R’s is preparing to start a new project in an industry that differs significantly from its current operations. jr’s has searched and found the beta of a firm that is a good fit as a good pure play for this new project. given this good fit, why might jr’s assign a higher beta to the project than the beta of the pure play?

(a) the generally accepted practice would be to assign a beta to the project that is based on the average of the firm’s beta and the pure play’s beta.
(b) the revenues of the project may be expected to be less cyclical than those of the pure play.
(c) the firm may use less debt in its operations than does the pure play.
(d) the new project may be more responsive to the economy than the pure play and thus represent a higher risk.
(e) the project may incur flotation costs so a higher beta is warranted to offset the additional cost.

Chuck, a single taxpayer, earns $80,750 in taxable income and $30,750 in interest from an investment in city of heflin bonds. (use the u.s. tax rate schedule.) (do not round intermediate calculations. round your answers to 2 decimal places.)

Dakota products has a production budget as follows: may, 16,000 units; june, 19,000 units; and july, 24,000 units. each unit requires 3 pounds of raw material and 2 direct labor hours. dakota desires to keep an inventory of 10% of the next month’s requirements on hand. on may, 1 there were 4,800 pounds of raw material in inventory. direct labor hours required in may would be:

In 2018, laureen is currently single. she paid $2,800 of qualified tuition and related expenses for each of her twin daughters sheri and meri to attend state university as freshmen ($2,800 each for a total of $5,600). sheri and meri qualify as laureen’s dependents. laureen also paid $1,900 for her son ryan’s (also laureen’s dependent) tuition and related expenses to attend his junior year at state university. finally, laureen paid $1,200 for herself to attend seminars at a community college to her improve her job skills.what is the maximum amount of education credits laureen can claim for these expenditures in each of the following alternative scenarios? a. laureen's agi is $45,000.b. laureen’s agi is $95,000.c. laureen’s agi is $45,000 and laureen paid $12,000 (not $1,900) for ryan to attend graduate school (i.e, his fifth year, not his junior year).