The way you dress can make or break your effectiveness as a speaker.

a. True

b. False

You want to have $1,200,000 when you retire and you are in a defined contribution plan. You can earn 9 percent per year on the money invested and you will retire in 25 years. Your employer also contributes to your plan.

Hilltop Manufacturing uses a predetermined manufacturing overhead rate based on machine hours to allocate manufacturing overhead to jobs.

Consider a portfolio comprised of four risky securities. Assume the economy has three economic states with varying probabilities of occurrence. Which one of the following will guarantee that the portfolio variance will equal zero? A.

Publix has 2,700 pounds of bananas with a total cost of $864. Because the bananas have become too ripe, Publix is contemplating whether it should use the bananas to bake banana bread or sell the bananas 'as is' to the homeless center for $1,485.

Luxury Properties offers bonds with a coupon rate of 8.8 percent paid semiannually. The yield to maturity is 11.2 percent and the maturity date is 11 years from today. What is the market price of this bond if the face value is $1,000?

You spend $5 on materials to make a scarf. You think you have added $10 of value, so you set the price to $15. Nobody buys the scarf at that price, so you lower the price to $12, and someone buys it.

Katie needed to take out three loans. a) First, she paid $596.24 in interest on a nine-month loan for which the rate was 11%. How much money did she borrow? b) A year later, Katie borrowed $10,000 for three months.

During the year, total liabilities increased $105,000 and stockholders' equity decreased $83,000. What is the amount of total assets at the end of the year?

What is cosideration

With the federal funds rate near zero and the economy still struggling, the Fed began buying 10-year Treasury notes and certain mortgage-backed securities to keep interest rates low. This policy is known as