A small consulting company wants to make the switch to QuickBooks Online. All of their expenses are paid at the time they are incurred, so there is no need to track bills in the system. There is only one person from the company who requires access to the system. The client wants financial reports such as Profit & Loss and Balance Sheet, A/R, and budget reports. Which of the following QuickBooks products would best suit their requests and requirements?

A. QuickBooks Online Plus

B. QuickBooks Self-Employed

C. QuickBooks Online Essentials

D. QuickBooks Online Accountant

E. QuickBooks Online Simple Start

QuickBooks Online Plus offers what inventory costing method that Desktop editions do not, with the exception of QuickBooks Enterprise Solutions Platinum subscription?

A. LIFO

B. FIFO

C. Average Cost

D. Standard Cost

E. None. All offerings are the same

Middletown Marketing wants to switch to QuickBooks Online and needs 3 people to access the data. They would like to set up recurring billing for their retainer based clients. Based on this information, which QuickBooks Online product would be the best fit?

A. QuickBooks Online Plus

B. QuickBooks Self-Employed

C. QuickBooks Online Essentials

D. QuickBooks Online Simple Start

E. None - QuickBooks Online does not support these features

Middletown Marketing wants to switch to QuickBooks Online and needs 3 people to access the data. They would like to set up recurring billing for their retainer based clients. Based on this information, which QuickBooks Online product would be the best fit?

A. QuickBooks Online Plus

B. QuickBooks Self-Employed

C. QuickBooks Online Essentials

D. QuickBooks Online Simple Start

E. None - QuickBooks Online does not support these features

Which of the following actions is performed outside of Account and Settings?

A. Add new users

B. Turn on class tracking

C. Specify terminology for customers

D. Enter a closing date and password

E. Select whether to show account numbers in dropdown menus and reports

Your non-profit client wants to adjust their fiscal year in QuickBooks Online. Where do you find the accounting related preferences to make this change?

A. Gear Icon > Your Account

B. Gear Icon > Tools > Set fiscal year

C. Accountant Toolbar > Accounting Settings

D. Gear Icon > Account and Settings > Advanced

E. After setup, you cannot change the fiscal year in QuickBooks Online

What would you do to confirm the accurate import of your QuickBooks Desktop data into QuickBooks Online?

A. Look for import confirmation email

B. Run Verify Data in QuickBooks Online

C. Perform Data Rebuild in QuickBooks Online

D. Compare the Cash-based Balance Sheet and Profit & Loss for All Dates

E. Compare the Accrual-based Balance Sheet and Profit & Loss for All Dates in both QuickBooks Online and QuickBooks Desktop

Which of the following steps does NOT need to be performed to prepare your QuickBooks Desktop data for conversion?

A. Ensure the file is under 350,000 targets

B. Enter a closing password in QuickBooks Desktop

C. Create a backup before QuickBooks desktop runs the Rebuild action

D. Correct errors in the QuickBooks data before uploading to QuickBooks Online

E. None - all of the above are recommended conversion preparation steps for QuickBooks Online

Where do you find accounting-related preferences?

A. Gear Icon > Your Account

B. Alerts > Change Preferences

C. Gear Icon > Account and Settings

D. AccountantCenter > Accounting Settings

E. Accountant Toolbar > Accounting Settings

Laura has decided to make the switch to QuickBooks Payments for merchant services and just received notification that her application has been approved. Which of the following is her next step?

A. Buy the card reader for mobile devices

B. Wait one week to begin processing payments

C. Call QuickBooks Payments support to complete setup

D. Verify that the merchant account is linked to QuickBooks

E. Call to confirm the start date for processing payments, based on the kind of products she sells

Which of the following lists are NOT accessed through the Gear icon?

A. Classes

B. Customers

C. Chart of Accounts

D. Products & Services

E. Recurring Transactions

Which of the following is a feature in the QuickBooks App that is not available in a regular browser?

A. Offline changes sync back to the cloud

B. Access to dropdown menus for screens and reports

C. App works on multiple devices like Mac, PC, and tablets

D. Gives you the ability to download a local backup of your QuickBooks Online data

E. App gives you access to Accountant tools not available through QuickBooks Online Accountant

Which of the following tasks can you perform using the Quick Create feature in a QuickBooks Online company?

A. Create new user

B. Create new account

C. Create new transactions

D. Create new customers and vendors

E. Create new employees and run payroll

You are logged into your client’s QuickBooks Online company through QuickBooks Online Accountant. After saving and closing a transaction in the company, you realize that you made an error. What is the best way to access the recent transaction list to reopen and fix the transaction?

A. Reports > All Reports > Recent transactions report

B. Click in the search box on the toolbar and choose the recent transaction from the drop down list

C. Click on the recent transactions button next to the quick create button in the center of the top toolbar

D. Press CTRL+F to bring up a search box and enter the dollar amount of the transaction to look it up and edit it

E. Transactions > Chart of Accounts and open the register for the account that you posted the transaction to, then open and edit the transaction

Using the direct method, and the information in the exhibits, prepare the financing activities section of the statement of cash flows for Alaskan Travels, Inc., as of December 31, Year 2. In the first column, from the option list provided, select the description for cash flows that are clearly from financing activities. In the second column, enter the amounts that will be reported in the financing activities section of the statement of cash flows. Indicate negative numbers by using a leading minus (-) sign.

Meeting - Board of Directors

Alaskan Travels, Inc.

Seattle, WA

A meeting of the Board of Directors of Alaskan Travels, Inc., was held on May 11, Year 2, at 2:00 p.m. at the company offices in Seattle, Washington.

Those present were:

Carson Mitchel, Chairman of the Board, Wallace Shepard, President and CEO, Jeremy Cox, Suzanne Richardson, Tabitha Gillespie, and John Dillon (secretary).

Proceedings:

Mr. Carson Mitchel, Chairman of the Board, presided.

On motion and unanimously approved, the following resolutions were adopted:

BE IT RESOLVED, Alaskan Travels, Inc., will proceed with the purchase of the 20-acre parcel of land located at Jones Field for $150,000.

BE IT RESOLVED, Alaskan Travels, Inc., will reacquire common stock from Walter Morrison, to be held as treasury stock, for $100,000 cash.

