Answer: 1. A . Treasury bonds are not completely riskless, since their prices will decline when interest rates rise.
2. A. The New York City government
3. B. Municipal bonds
4. A. An investor from Kansas that invests in a municipal bond issued by the State of Kansas will pay neither state nor federal taxes on the bond’s coupon payments
5. B. Treasury bonds
Explanation:
1. Treasury Bonds are known as the safest bonds in the world and so are generally considered risk-less. However this is not so as they still fall victim to Interest rate risk which is the risk that their prices will decline when interest rates rise because bond prices are inversely related to price.
2. The City of New York issued to bonds in question so it is a New York City Government bond.
3. Municipal Bonds are issued by a state, county or a municipality so the above is a Municipal bond as it was issued by the City of New York.
4. Municipal Bonds attract no Federal taxes and when buying a Municipal bond as a resident of the Municipality you are in, you will.not get charged the Municipal taxes either on the bond coupon payments.
5. Default risk is the risk that the issuer will not pay back. US Treasury Bonds are known as the safest in the world and have not been defaulted on in over a century. They therefore have the lowest default risk.
Answer:
(c). no longer satisfies a sufficient number of customers
Explanation:
Product deletion refers to removal or discontinuance of a product from the product line when such a product has been consistently incurring losses since a number of years and it's further continuation would adversely affect the other products and profitability.
A product is usually deleted from the product line on the grounds of it's failure in satisfying a sufficient number of customers.
Hence, the correct option is (c). no longer satisfies a sufficient number of customers.
Answer:
a. Liability of the owners of the firm is limited to their investment in the firm.
Explanation:
A corporation is defined as a form of business owned by shareholders and controlled by elected group of board of directors. A corporation is a legal entity which means that it can sue and be sued. It can also enter into a contractual relationship.
In a corporation, the liability of the
shareholders or owners of the firm is limited to their investment in the firm because of the doctrine of separate legal entity. In case of liquidation, owners would only loose their investment in the firm rather than loosing their investment and personal properties.
Answer:
Option E.
Explanation:
In free trade, a country with a comparative advantage in a good produces that good in the long-term. Therefore, if these people are working in an industry in which it has a higher opportunity cost i.e. it does not have a comparative advantage; they will eventually see job loss or fall in income or both. On other hand, when they purchase goods which has lower opportunity costs in foreign, they get access to these at a lower price and can purchase a higher quantity. So, these people are both harmed and benefitted by free trade.
Answer: True
Explanation:
Lean is simply defined as management practices that are used by companies or organizations in order to improve the effectiveness and the efficiency during production by eliminating waste.
It should be noted that in a lean system, the work in process and raw materials inventory accounts are combined.
