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.************
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Direct or allocation of indirect costs to cost pools
Using volume based cost drivers.
Use diagrams and schedules wherever necessary and provide examples.
The Royal Botanical Gardens has been established for more than 120 years and has the following mission statement: "The Royal Botanical Gardens belongs to the nation. Our mission is to increase knowledge and appreciation of plants, their importance and their conservation, by managing and displaying living and preserved collections and through botanical and horticultural research." Located towards the edge of the city, the gardens are visited regularly throughout the year by many local families and are an internationally well known tourist attraction. Despite charging admission, it is one of the top five visitor attractions in the country. Every year it answers many thousands of inquiries from universities and research establishments, including pharmaceutical companies from all over the world and charges for advice and access to its collection. Inquiries include requests for access to the plant collection for horticultural work, seeds for propagation or samples for chemical analysis to seek novel pharmaceutical compounds for commercial exploitation. It receives an annual grant in aid from Central Government, which is fixed once every five years. The grant is due for review in three years' time. The finance director has decided that, in order to strengthen its case when meeting the government representatives to negotiate the grant, the management board should be able to present a balanced scorecard demonstrating the performance of the gardens. He has asked you, the senior management accountant, to help him. Many members of the board, which consists of eminent scientists, are unfamiliar with the concept of a balanced scorecard.
Required:
Strategic Map
Suitable balanced scorecard for the Royal Botanical Gardens and give examples of measures that would be incorporated within it. Marks
In: Accounting
The Price of Baked Beans
As residents in the UK hunkered down at home to protect themselves
from the spread of novel
Coronavirus they filled the pantries with toilet paper, sanitizing
products and convenience foods.
Baked beans, one of the UK’s most enduringly popular convenience
foods, are expected to
become scarce and expensive during the next months. The reason is
unprecedented heavy rainfall
which has devastated crops in the main growing areas, the American
state of Michigan and the
Canadian province of Ontario. A few weeks ago growers were
expecting a record harvest but the
position is described now as catastrophic.
The price of a 100lb –bag of Canadian beans has soared from $27 to
around $70, which
has added $0.60 to the retail price of a 15oz can previously
costing between $1.50 and $1.20.
Moreover, the crop failure caused and unseemly scramble for
supplies among big
canning firms such as Heinz and Crosse and Blackwell. Alternative
sources being sought
includes South America, East Africa and even Romania.
Worldwide baked beans consumption is around 800,000 tonnes a year.
The British eat a
healthy 80 000 tonnes, which represents 4 500 000 cans a day, with
an annual retail value of
more than $200 million. The annual import bill is between $20 and
$30 million.
Source: adapted from The Times.
Questions
1. Using the above information, explain and illustrate the factors
which caused a rise in the
price of baked beans.
2. Analyse the factors which might have influenced the amount by
which the retail price
was raised to consumers.
3. Discuss, with reference to the information in the passage, the
economic effects of the
increase in the price of beans on growers.
4. Examine other possible economic effects of the increase in the
price of beans.
In: Economics
SolarTubeGen is a start-up company in the renewable energy sector. The founder of SolarTubeGen, Fritz Herzberg, has developed cutting-edge technology to convert the energy in the sun’s rays to electricity via a novel system of mirrors designed to focus the sun’s rays onto tubes containing a patented type of gas, which then heats and expands to drive turbines. Ramirez & Walker LLP has won the contract for the first audit of SolarTubeGen on the basis of its expertise in the energy sector. However, the lead partner, Mark Ramirez, recognizes the success of the audit is dependent on the correct assessment of the technology being used at SolarTubeGen. Mark specified in the successful audit bid documents that the audit will use an external specialist to help with valuation of the company’s assets.
Fritz Herzberg is very protective of his company’s intellectual property and is resistant to Mark’s first suggested specialist, Manfred Hamburg. Fritz believes that Manfred Hamburg is hostile toward him because they clashed when they both worked for a German company making photovoltaic cells in the 1990s. Fritz has suggested another specialist, Lily Beilherz, with whom he has had good working relations over the last 20 years.
Required
In: Accounting
Respond as appropriate. Each response must be a least 100 words in length. You have been appointed as the team leader of a new project in your company. After a few weeks in the position, you start to notice there are distinct positive and negative members on your team. A few of your team members have been listed below along with a description of their group behavior. Identify which positive or negative member role they are displaying and explain how you would deal with each member to either encourage or diminish their behavior.
