Data from 2010 & 2011, in millions (source: Billboard Magazine):

Company            Annual Revenue Market Valuation

Spotify                145 3,000

Warner Music     2,888                   3,300

Live Nation         5,600                   1,700

Pandora 241 1,300

EMI                    1,800                   1,900

3a) Find the correlation between annual revenue and market valuation. Is it statistically significant?

3b) Why is the correlation between revenue and market valuation so low?.

It is not uncommon to hear that a company’s IT security is compromised. Find nine cases from 2010 to 2018 (i.e. one case for each year). Summarize and compare those nine cases. You need to draw tables to compare them.What are the major implications of your analyses to the IT audit profession? What lessons do they give to the IT audit profession? What is the best way to prevent and detect such cases based on your analyses?

Business

The annual average natural gas price (in dollars per million BTUs) can be approximated by the function
h(x) = 69.54e^?0.264x

where x = 8 corresponds to the year 2008.

(Data from: Energy Information Administration.)

(a) What was the average price per million BTUs in the year 2010?

(b) According to the model, in what year did the average price per million BTUs hit $3.00?

Find both the arithmetic growth rate and the geometric growth rate of the dividends for Custer's Ice Cream Shoppes.

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in order to copy its contents into a​ spreadsheet.)

What is the arithmetic growth rate of the dividends for Ice Cream Shoppes​?

7. [4pt] A study of the amount of time it takes a mechanic to rebuild the transmission for a 2010 Chevrolet Colorado shows that the mean is 8.4 hours and the standard deviation is 1.8 hours.

a. If one person is randomly selected, find the probability that his/her rebuild time is less than 8.9 hours.

b. If 40 mechanics are randomly selected, find the probability that their mean rebuild time is less than 8.9 hours.

In 275 words, what is the difference between a corporation, a sole proprietorship, and a limited liability company?

Review Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission 558 U.S. 310 (2010). You can access the case briefly here: http://www.oyez.org/cases/2000-2009/2008/2008_08_205

Focus on the First Amendment arguments. What are they? Should a business have the same First Amendment rights as individuals?

In the 2010 film wall street, money never sleeps, think about the character of Bretton James and the way he views business. In what ways is the concept of dehumanization reflected in his practices and beliefs? Also, think about the ways in which ways of life and values are depicted and represented in the film generally. Is dehumanization, as a practice, relevant to the implied ways of life?

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P5.1 Your portfolio had the values in the following table for the four-year period listed. Calculate your average return over the four-year period.

Year                       Beginning Value                               Ending Value

2007                      $50,000.00                           $55,000.00

2008                       $55,000.00                           $58,000.00

2009                      $58,000.00                           $65,000.00

2010                       $65,000.00                           $70,000.00

P5.2 Using your data from Problem 5.1 above, calculate the portfolio standard deviation.

Consider a sample of year-end prices for Alphabet, Inc. (Google) over a five year period. Google did not pay a dividend over the sample period.

Calculate the average (arithmetic) return.

Calculate the holding period return.

Calculate the geometric return.

Calculate the standard deviation in the returns.

Given the year end prices of the following stocks, estimate the standard deviation of the returns of a portfolio of 30% AAA and 70% BBB. Enter your answer as a percent without the % sign. Round your final answer to two decimals.