Answer:
New home sales and existing home sales are released each month at about the same time. Many comparisons are made between the two series, but before doing any comparisons, one must be aware of some definition differences that affect the timing of the statistics.
The Census Bureau collects new home sales based upon the following definition: "A sale of the new house occurs with the signing of a sales contract or the acceptance of a deposit." The house can be in any stage of construction: not yet started, under construction, or already completed. Typically about 25% of the houses are sold at the time of completion. The remaining 75% are evenly split between those not yet started and those under construction.
Existing home sales data are provided by the National Association of Realtors®. According to them, "the majority of transactions are reported when the sales contract is closed." Most transactions usually involve a mortgage which takes 30-60 days to close. Therefore an existing home sale (closing) most likely involves a sales contract that was signed a month or two prior.
Given the difference in definition, new home sales usually lead existing home sales regarding changes in the residential sales market by a month or two. For example, an existing home sale in January, was probably signed 30 to 45 days earlier which would have been in November or December. This is based on the usual time it takes to obtain and close a mortgage.
Effective with January 2005, the National Association of Realtors created a new monthly series to overcome the lagging effect of the existing home sales definition. This new series is called Pending Home Sales and is based on sales of existing homes where the contract has been signed but the transaction has not been closed, making it roughly equivalent to the new home sales definition. Monthly estimates are expressed as an index where the year 2001 has been set to equal 100.0.
Explanation:
Answer:
0.75 wheat
Explanation:
Opportunity cost is the cost of the next best option forgone when one alternative is chosen over other alternatives.
the opportunity cost of producing cars, is the quantity of wheat that would have to be forgone to produce one car
18 / 24 = 0.75 wheat
Answer:
b. 2,100
Explanation:
On January will be collected: a) 10% January´s sales because is collected in cash; b) 40% December´s sales because is collected one month following the sale, and 50% November sales because the balance is collected two months following the sale.
So we can calcula like follows:
Expected cash receipts in January = (4,000 * 0.10) + (3,000 * 0.40) + (1,000 * 0.50)
Expected cash receipts in January = 400 + 1,200 + 500
Expected cash receipts in January = 2,100
Answer:
$13,532
.00
Explanation:
The cost allocation is usually based on a measurable factor such as area occupied, number of students etc. The more the measurable factor related to a unit/department, the more the cost assigned to the departments on the basis of the size of the measurable value.
Total number of employees
= 640
the amount of cost allocated to Department B under the direct method would be
= 199/640 * $43,520
= $13,532
Answer:
normative control
Explanation:
Normative control refers to using the values that the employees share as standards instead of using policies to influence the desired behaviors. According to this, the answer is that this is an example of normative control because Gary employs people that share certain values and behaviors and these become the standard to perform their jobs.
