You are encouraged to research outside sources and, of course, cite them. Do not, however, quote sources word-for-word, but rather, respond to the Discussion Forum Question in your own words.

1.     What three factors would influence your evaluation as to whether a company’s current ratio is good or bad, why?

2.     Suggest several reasons why a 2:1 current ratio might not be adequate for a particular company.

3.     Why is working capital given special attention in the process of analyzing balance sheets?

4.     What does the number of days’ sales uncollected indicate and who would be interested in these ration?

5.     What does a relatively high accounts receivable turnover indicate about a company’s short-term liquidity?

6.     Why is a company’s capital structure, as measured by debt and equity ratios, important to financial statement analysts?

7.     How does inventory turnover provide information about a company’s short-term liquidity?

8. Discuss why there may or may not be ratios that would be more important in a service vs manufacturing environment and which rations would those be?

After you’ve completed the questions above, please provide a brief explanation of how this information is important in managerial decision making.

You will be asked to come up with two original questions based on the work of two different authors in each week’s required readings. Think about what stood out to you in the works in question—what ideas, theories, or approaches did you find to be interesting, engaging, or perhaps intriguing or challenging? Your task is then to do your best to answer each of your own questions as incisively and thoroughly as possible within a word-count range of around 350-500 words maximum (posts with fewer than 250 words will not receive any credit). The word count includes your question but not any citations. You must cite at least one source, which will be the particular essay or article from the required readings you are addressing.

Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil, Preface, Parts 1, 2, & 3: [§1-62] pp. 3-57.

Study Guide: SparkNotes on Beyond Good and Evil. (Note: These notes cover the entire book; the section that relates to your specific assignment can be found on pp. 1-12; these notes will be very helpful in understanding Nietzsche's thinking, especially for those new to his work.).

My question is: What certainties are guaranteed in life? or you can change the question is if you can find a better one.

You want to buy a car valued at $48,000. You will make an upfront down-payment of $5,000 on the car, and borrow the rest of the money from your bank. Your bank will give you a 5-year loan at 2.5% APR compounded semi-annually. You plan to make biweekly payments (i.e., one payment every two weeks) on the loan. The bank requires that you make the first payment two weeks after you signed the loan contract. Find the answer to the following questions.

a. What is the effective annual rate?

b. What is the effective biweekly rate?

c. What will be your biweekly loan payment?

d. What is the balance on your loan in 3 years’ time, after 78 payments?

e. Show the amortization schedule (table) for the first 5 payments. If you are doing this on an Excel spreadsheet, copy and paste the first 5 rows from the amortization schedule into a Microsoft Word (or any other word-processing software) document file.

f. You want to put enough money into your bank account to pay for the loan payments for the next six months. If your bank account yields an APR of 2% (compounded bi-weekly), how much money should you put in your bank account now?

, apply the t-test to assess the following statement: "Men and women have different incomes in this city." Show your calculations and copy of the SPSS output in a Word document. In a separate 250-500 Word document, address the following questions: Describe what t-test is the most appropriate and explain why. Discuss whether you used a one-tailed or two-tailed test and explain why. Using SPSS, calculate the t-test and provide the test statistic and critical value assuming an alpha of .05. Calculate the effect size using r2. Interpret the results by (a) stating the reason the study or test was done, (b) presenting the main results, (c) explaining what the results mean, and (d) making suggestions for future research

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Part 1:

Scenario

You are the owner of a Vancouver hair salon. (Please make up the name and location. Use your imagination.) Due to the pandemic and a sharp decline in demand, you had to lay off all of your staff and close in March.

Now, with some pandemic restrictions lifted, your salon is once again open for business. You need to hire back your former hair stylists. Write a message to your former employees requesting that they return to work. Maintain a professional tone.

Instructions: Choose if the message should be written as an email, memo, or letter. Write the message in Word. I’m expecting less than 200 words. Upload the file to this folder when you are done. Don’t forget to proofread!

Part 2:

Scenario

Write a message to your clients explaining that your hair salon is open once again. Share with them a promotion of your choosing to entice them to make an appointment.

Instructions: Choose if the message should be written as an email, memo, or letter. Write the message in Word. I’m expecting less than 200 words. Upload the file to this folder when you are done. Don’t forget to proofread!

