A key dynamic within any Multi National Corporation (MNC) is management of cash and also foreign exchange risk exposure. Cash management is critical and also heavily influenced by global dynamics. Within the Caribbean and South American jurisdiction, the economic framework is tightly connected with the major Asian economies of China and Japan, as well as the United States and the United Kingdom. The Caribbean and South American economy respectively, have been a barometer of the global economic cycle.

For the South American economy, many Multi-National Corporations   have made significant investments in order to achieve a reduction in the production cost of goods and also diversification benefits. Despite the benefits that could possibly materialize, some South American countries have weak banking systems and also have not been resilient through Global market shocks and Financial Crisis. This weakness may be as a result of politics and the quality of prudential supervision. Given this context, respond to the following questions which require research with respect to the localized context and also within the current market dynamics.

1) You have been asked to evaluate possible sites for a South American production facility that will manufacture your firm's products and sell them to the United Kingdom and Japanese market. Outline and discuss five (5) real exchange rate considerations you should entertain in your evaluation?

ABC Hotel is a 390-room economy hotel in downtown St. Louis. After taking physical inventory of the laundry chemicals on May 31^st, the assistant controller found that:

In the Main Storeroom

• 15 cases of detergent at $90 each
• 15 cases of neutralizer at $65 each
• 16 cases of softener at $31 each
• 7 pails of bleach at $7.50 each
• 1 bucket of starch at $13.50 each

In the Laundry Room

• 5.75 cases of detergent
• 2.25 cases of neutralizer
• 8.50 cases of softener
• 0.50 pails of bleach
• 0.25 buckets of starch

The beginning inventory for laundry supplies on May 1^st was $6,051.75. Purchase of laundry chemicals on May 9^th totaled $890.15. The hotel sold 9,067 rooms for the month at an average daily rate of $65.10. Please calculate the laundry chemical cost percentage for the month. Please round all answers to two decimal places.

First please calculate total ending inventory $___

2. Please use the information in Question 1 to calculate the cost of laundry supplies used. Round all answers to two decimal places.

Cost of laundry supplies used $___

3.Please use the information in Question 1 to calculate the monthly rooms revenue. Round all answers to two decimal places.

Monthly rooms revenue $___

4. Please use the information in Question 1 to calculate the laundry cost percentage. Round all answers to two decimal places.

Laundry cost percentage ___%

5. Calculate the net food cost percentage for the Food department of a hotel for the month of May. The total food sales revenue for May was $191,118. The following information has been gathered:

• beginning inventory on May 1st was $6,932
• purchases in May totaled $12,883
• food transferred from main storeroom was $61,315
• food transferred to other outlet was $114
• entertainment and promotion checks totaled $2,010
• management signed checks were $691
• documented food spoilage was $139
• food for employee meals was $5,795
• happy hour hors d’oeuvres was $2,040
• ending inventory on May 31st was $6,318

To earn full credit, please calculate these amounts. Except as indicated below, answers are whole numbers. Be sure to include a minus sign (-) for any negative amounts:

First calculate gross cost of food sales $___

Please use Visual Basic

Hotel Occupancy

The Hotel has 8 Floors and 30 rooms on each floor. Create an application that calculates the occupancy rate for each floor, and the overall occupancy rate for the hotel. The occupancy rate is the percentage of rooms occupied, and may be calculated by dividing the number of rooms occupied by the number of rooms.

For example, if 18 rooms on the 1^st floor are occupied, the Occupancy Rate is as follows:

18/30=0.6 or 60%

For the Overall Occupancy Rate, using the above example,

18/(8*30)=0.075 or 7.5%

Another example for Overall Occupancy Rate:

If 1^st floor, 18 rooms occupied.

2^nd floor, 30 rooms occupied, then the calculation is:

(18+30) /(8*30)   or (18+30)/240 =0.2 or 20%

You will need to use Name Constants for Rooms (30 rooms), and Floors (8 floors).

Some variables and Constants you will need to declare in class level to do the Overall Total and Overall Occupancy Rate calculation.

Some variables you will need to use in the local level.

The application’s form should appear similar to the one shown below.

In the form load event handler, use a loop to populate floor 1 to 8 in combo box. (Do NOT create floor 1 to 8 at design time using the Items property)

On startup, “Select the floor” combo box should default to floor 1. Each time the user enters the occupancy for a single floor and clicks the Save button, the floor number in the Drop-Down List ComboBox should increment automatically (just add 1 to its SelectedIndex property), and a new line should appear in the ListBox with the percentage occupancy. Also, the contents of the TextBox at the top of the form should clear automatically when the user clicks the Save button, so the user does not accidentally enter the same data twice in a row.

