Answer:
a) unemployment rate = 15
b) unemployment rate = 2.5
Explanation:
unemployed people are those who are willing and available to work and have actively been seeking a job in the past four weeks. This accurately describes the 12 people who are willing, able and looking for work but cannot find jobs. To calculate the unemployment rate in percentage, the following formula is used:
Where:
a) Number of unemployed = 12
Labour force = 80 (number of people over 16 years of age)
b) if 10 of the unemployed people get discouraged and give up looking for work, the number of unemployed becomes 2 persons, (12 - 10 = 2).
Answer:
D: $259,000
Explanation:
The computation of the paying amount which borrower can pay for a property is shown below:
= Mortgage loan amount for borrow ÷ loan-to-value ratio
= $220,000 ÷ 85%
= $258,823.53
= $259,000 round off
We simply divide the mortgage loan by the loan to value ratio so that paying amount could arrive which borrower can pay for a property.
Answer:
Option D is correct.
Explanation:
Both company will have same Equity multiplier as total assets and equity are same of both companies. So Option A and B is incorrect.
Option C is also incorrect because there is no difference between the sales and total assets of both companies.
Option D is correct because the return on equity of the company LD is higher as the Net profit which is profit after interest and tax is higher than the profit after interest and tax of the company HD.
ROE = PAIT / Equity
Option E is wrong because when we say ROA is same this means that the operating income is same.
ROA = Operating profit / Total assets
Remember that the operating profit is earnings before interest and tax.
Answer: The answers to the questions are provided below.
Explanation:
1. The Required Rate of Return(RRR) is the absolute minimum return on an investment that an individual or firm would accept for the investment to be considered worthwhile. The required rate of return helps in deciding whether an investment is worth the cost or not.
An expected rate of return helps in knowing out how much one can expect to make from an investment. An expected rate of return is the return on investment that an individual or firm expects to make when investing in a stock.
The RRR is the least possible rate which would entice someone to invest while the expected rate of return is what the person plan to make from that investment and its calculation is based on probability.
When there is difference between the required rate of return and expected rate of return for an asset at a specific period of time, it means that the economic conditions aren't normal as there is either inflation or deflation in the market.
2. The holding period return is the total return gotten from holding an asset over a particular period of time which is known as the “holding” period while the expected return is the return based on probability-weighted average of likely returns from an investment.
3. Diversification is a technique that is applied to reduce risk through the allocation of investments among several financial instrument and industries. Diversification aims to maximize the returns through investment in different sectors because each sector will likely react differently when there's a risk. Investing in more than one asset through diversification is essential because each asset will react differently when a risk occurs.
