What is the interest rate that the United States Government must pay if they want to borrow for ten years?

Does this rate change from one day to the next?

If I buy a ten-year U.S. treasury bond what cash flows would I expect to receive from the U.S. Government?

In the United States, a Social Security number (SSN) is a nine-digit number that
is a national identification number for taxation purposes. Write a program that
asks the user for their social security number in DDDDDDDDD format (where
D is digit). The program first performs a basic check if the number corresponds
to actual SSN by making sure it has 9 characters in it. If yes, it creates a string
variable new ssn with SSN in user-friendly DDD − DD − DDDD format and
prints it. If not, it prints an error message Incorrect SSN length.

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Recall the Application about the decrease in price of illegal drugs in the United States to answer the following question(s).


Recall the Application. The decrease in price of illegal drugs could be caused by either a(n) ________ in demand or a(n) ________ in supply of the drugs.

In 1923, the United States Army (there was no U.S. Air Force at that time) set a record for in-flight refueling of airplanes. Using two refueling planes, an Airco DH-4B biplane was able to remain in flight for 37 hours. During the flight, the refueling planes were able to air-transfer a total of 687 gallons of fuel to the plane in 9 refueling transfers. Assume that the refueling nozzle had a diameter of 1.25 inches and each refueling took 2.43 minutes to perform. Calculate the velocity of the fuel through the nozzle. Assume that the fuel filled the entire cross-sectional area of the nozzle.

What were the main reasons for the United States, Canada, and Mexico to sign on to the original NAFTA? After more than 20 years, has NAFTA delivered the benefits expected? How might NAFTA be improved to the benefit of all three members’ countries?

Steel City Inc. is a company located in Dallas in the United States of America. It deals in import export of furniture. The workforce is composed of almost 200 employees, from different levels. In Steel City, Inc., the president Anna, 33 years old, realizes that this firm requires some reorganization.

The organization is using the top down management approach, it has many levels of management and it uses narrowly specialized job descriptions.

Anna wants to move into new international markets but she noticed that employees are demotivated and they are not happy in their positions knowing that Steel City, Inc is applying highly specialized jobs and employees already work independently and in complete autonomy.

Knowing that motivation is very crucial to the productivity of her employees, Anna wanted to work on this issue by increasing employees’ motivation. To do so, she decided to review and change some core characteristics of what they are doing and she was sure that this will certainly end up with beneficial work outcomes.

Anna also used the work flow analysis of Steel City, Inc to define how work in this organization creates value to the ongoing process of employees’ works. She thought that applying the Business Process Reengineering (BPR) might be very efficient to solve the problem of employees’ demotivation since employees have been complaining about their work. Jobs are repetitive and employees don't know how their work fits into the big organizational picture. The president wants to reduce operating costs, reorganize jobs by providing employees with satisfying work, independency and wanted them to be cross trained on different task assigned to the group.

Anna also thought about using a problem solving team to be able to generate solutions about how to decrease employees’ demotivation and increase their work involvement, devotion and commitment.

As she wants jobs to become more interesting and precisely to improve motivation, Anna included specialized task together so employees can expand their work horizontally and vertically. All of this should give employees more autonomy and the opportunity for feedback. Anna decided to compare the productivity of her employees six months after she made the needed adjustments in the company.

1. Based on the above case study, what is the used organizational structure by Steel City, Inc? Explain.

2. Which motivation theory the president's is using to minimize employees’ dissatisfaction?

3. When the job needs to be reorganized some job design modifications should also be implemented. What job design do you propose taking into consideration employees’ complains?

4. What type of team the president can use in order to reduce operating costs giving employees some autonomy in Steel City, Inc.?

1) A 7% Commonwealth government bond has three years to maturity. Given that the bond pays coupons semi-annually (i.e. twice a year) and a coupon payment has just been made, what is the present value (price) of the bond if the market interest rate is 9% and the face value of the bond is $100,000?

2) You have observed the returns for an investment in Telstra shares for the last five years. This shows returns of 23%, -17%, 8%, 22% and 3%. Calculate the average return, variance, and standard deviation of these shares.

3) You own a portfolio that is invested as follows: $11,600 in shares of Rendezvous hotel, $7,800 in shares of Crown Plaza, $14,900 in shares of Carlton & United Breweries, and $3,200 in shares of Domino’s Pizza . What is the portfolio weight of shares of Carlton & United Breweries?

4) One year ago, you bought a share for $36.48. You received a dividend of $1.62 per share last month and sold the share today for $40.18. What is the capital gains yield on this investment?

Question 1:

Table 1. India’s trade

Table 2. India’s trading partners (2016)

In seven to ten sentences, discuss what the data in both tables tells you. For your discussion, you are free to focus on the data that you can effectively explain.

The Tikatuli Theater is owned by Mithila Ali. All Facilities were completed on January 31, 2020. At this time the ledger showed: No 101 cash Taka TK 6000. No 141 land taka 10000, No.146 Buildings (concession Stand, projection room, ticket booth, and screen) Taka 8000. No 157 Equipment Tk 6000. No 201 Accounts payable Tk 2000. No. 276 Mortgage payable TK 8000 and No.301 Mithila Ali, capital 20000 Tk. During February the following transaction occurred.
Feb 2: Ordered two additional films at tk 1500 each
Feb 3: Made taka 3000 payment on mortgage and tk 1000 for accounts payable due.
Feb 4: Tikatuli Theater contracted with Bolaka Institute to operate the concession receipts. Bolaka is to pay 17% of gross concession receipts (payable monthly) for the right to operate the concession Stand.
Feb 9: Received one of the films to order on February 2 was billed Taka. The film will be shown in February.
Feb 10: Purchased Theater supplies on credit 1500.
Feb 11: Receive a credit memorandum for unsatisfactory theater supplies purchased on feb 10 and returned for credit taka 500.
Feb 17: Received state from Bolaka showing gross concession receipts of tk 1000 and the balance due to Tikatuli Theater of taka 170 (Tk 1000*17%) for February Bolaka paid one half of the balance due and will remit the remainder on march 5
Feb 20: Prepaid Tk. 900 rental on special film to be run in March 25
Feb 30: Cost of unused Supplies Taka 1000.
Instructions:
a. Record the transactions using appropriate journal.
b. Post them in appropriate accounts. (prepare only Cash, Purchase, Accounts payable, Rent expense, Supplies Account)
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Question 5. [Marks: 10]
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Business Law

A new hotel has advertised in the local newspapers that its ballroom is going for a cheap rate for the month of June. Patrick wants to make a booking of the ballroom for a party for his daughter, Mary’s birthday on the 25^th June. The hotel manager does not want to accept his booking. However the hotel manager is prepared to give an alternative room to Patrick at a lower rate. Patrick refuses to accept the alternate room and is threatening to sue the hotel for not abiding by the advertisement in the local newspapers.

Critically evaluate whether there is a contract between the hotel and Patrick. Justify the answers with the evidence from the law of contract.