Which of the following securities could NOT have any benefits for diversification with your investment portfolio? a. Treasury bills with a correlation coefficient of 0.0 with your portfolio b. Alpha Company stock that has a correlation coefficient of -0.25 with your portfolio Beta c. Company stock that has a correlation coefficient of 0.50 with your portfolio d. All of these choices would reduce risk for your portfolio and therefore show at least some benefit to diversification.

Oceanside marine company manufactures special metallic materials and decorative fittings for luxury yachts that require highly skilled labor. oceanside uses standard costs to prepare its flexible budget. for the first quarter of the year, direct materials and direct labor standards for one of their popular products were as follows: direct materials: 2 pound per unit; $ 11 per pound direct labor: 2 hours per unit; $ 19 per hour oceanside produced 2 comma 000 units during the quarter. at the end of the quarter, an examination of the direct materials records showed that the company used 7 comma 500 pounds of direct materials and actual total materials costs were $ 98 comma 100. what is the direct materials cost variance? (round any intermediate calculations to the nearest cent, and your final answer to the nearest dollar.)

Which is one solution to levy the complexity of the global matrix strategy with added customer-focused dimensions?

Amanufacturer has paid an engineering firm $200,000 to design a new plant, and it will cost another $2 million to build the plant. in the meantime, however, the manufacturer has learned of a foreign company that offers to build an equivalent plant for $2,100,000. what should the manufacturer do?