Calistoga Produce estimates bad debt expense at 0.5% of credit sales. The company reported accounts receivable and allowance for uncollectible accounts of $471,000 and $1,650, respectively, at December 31, 2020. During 2021, Calistoga's credit sales and collections were $315,000 and $319,000, respectively, and $1,720 in accounts receivable were written off. Calistoga's 2021 bad debt expense is:

Cosmetic profits. sally is the executive vice president of big name cosmetics company. through important and material, nonpublic information, she learns that the company is soon going to purchase a smaller chain of stores. it is expected that stock in big name cosmetics will rise dramatically at that point. sally immediately buys a number of shares of her company's stock. she also tells her friend alice about the expected purchase of stores. alice wanted to purchase stock in the company but lacked the funds with which to do so. although she did not have the funds in bank a, alice decided to draw a check on bank a and deposit the check in bank b and then proceed to write a check on bank b to cover the purchase of the stock. she hoped that she would have sufficient funds to deposit before the check was presented for payment. of which of the following offenses, if any, is alice guilty of by buying stock?

When the federal reserve buys bonds from or sells bonds to member banks, it is called monetary policy reserve ratio interest rate adjustment open market operations

You hold a diversified $100,000 portfolio consisting of 20 stocks with $5,000 invested in each. the portfolio's beta is 1.12. you plan to sell a stock with b = 0.90 and use the proceeds to buy a new stock with b = 1.50. what will the portfolio's new beta be? do not round your intermediate calculations.