The report "Progress for Children" (UNICEF, April 2005) included the accompanying data on the percentage of primary-school-age children who were enrolled in school for 19 countries in Northern Africa and for 23 countries in Central Africa.

We will construct a comparative stem-and-leaf display using the first digit of each observation as the stem and the remaining two digits as the leaf. To keep the display simple the leaves will be truncated to one digit. For example, the observation 54.6 would be processed as

54.6 → stem = 5, leaf = 4 (truncated from 4.6),

the observation 96.1 would be processed as

96.1 → stem = ? , leaf = ? (truncated from 6.1)

and the observation 35.5 would be processed as

35.5 → stem = ? , leaf = ?(truncated from 5.5).

The resulting comparative stem-and-leaf display is shown in the figure below.

Comparative stem-and-leaf display for percentage of children enrolled in primary school.

From the comparative stem-and-leaf display we can see that there is quite a bit of variability in the percentage enrolled in school for both Northern and Central African countries and that the shapes of the two data distributions are quite different. The percentage enrolled in school tends to be higher in Northern African countries than in Central African countries, although the smallest value in each of the two data sets is about the same. For Northern African countries the distribution of values has a single peak in the 90s with the number of observations declining as we move toward the stems corresponding to lower percentages enrolled in school. For Central African countries the distribution is more symmetric, with a typical value in the mid 60s.

How many individual stem-and-leaf displays are represented by the comparative stem-and-leaf display?

-one

-two     

-three

-It can't be represented as simple stem-and-leaf display.

Target Corporation is the second-largest discount store retailer in the United States, behind Walmart, and a component of the S&P 500 Index. Founded by George Dayton and headquartered in Minneapolis, Minnesota, the company was originally named Good fellow Dry Goods in June 1902 before being renamed the Dayton's Dry Goods Company in 1903 and later the Dayton Company in 1910. The first Target store opened in Roseville, Minnesota in 1962 while the parent company was renamed the Dayton Corporation in 1967. It became the Dayton-Hudson Corporation after merging with the J.L. Hudson Company in 1969 and held ownership of several department store chains including Dayton's, Hudson's, Marshall Field's, and Mervyn's.

Target established itself as the highest-earning division of the Dayton-Hudson Corporation in the 1970s; it began expanding the store nationwide in the 1980s and introduced new store formats under the Target brand in the 1990s. The company has found success as a cheap-chic player in the industry. The parent company was renamed the Target Corporation in 2000 and divested itself of its last department store chains in 2004. It suffered from a massive and highly publicized security breach of customer credit card data and the failure of its short-lived Canadian subsidiary in the early 2010s but experienced revitalized success with its expansion in urban markets within the United States.

As of 2017, Target operates 1,834 stores throughout the United States. Their retail formats include the discount store Target, the hypermarket Super Target, and "flexible format" stores previously named City Target and Target Express before being consolidated under the Target branding. Target is often recognized for its emphasis on "the needs of its younger, image-conscious shoppers," whereas its rival Walmart more heavily relies on its strategy of "always low prices.

Target Corporation decide to start its discount store in Saudi Arabia. The Target management hired you as Marketing Manager for its Saudi Arabia operation. You have to establish marketing department starting from the Analysis of market, formulate overall marketing goals, objectives, strategies and tactics within the context of an organization's business, mission, and goals designing and planning the entire function.

To establish the marketing function of Target Corporation, Saudi Arabia, you have to formulate the followings:

Vision

Mission

Business objective.

Product and type of services.   

Develop a marketing Plan for Target Corporation, Saudi Arabia. Define the SWOT analysis for Target Corporation, Saudi Arabia.

Analyze the Micro and Macro environment of the Target Corporation, Saudi Arabia.

How Target Corporation, Saudi Arabia will establish, develop, and enhance mutually beneficial relationships with customers? Discuss all the activities to establish, develop, and maintain customer sales?

Identify the various consumer decision processes for the Target Corporation customer?

How will you establish the market research for making better decision to establish and enhance the marketing?   

How Target Corporation, KSA will evaluate market segments and choose the best ones to serve? How it will create value propositions to meet the requirements of target customers?

How Target Corporation, KSA will manage all of their products and services? What are the steps in the best development process for new products?

Assignment Workload:

The word count for this assignment must be between 2500 to 3000 words.

Amber Corp. – Accounting for Accounts Receivable (all dollar values are in 000’s).

