Scenario: color-me-green, inc. color-me-green, inc., a u. s.-based clothing merchant, has started doing business internationally. having subsidiaries in several countries at year-end, the company must integrate the financial information from all its subsidiaries into the u. s. home office. suppose country a has a currency called the pulse (p). at the beginning of the year, the exchange rate between the pulse and u. s. dollar was p150/$. the inflation rate in country a is running at an annual rate of 250 percent, whereas inflation in the u. s. is running at 2 percent. which of the following would most likely be the new exchange rate that color-me-green can expect at the end of the year? a) p525/$b) p514.70/$c) p43.71/$d) $43.71/p

Variable rate cd’s = $90 treasury bills = $150 discount loans = $20 treasury notes = $100 fixed rate cds = $160 money market deposit accts. = $140 savings deposits = $90 fed funds borrowing = $40 variable rate mortgage loans $140 demand deposits = $40 primary reserves = $50 fixed rate loans = $210 fed funds lending = $50 equity capital = $120 a. develop a balance sheet from the above data. be sure to divide your balance sheet into rate-sensitive assets and liabilities as we did in class and in the examples. b. perform a standard gap analysis and a duration analysis using the above data if you have a 1.15% decrease in interest rates and an average duration of assets of 5.4 years and an average duration of liabilities of 3.8 years. c. indicate if this bank will remain solvent after the valuation changes. if so, indicate the new level of equity capital after the valuation changes. if not, indicate the amount of the shortage in equity capital.

Principals are an administration career

Gyou are in charge of making the work schedule for the next two weeks. typically this is not a difficult task as you work at a routine 8am – 5pm company. however, over the next two weeks you are required to schedule someone to be in the office each saturday. after contemplating this for a few days you make the schedule and assignments. before posting the schedule for everyone you decide that it is a good idea to meet personally with the two people you have scheduled to work the weekend. what do you say to them? what is your desired outcome?