Alpha and Omega Inc. produces laptops and the selling price per laptop is $300. Currently, the company has a separate division that produces the internal hard drive used in the laptop. To produce one such hard drive, it spends $10 in the raw materials, $15 in direct labor, $5 in variable manufacturing overhead, and $10 in fixed manufacturing overhead. If the company decides to purchase the internal hard drive from outside, then it will cost $35 per hard drive. Also, 20 percent of the fixed cost is avoidable if the division is outsourced. Based on the scenario, Alpha and Omega Inc. should .

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%.

Assume that the following conditions exist: a. all banks are fully loaned up- there are no excess reserves, and desired excess reserves are always zero. b. the money multiplier is 5 .     c. the planned investment schedule is such that at a 4 percent rate of interest, investment =$1450 billion. at 5 percent, investment is $1420 billion. d. the investment multiplier is 3 . e.. the initial equilibrium level of real gdp is $12 trillion. f. the equilibrium rate of interest is 4 percent now the fed engages in contractionary monetary policy. it sells $1 billion worth of bonds, which reduces the money supply, which in turn raises the market rate of interest by 1 percentage point. calculate the decrease in money supply after fed's sale of bonds: $nothing billion.

Summarize the specific methods used by interest groups in order to influence governmental decisions making in all three branches of government. provide at least two examples from each branch.