Answer: C. open a cash account and invest in mutual funds holding high yielding common and preferred stocks
Explanation:
Investing in Mutual funds which hold high yielding common and preferred shares is the best option here. The dividends received will be high enough but will not be taxed too much as dividend tax is limited to 15% thereby saving the investment on taxes.
Also seeing as they will require the investment in other to buy a house in 5 years, they will need something that can be easily liquidated. Mutual funds are easy to liquidate from and so their investment here can be easily withdrawn when the time comes to allow them meet the house down payment.
Answer:
B) False
Explanation:
Under the cost benefit analysis a statement is prepared in order to compute the financial aspects of the transaction.
This clearly provides for the estimate to be made towards all the transactions.
But there is a problem in such analysis that exact estimate or even nearby estimate in terms of amount is not feasible to be computed of benefits and cost as well.
And significantly all the benefits can not be traced monetarily.