Suspendus Company has the following financial data for the year ended December 31, 2021: net sales $1,680,000, operating expenses $880,000, net income $104,000, stockholders’ equity $800,000, and assets $1,901,000. The information for the year ended December 31, 2020 was: net sales $1,450,000, operating expenses $760,000, net income $87,000, stockholders’ equity $700,000, and assets $1,601,000. Calculate the gross profit margin for the year ended December 31, 2021.

Beta coefficients and the capital asset pricing model personal finance problem katherine wilson is wondering how much risk she must undertake to generate an acceptable return on her porfolio. the risk-free return currently is 4%. the return on the overall stock market is 14%. use the capm to calculate how high the beta coefficient of katherine's portfolio would have to be to achieve a portfolio return of 16%.

You are an employee of an u.s. firm that produces personal computers in thailand and then exports them to the united states and other countries for sale. the personal computers were originally produced in thailand to take advantage of relatively low labor costs and a skilled workforce. other possible locations considered at that time were malaysia and hong kong. the u.s. government decides to impose punitive 100% ad valorem tariffs on imports of computers from thailand to punish the country for administrative trade barriers that restrict u.s. exports to thailand. how do you think your firm should respond? what does this tell you about the use of targeted trade barriers?

Acoase solution to a problem of externality ensures that a socially efficient outcome is to