Read the article below then answer the question that follows.

The controversial Philadelphia soda tax has started. Sunday, the city began imposing a 1.5 cent per ounce tax on the supply of sweetened beverages to retail dealers, which is supposed to go towards quality preK, Community Schools, and better parks, libraries and rec centers. Among the items taxed: regular and diet sodas, and also teas. The tax is also levied on syrups and concentrates used to make sweetened drinks. And drinks considered “zero calorie” are also taxed. The tax will be paid by distributors of sweetened beverages, but certainly passed on to customers. According to the city, a distributor is any person who sells sweetened beverages to a dealer, and a dealer is any person who sells sweetened beverages at retail. Dealers include delis, restaurants, and grocery stores. For them, the tax will be due the 20th of each month for the prior month. That means the first payment will be due February 20, 2017, for distribution activity in January 2017. The 1.5-cent-per-ounce tax amounts to 18 cents on a 12-ounce can of soda or $1.44 on a six-pack of 16-ounce bottles. Two cities have soda or soft drink taxes but more than 30 cities and states have rejected them. On Dec. 19, Common Pleas Court Judge Gary S. Glazer rejected the lawsuit challenging it filed by the American Beverage Association and others. Lawyers for the beverage industry tried to block the tax, arguing it duplicates the state sales tax already imposed on soda and unfairly taxes drinks based on their size, not price. But Shanin Specter, of Kline & Specter, PC, representing the plaintiffs in the beverage industry's lawsuit against the city, issued this three-word statement: "We shall appeal."

Suppose that someone has said: “Because the tax is paid by distributors, they will be 18c worse off for each can of soda they sell. That is why they are appealing the tax. Nobody else will be negatively impacted, because after all the distributers are the only ones who pay the tax.” Explain what is wrong with this person’s statement.

Criteria:

-Tax correctly depicted on Demand and Supply model

-Diagram/s explained and used to support explanation

-Discussion of which parties are impacted by the tax

Case Study, Chapter 10, Principles and Practices of Rehabilitation

1. Mrs. Adams, 72 years of age, is admitted to the rehab unit with the diagnosis of stroke. The stroke affected the limbic area in the brain, which has caused the patient to have emotional labiality (her mood changes rapidly because she misinterprets situations). As a result of the emotional labiality, she sometimes refuses to be repositioned or to participate in physical or occupational therapy. She sometimes also refuses to eat and drink. The patient’s right side is paralyzed and flaccid. She has no feeling on her right side. She has reddened areas on her coccyx and both heels at least 1 cm in diameter that do not go away with repositioning. She is incontinent of urine and stool. She has problems with communication called global aphasia (difficulties understanding speech and the written word and difficulties with speaking and writing). She is 5 feet tall and weighs 178 pounds. She has a tendency to develop skin tears because her skin is thin, and she has several bandages on her arms. The family states they are concerned because the staff on the previous medical-surgical unit would drag their mother up in bed when she slid down. The staff would chart when their mother refused to be repositioned and then would not reposition her for hours. (Learning Objectives 2 and 4)

Explain the pathophysiology of the risk factors that predispose Mrs. Adams to developing pressure ulcers?

What nursing measures need to be instituted for Mrs. Adams based on the information presented in the case study?

2. You are assigned to care for David Ramsey, a 22-year-old male patient who sustained a back injury secondary to being thrown from a motorcycle. He did not damage the spinal cord, but the computed tomography revealed a compression fracture at L-2 (lumbar area). David complains of severe lower back pain with numbness and tingling in the lower extremities. You identify the following nursing diagnosis: Impaired Physical Mobility.

(Learning Objective 4)

What assessments are indicated based on this nursing diagnosis?

List other major nursing diagnoses based on David’s clinical presentation.

1. The correct mathematical models for the first four seconds of the motion map below are: ( can have multiple answers)

http://tinypic.com/view.php?pic=20u4v4o&s=8#.U62fWF6aL1o << graph that goes to the question

A) x(m)=1/2(-10m/s^2)t^2(s^2)+(10m/s)t(s), 0 < t <3s

B) v(m/s)=(-10m/s^2)t(s)+(20m/s), 0 < t <3s

C) x(m)=(-10m/s) delta t(s) +5m ,3 < t <4s

D) v^2(m^2/s^2) = 2(-10m/s^2) delta x(m) +(400m^2/s^2), 0 < t <3s

2. Examine the velocity versus time graph below. Select the mathematical models that COULD describe the graph from the choices below. COULD is the operative word - is there any information about the starting point in the velocity versus time graph? (could have muliple answers)

http://tinypic.com/view.php?pic=2j3jipi&s=8#.U62g3F6aL1o <<imagae of graph

A) x(m)=1/2(+4m/s/s)t^2(s^2)-(10m/s)t(s)+5m

B) v(m/s)=(+4m/s/s)t(s)+(-10m/s)

C) delta x(m)=1/2(v(m/s)-10m/s)t(s)

D) v^2(m/s)^2=2(4m/s/s) delta x(m)+100(m/s)^2

3. A mountain goat starts a rock-slide and the rocks crash down the slope 196 m. Down hill is the positive x direction. If the rocks reach the bottom in 3 s, what is the acceleration of the rock-slide? Please remember to include units but do NOT use "^" for "raise to the power". Use ratios only.

