A certain politician has a brilliant idea. he will increase his popularity and assure reelection by giving away cash to everybod
y in the country. he will give $1 to a certain u.s. citizen, $2 to another, $3 to another, and so on until he has given away $297,624,985 to the 297,624,985th and last citizen of the united states.
<span>Put all of these numbers in a line...obviously, don't put ALL of them, but enough so you can see what you're doing.
1 + 2 + 3 + ... + 297,624,985
Now put all these numbers BACKWARDS underneath that.
1 + 2 + 3 + ... + 297,624,985
297,624,985 + 297,624,984 + 297,624,983 + ... + 1
Now add the first series to the second, and you'll see that they add up to:
297,624,986 + 297,624,986 + 297,624,986 + ...297,624,986
Since there were 297,624,985 terms, the total sum here is
297,624,986 * 297,624,985
But since you added it twice, you divide it by two:
148,812,493 * 297,624,985
This is 44,290,315,996,937,605, so...yes, it is MUCH larger.</span>
If France had positive net exports last year, then it (A) sold more abroad than it purchased abroad and had a trade surplus.
<h3>What is trade surplus?</h3>
When focused simply on trade effects, a trade surplus indicates that a country's goods are in high demand on the global market, which raises the price of those items and leads to a direct strengthening of the home currency.
When exports surpass imports, the trade balance (surplus) is positive.
When exports are fewer than imports, the trade balance is negative (deficit).
When a country exports more goods than it imports, it has a trade surplus.
For example, if China exported $1 trillion in products while importing only $200 billion in goods, it would have an $800 billion trade surplus.
Therefore, if France had positive net exports last year, then it (A) sold more abroad than it purchased abroad and had a trade surplus.
Using the allowance method, is bad debt expense recognized in the period in which sales related to the uncollectible account are made.
One of the most typical types of bad debt is credit card debt. Lenders issue credit cards, which let you make purchases on credit. These credit cards frequently have exorbitant interest rates that can soon become out of control.
Bad debt costs are typically listed on the income statement as a sales and general administrative expenditure. Accounts receivable on the balance sheet are reduced when bad debts are recognized, but firms still have the right to collect money if the situation changes.
Comparative advantage is the term used to define the ability of an individual, firm or country to produce a particular good or service at a lower opportunity cost than that if it’s competitors or trade partners. Opportunity cost is the benefit lost from the second best alternative.
When a country can produce a product more efficiently (i.e maximum output using minimum resources) than that of its trade partners, it is known as that it has absolute advantage in that product. India tends to have absolute advantage in both business processes outsourcing as well as producing agricultural commodities as it is mentioned that it can produce both of these more efficiently than the United States.
However, although it has absolute advantage in both, it is still less efficient in producing agricultural commodities when compared to business process outsourcing. In other words, if it attempts to produce agricultural commodities in-house, the benefit lost from the second best alternative: business process outsourcing is high. The opportunity cost is higher when it produces agricultural commodities than it is when it does business process outsourcing. Hence, due to the law of comparative advantage, it chooses to specialize in business process outsourcing and imports agricultural commodities.
The cafeteria plan is minimum benefits that the employer have to provide or personally provide to all the employees working in its organization. In some jurisdictions like USA and Europe, the employer has to provide minimum level of facilities and benefits to the employee which inculdes healthcare, pension contributions, etc.
