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Your firm faces an 8% chance of a potential loss of $50 million next year.If your firm implements new safety policies,it can reduce the chance of this loss to 3%,but the new safety policies have an upfront cost of $250,000.Suppose that the beta of the loss is 0 and the risk-free rate of interest is 5%.
-Assuming that your firm will purchase insurance,what is the minimum-size deductible that would leave your firm with an incentive to implement the new safety policies?

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Definitions:

Budget Variance

The difference between budgeted and actual figures for revenues or costs, indicating the degree of control over business operations.

Budget Variance

The difference between the budgeted amounts and the actual amounts spent or received.

Fixed Overhead Volume Variance

The difference between the budgeted and actual quantity of units produced, multiplied by the fixed overhead rate per unit.

Unfavorable

A term used to describe variances or differences that negatively impact profitability or efficiency, often indicating higher costs or lower revenue than expected.