Answer:
- BetaCo
- BetaCo
Explanation:
BetaCo raised the salaries of everyone in the company meaning that even those who were not getting paid so much saw their salaries increase. Employees here will feel more appreciated as a result of this financial incentive as opposed to AlphaCo that neglected to cater for all its employees in an equal manner.
BetaCo will outperform AlphaCo over the next year all else equal because motivated employees tend to work harder for a company. In addition, BetaCo increased the salaries of key staff by more than 5%. Those key staff will work harder as a result of this incentive and push the company further than AlphaCo.
Answer: Consumer price index (CPI) is weighted price index of basket of good that a consumer purchases each month. CPI is fixed in nature. It is an economic indicator. A rise in CPI indicates consumer inflation rate. The are type of bias that effects the measurement of CPI are: substitution bias, quality bias and outlet bias.
Explanation: Following are the bias:
- <u>Substitution Bias</u>- it arises when prices in the consumer basket increases and consequently low price alternatives or substitutes are opted by the consumer. As we know CPI is fixed-weight price index so the impact is not predicted accurately.
- <u>Quality bias</u>- It arises when any increase in technology increases the quality life of a product. Constant change in the quality of the product again does not reflect in consumer price index.
- <u>Outlet bias</u>- consumer shifts to new places or outlets as per their taste and preferences which is again not well represented by the CPI.
Answer: Option C
Explanation:
A. In the above case the statement stating superiority of cookware is stated by the experts themselves thus it cannot be considered an assumption.
B. The above case clearly states that the magazine generates revenues from advertising thus it is not an assumption made, actually its a fact stated in the case that magazine will do so.
C. Nothing has been stats about the perspective of the cookware company as they might find the magazine unsuitable as there would be commercials for their competitors. Thus, we can say that it is an assumption.
Answer:
a) Sarah failed to evaluate a potential ethical issue
Explanation:
A financial fraud refers to misrepresentation of financial data by inflating or reducing a figure amount with the motive to deceive the users of the financial statements and thereby depict better financial position and state of affairs.
The above concept is also referred to as window dressing of accounts.
In the given case, the purpose behind increasing the value of inventory and creation of miscellaneous expense account is to depict fake financial picture. With an increase in the inventory balance, the profits would be inflated. Crediting miscellaneous expenses again would reduce expenses balances and further inflate the profits.
Thus, Sarah failed to evaluate a potential ethical issue when she blindly directed her staff to incorporate such changes.
Answer:
The correct option is C,both A and B
Explanation:
A closed economy is not opened to the idea of international trade, where its surplus commodities can be traded with other nations of the world in order to earn foreign exchange while at the same procuring from trading partners products required by its nationals not available at all in the economy or the ones that are not available in the required quantity.
A closed economy also assumes itself to be sufficient in the area of fiscal policy management by not engaging in international borrowing or lending arrangements.