3. Beth is not fond of the task that the team has been asked to complete. She thinks that the group meetings are a waste of her talents and spends most of the meetings discussing her daughter’s soccer games or how her husband never helps out around the house. When she is not talking, she is busy balancing her checkbook or working on her novel instead of taking notes.
4. Charlie cannot stand to be wrong and is very expressive when he is frustrated with the group. Last week he presented the group with some financial statistics that were incorrect, but instead of claiming his mistakes, he blamed Beth for distracting him while he was calculating the numbers and then claimed that John must have accidentally changed some of the figures when he was printing copies from the electronic spreadsheet.
5. Sally is a member you can really depend on. When you cannot make it to a meeting, you can rely on her to act as team leader. She is very organized and effective at distributing work amongst the group. She knows what needs to be done and can set deadlines for all of the tasks. She encourages new ideas from the team and motivates them to follow through with those ideas.
In: Operations Management
Question 2
Jamie is a real estate agent working for ‘Houses R Us’ real estate. As part of his employment contract, Jamie receives a base salary of $50,000 per annum plus 10% of the agency’s commission on sold properties where he has had a direct connection with the sale. He is also provided with a car, a Toyota Kluger costing $48,000. He is not required to contribute to the running costs of the car which total $13,500 per year and is allowed to use the car outside of work hours and on weekends.
Jamie's salary package also includes a laptop which cost $2,300 and a mobile phone costing $1,200 per year. His employer also reimburses his annual professional subscription of $550 and provides him with an entertainment allowance of $2,000 per year.
Jamie was also lucky enough to achieve the highest sales for the previous six month period and was rewarded with a high tech home entertainment system worth $4,800.
‘Houses R Us’ also offer their staff loans of up to $100,000 towards purchasing their own house at a rate of 4% per annum. Jamie is considering taking up this offer to purchase his first home.
Required
Advise Jamie and ‘Houses R Us’ of the taxation and FBT consequences
of these transactions. You are not required to calculate any FBT
liability.
Rationale
This assessment task will assess the following learning outcomes:
be able to identify and explain the rules of law relating to taxation law topics covered in the subject.
be able demonstrate a capacity to engage in legal research.
be able to use legal research skills to apply the law to legal problems relating to taxation so as to reach a solution.
be able to analyse legal rules so as to differentiate between possible outcomes to the legal issues arising from novel fact situations.
In: Accounting
B. Compare and contrast these two case studies:
The first one we discussed in class, General Motors (GM), which decided to offshore production from the USA to Mexico. When GM began this in the late 70s, it was a relatively new idea for a major American producer, and was highly controversial, but the trend has grown over the decades, and nowadays other major car companies, including European and Asian giants like BMW and Honda, have followed the same strategy to close plants in their homelands and reopen in Mexico where labor is much cheaper. In 1978, there were 80,000 GM employees in the Flint, Michigan area, and today there are around 7,000. As those plants closed, the consequences have been very destructive for the surrounding towns, where unemployment skyrocketed (and with it crime, gangs and drugs), and areas have become like ghost towns where people have been evicted from their homes, and apartment buildings and businesses have been abandoned. As GM first began this offshoring in the late 70s they were enjoying a 49% share of the American car market, but changes in the market were showing that they would soon be losing this high position. By the mid 80’s they were down to 40% and this downward trend has continued (not only for them but for other American car manufacturers as well). Today, they stand at 15%.
The second one involves Malden Mills, a textile company (fabrics and clothing) in Lawrence, Massachusetts, near the city of Boston in the USA. In the 80s, other textile companies in the region had closed their Boston area factories to relocate to where labor was cheaper, often to Asia and Mexico, but Malden Mills decided to stay. During the 80s they survived near-bankruptcy and decided to gamble and re-focus their production on high-end, high-priced specialty fabrics, especially Polartec, a lightweight, fleecy material that turned out to be very popular with brands like L. L. Bean and Ralph Lauren. The gamble paid off and the Polartec profits rose from $5 million in 1982 to $200 million in 1995. The company was quite strong and successful when a crisis hit in December of 1995—an accidental industrial fire completely destroyed the factory. Everyone in the industry expected Malden Mills to do the only ‘smart’ thing at this point and take the $100 million insurance money and reopen in a developing country where labor would be cheaper. But they shocked everyone by announcing that they would rebuild in Lawrence, and also they would pay full salaries to their 3,000 employees for 3 months and continued health insurance for 6 months. Rebuilding in Lawrence ended up costing the company around $450 million and keeping the laid-off workers on salary and health benefits cost $20 million more, but the company gained a national reputation as a business ‘with a heart’ and enjoyed a very positive boost to their brand. They reopened in 1996, and most of the original employees were hired back, as their jobs were held for them. As the years went by, however, the company fell upon hard times. Perhaps due to the amount of money they spent on rebuilding, or perhaps it was mostly due to changes in the marketplace, but Malden Mills had to declare bankruptcy in 2007. The family that had run the plant for generations was forced out as another company took over, changed the name to Polartec, reduced the staff to 800, and moved most of the operations to other countries.
