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Please kindly answer the following questions The following are correct statements about the effects coming from...

Please kindly answer the following questions

The following are correct statements about the effects coming from a Price Floor regulation on a certain market, EXCEPT:

Question 19 options: (Answer is not A)

A) The regulated price prevailing will be higher than the price in equilibrium.

B) A Deadweight loss will be generated

C) The consumers will always be worse off

D) The producers will always be worse off

As a result of an expected increase in the price of gasoline in the near future, the followings are likely effects, EXCEPT:

Question 15 options: (Answer is not C)

A) A shift up of the current supply curve for gasoline.

B) A shift up of the current demand curve for gasoline.

C) An increase today of the price of gasoline in equilibrium

D) A decrease today, but increase tomorrow, of the price for gasoline in equilibrium.

The following factors could likely Shift Down the Supply Curve for certain good X,  EXCEPT:

Question 14 options: (Answer is not A)

A) A decrease in the cost of labor used in production of good x.

B) A technological innovation in production of good x.

C) An increase in the market price for an alternative product Pw.

D) An increase of subsidies on production of good x.

The following are correct descriptions about the Supply Curve for certain good X, EXCEPT:

Question 13 options: (Answer is not C)

A) It is the minimum price producers are willing to accept for any unit produced of good X.

B) It reflects the segment of production with decreasing marginal cost.

C) Reflects the optimal level of production for any given Px.  

D) Reflects the producer's decision to produce up to the point where market price equals marginal cost of production.

The following are correct descriptions of the Demand Curve, EXCEPT:

Question 11 options: (Answer is not A)

A) It describes the maximum price the consumer is willing and able to pay, given certain preferences, income and prices for other goods.

B) Decreasing marginal cost in production can explain the negative slope of the demand curve.

C) As price increases, the quantity consumed is expected to decline due to an income and substitution effects.

D) The Demand Curve for good x reflects the optimal choice of consumers about Qx given any Px.  

In: Economics

Please answer in detail, I got this answer couple time in very nutshell. URGENT Answers given...

Please answer in detail, I got this answer couple time in very nutshell. URGENT

Answers given without showing steps or providing explanations will not be considered. Where possible, use tables and/or graphs to support your answers.

  1. The World Health Organization (WHO) is considering sending in a team of experts to deal with an outbreak of schistosomiasis in a developing country. It costs $25,000 for every additional five team members sent. Sending a larger team will allow WHO to prevent more fatalities, and they estimate the following effectiveness:

Number of Team Members

Number of Deaths

0

1200

5

500

10

200

15

100

20

60

25

40

30

30

35

25

40

22

45

20

50

20

a) (20’) Please plot the incremental cost-effectiveness ratios in a two-dimensional graph with total effectiveness along the horizontal axis and incremental cost-effectiveness ratios along the vertical axis.

b) (20’) If saving a life is valued at $10,000, what is the optimal number of team members sent?

c) (20’) Suppose the WHO has a total budget of $150,000 to be spent on fighting this epidemic. How would your answer to b) change?

2. Patient BN is a 36-year-old female with a type of organ failure that reduces her quality of life to half of what it would be in good health. Without treatment she can expect to live only two years. With a successful transplant, BN can expect to live four years and have a quality of life that is near 80% what she would enjoy in good health. However, the transplant costs $100,000, plus $10,000 each year for drugs and follow-up care, and carries a 15% risk of rejection resulting in immediate death.

a) (20’) What is the cost per additional year of life gained (without discounting for time or quality of life)?

b) (20’) What is the cost per discounted Quality-adjusted Life-year (QALY) gained (assuming a 5%-time discount rate)?

In: Economics

PRODUCT COSTING FOR MANAGEMENT AND PRICING (2-5) 1. Service Company Allocation of Overhead Blue Computer Repair...

