The foreign exchange market serves two main functions. The first is to convert the currency of one country into the currency of another, and the second is to provide some insurance against foreign exchange risk. a. True
b. False

If we know that a firm has a net profit margin of 4.6 %, total asset turnover of 0.62, and a financial leverage multiplier of 1.54, what is its roe? what is the advantage to using the dupont system to calculate roe over the direct calculation of earnings available for common stockholders divided by common stock equity?

During the first month of operations, martinson services, inc., completed the following transactions: jan 2 martinson services received $65,000 cash and issued common stock to the stockholders. 3 purchased supplies, $1,000, and equipment, $12,000, on account. 4 performed services for a customer and received cash, $5,500. 7 paid cash to acquire land, $39,000. 11 performed services for a customer and billed the customer, $4,100. martinson expects to collect within one month 16 paid for the equipment purchased january 3 on account. 17 paid for newspaper advertising, $600. 18 received partial payment from customer on account, $2,000. 22 paid the water and electricity bills, $430. 29 received $2,600 cash for servicing the heating unit of a customer. 31 paid employee salary, $2,900. 31 declared and paid dividends of $1,800. requirements 1. record each transaction in the journal. key each transaction by date. explanations are not required. 2. post the transactions to the t-accounts, using transaction dates as posting references. label the ending balance of each account bal, as shown in the chapter. 3. prepare the trial balance of martinson services, inc., at january 31 of the current year. 4. mark martinson, the manager, asks you how much in total resources the business has to work with, how much it owes, and whether january was profitable (and by how much)?

Varto company has 9,400 units of its sole product in inventory that it produced last year at a cost of $23 each. this year’s model is superior to last year’s, and the 9,400 units cannot be sold at last year’s regular selling price of $42 each. varto has two alternatives for these items: (1) they can be sold to a wholesaler for $8 each, or (2) they can be reworked at a cost of $251,100 and then sold for $34 each. prepare an analysis to determine whether varto should sell the products as is or rework them and then sell them.