Dollar General sells convenience items such as light bulbs, laundry detergent, and milk at a lower price than a customer pays at
a grocery store, but the company is still able to maintain satisfactory profit margins. Dollar General is an example of _______ in the convenience store industry.
distributing proxies to holders of securities in margin account
Explanation:
Proxies are voting materials on shares that are given by the issuer of the shares to the brokerage that is holding the shares.
Proxies are paid for by the issuer and not the customer.
A broker is allowed to charge for various services rendered. For trading and market related services the 5% rule holds, while for other clerical services such as collection of dividends, safe keeping appraisal of securities, and transfer of securites.
Answer: Marketopia has a comparative advantage in the production of pies.
Explanation:
The bakery with the comparative advantage in any of the goods is the one that has a lower opportunity cost in making it.
Marketopia.
Opportunity cost of Cookies = 18/30 pies = 0.6 pies
Opportunity cost of pies = 30/18 pies = 1.67 cookies
Econladia
Opportunity cost of Cookies = 9/90 pies = 0.1 pies
Opportunity cost of pies = 90/9 pies = 10 cookies
<em>It is shown that Marketopia has a comparative advantage in the production of pies because the opportunity cost of such is 1.67 cookies as opposed to Econladia which is 10 cookies. </em>
Explanation: In simple words, human capital refers to the economic value of an individual employee to the organisation in which he or she works as based on the skill sets and experience that he she possess.
The economic value can be created using various tools like education, training, good health or loyalty etc. Human capital is considered as an intangible asset but is not recorded in the balance sheet of the company as it cannot be quantified.
However, it is considered as the most important asset because the effective use of other resources depends on the human capital of an organisation.
Stock options and bonus's - in other words deferred compensation. These can be either vested or non vested, among other things.
Explanation:
The use of deferred compensation is usually tied to the performance of the company or vested so that the CEO must perform well for the company ot at least last a certain tenure. This is the bread and butter of executive compensation, there have been more creative ways in recent times however.