How does GDP accounting record the following events? For each of them, describe how they would be computed in GDP accounts using the income method, the production method and the expenditure method (typing the answer)

(a) Panasonic builds a TV which it sells domestically for $500. Panasonic’s only costs were labor costs of $200.

b) You purchase a brand new house for $250,000 and live in it for three month,the rental rate to live in a similar house is $1,000 a month. For simplicity assume the house was produced at zero cost by a corporation.

(c) Walmart sells 1000 bottles of Coca-Cola for $1,500. It had purchased them last year and paid $1,200 for them.

(d) Mining Inc. mines $10,000 worth of natural resources which it sells to Pear Inc. Pear Inc. uses the natural materials to produce $20,000 worth of laptops.Pear Inc. sells half the laptops to Wells Fargo to be used in their offices and the other half to individuals for personal use. Mining Inc. pays its employees$5,000. Pear Inc. pays its employees $5,000.

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a Event Panasonic builds a TV which it sells domestically for 500 Panasonics only costs were labor costs of 200 Income Method In the income method the GDP would be calculated by summing up the incomes ... View the full answer