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View Policies Current Attempt in Progress Cheyenne Corporation operates three divisions-Archer, Barrett, and Corvell. Division managers are evaluated based on the division's return on investment, and historically, the Corvell division has consistently outperformed the other two divisions. Cheyenne's senior management team has recently discovered that the Corvell Division manager has chosen not to invest in projects that would have been beneficial to the organization as a whole, and they are concerned that the current practice of evaluating the division managers' performance using return on investment may have contrilluted to these decisions. Therefore, the senior management team is considering the use of residual income or EVA to evaluate the division managers' performance. The following data is taken from the most recent year of operations, Archer Barrett Corvell Assets $29.978,000 $19,903,000 $7.990,500 Current liabilities 2.258,800 755,600 334,100 Operating income 4.196,920 3,184,480 1.438.290 12% 12% 12% Minimum rate of return Weighted average cost of capital Tax rate 8% BX 8% JOX 30% 30% (a) Calculate the return on investment, residual income, and EVA for each division (Round ROI answers to decimal places, s. 19% and 0 all other answers to decimal places, es. 5.215. If the amount is negative then enter with a negative sigo preceding the number, es -5,125 or parentheses, es (5,1251) Return on Investment % Archer % Barrett %6 Corvell Residual income Archer $ Barrett $ Corvell EVA $ Archer S Barrett $ Corvell

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