Walmart is planning an Internet subsidiary to compete head-to-head with Amazon. It argues that it can compete aggressively in Internet retailing because it has a low beta and its shareholders will be content with an expected rate of return of only 4.8%. Is the argument correct?Expected Return (%) U. S. Steel Disney Ford General Electric Monsanto Boeing Union Pacific Alphabet ExxonMobil Amazorn Intel Pfizer Starbucks BM McDonald's Coca-Cola Campbell Soup Walmart Newmont Mining PG&E Beta 1.85 1.42 1.31 1.20 1.19 1.01 1.00 0.96 0.94 0.93 0.91 0.90 0.79 0.59 0.51 0.49 0.47 0.26 0.24 0.23 16.0 12.9 12.2 11.4 11.3 10.1 10.0 9.8 9.6 9.5 9.4 9.3 8.5 6.6 6.4 6.3 4.8 47 4.6

Variable rate cd’s = $90 treasury bills = $150 discount loans = $20 treasury notes = $100 fixed rate cds = $160 money market deposit accts. = $140 savings deposits = $90 fed funds borrowing = $40 variable rate mortgage loans $140 demand deposits = $40 primary reserves = $50 fixed rate loans = $210 fed funds lending = $50 equity capital = $120 a. develop a balance sheet from the above data. be sure to divide your balance sheet into rate-sensitive assets and liabilities as we did in class and in the examples. b. perform a standard gap analysis and a duration analysis using the above data if you have a 1.15% decrease in interest rates and an average duration of assets of 5.4 years and an average duration of liabilities of 3.8 years. c. indicate if this bank will remain solvent after the valuation changes. if so, indicate the new level of equity capital after the valuation changes. if not, indicate the amount of the shortage in equity capital.

Moody corporation uses a job-order costing system with a plantwide predetermined overhead rate based on machine-hours. at the beginning of the year, the company made the following estimates: machine-hours required to support estimated production 100,000 fixed manufacturing overhead cost $ 650,000 variable manufacturing overhead cost per machine-hour $ 3.00 required: 1. compute the plantwide predetermined overhead rate. 2. during the year, job 400 was started and completed. the following information was available with respect to this job: direct materials $ 450 direct labor cost $ 210 machine-hours used 40

Data for hermann corporation are shown below: per unit percent of sales selling price $ 125 100 % variable expenses 80 64 contribution margin $ 45 36 % fixed expenses are $85,000 per month and the company is selling 2,700 units per month. required: 1-a. how much will net operating income increase (decrease) per month if the monthly advertising budget increases by $9,000 and monthly sales increase by $20,000? 1-b. should the advertising budget be increased?