8-1: Does a balance sheet that is dated year-end 2004 reflect only transactions for that year?
8-7: In computing return on assets, how does the age of the assets influence the interpretation of the values?
21-5: What does the correlation coefficient measure? What are the two most extreme values it can take, and what do they indicate? In the real world, are more variables positively or negatively correlated?
21-10: In examining the capital market line as part of the capital asset pricing model, to increase portfolio return (KP) what other variable must you increase?
22-5f: What is the Sharpe approach to measuring portfolio risk? If a portfolio has a higher Sharpe measure than the market in general under the Sharpe approach, what is the implication?
22-8f: Explain alpha as a measure of performance.
22-10f: If investment companies do not offer returns that are, on average, any better than the market in general, why would someone invest in them?