A parent returns home for the evening and uses different smart devices to help the children with homework, turn on the oven, run the robot vacuum cleaner, and turn on the home security system for the night. What allows the parent to perform all of these actions easily?

Assume that a national restaurant firm called bbq builds 10 new restaurants at a cost of $1 million per restaurant. it outfits each restaurant with an additional $200,000 of equipment and furnishings. to partially defray the cost of this expansion, bbq issues and sells 200,000 shares of stock at $30 per share. what is the amount of economic investment that ahs resulted from bbq's actions? how much purely financial investment took place?

Which of the following best explains cost-push inflation? a. increasing wages for workers drive up the cost of production, forcing producers to charge more to meet their costs. b. consumers demand goods faster than they can be supplied, increasing competition among buyers. c. rising prices for goods and services reduce spending power and cut into consumer demand. d. wages drop so that workers have to spend a higher percentage of income on the cost of necessities.2b2t

9. tax types: taxes are classified based on whether they are applied directly to income, called direct taxes, or to some other measurable performance characteristic of the firm, called indirect taxes. identify each of the following as a “direct tax,” an “indirect tax,” or something else: a. corporate income tax paid by a japanese subsidiary on its operating income b. royalties paid to saudi arabia for oil extracted and shipped to world markets c. interest received by a u.s. parent on bank deposits held in london d. interest received by a u.s. parent on a loan to a subsidiary in mexico e. principal repayment received by u.s. parent from belgium on a loan to a wholly owned subsidiary in belgium f. excise tax paid on cigarettes manufactured and sold within the united states g. property taxes paid on the corporate headquarters building in seattle h. a direct contribution to the international committee of the red cross for refugee relief i. deferred income tax, shown as a deduction on the u.s. parent’s consolidated income tax j. withholding taxes withheld by germany on dividends paid to a united kingdom parent corporation