1. The percentage returns for a stock for a 5-year period are provided below:

2008: 12%
2009: 9%
2010: -2%
2011: 12%
2012: 8%

What is the standard deviation of the stock returns? You should treat the 5 year period as the population, not as a sample.

2. Asmita Mack, CFA, lives in the country of Onionland. Each morning, Asmita crosses the border to the neighboring country of WDC where she manages client portfolios. This morning, a positive earnings report was announced for HawkBlack, Inc. (ticker KANE). Asmita would like to invest in the stock and believes it would benefit her clients as well. WDC has a law that restricts portfolio managers from investing in securities owned by their clients. Onionland has no such law.

To comply with the Standard, what is the minimum that Asmita must do?

3. Which of the following statements is/are most likely correct?

I: The demand for a country’s currency is a downward-sloping function of its exchange rate.
II: Purchasing power parity refers to the relation between interest rates for two currencies and changes in their exchange rates.
III: Interest rate parity refers to the relation between countries’ inflation rates and exchange rates of their currencies.

4. Given the following data, determine the cash flow from operations:

Sales = USD2,100m
Increase in inventory = USD200m
Depreciation = USD125m
Increase in accounts receivable = USD75m
Decrease in accounts payable = USD70m
After tax profit margin = 35%
Gain on sale of machinery = USD30m

5. Which of the following statements relating to obstacles to efficient allocation of resources is/are most likely incorrect?

I: Price ceilings set below the equilibrium price lead to shortages, bribery, poor quality and black marketeering.
II: Subsidies decrease equilibrium quantities and lead to dead weight losses from overproduction.
III: Production quotas decrease equilibrium quantities and lead to dead weight losses from underproduction.