Answer:
Georgeland has an absolute but not a comparative advantage in producing clothing.
Explanation:
Absolute advantage is defined as the ability of a firm to produce higher amounts of a product as a result of use of the same resources with other competitors. It is usually bad a result of more efficient production process.
Comparative advantage is the ability of a firm to produce goods at a lower opportunity cost. Therefore they are able to sell at lower price compared to competitors.
Georgeland can produce 18 units of clothe per year while Alland can produce 16 units per year, so Georgeland has absolute advantage.
In producing clothes Georgeland has opportunity cost of 36 units of food which is higher than that of Alland which is 32 units of food. So Georgeland does not have comparative advantage in producing clothes.
Answer:
5) about two out of three small firms close within five years of their founding.
Explanation:
A prefer to use statistics in a positive way an disclose not the failure rates of small businesses (which are really high), but instead focus on the success rate.
from the total original amount (100%)
- 80% of small businesses survive their first year of operations
- 70% of small businesses survive their second year of operations
- between 40-50% of small businesses survive their fifth year of operations
- only 30% survive their tenth year
COMPLETE QUESTION:
When customers have their groceries scanned at the supermarket checkout counter, data regarding product sales and coupon redemptions are collected and processed by tracking services such as IRI's InfoScan. Consumer product firms such as Procter & Gamble use data collected by IRI to allocate scarce marketing resources. Which of the following data are NOT collected at retail checkout counters?
Answer: household demographics
Explanation:
Consumer product firms such as Procter & Gamble that uses data collected by IRI to allocate scarce marketing resources don't collect consumer's data that includes household demographs because in allocating scarce marketing resources household demographs are not important data.
Answer:
Indirect Labour Cost, Direct Labour Cost
Explanation:
Direct Labour Cost
This is the type of cost incurred or wages paid to workers or employees that directly works on project. For example, laborer, foreman, painters, machine operators, delivery man etc. all belongs to this category. They are wages paid to the category of employees or workers who physically produce products.
Indirect Labour Cost
These are wages paid to those group of workers or employees that perform tasks that do not directly contribute to the production of goods or performance of services. For example, we have accountants, security guards, administrative officers, supervisors, inspectors and so on. It is also known as Overhead cost. They are not involved in the active part of conversion of raw materials into products.
Answer:
Number of barbers= 12 barbers
Explanation:
Giving the following information:
A barbershop produces 192 haircuts a day. Each barber in the shop works 8 hours per day and produces the same number of haircuts per hour. The shop’s productivity is 2 haircuts per hour of labor.
First, we need to calculate the total number of haircuts per barber:
Number of haircuts= 2*8= 16
Now, we can determine the number of employees:
Number of barbers= 192/16= 12 barbers
