If your a busy small business owner, taking time away from your store makes you less efficient. The trade offs for using this premium service are 1. your spending more money 2. control over quality. Vise versa if your paying more for the “best groceries” then that may not be an issue. Also be aware that another issue is stocking, going to the store yourself does not guarantee that the store will have all items in stock when you go. 3. Time, taking time to grocery shop takes away from your business or the cost of an employee to watch the business or do the shopping for you having you rely on a third party’s judgment. 4. Gas, the cost of gasoline to go to and from the store. If all these are added up then you are essentially paying more for your “in person” groceries as it is. Choosing to grocery shop yourself saves you money (although how much? Once everything is taken into account?) but again the time it takes away is significant. For a busy small business owner time is extremely important and this is why the trade off of cost or added expenses for groceries may be worth it. (I hope this helps guide you in answering this question).
Answer: C. The decline in the P/E ratio more than offset earnings growth and this pushed the market cap down.
Explanation:
Market Cap = P/E ratio * Earnings
Market cap is dependent on both the P/E ratio and Earnings as shown by the formula and as shown on the graph, the P/E ratio kept on decreasing which means that for the Market Cap to decrease, the downward pull of the P/E ratio must have overshadowed the growth in earnings such that the Market Cap went down instead of up.
For instance, if the earnings were $40 billion and the P/E ratio was 15, Market Cap would be $600 billion.
If earnings increased to $45 billion but P/E ratio decreased to 10, Market Cap would become $450 billion.
Answer:
B. Real options must have positive value because they are only exercised when doing so would increase the value of the investment.
C. Having the real option but not the obligation to act is valuable.
D. If exercising the real option would reduce value, managers can allow the option to go unexercised.
Explanation:
A real option is a choice made available to the managers of a company concerning business investment opportunities. It is referred to as “real” because it typically references projects involving a tangible asset instead of a financial instrument. Tangible assets are physical assets such as machinery, land, and buildings, as well as inventory.
A 'real option' is also a choice available to a company regarding an investment opportunity. The term 'real' means that it refers to a tangible asset and not a financial instrument. Examples of real options include determining whether to build a new factory, change the machinery and technology on a production line.
Answer:
the money supply in Macroland will increase from <u>5,000</u> econs to <u>7,000</u> econs
Explanation:
Currently, Macroland's money supply = 2,000 econs held by the public and 3,000 econs held by the banks (= 300 econs x 1/0.1).
In order to determine the increase in the money supply we must multiply the inflow of econs by the money multiplier. The money multiplier = 1 / reserve ratio = 1/0.1 = 10.
Since the government is injecting 200 econs to the economy, the increase in the money supply = 200 econs x 10 = 2,000 econs.
So now, Macroland's money supply will increase from 5,000 to 7,000 econs.
The money multiplier measures the banking system's ability to "create" money. The banking system creates money by first receiving deposits, e.g. you deposit 10 econs in your savings account, and then lending money to another client. The bank will lend 9 econs (-10% required reserve) to John that will purchase a bike. The seller of the bike receives the money form John and deposits the 9 econs in his own bank. Then this second bank will lend 8.10 econs to Sarah. Sarah will use the money to purchase a new computer and a printer from Tom. Tom then deposits the money in his bank, and then his bank lends 7.29 econs to Sally, and the wheel goes on and on.
This money creating process is possible because Macroland uses a fractional banking system, which means that the banks are only required to keep a fraction of total deposits as reserves.
