Finance Answers

1. What is an investment?

2. Which factors one should take into consideration before making an investment?

3.Advantages and disadvantages of an investment.

Which one of the following sources of accounting information will be used to compile the trial balance?

•  A. General journals
•  B. Clients’ ledger accounts
•  C. Source documents
•  D. General ledger accounts

What is the ASI dataset? Why one should use this dataset?

Compare and contrast the federal funds rate, the discount rate, and the prime rate

You have been asked to evaluate whether a project to preserve an area of forest should

go ahead or whether the land should be converted to agriculture. The net benefits of

ecosystem goods and services have been valued over the next four years at R6000, R10

000, R14 000 and R22 000 respectively. The immediate cost of preserving the forest is

R23 500. Assume that MWTP = 90 - 3Q and MC = 10 + 2Q. The discount rate is 7%.

1. Discuss how financial reporting is regulated in Sri Lanka.

Using diagrams and examples, compare and contrast the Classical economists’ Quantity Theory and the Keynesian’s Liquidity Preference Theory of money demand.

QUESTION 1:

As the economies of the whole world grow more interdependent, a country’s monetary policy can no longer be conducted without taking international considerations into account.

Using practical examples, discuss how the South African central bank’s Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) may use the following alternative monetary policy strategies.

i. Capital controls.

ii. Exchange targeting.

The global pandemic continues to reap havoc across the world. All industries including banking have been impacted. The threat of new variants as we are told and vaccine hesitancy has kept the board of banks busy as they seek to navigate in these uncertain times.

You are the Chairman of the Board of Resilient National Bank. Your job is to conduct a critical analysis of how the pandemic will shape the business model of your institution. Your analysis should include how the banking system has evolved in your jurisdiction from 1996- 2021 from a legislative, regulatory, technological. economic, political and social standpoint.

 Coupled with the pandemic you are to consider how climate change is likely to impact your banks financial statements.

The following items are taken from the adjusted trial balance (assume normal balances) of the Dinkel Company for the year ending December 31, 2022. On a separate piece of paper, answer the following questions