You hold the positions in the table below. If you expect the…

You hold the positions in the table below. If you expect the market to earn 13.00 percent and the risk-free rate is 3.00 percent, what is the required return of the portfolio? (Do not round intermediate calculations and round your final answer to 2 decimal places.)   Price Shares Beta   Advanced Micro Devices $ 34.00     453   4.61   FedEx Corp. $ 135.00     94   1.14   Microsoft $ 37.00     169   0.92   Sara Lee Corp. $ 26.00     192   1.13

At the beginning of the month, you owned $5,000 of News Corp…

At the beginning of the month, you owned $5,000 of News Corp, $7,000 of First Data, and $8,000 of Whirlpool. The monthly returns for News Corp, First Data, and Whirlpool were 8.60 percent, −2.65 percent, and 10.73 percent. What’s your portfolio return? (Do not round intermediate calculations and round your final answer to 2 decimal places.)

WQ6 (6 points) The Hungarian team was playing France in the…

WQ6 (6 points) The Hungarian team was playing France in the European Championships. Ticket sales have the following information:   Low-Tier Tickets Floor-Tickets Total  (when applicable) Budgeted CM per ticket $25 $125 Actual CM per ticket $20 $130 Budgeted seats sold 45,000 15,000 60,000 Actual seats sold 55,000 7,500 62,500     Amount F or U Total sales-volume variance     Total sales-quantity variance     Total sales-mix variance    

WQ7 (12 points) Walter White, Inc., a chemical supply manufa…

WQ7 (12 points) Walter White, Inc., a chemical supply manufacturer, has two operating departments- corporate sales and consumer sales- and two support departments- legal services and quality assurance. Walter white uses number of employees to allocate legal services costs and processing time to allocate quality assurance costs.   Support Departments Operating Departments   Legal Services Quality Assurance Consumer Sales Corporate Sales Budgeted costs incurred before any interdepartmental cost allocations $100,000 $200,000     Support work supplied by legal services department         Budgeted number employees – 100 220 180 Support work supplied by quality assurance department         Budgeted processing time (in minutes) 625 – 300 1,575   Allocate the support departments’ costs to the operating departments using the following methods. NOTE: if needed, round to the nearest cent when solving. 1. Direct method. (1 point) The total support department costs allocated to consumer sales is (1 point) The total support department costs allocated to corporate sales is 2. Step-down method (allocate Quality Assurance first). (2 points) The total support department costs allocated to consumer sales is (2 points) The total support department costs allocated to corporate sales is 3. Reciprocal method. (3 points) The total support department costs allocated to consumer sales is (3 points) The total support department costs allocated to corporate sales is