Factories became automated. Machines and other improved manufacturing techniques meant that huge amounts of goods could be made at a fraction of the cost. The age of mass production had arrived. In the decade of the 1920s economic output increased by a staggering 50%. Communications revolution – number of telephone doubled/ number of radios increased from 60,000 to 10 million.
Cash flow Growth: 8%. Dividend Yield: 2.90%. Dividend Growth: 9% (Alden, 2011). Coca-Cola has additionally grown offering 14 brands to the company making a profit of $1 billion or more in annual sales, the company sold $25.5 billion unit case and had revenue of $35.119 billion in 2010 (Alden, 2011). Coca-Cola has grown its’ revenue rapidly over 5 years, this brought about an important highlight for the company in between 5 years, so the company earned about 8.5% in annual revenue growth.
According to a 2008 report by the EPA, the US generated 250 million tons of trash, averaging 4.5 pounds per person per day. This is an increase from the 88 million tons, or 2.7 pounds per person that was recorded in 1960. However, over that same time period there was an even greater increase in the amount of that waste that was recycled. Moving from a meager 5.5% of waste recycled in 1960, the US has increased to over 33% of total waste recycled in 2008 (Municipal Solid Waste (MSW) in the United States: Facts and Figures, 2008). Discounting the amount of waste that is recycled still leaves a difference of more than double in the waste creation between the years, but the exponential growth in the recycling amount provides information into a changing attitude.
1. How would you characterize the snack chip category and Frito-Lays competitive position in the category? * The United States snack food industry recorded retail sales of $37 billion in 1990, a 5 percent increase from the year before. A large source of growth results from increased per capita consumption. Consumers are buying more snack chips per person, an increase of 2 pounds over four years.
Home Depot reported its AS&RE liability in fiscal year 2010 ending at $1,263,000 dollars and OAE liability ending fiscal year reported $1,589,000. The subsequent year AS&RE fiscal year ending reported $1,290,000 and the OAE listed it fiscal year endings at $$1,515,000. The AS&RE liability increased by $27,000 from 2010 to 2011 this is a direct reflection of Home Depot’s employment of over 300,000 associates worldwide. (Home Depot, 2011). Total Liabilities Home Depot reported its total liabilities for the ending fiscal year 2010 at $21,484,000, and the following year 2011 reported a fiscal year ending total of $21,236,000.
Reagan’s policies reflected conservative politics and contributed to simulation of the economy in many ways. Reagan was one of the people that where involved with the Economic Recovery Tax act in 1981. The Economic Recovery Tax Act cut all income taxes by twenty five percent, and reduced the top income tax rate from seventy percent to fifty percent. In the beginning of the fall in 1982 the economy began a sixth straight mount growth due to the Economic Recovery Tax Act. This was the longest uninterrupted period of expansion since the government started keeping track in 1854.During this time fifteen million new jobs were created and just under twenty trillion dollars worth of good and services were produced.
The Pentagon's budget for buying new weapons rose from $61 billion in 2001 to over $80 billion in 2004. Lockheed Martin's sales rose by over 30% at the same time, with tens of billions of dollars on the books for future purchases. From 2000 to 2004, Lockheed Martin's stock value rose 300%. Northrup-Grumann saw similar growth with DoD contracts rising from $3.2 billion in 2001 to $11.1 billion in 2004. Halliburton, with Dick Cheney as former CEO, had defense contracts totaling $427 million in 2001.
In that same year the average yearly income for was $750! Present day standards for the yearly average income are 18,500. Henry Ford now would be making around 345 million. The disparity in wealth grew largely throughout 1920 .the number of millionaires increased from 21 in 1920 to close to 15,00 in 1929 . The average disposable Income rose 9% from 1920 to 1929, while the top 1% enjoyed a stupendous 75% increase of disposable income.
| | 8.78% | | 10.73% | | 11.71% | | 9.76% | | 4.88% | Redesigned Computers has 10 percent coupon bonds outstanding with a current market price of $910.00. The yield to maturity is 11.34 percent and the face value is $1,000. Interest is paid semiannually. How many years is it until this bond matures? | 12 years | | 13 years | | 15 years | | 21 years | | 14 years
According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the population of New York City as of April 1, 2000, was 8,008,278, the largest enumerated census population in the city's history. The previous high was in 1970, when the enumerated population stood at 7,894,862. The immigrant population in the United States has flourished over the past few decades and from 1990 to 2006, the number of immigrants rose from 20 million to more than 37 million. (Lyman, p1). A large number being undocumented immigrants who seek all the benefits this country offers.