You’ll want to provide a thoughtful, 100+ word response for each of the discussion questions that you select. Think of these as ‘essay questions’. In your response, clearly demonstrate an understanding of the concepts from the readings and lecture notes relating to the topics. Incorporate examples in your explanation that demonstrates your understanding the material. Questions:

1. Describe the advantages of franchising. Include a detailed example of a successful franchise.

2. Explain the differences between management and leadership.

3. Describe the key attributes (personality traits) that are essential in becoming a successful entrepreneur.

4. Discuss the strategic objective of a SWOT analysis?

**For this assignment, I am expecting you to provide and share your own thoughts and ideas.

Appropriately cite your sources for this assignment. Do not plagiarize your responses from the textbook, websites, or articles for this assignment.

THE COMPANY IS << PUMA>>

need written paper SHOULD BE IN "" WORD"   would expect the paper to be about 1500 words.  Your paper should describe your company and its background. You should include the balance sheet (BS) & income statement (IS) for each of the two years. You should show the calculation for each ratio using the data from the BS & IS. You should provide a discussion about how the ratio changed over the two years and your insights into what the ratio means in terms of the financial health of the firm

SHORT TERM SOLVENCY 2016 2017 2016 2017

A. Current Ratio= Current Assets/Current Liabilities 1.977874623 1.773584906 Total Assets 2,780,000,000 2,870,000,000

B. Quick Ratio= Current Assets - Inventory/ Current Liabilities 1.174544642 1.039150943 Total Equity 1,720,000,000 1,660,000,000

LONG TERM SOLVENCY C O G S 2,030,000,000 2,250,000,000

A. Total Debt Ratio= Total Assets - Total Equity/ Total Assets 0.381294964 0.4216027875

Inventory 718,900,000 778,500,000

ASSET MANAGEMENT

A. Inventory Turn Over= Cost of Goods Sold/ Inventory 2.82375852 2.89017341 Net Income 62,400,000 135,800,000

PROFITABILITY RATIOS Shares Out 14,940,000 14,940,000

A. Profit Margin= Net Income/ Sales 0.01719008264 0.03280193237

Price Per 161.5 245

B. Return of Assets= Net Income/ Total Assets 0.02244604317 0.04731707317

Earning Per 1.8 10.33

C. Return on Equity= Net Income/ Total Equity 0.03627906977 0.08180722892

Sales 3,630,000,000 4,140,000,000

MARKET VALUE RATIOS

A. Earning Per Share= Net Income/ Shares Outstanding 4.176706827 9.089692102

B. Price Earning Ration= Price Per Share/ Earning Per Share 89.72222222 23.71732817

Using Microsoft Word, create an email message to your boss that:

Summarizes the requirements of the CAPSIM Business Simulation project and describes how you will approach the project.

Summarizes the requirements of the Capstone project and describes how you will approach that project.

Your email should be formatted according to the guidelines. Your document should contain two paragraphs and be no longer than one page.

Write the word or phrase that best completes each statement or answers the question.
Assume that a simple random sample has been selected from a normally distributed population and test the given
claim. Use either the traditional method or P-value method as indicated. Identify the null and alternative hypotheses,
test statistic, critical value(s) or P-value (or range of P-values) as appropriate, and state the final conclusion that
addresses the original claim.
1) A large software company gives job applicants a test of programming ability and the
mean for that test has been 160 in the past. Twenty-five job applicants are randomly
selected from one large university and they produce a mean score and standard
deviation of 183 and 12, respectively. Use a 0.05 level of significance to test the claim that
this sample comes from a population with a mean score greater than 160. Use the
P-value method of testing hypotheses.

1. Write a regular expressions that would match lines in text that contain word DATE: at the beginning of a line followed by actual date in format YYYY-MM-DD. Space between colon ( : ) and date may or may not exist.
2. In C, if you issue the following statement n << 2 where n is an integer, what will be value of n?

1. In terms of word learning, what is fast mapping?

2. Which of the following is NOT true regarding co-sleeping?​

3. A classic experiment using the three mountains task with 5- and 6-year-old children shows that they

python:

Write a program that turns a sentence into camel case. The first word is lowercase, the rest of the words have their initial letter capitalized, and all of the words are joined together. For example, with the input "fOnt proCESSOR and ParsER", your program will output "fontProcessorAndParser".

Optional: can you do this with a list comprehension?

Optional extra question: print a warning message if the input will not produce a valid variable name. You don't need to be exhaustive in checking, but test for a few common issues, such as starting with a number, or containing invalid characters such as # or + or ".

Test your program, and comment your code.

Write a 500 word essay on why you think it is important (or you feel it may not be important at all) to threat model prior to staring a project. In your essay, please answer the following:

1. What did you think threat modeling meant prior to signing up
2. Have you ever threat modeled before at your job?
3. Have you been involved in a project or know of a project that failed due to lack of threat modeling? Briefly explain what happened and what would have prevented the failure.
4. What expectations do you have for this?

Teleconferences, electronic mail, and word processors are among the tools that can
reduce the length of business meetings. A recent survey indicated that the percentage
reduction y in time spent by business professionals in meetings due to an automated office
equipment is approximately normally distributed with mean equal to 15% and standard
deviation equal to 4%.

a. what proportion of all business professionals with access to automated office equipment
have reduced their time in meetings by more than 22%

a. what proportion of all business professionals with access to automated office equipment
have reduced their time in meetings by 10 % or less?