Please Explain the Valuation Model for a domestic corporation and a MNC. Discuss each part of the formula and how changes in exchange rates effect values.

What are the options that might be considered in relation to introducing flexible work practices? What are any barriers to change and the pros and cons of possible changes?

1. A family bereavement counselor working in an elder care unit of a hospital regularly considered the extent to which factors associated with the families’ culture or religious values should be considered in the treatment plan. Is this scenario Ethical or Unethical? Select True for Ethical or False for Unethical

2.   A psychologist working in a Medicaid clinic decided not to include a cognitive component in a behavioral treatment based solely on the psychologist’s belief that lower-income patients were incapable of responding to “talk therapies.” Is this scenario Ethical or Unethical? Select True for Ethical or False for Unethical

3.  Consistent with Standard 10.10a, Terminating Treatment, a psychologist treating a client/patient with a diagnosis of borderline disorder terminated therapy when she realized the client/patient had formed an iatrogenic attachment to her that was clearly interfering with any benefits that could be derived from the treatment. However, she did not provide appropriate pretermination counseling and referrals to the client/patient. Is this scenario Ethical or Unethical? Select True for Ethical or False for Unethical

4. A graduate student interning at an inpatient psychiatric hospital asked her patients if they would agree to participate in her dissertation research. Is this scenario Ethical or Unethical? Select True for Ethical or False for Unethical    

5. A psychologist providing services at a college counseling center was having difficulties with her own college-aged son’s drinking habits. She began to share her concerns about her son wit h her clients and sometimes asked their advice. Is this scenario Ethical or Unethical? Select True for Ethical or False for Unethical

6.  Sexual relationships with individuals with whom psychologists have a current professional relationship are always unethical. Is this statement True or False? Select True for Ethical or False for Unethical

7.  It may not be possible or reasonable to avoid multiple relationships. Psychologists who live and work in rural communities, in small towns, on American Indian reservations, in small insulated religious or immigrant communities, or within unique langue groups are often the only qualified professional available to provide specialty services. When alternative psychological services are not available, providing such services is not in violation of Standard 3.05 Multiple Relationships. Is this statement True or False?  Select True for Ethical or False for Unethical

8. Standard 3.05, Multiple Relationship prohibits psychologists from hugging, hand-holding, or putting an arm around those with whom they work in all cases including special events such as graduation, termination of therapy, promotion.  Is this statement True or False? Select True for Ethical or False for Unethical

9. Unethical multiple relationships often emerge after psychologists have engaged in a pattern that progresses from apparently benign and perhaps well-intended boundary crossings to increasingly intrusive and harmful boundary violations and multiple relationships. Therefore, it is the psychologist’s responsibility to monitor and ensure appropriate boundaries between professional and personal communications and relationships. Is this statement True or False?  Select True for Ethical or False for Unethical

10.  Receiving referrals from current or recent clients/patients is an excellent way to grow a practice as a psychologist. Is this statement True or False? Select True for Ethical or False for Unethical  

Soda drinks (“pop) are fairly popular with Saskatchewan residents. People like to drink it with meals, as a refreshing drink on a hot day, as mix with alcoholic beverages, etc. The following describes recent changes in the Saskatchewan soda market:

• Consumption decreased from 30 million liters per month to 27 million liters per month; and
• The average price of soda pop increased from $2.00 per liter to $3.00 per liter.

In a recent report, the Canadian Beverage Association (CBA) attributes the following reasons for the changes in prices and quantities:

• The recent COVID-19 pandemic has caused people to spend more time at home. People are binge-watching TV series, watching movies, reading books, surfing the web/social media, etc. to entertain themselves. The CBA suggested that people like to drink soda drinks while doing these more sedentary activities. People liked it so much they began to hoard soda pop, particularly in less popular brands; and
• Prices of key inputs into the production of soda drinks have risen in most parts of the world due to COVID-19. There are shortages of key inputs like aluminum, plastic and carbon dioxide causing prices of these inputs to increase substantially. The impact on input prices has also impacted soda drink manufacturers operating in the Saskatchewan market.

a) With the aid of a graph, explain what happened to the demand and supply in the Saskatchewan soda drink market based on the information provided by the CBA. Please ensure to incorporate the data cited earlier into your explanation as well as the labeling and drawing of your graph when explaining the overall effect of the supply and demand shocks on price and quantity. Hint: you don’thave to draw the graph to scale.

