Answer:high unemployment and high deflation.
Explanation: The Great depression was a result of stock crash in 1929 which created a terrible and devastating economical situation in the U.S. economy. Almost 50% banks were failing. There was a high and devastating rate of unemployment which increased up to 25% in the U.S and in other states it went to a 35%rise. Many people were homeless and housing prices plummeted or plunged such that they were 30%lpwer than their original economical prices. International trade went down by 65% and prices fell by 10% per each year ;hence we can see that the state was facing acute deflation and highest level of unemployment.
Answer:
Whether the demand for their product is elastic or inelsatic AND whether they have close competitors
Explanation:
*DEMAND ELASTIC OR INELASTIC*
If the product A&B is selling has close substitutes, the product is likely to be more elastic. This means that even a slight rise in price will shift consumers to the substitutes ( competitor's product) which have lower prices. Moreover if the product takes a larger proportion of people's income, and is a luxury, the price is likey to be elastic. However if the product is inelastic ( the product doesn't have close substitutes), an increase in price will not cause much fall in sales, resulting in the prevention of losses in revenue. By using this knowledge A&B can determine whether or not they can use price skimming or promotional pricing.
*CLOSE COMPETITORS*
If the product that A&B is selling has close competitors, raising the price greater than competitor's prices will result in losses of A&B and it will loose customers to rival businesses. A&B can also decide by observing the quality of rival's products and examine whether they should further increase the quality and set higher prices for their product to create a 'higher quality image'.
Through these observations A&B can decide if competitive pricing or penetration pricing will be suitable for it or not.
Answer: 2.5186 percent
Explanation:
First you have to understand that the payment includes Payment Interst plus Debt Payment and that the Payment Balance is the Loan Amount minus the Debt Payment; with this information you calculate the Loan Amount that is 260,500.00 and calculate the rate per month (use the interest debt / Loan Amount) which results in 0.2075 percent (TEM). To calculate the annual interest rate you use the formula to convert to TEA which is ((1+TEM)^12)-1).
Answer:
B.utilizing its total assets more efficiently than Sam's
Explanation:
Dee's has a fixed asset turnover rate of 1.12 and a total asset turnover rate of 0.91. Sam's has a fixed asset turnover rate of 1.15 and a total asset turnover rate of 0.88. Both companies have similar operations.
Based on this information, although Sam seems to be utilizing its fixed assets more efficiently, <u>Dee's must be doing utilizing its total assets more efficiently than Sam's</u>
<u>The fixed asset turnover ratio is an efficiency ratio that measures a companies return on their investment in property, plant, and equipment by comparing net sales with fixed assets. In other words, it calculates how efficiently a company is a producing sales with its machines and equipment.</u>
Dee's has a total asset turnover rate of 0.91 compared to a total asset turnover rate of 0.88 by Sam. Hence Dee's efficiency is higher.