• Use Excel to conduct a regression of the values of the security against the predictors and verify the validity of underlying assumptions
  • Check for homoscedasticity and serial correlation
  • If necessary, rerun the regression using robust standard errors
  • Look for evidence of multicollinearity and eliminate redundant predictors if necessary

This policy ensures that all students in grades one to nine are physically active for at least thirty minutes each day through activities organized by the school (Alberta, 2020). Being active is being healthy. As was mentioned in the Dr. Christine Kennedy’s article schools have the potential to help children develop lifelong, healthy eating patterns and encourage physical activity; research supports school-based interventions to increase physical activity and decrease obesity (Kennedy, 2010).

Giving the kids an opportunity to have an active form of break, allows them to get the proper physical attention to the young body. This increase the overall mental and physical health. Kids between ages of 6 to 14 are in the most important period of they life, when the body and bones are forming. Therefore, this initiative that came to Alberta schools in 2005 was widely accepted and implemented by all the schools across the province.

come up with a discussion question. Something that a rival or someone who is against this policy would say.

) Jaeco Corporation asks you to review its December 31, 2020 inventory values and prepare the adjustments that are needed to the books. The following information is given to you: • 1. Jaeco uses the periodic method of recording inventory. A physical count reveals $234,890 of inventory on hand at December 31, 2020, although the books have not yet been adjusted to reflect the ending inventory. • 2. Not included in the physical count of inventory is $10,420 of merchandise purchased on December 15 from Shamsi. This merchandise was shipped f.o.b. shipping point on December 29 and arrived in January. The invoice arrived and was recorded on December 31. • 3. Included in inventory is merchandise sold to Sage on December 30, f.o.b. destination. This merchandise was shipped after it was counted. The invoice was prepared and recorded as a sale on account for $12,800 on December 31. The merchandise cost $7,350, and Sage received it on January 3. • 4. Included in the count of inventory was merchandise received from Dutton on December 31 with an invoice price of $15,630. The merchandise was shipped f.o.b. destination. The invoice, which has not yet arrived, has not been recorded. • 5. Not included in inventory is $8,540 of merchandise purchased from Growler Industries. This merchandise was received on December 31, after the inventory had been counted. The invoice was received and recorded on December 30. • 6. Included in inventory was $10,438 of inventory held by Jaeco on consignment from Jackel Industries. • 7. Included in inventory was merchandise sold to Kemp, f.o.b. shipping point. This merchandise was shipped after it was counted, on December 31. The invoice was prepared and recorded as a sale for $18,900 on December 31. The cost of this merchandise was $11,520, and Kemp received the merchandise on January 5. • 8. Excluded from inventory was a carton labelled “Please accept for credit.” This carton contained merchandise costing $1,500, which had been sold to a customer for $2,600. No entry had been made to the books to record the return, but none of the returned merchandise seemed damaged. • 9. Jaeco sold $12,500 of inventory to Simply Corp. for $21,000 on account on December 15, 2020. These items were shipped f.o.b. shipping point. The terms of sale indicate that Simply Corp. will be permitted to return an unlimited amount until May 15, 2021. Jaeco has never provided unlimited returns in the past and is not able to estimate the amount of any potential returns that Simply may make. Instructions a. Determine the proper inventory balance for Jaeco Corporation at December 31, 2020. b. Prepare any adjusting/correcting entries that are needed at December 31, 2020. Assume the books have not been closed and that Jaeco follows IFRS. c. Assume instead that Jaeco follows ASPE. Prepare any adjusting/correcting entries at December 31, 2020, that are needed.

The remaining questions in this workbook assignment are based on the following scenario.

Information was collected from a reputable internet site for an investigation into the fuel economy of various makes of car and whether these varied over time. Data was collected for fifteen different models of vehicle from twelve different manufacturers. After collection, the observed vehicle models were classified as sedan, sports or 4WD.
The data for sedans is provided in the file sedan_economy.csv, also available in the same folder as this assignment. The variables in this file are:
decade: the decade in which the car was produced ((1991-2000, 2001-2010, 2011-present);
economy: fuel economy (L/100km);
cylinders: the number of cylinders in the engine;
capacity: the engine capacity (L);
fuel: the fuel type (petrol or diesel);
transmission: the transmission of the car (manual or automatic).

The sample averages of fuel economy for manual and automatic sedans in this sample are 7.854 L/100km and 9.09 L/100km, respectively. Based on this, one of the investigators has suggested that it may be possible to predict the transmission type of a sedan from its fuel economy, using a formal statistical analysis.
(a) Using R, create a new variable isauto that takes the value 1 if the transmission type is automatic, or a 0 if the transmission type is manual. You should show the command you used to do this.
(b) You should then fit an appropriate statistical model that describes the probability of a randomly chosen car having an utomatic transmission, where the fuel economy is a predictor. You should ensure you show the command you used to do this, and provide the coefficient/summary table.
(c) Is fuel economy a significant predictor of the probability of a randomly chosen car having an automatic transmission?
(d) Your friend is looking to purchase a sedan with a manual transmission from an online seller, who has not included the transmission type of the car in the advertisement description. However, the seller has stated in the advert that his 60L tank gives a range of 730km. Whether or not you found fuel economy to be a significant predictor in (d), calculate the average fuel economy and hence determine the model estimate of the probability of the car having a manual transmission.

4. ________ means that IT capacity can be easily scaled up or down as needed, which essentially requires cloud computing.

1. agility
2. flexibility
3. responsiveness
4. IT consumerization

5. ________ is the migration of privately-owned mobile devices into enterprise IT environments.