b) With the supply & demand shocks that occurred, are the effects on price and quantity ambiguous or unambiguous relative to the initial equilibrium in part a) (i.e. a price increase and quantity decrease)? Put another way, could there be a different outcome for the new equilibrium price (i.e. stay the same or decrease) or equilibrium quantity (i.e. increase or stay the same) compared to what occurred? Please carefully explain your answer and note that no graph is required.

c) What has likely happened to consumer and producer surplus as a result of the changes to the equilibrium price and quantity? That is, did consumer and producer surplus increase, decrease or stay the same as a result of the changes in part a)? Can the changes to consumer and producer surplus be known with certainty with the information provided?

d) What impact will the changes in Saskatchewan’s soda drink market have on the Saskatchewan potato chip market. That is, how would the changes in the equilibrium price and quantity of soda drinks affect the potato chip market? You must provide a graph to support your explanation. Hint: think substitutes and complements!

X_Woods, Inc.

In early 2014 John McDonald, president and majority owner of X_Woods, is concerned about the firm's short-term financing, as his accountant just brought the year-end 2013 financial statements to John. The statements show what John already knows, the $35,000 line of credit from First Bank is completely drawn down, and cash balances are well below the $10,000 minimum balance John feels is necessary.

X_Woods was started by John in 2001 with a personal loan of $160,000 and $80,000 of his savings as equity. During the 2000s, the lack of competition allowed him to maintain a high profit margin. Annual sales growth of 15% to 25% was financed entirely by profits and the start-up capital. Operating expenses had been kept low because John did all of the firm's marketing and purchasing himself. Besides John, the firm had 6 employees. These employees were primarily responsible for filling mail orders and customer billing.

In 2004 several competitors arrived. Each year, to continue to increase sales, he had to lower prices slightly, or not raise them despite having to pay his suppliers more. Between 2009 and 2012, his gross margin fell from 28.6% to 26.2% of sales. In the late 2012, he had been forced to forego the cash discounts his suppliers offered. By mid-2013, he was beginning to have trouble meeting their 30-day payment terms and was forced to arrange a line of credit for $10,000 with his bank. During 2001, the line of credit had to be increased to $35,000. In a recent conversation with his banker, John had been told that it would be difficult for the bank to grant further increases of the credit line. The banker was concerned about the amount of long-term debt outstanding and about John's inability to pay down any of the $35,000 loan. The banker did say the $35,000 would continue to be available through 2002 but that the bank could not increase the loan amount. John thought that there were three possible strategies for 2002, but he was not sure how to analyze them. John would like you to analyze the three plans described below. Financial statements from 1999 through 2001 are attached.

Plan 2002A:

Sales growth will be stimulated by offering low prices. John is uncertain if the $35,000 credit line will be sufficient to finance this plan.

Objectives: Sales growth of 25%. Gross margin 26% of sales.   Pay suppliers in 30 days.

Plan 2002B:

Limit sales to exotic, high profit margin types of wood. Lower sales growth, with higher return and lower inventories will reduce financing need.

Objectives: Sales growth of 10%. Gross margin 30% of sales.   Pay suppliers in 30 days.

Plan 2002C:

Follow plan B but take the cash discount offered by suppliers. This requires paying for inventory in 10 days, rather than 30, which may strain his available working capital.

Objectives: Sales growth of 10%. Gross margin 32% of sales.  

Pay suppliers in 10 days. The Gross Margin of 32% of sales includes the 2% supplier discount.

ASSIGNMENT:

- Prepare pro forma income statements and balance sheets for each of John plans. Base your pro form analysis of all three plans, on the following assumptions:

- All sales are credit sales.

- GA&S (including interest) 20% of Sales.

- All after tax profits are retained in the firm.

- A/R and Inventory days of 45 and 90, respectively.

- Net Fixed Assets will be unchanged at $90,000.

- Make the $8,000 long-term debt payment.

- Other Current Liabilities will remain 2% of sales.

- Cash balance minimum of $10,000.

- The tax rate is 40%.

1. What is the major force/pressure that causes filtration?

2. What is the major force/pressure that causes reabsorption?

3. What would happen to the filtration rate if glomerular capillaries were damaged to an extent to be leaky to plasma proteins?

Identifying how renal arterioles affect GFR

Complete the following table that describes how changes in the diameters of these resistance vessels affect glomerular hydrostatic pressure and GFR (assuming no change in renal arterial pressure) with no change, increase, or decrease.

How renal arterioles respond to changes in blood pressure

Changes in mean arterial pressure (MAP) can lead to wide changes in systemic pressure, including the renal arteries. Use your understanding of the renal mechanisms identified in part and your understanding of cardiovascular physiology and blood pressure to answer the following questions.

