1. A simple random sample was conducted of 1405 Canadian adults. They were asked whether they were in favor of tighter enforcement of tobacco laws. Of the 1405 adults, 1060 responded yes. Obtain a 95% confidence interval for the proportion of Canadian adults who are in favor of tighter enforcement of tobacco laws.
2. Of 15, 344 Virginians tested for COVID-19 in March of 2020, 1,484 had positive or presumptive positive results for the virus. Assuming the other 49 states had results similar to Virginia, obtain a 90% confidence level for the proportion of Americans tested that would receive a positive result for COVID-19.
3. Of the 157 graduates of Page County High School in 2015, 68% claimed they had tried smoking weed at some point in their high school years. A 95% confidence level for this claim was .234 to.405. Find the point estimate  (p hat) and the margin of error E for this data.

Question 4 Butler and John operate a music store as a partnership. The partnership agreement states that profits and losses are to be shared equally after adjusting for interest on capital, superannuation, drawings and salaries paid to the partners Income ($) Sales $896,900 Interest from Advance to John 2,000 Expenses ($) Cost of goods sold 416,000 Salary-Butler 63,000 Salary-employees 110,000 Superannuation to Butler 14,000 Superannuation to employees 13,000 Interest on capital to Butler 7,000 Interest on Capital to John 9,500 Interest on loan from CBA 19,000 Drawings to Butler 32,000 Drawings to John 17,000 Other deductible operating expenses 105,000 Additional information: Trading stock balances were estimated as follows: 30 June 2019 86,000 30 June 2020 94,000 Required: Calculate the net income of the partnership. Show the allocation of net income to each of the partners..

Buyers determine demand while sellers determine supply. Both laws of supply and demand establish market forces that make economies work to search for their market equilibrium. The impact of COVID-19 is an unprecedented event that affects the global economy. In the article, the overall retail sales dramatically dropped by 34.8%, with jewellery and luxury goods drop of 67% but supermarkets increase of 12%, in the first five months of 2020. However, online-based consumption, like demand for food delivery, online education (Zoom), stay-at-home activities and online grocery shopping surged dramatically since the outbreak of pandemic.

3) Principle 6 of Economics states, “Markets are usually a good way to organize economic activity”. Hopefully COVID-19 will end some time in the near future. Predict how the retail industry would become in the economy with the aftermath of the pandemic. (300 words)

The following information is available for the McCain Manufacturing Company for 2020.
Accounts receivable, January 1, 2020 $120,000
Accounts payable, January 1, 2020 ?
Raw materials, January 1, 2020 10,000
Work in process, January 1, 2020 25,000
Finished goods, January 1, 2020 75,000
Accounts receivable, December 31, 2020 80,000
Accounts payable, December 31, 2020 200,000
Raw materials, December 31, 2020 ?
Work in process, December 31, 2020   60,000
Finished goods, December 31, 2020 50,000
Raw materials used in production   100,000
Raw materials purchased 130,000
Accounts receivable collections ?
Accounts payable payments 80,000
Sales ?
Total manufacturing costs ?
Cost of goods manufactured ?
Cost of goods sold 60% of Sales
Gross margin 400,000

Assume that all raw materials are purchased on credit and all sales are credit sales. Compute the missing amounts above.

Your friend has $1000 that he wants to invest toward his retirement in about 30 years. This will be his first ever investment. What is the best choice?

In 1980, a stock with the ticker symbol "MBA" would trade on which exchange, the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) or Nasdaq? How about in 2014?

Why is margin required in a short sale stock transaction?

Assume A Corp, B Corp, and C Corp are components of the Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA). Given the information below, which would have the most influence on price movements of the DJIA?

A trader wants to purchase Microsoft stock at $30.00 and no more. Microsoft's current price is $30.05. Which order is most appropriate for this trader?

Which of the following best describes the stock trading environment in the United States?

Which of the following represents an advantage of an ETF versus an open-end mutual fund?

TzeMay was one of the first women engineering students at ABC University. She graduated in 1995 with a first class honours degree and immediately continued her studies with an MSc programme, gaining recognition for her work into environmentally friendly car engines, a largely untapped field in those days. On completion of her Masters degree she was offered a post as a research assistant where she could have developed her Masters research and worked towards her doctorate. However she decided that she needed to gain some commercial experience and joined Wallace-Price, a blue-chip engineering consultancy where, apart from a sponsored year out to study for an MBA in the United States of America, she has remained ever since.

Her tenacity and loyalty to Wallace-Price have paid off and she was made a partner in the firm, primarily responsible for bringing in work to the consultancy. With the promotion came various executive privileges including an annual salary of £80, 000, a chauffeur-driven car, free use of one of the company-owned London flats, a non-contributory pension scheme, various gold credit cards and first-class air travel. TzeMay herself would not describe these as benefits, however, but as necessities to enable her to do her job properly. In order to meet her business target of £2 million of work for Wallace-Price she spent forty weeks overseas, working an average of ninety hours a week.