BE IT RESOLVED, Conroy Aviation has agreed to accept common stock for settlement of our $1,000,000 bond payable.

Adjournment:

There being no further business to come before the meeting, it was on motion adjourned at 3:30 p.m.

Respectfully submitted:

John Dillon, Secretary

Press Release

Alaskan Travels, Inc., Declares Dividend

Seattle, WA, December 1, Year 2 - Alaskan Travels, Inc., a charter travel company, today announced that its Board of Directors declared a cash dividend of $1.25 per share of the company’s common stock. Alaskan Travels, Inc., currently has 64,000 shares of common stock outstanding.

The dividend will be paid on December 27, Year 2, to all common shareholders of record as of the close of business on December 15, Year 2.

About Alaskan Travels, Inc.

Founded in Year 1, Alaskan Travels, Inc., is a charter travel company located in Seattle, WA. The company provides chartered air and ground tours throughout Alaska.

From: Tom Pearson ([email protected])

To: Hannah Goodwin ([email protected])

Date: January 5, Year 3

Subject: Year 2 Securities Transactions

Hi Hannah,

I recorded the following securities transactions in Year 2:

1) Sold trading securities for $139,000
2) Purchased available-for-sale securities for $75,000

Additionally, there was a $22,000 cash purchase of inventory in November, Year 2.

Please let me know if you need any additional information.

Sincerely,

Tom Pearson, CFO

Alaskan Travels, Inc.

Resolution of the Board of Directors of

Alaskan Travels, Inc.

Seattle, WA

Declaration of Preferred Stock Dividends and Issuance of Preferred Stock

BE IT RESOLVED THAT:

1. The company declares, on this day, November 20, Year 2, the required annual cash dividend for preferred stock.

2. The dividend of $640,000 is to be set aside and distributed on March 15, Year 3.

3. The directors of Alaskan Travels, Inc., hereby certify that the preferred shareholders of record with the company will be provided with a copy of this notice.

4. On November 20, Year 2, Alaskan Travels, Inc., issued 10,000 shares of $3 par-value, 5% preferred stock for $55 per share.

The undersigned, being The Chairman of the Board for Alaskan Travels, Inc., hereby approves the foregoing resolution in accordance with the provisions of the company’s bylaws.

DATED the 20th day of November, Year 2.

Palmer Aircraft Finance

Used Aircraft Purchase and Finance Agreement

December 31, Year 2

Executed, this day of December 31, Year 2, this Used Aircraft Purchase and Finance Agreement is made between Alaskan Travels, Inc., of Seattle, Washington, and Palmer Aircraft Finance Company of Dallas, Texas.

Alaskan Travels, Inc., agrees to purchase from Queen Airway, one used multi-engine prop aircraft, VIN 74-811, for the sum of U.S. $275,000.

The lender, Palmer Aircraft Finance Company, agrees to finance 90%, or U.S. $247,500, of the purchase price of this aircraft.

The seller, Queen Airway, agrees to deliver aircraft upon (1) receipt of a cashier’s check from the buyer for 10% of the purchase price, or U.S. $27,500, and (2) execution of this finance agreement.

The borrower, Alaskan Travels, Inc., for value received, and prior to the delivery of said aircraft, promises to pay (1) to the seller, U.S. $27,500, in the form of a cashier’s check, and (2) to the lender, the principal sum of U.S. $247,500, with interest, at the annual rate of 12%. Payment of principal and interest will be made in 10 equal annual installments beginning December 31, Year 3.At any time while not in default under this Note, the borrower may pay the outstanding balance then owing under this Note to the lender without further bonus or penalty. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this Note, if the borrower defaults in the performance of any obligation under this Note, then the lender may declare the principal amount owing and interest due under this Note at that time to be immediately due and payable.

This note will be construed in accordance with and governed by the laws of the State.

