When businesses raise the price of a needed product or service after a natural disaster, this is known as price gouging. Price gouging is something that businesses do after a natural disaster when they know consumers are going to need a specific product or service so they raise the price because they know people are going to buy it anyways. An example of this is when they raise gas prices after a natural disaster, knowing people still need gas.
they use financial statements and other information prepared by accountants to make financial decision and are focused on the cash flows, the inflows and outflows of cash.