When investing outside the United States, stocks are typically ________ U.S.-based stocks
A) as volatile as
B) less volatile than
C) more volatile than
D) more stable than
Answer: C
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Firenze Company's fixed budget for the first quarter of the calendar year appears below. Prepare flexible budgets that show variable costs per unit, fixed costs and two different flexible budgets for sales volumes of 22,000 and 24,000.Sales (20,000 units)………………………………?$800,000Cost of goods sold:?? Direct materials………………………………$160,000? Direct labor……………………………………150,000? Variable overhead……………………………100,000? Fixed overhead………………………………… 120,000 530,000 Gross profit……………………………………?$ 270,000Selling expenses: ?? Sales commissions (all variable)……………… 40,000? Advertising (all
fixed)…………………………50,000?General and administrative expenses: ?? Salaries (all fixed)……………………………80,000? Rent (all fixed)…………………………………30,000? Depreciation (all fixed)……………………… 20,000 220,000Net income from operations……………………?$ 50,000 What will be an ideal response?
Companies such as Edison Nation and the Big Idea Group have sprung up to tap into ________ possibilities, often combining its own design, branding, engineering, and sales teams with online participants, forming a community for devising new products
A) stage-gating B) cocreation C) microstocking D) buzzing E) crowdsourcing
The director of your department attends one weekly meeting. Other than that, the director is seldom at the office and rarely responds to e-mails when you send questions pertaining to the organization. This is an example of ______.
A. authority compliance management B. impoverished management C. country-club management D. middle-of-the-road management
Which of the following statements is CORRECT?
A. Diversifiable risk can be reduced by forming a large portfolio, but normally even highly-diversified portfolios are subject to market (or systematic) risk. B. A large portfolio of randomly selected stocks will have a standard deviation of returns that is greater than the standard deviation of a 1-stock portfolio if that one stock has a beta less than 1.0. C. A large portfolio of stocks whose betas are greater than 1.0 will have less market risk than a single stock with a beta = 0.8. D. If you add enough randomly selected stocks to a portfolio, you can completely eliminate all of the market risk from the portfolio. E. A large portfolio of randomly selected stocks will always have a standard deviation of returns that is less than the standard deviation of a portfolio with fewer stocks, regardless of how the stocks in the smaller portfolio are selected.