Individuals are losing jobs and the government have to spend more money of benefits. They collected back less from taxes and VAT. Businesses are cutting back on productions but for some customers is good if they have money because the prices are falling as well as inflation. At the boom stage the GDP (Gross Domestic Product) are the values of
In the leisure market, this may apply to businesses such as Clinton Cards. Clinton Cards has recently gone into administration due to falling sales caused by increasing online competition. It is likely that growth maximisation is its main objective at the moment in a bid to increase its already diminishing market share in an attempt to survive. Some other firms in the leisure market, such as , will have the objective of revenue maximisation. This is when the objective of the firm is achieving as high a total revenue as possible and occurs when marginal revenue is equal to zero, as shown on the graph.
In the short run, Kudler was able to maximize its profits and minimized losses. They were making profits because they were producing quantity where marginal revenue was equal to marginal cost and charged prices based on their demand curve. The demand for their goods was very high at first because they had little competition. Another positive effect of a monopolistic competition is that it promotes product variety and improvement. When Kudler makes business improvements, it causes their competitors to either imitate them or get out of the business.
If other things change, then one cannot directly apply supply/demand analysis. Sometimes supply and demand are interconnected, making it impossible to hold other things constant (Colander, The Limitation of Supply/Demand Analysis, 2010). “In supply/demand analysis, you would look at the effect that fall would have on workers’ decisions to supply labor, and on business’s decision to hire workers. However, there are also other effects (Colander, The Limitation of Supply/Demand Analysis, 2010). “For instance, the fall in the wage lowers people’s income and thereby reduces demand.
At this time they would need to provide cheaper price to attract their consumers and to increase the demand. They would have to reduce the number of staffs as it may become difficult to pay wages. This leads to rise in unemployment. During recession businesses also tries to get loan from the bank and the bank wants to see their financial statements and if they find out that the business is not capable of paying the money back then they won’t lend any money therefore, the business may have to find new way of catching customers attention. For instance, they may be able to start up with a new idea.
A firm’s value depends on the positive net income generated in the past. True False A firm’s value depends on the firm’s ability to generate positive cash flows now and in the future True False When determining the value of a firm, which of the following statements is true? • Inversters are risk neutral. Other things equal they prefer to pay more stocks that are less risky and have uncertain cash flows • Investers love risk. Other things equal they prefer to pay more for stocks that are more risky and have uncertain cash flows.
Without access to social media a brand can become lost. It would be beneficial to any brand, large or small, to utilize social media to expand their brand awareness and enter into new markets. Twitter grants one-on-one interaction with our consumers. This makes us more approachable, we are viewed as people instead of a brand. It created trust between us.
Operating expenses- total operating expenses had declined in period 8 of $1,273,867 and have had a projection n the budget for period 9 of $1,026,483. This is unrealistic due to the fact that sales were anticipated to increase. The utilities and services have also been duplicated within the budget for operating expenses. It is listed under Facility/General operations cost then under expense. This duplication should be deleted as it is not necessary.
Therefore, company A needs to stop making this product. Although we can argue that if company A could reduce the cost dramatically, it can become profitable. However, as the demand of its headphones is shrinking and there are so many suppliers (due to low barrier of entry), there will be great price pressure on the product, as explained by William F. Samuelson and Stephen G. Marks (2010). The price reduction may over shallow the possible cost reduction the firm could achieve. Susan Schreter’s second step is to target new customers from within groups.
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