Download the data from the following data tablea. Compute the average return for each of the assets from 1929 to 1940 (the Great Depression).b. Compute the variance and standard deviation for each of the assets from 1929 to 1940.c. Which asset was riskiest during the Great Depression? How does that fit with your intuition?Year S&P 500 Small Stocks Corp Bonds World Portfolio Treasury Bills CPI1929 -0.08906 -0.43081 0.04320 -0.07692 0.04471 0.005851930 -0.25256 -0.44698 0.06343 -0.22574 0.02266 -0.063951931 -0.43861 -0.54676 -0.02380 -0.39305 0.01153 -0.093171932 -0.08854 -0.00471 0.12199 0.03030 0.00882 -0.102741933 0.52880 2.16138 0.05255 0.66449 0.00516 0.007631934 -0.02341 0.57195 0.09728 0.02552 0.00265 0.015151935 0.47221 0.69112 0.06860 0.22782 0.00171 0.029851936 0.32796 0.70023 0.06219 0.19283 0.00173 0.014491937 -0.35258 -0.56131 0.02546 -0.16950 0.00267 0.028571938 0.33204 0.08928 0.04357 0.05614 0.00060 -0.027781939 -0.00914 0.04327 0.04247 -0.01441 0.00042 0.000001940 -0.10078 -0.28063 0.04512 0.03528 0.00037 0.00714

The chromosome manufacturing company produces two products, x and y. the company president, jean mutation, is concerned about the fierce competition in the market for product x. she notes that competitors are selling x for a price well below chromosome's price of $13.50. at the same time, she notes that competitors are pricing product y almost twice as high as chromosome's price of $12.50.ms. mutation has obtained the following data for a recent time period: product x product y number of units 11,000 3,000 direct materials cost per unit $3.23 $3.09 direct labor cost per unit $2.22 $2.10 direct labor hours 10,000 3,500 machine hours 2,100 1,800 inspection hours 80 100 purchase orders 10 30ms. mutation has learned that overhead costs are assigned to products on the basis of direct labor hours. the overhead costs for this time period consisted of the following items: overhead cost item amount inspection costs $16,200 purchasing costs 8,000 machine costs 49,000 total $73,200using direct labor hours to allocate overhead costs determine the gross margin per unit for product x. choose the best answer from the list below. a. $1.93b. $3.12c. $7.38d. $2.43e. $1.73using activity-based costing for overhead allocation, determine the gross margin per unit for product y. choose best answer from list below. a. $10.07b. ($2.27)c. ($5.23)d. ($7.02)e. $7.02

Listed below are several transactions that took place during the first two years of operations for the law firm of pete, pete, and roy. year 1 year 2amounts billed to clients for services rendered $ 170,000 $ 220,000 cash collected from clients 160,000 190,000 cash disbursements salaries paid to employees for services rendered during the year 90,000 100,000 utilities 30,000 40,000 purchase of insurance policy 60,000 0 in addition, you learn that the company incurred utility costs of $35,000 in year 1, that there were no liabilities at the end of year 2, no anticipated bad debts on receivables, and that the insurance policy covers a three-year period. required: 1. & 3. calculate the net operating cash flow for years 1 and 2 and determine the amount of receivables from clients that the company would show in its year 1 and year 2 balance sheets prepared according to the accrual accounting model.2. prepare an income statement for each year according to the accrual accounting model.

The cook corporation has two divisions--east and west. the divisions have the following revenues and expenses: east westsales $ 603,000 $ 506,000 variable costs 231,000 300,000 traceable fixed costs 151,500 192,000 allocated common corporate costs 128,600 156,000 net operating income (loss) $ 91,900 $ (142,000 )the management of cook is considering the elimination of the west division. if the west division were eliminated, its traceable fixed costs could be avoided. total common corporate costs would be unaffected by this decision. given these data, the elimination of the west division would result in an overall company net operating income (loss) of: multiple choice$91,900$(64,100)$(142,000)$(5 0,100)