Answer:
Foreign Direct Investment - Opening a retail store in a foreign country
Foreign Portfolio Investment - Buying bonds issued by a foreign government
false
Explanation:
Foreign direct investment can be described as when a firm or an individual in one country makes an investment in a business interest in another country.
Foreign direct investment usually takes two form :
- the investor sets up a business in the foreign country
- the investor acquires foreign assets in the foreign country.
An example is when a US firm establishes a new business in another country.
foreign direct investment usually requires a lot of active management. As a result, an individual might not have the capacity or resources to effectively manage an FDI when compared with a corporation
Foreign Portfolio Investment is when an investor in one country purchases financial assets in another country.
For example, a resident of the US purchases bonds in Ghana
Answer:
No.
Explanation:
I know nothing about this person.
Answer:
The statement is true
Explanation:
Tightening monetary policy or curbing money supply in an economy is a move by Federal Reserve to control inflation or bring down over-heated economic growth.
Money supply is curbed by increasing short-term interest rates, thereby increasing cost of borrowing and making borrowing less attractive to public. This increase in short-term rates, also called Federal fund rates are usually greater than long-term interest rates prevailing in the market.
Answer: $51,000
Explanation:
Thirty-five percent of the sales on account are collected in the month of sale, 45% in the month following sale, and the remainder are collected in the second month following sale.
In March therefore, the cashflow will consist of;
35% of March sales
45% of February sales
20% of January sales
= (35% * 40,000) + (45% * 60,000) + (20% * 50,000)
= 14,000 + 27,000 + 10,000
= $51,000
Answer:
d. bad timing
Explanation:
Remember the principle of first entry advantage which says that the first entrant to a market has better advantage of gaining more market share over late entrants.
This was true in the Tablet market which saw Apple's iPad been the very first commercially sold tablet devices. Because of wrong/late timing when Apple introduced its next-generation iPad2 the HP tablet came in struggling to get a part of the already captured tablet market by Apple's iPad.