ALASKAN TRAVELS INC CANCELED CHECK

Paid to the order of Hidden City Bank

123 Main St

Seattle Washington

Check amount $325,000

Check date 08/2/Year 2

Memo: Settlement of note payable - Tom Pearson

PAYMENT RECORD

Loan No.: 548761-21

Payment date: 08/2/Year 2

Principal: $310,000

Interest $15,000

Amount paid $325,000

Shootings Gun control and the Virginia Tech massacre By Adam Gopnik The cell phones in the pockets of the dead students were still ringing when we were told that it was wrong to ask why. As the police cleared the bodies from the Virginia Tech engineering building, the cell phones rang, in the eccentric varieties of ring tones, as parents kept trying to see if their children were O.K. To imagine the feelings of the police as they carried the bodies and heard the ringing is heartrending; to imagine the feelings of the parents who were calling—dread, desperate hope for a sudden answer and the bliss of reassurance, dawning grief—is unbearable. But the parents, and the rest of us, were told that it was not the right moment to ask how the shooting had happened—specifically, why an obviously disturbed student, with a history of mental illness, was able to buy guns whose essential purpose is to kill people—and why it happens over and over again in America. At a press conference, Virginia’s governor, Tim Kaine, said, “People who want to . . . make it their political hobby horse to ride, I’ve got nothing but loathing for them. . . . At this point, what it’s about is comforting family members . . . and helping this community heal. And so to those who want to try to make this into some little crusade, I say take that elsewhere.” If the facts weren’t so horrible, there might be something touching in the Governor’s deeply American belief that “healing” can take place magically, without the intervening practice called “treating.” The logic is unusual but striking: the aftermath of a terrorist attack is the wrong time to talk about security, the aftermath of a death from lung cancer is the wrong time to talk about smoking and the tobacco industry, and the aftermath of a car crash is the wrong time to talk about seat belts. People talked about the shooting, of course, but much of the conversation was devoted to musings on the treatment of mental illness in universities, the problem of “narcissism,” violence in the media and in popular culture, copycat killings, the alienation of immigrant students, and the question of Evil. Some people, however—especially people outside America—were eager to talk about it in another way, and even to embark on a little crusade. The whole world saw that the United States has more gun violence than other countries because we have more guns and are willing to sell them to madmen who want to kill people. Every nation has violent loners, and they tend to have remarkably similar profiles from one country and culture to the next. And every country has known the horror of having a lunatic get his hands on a gun and kill innocent people. But on a recent list of the fourteen worst mass shootings in Western democracies since the nineteen-sixties the United States claimed seven, and, just as important, no other country on the list has had a repeat performance as severe as the first. In Dunblane, Scotland, in 1996, a gunman killed sixteen children and a teacher at their school. Afterward, the British gun laws, already restrictive, were tightened—it’s now against the law for any private citizen in the United Kingdom to own the kinds of guns that Cho Seung-Hui used at Virginia Tech—and nothing like Dunblane has occurred there since. In Quebec, after a school shooting took the lives of fourteen women in 1989, the survivors helped begin a gun-control movement that resulted in legislation bringing stronger, though far from sufficient, gun laws to Canada. (There have been a couple of subsequent shooting sprees, but on a smaller scale, and with far fewer dead.) In the Paris suburb of Nanterre, in 2002, a man killed eight people at a municipal meeting. Gun control became a key issue in the Presidential election that year, and there has been no repeat incident. So there is no American particularity about loners, disenfranchised immigrants, narcissism, alienated youth, complex moral agency, or Evil. There is an American particularity about guns. The arc is apparent. Forty years ago, a man killed fourteen people on a college campus in Austin, Texas; this year, a man killed thirty-two in Blacksburg, Virginia. Not enough was done between those two massacres to make weapons of mass killing harder to obtain. In fact, while campus killings continued—Columbine being the most notorious, the shooting in the one-room Amish schoolhouse among the most recent—weapons have got more lethal, and, in states like Virginia, where the N.R.A. is powerful, no harder to buy. Reducing the number of guns available to crazy people will neither relieve them of their insanity nor stop them from killing. Making it more difficult to buy guns that kill people is, however, a rational way to reduce the number of people killed by guns. Nations with tight gun laws have, on the whole, less gun violence; countries with somewhat restrictive gun laws have some gun violence; countries with essentially no gun laws have a lot of gun violence. (If you work hard, you can find a statistical exception hiding in a corner, but exceptions are just that. Some people who smoke their whole lives don’t get lung cancer, while some people who never smoke do; still, the best way not to get lung cancer is not to smoke.) It’s true that in renewing the expired ban on assault weapons we can’t guarantee that someone won’t shoot people with a semi-automatic pistol, and that by controlling semi-automatic pistols we can’t reduce the chances of someone killing people with a rifle. But the point of lawmaking is not to act as precisely as possible, in order to punish the latest crime; it is to act as comprehensively as possible, in order to prevent the next one. Semi-automatic Glocks and Walthers, Cho’s weapons, are for killing people. They are not made for hunting, and it’s not easy to protect yourself with them. (If having a loaded semi-automatic on hand kept you safe, cops would not be shot as often as they are.) Rural America is hunting country, and hunters need rifles and shotguns—with proper licensing, we’ll live with the risk. There is no reason that any private citizen in a democracy should own a handgun. At some point, that simple truth will register. Until it does, phones will ring for dead children, and parents will be told not to ask why. Question: Can you help me to with possible outline for critical review essay on the above essay?

No initial opening comment with program details is required however, function specific documentation is still required for all functions.

Don't forget to use correct programing formatting style and documentation.

Directions:

Implement the following functions. Each function deals with null terminated C-Style strings. You can assume that any char array passed into the functions will contain null terminated data. Place all of the functions in a single file and then (in the same file) create a main() function that tests the functions thoroughly. You will lose points if you don't show enough examples to convince me that your function works in all cases.

Please note the following:

1) You may not use any variables of type string. This means that you should not #include <string>. Also, you may not use any c-string functions other than strlen(). If you use any other c-string functions, you will not get credit. Note, however, that functions such as toupper(), tolower(), isalpha(), isspace(), and swap() are NOT c-string functions, so you can use them. Also note that this prohibition is only for the functions that you are assigned to write. You can set-up a testing interface any way you want in your main() function. Make sure the algorithm is simple to follow and includes program statements that tests all the assigned functions.

2) In most cases it will be better to use a while loop that keeps going until it hits a '\0', rather than using a for loop that uses strlen() as the limit, because calling strlen() requires a traversal of the entire array. You could lose a point or two if you traverse the array unnecessarily.

3) None of these function specifications say anything at all about input or output. None of these functions should have any input or output statements in them. The output should be done in the calling function, which will probably be main(). The only requirement about main() is that it sufficiently test your functions. So, you can get user input in main() to use as arguments in the function calls, or you can use hard-coded values -- up to you, as long as the functions are tested thoroughly.

4) Here's a hint about how to work with c-strings in main(). There are several different ways that you could assign values to c-string variables, but I think the easiest is just hardcoding a lot of examples. For example:

char str1[] = "C++ is fun!";
char reverseTest[]    = "13 dwarves";
char containerString[] = "Lord of the Strings";
char replacemenTest[]  = "abaadabcd";
char palindrome[]      = "radar";

Whatever you do, don't try to create and initialize a c-string on one line using pointer notation, like this:

char* str1 = "C++ is fun!";

This is dangerous (and officially deprecated in the C++ standard) because you haven't allocated memory for str1 to point at.

5) Since your program is being used for testing, in this case it is fine to have a very long main() function.

As mentioned, you can set-up a testing interface any way you want in your main() function. as long as the end result is that you demonstrate that the functions are tested and work correctly. Stepping through the sample program output below should be helpful as you begin putting together the testing interface in the main () function.

Final note: Make sure the algorithm and testing interface is simple to follow and the program is well formatted with appropriate documentation.

Here are the functions:

1) This function finds the last index where the target char can be found in the string. it returns -1 if the target char does not appear in the string. The function should be case sensitive (so 'b' is not a match for 'B').

int lastIndexOf(const char* inString, char target)

2) This function alters any string that is passed in. It should reverse the string. If "flower" gets passed in it should be reversed in place to "rewolf". For efficiency, this must be done "in place", i.e., without creating a second array.

void reverse(char* inString)

3) This function finds all instances of the char 'target' in the string and replace them with 'replacementChar'. It returns the number of replacements that it makes. If the target char does not appear in the string it should return 0.

int replace(char* inString, char target, char replacementChar)

4) This function returns true if the argument string is a palindrome. It returns false if it is not. A palindrome is a string that is spelled the same as its reverse. For example "abba" is a palindrome. So are "hannah" and "abc cba".

