1.      Ruwi Construction Company had the following transactions during June 2016.

Transactions
(1) Issued ordinary shares in exchange for R.O.35,000 cash on June 1.
(2) Purchased equipment for R.O.6,000 paying R.O.2,500 in cash and the remainder in the future.
(3) Purchased supplies for R.O.2,200 on account.
(4) Received a bill from Oman News for R.O.800 for advertising.
(5) Received R.O. 10,500 in cash from customers for services provided.
(6) Paid salaries of R.O. 2,100 to the company employees.
(7) Billed its customers R.O. 2,000 for services provided.
(8) Paid R.O. 800 to Oman News for advertising that was previously billed in Transaction 4.
(9) Paid dividends of R.O. 6,200.
(10) Received a utility bill for the month for R.O. 1,500.
Use the basic accounting equation to record these transactions

1. A Client-side digital signature can be used to authenticate to a web server through SSL, but confidentiality can still be vulnerable to attack. Identify a type of attack to which the use of SSL is vulnerable and justify your answer.

2. Discuss the benefits of MPLS LSP (multiprotocol label switching label switched path) to support high availability of service with illustration of use for Push, Swap and Pop.

3. The manager wishes to access confidential company data while travelling to meet high profile clients across Australia and overseas. Recommend a security solution using case examples with external reference(s).

4. You want to assist customers in building trust with your company. Discuss with your manager three VPN deployment trust building measures that can be used to support these customers, and comment on the related cost to achieve them.

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In regard to this week’s forum post and the information presented this week, General Motors better known as GM is a corporation that has been around for years. In order to be successful like GM, they have established a foot hold in over 26 countries selling its product in over 150 different countries. This will allow them to maximize profits. The term profit maximization refers to an organizations ability to sell products, services, and or goods so they can achieve a marginal revenue that is equal to the marginal cost when the value of that marginal cost increases. Corporations are in the business of making as much profit as possible, this can be achieved by two different concepts of profit maximization and revenue maximization (Cromwell, 2019).

            As for General Motors, a company that understands profit and revenue, in order to maximize its profits, they have to understand how to utilize the Profit Maximization Rule. This rule states that GM needs to designate a specific level of output where the Marginal Cost (MC) is equal to the Marginal Revenue (MR). From there the marginal cost curve will begin to rise, the most important detail of this procedure is that the marginal cost, it must be equal to the marginal revenue to see the curve elevate. Marginal cost can be defined as the increase in cost by which one or more items are produced. Marginal revenue is the change in total revenue, this is dictated by the change in rate of sales the company has. In order for GM to maximize their profit they will have to take the total revenue minus the total cost to achieve their total profit. Future more the profit maximization will occur at the period of time when the total cost and the total revenue is at the largest point away from each other (Agarwal, 2019).

            For example, if GM laid out one specific item on a spreadsheet, where the company labels their output (0-5), then variable cost, fixed cost, total cost, and marginal cost. In order to see a profit, they might have to reach output number 5 in order to see a profit. In fact when they bring in to account the other outlaying factors of their item, they might be making a profit at output number 2 or 3 because at output 5 this is where they were maximizing profit knowing at Output 2 and 3 the profit was minimal but not maximin (Clifford, 2014). For as long as GM has been around, it’s important for them to be able to increase their output. With increased output they will see an increase in their revenue over the cost associated with production (Principles of Management Economics, n.d.). It’s also important for GM to keep in mind the importance of quality of their product and services, if their product and service quality diminish then their profit will be affected in a negative way affecting the maximization profit curve.

An Empirical Approach to the Small Initial Trade Share Problem in General Equilibrium Models."Kuiper and van Tongeren (2006).
Write down Major findings and objective of the study?

In 2006 and early 2007, investment banks representing firms for sale saw financial buyers bidding more than strategic buyers. Why is this unusual and why was it happening?

Discuss the advantages and disadvantages of ETFs (Exchange Traded Funds) to the banking industry.

5. Part a: Use the equation of exchange to derive a relationship between the inflation rate and the growth rate of the money stock. What assumptions did you make?

Part b: Milton Friedman stated, “Inflation is always and everywhere a monetary phenomenon in the sense that it is and can be produced only by a more rapid increase in the quantity of money than in output.” Consider the following.

i) Since 2006, what has been the behavior of the monetary base? ii) Since 2006, what has been the CPI inflation rate?

Support your answer with graphs.

Explain the divergence of the empirical evidence and the theoretical predictions regarding inflation.

The 2006 research paper by Paredez et al (full reference details below) provided direct evidence linking a role for microtubules in regulating cellulose microfibril deposition in the plant cell wall. Describe the major experimental findings reported in this paper and the significance of these findings to resolve long standing models that attempted to explain a role for cortical microtubules in controlling the direction of cellulose microfibril deposition. In explaining the experimental strategy used in this research, what was the rationale for using a CesA6 mutant line as part of their experimental approach?

Reference: Paredez, Somerville and Ehrhardt (2006) Visualization of cellulose synthase demonstrates functional association with microtubules. Science 312: 1491-1495.

The following excerpt is from the racial profiling data collection resource center In 2006, the New York City Police Department stopped a half-million pedestrians for suspected criminal involvement. Raw89 percent of the stops involved nonwhites. Do these statistics point to a racial bias in police officers' decisions to stop particular pedestrians? o they indicate that officers are particularly intrusive when stopping nonwhites?

Write a report that answers the questions posed using the fact thst 44% of New York City residents were classified as white in 2006. In your report, cite some shortcomings in using the proportion of white residents in the city to formulate likelihoods.

What is one way that futures differ from forward contracts?