As you compare and contrast these two case studies, make sure you apply contrasting theories as well, such as Shareholder vs Stakeholder, or perhaps Social Darwinism vs. Ethic of Care. Since this is an essay, make sure you have a central point that you are developing along the way, which will be important to your conclusion.
In: Economics
B. Compare and contrast these two case studies: (350 words)
The first one we discussed in class, General Motors (GM), which decided to offshore production from the USA to Mexico. When GM began this in the late 70s, it was a relatively new idea for a major American producer, and was highly controversial, but the trend has grown over the decades, and nowadays other major car companies, including European and Asian giants like BMW and Honda, have followed the same strategy to close plants in their homelands and reopen in Mexico where labor is much cheaper. In 1978, there were 80,000 GM employees in the Flint, Michigan area, and today there are around 7,000. As those plants closed, the consequences have been very destructive for the surrounding towns, where unemployment skyrocketed (and with it crime, gangs and drugs), and areas have become like ghost towns where people have been evicted from their homes, and apartment buildings and businesses have been abandoned. As GM first began this offshoring in the late 70s they were enjoying a 49% share of the American car market, but changes in the market were showing that they would soon be losing this high position. By the mid 80’s they were down to 40% and this downward trend has continued (not only for them but for other American car manufacturers as well). Today, they stand at 15%.
The second one involves Malden Mills, a textile company (fabrics and clothing) in Lawrence, Massachusetts, near the city of Boston in the USA. In the 80s, other textile companies in the region had closed their Boston area factories to relocate to where labor was cheaper, often to Asia and Mexico, but Malden Mills decided to stay. During the 80s they survived near-bankruptcy and decided to gamble and re-focus their production on high-end, high-priced specialty fabrics, especially Polartec, a lightweight, fleecy material that turned out to be very popular with brands like L. L. Bean and Ralph Lauren. The gamble paid off and the Polartec profits rose from $5 million in 1982 to $200 million in 1995. The company was quite strong and successful when a crisis hit in December of 1995—an accidental industrial fire completely destroyed the factory. Everyone in the industry expected Malden Mills to do the only ‘smart’ thing at this point and take the $100 million insurance money and reopen in a developing country where labor would be cheaper. But they shocked everyone by announcing that they would rebuild in Lawrence, and also they would pay full salaries to their 3,000 employees for 3 months and continued health insurance for 6 months. Rebuilding in Lawrence ended up costing the company around $450 million and keeping the laid-off workers on salary and health benefits cost $20 million more, but the company gained a national reputation as a business ‘with a heart’ and enjoyed a very positive boost to their brand. They reopened in 1996, and most of the original employees were hired back, as their jobs were held for them. As the years went by, however, the company fell upon hard times. Perhaps due to the amount of money they spent on rebuilding, or perhaps it was mostly due to changes in the marketplace, but Malden Mills had to declare bankruptcy in 2007. The family that had run the plant for generations was forced out as another company took over, changed the name to Polartec, reduced the staff to 800, and moved most of the operations to other countries.
As you compare and contrast these two case studies, make sure you apply contrasting theories as well, such as Shareholder vs Stakeholder, or perhaps Social Darwinism vs. Ethic of Care. Since this is an essay, make sure you have a central point that you are developing along the way, which will be important to your conclusion.
In: Economics
Please Provide the solution in java, already have a question which is answer in C++.
Language: java.
Please don't provide your email for private answer.
Q1. Implement a program which allows the user to find the shortest path between two nodes in a graph possibly passing through a third node. I.e. the user should be able to ask questions like: Which is the shortest path from A to B passing through C? The program should output an ordered list of the nodes to traverse from A to B if such a path exists. If no such path exists then the program should output that no such path exists.
Use sample text provided below as input when not executing tests (in the case that the tests should be executed you may use another input). This is the undirected road network of New York City. It is connected, contains parallel edges, but no self-loops. The edge weights are travel times and are strictly positive. You should also calculate/show the time complexity of your algorithm.
