The standard deviation of the market-index portfolio is 20%. Stock A has a beta of 2.50 and a residual standard deviation of 30%. a. Calculate the total variance for an increase of 0.25 in its beta. (Do not round intermediate calculations. Round your answer to the nearest whole number.) b. Calculate the total variance for an increase of 7.75% in its residual standard deviation.

Miami incorporated estimates that its retained earnings break point (bpre) is $21 million, and its wacc is 13.40 percent if common equity comes from retained earnings. however, if the company issues new stock to raise new common equity, it estimates that its wacc will rise to 13.88 percent. the company is considering the following investment projects: project size irr a $4 million 14.00% b 5 million 15.10 c 4 million 16.20 d 6 million 14.20 e 1 million 13.42 f 6 million 13.75 what is the firm's optimal capital budget?

Tony prince is the project manager for the recreation and wellness intranet project. team members include you, a programmer/analyst and aspiring project manager; patrick, a network specialist; nancy, a business analyst; and bonnie, another programmer/analyst. other people are supporting the project from other departments, including yusaff from human resources and cassandra from finance. assume that these are the only people who can be assigned and charged to work on project activities. recall that your schedule and cost goals are to complete the project in six months for under $200,000.task 2identify at least eight milestones for the recreation and wellness intranet project. write a short paper describing each milestone using the smart criteria. discuss how determining these milestones might add activities or tasks to the gantt chart. remember that milestones normally have no duration, so you must have tasks that will lead to completing the milestone.

You would like to compare your firm's cost structure to that of your competitors. however, your competitors are much larger in size than your firm. which one of these would best enable you to compare costs across your industry? common-size income statement. pro forma balance sheet. statement of cash flows. common-size balance sheet