The following is the income statement for Harry Potter’s business operations last year.

The following information is supplied for preparation of the budgets for coming year:

• Annual sales are expected to increase by 10% each year.
• Expected average gross profit margin is 30%
• Advertising costs are expected to increase by $800 each year.
• Depreciation charges are the same each year.
• Interest paid is the same each year.
• Annual rent is expected to increase by 6% each year.
• Superannuation is 9% of wages
• Wages paid are expected to increase by 5% each year.
• All other operating expenses are expected to increase by 4% each year.

Requirement:

Using the above information, prepare the budget for year 2008. (FNSCORG609A/03-3) Do not use Microsoft word

Suppose that you are an elementary school teacher and you are evaluating the reading levels of your students. You find an individual that reads 64.1 word per minute. You do some research and determine that the reading rates for their grade level are normally distributed with a mean of 100 words per minute and a standard deviation of 21 words per minute.

a. At what percentile is the child's reading level (round final answer to one decimal place).

b. Create a graph with a normal curve that illustrates the problem.

For the graph do NOT make an empirical rule graph, just include the mean and the mark off the area that corresponds to the student's percentile. There is a Normal Distribution Graph generator linked in the resources area. Upload file containing your graph below.

c. Make an argument to the parents of the child for the need for remediation. Structure your essay as follows:

1. A basic explanation of the normal distribution
2. Why the normal distribution might apply to this situation
3. Describe the specific normal distribution for this situation (give the mean and standard deviation)
4. Interpret the answer to part a. including a definition of percentile.
5. Explain how the graph created in part b. represents the child's reading level.
6. Use the answers to parts a. and b. to emphasize the gravity of the situation.
7. Give a suggested course of action.

Sam Strother and Shawna Tibbs are senior vice presidents of Mutual of Seattle Group Health Cooperative and codirectors of the organization's pension fund management division. The unions that represent the GHC hospital staff have requested an investment seminar so that they better understand the decisions being made on behalf of their members. Strother and Tibbs, who will make the actual presentation, have asked you to help them.

To illustrate the common stock valuation process, Strother and Tibbs have asked you to analyze the Temp Force 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.

Assume that Temp Force has a beta coefficient of 1.2, that the risk-free rate (the yield on T-bonds) is 7 percent, and that the market risk premium is 5 percent. Now assume that Temp Force is expected to experience supernormal growth of 30 percent for the next three years, then to return to its long-run constant growth rate of 6 percent. Last dividend was $2.00. (Sorry, I forgot to include this)

- What is the stock's value today and one year from today under these conditions?

- What is its expected dividend yield, capital gains yield, and total return in Year 1?

Imagine a poll is conducted with a large, representative sample of US adults. Respondents are asked whether they think that the influence of religion in the US is changing. They respond on a scale from 0 to 10 where 0 means religion is becoming much less influential, 5 means the influence of religion is not changing, and 10 means religion is becoming much more influential. The average rating is 3.8 with a 2 point margin of error (95% confidence). The polling organization reports that Americans believe that religion is losing its influence in the US.

part 1: What is the 95% confidence interval for the mean rating (give the upper and lower bounds)?

part 2: What does this confidence interval tell you about Americans' beliefs about the influence of religion? Do you agree with the polling organization's conclusion?

partt 3: Do you think the results of this poll would be different if the question were asked differently? For example what if the question asked about the role of religion in controlling people's behaviour rather than asking about "influence"? Would it matter if this question were asked immediately following a question about religious service attendance? Or school prayer?

part 4: What are some things that can be done when creating a poll to minimize or control for the effects of word choice or question order?

1. This table provides information on costs and output per hour of a small business producing t-shirts. Assume these are all the costs of this business. Fill in the table and answer the related question:

2. Suppose the market price of a t-shirt (marginal revenue) is $10. What is the profit maximizing output of this shop? What is the profit?
3. Would you predict entry or exit to happen in this industry in the long run? Write the word entry or exit only.
4. Find the shutdown point and the break-even point of this firm.
5. Now suppose that the price of a t-shirt decreases to $8. What is the profit maximizing level of output now? What is the profit? Should this firm continue producing or should it shut down?Find the shutdown point and the break-even point of this firm.
6. The fixed costs of this firm suddenly increase by $40 per hour. How does this change the initial (price=$10) profit maximizing output? What is the profit now?

A critical component of effective leadership is the ethical application of influence. Influence is a type of power. Oftentimes the word “power” has a negative connotation suggesting manipulation and coercion. Yet the appropriate, moral use of power, in the form of influence, is significant in the respected leader’s toolbox.

