Aforeign trade deficit occurs when a country's

a. imports are greater than its exports
b. purchase of treasury securities is more than sale of treasury securities
c. savings rate is higher than its borrowing rate
d. cash reserves are higher than its expenses
e. tax revenues are greater than its expenditures

The systems analysis phase includes three activities – requirements modeling, data and process modeling, and consideration of development strategies. choose two of these activities, explain their differences, and discuss how they are used to accomplish the main objective which is to understand the proposed project.

Uestion 7 you hold a portfolio consisting of a $5,000 investment in each of 20 different stocks. the portfolio beta is equal to 1.12. you have decided to sell a coal mining stock (b = 1.00) at $5,000 net and use the proceeds to buy a like amount of a mineral rights company stock (b = 2.00). what is the new beta of the portfolio?

Larissa has also provided the following information. during the year, the company raised $36 million in new long-term debt and retired $20.52 million in long-term debt. the company also sold $22 million in new stock and repurchased $32.4 million. the company purchased $54 million in fixed assets, and sold $6,107,400 in fixed assets. larissa has asked dan to prepare the financial statement of cash flows and the accounting statement of cash flows. she has also asked you to answer the following questions: 1. how would you describe east coast yachts' cash flows? 2. which cash flows statement more accurately describes the cash flows at the company? 3. in light of your previous answers, comment on larissa's expansion plans.