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Why do Entrepreneurs start firms?

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To make Profit

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What is a sole proprietorship?

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A firm owned by a single person
- has unlimited liability
- Involved in Day to Day running of the business

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What is a partnership?

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A firmed owned by two or more people
- each person has unlimited liability

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What is a corporation?

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A legal form of a business that provides owners with protection from losing more than their original investment
- limited liability

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What is limited liability?

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If the business fails only the business assets will be sold in order to pay back debts

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What is unlimited liability?

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If a business fails the personal and business assets will be sold in order to pay off debt

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What is corporate governance?

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The way a corporation is structured and the effect that structure has on the companies behavior

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What is the principal agent problem?

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When an agent pursues their own self interest rather than the interests of the principal who hired the agent

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What is a remedy for the principal agent problem?

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Top managers are paid in stock so there salary is directly tied to the performance of the company

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How do firms raise funds?

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Retained Earnings
Recruit Additional Owners
Borrow Money

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What is indirect finance?

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Funds from financial institutions like banks and credit unions

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What is direct finance?

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funds that are borrowed directly from financial markets

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What is a bond?

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a contractual agreement by the borrowers to pay the holder a fixed amount at regular intervals until a specified date

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What are coupon payments

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Interest payments of the bond

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What are the three types of bonds?

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Short Term (less than a year)
Intermediate (1-10 years)
Long Term Bonds (10 years)

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What is common stock?

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partial ownership of a company
- no maturity date
- Dividends are paid out to shareholders

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What are mutual funds?

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actively managed funds that invest in a portfolio of assets and sell shares to investors. Can only be sold back to the company

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What are exchanged traded funds?

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passively managed funds that invest in a portfolio of assets and sell shares to investors. Can be traded directly between investors

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What must firms do before selling new stocks, bonds, or obtaining loans?

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Must provide investors, financial regulators, and banks with information about its finances

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What does the SEC require publicly traded firms to do?

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  • Report performance in income states and balance sheets
  • Disclose financial statement in periodic fillings to the federal government and shareholders
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What is an income statement?

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Shows a firms revenue, costs, profits over a period of time

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What is a balance sheet?

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sums up a firms financial position on a particular day
- summarizes the liabilities and assets of a firm

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What is the formula for Accounting Profit?

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Revenue-Explicit Costs

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What are the two formulas for Economic Profit?

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EP= Revenue - Explicit Costs - Implicit Costs
EP= Accounting Profit - Implicit Costs

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What are the implications of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002?
- requires CEO to personally certify the accuracy of financial statements - Requires financial analyst and auditors to disclose any conflicts of interests that might limit the independence of evaluating a firms financial conation
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What are the implications of the Dodd-Frank Act of 2010?
- created the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau - Established the Financial Stability Oversight Council
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What is future value and how do you calculate it?
the value on some future investment made today FV= PV(1+i)^n
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What is present value and how do you calculate it?
- The value today of a future cash inflow or outflow PV= FV/(1+i)^n
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What is long term economic growth?
the capacity of an economy to produce more goods and services from one period to the next.
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How do we measure the standard of living?
Real GDP per Capita
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How do we calculate Real GDP per Capita?
GDP/Total Population
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How do we calculate Growth Rate?
Current Year - Previous Year/Previous Year * 100
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What is the rule of 70 and how do we calculate it?
to measure how many years it will take for GDP to double. 70/Growth Rate
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What determines the rate of Long Run Growth?
Increased labor productivity
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What causes labor productivity to increase or decrease?
Level of Capital Available Technological change Property Rights
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What is capital?
manufactured goods that are used to produce other goods and services
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What are financial markets?
markets where financial securities like stocks and bonds are bought and sold
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What is risk?
the chance that the value of a financial security will change relative to what you expect
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What is liquidity?
the ease with which a financial security can be exchanged for money
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How do we calculate GDP of a nation with an open economy?
Y=C+I+G+NX
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How do we calculate GDP of a nation with a closed economy?
Y=C+I+G
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What are private savings and how do we calculate them?
what a households retains from their income after purchasing goods and services and pay taxes S private= Y+TR+C-T
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What are public savings and how do we calculate them?
The amount of tax revenue the government retains after paying for government purchases and making transfer payments to households S public= T-G-TR
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How do we calculate total savings?
S private +S public
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What is crowding out?
a decline in private expenditures as a result of increases in government purchases
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What happens during the expansion phase of the business cycle?
production, employment, and income increase
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What happens during a recession?
employment, production, and income decline
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What is a recession?
Two consecutive quarters of declining GDP
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What is aggregate expenditure?
a tool used to measure the total value of all finished goods and services in an economy at a given time
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How do we calculate Aggregate Expenditure?
AE=C+IP+G+NX Consumption Planned Investment Government Purchases Net Exports
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What happens if aggregate expenditure equals GDP?
inventories are unchanged and the economy is in macroeconomic equilibrium
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What happens if aggregate expenditure is less than GDP?
inventories rise and GDP, employment decrease
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What happens if aggregate expenditure is greater than GDP?
inventory falls and GDP, employment rise
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What are some determinants of Consumption
- Current Disposable Income - Household Wealth - Expected Future Income - Price Level - Interest Rates
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What is MPS and how do we calculate it?
Marginal Propensity to Save Change in Savings (S) over Change in Real GDP (Y)
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What is MPC and how do we calculate it
Marginal Propensity to Consume Change in Consumption (C) over Change in Real GDP (Y)
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What are some determinants of Planned Investment?
- Expectations of Future Profitability of Investments - Interest Rates - Taxes -Cash Flow
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What is the Aggregate Demand Curve?
the relationship between the price level and the quantity of real GDP demanded by households, firms, and government
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What is the Short Run Aggregate Supply Curve?
shows the relationship in the short run between price level and the quantity of real GDP supplied by firms
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Why is the Aggregate Demand Curve downward sloping?
- Wealth Effect -Interest Rate Effect -International Trade Effect
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What are some variables that Shift the Aggregate Demand Curve?
- Change in government policy -Change in expectations of future households and firms - Change in foreign variables
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What is monetary policy?
Actions the Federal Reserve takes to manage the money supply and interest rates to pursue macroeconomic policy objectives
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What is the Aggregate Supply Curve?
shows the effect of changes in price level on the quantity of goods and services that firms are willing and able to supply
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What is the Long Run Aggregate Supply Curve?
shows the relationship between the price level and the quantity of real GDP supplied
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What is money?
any asset that is generally accepted as payment for a good or service
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What are some inefficiencies of the Barter System?
- Double coincidence of wants - Each good has many prices - Lack of standardization - It is difficult to accumulate wealth
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What is the primary function of money?
- medium of exchange - unit of account - store of value - standard of deferred payment
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What is commodity money?
something that has value independent of its uses as money (ex gold)
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What is Fiat Money?
government issued paper currency that's not backed by a physical commodity
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What is M1 monetary aggregate?
currency, all paper money and coins in circulation, not held in banks - The value of all checking and savings account deposits
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What M2 monetary aggregate?
- M1 - Small denomination time deposits - Non institutional money market mutual fund shares
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What is a bank run?
a situation where many depositors simultaneously decide to withdraw money from a bank
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What is a bank panic?
A situation in which banks experience runs at the same time
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What are discount loans?
loans the federal reserve makes to banks
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What are discount rates?
interest rates the federal reserve charges on discount loans
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