The process should eliminate potential bias from patient psychology regarding benefits of the drug and also eliminate the potential bias from the treatment administrators. The advantage of such a procedure is that neither the patients nor the administrators of the treatments know which patients received which treatments.
Answer:
14.05%
Explanation:
Given that,
Beta = 1.3
Risk-free rate (Rf) = 9.5%
Return on the Market (RM) = 13%
According to CAPM approach:
Cost of common equity (RE):
= [Rf + β (RM – Rf)]
= [9.5% + 1.3 (13% - 9.5%)]
= [9.5% + 1.3 (3.5%)]
= [0.095 + 1.3 (0.035)]
= [0.095 + 0.0455]
= 0.1405
= 14.05%
Therefore, the firm's cost of common equity is 14.05%.
Answer:
a. 7,000 years
b. 2,333 years
c. 875 years
Explanation:
Based on rule of 70, we can have the following formula to do the calculation:
Number of years to double = 70 ÷ Interest rate per year .................... (1)
We can now calculate as follows:
a. A savings account earning 1% interest per year.
Number of years to double = 70 ÷ 1% = 7,000 years
b. A U.S. Treasury bond mutual fund earning 3% interest per year.
Number of years to double = 70 ÷ 3% = 2,333 years
c. A stock market mutual fund earning 8% interest per year.
Number of years to double = 70 ÷ 8% = 875 years
Note:
It can be observed that the higher the interest rate, the lower the number of years it will take the investment to double.
Answer:
a. The DVDs, CDs, albums, and video games held for sale to customers.
Classification: Assets
b. A long-term loan owed to Citizens Bank.
Classification: Liability
c. Promotional costs to publicize a concert.
Classification: Expense
d. Daily sales of merchandise sold
Classification: Revenue
e. Amounts due from customers
Classification: Asset
f. Land held as an investment
Classification: Asset
g. A new computer purchased for office use.
Classification: Expense
h. Amounts to be paid in 10 days to suppliers
Classification: Liability
i. Amounts paid to property owner for rent.
Classification: Expense
This is tough to answer in 3-5 sentences, and tends to also be a heavy identifier of your possible political leanings. You'll have to apologize if some of mine leak out in the response, but this is a question we debate hotly more frequently than every 4 years.
In general, international trade can help increase the GDP and overall profits for US-based corporations. However, if all we do is export, and we don't import, other countries don't look favorably upon that and may heavily tax our goods to counter this.
I believe we do need to be thoughtful about the amounts and kinds of international trade that we engage in. For example, farming is always a hotly debated issue for international trade, in part because farmers in other countries with a dramatically lower cost of living OR farmers in countries with a favorable currency rate (exchange from their currency to our dollars gives them an advantage) can undercut our farmers here in the US, many of whom are already struggling.
There are also those who are worried that when we import produce from countries that have not outlawed pesticides we know are carcinogenic, for instance, this creates not only a disadvantage for US farmers, but also for consumers who may be concerned about health issues.
As another example of this, many countries outlawed import of US beef during the Mad Cow Epidemic. We in turn also placed bans on importing beef from the UK.
These are examples of why it's important to be thoughtful about trade, but there are certainly many others, including decline in production jobs within the US that have left cities like Detroit a ghost town (this was formerly the hub of our automotive industry production).