PRODUCT COSTING FOR MANAGEMENT AND PRICING (2-5) 1. Service Company Allocation of Overhead Blue Computer Repair treats each repair order as a job. Overhead is allocated based on the cost of technician time. At the start of the year, annual technician wages were estimated to be $800,000, and company overhead was estimated to be $500,000. Required a.   Discuss why use of a predetermined overhead rate would be preferred to assigning actual overhead to repair jobs. b.   Suppose a job required parts costing $200 and technician time costing $100. What would be the total cost of the job? 2. Cost of Jobs     Red Company is a steel fabricator, and job 325 consists of producing 500 steel supports for Green Construction Company. Overhead is applied on the basis of direct labor hours, using a predetermined overhead rate of $25 per hour. Direct costs associated with Job 325 are: direct materials, $10,000; direct labor, 250 hours at $16 per hour. Required Calculate the cost of Job 325. 3. Service Company Use of Predetermined Overhead Rate Yellow and Purple Legal Services employs five full-time attorneys and nine paraprofessionals. Budgeted salaries are $100,000 for each attorney and $50,000 for each paraprofessional. Budgeted indirect costs (e.g., rent, secretarial support, copying, etc.) are $210,000. The company traces the cost of attorney and paraprofessional time to each client and uses the total to assign indirect costs. Required What amount of indirect costs would be assigned if services to a client required $25,000 of attorney cost and $20,000 of paraprofessional cost? 4. Job Costing (Service) Orange & Associates is an accounting firm that provides audit, tax, and accounting services to medium-size retail companies. It employs 50 professionals (10 partners and 40 associates) who work directly with clients. The average expected total compensation per professional for the year is $120,000. The services of Orange are in high demand, and each professional works for clients to their maximum of 1,600 billable hours. All professional salaries are traced to individual client service summaries. All costs other than professional salaries are included in a single indirect cost pool (professional support). The indirect costs are assigned to service summaries using professional hours as the allocation base. The expected amount of indirect costs for the year is $5,200,000. Required a.   Compute the budgeted indirect cost rate per hour of professional service. b.   Orange & Associates is bidding on tax and audit services for a potential client that are expected to require 100 hours of professional service time. Calculate the estimated cost of the work using average professional wage rates and basing indirect costs on estimated service time.

In: Accounting

Heart Construction is analyzing its capital expenditure proposals for equipment in the coming year. The capital...

Heart Construction is analyzing its capital expenditure proposals for equipment in the coming year. The capital budget is limited to $15,000,000 for the year. Laura, staff analyst at Heart Construction, is preparing an analysis of the three projects under consideration by Mr. Heart, the company’s owner.

Project A

Project B

Project C

Net initial investment

$6,600,000

$8,500,000

$9,000,000

Year 1 cash inflows

3,600,000

5,500,000

4,900,000

Year 2 cash inflows

3,600,000

2,000,000

4,900,000

Year 3 cash inflows

3,600,000

1,100,000

200,000

Year 4 cash inflows

3,600,000

0

100,000

Required rate of return

6%

6%

6%

Because the company’s cash is limited, Mr. Heart thinks the payback method should be used to choose between the capital budgeting projects.

Requirement

  1. What are the benefits of the payback methods?
  2. What are the limitations of the payback methods?
  3. Calculate the payback period for each of the three projects. Ignore income taxes. Round your answer to 2 decimal places.
  4. Based on the payback period, which project should Mr. Heart choose?
  5. Calculate the simple rate of return for each project. Ignore income taxes.
  6. Based on the simple rate of return, which project should Mr. Heart choose?

In: Accounting

2. Plattsburgh Construction Company (PCC) renovates old homes in Plattsburgh. Over time, the company has found...

2. Plattsburgh Construction Company (PCC) renovates old homes in Plattsburgh. Over time, the company has found that its dollar volume of renovation work is dependent on the Plattsburgh area payroll. The figures for Plattsburgh Construction Company’s sales and the amount of money earned by wage earners in Plattsburg for the past six years are presented in the following table.

Year

1

2

3

4

5

6

Local Payroll ($1,000,000s)

3

4

6

4

2

5

PCC’s Sales ($100,000s)

6

8

9

5

4.5

9.5

Conducts a regression analysis and fill in blanks.

Regression Statistics

Multiple R

R Square

Observation

6

df

SS

MS

F

Significance F

Regression

Residual

Total

Coefficient

Standard Error

t-Stat

P-value

Intercept

X variable 1

  1. State the prediction equation or the regression model.
  1. What percent of the variations in PCC’s sales is explained by the model? Is the model powerful in prediction sales? Explain.
  1. What do F-ratio and P-value tell about the above regression model?
  2. Based on the regression model, what are PCC’s predicted sales if the local payroll is predicted to be $7 million next year?

In: Statistics and Probability

Singapore Budget 2015: Parliament Passes Record $79.9 Billion Budget New schemes announced by the budget statement...

Singapore Budget 2015: Parliament Passes Record $79.9 Billion Budget

New schemes announced by the budget statement include ten new hawker centers by 2027, a third desalination plant, SkillsFuture initiative to support lifelong learning for adults, and a second edition of Construction Productivity Roadmap to boost the industry’s capabilities.

Source: The Straits Times, March 13, 2015

.     Explain the supply-side effects of building ten new hawker centers and a third desalination plant. ?

. .    Explain the potential supply-side and demand-side effects of Skills Future initiative.?

Explain the potential supply-side and demand-side effects of adopting new technologies to boost productivity in the construction industry.?

Draw a graph to illustrate the combined demand-side and supply-side effect of the fiscal policy measures in part (a).?

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The economy is growing slowly, the inflationary gap is large, and there is a budget deficit.

1-.    Do we know whether the budget deficit is structural or cyclical? Explain your answer.?

2-.   Do we know whether automatic stabilizers are increasing or decreasing aggregate demand? Explain your answer.?

