TABLE 8-1 The Managers of a Company Are Worried About the Morale

question 15

Short Answer

TABLE 8-1
The managers of a company are worried about the morale of their employees. In order to determine if a problem in this area exists, they decide to evaluate the attitudes of their employees with a standardized test. They select the Fortunato test of job satisfaction, which has a known standard deviation of 24 points.
-Referring to Table 8-1, due to financial limitations, the managers decide to take a sample of 45 employees. This yields a mean score of 88.0 points. A 90% confidence interval would go from ________ to ________.

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Definitions:

Cost of Equity

The rate of return that a company is required to pay out to its equity investors, reflecting the compensation for the risk they undertake.

SML Approach

Security Market Line (SML) approach is a graphical representation in the Capital Asset Pricing Model (CAPM) that shows the expected return of an asset or portfolio at various levels of systemic risk.

WACC

Weighted Average Cost of Capital; a calculation of a firm's cost of capital in which each category of capital is proportionally weighted.

Perpetuity

An annuity in which the cash flows continue forever.