Answer:
The government agency is providing basic and/or essential services that further deepen the interests of members of the public
Explanation:
The assertion that a firm with a monopoly power loses it freedom of contract is very true. Monopolies by its realities come with features that ultimately cater for the interests of the firm, instead of the consumers. One of these is charging an astronomical high price on a particular item of commodity, and not taking cognizance of the purchasing power of the public. A firm could to this, and ultimately get away because its the only delivering such services - the one with the enormous monopoly power. Here, there is no stiff competition among goods that may offer liberty of choices to ordinary consumers.
To mitigate these numerous power of monopolies, governmental body has been giving the power to regulate and maintain an oversight functions. They now determine the provisions of contracts. The main objective of government agency, thus, is to ensure a firm with a monopoly power considers the basic and essential interests of the members of the public - the end users. Here, members of the public are insulated from unnecesary exploitation by the monopolies.
Answer: 3%
Explanation:
To calculate the real interest rate, it should be noted that the inflation rate is needed and this can be calculated using the consumer price index as:
= [(126-120)/120] × 100
= 6/120 × 100
= 5%
Real interest rate will now be:
= Nominal Rate - Inflation Rate
= 8% - 5%
= 3%
Answer:
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Explanation:
Answer:
A. Radio Frequency Identification
Explanation:
The use of radio frequency identification is to ensure a timely identification of people or objects.
The technology uses radio waves to identify people or objects. There is a device that will be used to read information contained in a wireless device or tags from a distance without making physical contact or requiring a line of sight.
Answer:
(a) It will have multiple IRRs
(b) The MIRR calculated is 10.18% . Going by MIRR result , this project will only generate returns that is equal to cost of capital(10%) .If there are other avaible more viable projects, it should be rejected ( Please see attached computation).
Explanation:
(a) The multiple IRRs occurs when cash flows change sign and result in more than one value for the IRR.
Application of IRR to value an investment is only suitable when the project has normal cash flows, i.e a negative initial cash flow (i.e initial investment) followed by a series of positive cash flows.
In this scenario, we have negative cash flow of $6m in year 4 which occured after positive cash flow of $3.5m per year from year 1 to 3. This typically make IRR unreliable. To overcome this limitation , we can use Modified Internal Rate of Return (MIRR)
(b) Please see attached for more details.
