Boeing just signed a contract to sell a boeing 737 aircraft to air france. air france will be billed €20 million which is payable in one year. the current spot exchange rate is $1.05/€ and the one-year forward rate is $1.10/€. the annual interest rate is 6.0% in the u. s. and 5.0% in france. boeing is concerned with the volatile exchange rate between the dollar and the euro and would like to hedge exchange exposure.

Beta coefficients and the capital asset pricing model personal finance problem katherine wilson is wondering how much risk she must undertake to generate an acceptable return on her porfolio. the risk-free return currently is 4%. the return on the overall stock market is 14%. use the capm to calculate how high the beta coefficient of katherine's portfolio would have to be to achieve a portfolio return of 16%.

Lavage rapide is a canadian company that owns and operates a large automatic car wash facility near montreal. the following table provides data concerning the company’s costs: fixed cost per month cost per car washed cleaning supplies $ 0.70 electricity $ 1,400 $ 0.07 maintenance $ 0.15 wages and salaries $ 4,900 $ 0.30 depreciation $ 8,300 rent $ 1,900 administrative expenses $ 1,400 $ 0.03 for example, electricity costs are $1,400 per month plus $0.07 per car washed. the company expects to wash 8,000 cars in august and to collect an average of $6.50 per car washed. the actual operating results for august appear below. lavage rapide income statement for the month ended august 31 actual cars washed 8,100 revenue $ 54,100 expenses: cleaning supplies 6,100 electricity 1,930 maintenance 1,440 wages and salaries 7,660 depreciation 8,300 rent 2,100 administrative expenses 1,540 total expense 29,070 net operating income $ 25,030 required: calculate the company's revenue and spending variances for august.

Wallace company provides the following data for next year: month budgeted sales january $120,000 february 108,000 march 140,000 april 147,000 the gross profit rate is 35% of sales. inventory at the end of december is $29,600 and target ending inventory levels are 10% of next month's sales, stated at cost. what is the amount of purchases budgeted for january?