The law of diminishing marginal returns holds for a situation in which some inputs are variable and some inputs are fixed.
<h3>What is the law of 
diminishing marginal returns?</h3>
The law of diminishing marginal returns states that after some optimal level of capacity is reached in a production process, an additional factor of production would result in a lessening of output (quantity of production).
In this context, we can infer and logically deduce that the law of diminishing marginal returns would only hold for an economic situation in which some inputs are variable and some inputs are fixed.
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Answer:
Explanation:
Production budget is a schedule of the number of units of goods that are to be produced using a forecast sales amount and the level of the opening and closing inventory
                                             Bath Scale                       Gym Scale
Northern region                     25,500                              33,300
Southern region                     27,500                              28,900
Total                                        53,000                               62,200  
Opening inventory                  (1,200)                                ( 2,500 ) 
Closing inventory                     900                                     2,700    
Total units to be produced     52,700                               62,400
Bath scale = 53000+900 -1200 = 52700
Gym scale = 62200+ 2700-2500 =62,400
            
 
        
             
        
        
        
Answer: b. The beta of the portfolio is higher than the highest of the three betas
Explanation:
The beta of a portfolio is calculated as a weighted average of the individual betas of the individual stocks. As such, the highest individual beta will be the upper limit of the portfolios entire beta. 
For instance. 
3 stocks A, B and C have betas of 1, 1.3 and 2 respectively. 
A has a weight of 1%, B has a weight of 1% and C has a weight of 98%. 
The portfolio beta will be;
= (0.01 * 1 ) + ( 0.01 * 1.3) + ( 0.98 * 2)
= 1.98
Even if the stock with the highest beta had an advantage of weighing such a high figure, it it mathematically impossible for the portfolio beta to be higher than it. 
 
        
             
        
        
        
The Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (PCAOB) issues auditing standards, carries out inspections of public accounting firms auditing public clients, and imposes sanctions.
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What are sanctions?</h3>
- Economic sanctions are financial and commercial penalties imposed by one or more nations against a particular self-governing state, group, or person. 
- Economic sanctions may be used for a number of political, military, and social reasons in addition to difficult economic conditions.
<h3> What is The Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (PCAOB)?</h3>
- The Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 established the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (PCAOB), a nonprofit organization, to supervise the audits of public companies and other issuers in order to safeguard investor interests and advance the public interest in the creation of informative, accurate, and independent audit reports.
-  In order to protect investors, the PCAOB also controls the audits of broker-dealers, including compliance reports submitted in accordance with federal securities laws. 
- The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission must approve all PCAOB regulations and standards (SEC).
Therefore, the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (PCAOB) issues auditing standards, carries out inspections of public accounting firms auditing public clients, and imposes sanctions.
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