Suppose a particular test of cognitive ability has been found to have great practicality in selecting members of a high school debate team. How much practicality would this same test have for the following situations?
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A police hostage negotiation unit
Executive level positions in a labour union
Actors in a theme park who spend their day dressed in a character costume
In: Psychology
You are a hotel manager and you are considering four projects that yield different payoffs, depending upon whether there is an economic boom or a recession. The potential payoffs and corresponding payoffs are summarized in the following table. Project Boom (50%) Recession (50%) A $20 -$10 B -$10 $20 C $30 -$30 D $50 $50 If a manager adopted both project A and B simultaneously, the variance in returns associated with this joint project would be:
In: Economics
On a dark desert highway, a car leaves a gas station and heads straight for 10 km, heading exactly northeast.
(i.e., directed 45 degrees northward of due east). The car then turns onto a dirt road and drives completely
straight until it reaches a hotel located exactly 12 km north and 9.0 km east of the gas station. How far did the
car drive along the straight dirt road?
In: Physics
Assume that you are hired in a marketing manager position at a hotel. You are supposed to develop a marketing positioning statement and communicate it with all employees so that they can understand organizational marketing directions. There is no precedented work about a marketing strategy, and sooner or later, you need to start with the work. How can you lead to develop the positioning statement? Explain the process of developing the statement from the beginning (NOT about just making the statement).
In: Operations Management
Riverbed Supply Company, a newly formed corporation, incurred
the following expenditures related to Land, to Buildings, and to
Machinery and Equipment.
| Abstract company’s fee for title search | $858 | |||
| Architect’s fees | 5,231 | |||
| Cash paid for land and dilapidated building thereon | 143,550 | |||
| Removal of old building |
$33,000 |
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| Less: Salvage |
9,075 |
23,925 | ||
| Interest on short-term loans during construction | 12,210 | |||
| Excavation before construction for basement | 31,350 | |||
| Machinery purchased (subject to 2% cash discount, which was not taken) | 90,750 | |||
| Freight on machinery purchased | 2,211 | |||
| Storage charges on machinery, necessitated by noncompletion of | ||||
| building when machinery was delivered | 3,597 | |||
| New building constructed (building construction took 6 months from | ||||
| date of purchase of land and old building) | 800,250 | |||
| Assessment by city for drainage project | 2,640 | |||
| Hauling charges for delivery of machinery from storage to new building | 1,023 | |||
| Installation of machinery | 3,300 | |||
| Trees, shrubs, and other landscaping after completion of building | ||||
| (permanent in nature) | 8,910 |
Determine the amounts that should be debited to Land, to Buildings,
and to Machinery and Equipment. Assume the benefits of capitalizing
interest during construction exceed the cost of implementation.
Company uses net method to record discount. (Please
leave spaces blank if there is no answer. Do not enter zeros in
those spaces.)
