Nod corp. (a u. s.-based company) sold parts to a hong kong customer on december 15 with payment of 100,000 hong kong dollars to be received in thirty days on january 15. the following exchange rates apply: spot forward rate 1/1512/15 $0.15 $0.1612/31 $0.16 $0.171/15 $0.17 $0.18assuming no forward contract was entered into, how much foreign exchange gain or loss should nod report on its december 31 income statement with regard to this transaction? (for purposes of this exercise, use a present value factor of 1.)a) no gain or lossb) $1,000 lossc) $3,000 lossd) $1,000 gaine) $3,000 gain

You have $22,000 to invest in a stock portfolio. your choices are stock x with an expected return of 11 percent and stock y with an expected return of 13 percent. if your goal is to create a portfolio with an expected return of 11.74 percent, how much money will you invest in stock x? in stock y?

Laurelton heating & cooling installs and services commercial heating and cooling systems. laurelton uses job costing to calculate the cost of its jobs. overhead is allocated to each job based on the number of direct labor hours spent on that job. at the beginning of the current year, laurelton estimated that its overhead for the coming year would be $ 61 comma 500. it also anticipated using 4 comma 100 direct labor hours for the year. in april comma laurelton started and completed the following two jobs: (click the icon to view the jobs.) laurelton paid a $ 20-per-hour wage rate to the employees who worked on these two jobs. read the requirements requirement 1. what is laurelton's predetermined overhead rate based on direct labor hours? determine the formula to calculate laurelton's predetermined overhead rate based on direct labor hours, then calculate the rate. / = predetermined overhead rate

Cash flow is often a problem for small businesses. how can an entrepreneur increase cash flow? a) locate lower-priced suppliers. b) forego sending in estimated tax payments to the irs c) shorten the terms on a bank loan to pay it off more quickly d) sell more low-margin items.