Value at Risk. Financial analysts commonly use an approach called value at reisk to compare the risk of stocks or portfolios. The analyst tries to estimate a low percentile (such as the 5th or 10th percentile) of the forecasted range of possible returns for a given stock or portfolio and that percentile is used as a rough measure of the worst-case senario for that investment. Suppose an analyst is trying to compare two investments: Investment A has a forecasted average return of $10 million with a standard deviation of $3 million, and Investment B has a forecasted average return of $12 million with a standard deviation of $5 million. The analyst wants to avoid risk and invest in the one that has a larger 5 percentile for the return distribution. Which investment should he/she make

The production manager of rordan corporation has submitted the following quarterly production forecast for the upcoming fiscal year: 1st quarter 2nd quarter 3rd quarter 4th quarter units to be produced 10,800 8,500 7,100 11,200 each unit requires 0.25 direct labor-hours, and direct laborers are paid $20.00 per hour. required: 1. prepare the company’s direct labor budget for the upcoming fiscal year. assume that the direct labor workforce is adjusted each quarter to match the number of hours required to produce the forecasted number of units produced. 2. prepare the company’s direct labor budget for the upcoming fiscal year, assuming that the direct labor workforce is not adjusted each quarter. instead, assume that the company’s direct labor workforce consists of permanent employees who are guaranteed to be paid for at least 2,500 hours of work each quarter. if the number of required direct labor-hours is less than this number, the workers are paid for 2,500 hours anyway. any hours worked in excess of 2,500 hours in a quarter are paid at the rate of 1.5 times the normal hourly rate for direct labor.

True or false payroll withholding includes income tax, social security tax, medicare tax as well as money you deduct for your retirement fund.

Abc electronics wants someone to install a top-of-the-line security system in its two buildings, a system that not only sounds an alarm but also simultaneously notifies authorities and the company president. video surveillance of the premises should also be a capability of the security system. n order to obtain price quotes, what should the company write? a. an unsolicited proposal b. an internal proposal c. an external proposal d. a request for proposals