Do not get confused by white space characters, punctuation, or digits. They should not get any special treatment. "abc ba" is not a palindrome. It is not identical to its reverse.

Your function should not be case sensitive. For example, "aBbA" is a palindrome.

You must solve this problem "in place", i.e., without creating a second array. As a result, calling your reverse() function from this function isn't going to help.

bool isPalindrome(const char* inString)

5) This function converts the c-string parameter to all uppercase.

void toupper(char* inString)

6) This function returns the number of letters in the c-string.

int numLetters(const char* inString)

Sample Screen Output:

Testing the lastIndexOf() function.

The last index in the cstring 0123456789a1 with the character '0' is 0

The last index in the cstring 0123456789a1 with the letter 'a' is 10

The last index in the cstring 0123456789a1 with the character '1' is 11

The last index in the cstring 0123456789a1 with the letter 'x' is -1


Testing the reverse() function.

The original string is "reverse".  The reversed string is "esrever".

The original string is "13 dwarves".  The reversed string is "sevrawd 31".


Testing the replace() function.

The number of replacements of 'a' for 'z' in abaadabcd is 4
Now the string is zbzzdzbcd

The number of replacements of 'a' for 'z' in zbzzdzbcd is 0
Now the string is zbzzdzbcd


Testing the isPalindrome() function.

wertytre is not a palindrome

radar is a palindrome

abc ba is not a palindrome

ra ar is a palindrome

abccBa is a palindrome

abcdefgha is not a palindrome

 (an empty string) is a palindrome

Testing the toupper() function.

Lord of the Strings becomes LORD OF THE STRINGS

Testing the numLetters() function.

0123456789a1 has this many letters: 1

Process returned 0 (0x0)   execution time : 0.065 s
Press any key to continue.

A week after a pedestrian bridge collapsed in Miami, killing six people and injuring another 10, investigators are still working to answer what caused the 950-ton structure to crash into several cars stopped at a red light below.

Several lawsuits have been filed by families and friends of victims since last week’s collapse at Florida International University.

Here’s a quick rundown of what the lawsuits claim and what’s next as the investigation into the bridge’s failure moves forward.

Who are the victims?

Recovery efforts ended this past weekend after police announced that they believed all victims have been recovered from the wreckage. In total, five bodies were removed from underneath the bridge. Another later died in a local hospital.

The victims were later identified by both police and families of the dead. Their ages ranged from 18 to 60, the Miami Herald reported, with the youngest victim being Florida International University student Alexa Duran. Navaro Brown, Brandon Brownfield, Rolando Fraga Hernandez, Osvaldo Gonzalez, Alberto Arias also died from the collapse. Gonzalez and Arias had been life partners for 21 years.

A vigil was held at the university Wednesday to honor the victims. Afterward, thousands of mourners, carrying ivory daisies, walked to a memorial nearby the crash site. A prayer service was also scheduled Thursday, to begin at the exact time of the bridge collapse a week earlier.

What lawsuits have been filed?

The first lawsuit related to the collapse was filed in court Monday on behalf of cyclist Marquise Hepburn, who was injured while passing by that day.

The lawsuit alleged negligence by FIGG Bridge Engineers and Munilla Construction Management, the two firms involved in the construction of the bridge. The lawsuit said Hepburn is seeking damages in excess of $15,000 from the firms, The Wall Street Journal reported. Hepburn’s lawyer told reporters that the 24-year-old was knocked off his bicycle when a car veered into his path to avoid the collapsing bridge.

The same law firm representing Hepburn also filed a civil lawsuit of behalf of FIU student Emily Panagos, 21, whose car was crushed in the collapse. Panagos survived the incident.

Later this week, another lawsuit was filed on behalf of the family of victim Rolando Fraga, 60, who died in the collapse. The lawyer representing the family said the companies behind the project should have closed the roadway while the bridge was still being constructed, NBC News reported. The bridge was originally slated to open to the public next year.

And the families of Alberto Arias, 53, and Osvaldo Gonzalez, 57, also signaled that they were filing a wrongful death lawsuit, the Miami Herald reported after funeral services for the men this week. The men, who were partners for more than 20 years, both died inside their truck in the collapse.

What went wrong?

The $14.2 million pedestrian bridge was intended to allow students to safely cross from Florida International University’s main campus over a six-lane highway to a cluster of off-campus housing.

Celebrated as a “one-of-a-kind” project by the university, the bridge was raised over the course of a Saturday morning. Then, five days later, it collapsed.

The lawsuits emerged after the Florida Department of Transportation released a transcript of a call made by the project’s lead engineer, telling state officials that he had spotted cracks in the structure.

Here’s part of what the engineer said in his voicemail, according to the provided transcript: “Calling to, uh, share with you some information about the FIU pedestrian bridge and some cracking that’s been observed on the north end of the span, the pylon end of that span we moved this weekend. Um, so, uh, we’ve taken a look at it and, uh, obviously some repairs or whatever will have to be done but from a safety perspective we don’t see that there’s any issue there so we’re not concerned about it from that perspective although obviously the cracking is not good and something’s going to have to be, ya know, done to repair that.”

The voicemail was left days before the bridge’s collapse. FDOT said the message wasn’t heard until March 16 because the employee was out of office on assignment.

FDOT also said the agency normally issues a permit for partial or full road closures “if deemed necessary and requested by the FIU design build team.”

The federal investigation into the incident is ongoing and the exact cause of the collapse has yet to be determined. It’s not clear if any known cracks are the actual cause for the bridge’s failure.

NTSB previously confirmed that workers were adjusting tension on the two rods at the north end of the span when the bridge collapsed.

“They had done this same work earlier at the south end, moved to the north side, and had adjusted one rod. They were working on the second rod when the span failed and collapsed,” NTSB said in a statement.

The roadway was not closed when the workers were readjusting the tension for the bridge.

The speedy construction process used to raise the bridge is also being scrutinized, the Associated Press reported.

What’s next?

NTSB said it was sending samples from the crash site to a research center in McLean, Virginia, for evaluation, and investigators are gathering interviews from witnesses and those involved in the project. In the coming weeks, NTSB is expected to release a preliminary report of their findings, although a cause for the collapse may still not be determined then, the Herald reported.

