Examples of purchasing power in the following topics:
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- Since the numbers on financial statements represent dollars expended at different points of time and, in turn, embody different amounts of purchasing power, they are simply not additive.
- Hence, adding cash of $10,000 held on December 31, 2002, with $10,000 representing the cost of land acquired in 1955 (when the price level was significantly lower) is a dubious operation because of the significantly different amount of purchasing power represented by the two identical numbers.
- For example, in countries such as these the International Accounting Standards Board requires corporate financial statements to be adjusted for changes in purchasing power using a price index.
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- Purchasing Power Parity (PPP) Theory is based on the Law of One Price.
- Nevertheless, the Purchasing Power Parity helps predict changes in exchange rates.
- Thus, Purchasing Power Parity estimates the equilibrium exchange rate.
- Economists expand the Purchasing Power Parity to include many products in a society.
- The Economist publishes the Big Mac Index, based on the Purchasing Power Parity.
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- For example, if somebody lends $1,000 for a year at 10%, and receives $1,100 back at the end of the year, this represents a 10% increase in his purchasing power if prices for the average goods and services that he buys are unchanged from what they were at the beginning of the year.
- However, if the prices of the food, clothing, housing, and other things that he wishes to purchase have increased 20% over this period, he has in fact suffered a real loss of about 12% in his purchasing power.
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- Absolute purchasing power parity posits that the exchange rate between two countries will be identical to the ratio of the price levels for those two countries.
- Relative purchasing power parity (PPP) is an economic theory used to determine the relative value of currencies, estimating the amount of adjustment needed on the exchange rate between countries in order for the exchange to be equivalent to (or on par with) each currency's purchasing power.
- It asks how much money would be needed to purchase the same goods and services in two countries, and uses that to calculate an implicit foreign exchange rate.
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- We can use the Quantity Theory of Money to expand the Purchasing Power Parity Theory.
- We can substitute the Quantity Theory of Money into the Purchasing Power Parity Equation, yielding Equation 13.
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- Consequently, inflation also reflects an erosion in the purchasing power of money–a loss of real value in the internal medium of exchange and unit of account in the economy.
- (The rates of return are lower, because the investments with higher rates of return were already being made before. ) To put it in a word, companies purchase more inventories in case of high inflation.
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- We will study the random walk, Purchasing Power Parity Theory, the Relative Purchasing Parity Theory, Interest Rate Parity Theorem, and International Fisher Effect.
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- At the end of Year 1, you have 5% more money in real terms because you can purchase 5% more in goods and services.
- Consequently, your purchasing power would not change in real terms.
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- For an example of a purchase discount, a purchaser who buys a 100 dollar item with a purchase discount term 3/10, net 30 only needs to pay 97 dollars as long as he or she pays within 10 days.
- Purchases are offset by Purchase Discounts, and also Purchase Returns and Allowances.
- A purchase discount is an offer, from the supplier to the purchaser, to reduce the selling price if payment is made within a certain period of time.
- For example, a purchaser buying a 100 dollar item with a purchase discount term of 3/10, net 30, will only need to pay 97 dollars if they pay within ten days.
- Under the net method, purchase discounts are realized right away.