a) What is considered insider trading?

Multiple Choice

• All of the other statements describe insider trading.

• Marlene, an individual investor, buys shares in a company because her financial analysis of the company suggests that it is undervalued.

• Bill buys shares after the company's earnings announcement because he personally knows the auditor who audited the company's earnings announcement / press release.

• Chris, a hedge fund manager, purchases a 5% stake in a company because he wants to install his colleagues on to the company's board of directors.

• Karen sells shares in a company before the earnings announcement because her brother-in-law, who's the CEO, said that EPS will fall short of market expectations.

b).

Which of the following statements is true about the classified income statement?

Multiple Choice

• Income tax expense is subtracted from operating income to obtain pre-tax income.

• Net income is computed by subtracting operating expenses from gross profit.

• Cost of goods sold is the difference between net sales revenue and gross profit.

• Gross sales revenue is the first line of the income statement; contra-revenues is the second line; and net sales revenue is the third line.

• Dividend expense is classified as a non-operating (other) item on the income statement.

-Identify why you choose to perform the statistical test (Sign test, Wilcoxon test, Kruskal-Wallis test).

-Identify the null hypothesis, Ho, and the alternative hypothesis, Ha.

-Determine whether the hypothesis test is left-tailed, right-tailed, or two-tailed.

-Find the critical value(s) and identify the rejection region(s).

-Find the appropriate standardized test statistic. If convenient, use technology.

-Decide whether to reject or fail to reject the null hypothesis.

-Interpret the decision in the context of the original claim.

A weight-lifting coach claims that weight-lifters can increase their strength by taking vitamin E. To test the theory, the coach randomly selects 9 athletes and gives them a strength test using a bench press. Thirty days later, after regular training supplemented by vitamin E, they are tested again. The results are listed below. Use the Wilcoxon signed-rank test to test the claim that the vitamin E supplement is effective in increasing athletes' strength. Use α = 0.05.

You own a chain of 3 dry-cleaning stores in a medium-size town. A problem in customer service has surfaced recently. When you spend the day, or even part of the day in a particular store, clerks seem to provide excellent customer service, spotters are making sure all stains are removed from garments, and pressers are doing a good job of pressing difficult items such as silk blouses. Yet during those same visits, customers complain to you about such things as stains not being removed and items being poorly pressed in some of their previous orders; indeed, several customers have brought garments in to be redone. Customers also sometimes comment on having waited too long for service on previous visits Discuss the extent to which you believe that you have a motivation problem in your stores. 2. Using concepts you have studied in this unit, design a plan to increase the motivation of clerks to provide prompt service to customers even when they are not being watched. 3. Design a plan to increase the motivation of spotters to remove as many stains as possible even when they are not being watched. 4. Design a plan to increase the motivation of pressers to do a topnotch job on all clothes they press, no matter how diff

Delta Sonic is a car wash provider in Western New York. VIP Customers at their Buffalo, NY location sign up for unlimited car washes and a separate line & dedicated car wash services those customers (i.e. a single-server single-queue model). Assume VIP customers arrive every 10 minutes on average and that their inter-arrival time is exponentially distributed. Also, assume that processing (washing) time is the sum of two components:

A constant (i.e. not random) basic washing time that is exactly 4 minutes.

A random extra-service time that is exponentially distributed with mean time of 2 minutes.

In Excel, simulate the arrival times and processing times of VIP customers at this car wash using 2,000 sample customers. Using the results of your simulation, calculate the percentage of VIP customers that were in the process (i.e. waiting+washing) for longer than 12 minutes. Press F9 to rerun your simulation several times and record the results for the percentage of customers who wait longer than 12 minutes. Using the median of these recorded percentages as your estimate of the percentage of customers expected to wait longer than 12 minutes, enter that probability here as a two digit decimal e.g. 0.25, 0.45, 0.99, etc.)

Super Products Inc. has three plants, located at Aville, Bville, and Cville, producing shipments of its new wonder trouser-press which have to be shipped to four retail centers. The plants at Aville, Bville, and Cville produce 12, 17, and 11 shipments of trouser-presses per week, respectively. Each retail center needs to receive 10 shipments per week. The distance from each plant to each retail center in kilometers is as follows:

                                                             Retail Center

                                               1              2              3              4

                          Aville         800         1300         400           700

Plant                  Bville       1100         1400         600         1000

                          Cville         600         1200         800          900

Shipping costs per shipment are $100 plus 25 cents per kilometer. Super Products Inc. wishes to design an optimal shipping plan to minimize costs.

i) Set up an appropriate transportation problem

ii) Determine an initial basic feasible solution using the Vogel Method and then solve the problem using the transportation simplex. Be sure to compute not only the required pattern of shipments but also the actual minimum cost of making them.

iii) How would your solution change if the cost of shipments between Bville and Retail Center 3 became prohibitively expensive? Explain.

