2. The bid price of a Treasury bill is ________.

a. the price at which the dealer in Treasury bills is willing to sell the bill

b. the price at which the dealer in Treasury bills is willing to buy the bill

c. greater than the ask price of the Treasury bill expressed in dollar terms

d. the price at which the investor can buy the Treasury bill

3. Harold shorts Barnes Inc. at $84. A month later the company pays a $3 dividend. At what stock price will Harold make a 10% gain from his position?

a. $72.60​​

b. $75.60​​​​

c. $89.40

d. $92.40

4. An investor puts up $10,000 but borrows an equal amount of money from his broker to double the amount invested to $20,000. The broker charges 4% on the loan. The stock was originally purchased at $25 per share, and in 1 year the investor sells the stock for $27. The investor's rate of return was ____.

a. 6.00%

b. 10.00%

c. 12.00%

d. 4.00%

The price elasticity of demand for the output of a firm is -2 and the price elasticity of demand for the output of the entire industry is -0.5.

a. Calculate the Rothschild Index for this industry.

b. Suppose that a firm and industry prices increases by 5 percent. What is the relative impact on firm and industry sales?

Price a 10% coupon $1000 face value, 20-year bond if the appropriate discount rate is 8% for the first 10-years and 6% for the second 10-years. Show your return in dollars and percent if you hold this bond for 4-years. (Note: show all work and do not use a finance calculator.)

Emma Incorporated expects non-normal dividend growth over the next three years; that is a 0% growth rate in the first year, then 25%, and then 12% followed by growth of 8% thereafter. If the last dividend paid was $2.50 and the appropriate discount rate is 12%; what is the price of the stock today?

REBRANDING OF ABM

Bringing brand clarity and relevance to a 100-year-old company—for the next 100 years.

ABM Industries is a FORTUNE 500 company that had evolved over the course of a century from a small window-cleaning business into a world leader in manpower provisioning. While best known for its core business in janitorial services, a series of acquisitions added capabilities in parking management, security and building systems engineering, making ABM a global player in the building maintenance category.

The 2010 acquisition of the Linc Group marked a dramatic inflection point in ABM’s history. This addition enabled the company to enter the lucrative Integrated Facility Solutions market, and provided new technologies that could be used to better deploy its workforce. The result: An opportunity to dramatically expand its footprint, enter new markets and deliver more sustainable solutions globally.

Leveraging the Linc acquisition as a rationale for re-branding the corporation, ABM leadership and BrandingBusiness set a goal of sending a new message to the marketplace, signifying a new day at ABM. Our research revealed that, despite its impressive size and scope—at the time, $5B in revenue and over 100,000 employees—ABM was pigeonholed as a janitorial company and a custodial brand. The marketplace had limited awareness of, and insight into, the company.

“We're the biggest company nobody's ever heard of.”

Further, ABM’s acquisition history left it with a complicated brand—a kaleidoscope of regional, sub-specialty brands without a strong, unifying framework.

BrandingBusiness simplified ABM’s brand architecture under a “Branded House” format, setting the corporate master brand over its major lines of business and rolling up its many sub-brands.

We developed a new brand position centered on Integrated Facility Solutions that articulated ABM’s unique value proposition: A global workforce, enabled by technology, deep vertical expertise and unrivalled breadth of services—all delivered in an ecologically responsible manner and vertically integrated across a single platform.

A new logo was designed to honor the company’s workforce, and BrandingBusiness added a new tag line: Building Value. The new line conveyed its clients’ primary physical assets—their buildings—along with ABM’s singular role in increasing those assets’ worth.

To signal the emergence of this new ABM, we created an entirely new visual expression system and formal identity guidelines.

We also developed a wide spectrum of applications, including fleet graphics, tradeshow elements, brand video, collateral, posters and the ABM Annual Report.

With the launch of the new ABM, its more than 100,000 employees now had a shared identity and vision, a deep sense of pride—and a brand that could fuel the company for the next hundred years.