1. agility
2. flexibility
3. responsiveness
4. IT consumerization

6. Influential industry leaders cite ____________ as their largest business challenge in sustaining a competitive edge.

1. keeping up with technology

1. employee performance
2. economic climate
3. new competition

7. A website or app that is scaled to be viewed from a computer, tablet, or smartphone is said to be_________.

1. responsive
2. flexible
3. agile
4. competitive

8. IT agility, flexibility, and mobility are tightly interrelated and primarily dependent on:

1. An organization’s IT infrastructure and architecture
2. The IT division’s strategic hiring and training practices
3. IT’s integration with production and accounting units
4. Strategic alignment between IT budget and company mission statement

9. Matt is using his own tablet for work purposes, which is an example of a trend called _____________.

1. Mixed use IT
2. Employer IT cost shifting
3. IT consumerization
4. BYOM

10. Using a combination of mobile and database technology, Pizza House keeps records of the pizza preferences of all its customers. When Sam orders from Pizza House, he only says “send me the usual” when he calls in his order; and hangs up.   Accessing the database, the Pizza House worker knows his address, his usual order, and what credit card to bill. The streamlined ordering and fulfillment efficiency give the Pizza House __________.

1. A strategic plan
2. A strategic model
3. A competitive advantage
4. A sustainably business edge

11. iTunes was a significant breakthrough that forever changed the music industry and the first representation of Apple's ________.

1. IT consumerization
2. Sustainable competitive advantage
3. Incompatibility with Windows
4. future outside its traditional computing product line

12. How many times a day does the average American check their smartphone?

1. 24
2. 59
3. 46
4. 99

13. IT job growth is estimated at ________ from 2014 to 2024, according to the U.S. Department of Labor.

1. 12%
2. 5%
3. 33%
4. Over 50%

14. _____________ evaluate the newest and most innovative technologies and determine how they can be applied for competitive advantage. They develop technical standards, deploy technology, and supervise workers who deal with the daily IT issues of the firm.

1. Project Managers
2. Chief Technology Officers
3. CEOs
4. CFOs

15. _____________ develop requirements, budgets, and schedules for their firm’s information technology projects. They coordinate such projects from development through implementation, working with their organization’s IT workers, as well as clients, vendors, and consultants.

1. Project Managers
2. Chief Technology Officers
3. CEOs
4. CFOs

A firm produces a single output using two variable inputs (denoted ?1 and ?2). The firmproduction function is given by ? = Φ(?1, ?2) = (?1?2) ^0.5. The firm can employ as much of either input it desires by incurring constant (and respectively denoted) per-unit input costs of ?1 and ?2. Assume throughout that all prices and quantities are positive and infinitely divisible. Finally, let ?0 denote the “target” level of output that the firm envisions producing when deciding how much of the inputs to employ.

1. (a) Show that the firm’s production technology displays a diminishing (physical) marginal product with respect to either input.

2. (b) Write down the firm’s cost minimization problem and solve for the firm’s total cost function, ??(?1, ?2, ?0). Show that the total cost function is homogeneous of degree one in input prices (i.e., ??(??1, ??2, ?0) = ? × ??(?1, ?2, ?0) for ? > 0). Provide an interpretation of this result.

3. (c) Show that the firm’s average total cost and marginal cost functions are equal and constants (i.e., do not depend on the level of output produced by the firm). What does this imply about the firm’s production technology?

Problem VI A-B: Apple used to produce two different versions of the Iphone, Iphone 5s and Iphone 5c. Assume the cost of production is zero. There are two types of consumers on the market, knowledgeable consumers and kids. Knowledgeable consumers value the Iphone 5s at $220 for its superior technology and the Iphone 5c at only $120. Kids don’t know that much about technology and they like colors a lot so their valuations are $110 for the Iphone 5s and $100 for the Iphone 5c. Apple is designing a pricing strategy to sell the Iphone.

a) Apple is considering a price discrimination strategy to sell the Iphone 5s to knowledgeable customers and the Iphone 5c to kids for two different prices. Write down the individual rationality and incentive compatibility constraints for the two types of customers. Find the optimal prices.

b) Assume there are N total consumers and the proportion of knowledgeable consumers is ?. That means there are ?N knowledgable consumers and (1 ? ?)N kids on the market. Write the profit function of Apple if the price discrimination mechanism is put into action.

Please answer this question in complete detail as I don't understand this subject too well. Thank you

In 2010, the U.S. population was about 309 million. The overall birth rate was 13.0 births per 1000, and the overall death rate was 7.4 deaths per 1000.
a) Approximately how many births were there in the United States?
b) About how many deaths were there in the United States?
c) Based on births and deaths alone (not counting immigration or emigration), about how much did the U.S. population increase during 2010?
d) Suppose that during 2010 the U.S. population actually increase by 3.5 million. Based on this fact and your results from part (c), estimate how many people immigrated to the United States. What proportion of the overall population growth was due to immigration?

In 2010, the U.S. population was about 309 million. The overall birth rate was 13.0 births per 1000, and the overall death rate was 7.4 deaths per 1000.
a) Approximately how many births were there in the United States?
b) About how many deaths were there in the United States?
c) Based on births and deaths alone (not counting immigration or emigration), about how much did the U.S. population increase during 2010?
d) Suppose that during 2010 the U.S. population actually increase by 3.5 million. Based on this fact and your results from part (c), estimate how many people immigrated to the United States. What proportion of the overall population growth was due to immigration?

The value of a college degree is greater than it has been in nearly half a century, a least when compared to the prospect of not getting a degree (www.pewresearch.org, January 28, 2014). Due to this fact, more and more people are obtaining college degrees, despite the soaring costs. The accompanying table shows the proportions of college degrees awarded in 2010 by colleges and universities, categorized by a graduate's race and ethnicity.

The race and ethnicity of 500 recent graduates are recorded and shown in the last column of the table.

At the 5% significance level, test if the proportions have changed since 2010.