UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO Liautaud Graduate School of Business Department of Finance Professor Hsiu-lang Chen 1 Practice Problem I In choices under uncertainty‚ individuals maximize his or her expected utility U! Part I. Expected Utility (Lecture 1) A casino company offers a simple game which is described as follows: The prize of the game depends on two unbiased coins you toss. If both heads appear‚ you get $200. If both tails appear‚ you get $100. Otherwise‚ you get $150. 1. The company
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1. Should DFA enter the retirement market? a. Yes‚ DFA should enter the retirement market. The firm prides itself on value added through skillful trading after thorough research and analysis. Also‚ everyone is concerned with retirement once they enter the job field‚ so it’s always going to be something that people will consider carefully and often will turn to advisement. DFA should be successful if many potential investors know their thorough reputation. Also retirement assets were becoming a dominant
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DELUXE Corporation Teaching Note Synopsis and Objectives Suggestions for complementary cases in capital structure choice and financial flexibility: “The Wm. Wrigley‚ Jr. Company: Capital Structure‚ Valuation‚ and Cost of Capital‚” (Case 34); “Rosario Acero S.A.‚” (UVA-F-1211); “Gainesboro Machine Tools Corporation‚” (Case 26) In July 2002‚ an investment banker advising Deluxe Corporation must prepare recommendations for the company’s board of directors regarding the firm’s financial
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tutorial can be found under each model within the ME►XL menu after starting Excel. These tutorials are designed to work with our OfficeStar examples which are located in the My Marketing Engineering directory‚ usually installed in My Documents during software installation. The data required for this case is located in two files in the My Marketing Engineering directory (usually located within My Documents): Bookbinders Book Club Data (Customer Choice).xls Bookbinders Book Club Data (Customer Choice) Holdout
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ACCOUNTING 592 Financial Accounting & Reporting Seminar Spring 2010 Instructor: Office Hours (subject to adjustment): Teresa Gordon Office Hours: W 8:30–11:00 AM Albertsons Bldg. 118 and T‚W‚Th 1:15 - 3:00 PM 885-8960 or by appointment E-mail: tgordon@uidaho.edu Course web page: http://www.cbe.uidaho.edu/Acct592 ------------------------------------------------- MASTER OF ACCOUNTANCY – LEARNING GOALS ------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------
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MBA 504 MAC 502 Spreadsheet Modeling Assignment #8 Prof. Liz Durango-Cohen The data needed for this problem set is contained in worksheet “MBA_504_MAC_502_Problem_Set_#8_F14.xls” Problem 1: Writer’s Edge is a seller of fine fountain pens. The company has found that‚ in spite of the growth in online buying‚ its catalog business is still quite strong. With the holiday season coming Writer’s Edge is planning to run a new direct mail campaign. Relevant information includes: The cost
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relationships. Linear programming is a specific case of mathematical programming The Primary Purpose of the present investigation is to develop an interactive spreadsheet tool to aid in determining a maximum return function in 401K plan. In this paper‚ we discuss how the Excel spreadsheet can be used to solve a linear optimization in retirement industry to get maximum returns in 401 k plan Organize information There are four categories of information needed for solving an optimization problem in
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FINANCE 6301 AMME Individual Assignment #2 FORMAT: You can use a Word document‚ an Excel spreadsheet or both. If you use Excel‚ submit the Excel file rather than embedding Excel into a Word document. Please use single-space‚ 11 pt. or 12 pt. font. Multiple Choice: Select the best response (3 points each). You may add comments to explain your reasons. 1. If the correlation coefficient is 0‚ A) You can completely eliminate risk by short selling the riskier asset and investing
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assigned the case in advance of class and then spent from 30 minutes to one hour of class time discussing the students’ solutions. When using all three cases‚ I have assigned the (A) and (B) Cases in advance of class and asked the students to submit spreadsheets with solutions to both cases before class begins. During the 90-minute class we would devote approximately 40 minutes to discussing the (A) Case‚ 20 minutes on the (B) Case‚ and the remaining 30 minutes working through the (C) Case together in
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Solutions Manual to accompany MANAGERIAL ACCOUNTING Tenth Edition (Global Edition) Ronald W. Hilton Cornell University David E. Platt University of Texas at Austin Copyright 2015 by McGraw-Hill Education. All rights reserved. Contents Preface iii Chapter 1 The Changing Role of Managerial Accounting in a Dynamic Business Environment 1-1 Chapter 2 Basic Cost Management Concepts 2-1 Chapter 3 Product Costing and Cost Accumulation in a Batch Production Environment 3-1
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