22.  The Fridge-Air Company’s preferred stock pays a dividend of $4.50 per share annually.  If the required rate of return on comparable quality preferred stocks is 14%, calculate the value of Fridge-Aire’s preferred stock.

23.  The Joseph Company has a stock issue that pays a fixed dividend of $3.00 per share annually.  Investors believe the nominal risk-free rate is 4% and that this stock should have a risk premium of 6%.  What should be the value of this stock?

24.  The Lo Company earned $2.60 per share and paid a dividend of $1.30 per share in the year just ended.  Earnings and dividends per share are expected to grow at a rate of 5% per year in the future.  Determine the value of stock:

 a. if the required rate of return is 12%.

 b. if the required rate of return is 15%.

c. Given your answers to a & b, how are stock prices  affected by changes in investor’s required rate of return?

P2

In late 2010, you purchased the common stock of a company that has reported significant earnings increases in nearly every quarter since your purchase.  The price of the stock increased from $12 a share at the time of the purchase to a current level of $45.  Notwithstanding the success of the company, competitors are gaining much strength.  Further, your analysis indicates that the stock may be over-priced based on your projection of future earning growth.  Your analysis, however, was the same one year ago and the earnings have continued to increase.  Actions that you might take range from an outright sale of the stock (and the payment of capital gains tax) to doing nothing and continuing to hold the shares.  You reflect on these choices as well as other actions that could be taken.  Describe the various actions that you might take and their implications.

P6  

Find the real return on the following investments:

Stock  Nominal Return  Inflation

A   10%     3%

B   15%     8%

C   -5%     2%  

P8

The countries of Stabilato and Variato have the following average returns and standard deviations for thei stocks, bond, and short-term government securities.  What range of returns should you expect to earn 95% of the time for each asset class in you invested in Stabilato’s securities?  From investing in Variato’s securities?

Please help ASAP

Project B: Review of the Literature

Topic Adversarial Criminal Law System

Project B addresses the related research on your topic. One reason we conduct a review of the literature is to make sure that our research proposal is original and not just a replication of work already conducted. The literature review is a discussion of studies, research reports, statistics, etc. that are related to your research topic. You should include a review of the most pertinent and recent research articles from professional journals. Begin your literature review as soon as possible as this process is time consuming and make take you longer than you originally planned.

Project “B” Instructions

Provide a review of at least EIGHT research articles on the topic you have selected. You will want to select articles that are scholarly and/or empirical. A good literature review should tie previous research together in some logical way and should acknowledge the importance of your intended research. The literature review should provide a synthesis of the articles you select rather than a series of article summaries. The final product for Project B should be approximately five to seven pages.

Format

·         Use Times New Roman script with a font size of 12 for the entire document.

·         The paper should be double-spaced.

·         Margins should be at least one inch all around.

Content

·         EIGHT scholarly sources are utilized. Information is synthesized throughout the paper.

·         The literature review has a strong introduction, main body, and conclusion.

Documentation

·         APA should be used for in-text citations and the reference page.

Writing

·         The literature review should be well written and error free. Use spell check and proofread paper for grammatical errors.

·         The paper should be written in a professional tone. Familiar language (slang) should be avoided.

·         Use direct quotations sparingly (paraphrasing is encouraged) and make sure quotes are properly documented.

·         Be as concise and clear as possible throughout your paper.

·         Each sentence should logically flow into the next sentence and each paragraph should transition smoothly to the next paragraph.

In this module you will start thinking about what social injustice is and how public policies at the local, state, and national level may contribute to social problems.

Research social welfare policies using your textbook, the Argosy University online library resources, and the Internet.

• Select a social problem, for example, poverty, crime, or unemployment.
• Identify and describe the social factors that contribute to the problem.
• Identify and examine a federal or state social welfare policy that aims to address this social problem.
• Employ the textbook’s National Association of Social Workers (NASW) Code of Ethics as a frame of reference and complete the following:
  • Explain whether this social policy addresses the social problem adequately and ethically.
  • Give reasons and examples in support.

Research the selected social problem as it exists in one other country. Respond to the following:

• Compare the implications of this social problem in your community to that of the other country.
• Discuss how this problem is handled in the other country. For example, pollution of local water sources may be a problem in your community, but how is it addressed in Norway?
• Give examples and reasons in support of your response.