Thomas J. Watson, chairman of IBM in the early 1940s, and Thomas Edison all made predictions about technology that were extremely wrong. Which of the following explains why the predictions of experts are often so far off?
a. Lack of imagination about the uses people would find for technology
b. Lack of imagination about what the public would pay for
c. Lack of imagination about what the public would like
d. All of these

The total value of your portfolio is $10,000: $3,000 of it is invested in stock a and the remainder invested in stock b. stock a has a beta of 0.8; stock b has a beta of 1.2. the risk premium on the market portfolio is 8%; the risk-free rate is 2%. additional information on stocks a and b is provided below. return in each state state probability of state stock a stock b excellent 15% 15% 5% normal 50% 9% 7% poor 35% -15% 10% what are each stock’s expected return and the standard deviation? what are the expected return and the standard deviation of your portfolio? what is the beta of your portfolio? using capm, what is the expected return on the portfolio? given your answer above, would you buy, sell, or hold the portfolio?

Exercise 15-7 crawford corporation incurred the following transactions. 1. purchased raw materials on account $53,000. 2. raw materials of $45,200 were requisitioned to the factory. an analysis of the materials requisition slips indicated that $9,400 was classified as indirect materials. 3. factory labor costs incurred were $65,400, of which $50,200 pertained to factory wages payable and $15,200 pertained to employer payroll taxes payable. 4. time tickets indicated that $55,000 was direct labor and $10,400 was indirect labor. 5. manufacturing overhead costs incurred on account were $81,700. 6. depreciation on the company’s office building was $8,100. 7. manufacturing overhead was applied at the rate of 160% of direct labor cost. 8. goods costing $89,400 were completed and transferred to finished goods. 9. finished goods costing $76,000 to manufacture were sold on account for $105,100. journalize the transactions. (credit account titles are automatically indented when amount is entered. do not indent manually.) no. account titles and explanation debit credit (1) (2) (3) (4) (5) (6) (7) (8) (9) (to record the sale) (to record the cost of the sale) click if you would like to show work for this question: open show work

At the beginning of 2014, winston corporation issued 10% bonds with a face value of $2,000,000. these bonds mature in five years, and interest is paid semiannually on june 30 and december 31. the bonds were sold for $1,852,800 to yield 12%. winston uses a calendar-year reporting period. using the effective-interest method of amortization, what amount of interest expense should be reported for 2014? (round your answer to the nearest dollar.)