PAPER INDUSTRIAL SAFETY MANAGEMENT
COMPREHENSIVE QUESTIONS AND
ANSWERS VERIFIED A+
◉ GROSS PROFIT MARGIN RATIO. Answer: Gross Profit/Sales
◉ CURRENT YIELD ON BONDS. Answer: ANNUAL CASH SHOW/
CURRENT MARKET PRICE X100
◉ Direct investment. Answer: Couple investing savings in a home,
government building a new highway
◉ Indirect investment. Answer: Purchase of representational items
such as stocks or mutual funds
◉ Capitals three characteristics. Answer: It is mobile, sensitive to its
environment, it is scarce
◉ Retail investors. Answer: Individual investors who buy and sell
securities for their own personal accounts, and not for another
company or organization.
,◉ Institutional Investors. Answer: Large organizations - such as
pension funds, mutual funds, and insurance companies - that invest
their own funds or the funds of others
◉ Derivaties. Answer: Products based on or derived from an
underlying security
◉ Secondary Market. Answer: Investments that have already been
issued by companies or governments
◉ Auction Market. Answer: buyers enter bids and sellers enter offers
for a stock
◉ Dealer Markets. Answer: Network of dealers who trade with each
other. Often called OTC markers
◉ Factors in GDP Growth. Answer: Increase in population, increase
in capital, improvement in technology.
◉ Phases of the business cycel. Answer: Expansion, Peak, Trough,
Recovery.
, ◉ Output Gap. Answer: the difference between actual output and
potential output
◉ demand-pull inflation. Answer: increases in the price level
(inflation) resulting from an excess of demand over output at the
existing price level, caused by an increase in aggregate demand
◉ cost-push inflation. Answer: When prices rise due to an increase
in the cost of production.
◉ Phillips Curve. Answer: States that when unemployment is low,
inflation tends to be high. When unemployment is high, inflation
tends to be low.
◉ Sacrifice Ratio. Answer: the number of percentage points of
annual output lost in the process of reducing inflation by 1
percentage point
◉ Drawdown. Answer: Transfer from BOC accounts at chartered
banks back to BOC
◉ Re-deposit. Answer: Transfer from BOC back to accounts at
chartered banks