Miami-Dade police are also conducting a homicide investigation to determine whether charges should be filed over negligence.

And the inspector general at the U.S. Department of Transportation will also investigate the bridge collapse, the Washington Post reported. An announcement about the audit is expected next week, the Post said.

From this case explain how the 3 elements of recovery are present under tort law

1. Plaintiff suffered harm

2. Defendant's act or failure to act caused the harm

3. Defendant's act or failure to act was a breach of duty.

1. Who is Tommy Saleh, what is his job title and duties and what type of hotel does he work for?

2. What event did he have to analyze to determine if his company should go forward with it? Summarize the process he and his company went through to make their decision on whether or not to hold the event.

• Tommy Saleh has the type of job that a lot of people probably dream of.
• He is paid to make sure his organization, the Tribeca Grand
• Hotel in New York City, remains on the cutting edge of cool.
• Whether that means hosting an informal concert in the lobby
• with the Kings of Leon, or helping to host the Tribeca
• Film Festival in their basement screening room, Tommy gets
• paid to keep his finger on the pulse of current culture.
• Budgetary planning plays a significant role in Tommy's job,
• and he is evaluated in part by how he controls costs.
• Each year, the planning process for the company's
• annual budget normally begins in the 4th quarter.
• Saleh: We probably meet around the end of September, and
• we involve the CFO, the COO, and the general managers.
• Narrator: The master budget covers all aspects of
• running the hotel, but Tommy's events budget is
• particularly significant, because, let's face it,
• there are lots of cool hotels in New York City.
• Clients choose to stay at the Tribeca knowing that Tommy's planners, event specialists and
• his concierge team are plugged into not just New York City, but the larger world stage.
• As Tommy plans and implements his events budget, the key is to maintain budgetary
• control, including budget reports that compare planned objectives with actual results.
• A budget can cover any length of time and any purpose,
• so formalized reporting systems help by identifying
• the name of the budget report, the frequency of the
• report, the purpose, and the primary recipients.
• Let's look at an example of budgetary control
• activities, and, for this, let's go back to 2002,
• when the Tribeca Film Festival was created to combat
• the economic effect of 9/11 on lower Manhattan.
• Saleh: The Tribeca Film Festival started with Robert
• DeNiro's idea of bringing something to the downtown area.
• Narrator: The hotel had to develop a budget for events they would host.
• Then, after the festival, they analyzed what they planned
• from what was actually spent, and took corrective action.
• They increased the budget for the following year—it was
• a big success—and modified future plans accordingly.
• This cycle of control activities can be used over and over, and, when
• implemented properly, can help management to evaluate performance.
• Now, if Tommy was responsible for just one hotel event
• each year, he could probably get by with a static budget.
• But he has many events, some of which occur on
• short notice, so he relies on a flexible budget,
• which is really just a series of static budgets
• that account for a wide variety of activities.
• The basic idea behind responsibility accounting is
• that large, diversified organizations, especially
• those with multiple product lines, are difficult,
• if not impossible, to manage as a single segment.
• Breaking them up into smaller segments allows responsibility to be assigned to
• managers that have the authority to make day-to-day decisions at that level.
• Evaluating a manager whose performance can be quantified,
• like a sales manager, is fairly straightforward.
• But what about someone who contributes indirectly
• to the profitability of an organization? To answer this, it's important to
• understand profit and cost centers. Profit centers in an organization do exactly
• what they sound like: they generate profits.
• Hotel profit centers are typically sleeping rooms,
• events, restaurants, and catered food functions.
• Saleh: The rooms are the main income for the hotel.
• Food and beverage is not an amenity here, only it's actually another source of revenue,
• where people want to try the shop that you have, or expect 24-hour room service.
• Narrator: Cost centers incur costs but don't directly generate revenue, but you need them.
• In a hotel, they might be marketing, engineering,
• human resources, and, yes, accounting. Okay now, let's have some fun.
• Let's take everything we've learned and apply it to a real world example.
• We mentioned the time that the Kings of Leon were staying at the Tribeca.
• Saleh: And they go, "Why don't you just put a secret gig for the, um, for our fans?"
• Narrator: Now, Tommy didn't have a "Kings of Leon secret
• gig” budget, on the off-chance that they ever showed up at
• his hotel, but since he made use of flexible budgets, he was
• ready, and had a basic idea of what his costs would be.
• Saleh: One of those projections was based upon what
• would the total night cost us when we do it from a to z.
• Narrator: Including everything from building a temporary sound system,
• to hiring doormen, and even bathroom attendants.
• Keep in mind that some of these budget items are a result
• of valuable lessons from past budgetary control activities.
• Armed with this budget, he did a quick ROI evaluation
• to determine if the event would be profitable. In the end, the event
• was a huge success. But from a profit/cost center perspective,
• what if it had been slightly unprofitable? From a marketing standpoint, there
• certainly were other benefits. Saleh: It's good
• promotion for the hotel. It's great press for the hotel.
• Narrator: So, maybe you compensate by canceling another event
• later in the year that wouldn't have had the same impact.
• The point being, budgetary control allows managers like Tommy to not only
• do their job, but to take advantage of opportunities when they arise.
• And from a responsibility accounting perspective, this has served Tommy well.
• Sure, his events help drive profits, but what they
• really do, in an industry where boutique hotels
• come and go, is to help keep the Tribeca Grand both
• relevant and hip as a key Manhattan destination.

