identify the market structure for ExxonMobil. what is the current market share. identify local and global competitors. analyze the barriers to entry this market. to illustrate the potential for new competition and its impact on ExxonMobil future in the market.
identify the trends in the last three years
1. current stage of the business cycle
2. real gross domestic product
3. inflation as measured by consumer price index
4. unemployment rate
5.federal funds rate
6. current rate for borrowing funds
7. evaluate trends in demand over last three years explain impact on ExxonMobil and the industry, include the last two quarters and annual sales last three years. create business strategies by analyzing info and data related to the demand for supply of ExxonMobil products and support your recommendations for this action with a graph.
8. examine available current data and information such as pricing and available substitutes and explain how you could determine the price elasticity of demand for ExxonMobil products. assess how the price elasticity of demand impacts ExxonMobil pricing and decisions and revenue growth.
9. apply the concepts of variable and fixed costs for informing output decisions.
10. create business strategies including price and non price strategies based on market structure to ensure market and potential expansion and global opportunities.
11. develop a recommendation on how to manage future production by synthesizing macroeconomics and microeconomics data presented

Janice Morgan, age 24, is single and has no dependents. Janice works as an employee from Worldwide Publishing and also as a freelance writer. In January 2016, Janice opened her own office located at 2751 Waldham Road, Pleasant Hill, NM 88135. She called her freelance writing business Writers Anonymous. Both Writers Anonymous and Janice operate on the cash basis. She lives at 132 Stone Avenue, Pleasant Hill, NM 88135. Her Social Security number is 123-45- 6789. During 2016, Janice reported the following income and expense items connected with her business Writers Anonymous (a sole proprietorship):

Income from sale of articles 50,000

Rent 16,500

Utilities 7,900

Supplies 1,800

Insurance 5,000

Travel (assume fully deductible)2,300

Meals 1,200

Social Club (Used to entertain clients) 4,000

Janice has the following personal items:

Wages from Worldwide Publishing $100,000

Interest from checking account from First Bank 4,000

Home mortgage interest paid to First Bank 7,000

Property taxes on personal residence 2,000

Charitable contributions 1,700

Federal income tax withholding 25,000

State income tax withheld 7,500

During the year, Janice invested $10,000 (tax basis and at-risk basis) into XYZ limited partnership (a passive investment). Her share of the limited partnership income for the year was $5,000, and Janice received a $1,000 distribution from XYZ limited partnership.

During the year, Janice also invested $2,000 (tax basis and at-risk basis) into ABC limited partnership (a passive investment). Her share of the limited partnership loss for the year was $3,000. Because ABC limited partnership lost money during the year there were no distributions paid to partners. Prepare the 2016 Federal income tax return for Janice Morgan. You may work in groups no larger than 3 (i.e. 1, 2, or 3). Submit one tax return per group. Please submit the following forms: (1) 1040, (2) Schedule A, (3) Schedule C page 1, (4) calculation/explanation of the taxable portion from the limited partnerships, (6) calculation of self-employment tax, (7) calculation of tax. Normally, this tax return would require additional forms (Schedule B, Schedule E, Schedule SE, Etc.). However, schedule B, ScheduleE, Schedule SE are not needed. The required calculations/explanations will be sufficient.

Hints: 1) The Net income from the Schedule C (Writers Anonymous) will go on line 12 2) Line 17 will include the income/loss from the limited partnerships. These are NOT subject to Self-Employment tax. 3) There should be something in line 27 4) Line 57 is for the self-employment tax. SE tax is separate from and in addition to the tax calculated on line 44. 5) The total from Schedule A should match line 40 6) The taxpayer has a refund. 7) The FICA cap for 2016 is 118,500, not 127,200.

1. Considering the results you have shown your manager, they now want to know (out of the    companies you have shortlisted) the following:

1. The social and environmental performance growth of the companies (3 points)
2. Which company has made the best improvement in their social and environmental performance from 2014 to 2015 (1 point)
3. Has any company demonstrated a decline in its social and environmental growth in the two years? (1 point)
4. Considering all the information you have collected what would your suggestion be to your manager? Is the data and information gained from it sufficient to choose a company to invest in? If you decide the data provided is not sufficient, what other data would you suggest collecting to enhance the current data? (4 points, no more than 100 words)

