*matches pairs to respective categories*
Answer: 1. 18 times
2. Park is in better position
Explanation:
1. Times interest earned is a financial ratio that measures interest coverage. It's essentially to check if a company can pay it's debt payments and is calculated by either EBIT or EBITDA divided by the total interest expense. The higher the better and anything above 2.5 times is usually considered.
Calculating would therefore be,
= $6,120,000 /$340,000
= 18 times.
2. As mentioned in the first answer, for the Times interest earned, the higher it is, the more favourable it is. So Park Company will be considered safer and are most definitely in a better or worse position than its competitor to make interest payments if the economy turns bad. The fact that theirs is 18 means that they can pay off their interest expense 5 times more than their competitor who can only repay 12 times.
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Answer:
d. an increase in the quantity of bicycles demanded.
Explanation:
For this question, the law of demand applies.
According to the law of demand, when the price of the good increases the quantity demanded of that good would be decreased keeping other things constant and when the price of the good decreases the quantity demanded of that good would be increased keeping other things constant.
It reflects the inverse relationship between the price and the quantity demanded of the good.
Explanation:
The long-running debate between the ‘rational design’ and ‘emergent process’ schools of strategy formation has involved caricatures of firms' strategic planning processes, but little empirical evidence of whether and how companies plan. Despite the presumption that environmental turbulence renders conventional strategic planning all but impossible, the evidence from the corporate sector suggests that reports of the demise of strategic planning are greatly exaggerated. The goal of this paper is to fill this empirical gap by describing the characteristics of the strategic planning systems of multinational, multibusiness companies faced with volatile, unpredictable business environments. In-depth case studies of the planning systems of eight of the world's largest oil companies identified fundamental changes in the nature and role of strategic planning since the end of the 1970s. The findings point to a possible reconciliation of ‘design’ and ‘process’ approaches to strategy formulation. The study pointed to a process of planned emergence in which strategic planning systems provided a mechanism for coordinating decentralized strategy formulation within a structure of demanding performance targets and clear corporate guidelines. The study shows that these planning systems fostered adaptation and responsiveness, but showed limited innovation and analytical sophistication
Answer:
b. In the first economy, the spending multiplier is greater than in the second economy. In the third economy, the spending multiplier is undefined
Explanation:
This can be easily understood by going through some calculations in a spending multiplier formula.
WORKINGS
The formula for Spending Multiplier = 
Spending Multiplier
Economy 1: Multiplier = 
= 2
Economy 2: Multiplier = 
= 1
Economy 3: Multiplier = 
= undefined
Note: MPS can be abbreviated as Marginal propensity to save
As we can see here economy 1 is 50% greater than economy 2 and economy 3 is undefined because they spend whole dollar they earn additionally.
On behalf of the above calculations, option B is a perfect match!
