What are three legal forms of business organizations? What are their advantages and disadvantages?
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is it cheaper to pay $2000 per month for campus housing or to purchase a house near campus for $100000 assuming that you are eligible for a 4% APR 30 year fixed rate HUD mortgage loan with 3 % down payment? Show your work.
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Year | A Returns | B Returns |
2005 | -4.6 | 15.7 |
2006 | 1.7 | -6.7 |
2007 | -31.5 | -26.5 |
2008 | -11.6 | -3.7 |
2009 | 29.8 | 9.6 |
2010 | 26.9 | 8.6 |
2011 | 22.9 | 4.7 |
2012 | 50.7 | 42.7 |
2013 | 37.3 | 41.7 |
2014 | 30.5 | 39.2 |
The following table, LOADING..., contains annual returns for the stocks of Company Upper A (Upper A) and Company Upper B (Upper B). The returns are calculated using end-of-year prices (adjusted for dividends and stock splits) retrieved from http://www.finance.yahoo.com/. Use the information to create an Excel spreadsheet that calculates the standard deviation of annual returns over the 10-year period for Upper A, Upper B, and of the equally-weighted portfolio of Upper A and Upper B over the 10-year period. (Hint: Review the Excel screenshot on page 173.)
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Projected Return
Year Asset A Asset B Asset
C
2018 13% 15% 11%
2019 15% 13% 13%
2020 17% 11% 15%
You have been asked for your advice in selecting a portfolio of
assets and have been supplied with the following data: LOADING....
You have been told that you can create two portfolioslong dashone
consisting of assets A and B and the other consisting of assets A
and Clong dashby investing equal proportions (50 %) in each of
the two component assets. a. What is the average expected return,
r overbar, for each asset over the 3-year period? b. What is the
standard deviation, s, for each asset's expected return? c.
What is the average expected return, r overbar Subscript p, for
each of the the portfolios? d. How would you characterize the
correlations of returns of the two assets making up each of the
portfolios identified in part c? e. What is the standard deviation
of expected returns, s Subscript p comma for each portfolio? f.
Which portfolio do you recommend? Why?
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You have been given the following information for PattyCake’s Athletic Wear Corp. for the year 2018: Net sales = $39,100,000. Cost of goods sold = $22,260,000. Other operating expenses = $6,800,000. Addition to retained earnings = $1,214,500. Dividends paid to preferred and common stockholders = $1,953,000. Interest expense = $1,870,000. The firm’s tax rate is 30 percent. In 2019: Net sales are expected to increase by $10.10 million. Cost of goods sold is expected to be 60 percent of net sales. Depreciation and other operating expenses are expected to be the same as in 2018. Interest expense is expected to be $2,145,000. The tax rate is expected to be 30 percent of EBT. Dividends paid to preferred and common stockholders will not change. Calculate the addition to retained earnings expected in 2019.
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Blooper Industries must replace its magnoosium purification system. Quick & Dirty Systems sells a relatively cheap purification system for $12 million. The system will last 6 years. Do-It-Right sells a sturdier but more expensive system for $20 million; it will last for 8 years. Both systems entail $1 million in operating costs; both will be depreciated straight-line to a final value of zero over their useful lives; neither will have any salvage value at the end of its life. The firm’s tax rate is 30%, and the discount rate is 13%. Either machine will be replaced at the end of its life.
a. What is the equivalent annual cost of investing in the cheap system? (Do not round intermediate calculations. Enter your answers as a positive value. Enter your answers in whole dollars, not in millions.)
b. What is the equivalent annual cost of investing in the more expensive system?
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Q8. During the planning process, if there is a gap between future desired sales and projected sales, corporate management will need to develop or acquire new businesses to fill it. Identify and describe the three strategies that can be used to fill the strategic gap. (0.5 points) (20-70 words)
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Last year Carson Industries issued a 10-year, 13% semiannual coupon bond at its par value of $1,000. Currently, the bond can be called in 6 years at a price of $1,065 and it sells for $1,270.
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Please, this is the fifth time I am posting this question, all the answers I am getting are inaccurate because the experts are not putting all value into account like the loan interest rate, tax rate, depreciation, annual cash outflows, salvage value, annual cash inflows, and discount rate.
please also support the answer with a full interpretation and the step by step approach in solving the answer. thank you:)
In this paper, please discuss the following case study. In doing so, explain your approach to the problem, support your approach with references, and execute your approach. Provide an answer to the case study’s question with a recommendation.
This case continues following the new project of the WePPROMOTE Company, that you and your partner own. WePROMOTE is in the promotional materials business. The project being considered is to manufacture a very unique case for smart phones. The case is very durable, attractive and fits virtually all models of smart phone. It will also have the logo of your client, a prominent, local company and is planned to be given away at public relations events by your client.
As we know from prior cases involving this company, more and more details of the project become apparent and with more precision and certainty.
The following are the final values to the data that you have been estimating up to this point:
Requirements of the paper:
Papers will be assessed on the following criteria:
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a)does google make profit in 2018?
b)does google have high internal fund to develop their product?
c)talk about the strength of google in financial resources
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It is now January 1. You plan to make a total of 5 deposits of $300 each, one every 6 months, with the first payment being made today. The bank pays a nominal interest rate of 10% but uses semiannual compounding. You plan to leave the money in the bank for 10 years. Do not round intermediate calculations. Round your answers to the nearest cent. How much will be in your account after 10 years?
You must make a payment of $1,788.04 in 10 years. To get the money for this payment, you will make five equal deposits, beginning today and for the following 4 quarters, in a bank that pays a nominal interest rate of 10% with quarterly compounding. How large must each of the five payments be? $
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Following her 18th birthday, Madison began investing $26 at the end of each week in an account earning 6% per year compounded weekly. She plans to continue making weekly investments until she turns 68. If she had waited until she turned 48, how much would she have to invest weekly in order to have the same retirement nest egg at age 68? Round to the nearest cent.
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Elements | |||
a. Engagement risk and Acceptable Audit Risk | Inverse | Direct | No Relationship |
b. Assessed Inherent Risk and Planned Detection Risk | Inverse | Direct | No Relationship |
c. Materiality and Amount of Substantive Evidence Needed | Inverse | Direct | No Relationship |
d. Assessed Inherent Risk and Assessed Control Risk | Inverse | Direct | No Relationship |
e. Acceptable Audit Risk and Assessed Control Risk | Inverse | Direct | No Relationship |
f. Amount of Substantive Evidence collected and Achieved Detection Risk | Inverse | Direct | No Relationship |
g. Actual Inherent Risk and Actual Control Risk | Inverse | Direct | No Relationship |
h. Achieved Detection Risk and Achieved Audit Risk | Inverse | Direct | No Relationship |
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What is the accumulated (future) sum of monthly contributions of $500 invested at an average return of 5% p.a. over 30 years? What if the average return increases to 8% from the 16th year?
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