Answer:
New home sales and existing home sales are released each month at about the same time. Many comparisons are made between the two series, but before doing any comparisons, one must be aware of some definition differences that affect the timing of the statistics.
The Census Bureau collects new home sales based upon the following definition: "A sale of the new house occurs with the signing of a sales contract or the acceptance of a deposit." The house can be in any stage of construction: not yet started, under construction, or already completed. Typically about 25% of the houses are sold at the time of completion. The remaining 75% are evenly split between those not yet started and those under construction.
Existing home sales data are provided by the National Association of Realtors®. According to them, "the majority of transactions are reported when the sales contract is closed." Most transactions usually involve a mortgage which takes 30-60 days to close. Therefore an existing home sale (closing) most likely involves a sales contract that was signed a month or two prior.
Given the difference in definition, new home sales usually lead existing home sales regarding changes in the residential sales market by a month or two. For example, an existing home sale in January, was probably signed 30 to 45 days earlier which would have been in November or December. This is based on the usual time it takes to obtain and close a mortgage.
Effective with January 2005, the National Association of Realtors created a new monthly series to overcome the lagging effect of the existing home sales definition. This new series is called Pending Home Sales and is based on sales of existing homes where the contract has been signed but the transaction has not been closed, making it roughly equivalent to the new home sales definition. Monthly estimates are expressed as an index where the year 2001 has been set to equal 100.0.
Explanation:
Answer: $3,580.30 (converted to 2decimal places).
Antwone need to deposit " $3,580.30008” into the account each semi-annual period in order to take his vacation in 2 years
Explanation:
By using compound interest formula below to solve the question
A = p ( 1 + r/n)^nt
A = amount (future value)= $3,800
P = principal (present value) ?
r = annual nominal rate = 3%= 0.03
n = today number of compounding years = semiannually (2 interest payments period in a year) = 2
t = time in years =2
3,800 = p ( 1 + 0.03/2)^2(2)
3,800 = p ( 1 + 0.015 )^4
3,800 = p ( 1.015 ) ^4
3,800 = 1.06136355 p
divide both sides by 1.06136355
p = 3,800 / 1.06136355
p = $3,580.30008
≈$3,580.30 ( rounded off to 2d.p)
One advantage of modularization is that it simplifies its own manufacturing systems. With this, companies can separate their material cost and product development, and they can also optimize their total product cost through increasing the potential of the variety of products, having a fast product development and upgrade, having a better time-to-market, service support, aftermarket, and lastly, enabling continuous market and product improvement.
Answer:
(a) the cost of the goods sold for the September 30 sale and
(b) the inventory on September 30.
- Ending inventory = 9 units at $17 = $153
Explanation:
date transaction units unit price total
1 beginning inv. 23 $16 $368
5 sale -13 ($208)
17 purchase 24 $17 $408
30 sale -25 ($415)
30 ending inv. 9 $17 $153
When we use first in, first out (FIFO) inventory method, the price of the units sold are calculated using the oldest units in inventory.
The COGS of the units sold on Sept. 5 = 13 units x $16 = $208
The COGS of the units sold on Sept. 30 = (10 units x $16) + (15 units x $17) = $160 + $255 = $415
Ending inventory = 9 units at $17 = $153
Answer:
c. the entry of new firms
Explanation:
- The entry of the new firms in the market creating a market supply curves to shift to the right side and as the curve shifts the markets price then starts to decline with it
- This declines the economic profits in the new and the existing firms as long as the profits exists in the markets and entry will continue to shift to supply to the right.
- The diversification of the melt and the fall in the monopoly of the firms start to take place.
- They take up resource ownership and technological developments. In short, they increase the competitiveness and bring rivalry into the market.