She cannot remember the last time that she had a weekend when she was not entertaining clients or travelling but was totally free to indulge herself. During her time with Wallace-Price she has earned a reputation both as a formidable but honest negotiator and as an innovative engineer, often finding seemingly impossible solutions to problems. Known for her single-minded dedication to her job, she does not suffer fools gladly. She is frequently approached to work for rival firms with promises of even greater privileges and has been the subject of numerous magazine profiles, some concentrating on her work and reputation as a high flier but the majority focusing on her gender. Her fortieth birthday last year was spent alone in the Emergency Room of a Los Angeles hospital where she had been rushed with a suspected stomach ulcer. Deprived of her portable telephone, fax and computer she had little else to do but to reflect on her life thus far. On her return to health she was working her way through the pile of technical journals, which had accumulated during her absence and there she saw the advertisement for ABC University, an institution that had close links with her company and whose Professor of Engineering she knew well. Ignoring the instructions relating to applications she put through a telephone call to the ABC University.

Question 1 : Making reference to the appropriate theories of motivation, explain TzeMay‟s main motivating factors.

ABC Company has the following information pertaining to its biological assets for the year 2020:

A herd of 150, 3-year old animals was held at January 1, 2020. Eight animals aged 2.5 years were purchased on July 1, 2020 for P 3,400, and ten animals were born on July 1, 2020. No animals were sold or disposed of during the period. Per unit fair values less estimated point-of-sale costs were as follows:

Instructions:

21. How much is the balance of biological assets as of January 1, 2020?

22. How much of the increase in the fair value of the biological asses due to price change?

23. How much of the increase in the fair value of the biological assets due to physical change?

24. What is the fair value of the biological assets as of December 31, 2020?

25. If four 2.5 years old animal was sold on July 1, 2020, how much is the balance of biological assets as of December 31, 2020?

A public health researcher wonders if the well-being of a nation’s health care system influences its infant mortality rate. To investigate this, she collected data on well-being of the health care system (the nation’s number of people per hospital bed; a lower number indicates a stronger health care system) and infant mortality rate (number of infant deaths per 1,000 births) from 6 countries.

a) Calculate the correlation between infant mortality rate and people per hospital bed in this sample of countries. Show all of your calculation work.

b) Interpret the result you obtained in a).

c) Calculate the regression for the relationship between infant mortality rate and people per hospital bed. Show all of your calculation work.

d) Interpret the results you obtained in c).

e) If a country has 150 people per hospital bed, what do the results of the analysis here predict for that country’s infant mortality rate? Show all of your work.

f) What other country-level variables may influence a country’s infant mortality rate? Give at least one and explain why you think this variable influences the infant mortality rate

Barry Potter and Winnie Weasley are considering making an S election on March 1, 2019, for their C corporation, Omniocular. However, first they want to consider the implications of the following information:

• Winnie is a U.S. citizen and resident.
• Barry is a citizen of the United Kingdom, but a resident of the United States.
• Barry and Winnie each own 50 percent of the voting power in Omniocular. However, Barry's stock provides him with a claim on 60 percent of the Omniocular assets in liquidation.
• Omniocular was formed under Arizona state law, but it plans on eventually conducting some business in Mexico.

For the remainder of the problem, assume Omniocular made a valid S election effective January 1, 2019. Barry and Winnie each own 50 percent of the voting power and have equal claim on Omniocular's assets in liquidation. In addition, consider the following information:

• Omniocular reports on a calendar tax year.
• Omniocular's earnings and profits as of December 31, 2018, were $55,000.
• Omniocular's 2018 taxable income was $15,000.
• Omniocular's assets at the end of 2018 are as follows:

*$110,000 under FIFO accounting.

• On March 31, 2019, Omniocular sold the land for $42,000.
• In 2019, Omniocular sold all the inventory it had on hand at the beginning of the year. This was the only inventory it sold during the year.

• Assume that if Omniocular were a C corporation for 2019, its taxable income would have been $88,500.

E. Assume Barry's basis in his Omniocular stock was $40,000 on January 1, 2019. What is his stock basis on December 31, 2019?

Assignment 2: Leadership Strategies Presentation

Directions:

Taking on the role of a CEO, develop a PowerPoint presentation of approximately 15 slides that explains how you would adapt the Western leadership strategies of either Heifetz and Linsky or Drucker in your approach to managing an international organization on the brink of structural change and expansion. One of your main goals will be to motivate and communicate a vision while connecting to the firm’s mission for all stakeholders, including your Board of Directors. A brief profile of the organization is as follows:

The company is a manufacturing firm with annual earnings in excess of $350 million.

It is headquartered in the United States, has two branches in the United Kingdom, and one expansion branch set to open in China.

A new branch will provide more innovative technologies to infuse the firm’s declining market share while also presenting cultural management and organizational integration challenges.

Your presentation should contain the following components:

Identification of your chosen leadership philosophy with justification of your choice.

Using Porter’s Five Forces as a strategic guide, please explain how you will approach Foreign Direct Investment and Financial Risk Assessment.

Complete a Financial Risk Assessment for acquiring the new technology company by identification and explanation of at least four risks which could impact your organization.

Identification and explanation of the key internal structures (at least 3) that will be designed to enhance the culture within your organization

Explanation of how projected global and market trends over the next 10-15 years will impact your company’s ability to maintain a competitive advantage.