Sample Text file:
264346 733846 1 2 2008 2 1 2008 3 4 395 4 3 395 5 6 1935 6 5 1935 7 8 3828 8 7 3828 9 10 4182 10 9 4182 9 11 3500 11 9 3500 1 12 2105 12 1 2105 2 13 1478 13 2 1478 14 15 3427 15 14 3427 16 17 4148 17 16 4148 18 19 2529 19 18 2529 20 21 3065 21 20 3065 20 22 3163 22 20 3163 23 24 6768 24 23 6768 25 26 1300 26 25 1300 27 28 1957 28 27 1957 29 30 1295 30 29 1295 31 32 8530 32 31 8530 33 34 4986 34 33 4986 33 35 843 35 33 843 36 37 908 37 36 908 38 39 2545 39 38 2545 40 41 980 41 40 980 29 42 2686 42 29 2686 43 44 1425 44 43 1425 44 45 4410 45 44 4410 46 47 2759 47 46 2759 2 48 1541 48 2 1541 49 50 3787 50 49 3787 49 51 2964 51 49 2964 52 53 5170 53 52 5170 54 55 1300 55 54 1300 56 57 1834 57 56 1834 58 59 1762 59 58 1762 60 61 1253 61 60 1253 62 63 6045 63 62 6045 64 65 2578 65 64 2578 66 58 1527 58 66 1527 67 68 8081 68 67 8081 68 60 793 60 68 793 60 69 4270 69 60 4270 70 71 883 71 70 883 69 70 1136 70 69 1136 72 73 12904 73 72 12904 74 75 1995 75 74 1995 74 76 3516 76 74 3516 77 78 1220 78 77 1220 77 79 2327 79 77 2327 78 80 11763 80 78 11763 78 81 3209 81 78 3209 82 83 922 83 82 922 82 84 4359 84 82 4359 85 86 19802
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Brenna's mother recently fell down the lowest step of their front porch while scooping snow, and she cracked her ulna. Brenna gets angry at her mother for scooping the snow in the first place when she knows she has osteoporosis and a tendency for falling. Brett hires a snow removal service that will arrive as early as possible after future snows to prevent this from happening again, because they both know that Brenna's mom is going to continue to shovel. She still feels young, and she says her osteoporosis and age aren't holding her back in life. 1. Brenna and Brett both feel that even though Brenna's mother has a history of falling every couple of years, she is overall very healthy compared to others her age. Brett's mom on the other hand is only a few years older and very active in her local community organizations and tennis league. True or False: Functional status is a better indicator of health in older adults than age, because how they have taken care of themselves over their lifetime greatly affects how they feel and function. Two different 70-year-olds can have completely different health statuses.
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2. Brenna's parents have lived in the same college town since Brenna was young. This town has so much diversity; it is a melting pot of cultures. Brenna has always loved visiting her parents because she is able to meet up with friends at the various ethnic restaurants around town. True or False: Younger adults are often advocates of upholding traditional food patterns.
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3. Brett's weekly phone call with his father has become a graphic rundown of all of his father's bodily functions and ailments. Brett wants the best for his father, but he isn't a fan of the graphic details, nor of his father complaining without changing anything about his nutrition or lifestyle. He did buy a multivitamin the other day at the store, and he's about to open the box, sometime today or tomorrow, to see what it's all about.
Which of the following is NOT an age-associated physiological gastrointestinal system change that affects nutritional status?
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4. Brett feels that he can help his father prevent age-related loss of muscle mass. As a physical trainer, Brett has helped many people maintain their fitness, so he wants to help his father, too. True or False: When comparing young versus older adults, older adults have less protein, water, and fat mass.
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5. Brett's mother is an active mahjong player at the local library, and one of her mahjong friends has been recommending that the ladies in the league start using supplements. Brett's mother constantly sees supplement ads on television, and she reads in her daily digest magazine that women over 50 years of age should take several different supplements to maintain their health.
Which of the following is an age-related nutrient of concern?
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6. Brett has been with Mark, one of his good buddies, about his parents' health issues. Mark is a doctor. Mark tells Brett that all he can do is show concern for his parents and offer ways to help them that don't sound like he's putting them down. Maintaining a sense of self is important to aging healthily. Brett hadn't thought of his parents like that.
There are many conditions a person may face in their elder years that affect their nutritional status. Which of the following is a condition that puts older adults at nutritional risk?
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