Answer:
E: a debt of $10.7 trillion and a deficit of zero.
Explanation:
Deficits are usually financed by debt. Here the government has incurred an extra debt of $700 billion. The previous debt of $10 trillion may have been due to any reason and not necessarily deficit. However, the passage does not state if the extra debt is due to deficit or not. So it is safe to select option E.
Hence, the government has incurred a total debt of $10.7 trillion and a deficit of zero.
Answer:
a. take advantage of underpriced labor services available in certain developing countries.
b. gain access to special R&D capabilities residing in advanced foreign counties.
c. boost profit margins and create shareholder value.
d. avoid regulations and lower tax burdern
Explanation:
Multinational corporation is a company that operates locally in its home country and also aborad. It usually maintains a central office that coordinates business activities.
MNCs have various advantages which includes:
- taking advantage of lower priced labour in developing countries, for example some companies take advantage of cheap labour in China to produce their goods.
- when a company operates in an advanced economy it will take advantage of research and development there.
- regulations and tax burdens can be avoided by setting up manufacturing plants in countries with low regulatory policies.
- MNCs boost shareholder profits by taking advantage of their multiple locations to gain more profits.
Setting the pay according to the goals achieved
by a group may not be considered beneficial to everyone, thus decreasing motivation.
Pay-for-performance or according to individual performance may help motivate
the employee but increasing individuality in terms of performance may also decrease
group cohesiveness or group-related values. The speaker here shows depreciation by undervaluing another's work to overvalue or protect one's own.
Answer:
B: 40%
Explanation:
Total shares = 2 + 1 + 2 = 5 million
percentage owned by me = 2/5 *100 = 40%
Answer:
<u>A</u>
<u>Explanation</u>:
In this scenario note that it resulted to total dollar cost of the minutes provided been greater than the budgeted cost of estimated minutes.
Key word there is that the cost incurred is now above the budget, <u>therefore it is very likely that the technicians were being less competent than anticipated at their level, leading to greater cost.</u>
