Answer: task leadership
Explanation: The activities of organizing employees, of setting goals and achieving those goals set are all task leadership activities and therefore, questions put forward during an interview by a company are meant to determine if the candidate possesses task leadership. Task leadership focuses on achieving set goals and is used to develop a structured workplace with clearly defined schedules and priorities. As such, it delegates assignments, set clear processes and issue deadlines in order to ensure that members of a team would remain focused and deliver their part of the project in record time.
As part of the process, the HR department's first step should be to identify that the sales representatives need technical training. It was said in the statement above that most of the new workers have a poor performance although they have a vast experience in sales. Most probably, it would be because they are unfamiliar with the products of the said company and they would lack the technical knowledge needed to do their job well. As an HR staff, you should be able to see that these employees would need some kind of training and education about the products of the company.
Answer:
- <u><em>d) increases as the interest rate decreases.</em></u>
Explanation:
<em>Present value</em> is the value today; future value is the value some time in the future.
The mere notion of the value of money in time should tell you that, further away in time (towards the future) a sum of money is found, the lower its value today.
Then, you should be able to rule out some propositions that are contrary to that intuition:
- a<em>) decreases as the time period decreases</em> ↔ clearly false: the present value increases as the time period decreases
- <em>e) is directly related to the time period</em>. ↔ clearly false: the present value is inversely related to the time period.
How is the present value related to the future value?
They are directly related: the higher a lump sum in the future the higher the value of it in the present; more money is more money always. More money in the future has more value in the present; less money in the future has less value in the present. Thus, the option <em>b). is inversely related to the future value</em> is false
How is the present value related to the interest rate?. Which one is true?
- c) is directly related to the interest rate, or
- d) increases as the interest rate decreases
The present value is calculated discounted the future value at the interest rate. The interest rate is in the denominator of the equation to pass from future value to present value. Thus, they are inversely related (c is false); the less the interest rate, the higher the present value of a future amount (confirm d is true).
Therefore, the correct answer is that <em>the present of a lump sum future amount: </em><em><u>d) increases as the interest rate decreases.</u></em>
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Answer:
PV= $11,889.05
Explanation:
Giving the following information:
Future Value (FV)= $13,000
Number fo periods (n)= 3*2= 6 semesters
Interest rate (i)= 0.03/2= 0.015
<u>To calculate the initial deposit, we need to use the following formula:</u>
PV= FV/(1+i)^n
PV= 13,000 / (1.015^6)
PV= $11,889.05
Answer:
Tha annual effective yield rate for the bond is:
= 6.2%
Explanation:
a) Data and Calculations:
Bond par value = $1,000
Annual coupon rate = 6%
Annual spot interest rates = 7%, 8%, and 9% for year 1, year 2, and year 3 respectively
Current value of bond = $970 ($1,000 * 99% * 99% * 99%)
Annual coupon payments = $60 * 3 = $180
Effective rate for the three years = $180/$970 * 100 = 18.6%
Annualized effective yield rate = 6.2% (18.6%/3)
OR
Annualized effective yield rate = (Annual coupon payments/Current value of bonds)
= 6.2% ($60/$970)
