Answer:
a. What is the expected return of the risky corporate bond over the 5-year holding-period (in %)?
expected return in $ = (50% x 20% x $1,000 x 4) + (50% x 35% x $1,000 x 4) = $400 + $700 = $1,100
holding period return = ($1,100 - $1,000) / $1,000 = 10%
b. What is its effective annual return?
(1 + 10%)⁰°² - 1 = 1.92%
b. What is its effective annual return?
- 2. The government bond is the superior investment
The yield of he corporate bond is very low and the risk is too high.
Answer:
B) Inventory turnover ratios
Explanation:
Inventory turnover measures how many times a business sells and replaces its merchandise or materials inventory during an accounting period, usually a year.
One of the basic goals of JIT is to lower the total inventories in a company, therefore increasing the inventory turnover ratio. This reduces the company's operating costs.
Answer:
A monopsony is market where there is only one buyer, e.g. the government is the sole buyer for nuclear submarines in the US.
The demand curve of a monopsony is similar to the demand curve of any other type of market, i.e. it is downward sloping. Since there is only 1 buyer, the demand curve is also the supply curve. If the monopsonist wants to increase the quantity demanded at a lower price, the supplier (or suppliers) must be able to lower its costs and that generally results in lower labor costs.
Answer:
E) contracts out certain value chain activities that are normally performed in-house to outside vendors.
Explanation:
A strategic alliance usually serves the following purposes:
- facilitate the achievement of an important business objective
- helps to build, strengthen, or sustain a core competence or competitive advantage (option A)
- helps to remedy an important resource deficiency or competitive weakness
- helps to defend against a competitive threat, or lower a significant risk (option B)
- increases bargaining power over suppliers or buyers (option C)
- helps to open new market opportunities (option D)
- speeds the development of new technologies and innovations
