If you found an emaciated house cat in a park and decided to provide nutritional rehabilitation, what are 4 important principles that you would consider in deciding your course of action (list and explain)?

Please answer each question in 350-500 words.

Discuss how you and your work place(Delta hotel by Marriott) could create a better team-orientated work environment.

1. The Cody Hotel, a proposed 50-room hotel (rooms-only lodging facility), planned to build in mid-Michigan. The owner is concerned about the average daily room rate (ADR), construction costs, borrowing costs, and their impact on profits. He provides you with the following information:

Determine the required ADR to achieve the owner's goal of earning an ROI of 15%. (20 points)

Simulation Case Study:
Phoenix Boutique Hotel Group

Phoenix Boutique Hotel Group (PBHG) was founded in 2007 by Bree Bristowe. Having worked for several luxury resorts, Bristowe decided to pursue her dream of owning and operating a boutique hotel. Her hotel, which she called PHX, was located in an area that included several high-end resorts and business hotels. PHX filled a niche market for “modern travelers looking for excellent service and contemporary design without the frills.” Since opening PHX, Bristowe has invested, purchased, or renovated three other small hotels in the Phoenix metropolitan area: Canyon Inn PHX, PHX B&B, and The PHX Bungalows.

One of the customer service enhancements Bristowe has implemented is a centralized, toll-free reservation system. Although many customers book specific hotels online, the phone reservation system enables PBHG to find the best reservation match at all properties. It has been an excellent option for those customers who have preferences regarding the type of room, amenity options, and the best price across the four hotel locations.

Currently, three agents are on staff for the 6 a.m. to 2 p.m. call shift. The time between calls during this shift is represented in Table 1. The time to process reservation requests during this shift is in Table 2.

Table 1: Incoming Call Distribution

Table 2: Service Time Distribution

Bristowe wants to ensure customers are not on hold for longer than 2 minutes. She is debating hiring additional staff for this shift based on the available data. Additionally, Bristowe and PBHG will soon be featured in a national travel magazine with a circulation of over a million subscriptions. Bristowe is worried that the current operators may not be able to handle the increase in reservations. The projected increase for call distribution is represented in Table 3.

Table 3: Incoming Call Distribution

Bristowe has asked for your advice in evaluating the current phone reservation system. Create a simulation model to investigate her concerns. Make recommendations about the reservation agents.

Suppose we all agree that the emission of carbon into the atmosphere is a policy problem
.Further, assume we know that the private marginal cost of a ton of Co2 is $17
while the true social marginal cost of a ton of carbon is $32. Clearly layout a policy of
carbon taxes that would result in the socially optimal level of carbon emissions.
Demonstrate your argument graphically and carefully explain. Evaluate the relative costs
and benefits of carbon taxes relative to emission targets/restrictions. How would your
analysis change if you believed innovation in carbon saving technologies was going to
improve in the near future?

In January 2017, Mitzu Co. pays $2,700,000 for a tract of land with two buildings on it. It plans to demolish Building 1 and build a new store in its place. Building 2 will be a company office; it is appraised at $854,000, with a useful life of 20 years and a $90,000 salvage value. A lighted parking lot near Building 1 has improvements (Land Improvements 1) valued at $427,000 that are expected to last another 14 years with no salvage value. Without the buildings and improvements, the tract of land is valued at $1,769,000. The company also incurs the following additional costs:

3. Using the straight-line method, prepare the December 31 adjusting entries to record depreciation for the 12 months of 2017 when these assets were in use.

• Record the year-end adjusting entry for the depreciation expense of Building 2.

• 2

  Record the year-end adjusting entry for the depreciation expense of Building 3.

• 3

  Record the year-end adjusting entry for the depreciation expense of Land Improvements 1.

• 4

  Record the year-end adjusting entry for the depreciation expense of Land Improvements 2.

Question 1.

Company Z had the following transactions in its first year of operations:

(1) On January 15, purchased 5,000 units of inventory for $20 each

(2) On March 1, purchased 10,000 units of inventory for $22 each

(3) On March 30, sold 7,000 units of inventory for $48 each

(4) On June 20, purchased 9,000 units of inventory for $25 each

(5) On August 10, sold 12,000 units of inventory for $50 each

(6) On September 3, sold 1,000 units of inventory $49 each

Company Z records transactions using a perpetual system. Calculate the cost of goods sold and ending inventory using (1) average cost, (2) FIFO, and (3) LIFO.

Company Z asks you to advise them on which inventory method to use. What method would you choose if the company wants to take out a loan from a bank in the near future that requires the company to meet a large threshold for its current assets’ value? What method would you choose if the company has a near-term investment opportunity that requires more cash on hand? Explain your answers.