Answer:
Everything else being equal, you should invest if the discounted value of the security's expected future cash flows is greater than or equal to the current cost of the security.
Explanation:
You would use the capital budgeting technique known as net present value (NPV) . In order for a project or investment to be accepted, the sum of the present values of future cash inflows generated by the project should be greater than the initial amount invested or the initial cost. If the PV of the future cashflows is lower than the initial cost of capital, the investment would be rejected. On the other hand, if they are equal, the investor would be indifferent between accepting or rejecting the investment.
Early personal computer users remember the cumbersome, user-unfriendly "DOS" system. When Apple introduced System 1 and Microsoft introduced Windows, both of which were much easier to use, these new products diffused rapidly because of their relative advantage
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Option A
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A product's dominance and market appeal over similar items. A competitive advantage is usually accomplished by giving better value to customers through either reducing prices or delivering added quality and service that justify higher costs.
That idea is based on consumer brand and product perceptions and does not necessarily reflect the actual characteristics of this product or service. The definition helps companies to consider that customers would choose to use this product or whether a rival would rather remain faithful to the already existing product.
Answer:
a. Treasury stock cannot be shown as an asset because a company cannot buy itself.
b) Gain or loss on sale of treasury stock is not to be treated as income, it should be added or subtracted from share capital because it is a capital transaction.
c). Treasury stock is not an asset. Dividends received from treasury stock cannot be treated as income, it is only assets that generates income.
Explanation:
When corporations for some strategic reasons and the desire to maintain and stabilize the shareholders wealth decide to buy back some of its shares, that is what is known as treasury stock. It is also called reacquired stock
a. The treasury stock is like a corporation acquiring itself, so it cannot be shown as an asset, it is only a reclassification within the same balance sheet.
b. Gains or loss on sale of treasury stock is not an income transaction, it is a transaction that affects the share capital of the corporation and must be charged to the share capital not the income.
c. Since treasury stock is not an asset, dividend received on treasury stock is not to be treated as income, it is only assets that generates income. it should affect retained earnings.
Answer:
First blank: Consumers
Second blank: GDP
Third blank: CPI
Explanation:
The Consumer Price Index is used to measure the basic basket of services and goods that a normal person often buys in order to have a decent quality of life, the GDP includes all goods and services produced, for example all the office equipment, or farm equipment that was produced by a countries economy, the average customer doesn´t need farm equipment nor office equipment that is why it is not taken into account in the Costumer Price Index.
Answer:
C) propagating certain cultural stereotypes
Explanation:
This is true not only for advertising but also for many mass media products. The problem is that sometimes reality is very different than the stereotypes that are portrayed.
One of the most controversial issues is the models' weight. Models tend to be usually much thinner than regular people, and that leads to a misconception that being extremely thin is good and healthy. Besides personal beauty preferences, a girl who is 5 foot 10 and weighs only 100 pounds is not healthy.
Similar issues like portraying certain family or lifestyle stereotypes may also have positive or negative effects on the audience since advertisement reaches millions of people.
