Answer:
c. firms are free to enter and exit the market.
Explanation:
A monopolistically competitive market is a market in which there are a lot of organizations that sell products that are similar and it tends to be easy to enter and leave the industry. Because it is easy for a company to enter the market and there is a lot of competition, in the long run the economic profit is zero. According to this, the answer is that in the long run, profits in a monopolistically competitive market are zero because firms are free to enter and exit the market.
The other options are not right because a monopolistically competitive market has zero profits because of its low entry barriers and amount of competitors not because of government regulations or an illegal agreement between organizations to control competition. Also, in a monopolistically competitive market the products are similar.
Answer:
Bribery in the world of business typically happens when an organization or representative of an organization gives financial benefits to an official to gain favor or manipulate a business decision - True.
Bribery is the giving or offering of items of value (especially money) to a government official in exchange for favorable treatment. Bribing is unethical and illegal, but it is common practice in many countries, so common that it is expected.
The Foreign Corrupt Practices Act was implemented in the aftermath of disclosures that businesses were violating the IMA Code of Ethics - True.
In the seventies, U.S. Government investigations found that hundreds of U.S. companies operating abroad had turned to bribery in order to gain the favor of foreing officials. This conduct is related to the statement explained above: bribery is pervasive in many countries around the world.
Managers are required to follow specific rules issued by the IMA for internal financial reporting. - False.
The IMA Code of Ethics does not provide specific rules for financial reporting (these specific rules are found instead either in the Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP) or in the or in the International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS)).
The IMA Code of Ethics instead provides principles, or ethical guidelines, to be followed by participants in the management accounting profession.
Ethics is more than obeying laws - True.
Ethics goes beyond what is legally right, and is more related to what is morally right. An ethical person should do the right thing even if there is no legal code explicitely telling him to do so.
The Sarbanes-Oxley Act addressed public company accounting reform. - True
This act added requirements for public accounting firms, and included legal penalties including possible jail time for certain types of misconduct. The Act was enacted following major accounting scandals such as Enron.
The complete question is as follows:
Dan owns an autographed copy of a Brittany Spears CD that he values at $100. If he sells the CD at the garage sale he’s planning to hold in a few weeks, it will be sold to a buyer with a reservation price of $175. If he sells it on eBay, it will be sold to a buyer with a reservation price of $500. eBay will charge Dan $50 to auction the CD, which just covers eBay’s opportunity cost of running the auction. Relative to selling the CD at his garage sale, auctioning the CD on eBay will lead:
A. to no change in total economic surplus.
B. total economic surplus to increase by $500.
C. total economic surplus to increase by $275.
D. total economic surplus to increase by $100.
Answer: C - Total economic surplus to increase by $275.
In this question, we only need to consider producers' surplus since we're considering the various options for Dan to sell his CD.
We calculate Producer's Surplus as follows:
Economic costs not only refers to explicit costs like cost of the CD, but also includes opportunity costs. Since we need to calculate producer's surplus when Dan sells on Ebay, we need to consider the following costs:
Value of the CD = $100
Ebay's opportunity cost that Dan will have to bear = $50
Among the three expenses listed above, the profit Dan would've got in the garage sale is considered the <u>implicit cost or opportunity cost.</u>
Substituting the values we have in the equation above, we get,
Answer:
The correct answer for 1st option is $158,206.95 and for 2nd option is $157,733.11.
Explanation:
According to the scenario, the given data are as follows:
1st option
Payment ( PMT ) = $85,000
Interest rate (I) = 7%
Time (N) = 2 years
So, the effective rate of interest can be calculated as :
R = 
R = 7.2290%
Present value can be calculated by using following formula:
P = PMT x (((1-(1 + r) ^- n)) / i)
Hence, present value of 1st option can be calculated as:
PV = 85000×((1-(1 + 7.229%) ^- 2) / 7%)
PV = $158,206.95
Now, present value of 2nd option can be calculated as:
Payment = $74,000
Bonus = $20,000
So, PV = 74000×((1-(1 + 7.229%) ^- 2) / 7%)
PV = 137,733.11
Bonus (add) = $20,000
Total PV = $157,733.11
Hence, the present value for 1st option is $158,206.95 and for 2nd option is $157,733.11.
GDP deflator is nominal GDP divided by real GDP.
Therefore, 225/real GDP = 3, and then real GDP would then equal 75.