The Restart button should clear all the appropriate controls on the form. “Select the floor” combo box should default to floor 1.

The Exit button should end the application.

The Save button should do all input validation and all other calculations. (Do NOT use a loop in the btnSave_click event handler)

Input Validation: Be sure to check for a non-integer value in TextBox using the Integer.TryParse method and notify the user if there is an error. Since each floor has only 30 rooms, you need to do the range check to prevent user enter a value is greater than 30 or a negative number. A zero is allowed to input since it may have no occupancy for the whole floor.

Use the values below to confirm that your application is performing the correct calculations.

Use access key for all buttons’ control.   

Georges Hotel has the following sales procedures: The hotel uses duplicated and pre-numbered guest checks to record customers’ orders; the manager is in charge of monitoring the guest checks. She stores them in a storage container which is kept locked until she is ready to issue them to the servers. At the beginning of each shift, the manager issues the guest checks to the servers and records the amount given to each person on a blank sheet of paper. The server takes the order from the customers and records the information on the guest checks. She then presents the kitchen with one copy of the guest check for them to prepare the order and she keeps the other copy to be handed in at the end of the shift. The server informs the cashier of the order by word of mouth. In the event that there were any errors during the shift, servers are allowed to destroy the guest checks.

1. Identify three problems in the sales procedure of the Hotel, explain how they could be detrimental and suggest a control procedure that could be used to address each problem

2. Name three key personnel normally involved in a Hotel’s front office accounting functions. Of the three, chose one and briefly describe their role.

You are the Director of Clinical Informatics at an academic medical center in the western United States. Part of your role is to oversee the patient portal which is considered part of the outpatient EHR. The center is planning to adopt and integrate a PHR with its EHR. The hospital CEO drafts of vision statement that states, “By using the latest technology, University Hospital will improve how our patients experience Health Care. Instead of patients coming to us for help, we will be there whenever and wherever they need us, asking, ‘How can we help you?’ This initiative will make healthcare easier to access and more convenient to use, improve patients’ health, and reduce the rising cost of healthcare in our area.”

What is your role in engaging populations to understand information about their health and how to access health information resources?

What steps would patients take to correct their data?

What barriers should this facility anticipate and rolling out the PHR, and what tactics should the organization take to overcome them?

Read “Big New Obstacle for Economic Recovery – Child Care Crisis” on Sakai and answer the following questions:

1. How has lack of child care/school for kids K-12 and younger affected economic recovery? How is child care connected to what businesses can open and who can work (men versus women, people with children versus people with no children, high income versus low income, for example)?

2. The reason why some schools have not opened (or only opened a few days a week, or in a hybrid manner) is that the United States (and a lot of the world) is still in the midst of the coronavirus. Last week, almost 80 percent of the states had rising cases. Locally, a couple of schools had to quarantine many students because of positive cases and SUNY Cortland just went online only for 2 weeks because they had more than 100 positives in a two-week period. How do you balance economic concerns and health concerns during a pandemic?

2. Analyzing the effects of a trade deficit

You have just been hired by the U.S. government to analyze the following scenario. Suppose the U.S. agricultural industry is concerned about the level of fruit and vegetable imports to the United States, a practice that hurts domestic producers. Lobbyists claim that implementing a quota on imports would shrink the size of the deficit. The following exercise will help you to analyze this claim.

The following graph shows the demand and supply of U.S. dollars in a model of the foreign-currency exchange market.

Shift the demand curve, the supply curve, or both to show what would happen if the government decided to implement the quota.

Below are the results of the most recent Nathan’s Hot dog eating Contest held this year. The average number of hotdogs that can be consumed in 10 minutes by competitive eaters in the United States is 42 (SD=6.6). Answer these questions.

a) How many hot dogs can a person who is in the 70^th percentile consume?

b) How many hotdogs can a person who is in the 40^th percentile consume?

1) Recognizing the importance of private ownership of resources, competition, self-interest, etc. embodied in the market system, explain the demise of the command system.

2) Based on the fact that in a command system, the government owns most property resources, while in a market system that is characterized by the private ownership, use the United States and the Soviet Union as an example, and answer the government’s role under the two different economic systems.

3) List two countries that currently still largely rely on the command system, and another two countries/economies used to adopt the command systems.

4) Explain the importance of private ownership of resources in the market system.