Select AMAZON a publicly traded company that primarily sells tangible products. So, typically this would exclude banks, financial services companies, utilities etc. Post the name of your company in the Discussion Board section of the course website on Canvas. Look for the icon “Project Company Names” and post your company name under this icon by creating a new thread. Remember, you cannot work on a company that one of your classmates has already selected. Do not choose Target Corporation as I have included a sample analysis of Target here that was done by a student in an earlier semester. Also, note that the sample should be used as a general guide. There have been some changes in the questions in your assignment as compared to the Target sample provided. So, please consult the questions below and answer them accordingly.. Obtain electronic copies of the Annual Reports for the last two years.7. What is the total value of Stockholders Equity? (4pts)8. How many common shares has the company authorized, issued and outstanding? (3 pts)9. What is the par value of each common share? (3pts)10. What price is the share trading at on the date that you were conducting this research? Please note the date as well. (3pts)11. What was the highest price that the share traded at over the last 52 weeks? (3pts)

Suppose you have a sample size of n = 20, with a sample mean of 65 and a sample standard deviation of 15. Suppose the population mean is thought to be 50. You want to find out whether your sample mean is different from the population mean. Which test should you use? Select one: a. paired t-test b. two proportion z-test c. one proportion z-test d. two sample t-test e. one sample t-test.

Along a stretch of beach are 500 children of 100 each (Labeled in clusters A,B,C,D,E, in that order.) Two ice-cream vendors are deciding simultaneously where to locate. They must choose the exact location of one of the clusters. If there is a vendor in a cluster, all 100 children will buy an ice-cream. For clusters without a vendor, 50 out of the 100 children are willing to walk to a vendor one cluster away, only 20 are willing to walk to a vendor two clusters away, and none are willing to walk to a vendor three or more clusters away. The ice-cream melts quickly, so the walkers cannot buy for nonwalkers. If the two choose the same clusters, each will get a 50% share of the total demand for ice cream. If they choose different clusters, then those children (locals and walkers) for whom one vendor is closer than the other will go to the closer one, and those for whom the two are equidistant will split 50% each. Each vendor seeks to maximize her sales.

a. Construct a five-by-five matrix for their location game; the entries stated here will give you a start and a check on your calculations:

• If both vendors choose to locate at A, each sells 85 units.

• If the first vendor chooses B and the second chooses C, the first sells 150 and the second sells 170.

• If the first vendor chooses E and the second chooses B, the first sells 150 and the second sells 200.

b. Eliminate dominated strategies as far as possible and find the NEPS

The owner of a specialty coffee shop wants to study coffee purchasing habits of customers at her shop. She selects a random sample of 60 customers during a certain week. Data are available in the worksheet labeled “Problem 2” in the spreadsheet Final_SU2020_Data_Sets.xlsx. 1. At the ? = 0.1 level of significance, is there evidence that more than 50% of the customers say they “definitely will” recommend the specialty coffee shop to family and friends? 2. Construct a 90% confidence interval on the proportion of customers who say they “definitely will” recommend the specialty coffee shop to family and friends.

Note: Y is an indicator variable, i.e., if Y=1, then customer said they "definitely would" recommend specialty shop to family and friends, and Y=0 otherwise.

The owner of a specialty coffee shop wants to study coffee purchasing habits of customers at her shop. She selects a random sample of 60 customers during a certain week. Data are available in the worksheet labeled “Problem 2”.

1. At the a = 0.1 level of significance, is there evidence that more than 50% of the customers say they “definitely will” recommend the specialty coffee shop to family and friends?

2. Construct a 90% confidence interval on the proportion of customers who say they “definitely will” recommend the specialty coffee shop to family and friends.

Problem 2 Data Set

7. Identify the challenges faced by management within the Southern African region.(10MARKS)

8. Identify and explain the characteristics of a sys?tem(10marks)

9.List ANY TWO (2) skills managers need to possess

Project L costs $55,000, its expected cash inflows are $13,000 per year for 8 years, and its WACC is 7%. What is the project's discounted payback? Round your answer to two decimal places.

Background:

Gracious Industries is a private limited company with 35 employees and sales revenue of more than $10.5 million during the past year. It has been in business for over 40 years and supplies electronic parts to a number of different businesses, including hardware stores and supermarket. The company has experienced a growth in orders over the last few years for some of its new green product ranges. However, Gracious has recently lost some key accounts because of being unable to produce some of its products at a competitive price. Although the company hired an accountant who was keeping their books for them and producing the financial statements each year, the company thought they needed much more information to run their business efficiently. They felt that they needed to make an investment in an accounting software to take their business to the next level.

Required: You are required to prepare a report to evaluate and recommend an Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system for Gracious Industries. The report should include the following components:

 Business requirements o What are the key business processes for Gracious Industries? o What are the major control risks for the business processes of the company?

 Systems requirements o What are some of the possible ERP features and functionalities that the company should consider to achieve their business objectives and minimise the control risks?

 Software selection o Visit the websites of at least three (3) ERP vendors and provide a brief description of each vendor and its products.

 Vendor selection o Compare and contrast the features and functionalities of two ERP software packages offered by the three vendors described in the report. o Which one would be the most suitable vendor and ERP software package for the company and why?

The following information pertains to Global Harmonic Control Systems (GHCS). Revenues, which are forecast to be $500 million in one year, are expected to grow at 10 percent per year for the two years after that, 8 percent per year for the next two years, and 6 percent per year after that. Expenses including depreciation are 60 percent of revenues. Net investment, including net working capital and capital spending less depreciation, is 10 percent of revenues. Because all costs are proportional to revenues, net cash flow (sometimes referred to as free cash flow) grows at the same rate as do revenues. GHCS is an all-equity firm with 12 million shares outstanding. A discount rate of 16 percent is appropriate for a firm of GHCS’s risk. Assume tax rate as 40%.

Compute for the Price per share of Global Harmonic Control Systems (GHCS).

As the quality engineer for a small chain of fast food restaurants called McDowell’s (They’ve got the Big Mac, we’ve got the Big Mick), you’re interested in describing the consistency of the foodstuffs at a particular branch. In particular, you want to develop graphical and numerical representations of the (i) weight of and (ii) number of fries in a small bag of McDowell’s fries. You’ll find a sample of 32 bags in the file Homework 3.xlsx in the Homework Data Sets folder on the course webpage.

a. Provide numerical descriptions of the weights and numbers of fries in the sample.

b. Calculate and interpret 95% confidence intervals for the weight of a bag of small fries and the number of fries in a bag of small fries.

c. If the target value set by McDowell’s for the weight of a small order of fries is 2.61 ounces, what might you conclude based on your sample?

d. As a quality control engineer, what could you do with such information?