<span>The fact that the management of the diffusion research company when receives proposal for a new research, first estimates the cost of conducting the research and delivering the final research report and then, attempts to reduce the costs through efficient operations and tries to maximize revenue by satisfying its customers' requirements means that the </span>diffusion research company uses a profit-oriented pricing objective.
Answer: Option (b) is correct.
Explanation:
Goodwill is the correct answer.
Goodwill referred as the difference between the price paid by any individual for acquiring a company and book value of the company that includes the fair value of a company's tangible assets, intangible assets and liabilities.
Basically, it is a payment for the reputation of the acquired company in the market.
The statement above is FALSE.
A stock with a beta equal to -1 does not have zero systematic risk.
Systematic risk refers to the uncertainty that is inherent to the entire stock market segment; it is made up majorly of the daily fluctuations in the price of stocks. Beta is the measure of the systematic risk of a stock in comparison to the market as a whole. Beta is also used to compare a stock market risk to that of other stocks.
A stock with a beta value of -1 indicates that the stock price will be less volatile than the market. A stock with a beta value of 1 indicates that the stock price will move with the market.
Answer:
Cannot be determined
Explanation:
Given information
Cost of flying a 100 seat plane = $50,000
Number of empty seats on a flight = 10 seats
By this above information, we cannot determine the marginal cost of flying a passenger as full information is not given
But from this above information, we can find out the average cost which is not need be computed
Answer:
a. marginal benefit is greater than both the average cost and the marginal cost.
Explanation:
Marginal cost is the cost of any action taken and average cost is the average of all the costs associated with the action under consideration. Marginal benefit is the benefit of each action undertaken. A rational approach is to take an action when marginal cost and average cost will be lower than the marginal benefit. You should consider the net Marginal benefit of an action before taking decision.