When the Production Manager Selects a Sample of Items That

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When the production manager selects a sample of items that have been produced on her production line and computes the proportion of those items that are defective, the proportion is referred to as a statistic.

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Definitions:

EBIT

Profitability metric that disregards interest and income tax expenses, known as earnings before interest and taxes.

Homemade Leverage

The use of personal borrowing to change the overall amount of financial leverage to which an individual or business is exposed.

Weighted Average Cost of Capital

Weighted Average Cost of Capital (WACC) is a calculation of a firm's cost of capital in which each category of capital is proportionately weighted.

Levered Cost of Capital

The cost of capital for a company that has debt in its capital structure, reflecting the additional risk introduced by the use of debt.