Two grams of musk oil are required for each bottle of mink caress, a very popular perfume made by a small company in western siberia. the cost of the musk oil is $2.20 per gram. budgeted production of mink caress is given below by quarters for year 2 and for the first quarter of year 3: year 2 year 3 first second third fourth first budgeted production, in bottles 86,000 116,000 176,000 126,000 96,000 musk oil has become so popular as a perfume ingredient that it has become necessary to carry large inventories as a precaution against stock-outs. for this reason, the inventory of musk oil at the end of a quarter must be equal to 20% of the following quarter’s production needs. some 34,400 grams of musk oil will be on hand to start the first quarter of year 2. required: prepare a direct materials budget for musk oil, by quarter and in total, for year 2. (round "unit cost of raw materials" answers to 2 decimal places.)

Two assets have the following expected returns and standard deviations when the risk-free rate is 5%: asset a e(ra) = 18.5% σa = 20% asset b e(rb) = 15% σb = 27% an investor with a risk aversion of a = 3 would find that on a risk-return basis. a. only asset a is acceptable b. only asset b is acceptable c. neither asset a nor asset b is acceptable d. both asset a and asset b are acceptable

Profits from using currency options and futures.on july 2, the two-month futures rate of the mexican peso contained a 2 percent discount (unannualized). there was a call option on pesos with an exercise price that was equal to the spot rate. there was also a put option on pesos with an exercise price equal to the spot rate. the premium on each of these options was 3 percent of the spot rate at that time. on september 2, the option expired. go to the oanda.com website (or any site that has foreign exchange rate quotations) and determine the direct quote of the mexican peso. you exercised the option on this date if it was feasible to do so. a. what was your net profit per unit if you had purchased the call option? b. what was your net profit per unit if you had purchased the put option? c. what was your net profit per unit if you had purchased a futures contract on july 2 that had a settlement date of september 2? d. what was your net profit per unit if you sold a futures contract on july 2 that had a settlement date of september 2

Suppose your rich uncle gave you $50,000, which you plan to use for graduate school. you will make the investment now, you expect to earn an annual return of 6%, and you will make 4 equal annual withdrawals, beginning 1 year from today. under these conditions, how large would each withdrawal be so there would be no funds remaining in the account after the 4th withdraw?