1. ) Suppose a stock had an initial price of $37 per share, paid a dividend of $0.3 per share during the year, and had an ending share price of $50. Compute the percentage total return. Enter the answer in 4 decimals.

2. ) Calculate the arithmetic average of the following returns.

Year Return

1 0.18

2 0.08

3   0.11

4   -0.05

5 0.3

Enter the answer with 4 decimals.

3.) Calculate the standard deviation of the following returns.

Year Return

1 -0.18

2 -0.06

3   -0.09

4   0.21

5 0.08

Enter the answer with 4 decimals.

4. ) Calculate the variance of the following returns.

Year Return

1 -0.16

2 0.08

3   -0.08

4   0.14

5 -0.02

Enter the answer with 4 decimals.

On January 3​, 2018​, Quick Delivery Service purchased a truck at a cost of $67,000. Before placing the truck in​ service, Quick spent $4,000 painting​ it, $1,500 replacing​ tires, and $2,200 overhauling the engine. The truck should remain in service for five years and have a residual value of $5,100. The​ truck's annual mileage is expected to be 20,000 miles in each of the first four years and 12,800 miles in the fifth year—92,800 miles in total. In deciding which depreciation method to​ use, Jacob Nealy​, the general​ manager, requests a depreciation schedule for each of the depreciation methods​ (straight-line, units-of-production, and​ double-declining-balance).

Requirement 1. Prepare a depreciation schedule for each depreciation​ method, showing asset​ cost, depreciation​ expense, accumulated​ depreciation, and asset book value. Begin by preparing a depreciation schedule using the​ straight-line method.

Requirement 2. Quick prepares financial statements using the depreciation method that reports the highest net income in the early years of asset use. Consider the first year that Quick uses the truck. Identify the depreciation method that meets the​ company's objectives.

A supplier of electrical parts and motors company with annual sales of $14 million and employs a staff of 80. Company enters an agreement with Miles two days after the current September 30th year-end. Effective October 2, 2016, Mile’s services with the company were terminated due to his alleged inability to get along with his co-workers. In settlement of several counterclaims and legal threats by Miles over his termination, a financial agreement was reached. The agreement provides that the company will pay Miles or his beneficiary $30,000 annually for the next six years. The first payment will commence one year from the date of the agreement.

Question 1 ) Should generally accepted accounting principles do not require the recognition of liabilities for this agreement as of September 30, 2016, or as of September 30, liabilities of $180,000 for the agreement should be recognized ? What arguments in support of and against liability recognition ?

Question 2 ) What recommendation for agreement should be accounted for. Include in your discussion what year(s) the effects of the agreement (including specific dollar amounts) should be reported in the company’s balance sheet and income statement. Identify any accounts to be reported in the financial statements.

Engaging in regular exercise has both psychological and physical benefits. You believe you have a novel way to help obese adults start and maintain a regular exercise program. Your idea is to have them visualizing themselves engaging in exercise (walking) via virtual reality for two weeks before having them actually go out and walk. From data compiled by the National Institutes of Health, you know that obese adults in the United States walk, on average, 0.40 miles per day, with a standard deviation equal to 0.16 miles, and that the distance walked per day by obese adults is normally distributed. You obtain a sample of 49 obese adults for your study, apply the exercise program, and determine that they walked, on average, 0.45 miles per day following the virtual reality intervention. You want to assess whether this intervention has been successful. So to get started on this study…

1. State a set of appropriate hypotheses for this study using statistical language and notation.

2. Are your hypotheses directional or non-directional?

3. Is your statistical test going to be a one-tailed or two-tailed test?

4. State an appropriate alpha level.

Create an Automobile class for a dealership. Include fields for an ID number, make, model, color, year, vin number, miles per gallon, and speed.

Include get and set methods for each field.

Do not allow the ID to be negative or more than 9999; if it is, set the ID to 0.

Do not allow the year to be earlier than 2000 or later than 2017; if it is, set the year to 0.

Do not allow the miles per gallon to be less than 10 or more than 60; if it is, set the miles per gallon to 0.

Car speed should be initialized as 0.

Include a constructor that accepts arguments for each field value and uses the set methods to assign the values.

Also write two methods, Accelerate () and Brake ().

Whenever Accelerate () is called, increase the speed by 5, and whenever Brake () is called, decrease the speed by 5.

To allow users to specify the speed to increase (or decrease), create two overloading methods for Accelerate () and Brake () that accept a single parameter specifying the increasing (or decreasing) speed.

Write an application that declares several Automobile objects and demonstrates that all the methods work correctly.

Save the files as Automobile.java and TestAutomobiles.java

1. Suppose it is claimed that the typical adult travels an average distance of 16 miles to get to work each day. You believe this average is too low for Columbus residents. You survey a random sample of 98adults from Columbus and find that your sample travels an average distance of 17.6 miles to work each day, with a sample standard deviation of 7.8 miles.   Use this information to conduct the appropriate hypothesis test by going through the steps you learned about from our Chapter 22 and Chapter 23 lecture videos (and from your reading of Chapters 22 and 23). Assume the alpha level is .05 (or 5%).

A. What will the hypotheses be?

Ho:

Ha:

B. Use the following formula to compute the test statistic.

C. Based on what you see in Table B, what should the p-value be?

D. Will you reject or fail to reject the null hypothesis? Please state your decision and the reason why you are making that decision.

E. In general, if we end up rejecting the null hypothesis when conducting a hypothesis test, we say our results are _________________________ significant.

1. Read the examples below, and specify which mode you would recommend. If you choose intermodal, specify the combination of modes that you would use.

2. When designing a network of distribution centers to serve a large market, like the U.S., it is common to debate the number of facilities to use. Discuss the following.
   • What arguments would you use to support having many facilities? What assumptions did you make to support your analysis?
   • What arguments would you use to support having fewer facilities? What assumptions did you make?
   • Which business functions (departments) are likely to support each of these positions (i.e., having more or fewer facilities)?

How does the availability of third-party providers influence your decision?

Belongs to Hospitality Law

Is it fair that we have to go looking for problems? Do you think doing this helps us limit liability? Sometimes we are held responsible when people do some pretty dumb things. Search online for the craziest case that a hotel or restaurant was held responsible for. Post your examples and the case citations here. Funniest one wins!

Evolving Technology"

Analyze the various technological improvements over the last 100 years and determine which has been the most significant for both guests and hotel owners. Explain your rationale.

Determine how evolving communications technology (i.e., cell phones and Wi-Fi) has changed guest expectations regarding communications, as well as how the lodging industry should respond.