Answer:
Which of the following statements about brand names is true?
- 1. Brand names give the seller an incentive to provide consistently high-quality products and services in order to protect the reputation of the brand.
Options 2 and 3 are wrong:
2. Brand names are always economically wasteful since they dupe consumers into buying more expensive goods and services that are no different from generic versions.
⇒ FALSE, just because a product has a certain brand it doesn't make it better and therefore more expensive. There are brands that consumers associate with luxury and expensive products, while there are other brands that consumers recognize while not necessarily being more expensive than others, e.g Coke.
3. It is always rational to prefer brand names over generic substitutes.
⇒ FALSE, it depends on the type of product. Generic medicines as just as effective as banded medicines.
Read the following example and determine whether it illustrates a common critique or defense of advertising.
- This illustrates a common <u>CRITIQUE</u> of advertising. This ad targets young people that are susceptible to believing exaggerated or materialistic aspects of a product that cannot be proven correct or wrong.
Answer:
b. 29,800.
Explanation:
Number of units out in January = 25,000 units completed during month + 80% of 6,000 units completed at month end
= 25,000 + 4,800
= 29,800
Answer:
Consider a Caribbean cruise route served by two cruise lines, Carnival and Royal Caribbean. Both lines must choose whether to charge a high price ($320) or a low price ($300) to vacationers. These price strategies with corresponding profits are illustrated in the payoff matrix to the right. Carnival's profits are in red and Royal Caribbean's are in blue. Suppose the cruise lines decide to collude. At which outcome are joint profits maximized?
Joint profits are maximized when Carnival picks $320 and Royal Caribbean picks $320.
Explanation:
When Carnival picks $320 and Royal Caribbean picks $320, then joint profits are maximized.
Nash equilibrium would exist only when Royal chooses $300 and the carnival chooses $300.
However, if both Carnival and Royal Caribbean charge a lower price, both of them can earn a higher profit.
Answer:
$6,130
Explanation :
The adjusted cash balance can be determined by doing the following steps
- Prepare an updated Cash Book to update the Cash Book Balance and,
- Prepare a Bank Reconciliation Statement to check the accuracy of the new Cash Book Balance
<u>Step 1 : Updated Cash Book</u>
Cash Book (Bank columns only)
Debit :
Unadjusted Balance as at April 30 $ 6,210
Credit Transfers $ 640
Total $6,850
Credit:
Bank charges $ 110
Dishonored checks $ 610
Adjusted Balance (Balancing figure) $6,130
Total $6,850
Step 2 : Bank Reconciliation Statement
Bank Reconciliation Statement as at April 30
Balance as per Cash Book (updated) $6,130
Less Outstanding Lodgements ($ 1,430)
Add Unpresented Checks $ 750
Balance as per Bank Statement $5,450
Answer:
The price of the stock six years from now will be $56.94
Explanation:
To calculate the price of a stock that pays a dividend which grows at a constant rate forever, we use the constant growth model of DDM. The current price of stock using the constant growth model is calculated as follows,
P0 = D1 / r - g
As, we don't know the D1, that is dividend expected for the next year, we will calculate it first,
45 = D1 / (0.12 - 0.04)
45 * (0.12-0.04) = D1
45 * (0.08) = D1
3.6 = D1
We use the D1 to calculate the price today. Thus, we will use D7 to calculate the price six years from now.
D7 = D1 * (1+g)^6
P6 = 3.6 * (1+0.04)^6 / (0.12 - 0.04)
P6 = $56.939 rounded off to $56.94
