Which one of each of the following pair of nuclides would you expect to have the longest half-life?

Sr-101 or Sr-95

Co-48 or Co-53

Working from home (or WFH) has an undeservedly bad reputation, says Stanford economist Bloom. Based on research comparing the productivity of those who are “home working on their couches or in their pajamas” with those commuting and sitting in a cubicle 8 hours a day, Bloom says no one should be afraid to tell their boss they are working at home. Here is the evidence you need to convince your supervisor to let you give it a try. Nicholas (Nick) Bloom is the William Eberle Professor of Economics at Stanford University, a Senior Fellow of SIEPR, and a Co-Director of the Productivity, Innovation and Entrepreneurship program at the National Bureau of Economic Research. His research focuses on management practices and uncertainty. He previously worked at the UK Treasury and McKinsey & Company. He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the recipient of awards including an Alfred Sloan Fellowship, the Bernacer Prize, the European Investment Bank prize, the Frisch Medal, the Kauffman Medal and a National Science Foundation Career Award. He has a BA from Cambridge, an MPhil from Oxford, and a PhD from UCLA.

So what do you think? Do you want to work from home? Why or Why not? If you are the boss, how would you manage employees working from home?

American League baseball teams play their games with a designated hitter rule, meaning that pitchers do not bat. The league believes that replacing the pitcher, traditionally a weak hitter, with another playing in the batting order produces more runs and generally more interest among the fans. (I, being a non-sports fan, assume the National League does NOT use a designated hitter…someone correct me if this is not correct!) The average number of home runs hit per game for the 2011 season in the American and National Leagues are found in the file Baseball.

Baseball file:

a) Obtain boxplots of the two data sets. Be sure to display them on the same plot. Are both data sets normally distributed? Does the spread of the data look roughly the same in each group? In other words, can we use the pooled t-test legitimately?

b) State the null and alternate hypothesis we would use to test whether there is a significant difference in the number of home runs hit per game between the American and National Leagues.

c) Run the two sample t-test two ways. The un-pooled test and the pooled test. What is the p-value for each test?

d) Do both tests reach the same conclusion? Use a 5% level of significance. Did the American League’s use of a designated hitter make any difference to the number of home runs hit per game?

1. Which of the following is right:

2. What is the main difference between the forward contract and the future contract?

3. What is the difference between European and American option?

4. What’s the difference between the future contract and the option contract?

In 1997, 35 countries signed the convention of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) to make it a crime to bribe foreign officials. In May 1999, the OECD issued a series of six principles (updated in 2004) that have since become the basis of the corporate governance position of the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund (IMF). However, in 2015 alone:

• In February 2015, Goodyear Tire and Rubber Co. agreed to pay $16.2 million to settle charges from the SEC under FCPA for the payment of bribes in Kenya and Angola to increase tire sales. Goodyear subsidiaries were accused of paying more than $3.2 million in bribes to employees of state-owned and private companies between 2007 and 2011.

• In May 2015, BHP Billiton paid $25 million to settle SEC charges in relation to FCPA offenses. BHP had been accused of improperly sponsoring foreign government officials as guests at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, China. The case was settled through an internal administrative order without going to court.

• In July 2015, New Jersey-based construction management company Louis Berger International paid $17.1 million to resolve FCPA criminal offenses. In the resolution, the company admitted paying bribes to foreign officials in India, Indonesia, Kuwait, and Vietnam in order to win contracts. The settlement included a deferred prosecution agreement that will require a compliance monitor for at least three years.

• In September 2015, Hitachi Ltd. paid $19 million to resolve SEC charges. The case was brought in relation to payments made to South Africa’s ruling page 123political party in connection with contracts to build two multimillion-dollar power plants.

American companies operating under increasing federal and regulatory scrutiny face real consequences from trying to do business in a global business environment in which foreign business seems to function on the basis of “gifts” at every stage of the transaction.

• In December 2012, the SEC charged Eli Lilly and Co. with violations of the FCPA for improper payments made by subsidiaries to foreign government officials in Russia, Brazil, China, and Poland; and accepted a settlement in the amount of $29 million for offenses including the following:

  The SEC alleged that the Indianapolis-based pharmaceutical company’s subsidiary in Russia used offshore ‘marketing agreements’ to pay millions of dollars to third parties chosen by government customers or distributors, despite knowing little or nothing about the third parties beyond their offshore address and bank account information.

  Employees at Lilly’s subsidiary in China falsified expense reports in order to provide spa treatments, jewelry, and other improper gifts and cash payments to government-employed physicians.

  Lilly’s subsidiary in Poland made eight improper payments totaling $39,000 to a small charitable foundation that was founded and administered by the head of one of the regional government health authorities in exchange for the official’s support for placing Lilly drugs on the government reimbursement list.

  In November 2012, the Department of Justice issued a 120-page “Resource Guide” to the FCPA, including numerous case studies designed to clarify what actions would and would not be considered to be violations of the law. The guide was written as a resource for DOJ attorneys, but attorneys in private practice are encouraging their clients to become familiar with it.

QUESTIONS

1. Is it ethical for U.S. regulations to put U.S. companies at an apparent disadvantage to their foreign competitors? Explain why or why not.
2. If foreign companies pay bribes, does that make it OK for U.S. companies to do the same? Explain why or why not.
3. If you could prove that new jobs, new construction, and valuable tax revenue would come to the United States if the bribe were paid, would that change your position? Explain your answer.

Answer in your own words

Muscle types do differ in their anatomies; we’ve learned only about the most common types. Mark each of the following A if they’d always co-occur; Sif they’d sometimes co-occur, or Nif they’d never co-occur in the same muscle type. (Hint: Base your answers on if one of the items is functional in the absence of the other.)

A.        t-tubules and sarcoplasmic reticulum

B.        motor units and troponin

Question No. 5:       (LO6)                                                                        

1. Smart Co Sales made on credit. On July 1, 2018 it made sales of $60 000 with the term 3/10, n/30. On July 9, 2018 Smart Co received $30000 payment for July 1 sales. Remaining Payment received by smart Co on 15th July, 2018.

Requirement:

Record the Journal Transaction with discount amount with Gross Method and Net Method.

4. Let’s assume that your experiment in question 3 shows co-localization. However, your advisor suggests that co-localization is not the same things as demonstrating protein-protein interactions between protein X and protein Y. She’s right. Propose a different experiment that can determine if these proteins actually interact as opposed to just co-localize. As always, describe the experiment, the expected data, and the controls you’d use.

Record the following transactions on the books of Cullumber Co. Omit cost of goods sold entries. Record journal entries in the order presented in the problem.

1. On July 1, Cullumber Co. sold merchandise on account to Stacey Inc. for $20,820, terms 2/10, n/30.
2. On July 8, Stacey Inc. returned merchandise worth $2,520 to Cullumber Co.
3. On July 11, Stacey Inc. paid for the merchandise.

As a financial analyst, you have to evaluate two firms, Salma & Co and Ahmad & Co.
Both companies will either make $30 million or lose $10 million every year with equal
probability. The companies' profits are perfectly negatively correlated. Calculate the
expected after-tax profits of Salma & Co. in any year, assuming a corporate tax rate of
35% and no tax loss carry back or carry forward.