Royal Barton started thinking about an electric fishing reel when his father had a stroke and lost the use of an arm. To see that happen to his dad, who had taught him the joys of fishing and hunting, made Barton realize what a chunk a physical handicap could take out of a sports enthusiast’s life. Being able to cast and retrieve a lure and experience the thrill of a big bass trying to take your rig away from you were among the joys of life that would be denied Barton’s father forever. Barton was determined to do something about it, if not for his father, then at least for others who had suffered a similar fate. So, after tremendous personal expense and years of research and development, Barton perfected what is sure to be the standard bearer for all future freshwater electric reels. Forget those saltwater jobs, which Barton refers to as “winches.” He has developed something that is small, compact, and has incredible applications. He calls it the Royal Bee. The first word is obviously his first name. The second word refers to the low buzzing sound the reel makes when in use. The Royal Bee system looks simple enough and probably is if you understand the mechanical workings of a reel. A system of gears ties into the spool, and a motor in the back drives the gears attached to the triggering system. All gearing of the electrical system can be disengaged so that you can cast normally. But pushing the button for “retrieve” engages two gears. After the gears are engaged, the trigger travels far enough to touch the switch that tightens the drive belt, and there is no slipping. You cannot hit the switch until the gears are properly engaged. This means that you cast manually, just as you would normally fish, then you reengage the reel for the level wind to work. And you can do all that with one hand! The system works on a 6-volt battery that you can attach to your belt or hang around your neck if you are wading. If you have a boat with a 6-volt battery, the reel can actually work off of the battery. There is a small connector that plugs into the reel, so you could easily use more than one reel with the battery. For instance, if you have two or three outfits equipped with different lures, you just switch the connector from reel to reel as you use it. A reel with the Royal Bee system can be used in a conventional manner. You do not have to use it as an electric reel unless you choose to do so. Barton believes the Royal Bee may not be just for handicapped fishermen. Ken Cook, one of the leading professional anglers in the country, is sold on the Royal Bee. After he suffered a broken arm, he had to withdraw from some tournaments because fishing with one hand was difficult. By the time his arm healed, he was hooked on the Royal Bee because it increased bassing efficiency. As Cook explains, “The electric reel has increased my efficiency in two ways. One is in flipping, where I use it all the time. The other is for fishing top water, when I have to make a long cast. When I’m flipping, the electric reel gives me instant control over slack line. I can keep both hands on the rod. I never have to remove them to take up slack. I flip, engage the reel, and then all I have to do is push the lever with my thumb to take up slack instantly.” Cook’s reel (a Ryobi 4000) is one of several that can be converted to the electric retrieve. For flipping, Cook loads his reel with 20- pound test line. He uses a similar reel with lighter line when fishing a surface lure. “What you can do with the electric reel is eliminate unproductive reeling time,” Cook says. A few extra seconds may not mean much if you are out on a neighborhood pond just fishing on the weekend. But it can mean a lot if you are in tournament competition, where one extra cast might keep you from going home with $50,000 tucked in your pocket. “Look at it this way,” Cook explains. “Let’s suppose we’re in clear water and it’s necessary to make a long cast to the cover we want to fish with a top water lure. There’s a whole lot of unproductive water between us and the cover. With the electric reel, I make my long cast and fish the cover. Then, when I’m ready to reel in, I just press the retrieve lever, so the battery engages the necessary gears, and I’ve got my lure back ready to make another cast while you’re still cranking.” When Royal Barton retired from his veterinary supply business, he began enjoying his favorite pastimes: hunting, fishing, and developing the Royal Bee system. He realized he needed help in marketing his product, so he sought professional assistance to learn how to reach the broadest possible market for the Royal Bee system.

Questions

1. What business research problem does Royal Barton face? Outline some survey research objectives for a research project on the Royal Bee system.

2. What type of survey—personal interview, telephone interview, or mail survey—should be selected? Why?

3. What sources of survey error are most likely to occur in a study of this type?

4. Suppose the speed limits in 13 countries in miles per hour are as follows:

Country    Highway Miles per Hour

Italy. 87

France 81

Hungary 75

Belgium 75 \

Portugal 75

Great Britain 70

Spain 62

Denmark 62

Netherlands 62

Greece 62

Japan 62

Norway 56

Turkey. 56

a) What is the mean, median, and mode for these data?

b) Calculate the standard deviation for the data.

c) Calculate the expected value of the speed limit with a confidence interval of 98%.

5. Suppose a survey researcher studying annual expenditures on lipstick wishes to have a 99 percent confidence level and a range of error (E) of less than $2. If the estimate of the standard deviation is $29, what sample size is required for this?

1. Question 1

   1 Point

   If firms are competitive and profit maximizing, the price of a good equals the

   1. marginal cost of production.

   2. fixed cost of production.

   3. total cost of production.

   4. average total cost of production.

2. Question 2

   1 Point

   Figure 14-14

   Refer to Figure 14-14. Assume that the market starts in equilibrium at point W in panel (b) and that panel (a) illustrates the cost curves facing individual firms. Suppose that demand increases from D0 to D1. Which of the following statements is correct?

   1. Points W, Y, and Z represent both short-run and long-run equilibria.

   2. Points W, Y, Z, and X represent short-run equilibria.

   3. Points W, Y, and Z represent long-run equilibria.

   4. Points W and Z represent long-run equilibria.

3. Question 3

   1 Point

   When a competitive market experiences an increase in demand that increases production costs for existing firms and potential new entrants, which of the following is most likely to arise?

   1. The long-run market supply curve will be upward sloping.

   2. The condition of free entry into the market will be violated.

   3. Producer profits will fall in the long run.

   4. The long-run market supply curve will be horizontal as new firms enter and drive the price downward.

4. Question 4

   1 Point

   Scenario 14-5

   A study sponsored by the Food Consumer Safety Board found that consumption of irradiated tomatoes increased the health of laboratory rats. As a result of national press coverage of the report, the demand for irradiated tomatoes increased dramatically. Organic farmers were able to switch from organic production of tomatoes to irradiated production with no additional cost. Assume that the tomato market satisfies all of the assumptions of perfect competition.

   Refer to Scenario 14-5. As a result of the increase in the demand for tomatoes, we would predict that in the short run that the

   1. production of tomatoes would be at efficient scale.

   2. price of tomatoes would rise.

   3. total cost for existing irradiated tomato producers must rise.

   4. number of firms in the market would fall as prices fall and firms exit the market.

5. Question 5

   1 Point

   Figure 14-11

   Refer to Figure 14-11. The figure above is for a firm operating in a competitive industry. If there were four identical firms in the industry, which of the following price-quantity combinations would be on the market supply curve?

   Point

   Price

   Quantity

   A

   $4

   16

   B

   $4

   32

   C

   $6

   6

   D

   $8

   64

   1. A only

   2. A and C only

   3. B only

   4. B and D only

6. Question 6

   1 Point

   You purchase a $30, nonrefundable ticket to a play at a local theater. Ten minutes into the show you realize that it is not a very good show and place only a $10 value on seeing the remainder of the show. Alternatively you could leave the theater and go home and watch TV or read a book. You place an $8 value on watching TV and a $6 value on reading a book.

