Answer:
Product differentiation and advertising are profitable ventures only when:
the gain in total revenue outweighs the extra cost
Explanation:
When Company XYZ differentiates its product from competitors' through trademarks and other differentiating factors and embarks on advertising, it must watch out for cost overrun. The undertaking for the product differentiation and advertising should be able to generate more revenue than the costs. This will make Company XYZ determine that its differentiation and advertising make economic meaning by producing positive NPV.
Answer:
Nominal gross domestic product (GDP) measures the market value of all the new and legal goods and services produced in a country within a year. While real GDP adjusts nominal GDP to inflation. Since inflation is generally positive, real GDP decreases as inflation increases. The higher the inflation rate, the larger the difference between nominal and real GDP. Depending on which year is used as base year (year 0), the difference that existed in 2010 can be either significant or not.
The difference = ($14,657 / $13,245) - 1 = 10.66%, which means that nominal GDP was 10.66% higher than real GDP. If the base year is 2000 or even 2005/6, the difference is very small since the accumulated inflation would only be 10.66% for all these years. But if the base year was 2008 or even 2009, then the inflation rate is high.
Answer:
$305,000
Explanation:
Given that,
Net income for the year = $290,000
Increase in accounts receivable = $21,000
Decrease in accounts payable = $9,000
Depreciation Expense = $45,000
Net cash provided by operating activities:
= Net Income of current year - Decrease in Accounts Payable + Depreciation Expense - Increase in Accounts Receivable
= $290,000 - $9,000 + $45,000 - $21,000
= $305,000
Answer:
b. 3.70 percent
Explanation:
Expected rate of return of a stock, given probabilities, is calculated by summing up the product of probability of each state occurring by the expected return of the stock should that happen.
Expected rate of return = SUM (probability *return)
Boom;(probability* return) = (0.15* 0.10) = 0.015 or 1.5%
Normal ;(probability* return) = (0.70* 0.04) = 0.028 or 2.8%
Recession ; (probability* return) = (0.15* -0.04) = -0.006 or -0.6%
Next, sum up the expected return for each state of the economy to find the expected rate of return on this stock;
= 1.5% + 2.8% -0.6%
= 3.7%
Therefore, the correct answer is choice B.
