You are considering buying stock A. If the economy grows rapidly, you may earn 40 percent on the investment, while a declining economy could result in a 15 percent loss. Slow economic growth may generate a return of 3 percent. If the probability is 19 percent for rapid growth, 39 percent for a declining economy, and 42 percent for slow growth, what is the expected return on this investment

Answer:

3.01%

Explanation:

Calculation for what is the expected return on this investment

Expected return =(0.19)(0.40) + (0.42)(0.03) + (0.39)(-0.15)

Expected return=0.076+0.0126+-0.0585

Expected return=0.0301*100

Expected return=3.01%

Therefore the expected return on this investment will be 3.01%

On October 21, 2004, Abitibi-Consolidated Inc., a large Canadian-based newsprint and groundwood producer, reported net income for its third quarter, 2004, of $182 million. This compares with a net loss for the same quarter of 2003 of $70 million. Sales for the quarter were up, to $1528 million, and earnings excluding low persistence items, was a loss of $27 million. the low - persistence items included a gain of $239 million before tax from foreign exchange conversion. Much of the company's long term debt is denominated in US dollars. The foreign exchange gain arose because of the rising value of the Canadian dollar, relative to the US dollar, during the quarter. Comparable figures for the third quarter of 2003 were as follows: sales of $ 1,340 mil-lion, a loss before low- persistence items of $ 32 million, and foreign exchange conversion gain of $ 13 million. There is no mention of R& D costs in the company’s third quarter report. Its 2003 annual report mentions R& D only in passing, with reference to forest conservation. Presumably, R& D expenditures are relatively low. Abitibi- Consolidated’s share price rose $ 0.59 to $ 7.29 on the Toronto Stock Exchange on October 21, 2004. The S& P/ TSX Composite index gained 59 points to close at 8,847 on the same day. According to media reports, the increases were driven by a "red- hot" materials and energy sect

The outstanding capital stock of Coronado Corporation consists of 1,900 shares of $100 par value, 9% preferred, and 5,400 shares of $50 par value common. Assuming that the company has retained earnings of $87,500, all of which is to be paid out in dividends, and that preferred dividends were not paid during the 2 years preceding the current year, state how much each class of stock should receive under each of the following conditions. (a) The preferred stock is noncumulative and nonparticipating. (Round answers to 0 decimal places, e.g. $38,487.) Preferred Common $enter a dollar amount rounded to 0 decimal places 17100 $enter a dollar amount rounded to 0 decimal places 70400 (b) The preferred stock is cumulative and nonparticipating. (Round answers to 0 decimal places, e.g. $38,487.) Preferred Common $enter a dollar amount rounded to 0 decimal places 51300 $enter a dollar amount rounded to 0 decimal places 36200 (c) The preferred stock is cumulative and participating. (Round the rate of participation to 4 decimal places, e.g.1.4278%. Round answers to 0 decimal places, e.g. $38,487.) Preferred Common $enter a dollar amount rounded to 0 decimal places 61332 $enter a dollar amount rounded to 0 decimal places 38556

You are the marketing officer for either a large hotel or a car dealer. Produce a report for
your company's head of marketing in which you explore:
the differences between customer satisfaction and customer delight
ii. the reasons why it is so important to create the sensation of delight among your
customers
iii. the ways in which it could be done.
i.
Illustrate your arguments by examples relevant to your chosen organization, Let the hotel
or car dealership.

George Gershwin Co. sold $2,000,000 of 10%, 10-year bonds at 104 on January 1, 2020. The bonds were dated January 1, 2020, and pay interest on July 1 and January 1. If Gershwin uses the straight-line method to amortize bond premium or discount, determine the amount of interest expense to be reported on July 1, 2020, and December 31, 2020.

What should you do first to best use your personal goals as a means for a promotion

Calculating Earnings per Share Little, Inc., reported earnings of $162,000 for 2013, and at the end of the year, had the following securities outstanding: 60,000 shares of common stock. (The year-end share price was $25 per share). Employee stock options for the purchase of 8,000 common shares at an exercise price of $22 per share. (The options are fully vested).
(a) Calculate the basic earnings per share for Little, Inc. for 2013. Round to two decimal places.
(b) Calculate the diluted earnings per share for Little, Inc. for 2013. Round to two decimal places.

