Variables typically included in a multivariate demand function (other than the price and quantity of the item the demand function represents) are consumer tastes and preferences, the number of buyers, spendable (disposable) income, prices of substitute goods, prices of complementary goods, advertising expenditures, weather, and expectations.  Recalling that the price of the item being considered is placed on the vertical axis, and the quantity on the horizontal axis, the other variables are termed demand shifters.  Please answer the following questions about the affect changes in other variables might have on the demand for the item.  These changes will either cause demand to increase (shift right) or decrease (shift left).  Use either word as applicable, for the short answer.

1. Vehicle owners wishing to drive into central London must purchase passes to do so costing about $13.00 (as of 6-2011) per day. The policy is attempting to reduce traffic congestion and pollution.  It has been in effect for several years.  A long-term effect of the policy is to _______________ the demand for office space in Central London thus increasing building vacancies.

2.    The price of petrol in London (as of 6-2011) was about $12 - $13 per gallon.  As a result, the demand          for bicycles is _________________.

3.    Vehicle license plates in England increase sharply in price the older is the age of the vehicle.  As a result, the demand for new vehicles is _________________ and the demand for used vehicles is ______________.  This policy encourages the purchase of ever more efficient vehicles.

4.   Monthly rates for single-line household plain old telephone service (POTS) keeps increasing.  Cell phone rates increase too, but their service plans offer more options when the rate is increased.  Many therefore are _____________ their demand for plain old telephone service.

5.   I have my own Italian espresso machine.  Occasionally I opt for a commercial medium-sized Latte for $3.44 a drink.  My favorite coffee store has, however, raised the price to $3.99 per drink.  I am thus likely to ______________ my demand for their Lattes

Detailed Instructions:
In a business setting, we are often asked to write a memo to communicate with internal and external professionals. To further advance your learning of memo communication, this written case requests that you prepare a memo to communicate within the company.

Background:

As the senior accountant at Technology on Demand (TOD), which manufactures mobile technology such as flip phones, smartphones, notebooks, and smartwatches, you are often asked to prepare various financial analysis necessary for decision making. Michelle Dodd, the controller, asked you to evaluate whether a piece of factory equipment should be replaced or kept.

The old piece of factory equipment was purchased four years ago for $875,000. Over the last four years, TOD has allocated depreciation based on the straight-line method. The expected salvage value is $25,000. The current book value of the factory equipment is $425,000. The operating expenses total approximately $45,000 a year. It is estimated that the residual value (market value) of the old machine is $350,000.      

The controller is contemplating whether to replace the piece of factory equipment. The replacement factory equipment would consist of a purchase price of $500,000, a useful life of eight years, salvage value of 30,000, and annual operating costs of $35,000.

In consideration of the background, prepare a memo in a Word document to submit to the controller. Your first paragraph would be an introduction paragraph of what the memo is about. Next, you will want to consider the equipment replacement decision. To add clarity to your discussion, you are to insert a table comparing the old equipment to the new equipment. In evaluating the “relevant” costs, what does your analysis show? Do you recommend that the equipment be replaced or kept ongoing for the next eight years? Why or why not?

Hint: See Equipment Replacement Decisions (LO 6-5) in chapter 6 located on page 268 and 269 of the hard copy text book. A piece of equipment with salvage value can still be serviceable after beyond its useful life. Be sure to focus on the “relevant costs.”

You are an assistant to the attorney for FUN company. To complete this assignment you must write a two-to-three page report discussing the legal issues and likely outcome of the case below:

