Answer: The correct answer is "d. a preference toward a smooth consumption path over time.".
Explanation: The main reason people save during their working years is a preference toward a smooth consumption path over time since they prefer to consume what is just and necessary so that in the future, even if they are affected by different circumstances, they can continue to maintain the same standard of living and / or consumption.
Answer:
a. not change; improve
Explanation:
Balance of trade is the difference in value over a period of time between a country’s imports and exports of goods and services, usually expressed in the unit of currency of a particular country (e.g., dollars for the United States, yen for the Japan).
Balance of payments record the receipts and payments of the residents of the country in their transactions with residents of other countries.
A Japanese insurance company purchases U.S. government securities. From the perspective of the United States, the balance of trade with Japan will not change and the balance of payments with Japan will improve.
Answer:
d. cost-less will go out of business, and durable will gain higher power over its customers.
Explanation:
Durable ceramics, inc will only reduce its prices if this is to its advantage. We live in a capitalist world where companies make decisions based on their own benefits. In this case, in order for Durable ceramics, inc to lower its prices and have no losses, it would expand its sales. In this way, Durable ceramics, inc would be able to capture customers from its competitors, and could make them go bankrupt.
Thus, we can conclude that if Durable ceramics, inc reduced its prices, Cost-Less would go out of business and Durable would gain greater power over its customers.
Answer:
C) Telecommuting
Explanation:
Telecommuting simply means working from your home. The internet changed our lives completely, and it is also how we work. Everyday more people are starting to work from distant locations to their "main office". This means that they can be working at their house using a computer which is connected to the company's intranet.
Some of the advantages of telecommuting is that it increases efficiency by decreasing costs (you don't have to spend time going to work and you can have your office at home), reducing employee churn rate, allowing older or disabled people to work, it is good for your health, and around 65% of telecommuters in the US have have increased their work efficiency vs. their normal office work.
Answer:
reconciliate balance $ 22,388,675
Explanation:
bank statement: 18,835
deposits in transit 100,740
22,376,200
outstanding check
10189 (56,710)
10192 (15,365)
10193 (22,650)
10194 (12,375)
Adjusted balance: 22,388,675
checkbook balance: 22,385,105
interest earned 4,020
ATM card fees (450)
Adjusted balance: 22,388,675
Notes: For each statement we adjust for the unknown information.
The bank is unaware of the outstanding check and the deposit in transit. So we adjust for these concepts.
The company has no knowledge of the ffes and interest earned until receiving the bank statement so we must adjust for that amount.