4.NBA player Michael Jordan had one of the longest hang times in the league, about 0.92s. In general if a person has a hang time of 0.93 how high do they jump? Please use 9.81m/s/s to solve this problem.

You are the manager of a business that is losing money due to COVID and the CEO is pushing you hard to fix things.

You have many employees who are also effected by COVID.

Your financial statements show that you must cut employment costs by 50 percent. If you do not do this you will go out of business. You made the decision for the entire company: except for two employees.  Miss. Jackson and Jerome Edwards.

Tip 1: Remember from Chapter 1 the goal of the Financial Manager is to maximize the wealthy of your company.  

Tip 2: What about the human component? This is never covered in the text. This is on YOU as a manager.

Facts below.

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Miss. Jackson is one of your best employees, she has worked for you for 10 years, and recently she has lost two family members to COVID. Miss. Jackson is not doing well. If she is furloughed she risks losing her house and everything she has worked for over the years. Her performance has decreased due to these major life issues. She suffers from depression and sleep issues due to the stress. She has not communicated these circumstances to you because she is overwhelmed and she is afraid of losing her job. However you know, based upon her performance, she is going through rough times.  Miss. Jackson earns $60,000 a year.

Jerome Edwards is a new and upcoming employee that obtained his MBA from UNCFU with a 3.9 GPA and he is Miss. Jackson's subordinate. Jerome meets deadlines and shows no emotion to the difficulties of COVID. He hits every deadline and has the potential to succeed under any circumstances. When you send him a task he states "I'm on it" and he delivers.  Jerome earns $40,000 a year.

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I am the CEO of the corporation and I care about people. However I need to keep this business alive.

My request for this answer is to write a 250 word memo to me, the CEO, discussing your decision regarding Miss. Jackson and Jerome.

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I am a CEO who requires facts and an analysis based on how we can support our employees while keeping the business sustainable.

Maya is a senior in high school. She earns $8 an hour working approximately 25 hours a week at the local grocery store. An estimated 30 percent of her pay is deducted for taxes. Maya also earns approximately $15 each month in interest on savings.

Maya still owes money on her used car ($235 a month), but she doesn’t pay rent because she lives with her parents. She is responsible for the following expenses every month: cell phone ($35–$45), gas ($40–$60), and auto insurance ($50). Maya likes to play video games and listen to music, so she frequently buys games and music. Maya typically buys her own clothes and electronic gadgets, but she also receives gifts from her family for special occasions.

One of Maya’s short-term goals is to take a trip to visit her grandparents right after graduation. She expects this to cost $1,000, and she has already saved $500. A long-term goal is to attend college over the next four to five years at the local state school. She plans to pay part of the tuition with scholarship money and from her savings. So far she has set aside $7,000 for her college fund.

Directions:

Create a monthly spending plan for Maya using the information provided. Use this what you have learned to build the plan.

Step 1: List Maya’s anticipated monthly income sources and amounts. Calculate the total income she expects to receive in a month.

Step 2: Add expense categories and insert predicted amounts for each category. Remember to include “pay yourself first” or savings amounts to build up Maya’s trip fund and college fund. Calculate the predicted total amount needed to cover expenses and savings goals.

Step 3: Compare the total income to total expenses. Make adjustments to the expense amounts to ensure that Maya can cover the expenses with the income she expects each month.

You can use word, excel or your other application to present your work.

A firm has the opportunity to make a capital investment with the expectation that the investment will add economic value to the firm, increase customer satisfaction, and increase shareholder return. The investment is for a new supply chain inventory system, using state of the art 5G technologies and tracking capabilities. This system was recently developed and very few of your industry competitors are currently using it. To complete this case you will use Excel to format and solve a capital budget problem. Then you will answer a series of questions based on your calculations. Finally, you’ll prepare a analysis of the project using both derived data and qualitative factors. The data for the project is as follows:

For the case analysis, you are to:
1. Create an Excel spreadsheet to format and solve for each of the capital budget calculations.
a. All calculations are to be completed using Excel formulas
b. Format all dollar values w/ corresponding currency symbol
c. Use whole dollar amounts, so no decimal or cents figures
2. Answer all budget questions thoroughly. Prepare the narrative in Word or similar program, and cut and paste the narrative into the Excel spreadsheet. Please note: do not type the narrative answers directly into the spreadsheet cells.
Capital budget questions:
1. Calculate the project’s net present value. Is the project acceptable under the NPV decision-rule? Explain.
2. Calculate the project’s internal rate of return. Is the project acceptable under the IRR decision-rule? Explain.
3. Compare the NPV and IRR result for this investment. Given the result, is the project favorable and meet the economic considerations of the firm? Is there typically a preference between the NPV and IRR techniques? Explain.
4. Calculate the payback period for the project. If the firm accepts projects with payback at 7 years
or less, is the project acceptable?

