Problem:      Construct and interpret a 90%, 95%, and 99% confidence interval for the mean heights of either adult females or the average height of adult males living in America. Do not mix genders in your sample as this will skew your results. Gather a random sample of size 30 of heights from your friends, family, church members, strangers, etc. by asking each individual in your sample his or her height. From your raw data convert individual heights to inches. Record your raw data and your conversions in the table on page 2 of this document. Construct and interpret the confidence interval based on the raw data from your random sample. In a word processed document, answer the reflections questions below. Use the equation editor to show your calculations for the percent difference indicated in 6) below.

Reflections: 1)            Summarize the characteristics of your sample – how many was in it, who was in it, from where did you get your sample, what would you estimate to be the average age of your sample, etc.?

2) What is x for your sample?

3) What is s for your sample?

3) State and interpret the 90% confidence interval for your sample.

4) State and interpret the 95% confidence interval for your sample.

5) State and interpret the 99% confidence interval for your sample.

6) Research from a credible source the average height in the population as a whole for the group you sampled. Make sure to credit your source. Calculate a percent difference between the average of your sample and the average in the population as a whole.   What was the percent difference of the average height in your sample and the population as a whole? Comment on your percent difference.

Table of Raw Data of womens heights

Preparation of Individual Budgets

During the first calendar quarter of 2019, Clinton Corporation is planning to manufacture a new product and introduce it in two regions. Market research indicates that sales will be 6,000 units in the urban region at a unit price of $53 and 5,000 units in the rural region at $48 each. Because the sales manager expects the product to catch on, he has asked for production sufficient to generate a 4,000-unit ending inventory. The production manager has furnished the following estimates related to manufacturing costs and operating expenses:

*Varies per unit sold, not per unit produced.

a. Assuming that the desired ending inventories of materials A and B are 4,000 and 6,000 pounds, respectively, and that work-in-process inventories are immaterial, prepare budgets for the calendar quarter in which the new product will be introduced for each of the following operating factors:

Do not use negative signs with any of your answers below.

1. Total sales

($Answer)

2. Production

(Answer units)

3. Material purchase cost

4. Direct labor costs

($Answer)

5. Manufacturing overhead costs

6. Selling and administrative expenses

b. Using data generated in requirement (a), prepare a budgeted income statement for the calendar quarter. Assume an overall effective income tax rate of 30%.

Round answers to the nearest whole number.
Do not use negative signs with your answers.

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Nordstrom Inc. is a Seattle-based department store rivaling the likes of Saks Fifth Avenue, Neiman Marcus, and Bloomingdale’s. Nordstrom is a Hall of Fame member of Fortune magazine’s “100 Best Companies to Work For” list. Nordstrom is known for its quality apparel, upscale environment, and generous employee rewards. However, what Nordstrom is most famous for is its delivery of customer service above and beyond the norms of the retail industry. This service orientation serves as a form of control as it helps employees decide how to behave when they encounter new situations. Stories about Nordstrom service abound. For example, according to one story the company confirms from long ago, in 1975 Nordstrom moved into a new location that had formerly been a tire store. A customer brought a set of tires into the store to return them. Without a word about the mix-up, the tires were accepted, and the customer was fully refunded the purchase price. In a different story, a customer tried on several pairs of shoes but failed to find the right combination of size and color. As she was about to leave, the clerk called other Nordstrom stores but could only locate the right pair at Macy’s, a nearby competitor. The clerk had Macy’s ship the shoes to the customer’s home at Nordstrom’s expense. In a third story, a customer describes wandering into a Portland, Oregon, Nordstrom looking for an Armani tuxedo for his daughter’s wedding. The sales associate took his measurements just in case one was found. The next day, the customer got a phone call, informing him that the tux was available. When pressed, the associate revealed that using her connections she found one in New York, had it put on a truck destined to Chicago, and dispatched someone to meet the truck in Chicago at a rest stop. The next day she shipped the tux to the customer’s address, and the customer found that the tux had already been altered for his measurements and was ready to wear. What is even more impressive about this story is that Nordstrom does not sell Armani tuxedos.

How does Nordstrom persist in creating these stories that serve as a way to control and direct employee behavior? If you guessed that they have a large number of rules and regulations designed to emphasize quality in customer service, you’d be wrong. In fact, the company gives employees a 5½-inch by 7½-inch card as the employee handbook. On one side of the card, the company welcomes employees to Nordstrom and states that their number one goal is to provide outstanding customer service, and for this they have only one rule. On the other side of the card, the single rule is stated: “Use good judgment in all situations.” By leaving it in the hands of Nordstrom associates, the company seems to have empowered employees who deliver customer service heroics every day.

1. The controlling facet of the P-O-L-C framework introduces you to a variety of controls. What types of controls does Nordstrom seem to effectively incorporate into their operations?

