Diminishing returns

In The Sacred and the Profane, Mircea Eliade traces the existence of sacred spaces and what characteristics each area follows to determine what defines a sacred space. Eliade has identified five elements of every sacred space. For a place to be sacred, there has to be a hierophany, cosmogonic qualities, a threshold, and where heavenly and earthly come to meet and has to have a break in the homogeneity of the space. To examine further, we explored Stonehill’s Chapel of Mary to see if it qualifies…

necessary to analyze net present value and internal rate of return to gauge return on investment. DT LLC has decided to use three depreciation methods – including straight-line, sum-of-the-year’s digits, and MACRS depreciation – to determine the profitability of XYZ’s investment. DT LLC’s accounting department believes analyzing the computer system investment through three separate depreciation methods would give a comprehensive overview of the return on this investment. DT LLC used the…

X-Opoly, Inc. is a company that was started by two college freshman who based a real estate board game on the essentials of Monopoly®. The board game was originally modeled on local popular landmarks surrounding the college. With X-Opoly’s ability to design and produce custom real estate trading games for universities, municipalities, chambers of commerce, and businesses, their venture was huge success. So, upon graduation they decided to run the company full time. Orders varied between a few…

In this paper I will identify the reason why Jackson and Kara Erb will not receive a refund from the prior year, how their refund and taxes due were calculated, as well as why they were not subject to the alternate minimum tax (AMT). These aspects will be answered from information provide as well as from the scenario presented between a Tax Accountant Peggy Sue as she explains to her new clients Jackson and Kara Erb by utilizing the class textbook, lessons, and other reputable sources. Not until…

get some benefit in the future. In finance, this benefit can also be called a return. It may consist of capital gain and/or investment income, including interest, dividends, rental income etc. Generally, investment results in acquiring an asset. In case the asset is available at a price worth investing, usually it is expected either to appreciate in value, or to generate income. Normally investors expect higher returns from investments that are more risky. In last several years investments in…

illiquid assets. During the process, loans are put together as a pool, held as the collateral of securitization and then transformed into securities. The common knowledge indicated that leverage was necessarily and directly correlated with improving in returns. Nonetheless, the theories…

decisions in investing bonds, which makes the investors keep buying the bonds by acquiring low-cost and relevant information given (Szulczyk, 2015). Tesfatision (2011), stated that an increase in future expected interest rates lowers the expected return rate for long-term bond causing demand curve shifts to the left as investors will purchase bonds in the future when the bond prices are cheaper. Besides that, a rise in expected inflation rate will cause the demand curve to shift leftward,…

Assignment 2: Question 2 Working capital management looks at the relationship between a firm's short-term assets and its short-term liabilities. The main goal of working capital management is to ensure that a firm has adequate cash flow for their operations and has the most productive use of their resources. Net working capital is the excess of current assets over current liabilities. Since current assets can be financed by either current liabilities or long term funds, the excess of current…

of $1,498,000. Super Sonic’s ROI for conducting the training is 199%, therefore the ROI is positive, warrantying the opportunity cost of the efficiency training. It is a cost-effective solution for Super Sonic. This is an excellent training, our return on investment for this training was 199%. This means that for every dollar we invested, our dollar was recovered and produced another $1.99 of benefit. The results of the Level 4 ROI will be shared with clients and managers, because it shows how…

My topic is why people should save for retirement with a 401(k) and/or other retirement plans. What is a 401(k), a 401(k) is a retirement savings plan for employees. The sooner you start the more you will have for when you retire. Many times when you put money in the account your employer will match a certain percent of the money, some employers will even match your investment. I believe everybody should be investing in a 401k or other retirement plan. In this paper I will attempt to make you…