Carbon monoxide​ (CO) emissions for a certain kind of car vary with mean 3.704 ​g/mi and standard deviation 0.7 ​g/mi. A company has 70 of these cars in its fleet. Let y overbary represent the mean CO level for the​ company's fleet. ​a) What's the approximate model for the distribution of y overbary​? Explain. ​b) Estimate the probability that y overbary is between 3.8 and 3.9​g/mi. ​c) There is only a 11​% chance that the​ fleet's mean CO level is greater than what​ value?

On June 21, 2018, Duckwall Co. purchased and placed in service $3,185,000 of 5-year recovery property (not an SUV). It is used 100% for business and Is the only property placed in service during the year.

What is the maximum cost recovery deduction available if the Duckwall Co.​ has taxable income of $1.5 million before the cost recovery deduction?

The Duckwall Co. does not elect out of Section 179 expensing or the additional first-year deprecation deduction.

A.   $1,722,000

B.   $3,185,000

C.   $2,037,000

D.   $1,500,000

The Wall Street Wizard Co. sold a stock market investing plan through the mail that made it appear easy to make money through the stock market. While the advice provided in the plan was generally accepted in the industry as sound, Wall Street Wizard Co. knew that most investors who followed this plan would not in fact make any money by following the plan. Can Wall Street Wizard Co. be prosecuted for mail fraud for making false claims, or are the claims really just puffery about the system which is not a crime?

Presented below are two independent situations related to future taxable and deductible amounts resulting from temporary differences existing at December 31, 2020.

1. Pearl Co. has developed the following schedule of future taxable and deductible amounts.

2. Martinez Co. has the following schedule of future taxable and deductible amounts.

Both Pearl Co. and Martinez Co. have taxable income of $3,600 in 2020 and expect to have taxable income in all future years. The tax rates enacted as of the beginning of 2020 are 30% for 2020–2023 and 35% for years thereafter. All of the underlying temporary differences relate to noncurrent assets and liabilities.

1. Compute the net amount of deferred income taxes to be reported at the end of 2020, and indicate how it should be classified on the balance sheet for situation one.

2. Compute the net amount of deferred income taxes to be reported at the end of 2020, and indicate how it should be classified on the balance sheet for situation two.

Looking for assistance on these three quick questions as I can't seem to figure them out. Thanks in advance for your help!

1. Which of the following would decrease the depth of breathing?

A. Increased arterial PCO2

B. Exercising

C. Increased action potential frequency in neurons from the ventral respiratory group

D. Acidic plasma pH

E. Decreased action potential frequency in neurons from the dorsal respiratory group

F. Overactivation of the respiratory center in the medulla

2. Which of the following would make oxygen unloading in the tissues more difficult?

Select all that apply

A. increased affinity of hemoglobin for oxygen

B. right shift of the oxyhemoglobin curve

C. lower blood pH

D. decreased metabolic rate

E. increased arterial PCO2

F. Left shift of the oxyhemoglobin curve

5. How does CO poisoning work?

A. CO inhibits the enzyme carbonic anhydrase (CA) and therefore prevents CO2 from being transported as bicarbonate ions to the lungs for excretion

B. CO paralyzes the diaphragm and therefore prevents the expansion of the lungs and ventilation

C. CO decreased hemoglobin oxygen saturation and prevents the delivery of O2 to the tissues.

D. CO destroys hemoglobin and therefore prevents CO2 from being transported to the lungs for excretion

E. CO decreased the plasma solubility of O2 and prevents the delivery of O2 to the tissues.

Ending School Segregation: The Case of Farmville, Virginia

No aspect of segregation was more harmful than the separation of black and white children in public schools, especially in the South. This story is about how black students in 1951 staged a strike in Farmville, Virginia, to protest school segregation. How that strike played a major role in ending school segregation is not widely known. Like many towns in the South, Farmville maintained separate school systems for black and white children. For the black students, it was immediately clear that their school facilities were inferior to those of whites. The story of Farmville is a story of victory, but one long delayed, even long after the Supreme Court’s ruling.

Until the Brown v. Board of Education decision, the relevant legal standard was “separate but equal.” What does Farmville tell you about the enforcement of even that standard? What would have happened if that standard had been strictly enforced?

Farmville is a classic example of de jure discrimination, but most discrimination is de facto. How do we address de facto discrimination?

At the time of the Brown decision, racial discrimination was overt in almost all areas of life. Why do you think that the NAACP selected discrimination in education as its prime target?

Title IX and Girl’s Sports

At America’s birth, the Constitution’s framers granted women almost no civil rights. In fact, it took until 1920 for women to win the right to vote, and until the 1970s to gain overall legal equality. The modern women’s movement adopted several lessons from the Civil Rights Movement. For example, to show they were being discriminated against women had to prove they were treated unfavorably simply because they were women. The story of one fight over equality in youth sports illustrates this ongoing struggle.

Is the scheduling of athletic seasons by the state an example of discrimination?

Does it matter that the different season (different from the boys’) was combined with unequal facilities?

Should it matter that most people think that different seasons for the same or comparable sports is acceptable? Does it matter if most girls find it acceptable?

