This is really a business ethics question

Some would say that given the rash of ethical scandals in the last 20 years, that ethical business behavior is waning. Given what you now know about corporate governance, do you think that ethics will be more or less important to business in the near future? In the distant future?

EcoBrite Labs performs tests on water samples supplied by outside companies to ensure that their waste water meets environmental standards. Customers deliver water samples to the lab and receive the lab reports via the Internet. The EcoBrite Labs facility is built and staffed to handle the processing of 100,000 tests per year. The lab facility cost $150,000 to build and is expected to last 10 years and will have no salvage value. Processing equipment cost $210,000 and has a life expectancy of five years and will have no salvage value. Both facility and equipment are depreciated on a straight-line basis. EcoBrite Labs has six salaried laboratory technicians, each of whom is paid $32,000. In addition to the salaries, facility, and equipment, EcoBrite Labs expects to spend $48,000 for chemicals and other supplies (assuming 100,000 tests are performed). Last year, 88,000 tests were performed.

Required:

1. Classify the resources associated with the water testing activity into one of the following types: (1) committed resources and (2) flexible resources.

Committed resources: Lab facility, equipment and technician salaries
Flexible resources:      Chemicals and supplies

2. Calculate the total annual activity rate for the water testing activity. Break the activity rate into fixed and variable components. (Round your answers to three significant digits.)

3. Compute the total activity availability, and break this into activity output and unused activity.

4. Calculate the total cost of resources supplied, and break this into the cost of activity used and the cost of unused activity.

Resource Usage and Supply, Activity Rates, Service Organization

EcoBrite Labs performs tests on water samples supplied by outside companies to ensure that their waste water meets environmental standards. Customers deliver water samples to the lab and receive the lab reports via the Internet. The EcoBrite Labs facility is built and staffed to handle the processing of 100,000 tests per year. The lab facility cost $180,000 to build and is expected to last 10 years and will have no salvage value. Processing equipment cost $290,000 and has a life expectancy of five years and will have no salvage value. Both facility and equipment are depreciated on a straight-line basis. EcoBrite Labs has six salaried laboratory technicians, each of whom is paid $35,000. In addition to the salaries, facility, and equipment, EcoBrite Labs expects to spend $50,000 for chemicals and other supplies (assuming 100,000 tests are performed). Last year, 88,000 tests were performed.

Required:

1. Classify the resources associated with the water testing activity into one of the following types: (1) committed resources and (2) flexible resources.

Committed resources:
Flexible resources:      

2. Calculate the total annual activity rate for the water testing activity. Break the activity rate into fixed and variable components. (Round your answers to three significant digits.)

3. Compute the total activity availability, and break this into activity output and unused activity.

4. Calculate the total cost of resources supplied, and break this into the cost of activity used and the cost of unused activity.

Resource Usage and Supply, Activity Rates, Service Organization

EcoBrite Labs performs tests on water samples supplied by outside companies to ensure that their waste water meets environmental standards. Customers deliver water samples to the lab and receive the lab reports via the Internet. The EcoBrite Labs facility is built and staffed to handle the processing of 100,000 tests per year. The lab facility cost $160,000 to build and is expected to last 10 years and will have no salvage value. Processing equipment cost $250,000 and has a life expectancy of five years and will have no salvage value. Both facility and equipment are depreciated on a straight-line basis. EcoBrite Labs has six salaried laboratory technicians, each of whom is paid $30,000. In addition to the salaries, facility, and equipment, EcoBrite Labs expects to spend $50,000 for chemicals and other supplies (assuming 100,000 tests are performed). Last year, 86,000 tests were performed.

Required:

1. Classify the resources associated with the water testing activity into one of the following types: (1) committed resources and (2) flexible resources.

Committed resources: Lab facility, equipment and technician salaries  
Flexible resources:      Chemicals and supplies

2. Calculate the total annual activity rate for the water testing activity. Break the activity rate into fixed and variable components. (Round your answers to the nearest cent.)

3. Compute the total activity availability, and break this into activity output and unused activity.

4. Calculate the total cost of resources supplied, and break this into the cost of activity used and the cost of unused activity.

For those fortunate souls who do not need glasses, the lens of the eye adjusts its focal length in order to form a proper image on the retina. This typically means that very distant objects as well as objects as close as 25 cm can be seen clearly. Many of us need corrective lenses since the lens in our eye cannot adjust sufficiently to produce a clear image over the full range object distances. This may be because the lens itself does not adjust well or because the eye is either longer or shorter than ‘normal’. In the case of someone who is nearsighted (can see up close) the eye may only be able to see clearly items up to 50cm or 1m away (this would be the far point). In order to see something further away, a lens (either glasses or contacts) is used to produce a virtual image of a distant object at the person’s far point. Their eye can then accommodate the rest of the way and produce a clear image. Suppose a person who has a far point of 63.0 cm is trying to view a distant object. What is the focal length (with correct sign) of a lens that would take a distant object and make an image on the same side of the lens as the object a distance 63.0 cm from the lens? Incorrect.

Is the lens converging or diverging?

Lenses are prescribed in terms of their refractive power, which is expressed in terms of diopters (see the text or your favorite search engine for the definition of a diopter). What is the refractive power of this lens in terms of diopters? (do not enter units.)

In the case of someone who is farsighted, the eye is not able to focus clearly on objects closer than a certain distance. This closest point on which a person’s eye can focus is called the near point. In this situation the corrective lens is used to make an object closer than the near point produce an image further away from the lens at the near point. Suppose a person who has a near point of 53.1 cm is trying to view a book at a distance of 25.0 cm. What is the focal length (with correct sign) of a lens that would take the book and make an image on the same side of the lens as the book a distance 53.1 cm from the lens?

Is the lens converging or diverging?

What is the refractive power of this lens in terms of diopters? (do not enter units.)

Discuss and graphically illustrate supply side economics in the context of a negative temporary supply shocks of the 1970s

1. What are the primary supply side policies?
2. In your opinion does President Trump have supply side economics built into to his economic platform.
3. Graphically illustrate and discuss the Laffer Curve.
4. Where are you on the Laffer curve? Positive or negative slope? Why?

I am planning to take Physics next semester. We already received our syllabus and I want to start on my project now.

Design

Construct, and demonstrate

A copper penny can be levitated using any two or more of the following techniques in your design: electrostatics, magnetostatics, and electromagnetics.

All components must be built out of household materials.

1. Discuss and graphically illustrate supply side economics in the context of a negative temporary supply shocks of the 1970s
   1. What are the primary supply side policies?
   2. In your opinion does President Trump have supply side economics built into to his economic platform.
   3. Graphically illustrate and discuss the Laffer Curve.
   4. Where are you on the Laffer curve? Positive or negative slope? Why?

I need C++ program that Read an input file of text.txt one word at a time. The file should consist of about 500 words. The program should remove all punctuations,keep only words. Store the words in a built-in STL container, such as vector or map.Can someone help with any additional comments that I can understand the logic?thank you

On March 1, 2012, the company purchased a building for $1,200,000 which is expected to last 40 years. When purchased, the building was not in a desirable area, but a new stadium is being built nearby, so the value of the building on December 31, 2015 is $2,000,000.

Assuming the company only adjusts depreciation at year-end, the adjusting journal entry on December 31, 2015 is: