You are now ready to purchase your first securities for your Portfolio. Please select a total of four stocks. Choose three stocks you think will rise in value. One of the stocks must be an NYSE stock, and one must be a NASDAQ stock. How many shares you purchase is up to you. Each purchase should be limited to $50,000. Finally, you should pick a fourth stock that you believe has a possibility of declining in value. You should sell this stock short. This transaction, too, should be limited to $50,000.

Ida sidha karya company is a family-owned company located on the island of bali in indonesia. the company produces a handcrafted balinese musical instrument called a gamelan that is similar to a xylophone. the gamelans are sold for $860. selected data for the company’s operations last year follow: units in beginning inventory 0 units produced 320 units sold 285 units in ending inventory 35 variable costs per unit: direct materials $ 135 direct labor $ 355 variable manufacturing overhead $ 30 variable selling and administrative $ 15 fixed costs: fixed manufacturing overhead $ 64,000 fixed selling and administrative $ 27,000 the absorption costing income statement prepared by the company’s accountant for last year appears below: sales $ 245,100 cost of goods sold 205,200 gross margin 39,900 selling and administrative expense 31,275 net operating income $ 8,625 required: 1. under absorption costing, how much fixed manufacturing overhead cost is included in the company's inventory at the end of last year? 2. prepare an income statement for last year using variable costing. what is the amount of the difference in net operating income between the two costing methods?

Suppose that the free states of eldricia, a small nation, has consumption, investment, government purchases, imports, and exports as follows. consumption $140 investment $50 government purchases $45 imports $30 exports $15 calculate the free states of eldricia's gdp

Is exploiting a distinctive competence or improving efficiency for competitive advantage. (a) cooptation (b) coalition (c) competitive intelligence (d) competitive aggression (e) smoothing