Answer:
D. Actions by governments rarely significantly affect business
Explanation:
Business-socciety interdependence points out how business activities impact society and how society impacts business decisions. Government actions play a significant role in business performance. For example, an increase in interest rate increases the cost of borrowing and acts as an investment disncentive. Likewise, an increase in corporation tax stifles the incentive to invest and reduces corporate profit. Other government interventions such as standards and regulations, minumum wage legislations, permits and licenses would not only reduce business profits but could make doing business very cumbersome. Also, the extent to which the government is committed to maintaining political stability could determine the extent to which invesmtent thrives in an economy.
Answer:
a) true
Explanation:
A rise in the general price level is called inflation and it affects the nominal value of the company's output. E.g. you sell pants and last year they sold at $10 and now since inflation rate is 10%, they sell at $11. But inflation only affects nominal values, it doesn't affect real values which are calculated using a base price of a certain year X, times the quantity sold. Following the example, your real output would not be $11 per pair of pants, instead it would still remain at $10 since the inflation is discounted.
Answer:
In this scenario, <u>LISA</u> has both an absolute advantage in food preparation, and <u>LISA</u> has a comparative advantage in food preparation.
Assume that initially, Sam and Lisa are splitting both tasks for a large number of events. Then they decide to start shifting some work according to the principle of comparative advantage. In particular, the person with the comparative advantage in food preparation will take over preparing food for one more event, and the other person will use the freed-up time to get more clients. As a result, the total number of events for which food is prepared will remain unchanged, but the number of new clients will increase by <u>1</u>.
Before they were getting 3 new customers since Sam got 2 and Lisa 1, but since Sam will only look for clients, then the total number of clients will be 4 (or 1 more).
Explanation:
It takes Sam 12 hours to prepare the food for an event and 3 hours of effort to get each new client.
- Sam's opportunity cost of preparing food = 12/3 = 4 new clients
- Sam's opportunity cost of getting new clients = 3/12 = 0.25 of food preparation
For Lisa, it takes 10 hours to prepare food for an event and 5 hours to get a new client.
- Lisa's opportunity cost of preparing food = 10/5 = 2 new clients
- Lisa's opportunity cost of getting new clients = 5/10 = 0.5 of food preparation
