Suggested Answers for Tutorial 8 [Team B] Chapter 31 3. a. When an American art professor spends the summer touring museums in Europe‚ he spends money buying foreign goods and services‚ so U.S. exports are unchanged‚ imports increase‚ and net exports decrease. b. When students in Paris flock to see the latest movie from Hollywood‚ foreigners are buying a U.S. good‚ so U.S. exports rise‚ imports are unchanged‚ and net exports increase. c. When your uncle buys a new Volvo‚ an American is buying a
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• Profitability Procter & Gamble’s Gross Profit Margin (GPM) increased in 2010 by 2.41%‚ however it decreased in 2011 by 1.34%‚ while Net Sales continued to increase from 2009 to 2011. This trend was due to a price fluctuation in Cost of Goods Sold. The GPM directly affected the Operating Profit Margin (OPM)‚ which also increased in 2010 by 0.25% and decreased in 2011 by 1.14%. The Operating expenses were somewhat stable‚ which resulted in the OPM ratios following a similar trend as the GPM
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Urban Sprawl The idea of urban sprawls is one that interests economists. An urban sprawl is the spreading of urban developments on undeveloped land near a city. In the article‚ “Urban Sprawl” by Thomas J. Nechyba and Randall P. Walsh‚ the authors talk about the advantages and disadvantages of urban sprawls. They also explain the consequences of inner-city and suburbs after the urban sprawls have occurred. The problems of urban sprawls are the un-productive congestion of roads‚ high levels of metropolitan
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MGT 3374 Human Resource Management DAY-BY-DAY TOPICS‚ READINGS & ASSIGNMENTS (Version 1-15-14 5) WEEK DAY TOPICS/WRITTEN ASSIGNMENTS/READINGS/ IN-CLASS EXERCISES 1 1-16 Topics to be covered Course purpose and expectations Course assignments and activities Class attendance rules Assigned cases and exercises from: Nkomo‚ Fottler‚ & McAfee‚ Applications in Human Resources Management: Cases‚ Exercises‚ Incidents‚ and Skill Builders‚ 7th ed. (Cengage‚ 2011). ISBN: 0-538-54807-6 Sample
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Economics Chapter 2 Chapter 2 * Opportunity cost is a ratio. It is the decrease in the quantity produced of one good divided by the increase in the quantity produced of another good as we move along the production possibilities frontier. * The outward-bowed shape of the PPF reflects increasing opportunity cost. The PPF is bowed outward because resources are not all equally productive in all activities. * When goods and services are produced at the lowest possible cost and in the
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PROBLEM SET 1 Name: ______________________________________________ Problem Set 1 is to be completed by 11:59 p.m. (ET) on Monday of Module/Week 2. 1. Based on the information provided for the market for video games‚ answer the following questions. PRICE Q DEMANDED Q SUPPLIED $50 5 9 $45 7 7 $40 9 5 $35 11 3 $30 13 1 a.) Draw and properly label the demand and supply graphs (this means you must label the axes and any lines you include on the graph). b.) What is the equilibrium
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Friday 11 January 2013 – Afternoon GCSE COMPUTING A451/01 Computer Systems and Programming * A 4 2 6 2 6 0 1 1 3 * Candidates answer on the Question Paper. Duration: 1 hour 30 minutes OCR supplied materials: None Other materials required: None * A 4 5 1 0 1 * INSTRUCTIONS TO CANDIDATES • • • • • • Write your name‚ centre number and candidate number in the boxes above. Please write clearly and in capital letters. Use black ink. HB pencil may be used for graphs and diagrams only. Answer
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rise to power of the Nazis due to the Wall Street Crash? Historian Carr writes "It is inconceivable that Hitler could have come into power had not the Weimar Republic being subject to the unprecedented strain of a world crisis"‚ thus he thinks that the Wall Street Crash was the cause of problems in Weimar leading to the rise of the Nazis. In 1933 the Nazi party took control of Germany‚ installing Hitler as chancellor. Evidence would suggest that the Wall Street Crash was a major factor in the Nazi’s
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This book is a biography about a young girl who lives in poverty. Her name is Jeannette Walls she takes the reader through her life in the book. My mother has read the book before me and highly recommended it for this project. She explained the plot and I was very interested. I read the it and was very happy with the book. This story is about Jeannette Walls and how her family must travel and live in poverty. She had to live in rundown houses and sometimes didn’t have a house at all
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Tri Vi Dang Email: td2332@columbia.edu Columbia University Spring 2013 Corporate Finance (ECON W4280) Meeting time: Tu‚ Th 4.10-5.25 Meeting place: Hamilton 503 Office address: IAB 1032 Office hours: Th 11.00-12.00 and other times by appointment Course Description The aim of this introductory course in corporate finance is to provide students with fundamental concepts for understanding firms’ financing decisions and the basic tools for the valuation of a corporation. This course
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