Last year, ricardo sold a piece of unimproved real estate to cliff for $20,000. ricardo acquired the property 15 years ago at a cost of $10,000. last year, ricardo received $4,000 cash and cliff’s note in the amount of $16,000 for the remainder of the selling price, payable in subsequent years. ricardo reported the sale using the installment method. this year, before cliff made any further payments, ricardo sold the note for $15,000 in cash. what is the amount of gain or (loss) ricardo should report on this year’s tax return?

You decide to invest in a portfolio consisting of 25 percent stock a, 25 percent stock b, and the remainder in stock c. based on the following information, what is the expected return of your portfolio? state of economy probability of state return if state occurs of economy stock a stock b stock c recession .16 - 16.4 % - 2.7 % - 21.6 % normal .55 12.6 % 7.3 % 15.9 % boom .29 26.2 % 14.6 % 30.5 %

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Caleb construction (cc) incurs supervisor salaries expense in the construction of homes. if cc manufactures 100 homes in a year, fixed supervisor salaries will be $400,000. with the current construction supervisors, cc's productive capacity is 150 homes in a year. however, if cc is contracts to build more than 150 homes per year, it will need to hire additional supervisors, which are hired as full-time rather than temporary employees. cc's productive capacity would then become 200 homes per year, and salaries expense would increase to $470,000. how would cc’s salaries expense be properly classified? fixed variable mixed stepped curvilinear