A forklift will last for only 2 more years. It costs $5,000 a year to maintain. For $20,000 you can buy a new lift that can last for 10 years and should require maintenance costs of only $2,000 a year. a-1. Calculate the equivalent cost of owning and operating the forklift if the discount rate is 4% per year. (Do not round intermediate calculations. Round your answer to 2 decimal places.) a-2. Should you replace the forklift

Write a two-page business summary including the following sections:

a. Company introduction (general introduction about the company)
b. Business model (how does this business work and generate profit)
c. The current information systems configuration in this company if applicable
d. The potential opportunities using Information Technologies as a strategic tool for this company
e. The trend in this particular business or industry in terms of Information technologies

Public corporations:
a. are businesses where stock is not used as evidence of ownership.
b. are businesses whose stock is bought and sold privately.
c. are businesses owned by two or more people, each of whom is personally liable for the debts of the business.
d. None of other choices are correct.
e. are businesses whose stock is bought and sold on New York stock exchange only

A machine at a cost of $5,000 was purchased 3 years ago. It can be sold now for $3,000. If the machine is kept, the annual operating and maintenance costs will be $1,500. If it is kept and operated for next five years, determine the amount at time 0 (now) equivalent to the cost of owning and operating the machine for the next five-year period. It is anticipated that the machine can be sold for $1,000 at the end of the five-year period. Use an interest rate of 10%

Suppose that a project has a depreciable investment of $600,000 and falls under the following accelerated depreciation schedule for tax purposes (standard linear depreciation in the books): year 1: 20 percent; year 2: 32 percent; year 3: 19.2 percent; year 4: 11.5 percent; year 5: 11.5 percent; and year 6: 5.8 percent. Tax rate is 35%. Calculate the annual depreciation schedule and depreciation tax-shield.

Aaron, clerical supervisor for a health maintenance organization, wants to hire the best person for the receptionist job. Ramona, his manager, is doubtful that the candidate Aaron has selected will be capable because she uses a wheelchair. Ramona is concerned that other workers will have to spend a lot of time helping the receptionist get in and out of the office for lunch, breaks, and so on. How can Aaron ensure that his candidate will be an asset to the firm?

The management of Ballard MicroBrew is considering the purchase of an automated bottling machine for $61,000. The machine would replace an old piece of equipment that costs $15,000 per year to operate. The new machine would cost $6,000 per year to operate. The old machine currently in use could be sold now for a salvage value of $20,000. The new machine would have a useful life of 10 years with no salvage value. Required: 1. What is the annual depreciation expense associated with the new bottling machine

Dodie Company completed its first year of operations on December 31. All of the year's entries have been recorded except for the following:

a. At year-end, employees earned wages of $4,000, which will be paid on the next payroll date in January of next year.
b. At year-end, the company had earned interest revenue of $1,500. The cash will be collected March 1 of the next year.

Required:
a. What is the annual reporting period for this company?
b. Identify whether each transaction results in adjusting a deferred or an accrued account. Using the process illustrated in the chapter, prepare the required adjusting entry for transactions ( a ) and ( b Include appropriate dates and write a brief explanation of each entry.
c. Why are these adjustments made?

Freedom Company had 450,000 shares of common stock issued as of December 31, 2020. 350,000 had been issued and outstanding as of January 1, 2020 and 100,000 of which were issued on September 1, 2020. Net income for the year ended December 31, 2020, was $1,160,000. What should be Freedom Company's 2020 earnings per common share, rounded to the nearest penny

Which of the following about writing and revising business documents is most accurate? a. Experienced business writers rarely need to revise. b. Revision is not necessary for informal documents such as internal memos or e-mail messages. c. The real work of revision should happen in the writing stage as you select words and form sentences.

