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May 15, 2008

Between wrapping up the spring semester and starting my summer "vacation" plans, I changed my profile page to include links to some of the most popular articles I've written over the years.

In case you hadn't seen them all, here they are:

Enjoy these, there are plenty more where they came from.
 

Posted by Professor Cram | 0 comment(s)

May 12, 2008

Dear Professor Cram, 

I need your advise. Business sells items. 25% customers pay next month. For Oct. cash collected was $21000 and $6500(accounts receivable) from Sept. Total-27500. What is revenue in this case?

Thank you,

Luiza

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If you are on cash basis accounting, this is simply the $27,500 received in the month.

However, I expect you are on accrual basis, in which case the sales made in the month are what you want to count instead of the cash received. Under accrual, you sold $21,000 that you already collected on, and another 25% that will be collected the following month. Therefore, the $21,000 is 75% of revenue for the month. Now it becomes an algebra problem:

$21,000/.75 = $28,000 

The $6,500 of accounts receivable is the 25% of the prior month's revenue, so it doesn't count for this month.

Good studying! 

Posted by Professor Cram @ Accounting | 1 comment(s)

May 10, 2008

I'm doing this assignment and I'm totally lost,

U.S. :

d= 200 -40p

s= 40 +40p

Rest of the world:

d= 160 -40p

s= 80 +40p

The U.S. govenment imposes a quota of 32 units on its imports. Calculate the magnitude of deadweight loss resulting from the quota under the assumption that the U.S. is a small open economy?

If anyone knows about this it would great if you could help me out!

 

Posted by henry hong @ Economics | 2 comment(s)

May 05, 2008

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April 11, 2008

No, this isn't about Star Wars. We had some pretty serious thunderstorm activity pass through here early this morning with torrential rains, lightning strikes, tornados, and sporadic wind damage scattered throughout the area. While College-Cram is hosted by a major hosting company, unfortunately that company is located about 30 minutes north of us and was also caught in the same storm front.

The results, as some of you may have noticed, were some intermittent outages all day today.(I believe we were down about an hour total, in about four separate incidents.)

I applaud those of you who braved the elements and stuck with us, including Dzenana looking for Macroeconomics homework help on market equilibrium, and those who even managed to keep a sense of humor.  You're the real storm troopers.

Posted by Professor Cram | 0 comment(s)

April 10, 2008

I'm still not sure how the whole "college-cram" thing works, but if it might give me some help with the Macro project, I figured it's worth a try.

Here is the problem:

Eastland's currency is called the eastmark, and Westland's currency is called westmark. The supply of and demand for eastmark are given as:

Demand=25,000-5000e+50,000(Re-Rw)

Supply=18,500+8,000e-50,000(Re-Rw) where nominal exchange rate e is measured as westmarks per eastmarks, and Re and Rw are the real inerest rates prevailing in Eastland and Westland.

If Re=Rw=0.10 or 10%, what is market equilibrium value of the eastmark?

Any help, pointer, or anything that you can offer will be greatly appreciated.

Posted by Janna @ Economics | 4 comment(s)

March 03, 2008

Let cb = 0.2. Let the real money demand in the economy equal LD = 10 + 2Y – 8r.  The price level P is fixed at P = 1. Y is the level of output and r is the rate of interest.  What is the LM curve for this economy?

anyone help?

Posted by peter @ Economics | 0 comment(s)

February 27, 2008

Dear Professor Cram,

Could you please answer the following question for me?

Suppose that the public holds a cash/deposit ration of  cp = 0.2, and the commercial banking sector holds a reserve/deposit ration of cb = 0.2.  The monetary base is given by H = 50.

Find the value of the money multiplier and the total amount of money in the economy. How does the money multiplier change if the central bank raises the reserve requirement to cb = 0.3? Briefly explain the economic reasoning for this change in the money multiplier.

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The Multiplier (M) for money is (1+Cp)/(Cp + Cb).

When Cp=0 the formula reduces to its simpler form of the inverse of reserves, or 1/ Cb.

For your question, we start with

Cp = 0.2 and  Cb = 0.2 so the multiplier is (1+0.2)/(0.2+0.2) = 1.2/0.4 = 3

The total money in the economy is M·H = 3·50 = 150

When the banking reserve requirement is increased to 0.3 the multiplier drops:

(1+0.2)/(0.2+0.3) = 1.2/0.5 = 2.4

This will reduce the total amount of money in the economy.

I hope this helps.

Good studying.

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Posted by Professor Cram @ Economics | 0 comment(s)

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