Ten years ago Diana Torres wrote what has become the leading Tort textbook. She has been receiving royalties based on revenues reported by the publisher. These revenues started at $ 1.7 million in the first year, and grew steadily by 4 % per year. Her royalty rate is 20% of revenue. Recently, she hired an auditor who discovered that the publisher had been under reporting revenues. The book had actually earned 10% more in revenues than had been reported on her royalty statements. a. Assuming the publisher pays an interest rate of 5% on missed payments, how much money does the publisher owe Diana? b. The publisher is short of cash, so instead of paying Diana what is owed, the publisher is offering to increase her royalty rate on future book sales. Assume the book will generate revenues for an additional 20 years and that the current revenue growth will continue. If Diana would otherwise put the money into a bank account paying interest of 3.8 %, what royalty rate would make her indifferent between accepting an increase in the future royalty rate and receiving the cash owed today.

Los Altos, Inc. obtained a patent for a new optical scanning device. The fees incurred to file for the patent and to defend the patent in court against several companies that challenged the patent amounted to $45,000. Los Altos, Inc. concluded that the expected economic life of the patent was 12 years. Calculate the amortization expense that should be recorded in the second year. $ 0

WatchNU is a company that designs and manufacturers drones for military use. The supply manager is getting ready to renegotiate the contract with the security service provider that it uses for its offices and manufacturing plant. Three suppliers responded to the RFP for security services for the next three years. The current security services provider, SecurelT quoted $920,000 per year. Two suppliers that have not been used by WatchNU in the past quoted $835,000 and $742,000 respectively. The supply manager is also analyzing the costs associated with insourcing security services rather than using a supplier as a way to reduce costs and provide greater control over security. The salary and benefits for a full-time security services manager is estimated to be $91,000. Other fixed costs are estimated to be $21,000/year. Three security guards are needed 24 hours/day, 365 days per year. The salary and benefits for the security guards is $26/hour. a. What are the costs to insource the…

You are an employee of University Consultants, Limited, and have been given the following assignment. You are to present an investment analysis of a small retail income-producing property for sale to a potential investor. The asking price for the property is $1,360,000; rents are estimated at $174,080 during the first year and are expected to grow at 2.5 percent per year thereafter. Vacancies and collection losses are expected to be 10 percent of rents. Operating expenses will be 35 percent of effective gross income. A fully amortizing 70 percent loan can be obtained at 6 percent interest for 30 years (total annual payments will be monthly payments × 12). The property is expected to appreciate in value at 3 percent per year and is expected to be owned for five years and then sold.   Required: a. What is the first-year debt coverage ratio? b. What is the terminal capitalization rate? c. What is the investor’s expected before-tax internal rate of return on equity invested (BTIRR)? d.…