Workers and management agree on a contract that gives a 5% wage increase for each of the next three years. Everyone expected 3% inflation but inflation turned out to be 5% per year. Then at the end of three years... a. real wages will be higher than was expected.

b. real wages will have fallen

c. nominal and real wages will have changed by the same percentage.

d. real wages will be lower than was expected.

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Answer 1

Answer:

Answer:

The correct option is (d)

Explanation:

Real wages are nominal wages less inflation. Nominal wage is not adjusted for inflation. Everyone had expected an inflation of 3% per year while increase in wages per year is 5%. This implied that they will expect real wage of 2% (5% - 3%) per year.

However, it turned out that inflation was 5% per year. This means that real wages were actually 0% (5% - 5%). There was no increase in real wages at all. So, they received lower real wage (actually nil) as against expected real wage of 3% per year.

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Answer:

Current assets - $1,900,000

Explanation:

The computation of the construction account balance is shown below:

= Cost incurred + gross profit - progress billings

where,

Gross profit = Revenue - cost incurred

The revenue = (Cost incurred ÷ total cost) × completion cost

= ($5,400,000 ÷ $9,000,000) × $10,000,000

= $6,000,000

So, the gross profit equal to

= $6,000,000 - $5,400,000

= $600,000

Now put these values to the above formula

So, the value would equal to

= $5,400,000 + $600,000 - $4,100,000

= $6,000,000 - $4,100,000

= $1,900,000 current assets

A firm derives revenue from two sources: goods X and Y. Annual revenues from good X and Y are $10,000 and $20,000, respectively. If the price elasticity of demand for good X is -4.0 and the cross-price elasticity of demand between Y and X is 2.0, then a 2 percent decrease in the price of X will _______.

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Answer:

X demand would rise by 8% ; Y demand would fall by 4%

Explanation:

Price Elasticity of Demand is the responsiveness in demand quantity, due to change in good's price

P.Ed = % change in demand / % change in own price

Cross Price Elasticity is the responsiveness in a good's demand quantity, due to change in other good's price

C.Ed = % change in demand (Y) / % change in other good's price (X)

Given {Good X Elasticities} : P.Ed = (-) 4 ; C.Ed = 2

Price of X decrease = 2%

P.Ed = 4 = % change in demand / 2

% change in demand of X = 2 x 4 = 8%

P.Ed absolute value ignoring negative has been taken due to law of demand price - demand inverse relationship already depicting it. So, 2% fall in price of X increases it's quantity demanded by 8%

C.Ed = 2 = % change in Y demand / 2

% change in Y demand = 2 x 2 = 4%

Cross Price Elasticity of demand is positive in case of substitute goods. These goods can be interchange-ably used to satisfy a particular want. Substitutes price & demand are directly related;- as price fall of a good makes it relatively cheap, increases its demand, decreases other good's demand. So, 2% decrease in good X price decreases good Y demand by 4%

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b. Find the price and P/E ratio of the firm if the plowback ratio is reduced to 0.20.

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Answer:

a. Earnings per share = $5

Expected dividend per share(D1) = 70% x $5 = $3.50

Current market price(Po) = D1/Ke - g

Current market price(Po) = $3.50/0.12-0.06

Po = $3.50/0.06

Po = $58.33

Growth rate(g) = b x r

= 0.3 x 0.2

= 0.06

Price-earnings(P/E) ratio = market price per share/Earnings per share

= 58.33/5

= 11.67

b. Earnings per share = $5

D1 = 80% x $5 = $4

Po = D1/Ke - g

Po = $4/0.12-0.04

Po = $50

g = b x r

g = 0.2 x 0.2

g = 0.04

P/E ratio = $50/$5

P/E ratio = 10

Explanation:

In this question, there is need to determine the growth rate, which is a function of return on investment and plowback ratio. Then, we will calculate the current market price as shown above. Finally, the current market price is divided by earnings per share in order to obtain the P/E ratio.

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1/1/2021 $207,020
6/30/2021 $7,000 $6,211 $789 206,230
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What is the annual stated interest rate on the bonds?
a. 3.5%
b. 6%
c. 7%
d. none of the above

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Answer:

c. 7%

Explanation:

According to the given scenario, the computation of the annual stated interest rate on the bonds is shown below:-

Sated interest Rate = Cash interest ÷ Face Value of the bond × 2

= $7,000÷ $200,000 × 2

= 7%

Therefore for computing the annual stated interest rate on the bonds we simply applied the above formula. hence the correct option is c

The planning session had been long but productive. Sean had been quiet throughout the meeting. He spent his time texting messages to his son on his cell phone instead. The director finished by summarizing the plan to reschedule stock offerings. Everyone was preparing to leave when Sean raised his hand. "I don’t know if we covered this," he said, "but have we talked about rescheduling the stock offerings yet? I don’t think we should wait until the fall."

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Explanation:

In this case, Sean committed an unprofessional attitude towards the meeting.

Work meetings are essential for the employees of an organization to develop a positive interpersonal relationship through communication and the possibility of integration and contribution to the goals of the company through ideas and points of view.

Therefore, it is essential that each employee has a professional position, avoid using the phone during sessions and see meetings as an opportunity to improve their communication and integration skills with other employees.

It is also important that the employee is involved and engaged to actively participate in the meeting.

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Answer: 1. Low

2. False

3. False

Explanation:

1. The owners' goal is to keep players' salaries Low.

As the text says, Oligopolist buyers would try to reduce the price of goods that they buy. In the MLB world, the teams are the buyers and the players are the sellers with the salaries being their price. Team owners will therefore try to keep salaries at a low level so that they make more profit.

2. False

This goal is not difficult to achieve due to budget differences but rather because different payers offer varying contributions to the team's game. Some players push the team forward more and hence are able to demand their fair share. This makes it difficult to cap their salaries.

3. False

They only tried to impose the salary cap so that they could reduce the cost of running the basketball teams and not to prevent teams from cheating. The salaries they were paying were high enough that they felt they weren't making enough profit. So they conspired to impose a salary cap so that they could make more profit.

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