2. Does Nordstrom use behavioral controls? What are some examples?

3. Does Nordstrom use outcome controls? What are some examples?

4. What suggestions would you give Nordstrom for maintaining and evolving the organizational culture that has contributed to its success?

5. What balanced scorecard elements does Nordstrom seem to view as most important?

Bamboo Consulting is a consulting firm owned and operated by Lisa Gooch. The following end-of-period spreadsheet was prepared for the year ended July 31, 2019:

Prepare an income statement for the year ended July 31, 2019 for Bamboo Consulting. If a net loss has been incurred, enter that amount as a negative number using a minus sign. Be sure to complete the statement heading. Use the list of Labels and Amount Descriptions for the correct wording of text items other than account names. You will not need to enter colons (:) on the income statement.

Prepare a statement of owner’s equity for the year ended July 31, 2019 for Bamboo Consulting. No additional investments were made during the year. For those boxes in which you must enter subtractive or negative numbers use a minus sign. Be sure to complete the statement heading. Use the list of Labels and Amount Descriptions for the correct wording of text items.

Prepare a balance sheet as of July 31, 2019 for Bamboo Consulting. Fixed assets must be entered in order according to account number. Be sure to complete the statement heading. Use the list of Labels and Amount Descriptions for the correct wording of text items other than account names. You will not need to enter colons (:) or the word "Less" on the balance sheet; they will automatically insert where necessary.

Who are the illegal miners in South Africa? They are often illegal immigrants, largely from Zimbabwe, Mozambique, Lesotho or other central and southern African nations that come to South Africa in search of striking it rich, or at the very least, making a decent living. In South Africa, the illegal miners are often referred to as the Zama Zamas, a term that means “trying your luck”. These immigrants come to South Africa to earn a living with the hopes of remitting earnings back to their families in their respective homelands.Some illegal miners are South Africans who view illegal mining as a dangerous, albeit potentially remunerative activity. Some of the South African illegal miners can be described as “legal miners by day, yet illegal by night.” In other words, they might be gainfully employed by a mining firm and work legitimately for the company during the day shift, but re-enter the mine when evening falls to bolster their income. These individuals are particularly useful to a group of illegal miners given their familiarity with the mine and its risks. It is also quite possible that the South African illegal miners are unemployed mineworkers that were previously laid off by the mining companies when they were forced to retrench as a result of increasing global competitive pressures. Alternatively, illegal mineworkers may simply be young, black South Africans (without any previous mining experience) seeking a living in a nation that has struggled to reach its potential in the post-apartheid era and where one out of four South Africans is unemployed.Regardless of the nationality or the motivations that landed the illegal miners in this role, one thing is certain: it is not an easy life. Illegal miners may break into the very mines they work in by day, or often work in abandoned or disused mine shafts. (Disused mine shafts are mines that legitimate mining companies are in the process of closing down because they are no longer economically viable, but where the firms are awaiting final permits issued by the government to “officially” close the mine. Mining companies complain that all too frequently, the government-issued permit is delayed for months, thus exacerbating the illegal mining problem.) The miners often align themselves with a group of miners united in their illegal search of striking it rich. There is power in numbers. Being part of a group offers protection from rival factions of illegal mine workers, and fosters some level of camaraderie as the freelance miners ‘watch over’ one another. Since illegal miners are typically not employees of any business, nor members of any union and often times, not even citizens of South Africa, it can be said, that if it wasn’t for these informal groups, the miners would have no one else with even an ounce of their interests in mind. The groups generally work for a leader (a “kingpin”) who organizes runners to bring food and drinks to them, while the “miners” stay underground, some times for days – and even months - at a time. Illegal miners often run the risk of falling prey to other serious crimes. Illegal miners’ lives have been threatened - and lost - when they have refused to relinquish the deftly collected gold particles in their possession to thieves. Deaths, however, often go unreported, and as a result, there is no way of knowing how many illegal miners lose their lives each year. Only when there is a more visible event – such as a fire that went out of control in an abandoned mineshaft in 2009, killing 76 people, is a light shed on the plight and the working conditions of these workers.

**Word limit 2000-3000 words**

This assignment features an exponential function that is closely related to Moore’s Law, which states that the numbers of transistors per square inch in Central Processing Unit (CPU) chips will double every 2 years. This law was named after Dr. Gordon Moore.

Table 1 below shows selected CPUs from this leading processor company introduced between the years 1982 and 2008 in relation to their corresponding processor speeds of Million Instructions per Second (MIPS).

Table 1: Selected CPUs with corresponding speed ratings in MIPS.

