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4 years ago

Free-market economies have _____ .

2 answers:

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Your answer would be A. Free markets tend to see big growths and fights for top dog among companies. Take Apple and Samsung, for example. Economic growth is typically high, and there's quite a bit of freedom for producers and consumers.

Stolb23 [73]4 years ago

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Answer:

A) a lot of competition between businesses

Explanation:

A free market is an open market system in which prices for goods and services are regulated by individual or private enterprise without the government control or involvement. free market economies are mostly guided by the demand and supply forces.

There are several characteristics of a free-market economics, among which are;

freedom to create new ideas without government getting to tell them what to produce

Their is a control of property by an individual or private owners

There are competitive drive among companies

competition

Therefore the correct answer to the question is; Free-market economics have a lot of competition between businesses.

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9 . Implied interest rate and period Consider the case of the following annuities, and the need to compute either their expected

vodomira [7]

Answer:

IRR 6% for Jabob

His friend will need 12 years saving cash to obtain their collegue funds.

Explanation:

We will solve for the rate being the annuity of 3 payment of 800

and the present value 2,138.41

$C \times \frac{1-(1+r)^{-time} }{rate} = PV\\$

C 800

time 3

PV 2,138.41

rate ?

$800 \times \frac{1-(1+x)^{-3} }{x} = 2,138.41\\$

To solve we can use excel, a financial calculator or trial and error

For excel we will do the following:

write the list of cash through the loan life:

-2,138.41

+800

then we write in the empy cell

=IRR(

select the values and press enter

This will give the IRR which is 6%

For the second assignment:

we need to solve for time:

$C \times \frac{1-(1+r)^{-time} }{rate} = PV\\$

C 3,800

time n

rate 0.06

PV $31,897

$3800 \times \frac{1-(1+0.06)^{-n} }{0.06} = 31,897\\$

We work out the formula:

$(1+0.06)^{-n} = \frac{31,897\times 0.06}{3,800}$

Now we solve the right side and apply logarithmic properties

$-n = \frac{log0.503636842
}{log1.06}$

-n = -11.77128325

n = 11.77

It will take 12 years to obtain their target amount

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3 years ago

You are given the following information for Lightning Power Co. Assume the company’s tax rate is 24 percent. Debt: 19,000 6.8 pe

diamong [38]

Answer:

Company's WACC is 9.6%

Explanation:

WACC is the average cost of capital of the firm based on the weightage of the debt and weightage of the equity multiplied to their respective costs.

Formula for WACC

Weighted Average Cost of Capital = (Cost of Equity x Weightage of equity) + (Cost of preferred Stock x Weightage of preferred Stock ) + (Cost of Debt (1 -t) x Weightage of Debt)

Market Values

Equity = 520,000 x $70 = $36,400,000

Preferred = 23,000 x $91 = $2,093,000

Debt = $1,110 x 19,000 = $21,090,000

Total Value = $36,400,000 + $2,093,000 + $21,090,000 = $59,583,000

Cost of Equity :

We can calculate cost of equity using CAPM

Capital asset pricing model measure the expected return on an asset or investment. it is used to make decision for addition of specific investment in a well diversified portfolio.

Formula for CAPM

Cost of Equity = Risk free rate + beta ( market return - risk free rate )

Cost of Equity = Rf + β ( Rm - Rf )

Cost of Equity = 5.5% + 1.21 ( 6% )

Cost of Equity = 12.76%

Cost of Preferred stock = 4.6%

We need to calculate the yield to maturity

Yield to maturity = [ C + ( F - P ) / n ] / [ (F + P ) / 2 ]

Placing value in the formula

Yield to maturity = [ 34 + ( $1,000 - $1,110 ) / 48 ] / [ ( $1,000 + $1,110 ) / 2 ]

Yield to maturity = 3% semiannually = 6% annually

Placing values in the formula

Weighted Average Cost of Capital = (12.76% x $36,400,000 / $59,583,000 ) + ( 4.6% x $2,093,000 / $59,583,000 ) + (6% (1 - 0.24 ) x $21,090,000 / $59,583,000 )

Weighted Average Cost of Capital = 7.80% + 0.16% + 1.61% = 9.57%

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3 years ago

The following information applies to the questions displayed below) Serendipity Sound, Inc., manufactures and sells compact disc

OlgaM077 [116]

Answer:

$25.50
90,000 units
140,000 units

Explanation:

1. Current contribution margin ratio

= (Selling price - Variable cost)/ Selling price

= (25 - 19.8) / 25

= 0.208

New Direct labor = 5.0 * ( 1 + 8%)

= $5.40

New variable cost = 19.8 + 0.4 = $20.20

To maintain 0.208

0.208 = (Selling price - 20.20) / Selling price

0.208 * Price = Price - 20.20

0.208Price - Price = -20.20

-0.792Price = -20.20

Price = -20.20/-0.792

Price = $25.50

2. Breakeven = Fixed Cost / Contribution Margin

Contribution Margin = Selling price - Variable cost

= 25 - 19.8

= $5.20

= 468,000/5.2

= 90,000 units

3. To earn $260,000;

= (Fixed Cost + 260,000) / Contribution margin

= (468,000 + 260,000) /5.2

= 140,000 units

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3 years ago

Which of the following are arguments that are given to support trade barriers?

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Answer:

E To prevent dumping

Explanation:

There are several arguments that are given to support trade barriers; one of which is to prevent dumping. A country would place embargo on imports with respect to some of the goods that are produced in her country. This is to enable and encourage local production of such goods. Where a country permits importation of goods that are produced locally, such action could being down the efforts of local production ; hence local industries might not thrive in terms of production.

Also, placing embargo on the importation of goods that are produced locally in a country would take away the possibility of making the country for dumping ground in terms of goods that are not up to standard, produced in a foreign country and same would have been imported.

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3 years ago

_____ is the most common way to measure the standard of living in different countries. GDP per capita Nominal GDP Real GDP

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