Sarah and James Hernandez purchased 140 shares of Macy's stock at $31 a share. One year later, they sold the stock for $35 a share. They paid a broker a commision of $8 when they purchased the stock and a commission of $12 when they sold the stock. During the 12-month period the couple owned the stock, Macy's paid dividends that totaled $1.51 a share. Calculate the Hernandezes’ total return for this investment. (Do not round intermediate calculations. Round your answer to 2 decimal places.)

Mystic bottling company bottles popular beverages in the bottling department. the beverages are produced by blending concentrate with water and sugar. the concentrate is purchased from a concentrate producer. the concentrate producer sets higher prices for the more popular concentrate flavors. a simplified bottling department cost of production report separating the cost of bottling the four flavors follows:

James jones is the owner of a small retail business operated as a sole proprietorship. during 2017, his business recorded the following items of income and expense: revenue from inventory sales $ 147,000 cost of goods sold 33,500 business license tax 2,400 rent on retail space 42,000 supplies 15,000 wages paid to employees 22,000 payroll taxes 1,700 utilities 3,600 compute taxable income attributable to the sole proprietorship by completing schedule c to be included in james’s 2017 form 1040. compute self-employment tax payable on the earnings of james’s sole proprietorship by completing a 2017 schedule se, form 1040. assume your answers to parts a and b are the same for 2018. further assume that james's business is not a service business, and that it has $155,000 unadjusted basis in tangible depreciable property. calculate james's 2018 section 199a deduction.

Your company is starting a new r& d initiative: a development of a new drug that dramatically reduces the addiction to smoking. the expert team estimates the probability of developing the drug succesfully at 60% and a chance of losing the investment of 40%. if the project is successful, your company would earn profits (after deducting the investment) of 9,000 (thousand usd). if the development is unsuccessful, the whole investment will be lost -1,000 (thousand usd). your company's risk preference is given by the expected utility function: u(x) v1000 +x, where x is the monetary outcome of a project. calculate the expected profit of the project . calculate the expected utility of the project . find the certainty equivalent of this r& d initiative . find the risk premium of this r& d initiative e is the company risk-averse, risk-loving or risk-neutral? why do you think so?