A U. S.-owned automobile factory uses $50 million worth of materials produced in the U. S. and $10 million worth of material purchased from foreign countries to produce $100 million of automobiles. $70 million worth of these automobiles are purchased by U. S. consumers, $25 million are sold in foreign countries, and $5 million are added to inventory. How much of this production is included in U. S. GDP

Guardian inc. is trying to develop an asset-financing plan. the firm has $450,000 in temporary current assets and $350,000 in permanent current assets. guardian also has $550,000 in fixed assets. assume a tax rate of 40 percent. a. construct two alternative financing plans for guardian. one of the plans should be conservative, with 70 percent of assets financed by long-term sources, and the other should be aggressive, with only 56.25 percent of assets financed by long-term sources. the current interest rate is 12 percent on long-term funds and 7 percent on short-term financing. compute the annual interest payments under each plan.

Stock a has a beta of 1.2 and a standard deviation of 20%. stock b has a beta of 0.8 and a standard deviation of 25%. portfolio p has $200,000 consisting of $100,000 invested in stock a and $100,000 in stock b. which of the following statements is correct? (assume that the stocks are in equilibrium.) (a) stock b has a higher required rate of return than stock a. (b) portfolio p has a standard deviation of 22.5%. (c) portfolio p has a beta equal to 1.0. (d) more information is needed to determine the portfolio's beta. (e) stock a's returns are less highly correlated with the returns on most other stocks than are b's returns.

Mesa company produces wooden rocking chairs. the company has two production departments, cutting and assembly. the wood is cut and sanded in cutting and then transferred to assembly to be assembled and painted. from assembly, the chairs are transferred to finished goods inventory and then are sold. mesa has compiled the following information for the month of february: cutting department assemblydepartmentdirect materials $ 73,000 $ 13,000direct labor 73,000 108,000applied manufacturing overhead 159,000 171,000cost of goods completed and transferred out 233,000 255,000required: 1, 2, 3, & 4. prepare journal entries for the transactions in the cutting and assembly departments of mesa company. (if no entry is required for a transaction/event, select "no journal entry required" in the first account field.)