Suppose you are the money manager of a $4.82 million investment fund. The fund consists of 4 stocks with the following investments and betas:

Stock Investment Beta
A $ 460,000 1.50
B 500,000 - 0.50
C 1,260,000 1.25
D 2,600,000 0.75

If the market's required rate of return is 8% and the risk-free rate is 4%, what is the fund's required rate of return? Round your answer to two decimal places.

Dahlia enterprises needs someone to supply it with 127,000 cartons of machine screws per year to support its manufacturing needs over the next five years, and you’ve decided to bid on the contract. it will cost you $940,000 to install the equipment necessary to start production; you’ll depreciate this cost straight-line to zero over the project’s life. you estimate that in five years, this equipment can be salvaged for $77,000. your fixed production costs will be $332,000 per year, and your variable production costs should be $11.00 per carton. you also need an initial investment in net working capital of $82,000. if your tax rate is 30 percent and your required return is 11 percent on your investment, what bid price should you submit? (do not round intermediate calculations and round your final answer to 2 decimal places. (e. g., 32.16))

Self-interest achieve society’s economic goals because producers know which goods consumers want the most. as consumers and producers exercise their freedom to act in their own self-interest, markets will produce the desired goods at the lowest possible cost. consumers and producers both operate based on society’s economic goals. consumers know which goods can be produced at the lowest cost. there is a wide variety of desired goods and services in a market system because producers determine what to produce. consumers change their minds frequently. there is always a need to produce something new and improved. individual wants are diverse. what is produced is ultimately determined by consumers, because if the goods offered are not what consumers want, consumers will not buy them. producers, because they are driven by profits. producers, because they determine what to produce. consumers, because they participate in marketing surveys.

On july 1, oura corp. made a sale of $ 450,000 to stratus, inc. on account. terms of the sale were 2/10, n/30. stratus makes payment on july 9. oura uses the net method when accounting for sales discounts. ignore cost of goods sold and the reduction of inventory. a. prepare all oura's journal entries. b. what net sales does oura report?