SAD Co. vs. FUN Company: Several weeks ago, SAD Co. CEO met with FUN’s CEO for lunch to discuss potential business ventures between both companies. After a few shots of whiskey, SAD’s CEO tells FUN’s CEO that SAD is interested in purchasing a commercial building that FUN owns in a central area in West Palm Beach. SAD is interested in this building because of the specific location in which it is located. SAD believes that owning a building in that specific location will increase their business significantly. SAD’s CEO offers FUN’s CEO to purchase that specific building for $5 million. FUN’s CEO responds that FUN estimates that the building is worth $9 million and that they are willing to sell the building for that price give that they have no use for it. SAD’s CEO takes out a $1.00 bill gives it to FUN’s CEO and says “this is my payment so that you give me time to talk to my board and see if we are willing to pay $9 million.” FUN’s CEO laughs and puts the $1.00 bill in his pocket. Both CEO’s shake hands and say goodbye and leave. The next day SAD’s CEO calls an emergency meeting to discuss the $9 million purchase price and the board agrees to the purchase of the building for $9 million. Immediately after the meeting, SAD’s CEO calls FUN’s CEO on the phone and tells him that SAD agrees to purchase the building for $9 million. FUN’s CEO tells SAD’s CEO that FUN has decided not to sell the building because after their meeting yesterday they realized how much potential the building actually had. SAD is now demanding that FUN honor its word and sell them the building for$9 million.

During the current year, Skylark Company had operating profit of $150,000. In addition, Skylark had a long-term capital loss of $10,000. Toby is the sole owner of Skylark Company. Please answer the following. Be sure to label each answer with the identifying number of the question. You can separate each answer with a comma. Type the word none is the amount is zero. Do not enter the number 0 or you will be marked wrong! Scenario 1: Skylark is a single-member LLC reporting on Schedule C, and Toby does not withdraw any funds from the company during the year. Enter None if the answer is 0. a. Toby will show how much ordinary income on his 1040 Schedule C? __________ b. Toby will deduct how much capital loss on his 1040 assuming he has no other capital gain and losses? ______ Scenario 2: Skylark is a regular (C) corporation, and Toby does not withdraw any funds from the company during the year. Enter None if the answer is 0. c. What is the total amount Toby will show on his 1040

the year from Skylark? ________ Scenario 3: Skylark is a regular (C) corporation, and Skylark makes a cash distribution of $100,000 to Toby during the year. Enter None if the answer is 0. d. Toby will report how much income on his 1040 for the year from Skylark?______ e. Skylark Corporation will report taxable income of how much for the year on their 1120? ______ Scenario 4: Skylark is a regular (C) corporation, and Skylark pays a salary of $100,000 to Toby during the year. Show the income reported by Toby on his individual income tax return from Skylark Company. Enter None if the answer is 0. f. Toby will report how much income on his 1040 for the year from Skylark?______ g. Skylark Corporation will report taxable income of how much for the year on their 1120? ______

A study investigated survival rates for in-hospital patients who suffered cardiac arrest. Among 58,593 patients who had a cardiac arrest during the day, 11,604 survived. Among 28.155 patients who suffered cardiac arrest at night, 4139 survived. Use a 0.01 significance level to test the claim that the survival rates are the same for day and night.

1. State the degrees of freedom (i.e., DF = __) or write “not applicable” if not relevant.
2. State all the requirements with respect to the problem.
3. Verify any requirement that should require a calculation. If none, write “not applicable”.
4. Identify which test statistic to use and write the associated formula using symbols.
5. Compute the value of the test statistic. If using StatCrunch, circle it.
6. State the P-value. If using StatCrunch, circle it.
7. Show and apply the P-value decision rules (with values substituted appropriately) that lead you to “reject H₀”or “fail to reject H₀”.
8. State the critical value(s). If using StatCrunch, circle it.
9. Show and apply the critical value decision rules (with values substituted appropriately) that lead you “reject H₀”or “fail to reject H₀”.
10. Write the conclusion utilizing the “correct” words using Table 8-3, p. 366. Make sure you insert the relevant portions of the claim into the conclusion.
11. Construct the associated confidence interval (CI).
12. State the CI using the correct notation.
13. State the margin of error (E = __).
14. State the point estimate using the correction notation.
15. Does the CI support the hypothesis test conclusion? Explain/interpret. This may require a sentence or two, not just a single word.
16. Extra Credit: Express the Type I error in the context of the problem using the words from the “helper” document. Make sure the conclusion is worded such that it addresses the claim (p. 368).
17. Extra Credit: Express the Type II error in the context of the problem using the words from the “helper” document. Make sure the conclusion is worded such that it addresses the claim (p. 368).
    

