Investing in collectibles is very risky.

a. True

b. False

Steve, the vice president of Ocher Inc., plans to introduce a retirement plan for all employees. George, the operations director, disagrees because the proposed plan would increase the company's costs.

An analyst wants to estimate the yield to maturity on a non-traded 4-year, annual pay bond rated A. Among actively traded bonds with the same rating, 3-year bonds are yielding 3.2% and 6-year bonds are yielding 5.0%.

DVDs can be produced at a constant marginal cost, and Roaring Lion Studios is releasing the DVDs for its last two major films. The DVD for Rambeau 17 is priced at $20 per disk, and the DVD for Schreck 10 is priced at $30 per disk.

Blue Computer Repair treats each repair order as a job. Overhead is allocated based on the cost of technician time. At the start of the year, annual technician wages were estimated to be $800,000, and company overhead was estimated to be $500,000.

You have a client who is tolerant to risk who has a 35-year time horizon. The most appropriate allocation of this client's portfolio would be: [A] Split 50% bonds, 50% stocks [B] Split 45% bonds, 55% stocks [C] Split 90% stocks, 10% money market [D]

What may managers rely on to decide if they'd like to interview a candidate in person?

How are direct lending and dealer financing similar? And which is the better option?

Suppose that a worker in Tabletland can produce either 4 tablets or 1 television per year, and a worker in Ledville can produce either 2 tablets or 4 televisions per year. Each nation has 50 workers.

West Corp. issued 17-year bonds 2 years ago at a coupon rate of 10.3 percent. The bonds make semiannual payments. If these bonds currently sell for 102 percent of par value, what is the YTM

If a company adopts an accounts receivable factoring program, and accounts for the factoring as a sale of receivables, which of the following is true in the period the company starts the program (all else equal) ? A.