Assignment 7: Mean-Variance Portfolio Theory ------------------------------------------------- Top of Form 1 . Consider‚ as in Lecture 7.1‚ a portfolio of two risky assets‚ with expected returns rˉ1‚rˉ2‚ variances σ21‚σ22 and covariance σ1‚2. No other assets are available. You have to allocate $1 mln of investment in the portfolio of the two assets in order to minimize total portfolio variance. What is the optimal amount of investment in asset 1 (in mln dollars)? Assume expected returns are
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The Public Budget Cycle of the Bureau of Prisons Name: Institution Affiliation: Course: Date: The bureau of prisons is a program that was established in 1930. Its main purpose was to offer inmates in federal prisons more progressive and humane care. As an agency of the Department of Justice‚ it has the sole purpose of confining offenders and facilitating their correction. Ultimately‚ this results in the agency protecting the society. (Behren & Korfona‚ 2002) However‚ the agency faces certain
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BUDGETING SIMULATION Q1.Explain and critically analyze the budget that you prepared for the exercise For this exercise‚ estimates‚ budget‚ conditions‚ conditions forecast were the things to be kept in mind. From the conditions that were specified: 1) Weather-the cost can go high if the weather conditions get worse 2) Labor market-the cost can go high or low depending on the availability 3) Stakeholders cooperation-depending on them‚ the cost can also go high or we can even save money 4) Reliability
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History of Indian Budget India’s first Finance Minister Sir R.K. Shanmugham Chetty‚ presented the first Finance Budget of independent India on November 26‚ 1947. Since then‚ 28 differentUnion Finance Ministers have been presenting the budget year after year. Initially‚ major attention was paid towards the agriculture sector but as the economy evolved‚ the focus shifted from agriculture to other sectors like industrial‚ financial etc. During the early the fifties‚ Indian budget highlights revolved
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The case titled The Theatre Budget was a short journal about a frustrated Vice-President of a performing arts theatre that had a Board of Directors more concerned about artistic values than how they would pay the bills. Janet Dobbs was Vice President for Administration and President-elect for this small taxexempt organization called the Greater Euclid Little Theater (GELT). It is obvious in the case that there is a divide between industries; business administration/accounting and the arts. One
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One-way Analysis of Variance (Abbreviated one-way ANOVA) is a technique used to compare means of two or more samples (using the F distribution). This technique can be used only for numerical data. It consists of a single factor with several levels and multiple observations at each level. With this kind of layout we can calculate the mean of the observations within each level of our factor. The residuals will tell about the variation within each level. It can also average the means of each level
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VARIANCES IN ATTITUDES ACROSS CULTURES THE ROLE OF GENDER a. DEFINITION: “An attitude is the manifestation of values‚ beliefs‚ feelings‚ and states of mind” (Satterlee‚ 2009‚ p. 51). b. SUMMARY: Birgit Pfau-Effinger of The University of Hamburg in Hamburg‚ Germany recently published an article titled “Women ’s employment in the institutional and cultural context” in the International Journal of Sociology and Social Policy. The author’s intention throughout the paper is to identify the factor(s)
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Cash Control and Cash Budgets Budgeted Income Statement and Budgeted Balance Sheet What is a Budgeted Income Statement? An estimate of expected revenues and expenses for a business‚ over a specific time period i.e. 1 year‚ 1 month or a specific event. What is a Budgeted Balance Sheet? An estimate of a business ’s financial position (assets‚ liabilities and owners equity) which can be produced for both the start and end of a period of time (i.e. a year) or for a special event when preparing
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Production Budget: Learning Objective of the article: 1. Define and explain production budget. 2. Prepare a production budget. Definition and Explanation of Production Budget: Theproduction budgetis prepared after thesales budget. Theproduction budgetlists the number of units that must be produced during each budget period to meet sales needs and to provide for the desired ending inventory. Production needs can be determined as follows. | Budgeted sales in units-------------------
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