Consider an economy in which the population is constant Nt. In addition, supper that endowments per young person grow each period according to yt=1.2yt-1. Assume old people do not receive any endowments. Assume that each young person’s preferences are such that they want to consumer one-half of their endowment so that c1,t=0.5yt. Compute the rate at which transfers by young people can be converted into transfers received when old, that is, conversion rate for this economy, xt.

Activity-based costing (abc) is not truly a cost collection mechanism as much as it is an inventory valuation method. the main purpose for implementing an activity-based cost system is to try to overcome some of the cost distortions that occur in traditional costing from product differences when there are variations in size and complexity. however, one of the disadvantages of utilizing abc is that the additional information gathering necessary to implement costing with that level of detail might be beyond the reach of some companies with resource or financial constraints. with this in mind, what kinds of industries or companies do you think would benefit most from using activity-based costing and why? in designing or modifying an accounting system to capture appropriate costs for abc, what considerations do you think would need to be made?