Answer: C- Encoding
Explanation: Encoding in communication is the process whereby the sender utilizes oral symbols like words, signs, pictures, videos, and non-oral symbols like body language, hand signals, facial expressions for which the sender believes the individual on the receiving side or audience will comprehend without misinterpreting.
It is the way of turning or transforming ideas into communication by using a channel that could be texts, phone calls or even in-person conferences. In this case, the marketing department decides to encode an ad campaign to the market so as to promote the new drug for lowering cholesterol.
Answer: Debt being less risky than equity and interest payments being tax deductible.
Explanation: Debt securities are the securities having fixed interest rates and a fixed time period to maturity. The debt holders are not considered owners of the company but rather they are the the creditors.
Debt is considered the cheapest source of finance for a number of reasons the main of which is the interest payments on debt could be deducted as expense while computing taxable income .
Answer:
9%
Explanation:
Given:
The net income = $12,000
Total equity = $40,000
Total assets = $80,000
Dividend payout ratio = 40%
Now,
Internal rate of return, r = 
or
Internal rate of return, r = 
or
Internal rate of return, r = 15%
and,
Retention ratio = 1 - Dividend payout ratio
= 1 - 0.40
= 0.60 or 60%
Now,
Growth rate = Retention ratio × Internal rate of return
or
Growth rate = 0.60 × 0.15
or
Growth rate = 0.09
or
Growth rate = 9%
Answer:
Lahdekorpi OY, a Finnish corporation and Three-O Company, a subsidiary incorporated in the United States
Transfer Pricing:
a) The best transfer pricing method in this case is the cost plus method. This gives the transfer price as Cost + 50%.
b) The appropriate transfer price should be $3 ($2 x 1.5).
Explanation:
Transfer pricing arises when controlled entities set prices for exchange of goods and services. When Lahdekorpi OY, a Finnish corporation, sells wooden puzzles to Three-O Company, given their relationship, transfer pricing has arisen. It is the assignment of cost for goods and services exchanged between related parties, like a parent and a subsidiary.
There are many Transfer Pricing methods which entities and the taxing authorities can use to determine the best transfer price. According to the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) Multinational Entities and tax authorities can use any of these five main transfer pricing methods:
a) Comparable uncontrolled price (CUP) method. The CUP method is grouped by the OECD as a traditional transaction method (as opposed to a transactional profit method)
b) Resale price method
c) Cost plus method
d) Transactional net margin method (TNMM)
e) Transactional profit split method.
