Mini-Case After graduating from college last spring with a major in ac- Dat counting and finance, Jim Hale took a job as an analyst trainee for an investment company in Chicago. His first few weeks 1-Nov-11 were filled with a series of rotations throughout the firm's vari 1-Dec-11 ous operating units, but this week he was assigned to one of the firm's traders as an analyst. On his first day Jim's boss called him in and told him that he wanted to do some rudimentary analysis of the investment returns of a semiconductor manu- facturer called Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. (Ticker: AMD), 1-May-12 Date 1-Jun-12 5.73 2-Jul-12 4.06 I-Aug-12 3.72 4-Sep-123.37 1-Oct-12 2.05 1-Nov-12 1.88 Closing Price Closing Price 5.69 5.4 3-Jan-12 6.71 l-Feb-12 7.35 1-Mar-12 8.02 2-Apr-12 7.36 6.08 Speciically. Jim was given the following month-end clos. He was then instructed by his boss to complete the follow ing prices for the company spanning the November 1, 2011, ing tasks using the AMD price data (note that AMD paid no through November 1, 2012: dividend during 2008)