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In 2014 Energy Transfer Partners announced a plan to carry 570,000 barrels of crude oil per day from the Bakken oil fields in North Dakota to an existing infrastructure in Illinois. The Dakota Access Pipeline, as it has been named, would snake across 1,172 miles to reach its destination while crossing through many states, a Native American Reservation, and come in contact with multiple waterways.

Environmentalist and Native Americans have spoken out in non-support of this oil pipeline project for reasons that relate to the dangers that would impact the environment and lives of people living in the region if this line were to break or leak. Many fear that the part of the pipeline that would be constructed under the Missouri River presents a clear and present danger to the river if a leak occurs and jeopardizes the water and the life that depends on this water supply.

Your task: Look at the concerns of the environmentalists and people who raise concerns about the 570,000 barrels of crude oil that would flow through the region. Additionally, look at the history of pipeline oil spills in the United States and any issues surrounding environmental impacts that would be important. Then weigh the concerns of the people involved against the interest of big oil companies.

You must take a stand for one side or the other and defend your position with facts and the law.

SecuriCorp operates a fleet of armored cars that make scheduled pickups and deliveries in the Los Angeles area. The company is implementing an activity-based costing system that has four activity cost pools: Travel, Pickup and Delivery, Customer Service, and Other. The activity measures are miles for the Travel cost pool, number of pickups and deliveries for the Pickup and Delivery cost pool, and number of customers for the Customer Service cost pool. The Other cost pool has no activity measure because it is an organization-sustaining activity. The following costs will be assigned using the activity-based costing system:

The distribution of resource consumption across the activity cost pools is as follows:

Required:

Complete the first stage allocations of costs to activity cost pools.

1) A woman wishes to attend an all male, publicly supported college. She claims the college is violating the equal protection clause of the Constitution. What level of scrutiny will the court use when deciding this case?

2) When Mohammad was hired by Pomico, Inc., he signed the following agreement, "Upon termination of my employment with Pomico, I agree not to work for a competing company within 50 miles of Pomico's headquarters for one year."

3) An agreement that relieves one part of liability for injury or damages caused by his/her negligence is called a(n):

4) If the title of an appellate court case appears as Jones v. Smith

5) Jaime offered to buy Kevin's bike, Jaime is the offeror.

True

False

For this Assignment, you are working at a firm that conducts independent testing for heavy industry. Recently, an automobile manufacturer has been in the news for complaints about the highway gas mileage of their latest model minivan. You receive a contract from a consumer action group to test and write a report on the company’s claim that its minivans get 28 miles per gallon on the highway. The car company agrees to allow you to select randomly 35 low-mileage fleet minivans to test their highway mileage. Your test results gave you the following data:

            29.7     24.5     27.1     29.8     29.2     27.0     27.8     24.1     29.3

            25.9     26.2     24.5     32.8     26.8     27.8     24.0     23.6     29.2

            26.5     27.7     27.1     23.7     24.1     27.2     25.9     26.7     27.8               

            27.3     27.6     22.8     25.3     26.6     26.4     27.1     26.1

List the null and alternative hypotheses for the two-tail test for the mean. Calculate the observed value of the test statistic and the associated p-value.

Is the observed test statistic in the critical region? Is the p-value higher or lower than your alpha?

List the null and alternative hypotheses for the one-tail test of the mean. Calculate the observed value of the test statistic and the associated p-value.

Is the observed test statistic in the critical region? Will the p-value be higher or lower than your alpha?

Payback Period and NPV of Alternative Automobile Purchase Wendy Li decided to purchase a new Honda Civic. Being concerned about environmental issues she is leaning toward a Honda Civic Hybrid rather than the completely gasoline-powered LX model. Nevertheless, she wants to determine if there is an economic justification for purchasing the Hybrid, which costs $3,700 more than the LX. Based on a mix of city and highway driving she predicts that the average gas mileage of each car is 40 MPG for the Hybrid and 30 MPG for the LX. Wendy also anticipates she will drive an average of 12,000 miles per year and that gasoline will cost an average of $3.10 per gallon over the next four years. She also plans to replace whichever car she purchases at the end of four years when the resale values of the Hybrid and the LX are predicted to be $12,000 and $8,500 respectively.

