Answer:
23%
Explanation:
The computation of the average rate is shown below:
But before that following calculations to be done
Annual Depreciation is
= ($132,000 - $16,000) ÷ 10
= $11,600
The Annual Net Income would increase by
= $34,000 - $5,380 - $11,600
= $17,020
Now Average Investment is
= ($132,000 + $16,000) ÷ 2
= $74000
The Average rate of return is
= Increase in Annual Net Income ÷ Average Investment
= $17,020 ÷ $74,000
= 23%
As long as the rate of return is bigger than the inflation, the value and amount of money will increase and so will the purchasing power: the correct answer is "it will increase".
For example, if you invest 100 dollars, you will receive 108 dollars back, and you'd need 103 dollars to have the same value of money as before - but you have more.
The question is incomplete. Here is the complete question:
The following annual returns for Stock E are projected over the next year for three possible states of the economy. What is the stock’s expected return and standard deviation of returns? E(R) = 8.5% ; σ = 22.70%; mean = $7.50; standard deviation = $2.50
State Prob E(R)
Boom 10% 40%
Normal 60% 20%
Recession
30% - 25%
Answer:
The expected return of the stock E(R) is 8.5%.
The standard deviation of the returns is 22.7%
Explanation:
<u>Expected return</u>
The expected return of the stock can be calculated by multiplying the stock's expected return E(R) in each state of economy by the probability of that state.
The expected return E(R) = (0.4 * 0.1) + (0.2 * 0.6) + (-0.25 * 0.3)
The expected return E(R) = 0.04 + 0.12 -0.075 = 0.085 or 8.5%
<u>Standard Deviation of returns</u>
The standard deviation is a measure of total risk. It measures the volatility of the stock's expected return. The standard deviation (SD) of a stock's return can be calculated by using the following formula:
SD = √(rA - E(R))² * (pA) + (rB - E(R))² * (pB) + ... + (rN - E(R))² * (pN)
Where,
- rA, rB to rN is the return under event A, B to N.
- pA, pB to pN is the probability of these events to occur
- E(R) is the expected return of the stock
Here, the events are the state of economy.
So, SD = √(0.4 - 0.085)² * (0.1) + (0.2 - 0.085)² * (0.6) + (-0.25 - 0.085)² * (0.3)
SD = 0.22699 or 22.699% rounded off to 22.70%
Answer:
profitable customer
Explanation:
A profitable customer of a business enterprise is any economic agent which include individuals, firms and government for which the revenue generated from servicing or supplying them goods and services exceeds the entire cost incurred in providing such service or goods.
A successful business is one that is able to maintain a data base and record of all the customers and identify the profitable ones so as to concentrate on them to achieve maximum profit.