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Land |
Buildings |
Machinery and Equipment |
Other |
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Abstract fees |
$enter a dollar amount |
$enter a dollar amount |
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$enter a dollar amount |
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Architect’s fees |
enter a dollar amount |
enter a dollar amount |
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Cash paid for land and old building |
enter a dollar amount |
enter a dollar amount |
enter a dollar amount |
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Removal of old building |
enter a dollar amount |
enter a dollar amount |
enter a dollar amount |
enter a dollar amount |
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Interest on loans during construction |
enter a dollar amount |
enter a dollar amount |
enter a dollar amount |
enter a dollar amount |
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Excavation before construction |
enter a dollar amount |
enter a dollar amount |
enter a dollar amount |
enter a dollar amount |
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Machinery purchased |
enter a dollar amount |
enter a dollar amount |
enter a dollar amount |
enter a dollar amount |
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Freight on machinery |
enter a dollar amount |
enter a dollar amount |
enter a dollar amount |
enter a dollar amount |
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Storage charges caused by noncompletion of building |
enter a dollar amount |
enter a dollar amount |
enter a dollar amount |
enter a dollar amount |
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New building |
enter a dollar amount |
enter a dollar amount |
enter a dollar amount |
enter a dollar amount |
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Assessment by city |
enter a dollar amount |
enter a dollar amount |
enter a dollar amount |
enter a dollar amount |
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Hauling charges - machinery |
enter a dollar amount |
enter a dollar amount |
enter a dollar amount |
enter a dollar amount |
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Installation - machinery |
enter a dollar amount |
enter a dollar amount |
enter a dollar amount |
enter a dollar amount |
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Landscaping |
enter a dollar amount |
enter a dollar amount |
enter a dollar amount |
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$enter a total amount |
$enter a total amount |
$enter a total amount |
$enter a total amount |
In: Accounting
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The financial statements for Castile Products, Inc., are given below: |
| Castile Products, Inc. Balance Sheet December 31 |
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| Assets | ||||||
| Current assets: | ||||||
| Cash | $ | 19,000 | ||||
| Accounts receivable, net | 230,000 | |||||
| Merchandise inventory | 350,000 | |||||
| Prepaid expenses | 11,000 | |||||
| Total current assets | 610,000 | |||||
| Property and equipment, net | 820,000 | |||||
| Total assets | $ | 1,430,000 | ||||
| Liabilities and Stockholders' Equity | ||||||
| Liabilities: | ||||||
| Current liabilities | $ | 260,000 | ||||
| Bonds payable, 11% | 380,000 | |||||
| Total liabilities | 640,000 | |||||
| Stockholders’ equity: | ||||||
| Common stock, $5 par value | $ | 200,000 | ||||
| Retained earnings | 590,000 | |||||
| Total stockholders’ equity | 790,000 | |||||
| Total liabilities and stockholders' equity | $ | 1,430,000 | ||||
| Castile Products, Inc. Income Statement For the Year Ended December 31 |
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| Sales | $ | 2,170,000 | |
| Cost of goods sold | 1,230,000 | ||
| Gross margin | 940,000 | ||
| Selling and administrative expenses | 560,000 | ||
| Net operating income | 380,000 | ||
| Interest expense | 41,800 | ||
| Net income before taxes | 338,200 | ||
| Income taxes (30%) | 101,460 | ||
| Net income | $ | 236,740 | |
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Account balances at the beginning of the year were: accounts receivable, $150,000; and inventory, $320,000. All sales were on account. Assets at the beginning of the year totaled $1,050,000, and the stockholders’ equity totaled $645,000. |
| Required: |
| Compute the following: |
| 1. |
Gross margin percentage. (Round your percentage answer to 2 decimal places (i.e., 0.1234 should be entered as 12.34).) |
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| 2. |
Net profit margin percentage. (Round your answer to the nearest whole percentage place (i.e., 0.1234 should be entered as 12%).) |
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| 3. |
Return on total assets. (Round your percentage answer to 1 decimal place (i.e., 0.1234 should be entered as 12.3).) |
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| 4. |
Return on equity. (Round your percentage answer to 1 decimal place (i.e., 0.1234 should be entered as 12.3).) |
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| 5. | Was financial leverage positive or negative for the year? | ||||
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In: Accounting
Explain how the downgrading of bonds for a particular corporation affects the prices of those bonds, the return to investors that currently hold these bonds, and the potential return to other investors who may invest in the bonds in the near future
In: Finance
The patient is admitted in a near comatose state with a blood glucose level of 750. His respiratory rate is 42 breaths per minute, and his respiratory pattern is deep and regular. What is this type of breathing known as?
In: Nursing
The girl's name is a reference to what? Choose one
Her figurative (and perhaps even literal) near-sightedness.
The town in which she lives
Her Slavic ancestry
The kind of work she will do for a living
In: Nursing
1.) What do you observe about the equipotential lines very near the charges and very far away from them? How does a second charge affect the potential field of the first one?
In: Physics