Required

a. Determine the payback period of the incremental investment associated with purchasing the Hybrid.

b. Determine the net present value of the incremental investment associated with purchasing the Hybrid at a ten percent time value of money. Use a negative sign with your answer, if appropriate. Round answer to the nearest whole number.

c. Determine the cost of gasoline required for a payback period of three years on the incremental investment. Round answer to two decimal places

All logs are to base e

Size is in cubic centimeters, Age is in years, Weight is in pounds, Temperature is in degrees Fahrenheit, Height is in inches, Cost is in dollars, and Distance is in miles

The regression equation is
Log(Size) = 28.6 + 0.0292 Age - 1.124 Weight - 1.69 log(Temperature) + 1.02 log(Height) + 2.24 log(Cost) - 0.334 log(Distance)

S = 64.1788   R-Sq = 86.1%   R-Sq(adj) = 72.1%

Answer the following question using three decimals.
If the effect is not statistically significant put in NA
Put in percentages without the percent sign, so put in 10 instead of 10%

1-

As age increases by 1 year the size increases by the percentage

2 -

As weight increases by one pound the size decreases by the percentage

3-

As temperature increases by 7% the size will decrease by the percentage

4-

As Height increases by 3% the size increases by the percentage

5- As cost increases by 5% the size increases by the percentage

Learning Activity #1 - Theme 1

The article, The Balanced Scorecard, as well as this week’s readings discusses the balanced scorecard.

Artemus Gordon is mentoring a new management trainee. The new trainee is unfamiliar with the balance scorecard and its use in the production department. Artemus says,

“The best tool a manager has is a balanced scorecard because...”.

Finish the statement by explaining the purpose of a balance scorecard and how it functions.

Then, compare the value of the SWOT tool to the value of the Balance Scorecard. Do you agree with Artemus that the Balance Scorecard has more value or are we comparing apples and oranges?

Learning Activity #2 - Theme 2

Traditionally, the managerial function of controlling is not to be confused with control in the behavior or in the manipulative sense. The control function does not imply that managers should attempt to control or to manipulate the personalities, values, attitudes, or emotions of his or her employees. Instead, this function of management concerns the manager’s role in taking necessary actions to ensure that the work-related activities of employees are consistent with, and contribute toward the accomplishment of organizational and departmental objectives.

Research the concept of the virtual organization. Then, explain how a manager can measure work that is performed when the employee may be 5,000 miles away? Be sure to consider the virtual and global organizations and how a manager would control and measure work from afar.

PLEASE PROVIDE REFERENCES FOR ALL WORK CITED

Consider someone who is thinking about buying a new car, and trying to decide which one to buy. They plan to use the car mostly for commuting. They live 35 miles from work, and will commute 190 days per year. They know that the cost of gas in the Bay Area is currently around $3.00/gallon, the cost of electricity is around $0.15/kWh. For simplicity, they decide to assume that those prices won’t change, and that inflation will be zero, for the next five years. After five years they plan to sell the car. [20 points]

They have gathered the following information:

For both cars, they assume that insurance, maintenance, and other costs will be $2000/year. The interest rate is 3.0%/year.

a. Calculate the capital recovery factor. (5 points)

b. Which car has the most favorable net present value? Show your work for each vehicle. (5 points per car, 10 points total)

c. The U.S. government currently offers a $7,500 federal tax credit for the Nissan Leaf. Should this change the purchase decision, assuming the buyer will owe more than $7,500 in taxes during the purchase year? (5 points)

To better understand the importance of organization structure in your life, do the following assignment.

Select one of the following situations to organize:

·       A travel agency

·       A sports rental (such as Jet Skis or snowmobiles) in a resort area

·       A bakery

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1.     Write down the mission or purpose of the organization in a few sentences.

2.     What are the specific tasks to be completed to accom- plish the mission?

3.     Based on the specifics in question 2, develop an organization chart. Each position in the chart will perform a specific task or is responsible for a certain outcome.

4.     You are into your third year of operation, and your business has been very successful. You want to add a second location a few miles away. What issues will you face running the business at two locations? Draw an organization chart that includes the two business locations.

5.     Five more years go by and the business has grown to five locations in two cities. How do you keep in touch with it all? What issues of control and coordination have arisen? Draw an up-to-date organization chart and explain your rationale for it.

6.     Twenty years later you have seventy-five business locations in five states. What are the issues and problems that have to be dealt with through organizational structure? Draw an organization chart for this organization, indicating such factors as who is responsible for customer satisfaction, how you will know if customer needs are met, and how information will flow within the organization.

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Assignment – Correlation

1. You are given the following statistics: means, standard deviations, and correlations for 4 variables. The four variables are miles per gallon, weight of car, front profile (1-Low, 0-Not Low) and the manufacturer’s suggested retail price. Four hundred cars were sampled. Answer the questions that follow.

1. __________Which costs more, (low or high) front profile vehicles
2. _________ Best predictor of MPG is
3. __________Heavier cars have a (low or high) profile front
4. __________High MPG vehicles have ‘significantly’ higher prices than low MPG vehicles(T/F)
5. _________ Weakest predictor of MPG is
6. __________Slope of the line for MPG against Low Profile Front would be (Pos, Neg or zero)
7. ____________________________________________________________ Suppose the slope of the line for MPG against Low Profile front is 5. Interpret this slope relative to the two variables.

h.__________Higher MPG vehicles have (higher or lower) profiles.

i.__________ How many cars in the sample were low profile.