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Assignment: Economic factors such as supply and demand can play an important role in your investment process. If there is a huge supply of houses available in a neighborhood you like, housing prices in that neighborhood may go down due to a lack of current demands. Therefore, you as the buyer have more power and may be able to make an offer that is lower than the initial asking price. Alternatively, in a neighborhood that is very much in demand and low in available housing, the housing prices may be higher, and you may need to offer to pay more to compete with other offers for a home there.
Decisions in investments can end in a variety of ways. Applying your problem solving skill and critical thinking strategies can help you successfully analyze opportunities to bring the best benefits for your efforts. Adjusting for the time value of money lets you calculate if the rewards are worth the wait so that you can arrive at an informed decision before you commit your money.
In this week's discussion:
Identify an investment decision that you or someone else has made. (This should be for goods or services for which one or more payments were made in order to receive increased benefits from those goods or services at a later time.)
• How do you think the concept of supply and demand impacted the investment decision?
• Now that you understand the time value of money, how would you use your problem solving skill (especially critical thinking strategies) to rethink the decision in the future?
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Describe situation where you has used problem solving skills
: In economics, we usually think of capital as physical assets used to produce goods or services (for example, machinery or factories). But humans also earn.
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Evaluate direct labor rate variance and direct labor time
: The data relate to labor cost for production, Determine the direct labor rate variance, direct labor time variance, and total direct labor cost variance.
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Modern human behavior and motivations
: What are genes that influence behavior that might have been beneficial during our evolution (thousands or millions of years ago) but might cause problems today?
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Compute the expected cash collections during may
: Collections from customers are normally 70% in the month of sale, 20% in the month following the sale, Compute the expected cash collections during May
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Define how would you use your problem solving skill
: Now that you understand the time value of money, how would you use your problem solving skill (especially critical thinking strategies) to rethink the decision.
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How much interest would you be paying in year
: The terms require you to amortize the loan with 7 equal end-of-year payments. How much interest would you be paying in Year 4?
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What skills were required to perform your best
: Most people have several jobs over their lifetimes. Give a brief description of two or more of the jobs you've already had. Without revealing private.
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What should be the present value of the annuity
: What should be the present value of this annuity? If you are given the first payment immediately starting today, what should be the worth of this annuity?
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How do find out the cash flow that investment must provide
: Find out the cash flow that this investment must provide at the end of each of the final 2 years (year 4 and year 5), that is, find out the X?
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