What Is Float

question 42

Multiple Choice

What is float?

• A)Overnight payments via CHIPS or Fedwire.
• B)Encoding, endorsing, microfilming, and handling customers' checks.
• C)Time it takes a check to clear at a bank.
• D)Management of multiple currency and security portfolios for trading and investment purposes.
• E)Interval between the dispatch of a bill and actual payment by the consumer.

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Definitions:

Economic Profit

The difference between a firm's total revenues and its total costs, including both explicit and implicit costs, measuring the firm’s performance beyond its accounting profit.

Long Run

A period in economics where all factors of production and costs are variable, allowing for full adjustment to any change.

Monopolistically Competitive

A market structure where many firms sell products that are similar but not identical, allowing for some degree of market power and pricing over their product.

Optimal Level

The most efficient, effective, or desirable point or degree of an activity or function, balancing costs and benefits.