Processor Year t Years After 1982 When Introduced Million Instructions per Second (MIPS)

4 1982 0 1.28

5 1985 3 2.15

6 1989 7 8.7

7 1992 10 25.6

8 1994 12 188

9 1996 14 541

10 1999 17 2,064

11 2003 21 9,726

12 2006 24 27,079

13 2008 26 59,455

(Instructions per second, n.d.) This information can be mathematically modeled by the exponential function:

MIPS(t) = (0.112)(1.405^(1.14t+9.12))

NOTE: This function is created as a “best fit” function for a table of empirical data and, therefore, does not exactly match many (or any) of the data values in the table above. Rather, the total cumulative differences from all of the data points is at a minimum for this function.

Be sure to show your work details for all calculations and explain in detail how the answers were determined for critical thinking questions. Round all value answers to three decimals.

Generate a graph of this function, MIPS(t) = (0.112)(1.405^(1.14t+9.12)), t years after 1982, using Excel or another graphing utility. (There are free downloadable programs like Graph 4.4.2 or Mathematics 4.0; or, there are also online utilities such as this site and many others.) Insert the graph into your Word document that contains all of your work details and answers. Be sure to label and number the axes appropriately. (Note: Some graphing utilities require that the independent variable must be “x” instead of “t”.)

Find the derivative of MIPS(t) with respect to t. Show your work details.

Choose a t-value between 10 and 26. Calculate the value of MIPS'(t). Show your work details.

Interpret the meaning of the derivative value that you just calculated from part 3 in terms of the MIPS(t) function and this scenario.

If the MIPS(t) function is reasonably accurate, for what value of t will the rate of increase in MIPS per year reach 6,000,000 MIPS? Approximately which year does that correspond to? Show your work details.

For the t-value you chose in part 3 above, find the equation of the tangent line to the graph of MIPS(t) at that value of t. What information about the MIPS(t) function can be obtained from the tangent line? Show your work details.

Using Web or Library resources research to find the years of introduction and the processor speeds for both the CPU A and the CPU B. Be sure to cite your creditable resources for these answers. Convert the years introduced to correct values of t by subtracting 1982 from each year. Then, determine how well the MIPS(t) function predicts the forecast CPUs’ processor speeds by comparing the calculated values with the actual MIPS ratings of these two CPUs. Show your work details.

Thurston Howell IV is the sole heir to the Howell Enterprise fortune. He does not participate in the business, preferring to tend to his comic book collection. He does however own a large piece of the company.

Recently he had become concerned about how the company has performed specifically related to some transactions relating to stockholders’ equity.

Here is the data relating to stockholders’ equity:

Howell Enterprises

Stockholders’ Equity

As of December 31, 2019

Common Stock, 2,000,000 shares outstanding                         10,000,000

Retained Earnings                                                                          7,500,000

Total Stockholders Equity                                                              17,500,000

Thurston currently owns 300,000 shares of Howell Enterprises

Here are the relevant transactions for 2020:

1. The company issued 500,000 shares @ $8.00 per share
2. The company purchased 100,000 shares @ $15 per share
3. The company declared a $2.50 per share cash dividend
4. The company declared a 2:1 stock split

Required

1. Calculate the book value per share as of December 31, 2019. (total equity / number of shares outstanding)
2. Calculate the total value of Thurston Howell IV’s stock as of December 31, 2019. (his shares x book value per share)
3. Calculate the percentage of the company that Mr. Howell owns as of December 31, 2019. (his shares / total number of shares outstanding)
4. Prepare journal entries for the transactions listed above
5. Calculate the ending balances in the equity accounts
6. Calculate the book value per share after the transactions have been recorded
7. Calculate the total value of Thurston Howell IV’s stock after the transactions have been recorded. (his shares x new book value per share)
8. Calculate the percentage of the company that Mr. Howell owns after the transactions have been recorded. (his shares x new total outstanding shares).
9. Calculate the amount of loss that Mr. Howell has suffered (if any) as a result of the above transactions. (compare #2 to # 7).
10. Write a summary in Word explaining your results. Which transactions caused Mr. Howell to lose money?

Record the transactions for 2020 and calculate the ending balances in all of the stockholders equity accounts.

Mr. Howell’s Investment

Turn in the summary with this page

Bonds Problem

Hartz Corporation had the following transactions relating to borrowings during 2020:

• Hartz issued $2,000,000 in ten-year 5% bonds when the price was 98 (Bond A). Interest is paid once a year.
• Hartz issued $2,000,000 in ten-year 5% bonds when the price was 102. (Bond B). Interest is paid once a year.
• Hartz issued $2,000,000 in ten -year 5% bonds that were issued at par (100) (Bond C). Interest is paid once a year

Required

• Calculate the amount of money received when the bonds were issued for each bond.
• Calculate the amount of cash paid on the interest date for each bond.
• Calculate the amount of interest expense for each bond.