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3 years ago

In the absence of any government regulation on price, if a firm has no power to set price onits own, one can safely conclude

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EleoNora [17]3 years ago

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Answer:

B) there are many firms in the industry.

Explanation:

Firms that have no power to set price on its own are known as price takers.

An example of firms that are price takers are perfect competition.

In a perfect competition, there are many buyers and sellers of homogenous goods. Prices are set by the forces of demand and supply.

Because there are many sellers of homogenous goods, sellers cannot influence the price of their product. If they increase the price of their product, the quantity demanded would fall to zero.

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Minion, Inc., has no debt outstanding and a total market value of $211,875. Earnings before interest and taxes, EBIT, are projec

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Answer:

Please see attached.

Explanation:

a. Calculate earnings per share EPS under each of the three economic scenarios

a.2 Calculate the percentage changes in earnings per share EPS for economic expansion, or recession.

b-i calculate economic per share EPS, under each of the three economic scenarios after recapitalisation.

b-2 calculate the percentage changes in EPS when the economy enters or expand a recession assuming no recapitalisation occurred.

Please find attached detailed solution to the above questions.

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3 years ago

David has just joined a new company. His employer offers a number of different insurance policies as one of its employee benefit

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Answer:

Health; automobile.

Explanation:

In Insurance, risk tolerance refers to the willingness of an individual or organization to take a risk in business transactions in order to get a potentially positive reward.

Simply stated, risk tolerance in insurance is the willingness of an insured individual to increase his or her Self-Insured Retentions (SIRs) or deductibles by the insurer. For instance, the high risk associated with investments such as stocks, high-yield bonds, is often perceived by investors to be worth the higher reward such investment brings.

Generally, insurance companies across the globe charge millions of their customers (insured) premiums every year. This gives them the privilege of having a pool of cash which can be used to cover the cost of losses and destruction to the asset of a small fraction or percentage of its customers.

This simply means that, since insurance companies collect premium from all of their customers for losses which may or may not occur, so they can easily use this cash to compensate or indemnify for losses incurred by those having high risk.

In this scenario, David has just joined a new company. His employer offers a number of different insurance policies as one of its employee benefits. For example, his employer’s health insurance covers prescription drugs and immunizations. David will also be receiving automobile insurance at no cost from his employer.

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Kayak Co. budgeted the following cash receipts (excluding cash receipts from loans received) and cash payments (excluding cash p

andrew11 [14]

Answer:

a. Ending Cash Balance:

January = 50,000

February = 61,555

March = 50,000

b. Loan Balance End of Month:

January = 44,500

February = $0

March = $44,445

Explanation:

Note: The merged data given in the question are sorted before answering the question as follows:

Cash Receipts Cash payments

January $ 518,000 $ 461,500

February 403,000 346,500

March 467,000 523,000

Explanation of the answer is now given as follows:

Note: See the attached excel file for the cash budget.

In the attached excel file, the following calculations are made:

January loan repayment = January Preliminary cash balance - Minimum required cash balance = $105,500 - $50,000 = $55,500

March Additional loan = Minimum required cash balance - March Preliminary cash balance = $50,000 - $5,555 = $44,445

From the attached excel file, we have:

a. Ending Cash Balance:

January = 50,000

February = 61,555

March = 50,000

b. Loan Balance End of Month:

January = 44,500

February = $0

March = $44,445

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3 years ago

High Plains Inc. manufacturers furniture in North Dakota. High Plains receives its wood from a lumber yard in Calgary. The lead

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Answer:

a. On average, the number of boards they have on order = 1,056 boards.

b. On average, the number of boards they have =560 boards.

c. Total holding cost per week = $140.

d. Holding cost incurred per board = $ 0.25.

Explanation:

In the question, the details given are:

Service level =96 %

Lead time =3 weeks

Weekly demand =150

Standard deviation=200

This is a case of variable demand and constant lead time

a. Reorder point =Demand during lead time +Safety stock

=Average weekly demand*lead time+z*sqrt(lead time)*standard deviation of weekly demand

=150*3+NORMSINV(0.99)*sqrt(3)*200

=450+1.7507*sqrt(3)*200

=450+606.46=1,056.46

=1,056 (nearest whole number).

On average, the number of boards they have on order = 1,056 boards.

b. For a normal distribution,

z=x-mean/std deviation

z-value for a 96% confidence level = 2.05

2.05=x-150/200

x = 150+2.05*200=560

On average, the number of boards they have =560 boards.

c.Total holding cost per week=Average inventory *holding cost per week=560/2 *0.5=280*0.5 =$140

d.Holding cost incurred per board =Total holding cost /Number of boards =140/560 = $ 0.25.

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3 years ago

The unemployment rate may underestimate the true extent of unemployment if:

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Answer: c.

Explanation: The unemployment rate may underestimate the true extent of unemployment if there are a large number of people working in the underground economy . While the underground economy also known as the black economy may conjure up images of drug deals and prostitution rings, the term actually has much broader scope. It refers not only to illegal economic activity, but all economic activity that goes unreported to government authorities and consequently, avoids being taxed. one of the primary reasons the underground economy exists is that people are trying to evade taxes. But increased government regulations that can make the cost of doing business higher also create an incentive to avoid reporting certain economic activity to the government. An increase in the number of unemployed increases the number of people who work in the black economy because they have more time. On the other hand, an increase in unemployment implies a decrease in the shadow economy.

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