If Any Firm with a Positive Net Worth Is Operating

question 8

True/False

If any firm with a positive net worth is operating its fixed assets at full capacity, if its dividend payout ratio is 100 percent, and if it wants to hold all financial ratios constant, then for any positive growth rate in sales, the firm will require external financing.

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Definitions:

Aggregate Demand

The total market appetite for goods and services within an economy, delineated at a specific price level over an agreed time duration.

Average Price Level

An economic indicator that represents the overall level of prices in the economy by averaging the prices of all goods and services over a period.

Vertical Aggregate Supply Curve

A graphical representation where the aggregate supply does not change with the price level, indicating an economy at full employment.

Classical Economists

A group of 18th and 19th-century economists who believed in the theory that markets operate under the laws of supply and demand and that markets will self-regulate.