On December 30, 2001, you decided to bet on the January effect, a well-known empirical regularity in the stock market. On that day, you bought 400 shares of Microsoft on margin at the price of $149 per share. The initial margin requirement is 55% and the maintenance margin is 30%. The annual cost of the margin loan is 4%. (a) Determine your initial margin requirement. (b) To what price must Microsoft fall for you to receive a margin call

The production manager of rordan corporation has submitted the following quarterly production forecast for the upcoming fiscal year: 1st quarter 2nd quarter 3rd quarter 4th quarter units to be produced 10,800 8,500 7,100 11,200 each unit requires 0.25 direct labor-hours, and direct laborers are paid $20.00 per hour. required: 1. prepare the company’s direct labor budget for the upcoming fiscal year. assume that the direct labor workforce is adjusted each quarter to match the number of hours required to produce the forecasted number of units produced. 2. prepare the company’s direct labor budget for the upcoming fiscal year, assuming that the direct labor workforce is not adjusted each quarter. instead, assume that the company’s direct labor workforce consists of permanent employees who are guaranteed to be paid for at least 2,500 hours of work each quarter. if the number of required direct labor-hours is less than this number, the workers are paid for 2,500 hours anyway. any hours worked in excess of 2,500 hours in a quarter are paid at the rate of 1.5 times the normal hourly rate for direct labor.

Aprimary advantage of organizing economic activity within firms is thea. ability to coordinate highly complex tasks to allow for specialized division of labor. b. low administrative costs because of reduced bureaucracy. c. eradication of the principal-agent problem. d. high-powered incentive to work as salaried employees for an existing firm.

Upper a report about the decline of western investment in third world countries included this: "after years of daily flights comma several european airlines halted passenger service. foreign investment fell 400 percent during the 1990 s." what is wrong with this statement? choose the correct answer below. a. if foreign investment fell by 100 % comma it would be totally eliminated comma so it is not possible for it to fall by more than 100 %. b. the actual amount of the decrease in foreign investment is less than 100%. c. if foreign investment fell by 100%, it would be cut in half. thus, a decrease of 200% means that it would be totally eliminated, and a decrease of more than 200% is impossible. d. the statement does not mention the initial amount of foreign investment.