You observe that the inflation rate in the United States is "1.3" percent per year and that T-bills currently yield 1.8 percent annually. Use the approximate international Fisher effect to answer the following questions.
a. What do you estimate the inflation rate to be in Australia, if short-term Australian government securities yield 8 percent per year. (Enter your answer as a percent rounded to 1 decimal place, e. g., 32.1.)b. What do you estimate the inflation rate to be in Canada, if short-term Canadian government securities yield 11 percent per year? (Enter your answer as a percent rounded to 1 decimal place, e. g., 32.1.)c. What do you estimate the inflation rate to be in Taiwan, if short-term Taiwanese government securities yield 13 percent per year? (Enter your answer as a percent rounded to 1 decimal place, e. g., 32.1.)

Consider the scenario below and let us know if you believe lauren smith's actions to be ethical. let us know why or why not. lauren smith is the controller for sports central, a chain of sporting goods stores. she has been asked to recommend a site for a new store. lauren has an uncle who owns a shopping plaza in the area of town where the new store is to be located, so she decides to contact her uncle about leasing space in his plaza. lauren also contacted several other shopping plazas and malls, but her uncle’s store turned out to be the most economical place to lease. therefore, lauren recommended locating the new store in her uncle’s shopping plaza. in making her recommendation to management, she did not disclose that her uncle owns the shopping plaza. if management decided to go with lauren's uncle's plaza, what additional information would be needed in the financial statements?

Omnidata uses the annualized income method to determine its quarterly federal income tax payments. it had $100,000, $50,000, and $90,000 of taxable income for the first, second, and third quarters, respectively ($240,000 in total through the first three quarters). what is omnidata's annual estimated taxable income for purposes of calculating the third quarter estimated payment?

Which of the following is a function performed by market prices? a. market prices communicate information to buyers and sellers. b. market prices coordinate the decisions of buyers and sellers. c. market prices motivate entrepreneurs to produce those products that are currently most desired relative to their costs of production. d. all of the above are functions performed by market prices.