please give me the correct answer with a necessary calculation
Charlotte Watson is studying towards a Business BS, Financial Management Specialization degree from Grenoble Ecole de Management (France) and currently working as Market Risk Analyst Intern for Morgan Stanley.
Charlotte is a part of the team that has buyside experience in M&A, IBD, Equity Research and Private Equity.
The team is providing consulting services to Ohio Teachers and the pension plan representatives want to know if their investment is worth for their money. Ohio teachers will pay out $2.2 million based on a contract and receive payments of $0.6 million today, $0.8 million one year from today, and $0.8 million two years from today.
Charlotte wants to advice the representatives of Ohio teachers pension plan and wants to know if this contract worth today if the firm can earn 7.2 percent on its money. How much the contract is worth? Can you help Charlotte?
1. $2,038,616.67
2. $2,042,414.79
3. $2,124,339.07
4. $2,108,001.32
Karen Kelly is studying towards an online BS in Finance degree from MIT: Sloan (US) and currently working as Equity Research Associate Intern for HSBC Holdings PLC.
Karen helps a research team that identifies potential stock-market winners, and appropriately trade such securities while engaging institutional clients on the buy-side by providing industry research reports and analysis for the portfolio managers and analysts.
The team is providing financial planning advice to individuals and Karen is a part of the group.
Currently, Ms. Suzie Walters is visiting and asking for help to figure out a retirement problem. Ms. Walters want to have $250,000 annual income every year for the next 30 years. If she can earn an average rate of return of 6 percent, how much does Ms. Walters need to put down today to have $250,000 annual income every year for the next 30 years? Can you help Karen?
1. $3,246,422.40
2. $3,333,333.30
3. $3,312,886.70
4. $3,441,207.79
Carolyn Taylor is studying towards MBA with a track in finance from University of Chicago: Booth (US) and currently working as Quantitative analyst, Equities Intern for UBS.
Carolyn supports a team that is engaged with hedge funds, asset managers and/or investment banks that support the next-generation machine learning systems for the automation of valuation model building and investment research analytics.
The team is providing consulting services to Teacher Retirement System of Texas.
The representatives of Teacher Retirement System of Texas want to invest some of the money (uneven amounts, and each year for the next 4 years at the end of periods: Year 1: $20 million, Year 2: $24 million, Year 3: $28 million, and Year 4: $32 million) earning at 5.5 percent interest. How much will be the total amount at the end of year 4? Can you help Carolyn to find the approximate answer.
1. $108,392,690
2. $111,737,430
3. $107,525,400
4. $110,414,140
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How do women and men compare in the pursuit of academic degrees? The table below present counts (in thousands) from the Statistical Abstract of degrees earned in 1996 categorized by the level of the degree and the sex of the recipient.
Bachelor Master Professional Doctorate Totals
Female 642 227 32 18
Male 522 179 45 27
Totals
i. Explain why sex is the independent variable.
j. Describe the differences in degree distribution between men and women. Use appropriate percentages.
k. Are these differences significant? Use an appropriate statistical test (with ? = 0.01) to determine whether sex and academic degree are independent.
l. Find lambda for this table. What does this tell us?
In: Statistics and Probability
NAMIBIA, AFRICA COMPANY LAW QUESTION
Read the following scenario then draft the contract of employment.
Rita Dominic is a 27 year old Namibian Female who studied medicine at the University of Namibia, School of Medicine, Hage Geingob Campus from 2015 to 2019 respectively of which she graduated with flying colours. Rita was retained by Rhino Park Private Hospital to do her practical attachment there. Rita’s immediate supervisor was very impressed with how quick Rita excelled at her practical training and has recommended Rita for employment on permanent basis. The position which Rita is to fill is of head nurse and she will be granted ‘’benefits’’ afforded to any employee as stipulated in the Namibian Labour Act 11 of 2007.
Instruction: Rhino Park Human Resource officers heard that you are a commercial law expert and asked you to draft Rita’s employment contract (including her offer) with all relevant clauses.