2015 data

USE R software

Suppose that we want to test H₀ : F = G, where F is the distribution of weight for the casein feed group and G is the distribution of weight for the sunflower feed group of the chickwts data. A test can be based on the two-sample Kolmogorov-Smirnov statistic

chickwts
weight feed
1 179 horsebean
2 160 horsebean
3 136 horsebean
4 227 horsebean
5 217 horsebean
6 168 horsebean
7 108 horsebean
8 124 horsebean
9 143 horsebean
10 140 horsebean
11 309 linseed
12 229 linseed
13 181 linseed
14 141 linseed
15 260 linseed
16 203 linseed
17 148 linseed
18 169 linseed
19 213 linseed
20 257 linseed
21 244 linseed
22 271 linseed
23 243 soybean
24 230 soybean
25 248 soybean
26 327 soybean
27 329 soybean
28 250 soybean
29 193 soybean
30 271 soybean
31 316 soybean
32 267 soybean
33 199 soybean
34 171 soybean
35 158 soybean
36 248 soybean
37 423 sunflower
38 340 sunflower
39 392 sunflower
40 339 sunflower
41 341 sunflower
42 226 sunflower
43 320 sunflower
44 295 sunflower
45 334 sunflower
46 322 sunflower
47 297 sunflower
48 318 sunflower
49 325 meatmeal
50 257 meatmeal
51 303 meatmeal
52 315 meatmeal
53 380 meatmeal
54 153 meatmeal
55 263 meatmeal
56 242 meatmeal
57 206 meatmeal
58 344 meatmeal
59 258 meatmeal
60 368 casein
61 390 casein
62 379 casein
63 260 casein
64 404 casein
65 318 casein
66 352 casein
67 359 casein
68 216 casein
69 222 casein
70 283 casein
71 332 casein

CIT 149 JAVA 1 program question?

Write a program that will use static methods as described in the specifications below. Utilizing the if and else statements, write a program which will calculate a commission based on a two-tiered commission plan of 3% and 7% paid on amounts of $15,000 or less, or over $15,000 in monthly sales by a sales force paid on a commission basis. Use the output specifications below.

? Specifications

• There will be two classes (separate files) in this program. The class containing the main method will be called Commission. All methods will be called from the main method. The second class (file) will be called ComCalc and will contain all of the methods created below.
• Prompt the user to input the total monthly sales. That number will be input from the keyboard.
• The commission is paid at the rate of 3% on any amount of $15,000 or less, in sales. Anyone selling over $15,000 is paid at the rate of 7% on the total monthly sales amount.
• Declare the necessary variables. Note that in the multiplication of the commission rate the result will potentially have a fractional part. Since the commission rates do not change, initialize them as constants. Initialize all numeric variables to 0.
• Use the if, else if, and else statements where necessary, to determine the appropriate rate for the amount of the total monthly sales, then calculate the commission following the if/else structure.

? You only need to calculate the commission in one place, rather than having a calculation for each type of commission. Give this aspect of the problem some thought. There are two basic ways you can do this problem as far as the location of the calculation after you have determined the commission rate. Your objective is to do the commission calculation in one place near the end of the program.

• Output the commission rate, total monthly sales amount, and the commission amount and use appropriate labels for each (see output format below).
• Use text labels on the output which make it clear what information is being displayed. Do not simply use single words like Commission or Total. Single words such as those are not descriptive enough.
• Use: good variable names (should be descriptive of what they hold), indentations of four spaces, comments within the body of the program, and label the output appropriately.
• Test your program with numbers above and below the commission limits for accuracy in its calculations. Do not submit programs in which the calculations are not done correctly. Try numbers above, below, and at the commission breakpoints.
• Format the output using the printf() function. Also, use a $ where appropriate.
• Place one blank line between each method. Indent all code between braces by four spaces.

? Constructing the Methods

Create the following methods in the CommCalc class (separate file):

? The Commission class (file) will contain the main method, and it is the main method from which each of the methods below will be called.
The main method will control the logic within the program.

1. inputTotalSales()

   • This method will display a prompt for the user to enter the total amount of the monthly sales.
   • This method will return the amount of the monthly sales that the user entered.
   • This method does not have parameters.

2. setCommRate()

   • This method will accept an argument which will be the total monthly sales amount entered by the user and returned to the main method.
   • This method will determine the appropriate commission rate based on whether the monthly sales were over $15,000 or not. Setting the commission rate will be its only task.
   • This method will return the commission rate.

3. calcCommAmount()

   • This method will accept the commission rate and the amount of monthly sales entered by the user and returned to the main method and will calculate the amount of the commission.
   • This method will return the amount of commission.

4. displayCommResults()

   • This method will accept the sales amount, the commission rate, and the amount of commission sent from the main method.
   • This method will display the three items above with the output labels shown in the Output Format below.
   • This will be a void method.

? Output Format

Format the output as shown below (the 9s just represent possible numbers):

***** Commission Calculation *****
The commission rate is: 9.99
The total monthly sales amount is: $99999.00
The commission earned on total monthly sales is: $999.00

? Meaningful description of the purpose of the program.
I will be looking for good descriptions of what your program does. An example of a description might look like the following (not for this program of course):
Description: This program accepts input from the keyboard as an amount of a purchase as a double, and calculates a discount based on a customer type using a four-tier percentage scale of 2%, 4%, 6%, and 8%. The output is the amount of the discount rounded to two decimal places and the total purchase less the discount, also rounded to two decimal places.

