Answer:
economic (or business) cycles are less severe.
Explanation:
If the wages follow the general price level, it means that they will follow the inflation rate. When the economy is strong and inflation might rise, then the wages should increase accordingly. When the economy is starting to enter a recession then the inflation rate will reduce, so wages will not increase as much (if any increase at all).
This type of economic policy favors expansion cycles since private consumption is the main component of the GDP and also helps when the economy enters a recession because the wages will follow inflation rate which will help make the recession less severe and hopefully shorter.
One basic concept for this to work is that inflation is always a positive number, countries rarely (if ever) go through deflation processes.
Answer:
Decrease; Less
Explanation:
The producer surplus is the difference between the minimum price that a producer is willing to accept for a product and the price he actually receives.
When the market price of a product falls, the producer surplus will decrease as well.
The lower market price implies that there will be less area between the supply curve and the market price of the product.
Answer:
d. $432,590
Explanation:
In this scenario cost varies with volume of calls. This is called variable cost and is defined as cost that changes as the quantity of goods and services changes. Variable cost is a summation of all the marginal costs of units produced. They rise as production increases and vice versa.
To calculate the variable cost= Total cost/ volume
Variable cost= 452,500/25,000
Variable cost= $18.10
At a new volume of $23,900
Total cost= Variable cost * Volume
Total cost= 18.1* 23,900
Total cost= $432,590
Answer:
True
Explanation:
The purpose of any business is to make profit, which is from the difference between revenues (price of product multiplied number of product sold) with the cost of goods sold (average total cost multiplied number of product sold).
In short, the profit = (price - average total cost) x number of product sold.
Normally the price must be above/ higher than cost, so that the firm can have profit. Sometime the price in the market go down, so the firm have have to adjust down its price also to maintain customer's purchases.
Once its price is down, but the firm's average total cost is still same as previous, the firm can not have profit as previously. The firm may bear this situation as long as its capital capacity allowed, but will not be too long.
Answer:
The correct answer:
$14,000 (b.)
Explanation:
Depreciation is an accounting method of allocation of cost to a tangible asset, where the recorded cost of a fixed asset is reduced in a systemic manner, until the value of the asset becomes zero is negligible.
In the straight-line basis of calculating depreciation, the difference between the cost of an asset and its expected salvage value is divided by the number of years it is expected to be used.
Mathematically, it is calculated as:
Depreciation of an asset = (purchase price - salvage value) ÷ estimated useful life.
Purchase price = $160,000
salvage value = $20,000
useful life = 10 years
∴ Depreciation = (160,000 - 20,000) ÷ 10
= 140,000 ÷ 10 = $14,000.
This means that at the end of every year, the value of the equipment reduces by a price worth $14,000.