Grading Rubric:

Tone

Audience

Clarity

Conciseness

Cohesion

Graphic Highlighting

Formatting

Part One: Write an interactive program to calculate the volume and surface area of a three-dimensional object. Use the following guidelines to write your program:

1. Create a word problem that involves calculating the volume and surface area of a three-dimensional object. Choose one of the following:
   • Cube: surface area 6 s2 , volume s3
   • Sphere: surface area 4πr2 , volume (4.0/3.0) π r3
   • Cylinder: surface area 2π r2 + 2 π r h, volume π r2 h
   • Cone: surface area πr(r+√(h2+r2) ), volume 1.0/3.0 π r2 h
2. Print the description of the word problem for the user to read.
3. Ask the user to enter the information necessary to perform the calculations.
4. Use 3.14 for the value of π as needed.
5. Print the results of each calculation.
6. Write the pseudocode for this program. Be sure to include the needed input, calculations, and output.

Part Two: Code the program. Use the following guidelines to code your program.

1. To code the program, use the Python IDLE.
2. Using comments, type a heading that includes your name, today’s date, and a short description of the program.
3. Follow the Python style conventions regarding indentation and the use of white space in your program.
4. Use meaningful names for all variables.

In a big chain of retail stores annual performance appraisal system is used as a base for determining the
employee’s annual raise. Upper management has the authority to double the increment on an exceptional
performance. One of the problems with the appraisal system is that it is more inclined towards
subjectivity. A new sales manager joined the chain in December 2019 and annual performance appraisal
of two supervisors one from grocery section and one from the toys section was due in April 2020. Due to
lockdown in March 2020 the sales of grocery section were above targets and consequently, the supervisor
from the grocery section got double increment on the recommendation of the manager.
Question: 01 Word limit 200 words
Question 1: Keeping in view, the possible raters’ error in performance appraisal, discuss the specific error
that occurred in this scenario and how it could be handled? Justify your answer with solid arguments.
Question: 02 Word limit 100 words
Question 2: Each supervisor has a team consisting of 10 to 15 sales staff. While assessing “Quality of
work” of team members, supervisors can choose one of the following categories.
 Unsatisfactory
 Marginal
 Satisfactory
 Good
 Outstanding.
Which of the appraisal tool is being used in that retail store and what is its disadvantage?

Consider the data in the file Growth.csvwhich contains data on average growth rates over 1960-1995 for 65 countries, along with variables that are potentially related to growth. A complete description of the data is given in data description which is under the name Growth- Data Description and can be found on Blackboard.

Using this data, carry out the following empirical exercises:

Construct a table that shows the sample mean, std. deviation, minimum and maximum values for the variablesGrowth, Trade-Share, YearsSchool, Oil, Rev_Coups, Assasinations, and RGDP60.

Run a regression of Growthon TradeShare, YearsSchool,Rec_Coups, Assasinations and RGDP60.Show the output of this regression in R (take a screenshot and crop the output summary in your word file that contains your answers).

What is the value on the coefficient on Rev_Coups?Is it statistically significant? Do interpretation on this coefficient.

What is the value of the adjusted R-square? Do these variables explain the majority of country growth?

Use the regression to predict the average annual growth for a country that has average values for all regressors.

Repeat (3) but now assume that the country’s value for TradeShareis one std. deviation above its mean.

Notes: Please submit through email an individual word file with your answers WELL ORGANIZEDalong with your R code (.R file) at the end.

• Design, plan, test, and write a computer program in Java that asks the user to enter 1 number and a String. You will display the first n characters of the string where n is the number entered. For example, if the user enters 3 and java then you will print jav. If they enter 5 and Halloween then you print Hallo. If the user enters a number less than 0 then set the number to 0. Assume the user will not enter a number greater than the length of the string. Display the percentage of the word displayed. For 3 and Java, the percentage is 75%. For 5 and Halloween the percentage is 55.55555555555556%. No if, loops, arrays, classes or methods are needed. You will also need the String class to complete this problem.

Write the Java code for the program, the entire program can be written inside a main method.

Make sure the main method outputs your full name on screen.

Copy your code, with programmer comments, headers and place this into your MS Word document.

Follow Java Naming Conventions

Do not forget about importing java.util.Scanner, and using Scanner input = new Scanner(System.in); with input.nextLine(); and input.nextInt();

Update the test table with the actual outputs

Sample Run

Enter a number:

3

Enter a String:

Java

Jav

You printed 75.0% of Java