1. In the human body, if MAP is between 80 and 160mmHg, would GFR be expected to change as MAP changes? Explain your answer, including in your answer the afferent arteriolar response, what stimulates it to do so (2 stimuli), and the purpose of this response.

1. GFR:

2. afferent arteriole response:

3. two stimuli of response:

4. purpose of response:

2. What would happen to GFR if MAP rises above 160mmHg? Explain your answer, including in your answer what each arteriole does, what stimulates their responses, and the purpose of their responses.

1. GFR:

2. afferent arteriole response:

3. efferent arteriole response:

4. stimulus for responses:

5. purpose of responses:

3. What would happen to GFR if MAP falls below 80mmHg? Explain your answer, including in your answer what each arteriole does, what stimulates their responses, and the purpose of their responses.

1. GFR:

2. afferent arteriole response:

3. efferent arteriole response:

4. stimulus for responses:

5. purpose of responses:

Complete the required methods:

public class SongList
{
// instance variables
private Song m_last;
private int m_numElements;

// constructor
// Do not make any changes to this method!
public SongList()
{
m_last = null;
m_numElements = 0;
}

// check whether the list is empty
// Do not make any changes to this method!
boolean isEmpty()
{
if (m_last == null)
return true;
else
return false;
}

// return the size of the list (# of Song nodes)
// Do not make any changes to this method!
public int size()
{
return m_numElements;
}

// add a new Song to the circular linked list with the given artist and
// title, keeping the list sorted by *song title*.
public void add(String artist, String title)
{
// TODO: implement this method
}

// remove a Song associated with the given artist and title from the list,
// keeping the list sorted by *song title*.
public boolean remove(String artist, String title)
{
// TODO: implement this method
}
  
  
// build and return a circular linked list that contains all songs from the
// given artist
public SongList buildList(String artist)
{
// TODO: implement this method
}
  
// return a string representation of the list
// Do not make any changes to this method!
public String toString()
{   
String listContent = "";
Song current = m_last;
  
if (m_last != null)
do
{
current = current.getLink();
listContent += " [" + current.getArtist() + " - " + current.getTitle() + "]\n";

} while (current != m_last);

return listContent;
}
}

// The Song class that represents a song
// Do not make any changes to this file!

public class Song
{
// instance variables
private String m_artist;
private String m_title;
private Song m_link;

// constructor
public Song(String artist, String title)
{
m_artist = artist;
m_title = title;
m_link = null;
}

// getters and setters
public void setArtist(String artist)
{
m_artist = artist;
}

public String getArtist()
{
return m_artist;
}

public void setTitle(String title)
{
m_title = title;
}

public String getTitle()
{
return m_title;
}
  
public void setLink(Song link)
{
m_link = link;
}

public Song getLink()
{
return m_link;
}
}

Glomerular Filtration

1. What is the major force/pressure that causes filtration?

2. What is the major force/pressure that causes reabsorption?

3. What would happen to the filtration rate if glomerular capillaries were damaged to an extent to be leaky to plasma proteins?

Identifying how renal arterioles affect GFR

Complete the following table that describes how changes in the diameters of these resistance vessels affect glomerular hydrostatic pressure and GFR (assuming no change in renal arterial pressure) with no change, increase, or decrease.

How renal arterioles respond to changes in blood pressure

Changes in mean arterial pressure (MAP) can lead to wide changes in systemic pressure, including the renal arteries. Use your understanding of the renal mechanisms identified in part and your understanding of cardiovascular physiology and blood pressure to answer the following questions.

1. In the human body, if MAP is between 80 and 160mmHg, would GFR be expected to change as MAP changes? Explain your answer, including in your answer the afferent arteriolar response, what stimulates it to do so (2 stimuli), and the purpose of this response.

1. GFR:

2. afferent arteriole response:

3. two stimuli of response:

4. purpose of response:

2. What would happen to GFR if MAP rises above 160mmHg? Explain your answer, including in your answer what each arteriole does, what stimulates their responses, and the purpose of their responses.

1. GFR:

2. afferent arteriole response:

3. efferent arteriole response:

4. stimulus for responses:

5. purpose of responses:

3. What would happen to GFR if MAP falls below 80mmHg? Explain your answer, including in your answer what each arteriole does, what stimulates their responses, and the purpose of their responses.

1. GFR:

2. afferent arteriole response:

3. efferent arteriole response:

4. stimulus for responses:

5. purpose of responses: