Week 5 quiz 1. In the U.S. current account‚ most of the trade deficit results from an excess of imported B. merchandise 2. What is the difference between the balance of trade and the balance of payments? A. The balance of trade is only part of the balance of trade. 3. If a government has implemented significantly higher trade tariffs‚ but does not want this action to affect the value of its currency‚ it will B. buy foreign currency because the tariffs will tend to make the domestic
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and also having a stricter law on alcohol purchases. Around the world‚ traditionally and at this time‚ public concern about the penalties of excess alcohol intake for individual well-being and community well-being has been merged in social means‚ which are often reinforced by private rules and government regulation. Every state now has a wide selection of alcohol-control measures in place‚ including a minimum age of purchase (twenty-one)‚ excise taxes‚ a licensing business for retail outlets‚ and
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12/7/04 7:21 PM Page A-1 Appendix A Financial Tables TABLE A–1 Future Value Interest Factors for One Dollar Compounded at i Percent for n Periods: FVIFi‚n ϭ (1 ϩ i)n TABLE A–2 Present Value Interest Factors for One Dollar Discounted at i Percent for n Periods: PVIFi‚n ϭ TABLE A–3 1 (1 1 i)n Future Value Interest Factors for a One-Dollar Ordinary Annuity Compounded at i Percent for n Periods: n FVIFAi‚n 5 a (1 1 i)t21 t51 TABLE A–4 Present Value Interest
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Unit five: Principles of supporting business events Assessment You should use this file to complete your Assessment. • The first thing you need to do is save a copy of this document‚ either onto your computer or a disk • Then work through your Assessment‚ remembering to save your work regularly • When you’ve finished‚ print out a copy to keep for reference • Then‚ go to www.vision2learn.com and send your completed Assessment to your tutor via your My Study area – make sure it is clearly
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Porters Five Force Analysis‚ Industry: Casinos The purpose of this analysis is to determine the attractiveness of the Casino industry by investigating five specific forces that have the potential to drive down profitability. The Casino industry is composed of firms operating primarily in providing gambling activities and games to consumers while also supplying hotel services and other commodities. Firms that exclusively operate non gambling resorts were not directly included in this profitability
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Symposium 15 December 2014 Question 2: Explain which of the six PPBE principles appear not to be followed in the reading F103RB‚ “General Odierno‚ AUSA Winter Symposium.” After reading General Raymond Odierno speech at the AUSA Winter Symposium‚ I believe there were two Army Planning‚ Programming‚ Budgeting and Execution (PPBE) principles appear not to be followed. I chose PPBE principle number one and number five‚ respectively. The PPBE principle number one states: “To provide essential focus
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Principles of Selling Exam 1 Study Guide Ch. 1-5 Contract Law/ Agency Ch. 1: Selling and Salespeople * Personal Selling- is a person to person business activity in which a salesperson uncovers and satisfies the needs of a buyer to the mutual‚ long-term benefit of both parties. * Helping a customer identify problems‚ offering information about potential solutions‚ and providing after-sale service to ensure long-term satisfaction. “Customer Centric” * Everyone sells- Presidents‚ engineers…etc
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Seven Pounds Good people make horrible mistakes. A lapse of judgment even for just couple of seconds can transform your life forever. Seven Pounds is a movie about an intelligent‚ virtuous man who made a life-altering mistake. The main character‚ Tim Thomas‚ had everything from an engineering job‚ a beautiful fiancé‚ to an ocean view dream house. All of this was taken away from him in a matter of seconds because of Tim’s mistake of texting while driving. His slip of judgment resulted in Tim
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The Seven Commandments of Animal Farm The Seven Commandments are the basic principles of animalism worked out by the pigs and described originally as "unalterable laws" by which the animals were to live. The Seven Commandments were written on the barn wall for all animals to see and read if they could. The original Commandments are: 1. whatever goes on two legs is an enemy. 2. Whatever goes on four legs‚ or has wings‚ is a friend. 3. No animal shall wear clothes. 4. No animal
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Porter’s 5 forces analysis on Air Asia 1. Threat of new Entrants The extent of barriers to entry depends on the strength of: Customer has little brand loyalty. If consumers of Air asia do not have brand loyalty‚ then the strength of the threat of new entrants is very high. The high numbers of competitors in the industry also decrease Air asia’s customer loyalty. Most of the travelers prefer low cost. New competitors which want to come in the industry have to spend little to compete
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