1. Analyze the financials year-over-year (2 years) of two companies for both firms and explain in your initial post which company is stronger.
2. Queen City Men Inc. purchased a machine four years ago at a cost of $275,400. The machine is being depreciated using the straight-line method over six years. The tax rate is 21 percent and the discount rate is 14 percent. If the machine is sold today for $122,000, what will the after-tax salvage value be?
3. Oxygen Optimization is considering a project that is expected to cost 5,721 dollars today; produce a cash flow of 13,944 dollars in 8 years, and have an NPV of 566 dollars. What is the cost of capital for the project? Answer as a rate in decimal format so that 12.34% would be entered as .1234 and 0.98% would be entered as .0098.
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