Answer: 4%
Explanation:
From the question, we are informed that Pension plan assets were $1,200 million at the beginning of the year and $1,252 million at the end of the year and that at the end of the year, retiree benefits paid by the trustee were $28 million and cash invested in the pension fund was $32 million.
Based on the above scenario, the percentage rate of return on plan assets goes thus:
Opening balance of plan assets 1200
Add:- Actual return = 48
Add:- contributions = 32
Less :- retiree benefits = -28
Closing balance of plan assets = 1252
It should be noted that the actual return is the balancing figure which is calculated as:
= 1252 + 28 - 1200 - 32
= 48
The percentage rate of return on plan assets will now be:
= 48/1200
=0.04
= 4%
Answer:
moral hazard
Explanation:
Banks reduce the risk of moral hazard when they monitor and supervise how their clients are using the loans and credits made to them.
Some types of credits do not require any type of monitoring or control, e.g. a credit card which a client can use basically however he/she wants to. But other types of credit that are taken for purchasing assets, e.g. a mortgage, must be used by the bank's client to specifically carryout the intended activity.
In economics, moral hazard refers to the tendency that an economic party can engage in unusually risky activities because the capital (money) that they are investing is not theirs and the negative effects of a potential loss will be suffered most by other parties.
Answer:
Explanation:
David:
Earnings from Apple Company (office manager)
$26,125
Federal income tax withheld
2,800
State income tax withheld
1,050
Darlene:
Earnings from Rose Company (perfume tester)
$25,100
Federal income tax withheld
2,650
State income tax withheld
900
Their other income includes interest from Pine Tree Savings and Loan of $1,825. Other information and expenditures for 2016 are as follows:
Interest:
On home acquisition mortgage
$11,250
Credit card
925
Taxes:
Property taxes on personal residence
1,300
State income taxes paid in 2016 (for 2015)
315
Contribution (with written acknowledgement) to church
990
Medical insurance
475
Medical and dental expenses
5,800
Income tax return preparation fee paid in 2016
200
Actual general state sales tax for 2016
1,016
Payment of union dues
225
1. is true, and the 2. is false
Answer:
The correct answer are the option B and C: Foreign competition would wipe out domestic production and producers are driven by the profit motive to work against competition.
Explanation:
First of all, the huge companies, and that includes the foreign competition, will always wipe out the small ones and that situation will definitely impact in the domestic economy of a country by leaving without work to the other enterprises and their employees, also by increasing prices and obligating to the customers to buy them due to their power in the industry and more. That is why, government regulation is obviously needed in the free-market system because if there is not, then the leader organization will do as they please with the market.
Secondly, the companies are lucrative organization and therefore that the most important thing that they care about is to make money by producing goods or giving services to the community that need it. That is why, if there is not government then the most powerful companies would try to eliminate the small ones by taking all their consumers away.
