The following table provides data for a project. Use the data to answer the following questions

1. Draw a network to represent the above project.

2. What is the critical path? What is the expected completion time? What is the variance of the project completion time? (Complete the expected task time and variance of time calculations.)

3. The project manager realizes that it is best to take at least 20 weeks to complete the project. However, she also thinks that delaying the project past 26 weeks will result in considerable loss for the company. What is the probability that it will take between 20 and 26 weeks to complete the project?

4. For the next two parts, assume that the expected times you calculated are the deterministic single point estimates of time. Because of work in other projects, the manager realizes that is very likely that activity B will take 5 more weeks than initially determined. What is the new completion time for the project, given this information?

5. The manager wants to reduce the project time by two weeks. How can this be achieved? What are the implications? (Answer this question conceptually.)

After graduating from college, you work briefly as a salesperson before filing for bankruptcy. As part of your petition, you reveal that your only debts are student loans, taxes from the last year, a $742 Visa credit card bill, and a claim against you based on your misuse of customers’ funds during your employment. Are these debts dischargeable in bankruptcy? Explain your answer

What is the difference between a soft and hard page fault?

Question 2
There exist a number of strategies that can be considered for implementation.
(a) Identify four (4) issues in strategy implementation.
(b) Create four (4) types of strategies using the SWOT Matrix in the matching stage of strategy formulation.
(c) Describe any two (2) of the SWOT Matrix strategy types.

On January 1, 2016, Aspen Company acquired 80 percent of Birch Company's voting stock for $332,000. Birch reported a $370,000 book value and the fair value of the noncontrolling interest was $83,000 on that date. Then, on January 1, 2017, Birch acquired 80 percent of Cedar Company for $184,000 when Cedar had a $197,000 book value and the 20 percent noncontrolling interest was valued at $46,000. In each acquisition, the subsidiary's excess acquisition-date fair over book value was assigned to a trade name with a 30-year remaining life.

These companies report the following financial information. Investment income figures are not included.   

Assume that each of the following questions is independent:

1. If all companies use the equity method for internal reporting purposes, what is the December 31, 2017, balance in Aspen's Investment in Birch Company account?

2. What is the consolidated net income for this business combination for 2018?

3. What is the net income attributable to the noncontrolling interest in 2018?

4. Assume that Birch made intra-entity inventory transfers to Aspen that have resulted in the following intra-entity gross profits in inventory at the end of each year:

What is the accrual-based net income of Birch in 2017 and 2018, respectively?

a. If all companies use the equity method for internal reporting purposes, what is the December 31, 2017, balance in Aspen's Investment in Birch Company account?
b. What is the consolidated net income for this business combination for 2018?
c. What is the net income attributable to the noncontrolling interest in 2018?

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Assume that Birch made intra-entity inventory transfers to Aspen that have resulted in the following intra-entity gross profits in inventory at the end of each year:

What is the accrual-based net income of Birch in 2017 and 2018, respectively?

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1. Calculate the   book inventory (round to two decimal places) , the  shortage or overage dollars (round all answers to two decimal places), and then the  shortage or overage percent (but leave off the % sign) given the following information:

               Opening inventory                                                  $   64,200

               Net purchases                                                             154,600

               Transfer in                                                                      3,400

               Transfer out                                                                   2,700

               Markdowns                                                                 11,300

               Markdown cancellations                                                   760

               Net sales                                                                     141,300

               Employee discounts                                                       1,920

               Closing physical inventory                                         63,760

In depth, explain the strategic management and human capital of PETCO.

The manager of post office must determine how many workers should work on Tuesdays. For every minute a customer stands in line, the manager believes that a delay cost of 7¢ is incurred. An average of 5 customers per minute arrive at the post office. On the average, it takes a worker 1 minute to complete service. It cost the post office $15 per hour to hire a worker. Interarrival times and service times are exponential. To minimize the sum of service costs and delay costs, how many workers should the post office have working on Tuesdays?

What do you think the future of Big Data will be? Will it leave its popularity to something else? If so, what will it be? explain with your own words please

What are the big challenges that one should be mindful of when considering implementation of Big Data analytics? explain with your own words please