An Evaluation of the Status of Risk Management in South African manufacturing Industries. The manufacture industry in South Africa is central to growing the economy but has faced stagnation as a result of external challenges such as the fall in value of the Rand to the US Dollar, rising fuel costs, high inflation and increasing power costs. The manufacture industry is considered risk inclined because project undertakings are dynamic and complex, with multiple local and international stakeholders. Studies have shown that risk management has been poorly implemented in
manufacture industries in South Africa, despite there being a strong knowledge base to support it. Risk management has now become a competitive advantage in the industry.
Discuss the following:
 Obstacles to risk management
 Significant risks in the manufacturing industry
 Significant constraints
 Lesson to apply in the future

Exercise 5-5 Companywide and Segment Break-Even Analysis [LO5-5]

Piedmont Company segments its business into two regions—North and South. The company prepared the contribution format segmented income statement shown below:

Required:

1. Compute the companywide break-even point in dollar sales.

2. Compute the break-even point in dollar sales for the North region.

3. Compute the break-even point in dollar sales for the South region.

4–2. Venue. Brandy Austin used powdered infant formula manufactured by Nestlé USA, Inc., to feed her infant daughter. Austin claimed that a can of the formula was contaminated with Enterobacter sakazakii bacteria, causing severe injury to the infant. The bacteria can cause infections of the bloodstream and central nervous system—in particular, meningitis (inflammation of the tissue surrounding the brain or spinal cord). Austin filed an action against Nestlé in Hennepin County District Court in Minnesota. Nestlé argued for a change of venue because the alleged harm had occurred in South Carolina. Austin is a South Carolina resident and had given birth to her daughter in that state. Should the case be transferred to a South Carolina venue? Why or why not? [Austin v. Nestlé USA, Inc., 677 F.Supp.2d

42. You are working as an assistant to an air-traffic controller at the local airport, from which small airplanes take off and land. Your job is to make sure that airplanes are not closer to each other than a minimum safe separation distance of 2.00 km. You observe two small aircraft on your radar screen, out over the ocean surface. The first is at altitude 800 m above the surface, horizontal distance 19.2 km, and 25.08 south of west. The second aircraft is at altitude 1 100 m, horizontal distance 17.6 km, and 20.08 south of west. Your supervisor is concerned that the two aircraft are too close together and asks for a separation distance for the two airplanes. (Place the x axis west, the y axis south, and the z axis vertical.)

The program should be written in C++ with comments

Write a program that takes graduation rates (per 1000 of the population) for North, South, East, West and Central United States. Input the number from each of the regions in a function returning an int with the graduation rate to the main program. Also figure out which region has the highest graduation rate in another function and display the result from inside that particular function.

So your function prototypes should be something like:
int gradrate( );
void highestgrad(double n, double south, double east, double west, double central);

So you are using gradrate to read in the value of 0 to 1000 to give it to the north, south, east, west or central variables like: north = gradrate() / 1000.0;

The managers of the center had estimated from past surveys that 28% of calls are conducted in the morning hours and had scheduled the necessary agents accordingly. However, there are concerns that this percentage has increased recently. What is your conclusion on the basis of this sample? Show the process in the excel.

A straight, vertical wire carries a current of 1.23 A downward in a region between the poles of a large superconducting electromagnet, where the magnetic field has a magnitude of B = 0.574 T and is horizontal.

Part A

What is the magnitude of the magnetic force on a section of the wire with a length of 1.00 cm that is in this uniform magnetic field, if the magnetic field direction is east?

What is the direction of the magnetic force on a section of the wire with a length of 1.00 cm that is in this uniform magnetic field, if the magnetic field direction is east?

Part C

What is the magnitude of the magnetic force on a section of the wire with a length of 1.00 cm that is in this uniform magnetic field, if the magnetic field direction is south?

Part D

What is the direction of the magnetic force on a section of the wire with a length of 1.00 cm that is in this uniform magnetic field, if the magnetic field direction is south?

Part E

What is the magnitude of the magnetic force on a section of the wire with a length of 1.00 cm that is in this uniform magnetic field, if the magnetic field direction is 29.0 ∘ south of west?

Part F

What angle will the magnetic force on this segment of wire make relative to the north, if the magnetic field direction is 29.0 ∘ south of west?

Edit question Suppose in an effort to manage his inventory levels better, the owner of two steak and seafood restaurants, both located in the same city, hires a statistician to conduct a statistical study. The owner is interested in whether the restaurant located on the south side sells more halibut fillets per night than the restaurant located on the north side of the city. The statistician selects a random sample of 102 nights that the south-side restaurant is open. The mean number of halibut fillets sold per night at the south-side location is 15.3 with a sample standard deviation of 0.4. Likewise, the mean number of halibut fillets sold per night at the random sample of 83 nights that the north-side restaurant is open is 16.8 with a sample standard deviation of 5.5.

Suppose you intend to conduct a hypothesis test on the difference in population means. In preparation, you identify the sample of nights at the south restaurant as sample 1 and the sample of nights at the north restaurant as sample 2. Organize the provided data by completing the following table:

Sample 1 Sample 2 N1 = N2 = μ1 = μ2 = X‾‾1 = X‾‾2 = σ1 = σ2 = s1 = s2 = The difference in sample means for sample 1 and sample 2 is . The estimate of the standard deviation of the sampling distribution of the differences in sample means, s(X‾‾−X‾‾) , is . Now, you know all that you need to know to answer the question about whether the restaurant located on the south side sells more halibut fillets per night than the restaurant located on the north side of the city.

Total has discovered a potential 1 billion barrels of “wet” gas off the coast of South Africa. The gas could be used as petrol or perhaps even converted into electricity, according to one expert. The Brulpadda gas find should mean more tax revenue and a stronger rand. How Will It Affect South Africans Firstly, government will earn more tax. Total and its partners will pay the regular 28% corporate tax on all taxable income from Brulpadda. According to the most optimistic estimates, the Brulpadda find could yield $1 trillion (R14.4 trillion) for Total and its partners, which would mean a massive tax windfall for South Africa. Certain Businesses and Skills Will Be in Demand The Brulpadda find could have a massive boost to all kinds of businesses in South Africa. Companies providing helicopters, marine services, catering supplies and transport to get supplies to the site would be required. Adapted from “Everything You Need to Know about South Africa’s Massive Gas Find” by Helena Wasserman, Business Insider SA

4.1 Assuming that government budget is at zero balance discuss the implication of the gas find in terms of government’s fiscal policy for the following economic factors:

4.1.1 Collection of revenue through taxation on personal income

4.1.2 Government spending on the provision of goods and services

4.2 Explain, with the aid of a diagram, the economic impact on cost-push inflation and aggregate output.

4.3 Discuss the main type of unemployment that would be reduced.