BEC CPA Exam Review Questions and
Answers 2025
Demand Curve Shift Upward (direct relationship-positive shift) - ✅✅-The price of
subsitute goods, expectations of price changes, income for normal goods, and extent of
market
Demand Curve Shift Downward (inverse relationship-neg. shift) - ✅✅-The price of
complement good, income for inferior goods, and consumer boycotts
SWOT analysis - ✅✅-strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, threats
Three common measures of price inflation: - ✅✅-1. The Consumer Price Index (CP)
2. The Producer Price Index (PPI)
3. The GDP Deflator
Okun's law - ✅✅-Provides a general rule of thumb showing how economic growth
rates faster than average often result in reductions in unemployment
Product differentiation strategies - ✅✅-seek to make the demand for a firm's products
more inelastic.
Transfer pricing - ✅✅-is the process for setting prices that are charged for the
transfer of goods or services between related parties such as departments of a large
entity.
Full employment implies that - ✅✅-there frictional and structural unemployment, but
not cyclical unemployment.
The consumer price index (CPI) - ✅✅-is a common measure of inflation. It compares
the price of goods and services in a base year to the price of the same goods and
services at a later year. The CPI is commonly used to convert figures not readily
comparable across years into figures that are more comparable.
The phases of the business cycle are - ✅✅-expansion, peak, contraction (ie,
recession), and trough.
Peaks are - ✅✅-usually characterized by a lack of available labor and capital, which
results in a deceleration of growth. Output is at maximum and unemployment is as low
as possible—or at the "natural" rate.
Tight labor markets and lack of excess capacity often result in - ✅✅-the bidding up of
wages and prices, leading to an acceleration of inflation.
, A change in account balances will always be measured as - ✅✅-(the current balance
- the prior balance), with a positive result indicating an increase and a negative result a
decrease.
% changes for account balances = - ✅✅-(Current balance - prior balance) / prior
balance.
Transportation costs would exist - ✅✅-even in the absence of government.
There are three common measures of price inflation: - ✅✅-consumer price index,
producer price index and GDP deflator.
Deflation - ✅✅-a decrease in the general level of prices and inflation rate is below
zero
Collusive pricing - ✅✅-results when competing suppliers agree that they will not
compete on the basis of price, setting a uniform price to be charged by all suppliers
(conspire). This enables the suppliers to establish higher than market prices.
Price floor - ✅✅-a minimum price for a good or service
price ceiling - ✅✅-a maximum price that can be legally charged for a good or service
Structural unemployment - ✅✅-represents a mismatch between the skills of workers
and the needs of the labor market. This usually occurs due to technological advances
that change or eliminate the need for the specific skills many workers possess.
A significant decline in the U.S. dollar tends to - ✅✅-hurt U.S. importers and benefit
U.S. exporters, while making foreign goods more expensive for U.S. consumers.
Stagflation is defined as - ✅✅-simultaneous unemployment and inflation
Quantitative easing - ✅✅-involves the Fed buying securities to add liquidity to the
economy, when short-term interest rates are already close to zero.
Globalization - ✅✅-has been ongoing for many decades. It has many aspects,
including more savers having more internationally diversified portfolios (i.e., reduced
home bias), more firms operating internationally, and increased international trade
occurring within companies.
Impose countervailing duties legally under WTO rules: - ✅✅-the other country must
have disobeyed a WTO panel that told it to correct a problem.
Answers 2025
Demand Curve Shift Upward (direct relationship-positive shift) - ✅✅-The price of
subsitute goods, expectations of price changes, income for normal goods, and extent of
market
Demand Curve Shift Downward (inverse relationship-neg. shift) - ✅✅-The price of
complement good, income for inferior goods, and consumer boycotts
SWOT analysis - ✅✅-strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, threats
Three common measures of price inflation: - ✅✅-1. The Consumer Price Index (CP)
2. The Producer Price Index (PPI)
3. The GDP Deflator
Okun's law - ✅✅-Provides a general rule of thumb showing how economic growth
rates faster than average often result in reductions in unemployment
Product differentiation strategies - ✅✅-seek to make the demand for a firm's products
more inelastic.
Transfer pricing - ✅✅-is the process for setting prices that are charged for the
transfer of goods or services between related parties such as departments of a large
entity.
Full employment implies that - ✅✅-there frictional and structural unemployment, but
not cyclical unemployment.
The consumer price index (CPI) - ✅✅-is a common measure of inflation. It compares
the price of goods and services in a base year to the price of the same goods and
services at a later year. The CPI is commonly used to convert figures not readily
comparable across years into figures that are more comparable.
The phases of the business cycle are - ✅✅-expansion, peak, contraction (ie,
recession), and trough.
Peaks are - ✅✅-usually characterized by a lack of available labor and capital, which
results in a deceleration of growth. Output is at maximum and unemployment is as low
as possible—or at the "natural" rate.
Tight labor markets and lack of excess capacity often result in - ✅✅-the bidding up of
wages and prices, leading to an acceleration of inflation.
, A change in account balances will always be measured as - ✅✅-(the current balance
- the prior balance), with a positive result indicating an increase and a negative result a
decrease.
% changes for account balances = - ✅✅-(Current balance - prior balance) / prior
balance.
Transportation costs would exist - ✅✅-even in the absence of government.
There are three common measures of price inflation: - ✅✅-consumer price index,
producer price index and GDP deflator.
Deflation - ✅✅-a decrease in the general level of prices and inflation rate is below
zero
Collusive pricing - ✅✅-results when competing suppliers agree that they will not
compete on the basis of price, setting a uniform price to be charged by all suppliers
(conspire). This enables the suppliers to establish higher than market prices.
Price floor - ✅✅-a minimum price for a good or service
price ceiling - ✅✅-a maximum price that can be legally charged for a good or service
Structural unemployment - ✅✅-represents a mismatch between the skills of workers
and the needs of the labor market. This usually occurs due to technological advances
that change or eliminate the need for the specific skills many workers possess.
A significant decline in the U.S. dollar tends to - ✅✅-hurt U.S. importers and benefit
U.S. exporters, while making foreign goods more expensive for U.S. consumers.
Stagflation is defined as - ✅✅-simultaneous unemployment and inflation
Quantitative easing - ✅✅-involves the Fed buying securities to add liquidity to the
economy, when short-term interest rates are already close to zero.
Globalization - ✅✅-has been ongoing for many decades. It has many aspects,
including more savers having more internationally diversified portfolios (i.e., reduced
home bias), more firms operating internationally, and increased international trade
occurring within companies.
Impose countervailing duties legally under WTO rules: - ✅✅-the other country must
have disobeyed a WTO panel that told it to correct a problem.
