During april, a customer asks you to create an arrangement for an invalid friend who must stay at home for five more days. the invalid friend loves flowers, especially fragrant ones. the amount the customer is willing to spend on the arrangement for this dear friend is so high that you know you won't be limited in your choice of flowers. there are no limits given by the customer as to size or style, but the customer would like the arrangement to include blue-purple and yellow flowers to match the friend's décor. the customer would also like the arrangement to cheer the friend for at least the remaining five days that the friend has to stay at home. you begin planning the arrangement by making a list of form, filler, and line materials, keeping color and fragrance in mind. you check the seasonal availability and vase life of each item in your reference materials. which of the following might you choose as a form flower for this design task? a. statice in lavender b. narcissus in yellow c. gladiolus in yellow tones d. gypsophila in white

Your mother's well-diversified portfolio has an expected return of 12.0% and a beta of 1.20. she is in the process of buying 100 shares of safety corp. at $10 a share and adding it to her portfolio. safety has an expected return of 15.0% and a beta of 2.00. the total value of your current portfolio is $9,000. what will the expected return and beta on the portfolio be after the purchase of the safety stock?

You have just been hired as a financial analyst for barrington industries. unfortunately, company headquarters (where all of the firm's records are kept) has been destroyed by fire. so, your first job will be to recreate the firm's cash flow statement for the year just ended. the firm had $100,000 in the bank at the end of the prior year, and its working capital accounts except cash remained constant during the year. it earned $5 million in net income during the year but paid $800,000 in dividends to common shareholders. throughout the year, the firm purchased $5.5 million of machinery that was needed for a new project. you have just spoken to the firm's accountants and learned that annual depreciation expense for the year is $450,000; however, the purchase price for the machinery represents additions to property, plant, and equipment before depreciation. finally, you have determined that the only financing done by the firm was to issue long-term debt of $1 million at a 6% interest rate. what was the firm's end- of-year cash balance? recreate the firm's cash flow statement to arrive at your answer

Working with a word processor requires more than just a knowledge of typing. a good word processor includes a number of tools designed to aid in formatting documents to meet the needs of the reader. in this project you will use your word-processing skills and a basic knowledge of apa style to format a research paper. the skills you will need for this project include the following: adjusting line spacing (double-spacing) breaking text into pages (page break) centering text changing the font, style, and size of the text editing text inserting page numbers inserting a table using spell check