   1. You should leave the theater since the net benefit from seeing the remainder of the show is -$20, while going home will earn you at least $8 of satisfaction.

   2. You should stay and watch the remainder of the show.

   3. You should go home and watch TV.

   4. You should go home and read a book.

7. Question 7

   1 Point

   A firm that shuts down temporarily has to pay

   1. its variable costs but not its fixed costs.

   2. its fixed costs but not its variable costs.

   3. both its variable costs and its fixed costs.

   4. neither its variable costs nor its fixed costs.

8. Question 8

   1 Point

   Figure 14-5

   Suppose a firm operating in a competitive market has the following cost curves:

   Refer to Figure 14-5. When market price is P7, a profit-maximizing firm's short-run profits can be represented by the area

   1. P7 × Q5.

   2. P7 × Q3.

   3. (P7 - P5) × Q3.

   4. We are unable to determine the firm’s profits because the quantity that the firm would produce is not labeled on the graph.

9. Question 9

   1 Point

   Susan quit her job as a teacher, which paid her $36,000 per year, in order to start her own catering business. She spent $12,000 of her savings, which had been earning 10 percent interest per year, on equipment for her business. She also borrowed $12,000 from her bank at 10 percent interest, which she also spent on equipment. For the past several months she has spent $1,000 per month on ingredients and other variable costs. Also for the past several months she has taken in $3,500 in monthly revenue. In the short run, Susan should

   1. shut down her business, and in the long run she should exit the industry.

   2. continue to operate her business, but in the long run she should exit the industry.

   3. continue to operate her business, but in the long run she will probably face competition from newly entering firms.

   4. continue to operate her business, and she is also in long-run equilibrium.

10. Question 10

    1 Point

    Scenario 14-1

    Assume a certain firm in a competitive market is producing Q = 1,000 units of output. At Q = 1,000, the firm's marginal cost equals $15 and its average total cost equals $11. The firm sells its output for $12 per unit.

    Refer to Scenario 14-1. At Q = 1,000, the firm's profits equal

    1. -$200.

    2. $1,000.

    3. $3,000.

    4. $4,000.

11. Question 11

    1 Point

    Consider a competitive market with 50 identical firms. Suppose the market demand is given by the equation Q^D = 200 - 10P and the market supply is given by the equation Q^S = 10P. In addition, suppose the following table shows the marginal cost of production for various levels of output for firms in this market.

    Output

    Marginal Cost

    0

    --

    1

    $5

    2

    $10

    3

    $15

    4

    $20

    5

    $25

    How many units should a firm in this market produce to maximize profit?

    1. 1 unit

    2. 2 units

    3. 3 units

    4. 4 units

For the short essay assignment you will compare Pablo Neruda’s “Ode to a Large Tuna in the Market” with Elizabeth Bishop’s poem “The Fish.” I would like your analysis to focus specifically on the poets’ use of figurative language (metaphor and simile, in particular). How does the speaker in each of the poems feel about the fish? How does the poet’s use of figurative language contribute to the poem’s tone? Your short essay needs to be 750+ words and written in MLA format. Your paper should consist entirely of analysis. Both poems are included below along with reading questions to help guide your analysis. Ode to a Large Tuna in the Market By Pablo Neruda & translated By Robin Robertson Here, among the market vegetables, this torpedo from the ocean depths, a missile that swam, now lying in front of me dead. Surrounded by the earth's green froth —these lettuces, bunches of carrots— only you lived through the sea's truth, survived the unknown, the unfathomable darkness, the depths of the sea, the great abyss, le grand abîme, only you: varnished black-pitched witness to that deepest night. Only you: dark bullet barreled from the depths, carrying only your one wound, but resurgent, always renewed, locked into the current, fins fletched like wings in the torrent, in the coursing of the underwater dark, like a grieving arrow, sea-javelin, a nerveless oiled harpoon. Dead in front of me, catafalqued king of my own ocean; once sappy as a sprung fir in the green turmoil, once seed to sea-quake, tidal wave, now simply dead remains; in the whole market yours was the only shape left with purpose or direction in this jumbled ruin of nature; you are a solitary man of war among these frail vegetables, your flanks and prow black and slippery as if you were still a well-oiled ship of the wind, the only true machine of the sea: unflawed, undefiled, navigating now the waters of death. Questions for “Ode to a Large Tuna in the Market” by Pablo Neruda 1. Compile a list of words from the poem that deal with weapons or warfare. 2. Annotate all of the metaphors and similes in the poem. What do you notice of the balance of similes and metaphors? 3. What’s the subject of the poem? 4. Who is the speaker? 5. What’s the tone of the poem? 6. How does Neruda marry form and content in the poem? 7. Do you like the poem? Why or why not? THE FISH I caught a tremendous fish and held him beside the boat half out of water, with my hook fast in a corner of his mouth. He didn't fight. He hadn't fought at all. He hung a grunting weight, battered and venerable and homely. Here and there his brown skin hung in strips like ancient wallpaper, and its pattern of darker brown was like wallpaper: shapes like full-blown roses stained and lost through age. He was speckled with barnacles, fine rosettes of lime, and infested with tiny white sea-lice, and underneath two or three rags of green weed hung down. While his gills were breathing in the terrible oxygen - the frightening gills, fresh and crisp with blood, that can cut so badly- I thought of the coarse white flesh packed in like feathers, the big bones and the little bones, the dramatic reds and blacks of his shiny entrails, and the pink swim-bladder like a big peony. I looked into his eyes which were far larger than mine but shallower, and yellowed, the irises backed and packed with tarnished tinfoil seen through the lenses of old scratched isinglass. They shifted a little, but not to return my stare. - It was more like the tipping of an object toward the light. I admired his sullen face, the mechanism of his jaw, and then I saw that from his lower lip - if you could call it a lip grim, wet, and weaponlike, hung five old pieces of fish-line, or four and a wire leader with the swivel still attached, with all their five big hooks grown firmly in his mouth. A green line, frayed at the end where he broke it, two heavier lines, and a fine black thread still crimped from the strain and snap when it broke and he got away. Like medals with their ribbons frayed and wavering, a five-haired beard of wisdom trailing from his aching jaw. I stared and stared and victory filled up the little rented boat, from the pool of bilge where oil had spread a rainbow around the rusted engine to the bailer rusted orange, the sun-cracked thwarts, the oarlocks on their strings, the gunnels- until everything was rainbow, rainbow, rainbow! And I let the fish go. Elizabeth Bishop The Noonday Press Elizabeth Bishop: The Complete Poems Questions on Elizabeth Bishop’s “The Fish” 1. Define the following words: venerable, barnacles, rosettes, sea-lice, entrails, peony, irises, isinglass, sullen, grim, swivel, fray, bilge, thwarts, oarlock, gunnels. 2. What is the subject of the poem and who is the speaker? 3. Find all of the similes (a comparison of two things using the words “like” or “as”) in the poem. Which of them, in your opinion, is the strongest and why? 4. Explain the following image: “Like medals with their ribbons/ frayed and wavering,/ a five-haired beard of wisdom/ trailing from his aching jaw.” What does she mean by “a five-haired beard of wisdom?” Why do you think Bishop chose to use the word “medals?” 5. Track Bishop’s use of color in the poem. Find the instances where she mentions specific colors. Why do you think that Bishop writes, “until everything/ was rainbow, rainbow, rainbow!” towards the end of the poem? 6. Bishop repeats words and phrases throughout the poem. Choose an instance where she uses repetition and explains how it contributes to the poem. 7. Explain the tone (the speaker’s attitude about the subject matter) of the poem. Use evidence from the poem to support your answer 8. What, in your thinking, is the strongest aspect of this poem? Do you like the poem? Why or why not? 9. Fill in the outline of a fish with 15 details from the poem. Please label each of the details. Feel free to add to the area around the fish.

