A Family Partnership Can Be Used to Shift a Portion

question 46

True/False

A family partnership can be used to shift a portion of the income from a capital-intensive manufacturing business to a taxpayer's young children.

Recognize the purposeful nature of economic decisions.

Differentiate between microeconomics and macroeconomics and their respective fields of study.

Understand the concept of opportunity costs and its application in decision making.

Identify the distinction between positive and normative statements and their roles in economics.

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Definitions:

Retained Earnings

The portion of a company's profits that is kept or retained and not paid out as dividends to shareholders.

Operating Income

The profit realized from a business's operations after deducting operating expenses from gross profit.

Dividends

Financial distributions to a corporation's shareholders, usually coming from the business's earnings.

Quantity Variance

A variance that is computed by taking the difference between the actual quantity of the input used and the amount of the input that should have been used for the actual level of output and multiplying the result by the standard price of the input.