Suppose that germany decides to become self-sufficient in bananas and even to export them. in order to accomplish this, large tax incentives are granted to companies that will invest in banana production. soon, the german industry is competitive and able to sell bananas at the lowest price anywhere. does germany have a comparative advantage? why, or why not? what are the consequences for the overall economy?

You are a manager at asda. you have been given the demand data for the past 10 weeks for swim rings for children. you decide to run multiple types of forecasting methods on the data to see which gives you the best forecast. if you were to use exponential smoothing with alpha =.8, what would be your forecast for week 22? (the forecast for week 21 was 1277.) week demand 12 1317 13 1307 14 1261 15 1258 16 1267 17 1256 18 1268 19 1277 20 1277 21 1297

Acompany has two products: standard and deluxe. the company expects to produce 36,375 standard units and 62,240 deluxe units. it uses activity-based costing and has prepared the following analysis showing budgeted cost and cost driver activity for each of its three activity cost pools.budgeted activity of cost driver activity cost pool budgeted cost standard deluxe activity 1 $ 93,000 2,500 5,250 activity 2 $ 92,000 4,500 5,500 activity 3 $ 87,000 3,000 2,800 what is the overhead cost per unit for the standard units? what is the overhead cost per unit for the deluxe units? (round activity rate and cost per unit answers to 2 decimal places.)activity expected costs expected activity driver activity rate1 93,000 2 92,000 3 87,000 standard activity activity driver activity rate allocated costs1 2 3

Which of the following best describes the advantage of living in a suburban area? a. suburbs give people access to city jobs along with more living space. b. suburbs give people easy access to cultural attractions and high-paying jobs. c. suburbs have the widest availability of low-cost housing of any living area. d. suburbs have the lowest population density of any living area.