Laurel wilson has a portfolio of five stocks. the stocks' actual investment performance last year is given below along with an estimate of this year's performance. last year this yearstock investment return investment returna $50,000 8.0% $55,000 8.5%b 40,000 6.0 40,000 7.0 c 80,000 3.5 60,000 4.5 d 20,000 12.0 45,000 11.0 e 60,000 3.0 50,000 5.0 compute the actual return on laurel's overall portfolio last year. round the answer to two decimal places. compute laurel's expected return this year. round the answer to two decimal places.%

Jansen company borrowed $12,000 on a 1-year, 5 percent note payable from the local bank on april 1. interest was paid quarterly, and the note was repaid one year from the time the money was borrowed. calculate the amount of cash payments jansen was required to make in each of the two calendar years that were affected by the note payable.

Oerstman, inc. uses a standard costing system and develops its overhead rates from the current annual budget.the budget is based on an expected annual output of 120,000 units requiring 480,000 direct labor hours.(practical capacity is 500,000 hours)annual budgeted overhead costs total $772,800, of which $556,800 is fixed overhead.a total of 119,300 units, using 478,000 direct labor hours, were produced during the year.actual variable overhead costs for the year were $260,400 and actual fixed overhead costs were $555,450.required: 1. compute the fixed overhead spending variance and indicate if favorable or unfavorable.2. compute the fixed overhead volume variance and indicate if favorable or unfavorable.

When immigration adds to the size of the domestic labor pool, which of the following is likely to occur? a. wages decrease. b. productivity increases. c. consumption decreases. d. minimum wage increases.