Answer:
The answers are:
- The CPI for 2009 is 100 (since it is the base year)
- The CPI for 2010 is 129.17
- The inflation rate for 2010 is 29.17%
Explanation:
<u>CPI basket for 2009</u>
- 6 razors x $20 per razor = $120
- 4 bottles of cologne x $30 per bottle = $120
The total value of the CPI basket for 2009 is $240
<u>CPI basket for 2010</u>
- 6 razors x $25 per razor = $150
- 4 bottles of cologne x $40 per bottle = $160
The total value of the CPI basket for 2010 is $310
- The CPI for 2009 is 100, since it is the base year
- The CPI for 2010 = (CPI basket 2010 / CPI basket 2009) x 100 = ($310 / $240) x 100 = 129.17
- The inflation rate for 2010 = [(CPI basket 2010 / CPI basket 2009) - 1] x 100 = (1.2917 - 1) x 100% = 29.17%
Answer:
less than the social cost of producing it
Explanation:
A negative externality is a cost that is suffered by a third party as a result of an economic transaction. In a transaction, the producer and consumer are the first and second parties, and third parties include any individual, organisation, property owner, or resource that is indirectly affected. Externalities are also referred to as spill over effects, and a negative externality is also referred to as an external cost. Some externalities, like waste, arise from consumption while other externalities, like carbon emissions from factories, arise from production. For example, If we consider a manufacturer of computers which emits pollutants into the atmosphere, the free market equilibrium will occur when marginal private benefit = marginal private costs, at output Q and price P. The market equilibrium is at point A. However, if we add external costs, the socially efficient output is Q1, at point B. At Q marginal social costs (at C) are greater than marginal social benefits (at A) so there is a net loss. For example, if the marginal social benefit at A is £5m, and the marginal social cost at C is £10m, then the net welfare loss of this output is £10m - £5m = £5m. In fact, any output between Q1 and Q creates a net welfare loss, and the area for all the welfare loss is the area ABC. Therefore, in terms of welfare, markets over-produce goods that generate external costs. In the market equilibrium, the marginal consumer values the good less than the social cost of producing it.
EPS = $1.44 (after rounding off)
<u>Explanation:</u>
<u>The calculation of Earnings per share is as follows:
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Particulars Amount
Earnings before interest and tax = 71325
Less: amount of interest = 0
Earnings before tax = $71325
Less : the amount of tax ( 34 percent) = 2425.05
Net income = $47074.5
The number of shares given = 32,800
The formula of calculating the earning per share is = Net income divided by the number of the shares of a company
Thus, EPS = $47074.5 divided by 32,800 = $1.44 (rounded oof)
Answer:
$64,600
Explanation:
Given that
Variable costing net operating income last year = $1,03,000
Fixed manufacturing overhead costs = $38,400
The computation of net operating income is as shown below:-
= Variable cost - Overhead cost
= $1,03,000 - $38,400
= $64,600
So, from the above calculation we simply deduct Variable cost from Overhead cost.
Answer:
1. Yields a balance sheet inventory amount often markedly less than its replacement cost. LIFO
2. Results in a balance sheet inventory amount approximating replacement cost. FIFO
3. Provides a tax advantage (deferral) to a corporation when costs are rising. LIFO
4. Recognizes (mulches) recent costs against net sales. LIFO
5. The preferred method when each unit of product has unique features that markedly effect cost. WEIGHTED AVERAGE
Explanation:
1. LIFO yields a balance sheet inventory amount often markedly less than its replacement cost. The reason is because the in a period of rising costs, since the last stock of goods bought are sold first, this will result in the remaining stock of goods to be of lower costs as they had been bought at an earlier date at a cheaper rate.
2. FIFO results in a balance sheet inventory amount approximating replacement cost because the first set of goods purchased are sold first; and if the assumption holds that costs are rising with time, then the balance stock of goods would have been bought at a later date at a higher cost, hence the value of the balance (ending) inventory will be almost equal to its replacement cost.
3. LIFO provides a tax advantage (deferral) to a corporation when costs are rising because it results in a lower ending inventory value since the more expensive inventory has been sold. Hence, the closing stock and Net income will be low and income tax will be low.
4. LIFO matches recent costs against net sales because the 'cost of sales' are made up of the recent purchases which are sold first
5. The preferred method when each unit of product has unique features that markedly effect cost is the WEIGHTED AVERAGE because it calculates the average period cost of all goods in stock and apportions the total to individual items.
