The Personnel Department at LastCall Enterprises handles many administrative tasks for the two divisions that make up LastCall: LaidBack and StressedOut. LaidBack division manages the company’s traditional business line. This business, although lucrative, is currently not growing. StressedOut, on the other hand, is the company’s new business, which has experienced double-digit growth for each of the last three years. The cost allocation system at LastCall allocates all corporate costs to the divisions based on a variety of cost allocation bases. Personnel costs are allocated based on the average number of employees in the two divisions. There are two basic activities in the Personnel Department. The first, which is called employee maintenance, manages employee records. Virtually all of this activity occurs when employees are hired or leave the company. The other activity is payroll, which is an ongoing activity and requires the same amount of work for each employee regardless of the employee’s salary. Assorted data for LastCall for the last year follow: LaidBack StressedOut Total Number of employees (average) 200 50 250 Employees hired/leaving 10 30 40 The Personnel Department incurred the following costs during the year: Employee maintenance $ 240,000 Payroll 35,000 Total $ 275,000

Required:

a. Under the current allocation system, what are the costs that will be allocated from personnel to LaidBack? To StressedOut?

b. Suppose the company implements an activity-based cost system for personnel with the two activities, employee maintenance and payroll. Use the number of employees hired/leaving as the cost driver for employee maintenance costs and the average number of employees for payroll costs. What are the costs that will be allocated from personnel to LaidBack? To StressedOut?

Match the example of a cooking method, with the best explanation of what is happening to the vitamins in the food.

Group of answer choices

A roasted bell pepper has a lower content of C vitamin than a raw bell pepper

Vitamin A from a bell pepper roasted with olive oil is better absorbed than the vitamin A in a raw bell pepper eaten on its own

Chicken cooked in the microwave is a better source of vitamin B6 than boiled chicken.

Compared with boiled chicken, chicken cooked in the microwave is a better source of many vitamins except one.

  Raw spinach is a better source of vitamin C than spinach cooked in the microwave

Cooked spinach is a better source of vitamin A than raw spinach

      [ Choices ]  

- Fat soluble vitamins need fat for absorption  

- Vitamin B12 is transformed into an inactive form by microwaves        

- Water soluble vitamins can be lost during cooking.        

- Cooking releases some vitamins           

- Heat sensitive vitamins are destroyed by heat      

Match it with the corresponding cooking methods with the best explanation of what is happening to the vitamins.

The purpose of this project is to design an “optimal” paper airplane using a 2-factor factorial experiment (2k) approach. Students will initially perform a 1/8 fractional factorial experiment on a paper airplane design that contains 6 design parameters, each design parameter containing two possible factors.

Using the interaction effects from the fractional factorial experiment, students will select the best combination of design parameters to create the “optimal” paper airplane. Experiments will be performed to assess the performance of this “optimal” design.

Your objective is to maximize the flight time. This will be assessed using maximum average distance traveled by the airplane in four trials.

Materials and Equipment:

• • Paper of varying thickness
• • Scissors
• • Flat working surface
• • Ruler

Design parameters / factors:

1) Paper Type

2) Length of Wing

3) Width of Body

4) Length of Body

5) Wing Type (Angled or Non-Angled)

6) Paper Clip

Recommended Protocol:

Part A : Assembling and testing initial airplane designs; results will be concluded out of class using Minitab, Excel, etc.

Part B: Develop and test the new airplane design using results of DOE from week 1.

Procedure:

Part A: Creation of Initial Airplane

Eight paper airplane designs will be created as defined below. The designs will vary based on the 6 design parameters. Trials will then be performed to assess the performance of each design. The performance measure of interest is the average distance traveled by the airplane in four trials.

Determine the Number of Trials Required:

Knowing that the experiment is a 2k fractional factorial design; and that 1/8 of the number of trials is acceptable; and that there are 6 factors and 2 responses; what is the number of required airplanes which need to be created?

Plane Design:

As stated before, this experiment is a 2-factor factorial experiment. The only factors for this experiment are high and low level values/characteristics.

Recording Distances:

Knowing that 4 trials is acceptable, complete 4 runs with each airplane, then find the average distance covered by the airplane. Record these distances in a table for each model.

Determining Effects of Control Parameters:

Which control parameter or parameters had the greatest effect? And why?

Part B: Creation of Improved Airplane Design

Based on the most influential variables and the interaction effects, create the “ultimate” paper airplane. Re-run the experiment 4 times and note the distances. Conclude in the lab write-up the change you made to the airplane, and whether your resultant design effected the distance of your airplane.

Write a C++ program to allow a user to enter in any positive number greater than or equal to zero. The program should not continue until the user has entered valid input. Once valid input has been entered the application will determine if the number is an abundant number or not and display whether or not the number is an abundant number. If the user enters in a 0 the program should quit.

An abundant number is a number n for which the sum of divisors is greater than two times itself (i.e., >2n).

Consider 12: the divisors = ( 1,2 ,3,4,6,12)

1+2+3+4+6+12 = 25 > 2(12) = 25 > 24 (Yes 12 is abundant)

Consider 6: the divisors = ( 1,2 ,3, 6)

1+2+3+6 = 12 > 2(6) = 12 > 12 (No 6 is NOT abundant)

Make sure your program conforms to the following requirements:
1. Keep running until the user enters a 0. (5 points)
2. Make sure the number is positive (at least 0). (5 points).
3. Determine if the number is abundant or not and print a message to the user. (35 points)
4. Add comments wherever necessary. (5 points)

Sample Runs:

NOTE: not all possible runs are shown below.

