Macroeconomics Assignment 1 Question 1 (10 marks) (a) The relative scarcity of resources makes the operation of any economy a matter of choosing between alternatives.” Explain. The world has limited resources and us‚ as people have unlimited wants. Therefore‚ we must constantly make decisions to choose what we would rather buy or produce and what we must give up in its consequence. This includes work and time. For example‚ studying for an exam late at night would give you more time to retain
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COURSE: BACHELOR OF COMMERCE (BCOM) UNIT: INTRODUCTION TO MACRO-ECONOMICS QUESTION: MICRO-ECONOMICS AND MACRO-ECONOMICS INTRODUCTION Economics is the foundation of all commercial activity and comprises two areas: microeconomics and macroeconomics. Macroeconomics is concerned with the big picture‚ for example‚ the national economy and gross domestic product. By contrast‚ microeconomics is concerned with the small picture and focuses on theories of supply and demand. Microeconomics is
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ECONOMICS ANALYSIS FOR BUSINESS UNIT – 1 1. What is Economics? Economics is the science which studies human behaviour as a relationship between ends and scare means which have alternative uses. 2. Definition of economics According to “Adamsmith” Economic is a social science the deals with human behaviour pertaining to production‚ Exchange and consumption of goods and services. 3. What are basic concept of economic? * Resource allocation * Opportunity cost * Diminishing marginal
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standard-setters have an expectation that the readers of general purpose financial reports have a ‘reasonable knowledge’ of accounting. Specifically‚ the IASB Framework states that ‘users are expected to have a reasonable knowledge of business and economic activities and accounting and a willingness to study the information with reasonable diligence’. Hence‚ there is an expectation that financial statements are not tailored to meet the needs of people who have not‚ in some way‚ studied financial accounting
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B122 An introduction to retail management and marketing Mathew Dean PI: C8594876 Tesco: Macro-environmental forces analysis report Contents Page Pages Executive summary………………………………………………………………………3 Part 1 a) Retail business and the sector it operates……………………………………3 b) PEEST i. Political………………………………………………........................... 4 ii. Economic………………………………………………………………. 4 iii. Ecological/physical……………………………………………………. 4
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INTRODUCTION Today‚ the increase in economic activity at the global level encourages business organizations to seek a competitive advantage by accessing new markets and expanding their operations. According to Porter (1990)‚ the term competitive advantage refers to the strategies that allow successful companies to create profits in their sector of economic activity. By expanding operations‚ multinationals corporations (MNCs) are often able to benefit from maximized profits. However‚ these MNCs often face
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Profits Katherine Carpenter Liberty University Econ 213 Gwartney states that profits are; “An excess of sales revenue relative to the opportunity cost of production. The cost component includes the opportunity cost of all resources‚ including those owned by the firm. Therefore‚ profit accrues only when the value of the good produced is greater than the value of the resources used for its production.” An example of a profit would be bakery offers a cheesecake for $20 and the total cost to make
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economy. India’s Central Bank has successively increased 5.617 trillion rupees for non-bank financial institutions‚ housing finance companies‚ the export sector and other institutions. This move helped to greatly ease the liquidity crunch resulted from economic downtown and capital outflows. In addition‚ the Reserve Bank of China provided up to 40 billion rupees to the National Housing Bank in Oct. 2008‚ requiring public banks to launch a housing loan stimulus policy of 0.5-2 million rupees. Later in Nov
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Macro environments and breakfast cereals 1. Introduction Company A’s cereals are manufacturers of healthy and nutritional breakfast cereals and ready to go breakfast bars. While their main manufacturing plant is located in Brisbane‚ their products are distributed in major supermarkets Australia wide. Knowing that breakfast is considered by consumers as the most important meal of the day the company’s focus is on offering a multiple product range to various target groups with the added benefits
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As mentioned from the previous part there is a problem in sales‚ the purpose of the research is to figure out what causes this problem as the manager decision of the problem is to find out should the organization set new prices or not‚ furthermore what is required is to control the price elasticity of demand and the influence on sales taking into consideration the price modifications and the several levels of price changes‚ moreover the problem is considered a broad one and needs an appropriate specification
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