Several types of risk are present in the U.S. economy. For each of the following, identify the type of risk that is present. Exp
lain your answer. a. The Department of Homeland Security alerts the nation of a possible attack by terrorists.
b. A house may be severely damaged in a fire.
c. A family head may be totally disabled in a plant explosion.
d. An investor purchases 100 shares of Microsoft stock.
e. A river that periodically overflows may cause substantial property damage to thousands of homes in the floodplain.
f. Home buyers may be faced with higher mortgage payments if the Federal Reserve raises interest rates at its next meeting.
g. A worker on vacation plays the slot machines in a casino.
a. This is a fundamental risk case since there is a loss possibility. As the attack is done by the terrorists and the loss is definite in terms
b. It is a property risk as the house is damaged in a fire that resulted into a financial loss
c. It is a personal risk case as the head of the family is totally disabled that directly impact the family which leads to non-fulfillment of the financial liabilities so ultimately its an income loss.
d. It is a case of speculative as the investor purchase 100 shares that resulted in either profit or loss
e. This is a case of fundamental risk as the overflow of the river impacts the property of thousands people
f. This is a case of financial risk as the risk impacted the opposite changes in the price of the commodity, rate of interest, etc
g. It is a speculative case as the worker could either win or loss
Constraint is the term which is defined as something which will controls or limits the person or an individual what the person can do. Their decision depends or grounded on the constraint.
In this case,Oliver wants to buy the new equipment in order to complete the project. The budget is depend or grounded on the grant awarded by the company. So, it is an example of a constraint project.
The Market Research Process enables a company to check if their strategies are wiring in the business Environment. It checks by collecting, analysing and interpreting data to come up with meaningful conclusions that can be acted on to improve the company's standing.
When the Managers were able to determine during the Research into Go-gurt that their marketing strategy was missing the key benefits of the product, it had to be during the preparation of the research report. In this stage the analyzed data can then be made conclusions on and this was where the Managers were able to see that indeed the marketing strategy employed was missing the key benefits of the product.
The standard deviation for the call time is 50 minutes while the average call duration is 25 minutes. The caller has to wait for sometime before the agent answers it because they have 4 agents who take up the calls from the clients. A call arrives every 20 minutes with a standard deviation of 20 minutes. In the given scenario the waiting time can be calculated using the formula below:
t = ( Ф * standard deviation + average call duration * standard deviation )
