The following financial information is given for General Electric for fiscal year 2001 (in thousands): Sales $125,679 Cash $ 9,082 Cost of Goods Sold 42,008 Inventory 8,565 Gross Profit 83,671 Current Assets 340,708 Net Income 13,684 Total Assets 495,023 Operating Cash Flow 32,195 Current Liabilities 198,904 Earnings per share 1.38 Total Liabilities 440,111 Dividends per share 0.66 Total Equity 54,824 Net Income (fiscal year 2000) 12,735 Total Assets (fiscal year 2000) 437,006 Sales (fiscal year 2000) 129,417 Inventory (fiscal year 2000) 7,812 In GE's 2001 common-size income statement, Net Income is equal to: a. 16.4% b. 10.9% c. 100.0% d. 2.8%

When borrowers want funding to pay for different projects, they go to the loanable funds market and acquire funds through either indirect finance or direct finance. below, you are given five different scenarios. is each an example of direct finance or indirect finance?

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Profits from using currency options and futures.on july 2, the two-month futures rate of the mexican peso contained a 2 percent discount (unannualized). there was a call option on pesos with an exercise price that was equal to the spot rate. there was also a put option on pesos with an exercise price equal to the spot rate. the premium on each of these options was 3 percent of the spot rate at that time. on september 2, the option expired. go to the oanda.com website (or any site that has foreign exchange rate quotations) and determine the direct quote of the mexican peso. you exercised the option on this date if it was feasible to do so. a. what was your net profit per unit if you had purchased the call option? b. what was your net profit per unit if you had purchased the put option? c. what was your net profit per unit if you had purchased a futures contract on july 2 that had a settlement date of september 2? d. what was your net profit per unit if you sold a futures contract on july 2 that had a settlement date of september 2