Answer: the firm will have a temporary competitive advantage
Explanation: The firm in question would have a temporary competitive advantage. Competitive advantage describes something that places a company or business or a person above the competition such as value, rarity, difficult/costly-to-imitate amongst others. However, where a substitute is already in existence for such service, then the firm would have a temporary competitive advantage.
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E) if the firm evaluates these projects and all other projects at the new overall corporate wacc, it will probably become riskier over time.
Explanation:
Before the merger, Audaco would have rejected any project with an IRR of less than 12% (more risky investments) while Careco only required a 10% IRR (less risky projects). But after the merger the combined WACC will be lower than Audaco's, but higher than Careco's. Therefore, the new merged company will start accepting more risky projects and that tendency will continue over time. Eventually, the company's WACC will have to adjust and increase, and the cycle will continue.
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Explanation:
The coach of a college men’s soccer team records the resting heart rates of the 27 team members. You should not trust a confidence interval for the mean resting heart rate of all male students at this college based on these data because;
(a) with only 27 observations, the margin of error will be large.
(b) heart rates may not have a Normal distribution.
(c) the members of the soccer team can’t be considered a random sample of all students.
