America Online (AOL) is a leader in the Internet access provider industry. In 1996, the company changed a controversial accounting method involving the treatment of the cost of advertising and free trials. The following is an excerpt from a May 15, 2000, CNET News.com article:

America Online will pay a civil penalty of $3.5 million as part of a settlement with the Securities and Exchange Commission over the accounting of advertising costs. According to the SEC, the Internet and media giant improperly reported most of the costs of acquiring new subscribers – such as the expense of sending computer disks to potential customers – as an asset. As a result, the SEC said AOL posted a profit for six of eight quarters in 1995 and 1996 but would have recorded a loss if the company followed recommended accounting practices.

AOL, backed by its auditor, defended the accounting method of capitalizing these costs arguing that spreading the costs over two years was a justifiable way to match expenses against revenue flows that would emerge later. In 1996, AOL switched to expensing these costs in the period incurred.

Consider the general treatment of advertising and promotion costs.  

• Why are these costs normally expensed in the period incurred even though they are incurred with the intention of generating future revenues?  
• Why did they expense these costs over a two-year period?  
• Then discuss the possible reasons why AOL chose a different approach followed by a discussion of the possible reasons why the company decided to change its method. Also include the civil penalty of $3.5 million leveled by the SEC four years after AOL changed its method.  

The following data set provides information on the lottery sales, proceeds, and prizes by year in Iowa.

You decided to find the linear equation that corresponds to sales and year. Create a graph using the sales and year. Add the linear equation to the graph. What is the y-intercept of the linear equation?

Round each value below to the nearest integer.

Provide your answer below: ____E+ ___

Average hourly earnings in the U.S. retail trade industry (in current dollars and constant dollars) are shown in the table.

a. Define the terms current dollars and constant dollars. You will have to

look these terms up

b. Find the least squares regression line that approximates the average hourly earnings in both current dollars and constant dollars for this industry. Find the correlation coefficient in both cases. Comment on the meanings of the correlation coefficients.

c. Find where the two regression lines that you obtained in part b intersect. What does this point mean?

d. What are the slopes of the regression lines? What do they mean? (Use correct units.) What does this say about the long-term prospects of retail trade industry employees?

e. Use the regression lines to estimate the difference in current dollar and constant dollar hourly earnings in the year 2005.

Graph both of the regression lines on the same set of axes. (in Excel)

If you were a union negotiator for employees in the retail trade industry, how would you use this information?

1. Use function notation when you write the linear regression equations.
2. Use descriptive variables.
3. Precisely define the variables.
4. Make sure you show your work for questions c and e.
5. You should only have one graph. It should contain both regression equations and the data.

Case Study

When Jack Welch assumed the top position at General Electric in 1981, he inherited a company that had a market value of $12 billion — certainly a modest number, by today’s standards. By the time he left in 1998, GE was worth $280 billion.While leading GE, Welch was charged with the task of making the conglomerate better by any means necessary. With his gut telling him that his company was due for a complete overhaul, Welch decided to implement Six Sigma at GE in 1995.

Six-Sigma is a methodology that aims to reduce defects and errors in all processes, including transactional processes and manufacturing processes. Organizations that use Six Sigma test their processes again and again to make sure that they are as close to perfect as possible.Five years after Welch’s decision to implement Six Sigma, GE had saved a mind-blowing $10 billion.

Welch claimed to have spent as much as half of his time working on people issues.By assembling the right team and ingraining them with the right management philosophies, Welch successfully oversaw the transformation of GE from a relatively strong company to a true international juggernaut.

Questions:

1. Explain the possible key concepts behind the change methodology in General Electric Company? Do you agree with the change methodology introduced in the General Electric Company by its leader? Give logical reasons to defend your answer

Important Points:

• The Case study background/introduction must be written before answering the questions
• Proper referencing needed if the student uses any resources to answer the questions

Please Use R studio and show all the steps to answer this question

NY Marathon 2013 the table below shows the winning times (in minutes) for men and women in the new york city marathon between 1978 and 2013. (the race was not run in 2012 because of superstorm sandy.) assuming that performances in the big apple resemble performances elsewhere, we can think of these data as a sample of performance in marathon competitions. Create a 90% confidence interval for the mean difference in winning times for male and female marathon competitors.

Please Use R studio to answer this question

NY Marathon 2013 the table below shows the winning times (in minutes) for men and women in the new york city marathon between 1978 and 2013. (the race was not run in 2012 because of superstorm sandy.) assuming that performances in the big apple resemble performances elsewhere, we can think of these data as a sample of performance in marathon competitions. Create a 90% confidence interval for the mean difference in winning times for male and female marathon competitors.

Barbara Lynch, the product manager for a line of skiwear produced by HeathCo Industries, has been working on developing sales forecasts for the skiwear that is sold under the Northern Slopes and Jacque Monri brands. She has had various regression-based forecasting models developed. Quarterly sales for 1988Q1 through 1997Q4 are as follows:

a) Prepare a time-series plot of the data, and on the basis of what you see in the plot, write a brief paragraph in which you explain what patterns you think are present in the sales series.

b) Smooth out seasonal influences and irregular movement by calculating the center moving averages. Add the centered moving averages to the original data you plotted in part a. Has the process of calculating center moving averages been effective in smoothing out the seasonal and irregular fluctuations in the data? Explain.

c) Determine the degree of seasonality by calculating seasonal indexes for each quarter of the year.

d) Develop a forecast for Ms Lynch for the four quarters of 1998.

3300 Econometric HW

Problem 2.

Use the data in the “Autocorrelation” tab to test

1. For Autocorrelation using the Durbin Watson Test

2. Graph the Residuals and determine whether they are distributed normally or whether they are biased

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Question: I want to create new file that just print between "==" by sing Unix/Linx

this code isn't complete because the output is not correct

#!/bin/bash
while ISF= read line
do

if [[ $line = *"="* ]]

then

echo $line >> Lines

fi

done < "unix"

I REALLY NEED HELP

THANKS,

****C language****

char lName[][15] = {"Brum","Carroll","Carter","Dodson","Garbus", "Greenwood", "Hilliard", "Lee", "Mann", "Notz", "Pastrana", "Rhon", "Rodriguez", "Wilson", "Zimmerman"};

char fName [][15] = {"Natalie","Cody","Sophia","Dominic","Chandler","Caleb","Sydnee","Peyton","Brianna","Zachery","Kevin","Luke","Juan","Kelci","Adam"};

char middleInitial[15]={'N','L','X','L','O','L','M','B','S','T','J','C','P','D','Z'};

char dob[][11]={"05/27/1935","11/27/1971","10/17/2003","12/08/1990","11/25/1991","10/30/1992","09/22/1993","08/04/1994","07/11/1995","06/18/1996","05/28/1997","04/07/1998","03/12/1999","02/23/2000","01/15/2001"};

How would we make a list ordered by their age, oldest first, Print the patient's full name and then their age.  Left justify the name and right justify the age.

Example:
Johnson, Fred N 80

**Half of the code is provided**

int patientAge[15] = {0};

for(int p = 0; p <15; p++)
{
int year = ((dob[p][6] - '0') * 1000) + ((dob[p][7] - '0') *100) + ((dob[p][8] - '0') * 10) + ((dob[p][9] - '0') * 1);

patientAge[p] = 2019 - year;
printf("%s, %s %c Age: %d\n",lName[p], fName[p], middleInitial[p], patientAge[p]);
}