2, 3, and 4, make the most sense to me. I'm not completely sure about 4, but I'm confident about the other two :)
Answer: The deficit is lower when compared to 2010.
Explanation:
The United States Budget for 2010 titled "A New Era of Responsibility: Renewing America's Promise by President Barack Obama's budget in 2010 was $3.456 trillion for expenditure and total revenue was $2.163 which led to a budget deficit of $1.294 trillion.
In 2019, the revenue was $3.422 and expenditure was $4.407 which led to a budget deficit was $985. It can be deduced that there has been a reduction in the budget deficit when compared to 2010.
Answer:
external threat
Explanation:
This decision was likely based on an external threat. Which in this scenario is the economy. Economy is considered as an external threat because it is not in the control of the company itself but still directly affects the everyday business operations of the company as well as it's profit and costs. All of this equates to how well the company performs, therefore in a situation where the economy poses a threat decisions need to be made such as the one in this scenario.
Answer:
A. In a situation where prices are declining, companies using LIFO will report the smallest cost of goods sold.
- This is because LIFO calculates goods sold as Last in, First Out. And since the cost is declining, the last in inventory will have the smallest cost of goods sold.
C. Weighted average cost of goods sold will be between FIFO and LIFO costs of goods sold.
- Whether the cost of goods are rising or falling, this will always be the case.
D. Companies using LIFO will pay higher taxes than companies using FIFO, assuming all else being equal.
- This is because when using LIFO in this scenario, higher profits would be recorded and the tax is paid on profit, thus higher taxes.
F. Companies using LIFO will report the highest ending inventory on their balance sheets (as compared to companies using FIFO or weighted average,)
- This is simply because in this scenario, the LIFO sold the cheaper goods first leaving an ending inventory of the relatively expensive goods unlike FIFO which would have sold the expensive first. Again, emphasis on this scenario of declining cost.
