The 2013 annual report of dow chemical disclosed the following: deferred tax assets decreased by $1,503 million and deferred tax liabilities increased by $38 million. how do these balance-sheet changes affect tax expense on the income statement for the year? a) increase tax expense by $1,331 millionb) decrease tax expense by $1,331 millionc) increase tax expense by $1,541 milliond) decrease tax expense by $1,541 millione) none of the above

Feedback systems do not always involve negative feedback. economic inflation, which is evidenced by continually rising prices, is a positive feedback system. a positive feedback control system, as shown on the right, adds the feedback signal to the input signal, and the resulting signal is used as the input to the process. a simple model of the price-wage inflationary spiral is shown on the right. add additional feedback loops, such as legislative control or control of the tax rate, to stabilize the system. it is assumed that an increase in workers’ salaries, after some time delay, results an increase in prices. under what conditions could prices be stabilized by falsifying or delaying the availability of cost-ofliving data? how would a national wage and price economic guideline program affect the feedback system?