3- If a discretionary decrease in government expenditure occurs, what happens to the structural budget balance? Explain your answer.?

In: Economics

2. Plattsburgh Construction Company (PCC) renovates old homes in Plattsburgh. Over time, the company has found...

2. Plattsburgh Construction Company (PCC) renovates old homes in Plattsburgh. Over time, the company has found that its dollar volume of renovation work is dependent on the Plattsburgh area payroll. The figures for Plattsburgh Construction Company’s sales and the amount of money earned by wage earners in Plattsburg for the past six years are presented in the following table.

Year

1

2

3

4

5

6

Local Payroll ($1,000,000s)

3

4

6

4

2

5

PCC’s Sales ($100,000s)

6

8

9

5

4.5

9.5

Conducts a regression analysis and fill in blanks.

Regression Statistics

Multiple R

R Square

Observation

6

df

SS

MS

F

Significance F

Regression

Residual

Total

Coefficient

Standard Error

t-Stat

P-value

Intercept

X variable 1

  1. State the prediction equation or the regression model.
  1. What percent of the variations in PCC’s sales is explained by the model? Is the model powerful in prediction sales? Explain.
  1. What do F-ratio and P-value tell about the above regression model?
  2. Based on the regression model, what are PCC’s predicted sales if the local payroll is predicted to be $7 million next year?

In: Statistics and Probability

On December 31, 2019, Novak Inc. borrowed $4,440,000 at 13% payable annually to finance the construction...

On December 31, 2019, Novak Inc. borrowed $4,440,000 at 13% payable annually to finance the construction of a new building. In 2020, the company made the following expenditures related to this building: March 1, $532,800; June 1, $888,000; July 1, $2,220,000; December 1, $2,220,000. The building was completed in February 2021. Additional information is provided as follows.

1. Other debt outstanding
10-year, 14% bond, December 31, 2013, interest payable annually $5,920,000
6-year, 11% note, dated December 31, 2017, interest payable annually $2,368,000
2. March 1, 2020, expenditure included land costs of $222,000
3. Interest revenue earned in 2020 $72,520

Determine the amount of interest to be capitalized in 2020 in relation to the construction of the building.

The amount of interest

$

List of Accounts

  

  

Prepare the journal entry to record the capitalization of interest and the recognition of interest expense, if any, at December 31, 2020. (Credit account titles are automatically indented when amount is entered. Do not indent manually. If no entry is required, select "No Entry" for the account titles and enter 0 for the amounts.)

Date

Account Titles and Explanation

Debit

Credit

December 31, 2020

In: Accounting

Interest During Construction Alta Company is constructing a production complex that qualifies for interest capitalization. The...

Interest During Construction

Alta Company is constructing a production complex that qualifies for interest capitalization. The following information is available:

  • Capitalization period: January 1, 2019, to June 30, 2020
  • Expenditures on project:
    2019:
    January 1 $ 516,000
    May 1 477,000
    October 1 648,000
    2020:
    March 1 1,404,000
    June 30 684,000
  • Amounts borrowed and outstanding:
       $1.7 million borrowed at 10%, specifically for the project
       $8 million borrowed on July 1, 2018, at 12%
       $13 million borrowed on January 1, 2017, at 6%

Required:

Note: Round all final numeric answers to two decimal places.

  1. Compute the amount of interest costs capitalized each year.
    Capitalized interest, 2019 $ fill in the blank 1
    Capitalized interest, 2020 $ fill in the blank 2
  2. If it is assumed that the production complex has an estimated life of 20 years and a residual value of $0, compute the straight-line depreciation in 2020.

    $ fill in the blank 3

  3. Since GAAP requires accrual accounting, if a company capitalizes interest during the construction period it will report   income than if it had not capitalized interest. In future periods, the same company will report   income than if it had not capitalized interest.

In: Accounting

Sara Chung knew the construction contractors in her area well. She was the purchasing manager at...

Sara Chung knew the construction contractors in her area well. She was the purchasing manager at the power plant, a business that was the major employer in the region. Whenever a repair or maintenance job came up, Sara’s friends would inflate the invoice by 10%. The invoice would then be passed through the accounts payable department, where the clerk was supposed to review and verify the charges before processing the payment. The accounts payable clerk, Valerie Judson, was happy to have a job and didn’t want anything to jeopardize it. She knew the deal but kept her mouth shut. Sara’s contractor friends would always “kick back” the 10% extra to Sara under the table. One day, Valerie had a heart attack and went into the hospital. The company hired a new accounts payable clerk, Spencer Finn. He had worked construction in his college days and suspected something was fishy, but he couldn’t prove it. He did, however, wish to protect himself in case the fraud came to light.

  1. How could an auditor detect fraud of this sort?
  2. What can a business do to prevent this kind of fraudulent activity?
  3. What should the new accounts payable clerk do to protect himself?

In: Accounting