What do you think would happen if an Asiatic Streptococcus strain acquired genetic information from a European Streptococcus by means of a plasmid, integrated it into a CRISPR array, and then was shipped on a load of “active culture” Yak milk to London?

Explore how multinational giant Philips NV has evolved over time. The Dutch company, which was internationally oriented almost from the start, moved to a national organization approach during World War II. This approach, which allowed the company to tailor its product line and marketing to each national market, remained in place for several decades, however, by the 1970s, the duplication of effort the approach required began to cause problems and Philips shifted toward a product division structure that established international production centers. In the mid-1990s, a new CEO implemented significant changes replacing Philips’ 21 product divisions with just 7 global business divisions. This new structure was further refined in 2008 to establish three global divisions responsible for product strategy, global marketing, and production decisions. QUESTION 1: Why did Philips’ decentralized structure make sense in the 1950s and 1970s? Why did this structure start to create problems for the company in the 1980s? QUESTION 2: What was Philips trying to achieve by tilting the balance of power in its structures away from national organizations and toward the product divisions? Why was this hard to achieve? QUESTION 3: What was the point of the organizational changes made by Cor Boonstra? What was he trying to achieve? QUESTION 4: In 2008 Philips reorganized yet again. Why do you think it did this? What is it trying to achieve?

Presented below is information related to Tobias Corp., for the year 2020. Required: Prepare a multiple-step Income Statement and Statement of Retained Earnings for 2020 in good form (with headings). Assume the 300,000 shares of common stock were outstanding during 2020.

Administrative Expenses 70,000

Cost of Goods Sold 1,200,000

Depreciation Expense overstated in 2015 105,000

Dividend revenue 30,000

Dividends Declared 120,000

Effect on prior years of Change in Accounting Principle (credit) 220,000

Gain from sale of land in discontinued component 300,000

Interest Expense 45,000

Interest Revenue 20,000

Loss from operations in discontinued component of business 240,000

Retained Earnings, 1/1/2020 460,000

Sales Discounts 12,000

Sales Return & Allowances 50,000

Sales Revenue $ 1,950,000

Selling Expenses 95,000

Write-off of Goodwill due to Impairment 75,000

Federal tax rate of 20% on all items

Contrasting the widespread foreclosures and bursting of the real estate bubble before the Great Recession ten or twelve years ago, conditions in 2020 suggest that:

Group of answer choices

the market is less exposed now, with lower housing inventories, tighter credit standards and families demanding more suburban homes in light of Covid.

an even worse collapse in suburban real estate values is possible now, than occurred in the Great Recession.

residential values across small towns and suburbs in the US are now moving lower, and a "new" real estate crisis may already be underway.

housing starts and inventories are at all-time highs, and a dramatic fall in single family home prices is expected.

Describe STRENGTHS, WEAKNESSES, OPPORTUNITIES, THREATS, as an Software Engineering Manager for the newly established E-commerce company. What would be the SWOT of new Software Engineering Manager in an new establsihed E-commerce? Please provide information as much as possible. Provide specific SWOT specifically for SEM. For example, for strength we can relate that This manager has a right knowledge in this sphere, as he studied in IT university and so on.

The following selected transactions relate to investment activities of Ornamental Insulation Corporation during 2018. The company buys debt securities, intending to profit from short-term differences in price and maintaining them in an active trading portfolio. Ornamental’s fiscal year ends on December 31. No investments were held by Ornamental on December 31, 2017. Mar. 31 Acquired 8% Distribution Transformers Corporation bonds costing $500,000 at face value. Sep. 1 Acquired $1,200,000 of American Instruments' 10% bonds at face value. Sep. 30 Received semiannual interest payment on the Distribution Transformers bonds. Oct. 2 Sold the Distribution Transformers bonds for $575,000. Nov. 1 Purchased $1,900,000 of M&D Corporation 6% bonds at face value. Dec. 31 Recorded any necessary adjusting entry(s) relating to the investments. The market prices of the investments are: American Instruments bonds $ 1,160,000 M&D Corporation bonds $ 1,970,000 Indicate any amounts that Ornamental Insulation would report in its 2018 income statement, 2018 statement of comprehensive income, and 12/31/2018 balance sheet as a result of these investments. (Amounts to be deducted should be indicated with a minus sign.)

Carlson Automotive Company manufactures fuel-injection systems. It manufactured and sold 60,000 units
in 2018 and 64,000 units in 2019 at $25 per unit. In 2018, the firm used 75,000 pounds of alloy TPX–45 at
$7.20 per pound and used 10,000 direct labor hours at an hourly wage rate of $30. In 2019, the firm used
89,600 pounds of alloy TPX–45 at $6.80 per pound and used 10,847 direct labor hours at an hourly wage
rate of $32. The total amount of all other expenses remains the same at $450,000 each year. Jerry Olson,
CEO, was disappointed that although the total sales increased in 2019, operating income declined from
$210,000 in 2018 to $193,616 in 2019.

1. Detailed partition of partial financial productivity.
2. Total productivity for 2018 and 2019 as measured in both units and sales dollars.

Underline Electronics had a free cash flow for FY 2018 of $2,150 (all amounts are in $000). Rand McDandy, CEO, projected a free cash flow growth of 3% per years for the next 5 fiscal years (FY2019 - FY2023). Beginning at the end of FY2023, free cash flow was expected to slow grow at only .5% in perpetuity. McDandy expected Underline Electronics cost of capital to remain constant at 6.12% until the end of the beginning of FY2024 at which point he projected the cost of capital to lower and remain at 4.25% in perpetuity. Considering this forecast he asked his CFO (you) to determine the fair market value (NPV) of the company. Choose the best answer from the list of options below. For this question consider FY2019 as Year 1 and FY2023 as Year 5.

Introduction

You own a mid-size accounting business. You have been doing the taxes for one particular company for three years. Last month the partners failed to meet you for a quarterly appointment set up two months ago. You call the company to reschedule, and one of the partners tells you, "We have actually switched to another accounting firm." When you ask why, the response is, "I don't really know. That was Jim's decision."

Instructions

Answer the following: What should you do? How can you arrange to learn the reasons for the defection? What questions would you ask the partners? Write a sample set of questions you would like to have answered by the defecting customer. How would the questions change if you were conducting an exit interview with an employee? Write a sample set of questions you would like to have the departing employee answer.