explain ProQuest scholarly and CINAHL Plus with MEDLINE (Walden University Library, 2020). and why they are important in research

Jane is unhappy with her current salary and is considering doing a two-year MBA. For simplicity assume the MBA starts today (i.e., in t=0). Tuition is $25,000 per year payable at the beginning of a year. Jane must additionally buy books and supplies worth $5,000 per year which are again payable at the beginning of a year. If Jane pursues the MBA she expects to get a job right after graduation. The job entails a signup bonus of $10,000 immediately when she starts the job and a starting salary of $86,000. Jane expects this salary to grow at a rate of 6% annually. Salaries are paid at the end of a year. Regardless of whether she pursues the MBA or stays in her current job Jane expects to retire in 38 years from today. Does it pay for Jane to do an MBA? Perform NPV calculation.

The attached Excel file has a sample of tuition rates at 10 colleges in the US. Based on this sample consider the hypothesis that average tuition is $7500.   Ho: µ=7500. Calculate the t value for this test. Enter your answer to 3 decimal places.

The attached Excel file has a sample of tuition rates at 10 colleges in the US. Based on this sample consider the hypothesis that average tuition is at least $8000. Ho: µ≥8000. Calculate the t value for this test. Enter your answer to 3 decimal places.

Avig Ltd acquired 80% of the issued capital of Non Ltd on 1 July 2015. The following three transactions occurred. 1) On 1 July 2018, Avig Ltd purchased equipment from Non Ltd for $1,500,000. The equipment had originally cost Non Ltd $1,200,000 when acquired on 1 July 2016. Non Ltd had been depreciating the equipment over 12 years using the straight-line method. Avig Ltd expected the remaining useful life of the equipment to be 10 years and also depreciates using the straight-line method. 2) In May 2020, Avig Ltd sold inventory costing $80,000 to Non Ltd for $150,000. One quarter of this inventory remained on hand as at 30 June 2020. 3) Non Ltd paid a final dividend of $500,000 on 30 June 2020. Required Based on the information provided, prepare the intra-group journal entries, including all related tax effects, required upon consolidation as at 30 June 2020. The tax rate is 30%. Note: NCI allocation journals are not required.

Top Quality Food Ltd. (TQF) is a medium-sized private food-processing company founded more than twenty years ago by Ray Smith. TQF is located in Newmarket and mainly provides frozen chicken, pork, and beef products to grocery stores and restaurants in the greater Toronto area and its surroundings. Ray is the CEO and sole common shareholder of the company. In recent decades, consumers pursue healthy lifestyle and tend to eat less meat but more fruits and vegetables. In noticing this market trend, Ray decided to add a new product line to produce frozen fruits. Ray approached Meridian Credit Union in early 2020 for a long-term loan to finance its planned new product line. After carefully reviewing TQF’s business plan, Meridian agreed to finance the purchase of new equipments for the new product line in processing and packaging frozen fruits, and the new equipment will be used as the loan collateral. Meridian also imposes a debt to equity ratio of not more than 1 to 1 for the loan, and requires audited financial statements from TQF every year. Ray agreed to satisfy all of Meridian’s requests, and in the fall of 2020, he hired Sherman LLP as the auditor for TQF. As a staff accountant of Sherman, your supervisor asked you to take care of the TQF account. December 31, 2020 will be the first year end which TQF will be audited. TQF’s earnings in recent years have averaged $ 300,000. In a recent meeting with Ray, he asked you to comment on the relevant accounting policies regarding the transactions which you have noted below:

1. Ray used the money from issuing preferred share (as stated in 6b above) to help finance a $ 120,000 acquisition of common shares in Spring Farm (SF) that produces blueberry, strawberry, peach and cherry. TQF will now own 25% of SF. SF will be a primary supplier of those fruits mentioned above for TQF’s new product line. Ray explained: “this vertical integration is critical for the growth of our business! Otherwise I will have to pay about $ 10,000 more if I buy from other suppliers. This deal is a big help with cash flow, and it also helps us to secure the supply which can be volatile depending on the weather.”

Assuming you have been working with one of the Big4 as auditor for more than 7 years, Mr. Alex Chan is your close friend and he is the son of Mr. Derek Chan, the founder of Apple Ltd., a listed company with very successful track record. Derek and Alex are the chairman and vice chairman of the company respectively. As you are familiar with Alex and his family, you learn that most of the senior management are from the same family of the founder, the financial controller, is in charge of finance department with the assistance of his sister Miss Candy Lee, who was decided to immigrate to England next month. Mr. Alex Chan would like to invite you to replace her as an assistant financial controller helping his brother-in-law, Mr. Peter Lee. Will you accept the offer and justify your answer? (Hint: Identify FOUR features of a family controlled company which affect your decision)

Central University of Illinois has a newly appointed president, Catherine Husker. This has been a challenging budget year due to the difficulties of getting a state budget passed in the State Legislature. It appears from all reports that the budget that may get passed will be only 90% of last year’s state appropriations for the University. This means the University will have to cut their own operating budget for next year because of the State’s expected reduction in appropriations to higher education.

Husker just had a meeting with the athletic director of the university, Gareth Connor, to discuss the budget for the athletic department. Central University has been a men’s football and basketball powerhouse for the last several decades. However, the women’s athletic program has had less success. Last year, though, the women’s basketball team was one of the team’s selected to participate in the NCAA Women’s Basketball Competition through an “at-large bid” due to their outstanding season.

Connor and Husker discussed the 2020 Athletic Department budget, which Connor believed was the final draft. The meeting did not go well. In fact, it went terribly.   Husker discussed four grave concerns she had about the Athletic Department budget and requested Connor to review and revise the budget in light of her concerns below. Draft II of the budget is due in two weeks time.

Concern 1: The Athletic Department is budgeting a loss of over $3 million. Given the tight fiscal position of the university, this outcome is unacceptable to Husker. A budgeted loss of $1 million is the most she will tolerate for 2020. By 2021 the Athletic Department has to operate with a balanced budget. She tells Connor this is nonnegotiable.

Concern 2: The low allocation of money to the women’s athletic program. Fox Valley News, a tabloid television show, recently ran a program titled “It’s a Man’s World at Central University Athletics’ Program.” Husker said Connor is treating woman athletes as “third-class citizens.”

Concern 3: The low academic performance of the men’s football athletes, many of whom have full scholarships. She notes that the local TV news recently ran an interview with three football-team students, only one of which “exemplified the high academic credentials she wants Central to showcase to the world.” As for the other two students, she calls one student “incoherent” and another “incapable of stringing sentences together.”

Concern 4: The outrageous salary paid to “Bull” Mason, the football coach. She notes it is twice that of the highest paid academic person on campus, a Nobel Prize winner. Moreover, Mason receives other payments from his “Football the Central Way” summer program for high school students.

Below is Draft I of the Athletic Department Budget:

Central University 2020 Athletic Department Budget ($ millions)

Revenues:

          Men’s athletic programs                      $10.350

          Women’s athletic programs                     0.780

          Other (endowment income, gifts)            3.400       $14.530

Costs:

         Men’s athletic programs                      $11.040

          Women’s athletic programs                     2.800

          Other (non-assigned to programs)*         3.700       17.540

Operating Income                                                              $( 3.010)

*Other non-assigned programs include rugby, soccer and volleyball

Men’s Athletic Programs:

                              Football       Basketball       Swimming              Other       Total

Revenues               $8.600         $1.500             $0.100      $0.150   $10.350

Costs                      7.400             2.700               0.300        0.640     11.040

Full Scholarships         37                 21                   6                  4        68

Women’s Athletic Programs:

                                                  Basketball       Swimming              Other      Total

Revenues                                   $0.600             $0.080      $0.100   $ 0.780

Costs                                            1.800               0.200        0.800       2.800

Full Scholarships                              11                   4                  2        17

REQUIRED:

Connor will be holding a half-day meeting with key officials of the Athletic Department (of which your team are some of these key officials) to discuss the university president’s concerns. In order for your team of officials to be prepared to discuss the concerns of the president at this meeting, please answer the following questions prior to the meeting.

Questions:

1. Who are the stakeholders? (Worth 5 pts.)

2. The Athletic Department is operating at a loss. What are some of the ways the Department can increase revenues? Are there any potential pitfalls or problems with any of your ideas? (Worth 10 pts.)

3. Are there any ways that the Athletic Department can decrease costs? Are there any potential pitfalls or problems with any of these suggestions? (Worth 10 pts.)

4. What are some of the gender issues that Husker raised and how would you attempt to address them? (Worth 5 pts.)

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Lloyd is completing high school and wondering about his future. He needs to make a choice between pursuing a bachelor’s degree in business or pursuing an MBA. Lloyd lives in two periods, the first relating to his education and the second relating to employment commencing after graduation and extending through retirement. In the first period, he completes his education. In the second period, he works in the labor market. Lloyd determines to attend the University of Utah.

If Lloyd pursues a bachelor’s degree at the U of U, he will spend $52,000 on education in the first period and earn $2.4 million in the second period. If he pursues an MBA, he will spend $139,000 on education in the first period and earn $2.8 million in the second period. Lloyd seeks to maximize his lifetime earnings.

Suppose that Lloyd can lend and borrow money at a 7% rate of interest between the two periods. Which degree will Lloyd pursue? Explain using both mathematic calculation and verbal description.

Healthcare Associates operates 33 medical clinics in Iowa. As part of the company’s ongoing efforts to examine its customer service, Healthcare worked with an MBA class at the University of Iowa on a project in which a team of students observed patients at the clinics to estimate the difference in mean time spent per visit for male and female patients. Previous studies show that the standard deviation is 11 minutes for men and 16 minutes for women. The MBA students observe 100 male and 100 female patients and discover the mean time per visit for men is fifty minutes, and for women is fifty-five.

(a) Develop a 95% confidence interval estimate for the difference in population mean time per visit by gender.

(b) Test at 5% significance the hypothesis that mean visit time is exactly 50 minutes for women. Based on your conclusion, are you more likely to have made a type I or type II error? What is the probability of this error?

(c) What is the p-value for the test in part (b)?