Fighting for the Rights of Disabled Americans

Fighting discrimination often takes years of mass organization, protest, political lobbying, and legal challenges to win new laws and the power to enforce them. The 1973 Rehabilitation Act was considered an early victory for supporters of rights for the disabled. It included a provision stipulating that federally funded programs and facilities must be accessible to disabled individuals. The broader Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 expanded the protections first articulated in 1973. But the fight for equality often continues beyond the passage of laws recognizing the rights of those who are experiencing discrimination. No one knows this better than those who seek the end of discrimination against people with disabilities.

What steps are necessary to eliminate discrimination against those with disabilities?

What disabilities should be covered by ADA?

Is discrimination against those with disabilities comparable to discrimination against racial minorities and women?

Nike was founded in 1964 by Bill Bowerman and Phil Knight in Beaverton, Oregon. It began as Blue Ribbon Sports (BRS). In 1972, BRS introduced a new brand of athletic footwear called Nike, named for the Greek winged goddess of victory.

The company employs 26,000 staff around the world with revenues in fiscal year 2005 of $13.7 billion. It has facilities in Oregon, Tennessee, North Carolina, and the Netherlands with more than 200 factory stores, a dozen Nike women stores, and more than 100 sales and administrative offices.

Its subsidiaries include Cole Haan Holdings, Inc., Bauer Nike Hockey, Hurley International LLC, Nike IHM, Inc., Converse Inc., and Execter Brands Group LLC. As of May 31, 2004, manufacturing plants included Nike brand, with 137 factories in the Americas (including the United States), 104 in EMEA, 252 in North Asia, and 238 in South Asia, providing more than 650,000 jobs to local communities.

Objective

Nike grew from a sneaker manufacturer in the early 1970s to a global company selling a large number of products throughout the world. Nike’s sneaker supply chain was historically highly centralized. The product designs, factory contracts, and delivery are managed through the headquarters in Beaverton, Oregon. By 1998, there were 27 different and highly customized order management systems that did not talk well to the home office in Beaverton, Oregon. At that time Nike decided to purchase and implement a single-instance ERP system along with supply chain and customer relationship management systems to control the nine-month manufacturing cycle better, with the goal being to cut it down to six months.

Plan

The company developed a business plan to implement the systems over a six-year period, with multiple ERP rollouts over that time. The plan called for the implementation of the demand planning system first while working through the ERP system and supply chain implementation.

Implementation

The demand planning system was implemented first for reasons that made a lot of sense. The total number of users was small in comparison to the ERP system and was thought to be relatively easy to implement; however, this turned out not to be the case. When the system went live, there were a number of problems related to the software, response time, and data. In addition, training was not adequately addressed, causing the relatively small number of end users to use the system ineffectively. The single-instance ERP system and supply chain implementation plan differed from the demand planning system and called instead for a phased rollout over a number of years.

The ERP system implementation went much more smoothly. Nike started in 2000 with the implementation of the Canadian region, a relatively small one, and ended with the Asia-Pacific and Latin America regions in 2006, with the United States and Europe, Middle East, and Africa in 2002. This included implementing a single instance of the system, with the exception of Asia-Pacific, and training more than 6,300 users.

The total cost of the project as of 2006 was at $500 million—about $100 million more than the original project budget.

Conclusion: What was Learned?

The demand planning system interfacing to legacy data from a large number of systems that already did not talk well with each other was a root cause for misinformation and resulted in inadequate supply planning.

The demand planning system was complex, and end users were not trained well enough to use the system effectively.

System testing was not well planned and “real” enough to find issues with legacy system interfaces.

The overall business plan for all the systems and reasons for taking on such a highly complex implementation were well understood throughout the company. Thus, Nike had exceptional “buy-in” for the project and was able to make adjustment in its demand planning system and continue with the implementation. The goal was to ensure business goals were achieved through the implementation, and not so much to get the systems up and running.

Nike exhibited patience in the implementation and learned from mistakes made early in the process.

Training was substantially increased for the ERP implementation. Customer service representatives received 140–180 hours of training from Nike, and users were locked out of the system until they completed the full training course.

Business process reengineering was used effectively to clarify performance-based goals for the implementation.

Case Questions

1. How could OPM3 have helped to identify the problems with implementing the demand planning system?

2. What were the three primary reasons Nike was successful with the ongoing ERP implementation?

3. Why was a phased rollout the correct decision for Nike?

• Discuss the issue of physician shortage in America. Since half of all medical school first year students are women, how would that fact contribute further to a physician shortage in the future? How would a physician shortage be overcome in the health care delivery system? What is the impact or burden on current physician staffing levels given the estimated 30 million additional people being added to a government mandated insurance plan?

Read the case Michael Mortimer (2003), The Impact of TNC Strategies on Development in Latin America and the Caribbean, Overseas Development Institute. Scenario: You are a junior Minister in the Ministry of International Business. You are asked to write a draft policy paper on policies and development strategies your government will implement to (i) increase FDI, (ii) protect the domestic economy from the deleterious effects, and (iii) improve the mutual benefits for the host country and TNC.