Discuss factors that affect your consumers’ purchasing power and spending patterns. What is the economic environment that you are operating in? Is it growth, recovery or recession? Will it be easy to find staff? What is the current interest rate i. e. is it increasing or decreasing? What is consumer confidence like?

The typical consumer's food basket in the base year 2015 is as follows: 30 chickens at $4 each 10 hams at $5 each 10 steaks at $8 each a chicken feed shortage causes the price of chickens to rise to $5.00 each in the year 2016. hams rise to $7.00 each, and the price of steaks is unchanged. a. calculate the change in the "cost-of-eating" index between 2015 and 2016. year cost of the basket 2015 $ 2016 $ instructions: enter your responses rounded to one decimal place. the official cost-of-eating index has by %. b. suppose that consumers are completely indifferent between two chickens and one ham. for this example, how large is the substitution bias in the official "cost-of-eating" index? the in the cost-of-eating index is %. the of inflation in the cost of eating reflects substitution bias.

Which of the following accurately describes a surplus? a. consumer demand for a certain car is below the number of cars that are produced. b. the production costs for a certain car are below the sale price of that car. c. a reduction in the cost of steel enables a car company to reduce the sale price of its cars. d. a car company tries to charge too high a price for a car and has to reduce the price. 2b2t

Ail industries uses activity-based costing to assist management in setting prices for the company's three major product lines. the following information is available: activity cost pool estimated overhead expected use of cost driver per activity cutting $1,000,000 25,000 labor hours stitching 8,000,000 320,000 machine hours inspections 2,800,000 160,000 labor hours packing 960,000 64,000 finished goods units compute the activity-based overhead rates. (round answers to 2 decimal places, e. g. 12.25.)