A random survey of autos parked in the student lot and the staff lot at 3 universities are provided in the table below. Are there differences between the universities in terms of cars driven by students and staff?

a) Write appropriate hypotheses.

b) How many degrees of freedom are there?

c) Find ?2 and the P-value.

d) State your conclusion (use α = 0.05).

All workings must be shown.

Central University uses $123,000 of a particular toner cartridge for laser printers in the student computer labs each year. The purchasing director of the university estimates the ordering cost at $45 and thinks that the university can hold this type of inventory at an annual storage cost of 0.83 of the purchase price. The purchase price of each cartridge is $4.00/unit.   How many times per year should the purchasing director place an order to minimize the total annual cost of purchasing and carrying?

*to two decimal places

INSTRUCTIONS: READ THE FOLLOWING SITUATION AND ANSWER THE QUESTIONS ARISING FOR THE CASE ANALYSIS.

“STONYFIELD FARM GOES TO THE BLOGS”

The Stonyfield Farm story is a kind of legend. In 1983, friends and social activists Gary Hirschberg and Samuel Kaymen started with a good yogurt recipe, seven cows, and a dream. They established an organic yogurt company in Wilton, New Hampshire, to take advantage of baby boomers' growing concerns about natural foods and health, and to revitalize the dairy industry in New England. Stonyfield Farms has grown to become the third largest organic company in the world, with annual sales of more than $ 50 million in 50 states. It produces more than 18 million glasses of yogurt each month.

Stonyfield Farrn's spectacular growth is attributable in part to its ability to offer a product to a special niche market - people who value healthy food and want to protect the environment. These values ​​have become part of the "personality" of the company. Stonyfleld promises to use only natural ingredients and milk that has not been produced with antibiotics, synthetic growth hormones, or pesticides or toxic fertilizers. The company donates 10 percent of its profits each year to projects that help protect or restore the planet.

As the company expanded, management feared that it might lose touch with its loyal and committed customer base. Advertising based on traditional media was expensive and did not really help the company to "connect" with the kind of people it was trying to reach. This company prefers word-of-mouth techniques that deliver its message to customers in ways more compatible with its popular, organic, and activist-friendly image.

Stonyfield has multiple active email newsletters with more than 500,000 subscribers, and typically posts messages promoting causes that he supports on the tops of his yogurt glasses. Now she's turning to blogging to further personalize her customer relationships and reach even more people. Inspired by Howard Dean's presidential campaign and Dean's blogger tutorials, CEO Hirschberg became convinced that Stonyfield could use blogging to create a more personal relationship with consumers, different from the traditional sales relationship. "Blogs give us what we call a handshake with consumers" and "a little more access to us

Stonyfield now publishes two separate blogs on his website — Baby Babble and Bovine Bugle. At one time Stonyfield was running five blogs, but decided to withdraw three of them because they weren't attracting enough readers. Baby Babble provides a forum for Stonyfield employees and other parents of young children to meet and discuss child development and balance work with the family. Stonyfield created that blog because baby yogurts are one of its most popular product lines, and parenting blogs seem to appeal to a large number of readers. The Bovine Bugle provides reports about Jonathan's Organic Dairy Farm. Gates in Franklin, Vermont, a member of the organic cooperative that supplies milk for Stonyfield products.

This blog sparks a large number of nostalgic comments from readers who remember their childhood on a farm. As organic food grows in importance, these blogs help the company showcase the aspects that make it different from other brands and invite customers to help them in this endeavor. Stonyfield continually posts new content to each of the blogs. Readers can subscribe to any of them and automatically receive updates when available. And of course they can reply to these posts.

The benefits of blogging for Stonyfield have not yet been quantified so far, but management is confident there are real benefits. Blogs have created a positive response for the Stonyfield brand by providing readers with something that inspires them or sparks their interest -If blogs give new information to readers, inspire them to protect the environment or ask them for opinions, the administration believes that They will remember the brand when they are in front of the yogurt shelves in the supermarket or grocery store and that they will take a Stonyfleld product instead of a competitor when it is time to choose. Stonyfield has a fairly large website. Blogs offer a way to highlight some of the content on the Web that would otherwise be lost. This, too, helps drive some blog readers to buy Stonyfield products.

IV. What benefits does the introduction of an intranet and extranet bring to a company? Indicate and explain. 

INSTRUCTIONS: READ THE FOLLOWING SITUATION AND ANSWER THE QUESTIONS ARISING FOR THE CASE ANALYSIS.

