Answer: Market Penetration Pricing.
Explanation:
MPP, Market Penetration Pricing is a where a company uses a strategy to attract customers to their product. Which also means lowing the price for customers to buy their products.
When lowing a price: This strategy is used to attract customers, they buy their product - then if they like it they will keep buying it even if the price is raised. This is a common strategy for tons of company brands.
Answer:
<u>Predatory pricing</u>
Explanation:
A "predator" refers to an animal who survives by "preying" on other animals.
Predatory pricing in a similar sense refers to that form of excessively low pricing which in a way consumes other firms by taking away their share of industry revenues. Such form of pricing is considered illegal and is against healthy competition.
Such pricing eliminates competitors from the market and gradually leads to emergence of a monopoly i.e supremacy of a single firm in the whole industry and thus considered an illegal practice.
In the given case, the retail chain can be alleged to have followed predatory pricing which is substantiated by the fact that it cuts it's prices excessively i.e even below cost , thereby forcing smaller companies to exit the industry.
Answer:
Boyd will record Warranty Expense in the amount of $400 for the month.
Explanation:
Warraty expense is an obligation on the business because business idmliable to accept the claims of warranty. A estimated percentage of warranty expense is charges as an expense in each period.
Sales = $20,000
Warranty repair = 2% of Sales
Warranty Expnese = Sales x Warranty repairs percentage
Warranty Expnese = $20,000 x 2%
Warranty Expnese = $400
Answer: b. The beta of the portfolio is higher than the highest of the three betas
Explanation:
The beta of a portfolio is calculated as a weighted average of the individual betas of the individual stocks. As such, the highest individual beta will be the upper limit of the portfolios entire beta.
For instance.
3 stocks A, B and C have betas of 1, 1.3 and 2 respectively.
A has a weight of 1%, B has a weight of 1% and C has a weight of 98%.
The portfolio beta will be;
= (0.01 * 1 ) + ( 0.01 * 1.3) + ( 0.98 * 2)
= 1.98
Even if the stock with the highest beta had an advantage of weighing such a high figure, it it mathematically impossible for the portfolio beta to be higher than it.