Case: Mini Case - Temp Force, Respond to Questions a, b, d, and e (1, 2, 3, 4).

Your employer, a midsized human resources management company, is considering expansion into related fields, including the acquisition of Temp Force Company, an employment agency that supplies word processor operators and computer programmers to businesses with temporarily heavy workloads. Your employer is also considering the purchase of Biggerstaff & McDonald (B&M), a privately held company owned by two friends, each with 5 million shares of stock. B&M currently has free cash flow of $24 million, which is expected to grow at a constant rate of 5%. B&M’s financial state-ments report short-term investments of $100 million, debt of $200 million, and preferred stock of $50 million. B&M’s weighted average cost of capital (WACC) is 11%. Answer the following questions:

a. Describe briefly the legal rights and privileges of common stockholders.

b. What is free cash flow (FCF)? What is the weighted average cost of capital? What is the free cash flow valuation model?

c. Use a pie chart to illustrate the sources that comprise a hypothetical company’s total value. Using another pie chart, show the claims on a company’s value. How is equity a residual claim?

d. Suppose the free cash flow at Time 1 is expected to grow at a constant rate of gL forever. If gL cash flows when discounted at the WACC? If the most recent free cash flow is expected to grow at a constant rate of gL , WACC), what is a formula for the present value of expected free cash flows when discounted at the WACC?

e. Use B&M’s data and the free cash flow valuation model to answer the following questions:

(1) What is its estimated value of operations?

(2) What is its estimated total corporate value? (This is the entity value.)

(3) What is its estimated intrinsic value of equity?

You are thrown from a bicycle while riding at speed on a gravel road. Immediately you start bleeding from several places where the gravel cut through your epidermis into your dermis and broke numerous blood vessels.

Your body's first response to this injury is to begin the process known as [a]. This process has three steps.

1. [b]: the [e] in the tunica media of your damaged blood vessels begins to contract, [f] blood flow to this portion of vessel, in an attempt to limit blood loss. Also, the [f1] of your tunica interna become "sticky" in an effort to help kick off the next step...
2. [c]: [g] circulating in your blood are attracted to exposed [h] and to the [f2] that became "sticky" at the end of step one. They begin to form a [i] and also begin to activate more cells of the same type to join them.
3. [d]: [q] factor (factor [1]) is released by damaged extravascular tissue. Together with the mineral [j], this factor activates factor [2], completing the [k] pathway. This factor activates factor [3], beginning the [l] pathway. Next, factor [4] is activated, then factor [5], known as [m]. This last factor initiates a [n] feedback cycle, activating more of itself as well as activating factor [6], known as [o1], a meshwork of which begins to form the actual [p1]. Finally, factor [7] is activated to strengthen the clot and begin its retraction. Blood cells of various sorts get caught in the [o2] mesh and help to solidify the [p2], stopping blood loss until the endothelial cells and rebuild the vessel lining.

WORD BANK:

• clot

• positive

• endothelial cells

• intrinsic

• platelet activation

• collagen fibers

• fibrin

• inflammation

• reducing

• extrinsic

• hemostasis

• coagulation

• tissue

• smooth muscle

• leukocytes

• vascular spasm

• calcium

• hemopoiesis

• thrombin

• common

• increasing

• magnesium

• thrombocytes

• negative

• plug

• I

• II

• III

• IV

• V

• VII

• IX

• X

• XI

• XIII

Abc Corporation was incorporated on December 1, 2019 and had following transactions during December

