5 National Saving (5 points)a) (1 points) Explain why you can calculate National Saving as investment plus the current account. b) (1 points) National saving is made up of both private saving and government saving. What is theequation to represent private saving? Government saving?c) (1 points) How would an increase in taxes affect private saving and government saving?d) (2 points) Imagine that you’ve been asked by policy makers to help increase national saving by in-creasing or decreasing taxes. Decide if you should support increasing private saving or governmentsaving. Use what you know from your prerequisite courses to answer the question.

You decide to invest in a portfolio consisting of 25 percent stock a, 25 percent stock b, and the remainder in stock c. based on the following information, what is the expected return of your portfolio? state of economy probability of state return if state occurs of economy stock a stock b stock c recession .16 - 16.4 % - 2.7 % - 21.6 % normal .55 12.6 % 7.3 % 15.9 % boom .29 26.2 % 14.6 % 30.5 %

Joint cost cheyenne, inc. produces three products from a common input. the joint costs for a typical quarter follow: direct materials $45,000 direct labor 55,000 overhead 60,000 the revenues from each product are as follows: product a $75,000 product b 80,000 product c 30,000 management is considering processing product a beyond the split-off point, which would increase the sales value of product a to $116,000. however, to process product a further means that the company must rent some special equipment costing $17,500 per quarter. additional materials and labor also needed would cost $12,650 per quarter. a. what is the gross profit currently being earned by the three products for one quarter? $answer b. what is the effect on quarterly profits if the company decides to process product a further? $answer

When conducting a swot analysis, information about turnover, profit margins, and staff quality can be used to identify: