Chapter 2: Aid for investment -What is the financing gap? Gap between required investment and domestic saving -Explain the Harold-Domar approach and its failings? GDP growth will be proportional to the share of investment spending in GDP. Its failings are that this model applied more to the short-run business cycle in rich countries. Also‚ he was writing in the aftermath of the Great Depression‚ thus taking high unemployment as given. -True or False. There is no relationship between aid and
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FIN370 Week 2 Individual Assignment Chapter Study Questions 14.1 What are financial markets? What function do they perform? How would an economy be worse off without them? Financial markets are institutions and procedures that facilitate transactions in all types of financial claims. Financial markets perform the function of allocating savings in the economy to the ultimate demander(s) of the savings. Without these financial markets‚ the total wealth of the economy would be lessened. Financial
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REVIEW EXAM II 1. Determine whether the following relations on A = {1‚ 2‚ 3‚ 4} are reflexive‚ symmetric and/or transitive? a. { (2‚ 2)‚ (2‚ 3)‚ (2‚ 4)‚ (3‚ 2)‚ (3‚ 3)‚ (3‚ 4) } b. { (1‚ 1)‚ (2‚ 2)‚ (3‚ 3) } c. { (1‚ 3)‚ (1‚ 4)‚ (2‚ 3)‚ (2‚ 4)‚ (3‚ 1)‚ (3‚ 4) } 2. Which of the following are equivalent relations on the set of people? If not‚ list the property that does not hold. a. { (a‚b) | a and b speak a common language } b. { (a‚b) | a and b have the same sex }
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Associate Program Material Appendix D Software Development Activities and Purposes Match the activity or purpose on the left with the appropriate description on the right by typing in the corresponding letter under the Answer column. Activity or Purpose Answer Description 1. Modular programming h A. English-like statements to document the outline of a program 2. Pseudocode a B. Translating design into statements usable by a computer 3. Problem analysis d C. Statements that determine the execution
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Chapter 1 Caste Study 1 1. What skills does Black think employees need to work successfully in the area of HR? They must commercial‚ challenging‚ and focused on delivery and excellence. They must understand change and transformation‚ excel at operations‚ and balance tactical and strategic thinking and activity. They should be able to manage and navigate organizational complexity and ambiguities and not be afraid to say no occasionally in order to establish appropriate boundaries with the business
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several examples from the case. For CPS Energy‚ smartphones helped the become more profitable by reducing manual labor. Improvements in performance come from the employee satisfaction; a happy employee is a productive employee. For Lloyd’s Construction‚ smartphones helped them track employee breaks and find fuel-efficient routes to work sites. I would say that with a construction company higher revenues would allow them to buy better equipment possibly making each employee more productive. 2. The
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Chapter 2: The Marketing Research Process and Proposal This chapter provides the overview of the research process (scientific research process) Changing View of the Market Research Process 1) Data for interpretation Primary data: information that is collected specifically for a current research problem or opportunity. Secondary Data: growing emphasis on secondary data. Information previously collected for some other problem or issue → stored in a data warehouse to help understand bus problems
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Exercise 2-1 (10 minutes) 1. The wages of employees who build the sailboats: direct labor cost. 2. The cost of advertising in the local newspapers: marketing and selling cost. 3. The cost of an aluminum mast installed in a sailboat: direct materials cost. 4. The wages of the assembly shop’s supervisor: manufacturing overhead cost. 5. Rent on the boathouse: a combination of manufacturing overhead‚ administrative‚ and marketing and selling cost. The rent would most likely be prorated
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r1- )2*P1+( r2- )2*P2+( r3- )2*P3+ etc then square rooted (-50% - 11.40%)2(0.1) + (-5% - 11.40%)2(0.2) + (16% - 11.40%)2(0.4) + (25% - 11.40%)2(0.2) + (60% - 11.40%)2(0.1) = 712.44 standard deviation = square root of 712.44 = 26.69% coefficient of variation= CV= σ/ = 26.69%/11.40% = 2.34 expected return = = P1r1+P2r2+P3r3 expected return market= .3*15%+.4*9%+.3*18%= 13.5% expected return stock j= .3*20%+.4*5%+.3*12%=11.6% standard deviation =( r1- )2*P1+( r2- )2*P2+( r3- )2*P3 then
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Chapter 2 1. (a) Using Medtronic as an example‚ explain how a mission statement gives a strategic direction. (b) Create a mission statement for your own career. Answer: (a) A mission statement gives strategic direction by stating the “what” and “how” of a business in a clear‚ concise‚ meaningful‚ inspirational‚ statement that will continue to be relevant in the long-term. Medtronic’s mission statement identifies its customers‚ market‚ products and technology. They stated the business
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