Bradley-Link’s December 31, 2018, balance sheet included the following items:

Note 8: Bonds (in part)
The 11.0% bonds were issued in 2005 at 97.0 to yield 10%. Interest is paid semiannually on June 30 and December 31. Each $1,000 bond is convertible into 50 shares of the Company’s no par common stock.

The 11.0% bonds were issued in 2009 at 105 to yield 10%. Interest is paid semiannually on June 30 and December 31. Each $1,000 bond was issued with 50 detachable stock warrants, each of which entitles the holder to purchase one share of the Company’s no par common stock for $25, beginning 2019.

On January 3, 2019, when Bradley-Link’s common stock had a market price of $32 per share, Bradley-Link called the convertible bonds to force conversion. 90% were converted; the remainder were acquired at the call price. When the common stock price reached an all-time high of $37 in December of 2019, 40% of the warrants were exercised.

Required:
1. Prepare the journal entries that were recorded when each of the two bond issues was originally sold in 2005 and 2009.
2. Prepare the journal entry to record (book value method) the conversion of 90% of the convertible bonds in January 2019 and the retirement of the remainder.
3. Assume Bradley-Link induced conversion by offering $150 cash for each bond converted. Prepare the journal entry to record (book value method) the conversion of 90% of the convertible bonds in January 2019.
4. Assume Bradley-Link induced conversion by modifying the conversion ratio to exchange 55 shares for each bond rather than the 50 shares provided in the contract. Prepare the journal entry to record (book value method) the conversion of 90% of the convertible bonds in January 2019.
5. Prepare the journal entry to record the exercise of the warrants in December 2019.

. Independent samples t-test:   

You want to test whether plants grow better when you talk to them. You obtain two sets of philodendrons, talk to one set and ignore the other (except to water them). After 6 months, you measure their growth in inches. The data are below. Conduct an independent samples t-test with alpha = .05 with a nondirectional test to determine if there was a significant difference between the two sets of plants.

Answer the following questions. You can use SPSS for this problem, but if you do this “by hand” be sure to show your work.

1.       What are the null & alternative hypotheses?
2.       What are the degrees of freedom?
3.       What is the critical value of t?
4.       What is the observed value of t?
5.       What is your decision about the null hypothesis/why?
6.        If appropriate, calculate Cohen’s d and report its value.
7.       Write the t statistic using appropriate APA style.
8.       How would you interpret your findings?    

          Not talked to                         Talked to

                   4                               8

                   2                               7

                   8                               13

                   4                               6

                   6                               5

                   6                               11

                   3                               8

                   5                               9  

                   6                               10

Those questions are related to Financial Mathematics:

1. Mario’s regular pay is $23.00 per hour. The regular workweek is 40 hours, and overtime is paid at time-and-a-half the regular hourly rate. If Mario worked 46.5 hours last week, what were his gross earnings?
2. You are buying a pack of milk (priced at 3.49CAD) and paper towels (priced at 6.99CAD) in a grocery store in Ontario. Only paper towels are subject to HST in Ontario. How much would be your total bill at the grocery store?
3. The CPI was 125.2 for 2014. Determine the purchasing power of the Canadian dollar for the 2014 and interpret the meaning of the result.
4. Calculate the net price of an item, worth $5,000, after three trade discounts of 20%, 10%, and 5%.
5. Calculate the amount of interest on $1560 earning 7% p.a., starting on October 1, 2018, for the next 10 months.
6. On January 15, Sheridan Service received a shipment with an invoice dated January 14, terms 4/10 E.O.M., for $2592. On February 9, Sheridan Service mailed a cheque for $1392 in partial payment of the invoice. By how much did Sheridan Service reduce its debt?
7. Compute the face value of a 90-day promissory note dated October 22, 2018 that has a maturity value of $76,386.99 and an interest rate of 7.5% p.a.
8. Scheduled payments of $1010 due five months ago and $1280 due today are to be repaid by a payment of $615 in four months and balance in seven months. If money is worth 7.75% p.a. and the focal date is in seven months, what is the amount of the final payment? (Hint: Set the size the final payment be $x. Set up an equality of amount which supposed to be payed due today and the repaid amount.)

11. A consumer group wished to compare the price of food items at two supermarkets A and B. A random sample of 8 items was selected and the cost of the items at each supermarket was recorded on a particular day.

Item 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8

A $3.60 $3.73 $3.48 $2.43 $2.81 $2.66 $3.62 $2.40

B $3.38 $3.77 $3.50 $2.55 $2.82 $2.65 $3.74 $2.31

(a) test at α = .05 if "on average" the prices offered at the two supermarkets differ. (d= .0013, sd = .1118)

(b) Conduct the test in (a) using appropriate confidence interval