Answer:
c. 7.98; .92.
Explanation:
My calculations varied slightly (0.02% and 0.01%), but the error might be a rounding error. Option C is the logical answer since the difference is minimum.
real rate returns from stocks:
15% - 2.8% = 12.2%
7% - 2.8% = 4.2%
4% - 2.8% = 1.2%
18% - 2.8% = 15.2%
average real return = 8.2% arithmetic mean
average real return = 8% geometric mean
real rate returns from US T-bills:
6% - 2.8% = 3.2%
3% - 2.8% = 0.2%
2% - 2.8% = -0.8%
4% - 2.8% = 1.2%
average real return = 0.95% arithmetic mean
average real return = 0.93% geometric mean
Answer: C) $1.04/C$1
Explanation:
We define the inflation rate in a certain country as
- a rate at which the value of a currency is falling
- as a result the usual level of prices for goods and services keeps rising.
1 year ago the spot rate of U.S. dollars for Canadian dollars was $1/C$1.
That time inflation rate in US was 4% greater than in Canada.
So, the current spot exchange rate of U.S. dollars for Canadian dollars :
($1 + 4% of $1)/C$1
=($1+$0.04)/ C$1
=$1.04 / C$1
Hence, the correct option is C) $1.04/C$1
Answer:
Nominal gross domestic product (GDP) measures the market value of all the new and legal goods and services produced in a country within a year. While real GDP adjusts nominal GDP to inflation. Since inflation is generally positive, real GDP decreases as inflation increases. The higher the inflation rate, the larger the difference between nominal and real GDP. Depending on which year is used as base year (year 0), the difference that existed in 2010 can be either significant or not.
The difference = ($14,657 / $13,245) - 1 = 10.66%, which means that nominal GDP was 10.66% higher than real GDP. If the base year is 2000 or even 2005/6, the difference is very small since the accumulated inflation would only be 10.66% for all these years. But if the base year was 2008 or even 2009, then the inflation rate is high.
Back in 2015, McDonald’s was struggling. In Europe, sales were down 1.4% across the previous 6 years; 3.3% down in the US and almost 10% down across Africa and the Middle East. There were a myriad of challenges to overcome. Rising expectations of customer experience, new standards of convenience, weak in-store technology, a sprawling menu, a PR-bruised brand and questionable ingredients to name but a few.
McDonald’s are the original fast-food innovators; creating a level of standardisation that is quite frankly, remarkable. Buy a Big Mac in Beijing and it’ll taste the same as in Stratford-Upon Avon.
So when you’ve optimised product delivery, supply chain and flavour experience to such an incredible degree — how do you increase bottom line growth? It’s not going to come from making the Big Mac cheaper to produce — you’ve already turned those stones over (multiple times).
The answer of course, is to drive purchase frequency and increase margins through new products.
Numerous studies have shown that no matter what options are available, people tend to stick with the default options and choices they’ve made habitually. This is even more true when someone faces a broad selection of choices. We try to mitigate the risk of buyers remorse by sticking with the choices we know are ‘safe’.
McDonald’s has a uniquely pervasive presence in modern life with many of us having developed a pattern of ordering behaviour over the course of our lives (from Happy Meals to hangover cures). This creates a unique, and less cited, challenge for McDonald’s’ reinvention: how do you break people out of the default buying behaviours they’ve developed over decades?
In its simplest sense, the new format is designed to improve customer experience, which will in turn drive frequency and a shift in buying behaviour (for some) towards higher margin items. The most important shift in buying patterns is to drive reappraisal of the Signature range to make sure they maximise potential spend from those customers who can afford, and want, a more premium experience.
I hope this was helpful
Answer:
C) $200.00
Explanation:
Absorption Product Cost = Direct Labor + Direct Materials + Variable Overheads + Fixed Overheads
Thus, we need to Calculate the Total Cost of Goods Manufactured as follows :
Direct materials used $160,000
Direct labor $100,000
Variable factory overhead $60,000
Fixed factory overhead $80,000
Total Cost of Goods Manufactured $400,000
Then Calculate the product cost per unit
Product cost per unit = Total Cost / Total Production
= $400,000 / ($315,000/$225.00 + 600)
= $400,000 / 2,000
= $200.00
Note : Total Production = Units Sold <em>plus</em> Ending Finished Goods Inventory
