Answer:
a. Brad might be allowed to deduct up to $25,000
or Brad may be allowed to deduct the loss if he works more than 750 hours as a material participant in connection with the townhouse complex and more than half of personal service.
b. The reduction is equal to 50% of AGI in excess of $100,000. The deduction will be phased out completely if AGI reaches $25,000
Explanation:
Adjusted Gross Income is the final taxable income after all the allowable deductions are adjusted in the income. A tax payer can deduct up to $25,000 for the passive losses. This is standard deduction which Brad can deduct from the income.
Answer:
D) Relationship marketing
Explanation:
Relationship marketing is a strategy companies use to connect with their customers, build relationships and ensure loyalty. It involves engaging customers over a lengthy period to know their needs and then providing them with products or services tailored to satisfy those needs.
By initiating a project to build a website and encouraging customers to provide certain information to the company, Fiona plans to use the Internet for "relationship marketing".
Answer:
P=$40
Explanation:
We will apply constant dividend growth model that is =P = D1 / ( k-g )
P is the price of share ?
D1 is the current divided $2
k is the rate of return 9%
G is the constant growth 4%
P=2/(9%-4%)
P=$40
Answer:
A.$130
B. $13,130
Explanation:
Loan taken at the beginning of april in order to maintain cash balance of $40,000 = $40,000 - $27,200 = $12,800 = $13,000 (Increment of $1,000)
Interest payment estimated for april = $13,000*12%*1/12 = $130
Solution b:
Cash balance at the end of april = $27,200 + $13,000 - $130 = $40,070
Cash balance at the end of may before financing effect = Cash balance at the beginning + Excess of cash collected over cash payments
= $40,070 + $31,200 = $71,270
Total financin effect for may = Loan repayment + Interest repayment = $13,000 + $13,000*12%*1/12 = $13,130
Answer:
C. A country can specialize in producing that for which it has a comparative advantage and then trade for other needed goods and services.
Explanation:
<em>Comparative advantage</em> is simply evaluating the opportunity cost of other benefits or costs, if the country is opting to choose for a specific category of goods for production purposes.
For example, let's say US can produce 20 Television (TV) sets and 50 Air Conditioners in a month. Here, the opportunity cost of producing 1 TV set is 50/20 i.e. 2.5 Air Conditioners. Similarly, the opportunity cost of producing 1 Air Conditioner (AC) is 20/50 i.e. 0.4 TV set. Hence, US should produce Air Conditioners over TV sets as per <em>Comparative Advantage</em> concept.
Take another example, let's say UK can produce 50 Television (TV) sets and 20 Air Conditioners in a month. Hence, the opportunity cost of producing 1 TV set is 20/50 i.e. 0.4 Air Conditioner. On the other hand, the opportunity cost of producing 1 AC is 50/20 i.e. 2.5 TV sets. Thus, UK should produce TV sets over AC's as per <em>Comparative Advantage </em>model.
Hence, US should export AC's to UK and import TV sets from UK to gain from specialization and trade.
<em> In this way nations can gain from specialization and trade by making use of Comparative Advantage theory</em>.
It is to be noted that <em>Absolute Advantage model </em>of Adam Smith is also good as it highlights production of that good by a country, which it can produce in large quantities with fewer resources and minimal time than any other nation in the world. But the <em>Comparative Advantage Model </em>developed by David Ricardo considers opportunity cost and is much more refined than Absolute Advantage Model.
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