What is the percent of CO2 in the atmosphere that humans are emitting per year relative to preanthropogenic levels? (Hint: divide the rate of increase (2 ppm/year) by the amount of CO2 in 1850. and multiply by 100). 5. There were 600 gigatons (106 tons) of carbon in the atmosphere in 1850. How many gigatons accumulated in the atmosphere each year due to human activity?
A merger would best be used in this situation since it will help lower his taxable income and he can improve his operations and competitiveness. If he feels that the investment in new manufacturing equipment will help increase profits and can take on the extra liability, then he should buy Smithon. His debt –to-equity ratio will rise and may cause him to have a hard time getting money to finance his company. But with a two year loss he is keeping his taxable income down and may be able to show investors that things are going to turn around when all operations are working together and
However, within this broad framework, many details need to be worked out, and the costs and benefits to businesses will depend on how the government tackles these finer points (Horne, 2011). At the core of a cap and trade system is the pollution permit (often called an allowance), which is essentially a commodity created by governments in recognition that the atmosphere cannot be treated as a free dumping ground. Businesses regulated by cap and trade are required to own one tonne’s worth of pollution permits for every tonne of pollution they produce (Horne, 2011). If pollution permits are costly, businesses will choose to reduce their pollution so they need fewer permits. Like a carbon tax, this approach strengthens the economic case for investing in clean energy (Horne,
Cost a) Cost of Production: Albatross Anchor should look at lowering production costs in order to realize greater profit margins. By increasing production, Albatross Anchor will be able to decrease fixed costs. They would be able to spread the costs across more units which would decrease the price per unit they need to pay. Production costs decrease with increases in production levels. This will help to recapture profit margins lost to inefficiency and make them better competitors in their chosen market, (Russell & Taylor, 2011).
Discount rate = 11%. The Net Present Value (NPV) of an investment proposal is equal to the present value of its annual free cash flows less the investment’s initial outlay (Keown, A. J., Martin, J. D., & Petty, J. W. (2014). The rule here is that our company will accept projects with a net present value greater than zero, and decline the ones with a net present value that is less than zero. The greater the net present value, the more appropriate the investment is. Based on that, Corporation B is desirable to Corporation A as it has a greater net present value.
What is the project’s net present value? When attempting to finance a project, it is important to know the financial health of the company. The net present value aids with analyzing the profitability of a project. It demonstrates the difference between the present value of the cash inflows and the cash outflows (Titman, Keown, & Martin, 2011). When a negative net present value is obtained, it is a sure indicator that the firm should not continue to invest in a project.
Midas Week 1 Assignment BUS 644 Midas This paper will address several issues that are caused in the business operational efficiencies and the various solutions to minimize those issues in business operations. Business operating efficiency is nothing but the ratio between the input to run a business operation and the output gained from the business. In order to improve the operational efficiencies, it is very important that output or productivity surpasses the input. According to (Vonderembse & White, 2013), “the productivity increases, organizations can do the same work with less effort or can do more work with same effort. Increase in the productivity reduce costs, lower price and provide a basis for competing in a world markets.
Sustainability Team A: ECO/415 DR. Guthlac Anyalezu University of Phoenix February 27, 2012 Sustainability Introduction: Economic Sustainability is the ability of an economy, or in the case of this paper, PepsiCo, Inc. to support a defined level of economic production indefinitely (NA, 2011). Team A will define sustainability and explain why it is important for the financial success of PepsiCo. Team A will evaluate PepsiCo and identify the company’s financial stakeholders. Team A will also describe economic and non-economic business decisions that may negatively or positively affect stakeholders. This paper will explain how these decisions may affect PepsiCo’s profits when stakeholder reactions are taken into account and identify
The health of the world’s forests? c. How might these environmental improvements benefit human health and, in turn, our economy? 6. Does reducing the size of our footprint necessarily mean reducing our quality of life? No reducing the size of our footprint will not reduce our quality of life; we can still have a quality of life but by reducing our footprint will better our life.
Now the question is- do we drill? Drilling would lower our dependence on foreign oil, it would create jobs, it is not harmful for the animals and best of all and it will help boost our economy. Drilling would obviously lower our dependence on oil because of a simple fact: we would be drilling on home soil,