Given the Information in the Table Above

question 4

Multiple Choice

Given the information in the table above

• A) neither country has a comparative advantage in cloth.
• B) Home has a comparative advantage in widgets.
• C) Foreign has a comparative advantage in widgets.
• D) Home has a comparative advantage in both cloth and widgets.
• E) neither country has a comparative advantage in widgets.

Recognize the assumptions underlying the internal rate of return and net present value methods regarding reinvestment rates.

Understand the role of discounted cash flow techniques in evaluating the recovery of initial investment.

Identify how profitability indexes are used to evaluate investment projects and their relation to the internal rate of return.

Learn the importance of considering salvage values and cash inflows/outflows, including working capital changes, in project evaluations.

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