Answer:
In real dollars, Babe Ruth's salary = $80,000 / 0.0645 (CPI 1930) = $1,240,000
Since Babe Ruth was the highest paid baseball player back then, if we compare his updated salary to Kershaw's salary, it represents only = $1,240,000 / $33,000,000 = 3.76%.
That means that most of the players' salary raise was due to other factors, not just inflation.
Answer:
The correct answer here is option D.
Explanation:
Investment banks are special kind of financial institutions or intermediaries who are concerned with raising capital for other companies.
They also perform advisory based transaction services on the behalf of corporations, individuals and government.
In performing these functions, they often are found guilty of pressurizing analysts to produce favorable research for their clients, attempts to alter research of client's firm and permitting executives of client's firm to do so. They also get involved in prohibiting analysts from making any negative or controversial comments about client they are serving.
They do all these to maintain credit worthiness of their client firm, so that the client is able to procure capital.
Answer:
Explanation:
The journal entry to record the bad debt expense is shown below:
Bad debt expense A/c Dr $2,700
To Allowance for doubtful debts $2,700
(Being bad debt expense is recorded)
The computation of the bad debt expense is shown below:
= (Accounts receivable × estimated percentage given ) - (credit balance of Allowance for Doubtful Accounts)
= ($420,000 × 1%) - ($1,500)
= $4,200- $1,500
= $2,700
Answer:
returning inventory that is defective or broken
Explanation:
Inventory reffered to as set of finished goods/ products as well as other goods that are used in production. It is regarded as current asset on the balance sheet of a company. Inventory safeguarding is very essential in a company to keep them safe, there are some ways in which this can be done.
With the aid of technology such as security cameras which can record any form of theft, door alarms and others can protect inventory from both external/internal threats. Some of thers common examples for safeguarding inventory are;
✓storing inventory in restricted areas
✓physical devices such as two-way mirrors, cameras, and alarms
✓matching receiving documents, purhcase orders, and vendor's invoice
Answer:
D) all other factors being constant, it is likely the CPI would rise during the year in question.
Explanation:
The CPI measures the price of a basket of goods and that basket includes both housing expenses and gasoline, but housing expenses are "heavier" than gasoline (their relative weight on the CPI is much higher) because they represent a much larger portion of a household's income. It is common for a family to pay $1,000 (or much more) per month on rent or a mortgage, while how many people actually spend over $1,000 per month on gas?
