The criteria for distinguishing between whether an expenditure is a capital item or a deductible expense is the useful life of the item.
If the purchase is going to be used and no longer have value at the end of the reporting period it is an expense for that period. If the item is a capital item it is going to have a longer useful life. In this case the item is depreciated over its useful life, assigning an expense amount to each accounting period that the item has value.
Answer:
The investment in stock H will be $104837.5 while the investment in stock L will be $145162.5
Explanation:
The portfolio return is the weighted average return of the individual stocks that form up the portfolio. The weightage of each stock in the portfolio is the investment in a stock as a proportion of investment in the portfolio.
Let x be the weightage of Stock H.
Weightage of Stock L will be (1-x).
Portfolio return = wH * rH + wL * rL
Plugging in the values,
0.111 = x * 0.129 + (1-x) * 0.098
0.111 = 0.129x + 0.098 - 0.098x
0.111- 0.098 = 0.031x
0.013 / 0.031 = x
x = 0.41935 or 41.935% rounded off to 3 decimal places
(1-x) = 1 - 0.41935 = 0.58065 or 58.065%
Investment in Stock H = 250000 * 41.935% = $104837.5
Investment in Stock L = 250000 * 58.065% = $145162.5
Answer:
c. skimming pricing
Explanation:
Based on the information provided within the question it can be said that in this scenario Xerox was using a skimming pricing strategy to help recover the cost of its research and development. This is a pricing strategy in which the company places a really high initial price for it's new product, but then goes lowering the price as time passes. This also makes individuals believe that they are getting a bargain when prices begin to drop and decide to buy more.
