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New home sales and existing home sales are released each month at about the same time. Many comparisons are made between the two series, but before doing any comparisons, one must be aware of some definition differences that affect the timing of the statistics.
The Census Bureau collects new home sales based upon the following definition: "A sale of the new house occurs with the signing of a sales contract or the acceptance of a deposit." The house can be in any stage of construction: not yet started, under construction, or already completed. Typically about 25% of the houses are sold at the time of completion. The remaining 75% are evenly split between those not yet started and those under construction.
Existing home sales data are provided by the National Association of Realtors®. According to them, "the majority of transactions are reported when the sales contract is closed." Most transactions usually involve a mortgage which takes 30-60 days to close. Therefore an existing home sale (closing) most likely involves a sales contract that was signed a month or two prior.
Given the difference in definition, new home sales usually lead existing home sales regarding changes in the residential sales market by a month or two. For example, an existing home sale in January, was probably signed 30 to 45 days earlier which would have been in November or December. This is based on the usual time it takes to obtain and close a mortgage.
Effective with January 2005, the National Association of Realtors created a new monthly series to overcome the lagging effect of the existing home sales definition. This new series is called Pending Home Sales and is based on sales of existing homes where the contract has been signed but the transaction has not been closed, making it roughly equivalent to the new home sales definition. Monthly estimates are expressed as an index where the year 2001 has been set to equal 100.0.
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1. Prepare an income statement for Allstar for the past month.
The income statement is given below.
Sales $ 410,000
Commission Cost ($ 50,000)
Technology Cost ($ 75,000)
R/D Cost* ($ 200,000)
Selling expenses ($ 10,000)
Admin expenses ($ 35,000)
Net profit $ 40,000
* In absence of information it is assumed that research and development costs of $200,000 meet defination of expense as per accounting standard (IAS 38).
2. Briefly explain why Allstar's income statement has no line for cost of goods sold.
As per question Allstars is a service oriented company. In services oriented company there is no good that company is manufacturing and selling. So there will not be any cost of good sold line item in income statement.
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A production combination outside of the PPF is unattainable by the economy with the given resources and technology.
This represents the Concept of scarcity in economics.
If the economy wishes to achieve the production point outside the frontier, they will have to enhance the production possibility capacity by introducing new technology or finding new resources.
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