How do credit analysts assist decision makers in evaluating the credit worthiness of a state or local government?

What will be an ideal response?


Credit analysts, such as those with Moody's, Standard and Poor's, FitchRatings, and Kroll Bond Rating Agency, analyze external financial statements of a government along with other available economic and demographic information, make initial assessments, compare municipalities, and then assign a bond rating to each bond a government issues. Investors considering the purchase or sale of municipal bonds use this rating to compare the risk associated with each bond relative to other municipal bonds.

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Retailers study traffic flow, street congestion, and parking space availability when considering a new store site to determine the potential site's

A. visibility. B. parallel tenants. C. adjacent tenants. D. availability. E. accessibility.

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Mass customization combines the advantages of which two processes?

A. job-shop and continuous B. job-shop and project C. project and continuous D. continuous and batch

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Fun Time Amusement Park provides a variety of attractions

Fun Time sells tickets at $50 per person as a one-day entrance fee. Variable costs are $28 per person, and fixed costs are $178,800 per month. Assume that Fun Time reduces fixed costs from $178,800 per month to $166,500 per month. Compute the new breakeven point in tickets and in sales dollars. What will be an ideal response

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When a consumer's internal psychological process is attitude formation, she is likely to be in the stage of purchase decision in the decision-making process.

Answer the following statement true (T) or false (F)

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