Dissertation Proposal Form

1. Proposed Dissertation Title: The title (tentative) should be precise to allow the reader to comprehend the subject matter of the work.

2. Research Question or Hypothesis: State clearly what your research interest is. Define your research question/hypothesis and the main objectives of your research (Min 300 words).

3. Review of Literature/Background: Make a synthesis of the contributions made in your research field by accredited scholars. Describe how your intended research will complement and expand on the current literature, and what contributions you intend to make to the existing knowledge (Min 400 words).

Note: Should you opt for a Business Plan, then provide a full analysis of the business conditions.

4. Research Methodology: Clearly indicate the methods and techniqueswhich you are planning to use to gather information and investigate the identified problem. (Min 400 words).

5. Selected Bibliography:Please indicate a representative list of the main bibliographical sources you intend to utilize for your dissertation. Please provide full citations. (Min 20 sources)

6. Research and Writing Timeline: Indicate your expected research timetable: starting date, research time, data analysis time, writing time, editing time, date of first draft submission, expected defense time. You may use a Gantt chart.

7. Ethics: How does your research relate to the ethical aspects of your subject matter?

1. Interest Rate Parity, Purchasing Power Parity, International Fisher deEffect Separated by more than 3,000 nautical miles and five time zones, money and foreign exchange markets in both London and New York are very efficient. The following information has been collected from the respective areas: Assumptions London New York Spot exchange rate ($/pound) 1.3264 1.3264 One-year Treasury bill rate 1.5% 2.5% Expected inflation rate Unknown 2.0% a. Estimate today's one-year forward exchange rate F between the dollar and the pound using Covered Interest Rate Parity. b. Find approximate expected inflation in London next year. Is it smaller or larger than New York expected inflation? Why? You can do the forecast using PPP or International Fisher Effect. If you use PPP then assume that the Expected exchange rate E(S) is the same as the forward exchange rate F that you found in (a). Then solve for expected inflation in London using PPP formula. If you use International Fisher effect assume that the real interest rates for two countries are the same.

What is involved in collecting requirements for a project? Why is it often difficult to do?

On January 1, 2018, Instaform, Inc., issued 10% bonds with a face amount of $54 million, dated January 1. The bonds mature in 2037 (20 years). The market yield for bonds of similar risk and maturity is 12%. Interest is paid semiannually. (FV of $1, PV of $1, FVA of $1, PVA of $1, FVAD of $1 and PVAD of $1) (Use appropriate factor(s) from the tables provided.)

Required:
1-a. Determine the price of the bonds at January 1, 2018.
1-b. Prepare the journal entry to record their issuance by Instaform.
2-a. Assume the market rate was 9%. Determine the price of the bonds at January 1, 2018.
2-b. Assume the market rate was 9%. Prepare the journal entry to record their issuance by Instaform.
3. Assume Broadcourt Electronics purchased the entire issue in a private placement of the bonds. Using the data in requirement 2, prepare the journal entry to record the purchase by Broadcourt.

Project 2

This project has three components:

Analyse Canada’s nominal and real GDP for last 5 years with the help of a table/bar chart/Graph.

Prepare a one-page analysis on the indicators reflecting economy’s well being.

Does the following statement give you a true picture of the situation: “Real GDP in the United States is higher than real GDP in Canada. Therefore, the standard of living in the United States must be higher than that in Canada.” Why? Why not?

A physics major is working to pay his college tuition by performing in a traveling carnival. He rides a motorcycle inside a hollow transparent plastic sphere. After gaining sufficient speed, he travels in a vertical circle with a radius of 11.0 m . The physics major has a mass of 74.0 kg , and his motorcycle has a mass of 40.0 kg

Part A.) What minimum speed must he have at the top of the circle if the tires of the motorcycle are not to lose contact with the sphere? (???m/s)

Part B.) At the bottom of the circle his speed is twice the value calculated in part A. What is the magnitude of the normal force exerted on the motorcycle by the sphere at this point? (???N)

Now that the acid has been standardized and you know it is 0.2496 M H2SO4, you perform the actual experiment as follows:

A 3.100-g sample of meat is subjected to Kjeldahl analysis. The liberated NH3(g) is absorbed by adding 50.00 mL of H2SO4(aq), which is more than enough. The excess acid requires 19.90 mL of 0.5510 M NaOH for its complete neutralization.
What is the percentage of protein in the meat?

Lon Timur is an accounting major at a midwestern state university located approximately 60 miles from a major city. Many of the students attending the university are from the metropolitan area and visit their homes regularly on the weekends. Lon, an entrepreneur at heart, realizes that few good commuting alternatives are available for students doing weekend travel. He believes that a weekend commuting service could be organized and run profitably from several suburban and downtown shopping mall locations. Lon has gathered the following investment information.

(a)

Determine the annual (1) net income and (2) net annual cash flows for the commuter service. (Round answers to 0 decimal places, e.g. 125.)

(b)

Compute (1) the cash payback period and (2) the annual rate of return. (Round answers to 2 decimal places, e.g. 10.50.)

(c)

Compute the net present value of the commuter service. (Round answer to 0 decimal places, e.g. 125. If the net present value is negative, use either a negative sign preceding the number eg -45 or parentheses eg (45). For calculation purposes, use 5 decimal places as displayed in the factor table provided.)

Write a JAVAprogram that reads a word and prints all its substrings, sorted by length. It then generates a random index between 0 and the length of the entered word, and prints out the character at that index.

For example, if the user provides the input "rum", the program prints
r
u
m
ru
um
rum

The random index generated is 1. The character at index 2 is u.

1. Richard is asked to perform a hypothesis test to determine whether the mean resistance of pyrite from a particular site is 2 Ohms (Ω). Richard collects 50 samples, and obtains a sample mean of 1.8 Ohms and a standard deviation of 0.6 Ohms. He then constructs the following hypotheses:

   H0 : x ̄ = 2.0Ω H1 : x ̄ ̸= 2.0Ω

   and concludes that, since x ̄ = 1.8 is not equal to 2.0, we should reject the null hypothesis. Explain why Richard’s reasoning is incorrect, and explain what we actually need to do to correctly perform a hypothesis test for this experiment.

An ideal heat engine takes in heat from a reservoir at 330 °C and has an efficiency of 31%. If the exhaust temperature does not vary and the efficiency is increased to 42%, what would be the increase in the temperature of the hot reservoir?

1. Interpret the term “financial assets” and “financial liabilities” in accordance to IAS 32 Financial Instruments: Presentation and give examples of each.