“STONYFIELD FARM GOES TO THE BLOGS”

The Stonyfield Farm story is a kind of legend. In 1983, friends and social activists Gary Hirschberg and Samuel Kaymen started with a good yogurt recipe, seven cows, and a dream. They established an organic yogurt company in Wilton, New Hampshire, to take advantage of baby boomers' growing concerns about natural foods and health, and to revitalize the dairy industry in New England. Stonyfield Farms has grown to become the third largest organic company in the world, with annual sales of more than $ 50 million in 50 states. It produces more than 18 million glasses of yogurt each month.

Stonyfield Farrn's spectacular growth is attributable in part to its ability to offer a product to a special niche market - people who value healthy food and want to protect the environment. These values ​​have become part of the "personality" of the company. Stonyfleld promises to use only natural ingredients and milk that has not been produced with antibiotics, synthetic growth hormones, or pesticides or toxic fertilizers. The company donates 10 percent of its profits each year to projects that help protect or restore the planet.

As the company expanded, management feared that it might lose touch with its loyal and committed customer base. Advertising based on traditional media was expensive and did not really help the company to "connect" with the kind of people it was trying to reach. This company prefers word-of-mouth techniques that deliver its message to customers in ways more compatible with its popular, organic, and activist-friendly image.

Stonyfield has multiple active email newsletters with more than 500,000 subscribers, and typically posts messages promoting causes that he supports on the tops of his yogurt glasses. Now she's turning to blogging to further personalize her customer relationships and reach even more people. Inspired by Howard Dean's presidential campaign and Dean's blogger tutorials, CEO Hirschberg became convinced that Stonyfield could use blogging to create a more personal relationship with consumers, different from the traditional sales relationship. "Blogs give us what we call a handshake with consumers" and "a little more access to us

Stonyfield now publishes two separate blogs on his website — Baby Babble and Bovine Bugle. At one time Stonyfield was running five blogs, but decided to withdraw three of them because they weren't attracting enough readers. Baby Babble provides a forum for Stonyfield employees and other parents of young children to meet and discuss child development and balance work with the family. Stonyfield created that blog because baby yogurts are one of its most popular product lines, and parenting blogs seem to appeal to a large number of readers. The Bovine Bugle provides reports about Jonathan's Organic Dairy Farm. Gates in Franklin, Vermont, a member of the organic cooperative that supplies milk for Stonyfield products.

This blog sparks a large number of nostalgic comments from readers who remember their childhood on a farm. As organic food grows in importance, these blogs help the company showcase the aspects that make it different from other brands and invite customers to help them in this endeavor. Stonyfield continually posts new content to each of the blogs. Readers can subscribe to any of them and automatically receive updates when available. And of course they can reply to these posts.

The benefits of blogging for Stonyfield have not yet been quantified so far, but management is confident there are real benefits. Blogs have created a positive response for the Stonyfield brand by providing readers with something that inspires them or sparks their interest -If blogs give new information to readers, inspire them to protect the environment or ask them for opinions, the administration believes that They will remember the brand when they are in front of the yogurt shelves in the supermarket or grocery store and that they will take a Stonyfleld product instead of a competitor when it is time to choose. Stonyfield has a fairly large website. Blogs offer a way to highlight some of the content on the Web that would otherwise be lost. This, too, helps drive some blog readers to buy Stonyfield products.

1.What is Stonyfield farm's e-commerce model and business strategy? What challenges and problems does the company face?

The Enron scandal, revealed in October 2001, eventually led to the bankruptcy of the Enron Corporation, an American energy company and de facto dissolution of Arthur Andersen, which was one of the five largest audit and accountancy partnerships in the world. Enron shareholders filed a $40 billion lawsuit after the company's stock price, which achieved a high of US $90.75 per share in mid-2000, dropped to less than $1 by the end of November 2001.
The company had lost the majority of its customers and had ceased operating. Employees and shareholders received limited returns in lawsuits, despite losing billions in pensions and stock prices. The US Securities and exchange commission began an investigation. Many executives at Enron were indicted for a variety of charges and were later sentenced to prison. Enron's $63.4 billion in assets made it the largest corporate bankruptcy in U.S. history.
a. Explain, what causes the reasons for the collapse of Enron? What will be the significant impact on financial accounting standards, auditing rules, and institutional structures such as FASB and the Securities Exchange Commission?
b. What precautions/measures should be taken by the management to save Enron from bankruptcy?
Your answer should be around 400 words for each question.

