The hearing aid battery market has been quietly, but steadily, growing. This growth is attributed to an aging population and the improvement in hearing aid technology. Zinc air replacement batteries use air outside the battery as a source of power. There is a tab on the battery which seals the air holes to ensure freshness until the customer is ready to use the battery. To activate the battery, simply remove the tab, wait one minute to allow air to enter and activate the ingredients, and insert the battery into your hearing air. Zinc air batteries last 3 to 21 days, depending on the actual hearing aid and battery size. Costco is a major competitor in this market. In 2010 Costco reported 11.6 million zinc battery customers, who purchased a total of $ 1.56 billion of disposable hearing aid batteries. In the United States there were 54.8 million disposable hearing aid battery customers, who purchased $ 4.69 billion in this category. Calculate the heavy usage index for Costco customers. Report your answer rounded to two decimal places.

Key words and Definitions

Payout policy – the firm’s typical method of distributing cash to shareholders.

Dividend signaling – the theory that a firm’s dividend policy provides information to stakeholders.

SEC – the Securities and Exchange Commission is the federal government entity charged with protecting investors and with financial oversight of public firms and the financial markets.

Summary: Key Points in the Article.

Kraft Heinz shares were down by as much as 20% after the market closed. The firm wrote down the value of both Kraft and Oscar Mayer brands.by $15 billion after posting a $12.6 billion loss. In addition, the firm slashed dividends from 62.5 cents a share to 40 cents a share.

The dividend cut will allow the firm to “cut debt faster, improve the balance sheet” and allow Kraft Heinz to sell some business units. The company also announced the Securities and Exchange Commission was investigating various vendor relationships. Kraft Heinz stated it was fully cooperating with the investigation and the company launched an internal review of its procurement procedures.

Thinking Critically Questions:

1. What signal does a dividend cut send?

2. Why did Kraft Heinz cut dividends?

3. Why is Kraft Heinz selling some business units?

1. Are professional jobs held in the computing industry independent of the number of years a person has worked in the industry? Suppose 246 workers are interviewed. Use the results to obtained to determine whether type of professional job held in the computer industry is independent of years worked in the industry. Take a = 0.0

Professional position

Pretend you work as a computer programmer. Write a memo to your department convincing them to donate to a non-profit of your choosing. Include all details for donation (think Who, What, When Where Why, How). Include the following sections: Header (company letterhead, to, from, date, subject,), Salutation, Opening paragraph, middle paragraph(s), closing paragraph, complimentary closing, and signature. Paraphrase information about the nonprofit in your middle paragraphs, and cite this info in APA formatting. 2 pages max. U.5

The Questions Are of a Organization of Programming course.

A variable can be characterized by a collection of attributes. What is one such attribute? The response is Implicit heap-dynamic allocation. Why is the response that?

Does static type binding require the programmer to specify the type of the variable in the program? Please Explain the answer and why it is the answer.

A certain variable is assigned a value. At that time, new storage is allocated for that variable to fit the new value. What kind of allocation was most likely used? Please provide an answer and please explain why the answer is the answer.

1. What different types of data can be part of a machine language instruction?

2. What are some differences between RISC and CISC computers?

3. What is the general architecture of most modern computers: VonNeumann, Harvard, or Modified Harvard?

4. What descriptors from 2 and 3 above would you use to classify today's personal computers?

5. Why is it important to know whether a machine is Big-Endian or Little Endian when converting 16-bit or 32-bit data from one type of machine to another?

6. Is a programmer concerned with the types and number of buses inside a CPU?

7. How large of a memory can be supported by each of a 16-bit, 32-bit, and 64-bit address bus ( both in K, M, G, and T and in the "real" number of addresses)?

8. Which addressing mode uses a register to specify the address of an instruction operand in memory: Indexed, Register, PC relative, or Immediate?

9. List 4 things that the processor's control unit does.

10. Why does a CPU need registers that are not accessible or programmable by a programmer?

11. List the steps that a CPU needs to go through in order to read a single data word from RAM.

12. What is the purpose of a bus inside of a CPU?

13. What type of special purpose computing device generally uses a Harvard architecture? Spell out the answer, an acronym is not enough

Case 6: Project Resource Management
Several people working on the Healthy You Intranet Project are confused about their responsibilities for the testing portion of the project. Recall that the team members include you, a programmer/analyst and junior/assistant project manager; Ivan, a network specialist; Helen, a business analyst; and Bonnie, another programmer/analyst. Paul Sparks is the project manager, and he has been working closely with managers in other departments to make sure everyone knows what’s going on with the project.
The main tasks for testing include writing a test plan, unit testing and integration testing for each of the main system modules (registration, tracking, and incentives), system testing, and user acceptance testing.
In addition to the project team members, a team of user representatives is available to help with testing, and Paul has also hired an outside consulting firm ABC Digital to help as needed.
One of the issues Paul identified is the ability to work effectively with the user group during testing. According to MBTI classifications, Paul knows that several of his project team members are very introverted and strong thinking types, while several members of the user group are very extroverted and strong feeling types.

Prepare a responsibility assignment matrix (RAM) based on the information from this case.
3. Prepare a RACI chart (use the template) to help clarify roles and responsibilities for these testing tasks. Document key assumptions you make in preparing the chart.

Let X be a compact space and let Y be a Hausdorff space. Let f ∶ X → Y be continuous. Show that the image of any closed set in X under f must also be closed in Y .

1. Explain why temporary accounts are closed.

2. Describe the four specific steps included in the Closing Process.

3. Which account types (i.e. Assets, Liabilities, Expenses etc.) are NOT closed and why?