For each of the following transactions for the Sky Blue Corporation, give the accounting equation effects of the adjustments required at the end of the month on October 31. (Enter any decreases to Assets, Liabilities, or Stockholders' Equity with a minus sign)

a. Collected $2,220 rent for the period October 1 to December 31, which was credited to Unearned Revenue on October 1.
b. Paid $1,056 for a two-year insurance premium on October 1 and debited Prepaid Insurance for that amount.
c. Used a machine purchased on October 1 for $40,800. The company estimates annual depreciation of $4,080.

Manufacturing overhead was estimated to be $249,600 for the year along with 20,800 direct labor hours. Actual manufacturing overhead was $219,000, and actual labor hours were 21,900. The amount debited to the Manufacturing Overhead account would be: Multiple Choice $219,000. $249,600. $233,000. $262,800.

Last year Kruse Corp had $440,000 of assets (which is equal to its total invested capital), $403,000 of sales, $28,250 of net income, and a debt-to-total-capital ratio of 39%. The new CFO believes the firm has excessive fixed assets and inventory that could be sold, enabling it to reduce its total assets and total invested capital to $252,500. The firm finances using only debt and common equity. Sales, costs, and net income would not be affected, and the firm would maintain the same capital structure (but with less total debt). By how much would the reduction in assets improve the ROE

Consider each of the transactions below. All of the expenditures were made in cash. The Edison Company spent $17,000 during the year for experimental purposes in connection with the development of a new product. In April, the Marshall Company lost a patent infringement suit and paid the plaintiff $10,000. In March, the Cleanway Laundromat bought equipment. Cleanway paid $11,000 down and signed a noninterest-bearing note requiring the payment of $20,500 in nine months. The cash price for this equipment was $28,000. On June 1, the Jamsen Corporation installed a sprinkler system throughout the building at a cost of $33,000. The Mayer Company, plaintiff, paid $17,000 in legal fees in November, in connection with a successful infringement suit on its patent. The Johnson Company traded its old machine with an original cost of $9,900 and a book value of $4,500 plus cash of $9,000 for a new one that had a fair value of $11,500. The exchange has commercial substance. Required: Prepare journal entries to record each of the above transactions. (If no entry is required for a transaction/event, select "No journal entry required" in the first account field.)

BSW Corporation has a bond issue outstanding with an annual coupon rate of 5.4 percent paid quarterly and four years remaining until maturity. The par value of the bond is $1,000. Determine the fair present value of the bond if market conditions justify a 11 percent, compounded quarterly, required rate of return. (Do not round intermediate calculations. Round your answer to 2 decimal places. (e.g., 32.16))

Bonita Industries pays all salaried employees on a biweekly basis. Overtime pay, however, is paid in the next biweekly period. Bonita accrues salaries expense only at its December 31 year end. Data relating to salaries earned in December 2020 are as follows: Last payroll was paid on 12/26/20, for the 2-week period ended 12/26/20. Overtime pay earned in the 2-week period ended 12/26/20 was $26000. Remaining work days in 2020 were December 29, 30, 31, on which days there was no overtime. The recurring biweekly salaries total $445000.

Assuming a five-day workweek, Bonita should record a liability at December 31, 2020 for accrued salaries of:________

In the manufacture of car tires, a particular production process is known to yield 10 tires with defective walls in every batch of 100 tires produced. From a production batch of 100 tires,
a sample of 4 is selected for testing to destruction
Find the probability that the sample contains 1 defective tire.

Vulcan Companyâs contribution format income statement for June is as follows:

Vulcan Company Income Statement For the Month Ended June 30

Sales $750,000
Variable expenses 336,000
Contribution margin 414,000
Fixed expenses 378,000
Net operating income $36,000

Management is disappointed with the companyâs performance and is wondering what can be done to improve profits. By examining sales and cost records, you have determined the following:

a. The company is divided into two sales territoriesâNorthern and Southern. The Northern territory recorded $300,000 in sales and $156,000 in variable expenses during June; the remaining sales and variable expenses were recorded in the Southern territory. Fixed expenses of $120,000 and $108,000 are traceable to the Northern and Southern territories, respectively. The rest of the fixed expenses are common to the two territories.

b. The company is the exclusive distributor for two productsâPaks and Tibs. Sales of Paks and Tibs totaled $50,000 and $250,000, respectively, in the Northern territory during June. Variable expenses are 22% of the selling price for Paks and 58% for Tibs. Cost records show that $30,000 of the Northern territoryâs fixed expenses are traceable to Paks and $40,000 to Tibs, with the remainder common to the two products.

