Mainline Produce Corporation acquired all the outstanding common stock of Iceberg Lettuce Corporation for $35,000,000 in cash. The book values and fair values of Iceberg’s assets and liabilities were as follows: Book Value Fair Value Current assets $ 10,000,000 $ 13,000,000 Property, plant, and equipment 20,400,000 26,400,000 Other assets 1,600,000 2,600,000 Current liabilities 6,000,000 6,000,000 Long-term liabilities 10,000,000 9,000,000 Required: Calculate the amount paid for goodwill. (Enter your answer in millions (i. e. 5,000,000 should be entered as 5).)

When calculating the bountiful returns that retirees allegedly would glean from stock investments, privateers use rosy projections about a continually booming market. but when predicting bankruptcy for social security, they switch to pessimistic projections of a low-growth economy with abnormally low payments into the fund. in fact, far from going broke, social security produces enormous surpluses. from __ to americans paid more in social security taxes than were paid out in benefits. according to the congressional budget office, the social security trust fund will remain solvent until at least social security is the only federal program that produces about $150 billion yearly surplus, the only program that shows every sign of being selfsupporting and solvent for over thirty years to come yet is repeatedly described by its enemies as being in danger of insolvency?

The cost of the beginning work in process inventory was comprised of $3,000 of direct materials, $10,000 of direct labor, and $10,000 of factory overhead. costs incurred during the period were comprised of $15,000 of direct materials costs, and $100,000 of conversion costs. the equivalent units of production (eup) for the period were 9,000 for direct materials and 6,000 for conversion. the costs per eup were:

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?