Quinnipiac University School of Business FIN350 Global Financial Markets & Institutions Questions & Problems Set 5 Spring 2013 1. Explain why commercial banks are regulated and describe the major pieces of legislation enacted to prevent bank failures. Financial institutions are regulated because they provide products and services that the economy needs to function efficiently. Also they function in an environment where there is a great deal of asymmetric information‚ so they
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FIN 350 Prof. Porter Problem Set 4 1. Describe what happens to the total risk of a portfolio as the number of securities is increased. Differentiate between systematic risk and unsystematic risk and explain how total risk and systematic risk are measured. As the number of securities increases‚ the total risk of the portfolio decreases. This decrease occurs due to the benefits of diversification which is the process of acquiring a portfolio of securities that have dissimilar risk-return characteristics
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Module 2 Exercises Problem 1: 1. Process cost systems are used to apply costs to similar products that are mass-produced in a continuous fashion. ANSWER = TRUE 2. A process cost system is used when each finished unit is indistinguishable from another. ANSWER = TRUE 3. Companies that produce soft drinks‚ motion pictures‚ and computers chips would all use process cost accounting. ANSWER = FALSE -Companies that produce soft drinks and computer chips would all use process cost accounting
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Chapter 1: Laws and Law Makers That Affect Business in Canada Exercises True or False? 1. Laws promote certainty and predictability because they never change. (F) 2. A company may freely disclose how it broke the law to its lawyer‚ because this type of communication may not be used as evidence against the company in court. (T) 3. A purpose of a legal risk-management plan is to reduce the risk of being sued and to reduce the amount of liability in the event of a lawsuit. (T) 4. The Canadian
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1. Dell would like to reach a narrowly defined target audience. To do so‚ they should select prime time network television as the media to reach such an audience. FALSE 2. One trend affecting the advertising and promotion industry is the move away from consumer involvement in the advertising and promotions process. FALSE 3. Before contracting with an advertising agency‚ the role of the advertiser is to fully understand and describe the value that the firm’s brand(s) provides to users. TRUE
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Global Environments and Problem Sets Learning Team C Acc/300 Summary organizations’ financial statements: How is the corporation’s debt securities reported on the financial statements How is the corporation’s stock investments reported on the financial statements Why would the corporation invest in stocks and debt securities? What are the corporation’s relative risks and rewards of equity versus debt securities? Debt securities are distinct from equity instruments‚ but both assets
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perform as follows: a. Transfer title of their personal home to Barbara. They purchased the house in 1998 and their basis today is $400‚000. The fair market value of the house is $500‚000. The house is subject to a 25-year‚ $250‚000 mortgage. b. Arnold is to continue making payments on the house until it is fully paid off. In 2011‚ Arnold made payments totaling $18‚000. c. Arnold is to make $3‚000 per month payments to Barbara. Of this amount one-half is for child support. The divorce decree
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Lab Exercise 2: Acceleration A. Objective This experiment will provide data to calculate the acceleration of a marble as it rolls down an incline plane over measured periods of time. To do this‚ the marble’s velocity will be determined and then its acceleration. 1. What is the distance between two marks in your inclined plan? -50cm 2. What is the angle of your inclined plan with respect the horizontal? -16degrees 3. Newton’s first law says a body at rest will remain at rest unless
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of Phoenix ACC 547: James Enney 22-50 Jack and Jill are owners of UpAHill‚ and S-corporation. They own 25 and 75 percent‚ respectively. a. What amount of ordinary income and separately stated items are allocated to them for years 1 and 2 based on the information above? Description | UpaHill | Jack 25% | Jill 75% | Year 1 Income | $ 45‚000.00 | | | Less: | | | | Dividends | $ 500.00 | | | Interest Income | $ 2‚000.00 | | | Ordinary business income
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Chelsey Lopez Apush Colonial Era Test Topics: Chapter 1 -7 Causes of Expansion Christian Crusades: control over Holy Land from Muslims‚ exotic delight from asia (silk‚ sugar) Marco Polo: venetian merchant traveler‚ introduced Europeans to Central Asia and China Improvement in navigation tech. Primogeniture: the legal principal that the firstborn to inherit entire estate (property & land) Development of Joint Stock companies: economic arrangement by which number of investors poo their
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