The legitimacy of an individual’s position in the organization provides him/her Authority. Whereas Power is an individual’s capacity to influence decisions. The ethical use of power expands on a leader’s ability to influence. Review these Leadership Power Types and choose one to profile for this writing assignment. Choose one (or more) Power Type and provide examples of the type as it relates to influence as a leader. Use references to support your submitted material. Do you know someone who exhibited this Power Type – a boss, a spouse, a parent? Or do you recognize this Power Type in someone well-known in American History, Industry, Commerce, or Government?

Types of Leadership Power

Coercive Power: Based on Fear

Connection Power: Based on Links with Important People

Expert Power: Based on the Leader’s Skills & Knowledge

Information Power: Based on Access to Information

Legitimate Power: Based on Position of Authority

Referent Power: Based on Personal Traits (“popular” power)

Reward Power: Based on Rewards, Pay, Promotion, Recognition

The school district recently adopted the use of e-textbooks, and the superintendent is interested in determining the level of satisfaction with e-textbooks among students and if there is a relationship between the level of satisfaction and student classification. The superintendent selected a sample of students from one high school and asked them how satisfied they were with the use of e-textbooks. The data that were collected are presented in the following table.

Table 1: Student Classification (N=128)

Questions

1. Of the students that were satisfied, what percent were Freshmen, Sophomore, Junior, and Senior? (Round your final answer to 1 decimal place).

2. State an appropriate null hypothesis for this analysis.

3. What is the value of the chi-square statistic?

4. What are the reported degrees of freedom?

5. What is the reported level of significance?

6. Based on the results of the chi-square test of independence, is there an association between e-textbook satisfaction and academic classification?

7. Present the results as they might appear in an article.

This must include a table and narrative statement that reports and interprets the results of the analysis. Note: The table must be created using your word processing program. Tables that are copied and pasted from SPSS are not acceptable.

After reading newspapers and journal articles and using wider research platforms such as the Australian Taxation Office Rulings on the subject of Taxing of Cryptocurrency and how governments are going to start tackling this issue you should be able to form an opinion to whether the policing of cryptocurrency will be effective or will it be a difficult task for revenue authorities.
For this area of the assessment you need to explain
a) What is Cryptocurrency and how does it work?
b) How is Cryptocurrency taxed within Australia at the moment?
c) What are revenue authorities doing going forward to ensure that it is correctly taxed within their own regions?
d) What is your opinion of the measures being taken by the tax authorities to ensure that they catch all the taxpayers partaking in the cryptocurrency world, will it be successful or will it be difficult to police? This area is based about your opinion so you need to ensure that you give us your own personal views of the topic and not a summary of the articles you have collected in part one of the assessment task.
The requirements of the assignment for part two is to produce a 1500 word essay on your opinion of this topic which should be based on your findings from the Australian newspapers you have collected and any other research you may want to undertake, please do not just provide a detailed summary of the articles you have included in Part 1

Read the following excerpt and answer question 3. Money down the drain Households hit by sky high power bills have also been silently battling surging water and sewage costs in a double – whammy on their budgets A Herald Sun analysis of 10 years of bureau of Statistics data has found that water and sewerage charges jumped an average 91 per cent since 2007, not far behind electricity’s jump 116 per cent jump. …… Water economics specialist and Australian National University professor Quentin Grafton said the costs to “drought-proof” cities [by building higher cost desalination plants] had been passed on to customers over the past decade, and authorities had started charging households more for water use above certain thresholds. … Author Anthony Keane Source: The Herald Sun October 21st, 2017 3. Using the cost diagrams, including drawing a graph, explain, what is happening to costs of the firm. Identify any relevant information provided in the article. What solution would you recommend to the government to address any equity concerns where poorer households experiencing high water prices (noting that clean water is an important commodity)? Explain your solution carefully. Word count 350.

/* Assignment:
Complete this javascript file according to  instructions
given in the comments. */

// 1) Declare a variable named myName equal to your first name
//Firstname is Susan
// Construct a basic IF statement that prints the variable to the
// console IF the length of myName is greater than 1



// 2) Copy your IF statement from above and paste it below
// Change the IF statement to check if the length of myName
// is greater than 10.
// Add an ELSE statement to it that prints your last name
// to the console



// 3) Copy the IF / ELSE statement from #2 and paste it below
// Add an ELSE IF statement to it that checks if the length of
// myName is greater than 3. If true, print the word "javascript"
// to the console.



// 4) Think of your 5 favorite foods.
// 5 fav foods: sushi, spaghetti, tacos, ramen, wings
// Set a variable named myFaveFood equal to a random number from 1 to 5.
// Construct a SWITCH statement that will print one favorite food to
// the console for each number 1 through 5.



// 5) Declare a variable named myNum and set it equal to
// a random number from 1 to 100 (using the Math object).
// Construct a TERNARY statement with the ternary operator
// that checks if the number is greater than or equal to 75.
// If true, print "Great weather!" to the console
// If false, print "Still cold!" to the console