Laura has one risk-free asset and one risky stock in her portfolio. The risk-free asset has an expected return of 3.2 percent. The risky asset has a beta of 1.3 and an expected return of 14.9 percent. What is the expected return on the portfolio if the portfolio beta is 0.975?.

A) 7.65 percent
B) 9.83 percent
C) 10.73 percent
D) 11.98 percent
E12.37 percent

Abakery wants to determine how many trays of doughnuts it should prepare each day. demand is normal with a mean of 5 trays and standard deviation of 1 tray. if the owner wants a service level of at least 95%, how many trays should he prepare (rounded to the nearest whole tray)? assume doughnuts have no salvage value after the day is complete.

crow design, inc. is a web site design and consulting firm. the firm uses a job order costing system in which each client is a different job. crow design assigns direct labor, licensing costs, and travel costs directly to each job. it allocates indirect costs to jobs based on a predetermined overhead allocation rate, computed as a percentage of direct labor costs. direct labor hours (professional) 6,250 hours direct labor costs ($1,800,000 support staff salaries ,000 computer ,000 office ,000 office ,000 in november 2012, crow design served several clients. records for two clients appear here: delicious treats mesilla chocolates direct labor 700 hours 100 hours software licensing $ 4,000 $400 travel costs 8,000 1. compute crow design’s direct labor rate and its predetermined indirect cost allocation rate for 2012. 2. compute the total cost of each job. 3. if simone wants to earn profits equal to 50% of service revenue, how much (what fee) should she charge each of these two clients? 4. why does crow design assign costs to jobs?

The following information relates to the pina company. date ending inventory price (end-of-year prices) index december 31, 2013 $73,700 100 december 31, 2014 100,092 114 december 31, 2015 107,856 126 december 31, 2016 123,009 131 december 31, 2017 113,288 136 use the dollar-value lifo method to compute the ending inventory for pina company for 2013 through 2017.