3.a) What are Multinational Companies (MNCs) and why it is said that they hold ‘best practices’ and ‘state of the art’ technological and organisational knowledge?

3.b) Let’s assume that you are the manager of a local company in your own country aiming at supplying goods and services to MNCs. What strategies would you introduce in order to maximise the benefits of partnering with MNC subsidiaries? Pleaseexplain fully.

3.c) In a second scenario, assume you are the manager of a domestic rival company aiming at competing with MNCs. What processes and steps would you take to compete and remain in the market?

3.d) In a third scenario, you are a policy advisor of the national government in your country. What actions and policies would you implement in order to create
a facilitating environment for MNCs and to increase the potential to gain technological knowledge? Why?

the word limit for all 4 bits is 500words so it is one question having 4bits

Mr. and Mrs. Anderson own four shares of Magic Tricks Corporation's common stock. The market value of the stock is $72. The Andersons also have $52 in cash. They have just received word of a rights offering. One new share of stock can be purchased at $52 for each four shares currently owned (based on four rights). (Do not round intermediate calculations and round your answers to the nearest whole dollar.)

a. What is the value of a right?
  

b. What is the value of the Andersons’ portfolio before the rights offering? (Portfolio in this question represents stock plus cash.)
  

c-1. Compute the diluted value (ex-rights) per share.
  

c-2. If the Andersons participate in the rights offering, what will be the value of their portfolio, based on the diluted value (ex-rights) of the stock?
  

d. If they sell their two rights but keep their stock at its diluted value and hold on to their cash, what will be the value of their portfolio?

A probability distribution of all possible sample means for a particular sample size is the _____.

The mean of all possible sample means is __________________ the population mean.

If we decrease the sample size from 20 to 10, the standard error of the mean will ________________.

If a population follows the normal distribution, what is the shape of the distribution of the sample means?

A _____________________ is a single value computed from sample information used to estimate a population parameter.

A ________________________ is a range of values within which the population parameter is likely to occur.

A _____________________ shows the fraction of a sample that has a particular characteristic.

To construct a confidence interval for a mean, the z distribution is used only when the ________________ is known.

What is the appropriate Z score for a 78% confidence interval?

What is the appropriate Z score for a 62% confidence interval?

Word Bank Below:

( population standard deviation) (sampling distribution of the sample mean) (point estimate) (equal to) (0.88) (confidence interval) (increase) (1.23) (normal distribution) (proportion)

You have been asked to conduct a study related to consumer loyalty toward three different retail formats (i.e., department stores, specialty stores, and off-price retailers). After gathering background information, you decide to focus your study on three research streams; retail service quality, consumer satisfaction, and consumer loyalty. The literature suggests that there are five dimensions of retail service quality; physical aspect, reliability, personal interaction, problem solving, and policy. In addition, you are interested in identifying factors (i.e., retail service quality) that may contribute to consumer satisfaction and consumer loyalty toward these retailers. According to the literature, consumer satisfaction is a unidimensional construct and consumer loyalty consists of two dimensions; word-of-mouth and behavioral intention

State the null hypothesis and the alternative hypothesis

What are the dependent and independent variables

What statistical test would you run in SPSS

Write a program that prompts the user to enter a number within the range of 1 to 10 inclusive • The program then generates a random number using the random class: o If the users guess is out of range use a validation loop (DO) to repeat the prompt for a valid number o If the users guess matches the random number tell them they win! o If the users guess does not match the random number tell them they are wrong • Use a loop (WHILE or DO) to allow the program to be repeated by typing in the word “YES” ignore case sensitivity • Ensure that every time you repeat a NEW random number is generated • Increment the appropriate variables upon the following instances: o A win (add 1 to winCount) o A loss (add 1 to lossCount) o New game played (add 1 to playCount) • At the end of the program neatly display the user their stats (Their times played, their win count and their losses)

1. Robert Campbell and Carol Morris are senior vice-presidents of the Mutual of Chicago Insurance Company. They are co-directors of the company’s pension fund management division. A major new client has requested that Mutual of Chicago present an investment seminar to illustrate the stock valuation process. As a result, Campbell and Morris have asked you to analyze the Bon Temps Company, an employment agency that supplies word processor operators and computer programmers to businesses with temporarily heavy workloads. You are to answer the following questions.

1. Assume that Bon Temps is expected to experience supernormal growth of 25% for the next 4 years, then to return to its long-run constant growth rate of 8%. What is the stock’s value under these conditions? What are its expected dividend yield and its capital gains yield in Year 1? In Year 6? Assume that the required rate of return is 16%. The dividend paid yesterday was $2.00.

1. Create a histogram using Excel’s Data Analysis toolpack for Friends. Use the Sturges’ rule to find how many bins you should include. In your Word file, make sure to in- clude both a frequency table for the histogram with bin limits, frequencies and relative frequencies, and your histogram chart. What can you say about the distribution of Friends? All calculations should be shown in excel. (Along with the answer, can anyone give me the instruction on how to do the histogram and solve the questions using excel?).

Imagine that you are a well-known blogger. You like to create blogs that are designed to educate your readers about
abnormal psychology. For this assignment, you will write your next blog.
In your blog posting, please cover the following.
Introduce Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-5), along with at least two other diagnostic tools.
Remember that your readers have never heard of DSM-5, so you need to explain in your own words how this manual is used.

Introduce and explain the topic of cultural competency to your readers so that they know how psychology aims to be  inclusive and account for cultural differences.

Your blog post should be compiled in a Word document. Feel free to be creative by adding graphics, charts, etc. to your post. It should be at least two pages in length and follow proper APA formatting and guidelines. Please include a reference page.

In this you will be answering question on the following topics:

• Cost Management: Planning the cost of projects
• Estimating costs
• Determining a budget
• Cost controls

Question 1

What is a fixed cost and a variable cost?

1. Define each
2. Give an example of each at a cookie factory
3. Give a pro and a con of each: a fixed cost and a variable cost.

Answers need to be full sentences

Question 2

What is Analogous Estimating and Parametric Estimating and Bottom up Estimating?

1. Define each
2. You are thinking about opening a cookie cookie factory. Give an example of how you might do Analogous Estimating and Parametric Estimating and Bottom up Estimating
3. Give a pro and a con of each: Analogous Estimating and Parametric Estimating and Bottom up Estimating

Answers need to be full sentences. I recommend looking up each term online for better definitions and examples. Do not copy out of the book or from the internet. Please use your own word.