I need this in java

A6 – Shipping Calculator

Assignment

Introduction

In this part, you will solve a problem described in English. Although you may discuss ideas with your classmates, etc., everyone must write and submit their own version of the program. Do NOT use anyone else’s code, as this will result in a zero for you and the other person!

Shipping Calculator

Speedy Shipping Company will ship your package based on the weight and how far you are sending the package, which can be anywhere in the world. They will only ship small packages up to 10 pounds. You need to have a program, which will help you determine how much they will charge.

The charges are based on each 500 miles shipped. The mileage should be in whole numbers. They are not prorated, i.e., 600 miles is the same charge as 900 miles; in other words, 600 and 900 miles is counted as 2 segments of 500 miles each.

Here is the table they gave you:

Your code needs to validate the input completely, e.g., the weight and mile amounts must be positive. If an input is invalid, e.g., the weight is zero or less, you should display an appropriate, professional error message, e.g., Error: Weight must be greater than zero!, which should be offset and surrounded by white space, so it stands out, and repeat getting that input until valid input is received. Keep in mind, the user will find it annoying if they must enter both the miles and weight at the same time, and only one of them caused an error, or they must reenter already valid data. Also, make sure you follow the Code Conventions and good programming practices, e.g., appropriately initialize variables to zeros, avoid stacked if or if-else constructs unless necessary, don’t use break or continue to get out of a loop, goto, etc.; in other words, you should NOT use stacked if/if-else constructs, break, or continue for this assignment.

At this point for the code, you should only solve the problem using what you learned from modules 1 – 6, i.e., NO arrays, functions other than main(), etc. Only if all the input is valid, should the program calculate and display one shipping charge, and pause, but not quit, before proceeding to a new customer. Your test cases should test the various possibilities, and the limits of the program, which means, you will need to use an appropriate loop, which will ask if you would like to process the next customer or not by asking them to enter an appropriate value. Once there are no more customers to process, the program should display Good-bye! and end. Remember to solve each aspect of the program separately, and then, put the parts together.

Hints: You may need to reset any values after you display the answer and before you get the input for the next customer. Big Helpful Hint: For the number of segments calculation, you may want to start with integer division, e.g., 1200 miles / 500 miles per segment = 2 segments, and then, expand on that.

You should be able to solve this problem with only one loop.

Sample Run

Enter the number of miles as a whole number: 0

        Error: Miles must be greater than zero!

Enter the number of miles as a whole number: 1

Enter the weight of the package in pounds: 0

        Error: Weight must be greater than zero!

Enter the weight of the package in pounds: 1

The cost to ship your package is: $1.50.

Enter 1 to continue or 0 to quit: 1

Enter the number of miles as a whole number: 500

Enter the weight of the package in pounds: 2

The cost to ship your package is: $1.50.

Enter 1 to continue or 0 to quit: 1

Enter the number of miles as a whole number: 500

Enter the weight of the package in pounds: 2.5

The cost to ship your package is: $3.70.

Enter 1 to continue or 0 to quit: 1

Enter the number of miles as a whole number: 500

Enter the weight of the package in pounds: 6

The cost to ship your package is: $3.70.

Enter 1 to continue or 0 to quit: 1

Enter the number of miles as a whole number: 500

Enter the weight of the package in pounds: 11

        Error: We don't ship packages over 10 pounds!

Enter the weight of the package in pounds: 10

The cost to ship your package is: $5.25.

Enter 1 to continue or 0 to quit: 1

Enter the number of miles as a whole number: 501

Enter the weight of the package in pounds: 3.75

The cost to ship your package is: $7.40.

Enter 1 to continue or 0 to quit: 1

Enter the number of miles as a whole number: 1000

Enter the weight of the package in pounds: 6.1

The cost to ship your package is: $10.50.

Enter 1 to continue or 0 to quit: 1

Enter the number of miles as a whole number: 12450

Enter the weight of the package in pounds: 1

The cost to ship your package is: $37.50.

Enter 1 to continue or 0 to quit: 0

Good-bye!

Press any key to continue . . .

Create an IPO Diagram Here

Test Case 1

Test Case 2

Create Test Cases 3 – 5 Here

Your test cases must be unique, i.e., do NOT use the examples in this document, except concerning those, which produce an error. Make sure they are good, e.g., test for errors, before and after ends of ranges, etc. Feel free to include more test cases to thoroughly test your program.

Paste the Code Here

Paste any related Execution Windows (Screenshots) for All Customers, i.e., All Test Cases, Here

Post new questions in the Q & A discussion, if you are stuck or there is something in this, about which you are confused.