TERM PAPERS ON ECONOMICS
Accounting Evaluation of Ford
Ford Motor Company, a large United States automotive corporation,
strives for success each and every year. The success of Ford Motor
Company, as well as other corporations, can be measured by analyzing the
two most important goals of management, maintaining adequate liquidity
and achieving satisfactory profitability. Liquidity can be defined as
having enough money on hand to pay bills when they are due and to take
care of unexpected needs for cash, while profitability refers to the
ability of business to earn a satisfactory income. To enable investors
and creditors to analyze these goals, Ford Motor Company distributes
annual financial statements. With these financial statements, liquidity
of Ford Motor Company is measured by analyzing factors such as working
capitol, current ratio, quick ratio, receivable turnover, average days'
sales uncollected, inventory turnover and average days' inventory on
hand; whereas profitability analyzes the profit margin, asset turnover,
return on assets, debt to equity, and return on equity factors.
Actions of The Fed at Full Employment in Long Run Equilibrium
The United States economy is
currently producing at a level of full employment in long-run
equilibrium. The government then decides to increase taxes and to reduce
government spending in an effort to balance the budget. The results of
the actions taken by the government is the decrease of real GDP. When
taxes are increased that the amount of disposable income that is
available to consumers is lowered. This lowered level of disposable
income leads to a decrease in consumption spending as well as a decrease
in savings. This decrease in consumer and government spending causes the
total spending to decrease by a multiplied amount, As a result of the
decrease in total spending the aggregate demand decreases and the
aggregate demand curve shifts to the left.
Adam Smith
Adam Smith, a brilliant
eighteenth-century Scottish political economist, had the advantage of
judging the significance ol colonies by a rigorous examination based on
the colonial experience of 300 years. His overview has a built-in bias:
he strongly disapproved of excessive regulation of colonial trade by
parent countries. But his analysis is rich with insight and remarkably
dispassionate in its argument. Adam Smith recognized that the discovery
of the New World not only brought wealth and prosperity to the Old
World, but that it also marked a divide in the history of mankind. The
passage that follows is the work of this economic theorist who discusses
problems in a language readily understandable by everyone.
Bill Clinton - Redefines
Democratic-Republican
In the early 1800's, the United
States was but a promising seedling in search of viable political
direction. The initial parties were known as the federalists and the
Democratic-Republicans, the first of which soon diminished and the later
eventually bisected. The result is the two party Democrat and GOP system
which the majority of politicians of current day subscribe. However,
many political and economic analysts find themselves perplexed by an
incredible new phenomenon radiating from the white house - the economic
policies of President Bill Clinton. This dilemma has left many
wondering, did we elect a democrat or a republican? Has Clinton
unintentionally begun a campaign to reunite the two rivals? The telltale
signs of Clinton's political ambiguity include reminiscently republican
techniques of reducing the budget, creating jobs, lowered productivity,
and shaping the tax code.
CAPITALISM
Today in the United States, a
free market system or capitalism is the main economic system. I am
interested in this subject because I someday wish to own my own
business. I believe that in the future this topic will be very useful to
me. Among the topics that I will discuss are the greeks and romans early
practices of capitalism, the ideas of Joseph Schumpeter, Rush Limbaugh,
and Karl Marx, corporations, regulation by the government, and
Reaganomics. I will also discuss the relationship between inflation and
unemployment. In addition, I will give my own perspective on the
economic theories that I'm presenting. These are just a few of the
things that I will be discussing in this paper.
GDP As a
Measure of the Economy
The GDP is not a sufficient gauge of
how the nation's economy is doing. The GDP is a sum of the monetary
value of what has been produced in the nation in the past year. The
formula for calculating the GDP ignores a large percentage of the
activities that transpire in the nation's economy. The formula ignores
several things as work done in the home and activities in the
underground economy. In general, the GDP includes several items that in
reality do not indicate the nation's economic level while excluding a
large proportion of the activities of the nation.
Import Vs
Export Substitution
Describe import substitution (Inward
looking) developmental strategy, clearly outlining the differences
between the first and second stage. Assess its effectiveness in
promoting economic development. Compare inward looking and outward
looking strategies and discuss the assertion that the latter is
superior.
Society’s Influence on the American Dream
Men have a dream to improve their
lives and better their social status but each man does not realize that
he pursues this dream in hopes of pleasing others and not for his own
well being. Fuller’s quotation demonstrates that people find success and
social mobility if they act and do what others want them to do. The
American dream of success and happiness can not be reached independently
because people need to feel accepted to achieve satisfaction. Each man
strives to improve his place in the community oblivious to the hypocrisy
around him. Everyone works to impress others rather than pleasing
himself. Paralleling Fullers quotation, Sinclair Lewis’ Babbit is a
satirical portrayal of a man in search of himself enveloped by a society
of hypocrisy .
Theory of economics
“the theory purports to provide
an explanation of the holding of all stocks, including those for which
there is not an active future market. it will be shown that, on the
supply side, in addition to the marginal expenditure on physical storage
and the marginal convenience yield another variable, a risk premium, is
required to explain the holding of stocks as functions of price spreads.
in the empirical part of the study the theory will be applied to stocks
of several agricultural commodities. the risk premium for each commodity
will be measured residually under specified conditions by deducting form
the price spread between two periods the other two components of the
marginal cost of storage.”
The North American Free Trade Agreement
Since the birth of this great
nation in 1776, the United States has remained a dominant world power in
many aspects. The American standard of living has been the envy of the
world, powered by an economy rivaled by nearly no one. Our economy
continues to be the rock with which the global economy can lean on, as
evidenced by nations that rely on huge reserves of the dollar because of
its stability as a means of settling international debts. Unfortuneatly,
despite the solidity that our economy is so often associated with, we
have accumulated a 5 trillion dollar (that's 9 zeros) national debt.
Something has to be done about this colossal problem to ensure that the
United States retains its status as a world power in the global economy.
One vital catalyst to help promote growth and neutralize the massive
account deficit and foreign debts is the North American Free Trade
Agreement. NAFTA, for short, is one positive effort that not
surprisingly, has met with the opposition of many. In light of this
opposition, it is evident that NAFTA is accomplishing its primary goals
and encouraging the growth of the American economy.
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