-Identify why you choose to perform the statistical test (Sign test, Wilcoxon test, Kruskal-Wallis test).

-Identify the null hypothesis, Ho, and the alternative hypothesis, Ha.

-Determine whether the hypothesis test is left-tailed, right-tailed, or two-tailed.

-Find the critical value(s) and identify the rejection region(s).

-Find the appropriate standardized test statistic. If convenient, use technology.

-Decide whether to reject or fail to reject the null hypothesis.

-Interpret the decision in the context of the original claim.

A weight-lifting coach claims that weight-lifters can increase their strength by taking vitamin E. To test the theory, the coach randomly selects 9 athletes and gives them a strength test using a bench press. Thirty days later, after regular training supplemented by vitamin E, they are tested again. The results are listed below. Use the Wilcoxon signed-rank test to test the claim that the vitamin E supplement is effective in increasing athletes' strength. Use α = 0.05.

Internet giant Zoidle, a U.S. company, generated sales of £2.5 billion in the United Kingdom in 2013 (approximately $4 billion in U.S. dollars). Its net profits before taxes on these sales were £200 million, and it paid £6 million in corporate tax, resulting in a tax rate of 3 percent. The corporate tax rate in the United Kingdom is between 20 percent and 24 percent.

The CEO of Zoidle held a press conference stating that he was proud of his company for taking advantage of tax loopholes and for sheltering profits in other nations to avoid paying taxes. He called this practice “capitalism at its finest.” He further stated that it would be unethical for Zoidle not to take advantage of loopholes and that it would be borderline illegal to tell shareholders that the company paid more taxes than it had to pay because it felt that it should. Zoidle receives significant benefits for doing business in the United Kingdom, including tremendous sales tax exemptions and some property tax breaks. The United Kingdom relies on the corporate income tax to provide services to the poor and to help run the agency that regulates corporations. Is it ethical for Zoidle to avoid paying taxes? Why or why not?

Describe how you would advise the company to act in the following situation. Please be sure to describe your ethical reasoning process.

Purpose of Assignment

The purpose of this assignment is to allow students the opportunity to research a Fortune 500 company stock using the popular online research tool, Yahoo Finance. The tool allows the student to review analyst reports and other key financial information necessary to evaluate the stock value and make an educated decision on whether to invest.

Assignment Steps

Select a Fortune 500 company from one of the following industries:

• Pharmaceutical
• Energy
• Retail
• Automotive
• Computer Hardware
• Manufacturing
• Mining

Review the financial information and statistics provided for the stock you selected and answer the following:

• What is the ticker symbol of the company you chose?
• What is the Current Stock Price?
• What is the Market Cap for the stock you chose?
• What is the Price to Earnings Ratio?
• What is the Dividend and Yield?
• What is the Enterprise Value?
• What is the Beta?
• Was there a Stock Split, and if so, when?
• What was the closing stock price for the last 5 days?
• What was the 52 Week High for this stock?
• What is the Book Value per Share?
• What type of rating are analysts recommending (i.e. buy, hold, etc.)?
• What is the target price analysts are predicting for this stock?
• What is the analyst's average revenue estimate for next year?
• What are some of the significant news items and press releases made by the company over the last year?

Normally in class we run through about 11 tests. These include:

•The Illinois Agility Test

•Stork Balance Test

•Standing Broad Jump

•Hand eye Coordination Test

•Push-up Test

•Sit-up Test

•Sit and Reach Test

•Step Test

•Seat to stand Test

•Plank Test

•Body Composition Testing including Body Fat % and Waist to Hip Ratio

•1 Rep Max Chest Press

Assignment:

Take 5 of these tests or find 5 other fitness tests you can perform at home. It is especially helpful if you have a certain goal you would like to complete (increase vertical jump--choose vertical jump test).  All of these tests and many more can befound through an online search. Write down the set up of how to perform your 5 tests. They will need to be reliable and valid.  Run through each test once  and record your data.   You will need to create a recording sheet; include--name of test, set up (so it can be repeated the same way), your performance data, additional information. **********For extra credit perform these same tests by the last class, submit your date (compare to current data), and receive 1 extra point on your final grade.************