In: Accounting
Investment is the purchase or creation of assets to to make gains in the future. Typically investment involves using financial resources to purchase a machine or building or securities or other assets, which will then yield returns to an organization or individual over a period of time.
Last year, Gary graduated with a Foundation in Arts from Quest International University Ipoh and received RM5,000 from his father as a graduation gift. Gary, now in his first year of a degree program, recently heard from a friend who earns a profit from investing in the bond market during this pandemic time.
Gary does not know much about investing or how people actually “make money by investing”. He asked you to help him in making a wise investment plan.
Need help for a, b, c, d and e
In: Finance
Answer using excel and please provide excel instructions for all outputs meaning what formula was used to calculate the output and how was it implemented using excel and which excel functions to use. Thank you.
Conch Republic Electronics is a midsized electronics manufacturer located in Key West, Florida. The company president is Shelly Couts, who inherited the company. The company originally repaired radios and other household appliances when it was founded over 70 years ago. Over the years, the company has expanded, and it is now a reputable manufacturer of various specialty electronic items. Jay McCanless, a recent MBA graduate, has been hired by the company in its finance department. One of the major revenue‐producing items manufactured by Conch Republic is a smart phone. Conch Republic currently has one smart phone model on the market and sales have been excellent. The smart phone is a unique item in that it comes in a variety of tropical colors and is preprogrammed to play Jimmy Buffett music. However, as with any electronic item, technology changes rapidly, and the current smart phone has limited features in comparison with newer models. Conch Republic spent $500,000 to develop a prototype for a new smart phone that has all the features of the existing one but adds new features such as wifi tethering. The company has spent a further $200,000 for a marketing study to determine the expected sales figures for the new smart phone. Conch Republic can manufacture the new smart phone for $175 each in variable costs. Fixed costs for the operation are estimated to run $3.1 million per year. The estimated sales volume is 75,000, 92,000, 95,000, 80,000, and 50,000 per year for the next five years, respectively. The unit price of the new smart phone will be $400. The necessary equipment can be purchased for $25.5 million and will be depreciated on a seven‐year MACRS schedule. It is believed the value of the equipment in five years will be 1.5 million. Net working capital for the smart phones will be 12 percent of sales and will occur with the timing of the cash flows for the year (i.e., there is no initial outlay for NWC). Changes in NWC will thus first occur in Year 1 with the first year's sales. Conch Republic has a 33 percent corporate tax rate and a required return of 12 percent. Shelly has asked Jay to prepare a report that answers the following questions:
QUESTIONS 1. What is the payback period of the project?
2. What is the profitability index of the project?
3. What is the IRR of the project?
4. What is the NPV of the project?
5. Perform a sensitivity analysis for the price of the new smart phone. Measure the effects on NPV by moving price 5% up and down.
6. Perform a sensitivity analysis for the quantity of phones sold. Measure the effects on NPV by moving quantity 5% up and down.
7. Should Conch Republic produce the new smart phone?
8. Suppose Conch Republic loses sales on other models because of the introduction of the new model. How would this affect your analysis?