The Enron scandal, revealed in October 2001, eventually led to the bankruptcy of the Enron
Corporation, an American energy company and de facto dissolution of Arthur Andersen, which
was one of the five largest audit and accountancy partnerships in the world. Enron shareholders
filed a $40 billion lawsuit after the company's stock price, which achieved a high of US $90.75
per share in mid-2000, dropped to less than $1 by the end of November 2001.
The company had lost the majority of its customers and had ceased operating. Employees and
shareholders received limited returns in lawsuits, despite losing billions in pensions and stock
prices. The US Securities and exchange commission began an investigation. Many executives at
Enron were indicted for a variety of charges and were later sentenced to prison. Enron's $63.4
billion in assets made it the largest corporate bankruptcy in U.S. history.
a. Explain, what causes the reasons for the collapse of Enron? What will be the significant impact
on financial accounting standards, auditing rules, and institutional structures such as FASB and
the Securities Exchange Commission?
b. What precautions/measures should be taken by the management to save Enron from
bankruptcy?
Your answer should be around 400 words for each question.

Briefly identify and explain the significance of any 5 of the following items. A
short paragraph (2-4 sentences) should be sufficient in nearly all cases. In the case of a
quotation, please identify the author and explain what theory or principle it illustrates or
exemplifies.

1. GE Moore.
2. The Prisoner’s Dilemma.

3. “Then it must follow that no one willingly chooses to do evil or what he thinks to
be evil.”
4. Ruth Benedict.
5. “Over himself, over his own mind and body, the individual is sovereign.”
6. Karl Menninger.
7. Retributivism.
8. Peter Singer.
9. “We thus conclude that virtue or excellence is a characteristic involving choice,
and it consists in observing a mean relative to us, a mean which is defined by a
rational principle . . . . It is the mean by reference to two vices, the one of excess,
the other of deficiency.”

In the US, convicted sex offenders are labeled and must register their personal information with the government. The government shares this information with the public for their safety. There are many reasons why this program was developed. Think about this program, and research it more in-depth if you are unaware of it. Include citations in APA format for any resources you utilized in your research.

Before writing your post, weigh the priority of community safety vs. the problems of offenders being jailed again. Also look at the impact the labeling process has on the offender. In your discussion post address the following questions:

• What might be some reasons why the government chose this option for handling individuals that are convicted sex offenders?
• Are there other viable alternatives to the way the issue is currently handled?
• What are some reasons an individual might be persecuted unfairly if they appear on this list?

(Calculating the geometric and arithmetic average rate of​ return)  The common stock of the Brangus Cattle Company had the following​ end-of-year stock prices over the last five years and paid no cash​ dividends: Time Brangus cattle Comapny 1 ​$14 2 11 3 12 4 24 5 25 a.  Calculate the annual rate of return for each year from the above information. b.  What is the arithmetic average rate of return earned by investing in Brangus Cattle​ Company's stock over this​ period? c.  What is the geometric average rate of return earned by investing in Brangus Cattle​ Company's stock over this​ period? d.  Which type of average rate of return best describes the average annual rate of return earned over the period​ (the arithmetic or​ geometric)? ​ Why? a.  The annual rate of return at the end of year 2 is nothing​%. ​(Round to two decimal​ places.) The annual rate of return at the end of year 3 is nothing​%. ​(Round to two decimal​ places.) The annual rate of return at the end of year 4 is nothing​%. ​(Round to two decimal​ places.) The annual rate of return at the end of year 5 is nothing​%. ​(Round to two decimal​ places.) b.  The arithmetic average rate of return earned by investing in Brangus Cattle​ Company's stock over this period is nothing​%. ​(Round to two decimal​ places.) c.  The geometric average rate of return earned by investing in Brangus Cattle​ Company's stock over this period is nothing​%. ​(Round to two decimal​ places.) d.  Which type of average rate of return best describes the average annual rate of return earned over the period​ (the arithmetic or​ geometric)? ​ Why?  ​(Select the best choice​ below.) A. Arithmetic average return best describes the average annual rate of return over a period because it takes compounding into​ account, so it answers the question concerning the expected rate of return over a​ multi-year period. B. Geometric average return best describes the average annual rate of return over a period because it takes compounding into​ account, so it answers the question concerning the expected rate of return over a​ multi-year period. C. Arithmetic average return best describes the average annual rate of return over a period because it is a simple​ average, so it answers the question concerning the expected rate of return over a​ multi-year period. D. Geometric average return best describes the average annual rate of return over a period because it is a simple​ average, so it answers the question concerning the expected rate of return over a​ multi-year period. Click to select your answer(s).