On December 31, 2015 Amber Co. reported "Accounts Receivable, net realizable value" of $5,440 on their balance sheet and "Allowance for Uncollectible Accounts" of $325 in their footnotes. Thus, the gross amount of accounts receivable is $5,765.

The company's sales grew dramatically in 2016, and the total credit sales, net of returns were $96,755. They collected cash from customers on account of $86,775. The company wrote off accounts of $425.

Management using the Accounts Receivable approach for estimating uncollectable accounts. Amber's credit terms are that accounts are due within 60 days. On December 31, 2016, Amber found that 50% of the accounts were not past due, 25% were 60-90 days old, and 25% were over 90 days old. Amber assesses the probability of collection as follows: not past due at 98%, 60-90 days past due at 96%, and over 90 days past due at 90%.

1. What is the total dollar amount owed to Amber Company by its customers at December 31, 2015?

2. What is the total dollar amount owed to Amber Company by its customers at December 31, 2016?

3. What is the balance in the allowance for uncollectible accounts at December 31, 2016?

4. What is the net realizable value of accounts receivable at December 31, 2016?

5. Show how the receivables would be reported on the balance sheet at December 31, 2016.

6. What amount will be reported for bad debts expense (i.e., provision for bad debts) on the income statement for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2016?

2.   A variable is normally distributed with a mean of 120 and a standard deviation of 15. Twenty five scores are randomly sampled.

a)   What is the probability that the mean of the four scores is above 111?

b)   What is the probability that the mean of the four scores will be between 114 and 123?

4.Suppose that a sample of 36 employees at a large company were surveyed and asked how many hours a week they thought the company wasted on unnecessary meetings. The mean number of hours these employees stated was 12.4 with a sample standard deviation of 5.1.

Calculate a 95% confidence interval to estimate the mean amount of time all employees at this company believe is wasted on unnecessary meetings each week.

5.An automobile dealer wants to estimate the proportion of customers who still own the cars they purchased 5 years earlier. A random sample of 300 customers selected from the auto mobile dealers records indicates that 82 still own cars that were purchased 5 years earlier. Set up a 99% confidence interval estimate of the population proportion of all customers who still own the cars 5 years after they were purchased

6.If in a sample of size n=49 selected normal population, the sample mean X=48 and population standard deviation is 21, what is your statistical decision, if your H0 :µ = 45, α=0.05

3.   The mean delivery time is 36 minutes and the population standard deviation is six minutes. Assume the sample size is 81 restaurants with the same sample mean. Find a 90% confidence interval estimate for the population mean delivery time.

Following the outbreak of the Novel Coronavirus (COVID 19), CPC a pharmaceutical company is considering introducing a new vaccine unto the market to help fight the virus. This will require the injection of huge capital to the tune of GH¢40,000,000 for the purchase of the equipment for production. It will cost CPC an additional GH¢ 5,500,000 to set up the production facility and install that equipment for production. Mr. Smart, the CEO of CPC believes that the vaccine could be manufactured in a building owned by the firm and located in East Legon. This vacant building and the land can be sold for GH¢ 1,500,000 after taxes. CPC will finance the production of the vaccine (including initial working capital investment) by issuing 2000,000 new common stocks at GH¢ 20 per share from its existing shareholders. A total of GH¢ 15,000,000 is expected to be raised from the rights issue. It expects to finance the remaining from the issue of a 5-year bond with a before-tax yield to maturity (YTM) of 12%. Mr. Qwesi, the Finance Director has estimated the beta of the project to be 2.5 and the average return for stocks traded on the Ghana Stock Exchange to be 10% while the rate on Government of Ghana traded Treasury bills is 5%. The successful production of the vaccine will generate additional cash flows for CPC. The Production and Marketing department has presented the information in the table below:
2020
Variable cost per unit of the product
GH¢150
Selling price per unit
GH¢350
Quantity
400,000units per annum
Again the following information should be taken note of:
 Feasibility studies cost the company GH¢2,000,000
 Test marketing expenses amounts to GH¢1,000,000
 The research into the discovery of the vaccine costs GH¢5,000,000
 Variable cost will increase by 5% per annum
 Selling price will increase by 10% per annum
 Marketing expense will be 5% of sales revenue per year
 Overhead cost will be fixed at GH¢6000,000 per year
 The project will last for five (5) years (2021-2025)
Examiner: Isaac Ofoeda Page 3
 Charge depreciation using the straight-line method
 Salvage value for equipment is GH¢2,000,000
 CPC falls within the 25% tax bracket
 An initial working capital investment of GH¢10,000,000 will be made. Subsequently, net working capital at the end of each year will be equal to 10 percent of sales for that year. In the final year of the project, net working capital will decline to zero as the project is wound down. In other words, the investment in working capital is to be completely recovered by the end of the project’s life
 The introduction of this new vaccine is expected to lead to 10,000 units per annum drop in sales of vaccines for other types of corona virus by. The selling price per unit of existing products is GH¢100 while the variable cost is GH¢70. This has no tax implications for the new vaccine.
 The project will be financed with debt and equity
Required:
a. Evaluate the project using the NPV and Profitability index and recommend whether CPC should go ahead with the production of the vaccine.
b. Discuss three (3) qualitative factors that the Management of CPC might have to consider and how these factors are expected to influence the decision of Management with regards to the production of the vaccine.
c. Under what circumstances will you prefer profitability index to NPV as project evaluation techniques.
d. Explain why sunk costs should not be included in a capital budgeting analysis, but opportunity costs and externalities should be included.

