Review financial websites or publications and gather the following information for three company stocks: the industry each company operates in the current market price of the company’s shares the share price exactly one year ago the capital gains/losses for investors in each stock for the past one year Assuming that you bought one share of each stock exactly one year ago, and that the companies did not pay out dividends to investors. Use this formula to calculate the rate of return on each stock for the past year: annual rate of return = Current share price-share price a year ago / 100 The rate of return will be negative if the stock’s current market price is less than what it was a year ago. Now, fill out the table below with the information you gathered for each stock.

Braden’s ice cream shop is losing business. he knows that customers are no longer choosing his product because a competing product has become less expensive, yet he has refused to lower his prices. what has happened to braden’s business?

Boxes of honey nut oatmeal are produced to contain 16.0 ounces, with a standard deviation of 0.20 ounce. for a sample size of 49, the 3-sigma -x chart control limits areupper control limit (ucl-x) = ounceslower control limit =(lcl=max

In each of the cases below, assume division x has a product that can be sold either to outside customers or to division y of the same company for use in its production process. the managers of the divisions are evaluated based on their divisional profits. case a b division x: capacity in units 200,000 200,000 number of units being sold to outside customers 200,000 160,000 selling price per unit to outside customers $ 90 $ 75 variable costs per unit $ 70 $ 60 fixed costs per unit (based on capacity) $ 13 $ 8 division y: number of units needed for production 40,000 40,000 purchase price per unit now being paid to an outside supplier $ 86 $ 74 required: 1. refer to the data in case a above. assume in this case that $3 per unit in variable selling costs can be avoided on intracompany sales. a. what is the lowest acceptable transfer price from the perspective of the selling division? b. what is the highest acceptable transfer price from the perspective of the buying division? c. what is the range of acceptable transfer prices (if any) between the two divisions? if the managers are free to negotiate and make decisions on their own, will a transfer probably take place?