Which of the following best describes the economic effect that results from the government having a budget surplus? o a. consumers save more and spend less, enabling long-term financial planning. o b. overall demand decreases, reducing the incentive for producers to increase production. c. government spending increases, increasing competition for goods and services and driving prices up. d. banks have more deposits, enabling them to make more loans to investors.

You are evaluating two different silicon wafer milling machines. the techron i costs $285,000, has a three-year life, and has pretax operating costs of $78,000 per year. the techron ii costs $495,000, has a five-year life, and has pretax operating costs of $45,000 per year. for both milling machines, use straight-line depreciation to zero over the project’s life and assume a salvage value of $55,000. if your tax rate is 24 percent and your discount rate is 11 percent, compute the eac for both machines.

Advertisers are usually very conscious of their audience. choose an issue of a popular magazine such as time, sports illustrated, vanity fair, rolling stone, or the like. from that issue select three advertisements to analyze. try to determine the audience being appealed to in each advertisement and analyze the appeals used to persuade buyers. how might the appeals differ is the ads were designed to persuade a different audience.

Adisadvantage of corporations is that shareholders have to pay on profits.