Firms can use strategic alliances to change the industry structure in their favor. For example, firms frequently use strategic alliances when competing in so-called battles for industry standards. This is an example of entering an alliance to

Your goal is to have $2,000,000. you have a total of $40,000 today. you invest the $40,000 and want to add to it each month. at 10% annual interest, how much do you need to invest each month in order to bring the total up to $2,000,000 30 years from now?

Bill dukes has $100,000 invested in a 2-stock portfolio. $62,500 is invested in stock x and the remainder is invested in stock y. x's beta is 1.50 and y's beta is 0.70. what is the portfolio's beta? do not round your intermediate calculations. round the final answer to 2 decimal places.

Alamar petroleum company offers its employees the option of contributing retirement funds up to 5% of their wages or salaries, with the contribution being matched by alamar. the company also pays 80% of medical and life insurance premiums. deductions relating to these plans and other payroll information for the first biweekly payroll period of february are listed as follows: wages and salaries $ 2,800,000 employee contribution to voluntary retirement plan 92,000 medical insurance premiums 50,000 life insurance premiums 9,800 federal income taxes to be withheld 480,000 local income taxes to be withheld 61,000 payroll taxes: federal unemployment tax rate 0.60 % state unemployment tax rate (after futa deduction) 5.40 % social security tax rate 6.20 % medicare tax rate 1.45 % required: prepare the appropriate journal entries to record salaries and wages expense and payroll tax expense for the biweekly pay period. assume that no employee's cumulative wages exceed the relevant wage bases for social security, and that all employees' cumulative wages do exceed the relevant unemployment wage bases.