Dexter is an accountant earning $45,000 per year but he hates his job. Dexter decides to leave his accounting job and start his own white water rafting guided tour business. He needs $80,000 to start his business. Dexter has $40,000 in savings that he will use to start his new business and he borrows the remaining $40,000 from a bank. The interest rate is 3%.

The explicit cost of opening Dexter’s white water rafting business is and the implicit cost of opening the new business is .

A. $80,000; $45,000B. $2,400; $45,000C. $1,200; $46,200D. $127,400; $0

The management at a pesticide manufacturing company has observed a decline in quality measures. the managers ask robin, the firm's hr manager, to investigate whether training might solve the problem. robin conducts needs assessment and recommends a training plan. which of the following conditions would most likely have been an observation during robin's person analysis?

Select all that apply. select the ways that labor unions can increase wages. collective bargaining reducing the labor supply increasing the demand for labor creating monopolies

Stock a has a beta of 1.2 and a standard deviation of 20%. stock b has a beta of 0.8 and a standard deviation of 25%. portfolio p has $200,000 consisting of $100,000 invested in stock a and $100,000 in stock b. which of the following statements is correct? (assume that the stocks are in equilibrium.) (a) stock b has a higher required rate of return than stock a. (b) portfolio p has a standard deviation of 22.5%. (c) portfolio p has a beta equal to 1.0. (d) more information is needed to determine the portfolio's beta. (e) stock a's returns are less highly correlated with the returns on most other stocks than are b's returns.