Suppose the government provides peanut butter to everyone free of charge and everyone consumes it to the point at which he receives no additional satisfaction from another spoonful. According to economics, is this necessarily good? a) Yes, because everyone is satisfied b) No, because there might be some cases where the resources use to produce peanut butter could have been better used to produce more of other products. c) Yes, because of the law of diminishing marginal utility indicates that in order to get the gratest amount of satisfaction from the use of resources, people should consume as much of every good as they can. d) none of the above.

If we know that a firm has a net profit margin of 4.6 %, total asset turnover of 0.62, and a financial leverage multiplier of 1.54, what is its roe? what is the advantage to using the dupont system to calculate roe over the direct calculation of earnings available for common stockholders divided by common stock equity?

Which of the following statements regarding the learning curve and economies of scale is accurate? answers: just as diseconomies of scale are presumed to exist if a firm gets too large, there is a corresponding increase in costs in the learning-curve model as the cumulative volume of production grows.where diseconomies of scale are presumed to exist if a firm gets too large, there is no corresponding increase in costs in the learning-curve model as the cumulative volume of production grows.where diseconomies of scale are presumed to exist if a firm gets too small, there is no corresponding increase in costs in the learning-curve model as the cumulative volume of production grows.just as diseconomies of scale are presumed to exist if a firm gets too small, there is a corresponding increase in costs in the learning-curve model as the cumulative volume of production grows.

What two things do you consider when evaluating the time value of money