What process is characterized by the top managers in organizations attempting to protect the good reputation of the organization by providing statements on how decisions should be made while creating incentives for lower-level managers to take deviant or illegal actions on behalf of the organization?

Which of the following is a product of appellate court opinions?

Calculate Carson’s return on invested capital for 2020.  

Corporate involvement in crime seems to be linked with which of the following factors?

Buchner Corporation is planning to grow their business with a large investment in the coming year.   The estimated free cash flows for the next 2 years are as follows:                 FCF1 = -$40 million                 FCF2 = $8 million After year time 2 it is estimated that the free cash flow will grow at a stable 6% growth rate.  The WACC for Buchner is 11% and cost of equity is 13%.  All of Buchner’s assets are operating assets.  In addition, Buchner has debt outstanding of $45 million.  What is the value of Buchner’s operations (Vop) with the planned investment?  

According to your text, biographical accounts of several notorious white-collar offenders associate all but which of the following personality and character traits with their criminal conduct? 

The last dividend paid by a company (D0)was $2. The dividend growth rate is expected to be constant at 3% for 2 years, after which dividends are expected to grow at a rate of 8.5% forever. The firm’s required return (rs) is 11.0%. What is the best estimate of the current stock price?

A company’s value of operations is $270 million, based on the free cash flow valuation model. The best estimate of current market values of its balance sheet accounts is: $21 million in accounts receivable, $15 million in inventory, $9 million in short-term investments that are unrelated to operations, $6 million in accounts payable, $33 million in notes payable, $27 million in long-term debt, $6 million in preferred stock, and $42 million in retained earnings. If the company has 2 million shares of stock outstanding, what is the best estimate of the stock’s price per share?

Calculate Carson’s economic value added (EVA) for 2020.

Please use the following Excel file to do your work for this exam.  You will need to submit it at the end of this exam.  I will use it to assign partial credit.