Answer:
The correct answer is letter "A": If tax cuts are not evenly distributed across income groups.
Explanation:
Fiscal policy refers to the combined governmental decisions regarding a country's taxing and spending. The term fiscal policy is associated with British economist John Maynard Keynes (<em>1883-1946</em>) who believed governments should influence macroeconomic productivity levels. Though, it could be a trap if it is <em>not allocated correctly among different income groups</em>. Economies such as Brazil, for instance, have allocated higher taxes for low-income people creating <em>economic disparity</em>.
Answer: The correct answer is "D. greater; less".
Explanation: The consumer surplus from water, which is cheap, is <u>greater </u>than the consumer surplus from gold, which is expensive. The total utility from gold is <u>less</u> than the total utility from water.
Answer:
Capital budgeting is the process "of making capital expenditure decisions"
Explanation:
Capital budgeting is a planning process employed by a firm's management to evaluate if embarking on long-term investments (like purchase of a new machinery, replacement of old non-current assets, new product line, etc) are viable and profitable.
Decisions made by management must be informed decisions and one of the ways in which an investment decision can be evaluated to check if it is worthwhile is the capital budgeting process
Answer:
a.An increase in cash flows from operating activities
Explanation:
The cash flow statement categories the company's transactions in a financial period into 3 groups; these are operating, investing and financing.
The net profit/loss, depreciation, changes in current assets such as inventory, accounts receivables etc, (other than cash) and liabilities are considered as operating activities including income taxes.
The sale of assets, interest received, purchase of investments are examples of investing activities while the issuance of stocks, debt principal deduction (loan settlement), issuance of debt securities etc are examples of financing activities.
An increase in assets other than cash is an outflow while an increase in liabilities is an inflow. A decrease in assets (other than cash) is an inflow of cash while a decrease in liabilities is an outflow of cash.
Answer:
Property tax is progressive
Sales Tax is regressive
A progressive tax is one that takes a higher proportion of revenue from high-income people than it does from low-income people. A regressive tax is one that takes a higher percentage of low-income people's income than it does from high-income people.
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