Required:
Prepare contribution format segmented income statements.

Sales for the year were $83,000. The balance sheet at the end of the year is given below:

Assets Liabilities and Equity
Cash 12,000 Accounts payable 19,000
Marketable securities 2,000 Notes payable 6,000
Accounts receivable 6,000 Current liabilities 25,000
Inventory 41,000 Long-term debt 95,000
Current assets 61,000 Total liabilities 120,000
Machines 34,000 Paid-in capital 20,000
Real estate 80,000 Retained earnings 35,000
Net fixed assets 114,000 Equity 55,000
Total assets 149,000 Total lib. & equity 149,000

Required:
What is the firm's days' sales in inventory?

Toby Toy Store has noticed the following items that need to be considered for its income statement for the year ended December 31, 2019: Commissions of $3,000 for salespeople who made sales in December will be paid on January 3, 2020.

The phone bill of $400 for December was received and will be paid on January 20, 2020.
The store rent of $2,000 for January 2020 was paid on December 28, 2019.
At the beginning of November, Toby paid $1,500 for advertising in a monthly magazine that is distributed in November and December of 2019, and January of 2020.

What is the proper amount of expenses to be included in the income statement for the year?
a. $4,400.
b. $6,900.
c. $6,400.
d. $5,900.

Match each definition with its related term by selecting the appropriate letter in the drop down provided. There should be only one definition per term. (that is, there are more definitions than terms.)
Definitions:
A. Report the long life of a company in shorter periods.
B. Record expenses when incurred in earning revenue.
C. The time it takes to purchase goods or services from suppliers, sell goods or services to customers, and collect cash from customers.
D. Record revenues when earned and expenses when incurred.
E. Increases in assets or decreases in liabilities from peripheral transactions.
F. An asset account used to record cash paid before expenses have been incurred.
G. Record revenues when earned and measurable (when the company transfers promised goods or services to customers, and in the amount the company expects to receive).
H. Decreases in assets or increases in liabilities from peripheral transactions.
I. Record revenues when received and expenses when paid.
J. The income statement equation.
K. Decreases in assets or increases in liabilities from central ongoing operations.
L. The retained earnings equation.
M. A liability account used to record cash received before revenues have been earned.
1. Expenses
2. Gains
3. Revenue recognition principle
4. Cash basis accounting
5. Unearned revenue
6. Operating cycle
7. Accrual basis accounting
8. Prepaid expenses
9. Revenues − Expenses = Net Income
10. Ending Retained Earnings = Beginning Retained Earnings + Net Income − Dividends Declared

Katy has one child, Dustin, who is 18 years old at the end of the year. Dustin lived at home for three months during the year before leaving home to work full time in another city. During the year, Dustin earned $15,000. Katy provided more than half of Dustin's support for the year. Which of the following statements regarding whether Katy may claim Dustin as a dependent for the current year is accurate?

a. Yes, Dustin is a qualifying child of Katy.
b. Yes, Dustin fails the residence test for a qualifying child but he is considered a qualifying relative of Katy.
c. No, Dustin fails the support test for a qualifying relative.
d. No, Dustin fails the gross income test for a qualifying relative.

What is the future of discussion of fourms?

Which of the following events would cause a bank to reduce a depositor's account?

The depositor orders new checks through the bank at a cost of $50.


The bank collects a note receivable and related interest on the depositor's behalf.


There are outstanding checks drawn on the account at month-end.


There are deposits in transit on the account at month-end.


The bank corrects an error from previous month by adding $75 to the depositor account