Sample Run 1

Welcome to the abundant numbers program
Please enter in an number (>=0)...6
6 is NOT an abundant number
Please enter in an number (>=0)...12
12 is an abundant number
Please enter in an number (>=0)...-8
Please enter in an number (>=0)...24
24 is an abundant number
Please enter in an number (>=0)...45
45 is NOT an abundant number
Please enter in an number (>=0)...0

Process finished with exit code 0

Sample Run 2

Welcome to the abundant numbers program
Please enter in an number (>=0)...-8
Please enter in an number (>=0)...-12
Please enter in an number (>=0)...9
9 is NOT an abundant number
Please enter in an number (>=0)...0

Process finished with exit code 0

General Requirements:
1. No global variables (variables outside of main() )

2.Please make sure you;re only using the concepts already discussed in class. That is, please try and restrict yourself to input/output statements, variables, selection statements and loops. Using any other concept (like functions or arrays) will result in loss of points.

3. All input and output must be done with streams, using the library iostream

4. You may only use the iostream and iomanip libraries (you do not need any others for these tasks)

5. NO C style printing is permitted. (Aka, don’t use printf). Use cout if you need to print to the screen.

6. When you write source code, it should be readable and well-documented (comments).

Beckman Engineering and Associates (BEA) is considering a change in its capital structure. BEA currently has $20 million in debt carrying a rate of 7%, and its stock price is $40 per share with 2 million shares outstanding. BEA is a zero growth firm and pays out all of its earnings as dividends. The firm's EBIT is $12.535 million, and it faces a 30% federal-plus-state tax rate. The market risk premium is 4%, and the risk-free rate is 6%. BEA is considering increasing its debt level to a capital structure with 50% debt, based on market values, and repurchasing shares with the extra money that it borrows. BEA will have to retire the old debt in order to issue new debt, and the rate on the new debt will be 9%. BEA has a beta of 0.8.

a) What is BEA's unlevered beta? Use market value D/S (which is the same as wd/ws) when unlevering. Do not round intermediate calculations. Round your answer to two decimal places.

b) What are BEA's new beta and cost of equity if it has 50% debt? Do not round intermediate calculations. Round your answers to two decimal places.

Beta:

Cost of equity: %

c) What are BEA’s WACC and total value of the firm with 50% debt? Do not round intermediate calculations. Round your answer to two decimal places. %

What is the total value of the firm with 50% debt? Enter your answers in millions. For example, an answer of $10,550,000 should be entered as 10.55. Do not round intermediate calculations. Round your answer to three decimal places. $ million

Can someone explain it with detail explanation?

Two clothing stores in a shopping center compete for the weekend trade. On a clear day the larger store gets 60% of the business and on a rainy day the larger store gets 80% of the business. Either or both stores may hold a sidewalk sale on a given weekend, but the decision must be made a week in advance and in ignorance of the competitor’s plans. If both have a sidewalk sale, each gets 50% of the business. If, however, one holds the sale and the other doesn’t, the one conducting the sale gets 90% of the business on a clear day and 10% on a rainy day. It rains 40% of the time. How frequently should each retailer conduct sales?

5. The price of a stock is $40. The price of a one-year European put option on the stock with a strike price of $30 is quoted as $7 and the price of a one-year European call option on the stock with a strike price of $50 is quoted as $5. Suppose that an investor buys 100 shares, shorts 100 call options, and buys 100 put options. a. Construct a payoff and profit/loss table b. Draw a diagram illustrating how the investor’s payoff and profit or loss at expiation.

Consider the three stocks in the following table. Pt represents price at time t, and Qt represents shares outstanding at time t. Stock C splits two-for-one in the last period. P0 Q0 P1 Q1 P2 Q2 A 84 100 89 100 89 100 B 44 200 39 200 39 200 C 88 200 98 200 49 400 a. Calculate the rate of return on a price-weighted index of the three stocks for the first period (t = 0 to t = 1). (Do not round intermediate calculations. Round your answer to 2 decimal places.) b. What will be the divisor for the price-weighted index in year 2? (Do not round intermediate calculations. Round your answer to 2 decimal places.) c. Calculate the rate of return of the price-weighted index for the second period (t = 1 to t = 2).

Students are classified according to religious preference (Buddhist, Jewish,

Protestant, Roman Catholic, or Other) and political affiliation (Democrat, Republican,

Independent, or Other).

RELIGIOUS PREFERENCE AND POLITICAL AFFILIATION

RELIGIOUS PREFERENCE

POLITICAL

AFFILIATION BUDDHIST JEWISH PROTESTANT ROM. CATH. OTHER TOTAL

Democrat 30 30 40 60 40 200

Republican 10 10 40 20 20 100

Independent 10 10 20 20 40 100

Other 0 0 0 0 100 100

Total 50 50 100 100 200 500

(a) Is anything suspicious about these observed frequencies?

(b) Using the .05 level of significance, test the null hypothesis that these two variables

are independent.

(c) If appropriate, estimate the effect size