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:
The balance of account receivable for year 2 is increase from the balance of year 1.
Explanation:
The balance of account receivable for year 2 is increase from the balance of year 1. This means the thee are more credit sales and less receipts from the customers in year 2 as compared to Year 1. Credit sales increases the account receivable balance but it should be settlement in the form of receipts from the customers.
Answer:
D
Explanation:
A change in quantity supplied is as a result of a change in the price of the good. This change in the price leads to a movement along the supply curve. If price increases, there is an upward movement up along the supply curve and if there is a decrease in price, there is a movement down the demand curve.
A change in supply is caused by other factors other than price. Some of these factors include :
- A change in the number of suppliers
- The cost in the price of raw materials needed in the production of the good.
A change in supply leads to a movement outward or inward
Answer:
b. The expected rate of return on U.S. assets rises
Explanation:
- An open economy is one that interacts freely with the other economies of the world, the one economy of the united states is very large and includes the imports and exports of huge quantity including the goods and services.
- In an open economy, macroeconomic model assets are bought and supplied to the economy a this creating an outflow of the capital as more of the buying of the assets creates a net capital outflow leading to an increase of the expected rate of return of assets. As the country can spend more than it produces.
