Shaun bought 390 shares of dental equipment inc. several years ago for $11,300. currently the stock is worth $9,400. shaun’s marginal tax rate this year is 24 percent, and he has no other capital gains or losses. shaun expects to have a marginal rate of 32 percent next year, but he also expects to have a long-term capital gain of $11,300. to minimize taxes, should shaun sell the stock on december 31 of this year or january 1 of next year (ignore the time value of money)? (use the dividends and capital gains tax rates and tax rate schedules.)

Needs 83,000 optical switches next year (assume same relevant range). by outsourcing them, worldsystems can use its idle facilities to manufacture another product that will contribute $ 140,000 to operating income, but none of the fixed costs will be avoidable. should worldsystems make or buy the switches? show your analysis.

On july 1, 2016, killearn company acquired 103,000 of the outstanding shares of shaun company for $21 per share. this acquisition gave killearn a 40 percent ownership of shaun and allowed killearn to significantly influence the investee's decisions. as of july 1, 2016, the investee had assets with a book value of $6 million and liabilities of $1,468,500. at the time, shaun held equipment appraised at $140,000 above book value; it was considered to have a seven-year remaining life with no salvage value. shaun also held a copyright with a five-year remaining life on its books that was undervalued by $562,500. any remaining excess cost was attributable to goodwill. depreciation and amortization are computed using the straight-line method. killearn applies the equity method for its investment in shaun. shaun's policy is to declare and pay a $1 per share cash dividend every april 1 and october 1. shaun's income, earned evenly throughout each year, was $580,000 in 2016, $606,600 in 2017, and $649,200 in 2018. in addition, killearn sold inventory costing $93,000 to shaun for $155,000 during 2017. shaun resold $97,500 of this inventory during 2017 and the remaining $57,500 during 2018.a. determine the equity income to be recognized by killearn during each of these years. 2016 2017 2018b. compute killearn’s investment in shaun company’s balance as of december 31, 2018.

Kumar consulting operates several stock investment portfolios that are used by firms for investment of pension plan assets. last year, one portfolio had a realized return of 12.6 percent and a beta coefficient of 1.15. the average t-bond rate was 7 percent and the realized rate of return on the s& p 500 was 12 percent. what was the portfolio's alpha?