Kim's Bridal Shoppe has 10,200 shares of common stock outstanding at a price of $36 per share. It also has 215 shares of preferred stock outstanding at a price of $87 per share. There are 520 bonds outstanding that have a coupon rate of 5.5 percent paid semiannually. The bonds mature in 17 years, have a face value of $1,000, and sell at 93 percent of par (price equals to percent times face value). What is the capital structure weight of the common stock?

a.4223
b.3474
c.4053
d.5562
e.5056

a. .4223

Explanation:

Kim's Bridal shoppe has common stock, bonds and preferred stock in its capital. To identify capital structure weight of common stock we calculate value of each capital.  

Common Stock : 10200 shares * $36  = $367,200

Preferred Stock : 215 shares * $87 = $18,705

Bonds Outstanding : 520 Bonds * $1,000 * 93% of par = $483,600

Total capital : $367,200 + $18,705 + $483600 = 869,505

Common stock share : $367,200 / $869,505 = 0.4223

D. Are Time Consuming

Explanation:

Communication, Teaching employees and involving them in policies are very useful tools in reducing employee resistance to trade but they can be quite time consuming. Having to communicate explain every change to employees, why it is to be done and how it will be of benefit will take time that could have been spent producing results.

Also involving them in key decision making can have the same temporal effect because the decisions will have to go through more people than before to be approved. The process will become more bureaucratic.