 of a day to paint a truck of type T1 and a car of type C1 in the paint shop, respectively. It takes 1/45of a day to assemble either type of vehicle in the assembly shop. A T1 truck and a C1 car yield profits of $275 and $220,respectively, per vehicle sold.The aim of the objective function for Green Vehicle Inc. should be to Maximize the objective value. Decision variables:T=number of trucks to be produced per day C=number of cars to be produced per day

GREEN VEHICLES INC. AUTO MANUFACTURERQuestion:Green Vehicle Inc., manufactures electric cars and small delivery trucks. It has justopened a new factory where the C1 car and the T1 truck can both…

 
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