Answer:
Option (B) If the market rate of interest is 10%, the bonds will issue at a discount
Explanation:
Interest rate risk is defined as the risk changing which, interest rates will affect bond prices. When current interest rates are greater than a bond's coupon rate, the bond will be sold below its face value at a discount. When interest rates are less than the coupon rate, the bond can be sold at a premium--higher than the face value.
Answer:
3. a smaller opportunity cost of investment and so planned investment spending increases.
Explanation:
Opportunity cost is defined as the foregone alternative when a person undertakes an activity. For example going to work is the opportunity cost of staying at home to rest.
Opportunity cost is weighed against activity to be undertaken.
In this instance the opportunity cost of investment is the alternative foregone by investors.
As interest rate decreases it makes investment attractive because the cost of doing business decreases. This make other alternatives less attractive (smaller opportunity cost).
Investment now increases.
The monetary regulation agencies use interest rate a tool to either boost or reduce investment. The higher the interest rate th lower investment, and vice versa
Answer:
D. $605,500
Explanation:
At the end of 2014, the Retained Earning balance was $533,000. This serves as our beginning balance for the year 2015.
Furthermore, Dividends are expected to be paid out, i.e. a deduction on the balance sheet.
Retained Earnings on the 2015 budgeted balance sheet = Beginning Balance + Expected Net Income - Expected Dividend
=533,500+112,000-40,000
=$605,500
Answer:
A. Standard of deferred payment
Explanation:
The use of money has contributed to increased borrowing and lending in the economy. Because money is widely accepted as a medium of exchange and a store of value, trading is credit has significantly expanded.
Deferred payments are the ones to be made at future dates. Traders agree to sell on credit because they trust money as a store of value. They believe money as a medium of exchange will give them a value equivalent to their goods in the future.