Suppose that you hold a piece of land in the City of London that you may want to sell in one year. As a U.S. resident, you are concerned with the dollar value of the land. Assume that, if the British economy booms in the future, the land will be worth £2,000 and one British pound will be worth $1.40. If the British economy slows down, on the other hand, the land will be worth less, i.e., £1,500, but the pound will be stronger, i.e., $1.50/£. You feel that the British economy will experience a boom with a 60% probability and a slow-down with a 40% probability.Required:
a. Estimate your exposure b to the exchange risk.
b. Compute the variance of the dollar value of your property that is attributable to the exchange rate uncertainty.
c. Discuss how you can hedge your exchange risk exposure and also examine the consequences of hedging.

A company’s past experience indicates that 60% of its credit sales are collected in the month of sale, 30% in the next month, and 5% in the second month after the sale; the remainder is never collected. Budgeted credit sales were: Ch7_Q181 The cash inflow in the month of June is expected to be $282,500. $213,750. $225,000. $270,000.

Sommer, Inc., is considering a project that will result in initial aftertax cash savings of $1.75 million at the end of the first year, and these savings will grow at a rate of 2 percent per year indefinitely. The firm has a target debt-equity ratio of .80, a cost of equity of 11.5 percent, and an aftertax cost of debt of 4.3 percent. The cost-saving proposal is somewhat riskier than the usual project the firm undertakes; management uses the subjective approach and applies an adjustment factor of 3 percent to the cost of capital for such risky projects.

Suppose a group of investors pooled $750,000 and founded Best National Bank in Rochester, NY. Best National Bank used $$75,000 of this to purchase shares in the New York Federal Reserve Bank. With the remaining $675,000, the bank manager purchased a building, furniture, and equipment for the bank.

On March 31, 2017, Alpha Corporation recorded the following factory overhead costs incurred: Factory Manager Salary $7,000 Factory Utilities 2,000 Machinery Deprecation 11,000 Machinery Repairs 2,500 Factory Insurance (prepaid) 1,000 The overhead application rate is based on direct labor hours. The preset formula for overhead application estimated that $21,000 would be incurred, and 10,000 direct labor hours would be worked. During March, 7,100 hours were actually worked on Job Order A-2 and 3,000 hours were actually worked on Job Order A-3. Use this information to prepare the March 31 General Journal entry to record the factory overhead costs. (round any final dollar answers to the nearest whole dollar):

9) Selected information regarding a company's most recent quarter follows (all data in thousands). 9) _______ Direct labor $540 Beginning work in process inventory $330 Ending work in process inventory $420 Cost of goods manufactured $1620 Manufacturing overhead $830 What was the cost of direct materials used for the quarter

An unfavorable flexible budget variance for variable expenses would indicate that: Group of answer choices the expenses of the company were less than what they had planned. more units were actually sold than the company had originally budgeted to sell. actual variable expenses were higher than the flexible budget variable expenses. fewer units were actually sold than the company had anticipated.