Following the outbreak of the Novel Coronavirus (COVID 19), CPC a pharmaceutical company is considering introducing a new vaccine unto the market to help fight the virus. This will require the injection of huge capital to the tune of GH¢40,000,000 for the purchase of the equipment for production. It will cost CPC an additional GH¢ 5,500,000 to set up the production facility and install that equipment for production. Mr. Smart, the CEO of CPC believes that the vaccine could be manufactured in a building owned by the firm and located in East Legon. This vacant building and the land can be sold for GH¢ 1,500,000 after taxes. CPC will finance the production of the vaccine (including initial working capital investment) by issuing 2000,000 new common stocks at GH¢ 20 per share from its existing shareholders. A total of GH¢ 15,000,000 is expected to be raised from the rights issue. It expects to finance the remaining from the issue of a 5-year bond with a before-tax yield to maturity (YTM) of 12%. Mr. Qwesi, the Finance Director has estimated the beta of the project to be 2.5 and the average return for stocks traded on the Ghana Stock Exchange to be 10% while the rate on Government of Ghana traded Treasury bills is 5%. The successful production of the vaccine will generate additional cash flows for CPC. The Production and Marketing department has presented the information in the table below:
2020
Variable cost per unit of the product
GH¢150
Selling price per unit
GH¢350
Quantity
400,000units per annum
Again the following information should be taken note of:
 Feasibility studies cost the company GH¢2,000,000
 Test marketing expenses amounts to GH¢1,000,000
 The research into the discovery of the vaccine costs GH¢5,000,000
 Variable cost will increase by 5% per annum
 Selling price will increase by 10% per annum
 Marketing expense will be 5% of sales revenue per year
 Overhead cost will be fixed at GH¢6000,000 per year
 The project will last for five (5) years (2021-2025)
Examiner: Isaac Ofoeda Page 3
 Charge depreciation using the straight-line method
 Salvage value for equipment is GH¢2,000,000
 CPC falls within the 25% tax bracket
 An initial working capital investment of GH¢10,000,000 will be made. Subsequently, net working capital at the end of each year will be equal to 10 percent of sales for that year. In the final year of the project, net working capital will decline to zero as the project is wound down. In other words, the investment in working capital is to be completely recovered by the end of the project’s life
 The introduction of this new vaccine is expected to lead to 10,000 units per annum drop in sales of vaccines for other types of corona virus by. The selling price per unit of existing products is GH¢100 while the variable cost is GH¢70. This has no tax implications for the new vaccine.
 The project will be financed with debt and equity
Required:
a. Evaluate the project using the NPV and Profitability index and recommend whether CPC should go ahead with the production of the vaccine.
b. Discuss three (3) qualitative factors that the Management of CPC might have to consider and how these factors are expected to influence the decision of Management with regards to the production of the vaccine.
c. Under what circumstances will you prefer profitability index to NPV as project evaluation techniques.
d. Explain why sunk costs should not be included in a capital budgeting analysis, but opportunity costs and externalities should be included.
(Total: 20 marks)

The HBR (2004) article entitled “Customer-Centered Brand Management,” argues that brand managers should “make (their) brands as narrow as possible.” Explain a) why this is a sensible general advice to today’s brand managers, and b) under what circumstances it may not be a good guideline to follow.

(Limit your discussion to 1 type-written page.)

A regular hexagonal foundation 3 in. deep is being poured for a hexagonal building. If the distance across the flats of the foundation is 27 ​ft, how many cubic yards of concrete are​ needed?