A major disadvantage of planning budgets is a. the difficulty in developing such budgets due to the high cost of gathering the necessary information. b. the complexity of planning budgets and the length of time required to prepare them. c. the fact that manufacturing overhead consists primarily of fixed costs. d. the fact that variances between actual results and the planning budget usually are measured by comparing actual costs at one activity level to budgeted costs at a different activity level.

Avx home entertainment, inc., recently began a “no-hassles” return policy. a sample of 500 customers who recently returned items showed 400 thought the policy was fair, 32 thought it took too long to complete the transaction, and the rest had no opinion. on the basis of this information, make an inference about customer reaction to the new policy. (round your answers to 1 decimal place.)

In allentown, pennsylvania, in the summer of 2014, the average price of a gallon of gasoline was $3.68long dasha 22-cent increase from the year before. many consumers were upset by the increase. one was quoted in a local newspaper as saying, "it's crazy. the government should step in." source: sam kennedy, "valley feeling pain at the pump," (allentown, pa) morning call, june 21, 2014. suppose the government had stepped in and imposed a price ceiling equal to old price of $3.46 per gallon. a. using the line drawing tool, draw and label the price ceiling. carefully follow the instructions above, and only draw the required object.

A) plot the m1 and m2 money stock in the us from 1990-2015. (hint: you may use the data tools provided by fred.) (b) plot the nominal interest rate from 1960 to 2014. (hint: you can either use the daily interest rates for selected u.s. treasury, private money market and capital market instruments from or the effective federal funds rate fromfred.) (c) the consumer price index (cpi) is a measure of the average change over time in the prices paid by urban consumers for a market basket of consumer goods and services. intuitively, the cpi represents the cost of living or the average price level. plot the cpi from 1960 to 2013.(d) the inflation rate is the yearly percentage change in the average price level. in practice, we usually use the percentage change in the cpi to compute the inflation rate. plot the inflation rate from 1960 to 2013.(e) explain the difference between the ex-ante and ex-post real interest rate. use the fisher equation to compute the ex-post real interest rate. plot the nominal interest rate and the ex-post real interest rate from 1960 to 2013 in the same graph.