Property taxes, office expenses, and insurance and depreciation on nonmanufacturing assets are included in the:

Rate of return douglas keel, a financial analyst for orange industries, wishes to estimate the rate of return for two similar-risk investments, x and y. douglas's research indicates that the immediate past returns will serve as reasonable estimates of future returns. a year earlier, investment x had a market value of $27 comma 000; and investment y had a market value of $46 comma 000. during the year, investment x generated cash flow of $2 comma 025 and investment y generated cash flow of $ 6 comma 770. the current market values of investments x and y are $28 comma 582 and $46 comma 000, respectively. a. calculate the expected rate of return on investments x and y using the most recent year's data. b. assuming that the two investments are equally risky, which one should douglas recommend? why?

Harmon inc. produces joint products l, m, and n from a joint process. information concerning a batch produced in may at a joint cost of $75,000 was as follows:

Governments sometimes erect barriers to trade other than tariffs and quotas. which of the following is not an example of this type of trade barrier? a. a requirement that the employees of domestic firms that engage in foreign trade pay income taxes b. restrictions on imports for national security reasons c. a requirement that imports meet health and safety requirements d. a requirement that the u. s. government buy military uniforms only from u. s. manufacturers