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On May 11, 1993, a note due on January 10, 1994 was discounted at 12.12% simple discount. Find the exact simple interest rate of 10.75% for one year and 3 months? What is the exact discount rate?


If 8,000 pesos is the present value of 11,000 pesos due at the end of seven months, what is the simple discount?


A. Solve the following.

1. If price increases from 25 to 35 (P=30) and quantity demanded falls from 80 to 60 units (Q=70), what is the elasticity of demand?

2. If price decreases from 40 to 30 and quantity demanded rises from 15 to 30 units, what is the elasticity of demand?

3. If income rises 15 percent in a year and the demand for clothing by 20 percent, find the YED.

4. If 5 percent increase in the of iphone, the demand for Huawei phone increases by 20 percent, find the XED.


Sanjana is the branch manager of ABC Handicrafts Pvt. Ltd. The company's objective is to promote the sales of Indian handloom and handicraft products. Its sells fabrics, furnishings, readymades and household items made out of traditional Indian fabrics. Sanjana decides quantities, variety, colour and texture of all the above items and then allocates resources for their purchase from different suppliers. She appoints a team of designers and crafts people in the company, who developed some prints for bed covers in bright colours on silk. Although they looked very impressive, they were more expensive than they had planned to sell. Average customer could not afford to buy it. Praising their effort, Sanjana suggested that they should keep the silk bed covers for special occasiors like Diwali and Christmas and offer the cotton bed covers on a regular basis to keep costs under control
Identify and state the functions of management which Sanjana performs by quating the lines from the above para.

Q4. Use the model of a firm’s technology choice and graphically illustrate the management’s restructuring decision in a diagram with isocost curves. Your diagram should have the amount of human intelligence on the horizontal axis and the amount of artificial intelligence on the vertical axis. Fully label your diagram. Note that there are no actual numbers given in this question: you may make them up or simply use appropriate notations. Briefly explain the key information of your diagram.


Q5. Graphically illustrate the impact of the management’s restructuring decision on the firm’s production function. Your diagram should have the amount of human intelligence on the horizontal axis and the number of decisions on whether to provide insurance on the vertical axis. Fully label your diagram. Note that there are no actual numbers given in this question: you may make them up or simply use appropriate notations. Briefly explain the key information of your diagram

 

 



The production function of given firm Is given by Q =200sqrtLK  and the.

associated cost function is given by 2L + 5K = 1000

A. Calculate the level of labor and capital input at the optimum level of production

B. Calculate the MRTSL,and MRTSkL

c. What is the level of output at the least cost combination of labor and capital inputs?

Suppose the demand for banana of AMU students is given by the demand function Qb=1200-9.5 pb + 16.2 p m + 0.2 Y, where Qb is the quantity of banana demanded ; pb is the price of banana in birr per unit ; pm is the price of mango in birr per unit and Y is the income of the student. Assume that pb is initially 45 birr per unit, Y is 100 birr and Qb is 127,500 per week, calculate
A) the price elasticity of demand and comment on type of elasticity
B) the income of demand and comment on type of the good
C) the cross-elasticity of demand and identify the type of the commodities

2.1 IAS 17 paragraph 13 states that “Lease classification is made at the inception of the lease…..”

Sishi Ltd entered into a lease agreement in terms of which a machine with a fair value of R250 450

was acquired in exchange for five annual lease payments of R69 600 in arrears. In addition, Sishi

Ltd will pay R20 000 at the end of year 5 to take ownership of the machine. The machine is

expected to have a total useful life of 5 years. The interest rate implicit in the lease is 13.82% p.a.

This is the rate that discounts the future minimum lease payments of R69 600 and the guaranteed

payment of R20 000 at the end of year 5 to equal to the fair value of R250 450.

REQUIRED:

2.1.1 What class of lease is this (Finance OR Operating)? Support your answer. (3)

2.1.2 Prepare the journal entries to account for the lease in the books of Sishi Ltd (17)

NOTE: For annual lease payments on the first year journal is required

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Solve the following elasticity.
1. If price increases from 15 to 25 and the quantity demanded falls from 100 to 80 units, what is the arc elasticity of demand?
2. If price decreases from 40 to 20 and the quantity demanded rises from 25 to 45 units, what is the elasticity demand?
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