Discuss in detail two qualitative factors and considerations related to this investment that the firm
should consider in addition to the quantitative and economic aspects of the project.

XYZ Company has the following data from its costing system regarding its two product lines, A1 and B1:

Using a traditional system, the company would apply manufacturing overhead to the units based on direct labor-hours for the upcoming period as follows:

Using an activity-based costing system, the company would assign manufacturing overhead to the following four activity cost pools. The "Other" cost pool includes organization-sustaining costs and idle capacity costs.

1. (8 points) Compute Product Margins for the A1 and B1 products using the traditional costing system (present your margins in an income statement format similar to Exhibit 6-13 in the textbook).

2. (12 points) Compute Product Margins for the A1 and B1 products using the activity-based costing system (present your margins in an income statement format similar to Exhibit 6-11 in the textbook).

3. (4 points) Based on your analysis above, estimate how much manufacturing overhead was allocated under the traditional costing system to (i) batch setups, and (ii) product sustaining activities for A1 and B1.

Please provide your answers to the questions above on an Excel spreadsheet or Word document and upload using the upload controls.

Use the following information for the questions 1 2 &amp; 3
On 1 st January 2015 Musheer LLC Company started a business of selling and buying Garments
products at Muscat. The company has brought few assets while starting the business namely
cash balance RO 32250, Bank balance RO 29750, short term investments RO 22150. The
company was running successfully the garments products business and started earning good
profits and the company gradually improved their business during the first six months also
purchased a machinery 1 st March 2015 RO 175690 and installation 11810 and life of the machine
is 5 years with scrap value of RO 22000. The company has brought additional capital of RO
1050000 in addition to the regular profits and purchased a building for RO 142750 on 1 st
September 2015 and a loan also borrowed from the Bank Muscat by showing the past months
profits on October 2015 of RO 105000 at 7% interest payable every year. The company with the
positive progress in the garment products business they also started a new branch at Ibra with a
capital of RO 122900. The company had bought one Equipment on 1 st June 2016 in another
branch for RO 97280 with the installation value of RO 22820 which has estimated life of 5 years
with the estimated scrap value of The Company of 13500 and the equipment is depreciated at
25% per annum on reducing balance method/written down value method. The Company closes it
books of account every year on 31 st December and Mr. Muneer a new accountant has been
appointed in the company who is a fresh Bachelor Graduate in accounting with high GPA but he
wants your expertise knowledge to understand the concept of the depreciation and
You are required to prepare depreciation schedule for the following non-current assets
showing all the working notes
A)  Equipment for five years under reducing balance method or written down value
method
B) .Machinery for five years under Straight Line Method

C)Building for five years under straight line method

Note: please write the answer in text format in word

Health Promotion for Multicultural Populations

Consider this scenario: (The scenario could have considered any population located within any community, work site, school, or health care program setting.)

Mortality and morbidity from health-related causes have been increasing for the past several years among several population groups living in a large multicultural metropolitan community. The local health jurisdiction, private providers, voluntary agencies, and community members are very concerned and want to reduce the number of deaths and illnesses drastically. Local government officials recognize that increased screening, referral, and treatment programs are critically needed for identifying problems. Limited monies are available for providing health promotion and education programs to selected multicultural target groups. Select a specific target group in a specific geographical area in your county as a frame of reference to work from. Consider the following questions relevant in a 4 to 5 page Microsoft Word document:

• How would you involve those affected by the problem?
• How would you identify opportunities for Community-based Participatory Research (CBPR) in health promotion program planning?
• How would you assess community capacity as relevant to the program planning effort?
• Describe the dynamic relationship between program planning, evaluation, and implementation.
• How would you assess the needs of the community or target populations?
• How would you diagnose and prioritize health-related concerns (problems and needs) in the community?
• How would you assess the specific health promotion and education needs of the target group (i.e., targeted assessment)?
• How would you use and apply your knowledge about the predisposing, enabling, and reinforcing factors to assist with your planning team identify the target group and select possible program intervention activities?
• What levels of change would be sought in your program?
• What specific health promotion and education program goals and objectives would be included in your hierarchy?
• What factors would you consider relevant to identifying health promotion program intervention activities that would consider the special needs of the target group, the health problem, and setting?
• What levels of evaluation (i.e., impact, outcome, process, and formative) would you use for assessing your previously stated program objectives?