Companies and investors access international markets to generate external funding as well as to tap investment opportunities overseas. Your financial planner advises you to allocate 10% of your portfolio in foreign stocks for diversification purposes. Your portfolio has a total international exposure of $1,000,000, but you also face certain risks. Keeping other factors constant, which of the following statements describes the risk involved with investing in the international market?
a. The value of your investment will increase if the value of the dollar increases relative to the currencies of the investment.
b. The value of your investment will increase if the foreign stocks increase in their local markets.

Which of the following best describes the economic effect that results from the government having a budget surplus? a. consumers save more and spend less, enabling long-term financial planning. b. overall demand decreases, reducing the incentive for producers to increase production. c. banks have more deposits, enabling them to make more loans to investors. d. government spending increases, increasing competition for goods and services and driving prices up.

Listed below are several transactions that took place during the first two years of operations for the law firm of pete, pete, and roy.year 1 year 2amounts billed to clients for services rendered $ 170,000 $ 220,000 cash collected from clients 160,000 190,000 cash disbursements salaries paid to employees for services rendered during the year 90,000 100,000 utilities 30,000 40,000 purchase of insurance policy 60,000 0 in addition, you learn that the company incurred utility costs of $35,000 in year 1, that there were no liabilities at the end of year 2, no anticipated bad debts on receivables, and that the insurance policy covers a three-year period.required: 1. & 3. calculate the net operating cash flow for years 1 and 2 and determine the amount of receivables from clients that the company would show in its year 1 and year 2 balance sheets prepared according to the accrual accounting model.2. prepare an income statement for each year according to the accrual accounting model.

Top flight is a commuter airline service that provides short flights to neighboring citles around houston, texas. to determine the quantity of planes it will purchase, top flight needs to examine the for its flights at the prices it intends to charge and at the times it intends to flight. a. supply b. demand c. equilibrium price d. break-even point