CHAPTER 13 Investment Centers and Transfer Pricing ANSWERS TO REVIEW QUESTIONS 13-1 Goal congruence means a meshing of objectives‚ in which the managers throughout an organization strive to achieve goals that are consistent with the goals set by top management. Goal congruence is important for organizational success because managers often are unaware of the effects of their decisions on the organization’s other subunits. Also‚ it is natural for people to be more concerned with the performance
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Supply‚ Demand and Price Elasticity ECO/212 Supply‚ Demand and Price Elasticity A commodity is a basic good that can be bought‚ sold‚ or even used as currency in parts of the world. Items such as coffee‚ sugar‚ soybeans‚ gold‚ silver‚ wheat‚ gasoline‚ corn‚ platinum‚ oranges‚ and crude oil are examples of commodities in the global marketplace. Consumers demand commodities to meet their needs in the consumption of food‚ or the creation of other goods or services. Suppliers‚ often farmers‚
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1. Price Ceilings: Defenders of Communist economic system may point out that consumers pay lower prices for certain good because the government imposes a limit on what producers may charge. Cite at least two other ways that consumers may be “paying” for these goods. * RENT CONTROL IN NEW YORK CITY: Rent control is a price ceiling on rent. When soldiers returned from World War II and started families (which increased demand for apartments)‚ but stopped receiving military pay‚ many could not
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The price ceiling is the maximum price a seller is allowed to charge for a product or service. An impact on society includes when the prices are so high of a product‚ that no one can buy it. A price floor is the lowest legal price a product or service can be sold at. When market price is at its lowest‚ it may still be too high for consumers to purchase products. Governments can intervene for any purpose‚ and they are the ones who set these price controls. Governments may intervene in the market
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QUESTION 1 Price ceiling create shortage. How to overcome it? According to the book “Economic Theory in the Malaysian Context”‚ the definition of price ceiling is a legally established maximum price a seller can charge. It means that the price is lower than the equilibrium market price and it cannot go above the ceiling price. The reason that government imposes ceiling price on item such as beef‚ flour‚ sugar and many more is because to ensure that consumers are able to buy these goods at
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4.4ai. The price elasticity of demand is given to calculate the new price. The fruit stall has 100 peaches initially but 10 peaches are rotten. It means the number of remaining peaches is 90 units. Therefore‚ the question provides the factors such as initial quantity‚ new quantity‚ initial price which are 100‚ 90‚ 1 respectively. Let the new price be x. Therefore‚ we will choose $1.2 per unit as the new price to sell the remaining peaches. 4.4aii. Case 1: If I do not discover the
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Outline I. Introduction A. Attention getter B. Introduce topic II. Price elasticity of demand A. Define B. Example III. Price discrimination A. Define B. Example IV. Effect A. Who/how benefits B. Revenue V. Conclusion A. How B. Closing attention getter Price Elasticity of Demand and Price Discrimination Buy one get one half off and 10% off are just two of the more common offers I come across as a student. They may not seem like much‚ but for some people saving just one dollar
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Why Gold Prices Fluctuate? Posted on May 25‚ 2010 by Manish — 2 Comments ↓ This is the first post in the learner’s series. A simple question that we will answer through this post is‚ “Why do gold prices fluctuate?”. While I am writing this article‚ the Gold price stands at $1238 per ounce (1 ounce = 28.35 grams). This fluctuate everyday‚ and the gold prices have gone significantly up in the past few months. Like all other investments and commodities‚ gold prices also fluctuate everyday and are
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Gold Prices Forecast As we all know that gold prices are fluctuating widely over the last few years‚ and a wide increase in the bullion rates has been recorded. According to economists and forecasters‚ there are different reasons of this widespread increase in gold prices. Most of them say that this is because of the relationship between crude oil and gold. And because of this correlation between prices of oil and gold‚ the gold prices are constantly changing but its not the only reason these
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was often more valuable than gold. Silver is currently about 1/50th the price of gold by mass‚ and 70 times more valuable than copper. Silver did once trade at 1/6th to 1/12th the price of gold‚ however‚ the discovery of great silver deposits in the Americas. These new discoveries made the price of silver fall dramatically‚ due to the excess supply prices were forced down‚ as the demand did not match supply at so high price levels. Demand for silver has changed over the past years. Firstly‚ the
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