"The rebranding of ABM has been the catalyst and unifying force behind a phenomenal transformation at our 104 year-old company. We grew significantly through acquisition and our new, focused brand has been a unifying rally point for thousands of employees. Because of our partnership with BrandingBusiness, we have seen incredible energy, enthusiasm, and team spirit across the enterprise."

Brett Knox - Chief Marketing Officer, ABM

Questions

What is your reaction to this case study?

State whether or not there were breaches in the procedures.

There is an order for Humulin R U-100 8 units and Humulin N U-100 15 units sub q a.c.

a. What are the steps to draw up the two insulins?

ndigo Inc. issues 500 shares of $10 par value common stock and 100 shares of $100 par value preferred stock for a lump sum of $121,000. (a) Prepare the journal entry for the issuance when the market price of the common shares is $164 each and market price of the preferred is $205 each. (b) Prepare the journal entry for the issuance when only the market price of the common stock is known and it is $212 per share. (Round answers to 0 decimal places, e.g. $1,225. Credit account titles are automatically indented when amount is entered. Do not indent manually. If no entry is required, select "No Entry" for the account titles and enter 0 for the amounts.) No. Account Titles and Explanation Debit Credit (a) enter an account title for case A enter a debit amount enter a credit amount enter an account title for case A enter a debit amount enter a credit amount enter an account title for case A enter a debit amount enter a credit amount enter an account title for case A enter a debit amount enter a credit amount enter an account title for case A enter a debit amount enter a credit amount (b) enter an account title for case B enter a debit amount enter a credit amount enter an account title for case B enter a debit amount enter a credit amount enter an account title for case B enter a debit amount enter a credit amount enter an account title for case B enter a debit amount enter a credit amount enter an account title for case B enter a debit amount enter a credit amount eTextbook and Media

You have 100. mL of aqueous 0.40 M CuSO₄ mixed with 100. mL of aqueous 0.20 M Na₂S.

1. What kind of reaction could potentially take place? (a) Bronsted-Lowry acid base (b) redox (c) precipitation (d) no reaction

2. Which of the following is/are the spectator ions in this reaction? (a) SO₄^2-   (b) Na⁺ (c) S^2- (d) Cu²⁺

3. After the solutions are mixed, what will be the concentration of Na⁺ ? (a) 0.10M (b) 0.80M (c) 0.20M (d) 0.40M (e) something else

4. After the solutions are mixed, what will be the concentration of  SO₄^2- ? (a) 0.40M (b) 0.20M (c) 0.80M (d) 0.10

5. Which reactant will limit the amount of product that can form? (a) Cu²⁺ (b) S^2- (c) something else

6. This mixture will establish equilibrium in mere fractions of a second. After it does, what will be the concentration of Cu²⁺? (a) something much smaller than 0.10M (b)0.40 M (c)0.10 M (d) 0.20M (e)zero M

7. This mixture will establish equilibrium in mere fractions of a second. After it does, what will be the concentration of S^2-?

Answers and explanations to any of the questions above would be very helpful.

Part 1

A, You are testing H0: μ=100   vs   H1: μ>100 , using a sample of n=20 . The test statistic is ttest=2.15 . The P value should be:

1. 0.02232
2. 0.97768
3. 0.02198

B. You are testing H0: μ=15   vs   H1: μ≠15 , using a sample of n=8 . The 95% t Confidence Interval for μ is 17, 23 . The P value of the test could be:

1. 0.9750
2. 0.0500
3. 0.0002

C. You are testing H0: μ=50   vs   H1: μ<50 , using a sample of n=15 . The 95% t Confidence Interval for μ is 35, 85 . The P value of the test could be:

1. 0.9750
2. 0.0500
3. 0.0002

D. You are testing H0: μ=50   vs   H1: μ<50 , using a sample of n=12 . The P value of the test is 0.0003 . A possible 95% t confidence interval is:

1. 42, 56
2. 29, 46
3. 55, 69

E. You are testing H0: μ=10   vs   H1: μ>10 , using a sample of n=25 . The P value of the test is 0.049 . A possible 95% t confidence interval is:

1. 5.5, 13.9
2. 25.7, 33.4
3. 10.1, 18.7