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7/ The results of an experiment on the effects of sleep training on sleep quality showed that participants who received eight sessions of sleep enhancement training had longer sleep duration and better sleep quality than participants who did not receive the training. This led the researchers to conclude that an eight-week sleep enhancement training program is effective for improving sleep quality. What advantage of experimental research does this demonstrate? Multiple Choice Question Experimental research helps establish cause and effect relationships. Experimental research reviews media (e.g., old texts, pictures) to explore patterns in behavior. Experimental research allows the researcher to serve as a participant in the study. Experimental research uncovers as much as possible about a single person or situation. 8/ A research team designed a study of parenting style that included three groups: parents in their 30s with preschool-age children (2-5), parents in their 40s with children ages 6-11, and parents in their 50s with adolescents ages 12-18. This design is considered by the researchers to be less-time consuming and expensive than other potential designs, but they acknowledge the limitation of having only one measurement of parenting style for one point in time. As such, they cannot conclude that changes between parent groups indicate changes with age over time. Which research design does this describe? Multiple Choice Question Cross-sectional research design Cohort sequential research design Sequential research design Longitudinal research design 9/ College students are often recruited for research studies of young adult development, but this is often discussed as a limitation of those studies. How do you explain this? Multiple Choice Question It is an ethical violation to recruit college and university participants without their parents’ consent. College students are not randomly selected from the larger population, and they may not represent all young adults in our society. It is more difficult to get IRB approval for studies involving college and university students. University students tend to have higher rates of attrition compared to non-university students. 10/ A researcher who studies language development and tracks the rate at which toddlers learn new words is interested in which domain of human development? Multiple Choice Question Psychosocial Lifespan Cognitive Physical |
In: Psychology
Review Exercise 3: Characteristics of Services
WestJet was founded in 1996 as a low cost Canadian airline. Today, WestJet welcomes 20 million travelers annually. Use your own knowledge of WestJet and the company website at www.westjet.com to answer the following.
1. Explain how the four characteristics of services affect WestJet.
2. What marketing initiatives could WestJet employ to try to mitigate the negative effects of these characteristics as much as possible?
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1. Suppose that the random variable X is normally distributed with mean μ = 30 and standard deviation σ = 4. Find a) P(x < 40) b) P(x > 21) c) P(30 < x < 35) 2. A radar unit is used to measure speeds of cars on a motorway. The speeds are normally distributed with a mean of 90 km/hr and a standard deviation of 10 km/hr. What is the probability that a car picked at random is travelling at more than 100 km/hr? 3. For a certain type of computers, the length of time between charges of the battery is normally distributed with a mean of 50 hours and a standard deviation of 15 hours. Find the probability that the length of time will be between 50 and 70 hours. 4. Entry to a certain University is determined by a national test. The scores on this test are normally distributed with a mean of 500 and a standard deviation of 100. Tom wants to be admitted to this university and he knows that he must score better than at least 70% of the students who took the test. Tom takes the test and scores 585. Will he be admitted to this university? 5. The annual salaries of employees in a large company are approximately normally distributed with a mean of $50,000 and a standard deviation of $20,000. a) What percent of people earn less than $40,000? b) What percent of people earn between $45,000 and $65,000? c) What percent of people earn more than $70,000?
In: Statistics and Probability
1. It is believed that the population proportion of adults in the US who own dogs is 0.65. I surveyed people leaving the veterinarians office and found that 96 out of 150 owned a dog. Test this hypothesis at the .05 significance level. Assume a random sample.
2. Randomly surveyed 10 employees at work for their average on how many times they use the rest room per shift. the results were as follows 2,2,3,1,0,4,1,1,0,5
the mean for this is 1.9 times per shift.
test the hypothesis at a .5 significance level.
3. In the company there are 845 employees who use laptops within the organization. In our office downtown in the city, there are 75 employees who use laptops, walking around in our downtown office there are 55 mac users and 20 dell users. Test this hypothesis with this random sample.
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Shirts-R-Us sells blouses in Florida. Blouses are imported from Pakistan and sold to customers in their stores. Salespeople are paid a base salary and a commission of $14 on each blouse they sell. The invoice cost of the blouse to the company is $36 per blouse. In addition, Shirts-R-Us pays rent of $160,000 a year, salaries total $140,000 a year and advertising is $300,000 a year. The blouses are sold for $80 each. The breakdown of the costs and revenues are given in the table. Revenues $80 per blouse Variable Costs Invoice cost $36 Commission $14 Fixed Costs Rent $160,000 Advertising $300,000 Salaries $140,000 a) Compute the breakeven point in units and dollars for Shirts-R-Us. b) Suppose that the company sells 18,500 blouses for the year. What price would Shirts-R-Us have to charge in order to breakeven? c) Suppose that Shirts-R-Us decides to increase salaries by $214,000 and eliminates the commission on sales. What is the new breakeven point in units and dollars?
In: Economics