1 Dec Issued Capital for 5000 cash

 3 Dec Paid 1200 cash for three months rent in advance

 4 Dec Purchased a used truck for 10,000 on credit

 4 Dec Purchased Supplies of 1000 on credit

 6 Dec Paid 1800 for a one-year truck insurance policy

 7 Dec Billed a customer 4500 for work completed to date

 8 Dec Collected 800 for work completed to date

 12 Dec Paid the following expense in cash

 Advertisement 350

 Interest 100

 Telephone 75

 truck operating 425

 Wages 2500 

15 Dec Collected 2000 of the amount billed on 7 dec

 18 Dec Billed Customer 6500 for work completed to date

 19 Dec Signed a 9000 contract for work to be performed in Jan 2017

 22 Dec Paid the following Expenses

 Advertisement 200

 Interest 150

 Truck Operating 375

 Wages 2500

 27 Dec Collected advance on work to be done in January

 28 Dec Received a bill for 100 for electricity used during the month

Additional Information The following information relates t0 31 Dec , 2016 One month of the prepaid insurance has expired The December portion of the rent paid is expired A physical count indicates that 350 of supplies is still on hand The amount collected as advance is unearned Three days of wages for Dec 29 30 31 are unpaid: Unpaid amount of 1500 will be included in first wages payment in Jan The truck has an estimated useful life of 4 years Income tax expenses are 500. The amount is to be paid next year.

Required:

Prepare trasaction summary,general journal, entries to ledger account, trial balance,adjusted trial balnce, financial statemment(income statement,owners equity,balance sheet), close temporary accounts and worksheet.

Intructions: should be handwritten or word file depend on you

Overview: Healthcare professionals provide support throughout the cycle of life, from birth to death. They have an obligation to provid e humane and compassionate care to patients while adhering to their specific field’s code of ethics. Sometimes, healthcare professionals a re privy to discussions between family members regarding end - of - life issues. In some instances, a healthcare facility ma y be in charge of providing information about advance directives to patients. Healthcare professionals should calibrate their own moral beliefs to align with their ethical and legal obligations . By studying issues contained within real - life cases, healthca re professionals can come to terms with their beliefs and obligations relative to end - of - life issues. Prompt: In this project, you will analyze the Terri Schiavo case through the lens of the bioethical issue(s) related to the case. You will address what t he bioethical issue is and what role end - of - life issues, such as self - determination and advanced directives, played in the case. Using your analysis, you will determine how this bioethical issue impacted the decisions made by the healthcare professionals i nvolved in the case. Specifically, your essay must address the following critical elements : I. Introduction : Describe the provided case, including information on the stakeholders involved, the bioethical issue, and the time period o f the incident that occur red. II. Bioethical Analysis: Analyze the bioethical issue for the role end - of - life issues played in the case. Be sure to use appropriate terminology and support with secondary research. III. Conclusion: Describe how the bioethical issue influenced the decisions of healthcare professionals involved in the case. Be sure to use specific examples. Rubric Guidelines for Submission: Your bioethical short paper should be 1 – 2 pages in Microsoft Word with 12 - point Times New Roman font and one - inch margins. All citations and references should be formatted according to the most recent APA guidelin

Using South University Online Library or the Internet, research on a sexually transmitted disease (STD) policy of the state you reside in. Once you identify an STD policy from the state you reside in, visit your state health department or browse your state's website and search for the STD policy you selected.

Next, write a research paper describing this public health policy analysis and background. The final paper should include the following:

A title page

An introduction of policy analysis in two to three paragraphs discussing the following:

Overview

Purpose

A bodyHealth policy background (one page):

The state's role in the policy-making process

The purpose of public health policy

Public health policy analysis five-step process discussing the following:

A problem statement (in the form of a question) (two paragraphs)

Background of a policy analysis provides factual information needed to understand the problem. Include economic issues of policy as well as regulatory policy (two pages).

The landscape section of a policy analysis identifies key stakeholders and describes the factors that are needed to analyze the problem. Write the landscape section on policy analysis. Include balance of patient rights versus protecting the population. Include any influence from government insurance programs. Your response should be of at least three pages

Options (three or four) to address the policy problem. Your response should be of at least three pages.

Recommendations section should clearly identify three options. Which of the three options is favored and why is it is preferred over the other ones. Your response should be of at least one page.

A conclusionYour conclusion (one page) should address the following main points:

Your recommendation and the reasoning behind it.

Summarize your findings.

Explain the barriers to implementing policy analysis process and how they could be overcome.

Your paper should be a minimum of 12- to 13-pages in a Microsoft Word document. You need a minimum of six scholarly sources for both in-text citations and citations on the reference page.