Questions from Personal Finance


Q: Lola Garcia, a single mother of a 6-year-

Lola Garcia, a single mother of a 6-year-old child, works for a utility company in Baltimore, Maryland, and is willing to invest $3,000 per year in a mutual fund. She wants the investment income to su...

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Q: Harry and Belinda Johnson are considering purchasing a residential income property as

Harry and Belinda Johnson are considering purchasing a residential income property as an investment. The Johnsons want to achieve an after-tax total return of 7 percent. They are considering a propert...

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Q: Victor and Maria Hernandez are thinking about selling her mother’s home,

Victor and Maria Hernandez are thinking about selling her mother’s home, which she recently inherited, and use the proceeds to enhance their investments for retirement. Its price increased to about to...

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Q: Julia continues to be a hard worker and, at age 60

Julia continues to be a hard worker and, at age 60, has saved and invested wisely for her planned financially successful retirement. She has an extra $15,000 in a cash management account beyond what s...

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Q: Keisha Williams, a senior research analyst in San Bernardino, California

Keisha Williams, a senior research analyst in San Bernardino, California, has bought and sold high-technology stocks profitably for years. Lately some of her stock investments have done quite poorly,...

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Q: Jeremy Jorgensen of Lawton, Oklahoma, is concerned about the costs

Jeremy Jorgensen of Lawton, Oklahoma, is concerned about the costs involved in selling his home, so he has decided to sell his home himself rather than pay a broker to do it. Required: (a) How would...

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Q: Jonathan Clark and Cody Adams, longtime dental partners in Basking Ridge

Jonathan Clark and Cody Adams, longtime dental partners in Basking Ridge, New Jersey, have bought and sold real estate properties for ten years. They have profited on many transactions, although they...

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Q: Victor, now age 61, and Maria, age 59,

Victor, now age 61, and Maria, age 59, plan to retire at the end of the year. Since his employer changed from a defined-benefit retirement plan to a defined-contribution plan ten years ago, Victor has...

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Q: Julia is now in her early 50s. She has had three

Julia is now in her early 50s. She has had three jobs in her career so far and participated fully in the defined contribution retirement plans offered by her employers. When she left her last position...

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Q: Harry Johnson’s father, William, was recently forced into early retirement

Harry Johnson’s father, William, was recently forced into early retirement at age 63 because of poor health. In addition to the psychological drawbacks of the unanticipated retiremen...

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