Answer:
a. Landscaping company owners who attend the meeting have formed a cartel.
b. Hot dog vendors in this city are colluding with one another but not as part of a cartel.
c. The east side bakery owners are acting competitively by avoiding a poor business decision.
d. L.M. Nutz and Go Go Nuts are acting competitively, entering the other company's market will likely start an unprofitable price war.
Explanation:
Competitive Behaviors:
Cartel: A cartel is an organization of many independent suppliers who agree to set minimum prices for their products and services for the purpose of reducing competition.
Collusion occurs when some organizations stick to some informally-established prices for their products and services without actually formalizing their agreements, unlike a cartel.
Competition enable organizations to outperform one another with low prices and other competitive measures.
Answer:
the present value of its growth opportunities (PVGO) is $0.56
Explanation:
The computation of the present value of growth opportunities is shown below:
= Price per share - (Earnings ÷ required rate of return)
= $41 - ($3.64 ÷ 9%)
= $41 - $40.44
= $0.56
hence, the present value of its growth opportunities (PVGO) is $0.56
We simply applied the above formula so that the correct value could come
And, the same is to be considered
Answer:
The answer is D
Explanation:
The formula - Revenues / Total Assets is not one of the ways to calculate Return on Investment (ROI)
Return on Investment (ROI) is a ratio
net profit to cost of investment(total money invested the project or compnay)
The numerator must be profit while the denominator must be related to cost of Investment.
In all of the options, it is only option D that has revenue(sales) as the numerator which makes it automatically wrong.
Answer:
d. both countries, as whole, will be better off.
Explanation:
When countries leverage on their comparative advantages, they will be better off. In this instance as US has comparative advantage in producing airplanes, it will be more cost effective for them to produce and export to Japan.
So also Japan will find it cheaper to produce televisions and export to the US. Both contries reduce cost by producing goods they have comparative advantage in.
