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Cougar Plastics Company has been operating for three years. At
December 31 of last year the accounting records reflected the
following:
| Cash | $ | 22,000 | Accounts payable | $ | 15,000 | |
| Investments (short-term) | 3,000 | Accrued liabilities payable | 4,000 | |||
| Accounts receivable | 3,000 | Notes payable (short-term) | 7,000 | |||
| Inventory | 20,000 | Notes payable (long-term) | 47,000 | |||
| Notes receivable (long-term) | 1,000 | Common stock | 10,000 | |||
| Equipment | 50,000 | Additional paid-in capital | 80,000 | |||
| Factory building | 90,000 | Retained earnings | 31,000 | |||
| Intangibles | 5,000 | |||||
During the current year, the company had the following summarized
activities:
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1. & 2. |
Post the current year transactions to T-accounts for each of the accounts on the balance sheet. (Two items have been given in the cash T-account as examples). |
4. Prepare a trial balance at December 31 of the current year.
5. Prepare a classified balance sheet at December 31 of the current year.
6.
Compute the current ratio for the current year. (Round your answer to 2 decimal places.)
In: Accounting
Financial Projections & Explaining Uncertainties
When doing a financial projection, it is important to always somehow predict the financial cost of the unknowns and to have details surrounding those unknowns. Although they can be scary and cause worry, having detailed historical data or reason behind the uncertainty can help calm an audience almost immediately. In explaining a financial uncertainty, I would recommend starting with pointing out some positives based on the actual numbers. These positives should be the based off of the forecast that was built and defined. From here I would recommend briefly touching upon the fact that things sometimes don’t go as planned; a hurricane wipes out a town, a massive snow storm wipes the power from the state for multiple days or a competitor suddenly starts taking a portion of your customers. All of these things can’t be predicted and are therefore uncertainties. Giving the audience context around what these uncertainties are helps build a solid foundation of understanding.
From here I recommend that communication on the difference in the uncertainty and the actual financial prediction are discussed in great detail. Everything should be outlined, starting with this was our predicted number, this was our final number and these are the reasons we didn’t get to our actual number. It could be that there was an error in the number of days predicted in the month, it could be that the sale Nordstrom rolled out wasn’t discounted enough to sell more products or simply that the number of people predicted to make a purchase at Nordstrom was over projected. A solid reason around why the prediction versus the actual occurred will calm an audience.
Lastly, the audience wants to hear how this will be mitigated going forward and factored into future predictions. Outlining the detail around the uncertainty allows the predictor to learn and comprehend what actually happened versus what was predicted so that historically they can better predict next time as well as aid in calming the audience.
For Chegg: constructively critique my explanations. Support your initial comment and response with sound reasoning and relevant examples.
In: Finance
Is there a difference between community college statistics students and university statistics students in what technology they use on their homework? Of the randomly selected community college students 67 used a computer, 86 used a calculator with built in statistics functions, and 22 used a table from the textbook. Of the randomly selected university students 40 used a computer, 88 used a calculator with built in statistics functions, and 39 used a table from the textbook. Conduct the appropriate hypothesis test using an αα = 0.01 level of significance.
In: Statistics and Probability
Supplemental Case Chapter 5: Gain Sharing at CircleWorks CircleWorks has been making custom bicycles for biking enthusiasts for nearly fifty years. The family-run company has had much success using small teams of employees to build bicycles to meet customer specifications. The custom built bikes have been in consistent demand and CircleWorks has maintained their position as a leader in the market. But, as a new generation of bike builders enters the workforce, Human Resources Director Sheila Gaines is concerned about employee motivation. She is considering offering incentives to encourage better teamwork, more employee involvement and improved productivity. Introducing incentive pay is a challenge at CircleWorks as it runs contrary to the organizational culture. The family who started the company believed strongly in hard work and traditional management practices and this view dominates the organizational culture. The company President has suggested to Sheila that employees should be motivated only by the satisfaction of getting the job done. Further, company management is somewhat resistant to employee involvement in decisions. While they have always had a suggestion box available, very rarely does management look to employees for input on operations. Advancing technology has allowed many changes in production techniques and management believes that the design engineers are in the best position to guide changes in the work processes. The bikes are built using teams of four to five workers who follow specific directions on building each bike. Because the bike designs are fairly intricate, each bike takes a designated amount of time to build and there is not much variability in the speed of production. However, Sheila has noted that some teams do work together better than others and wants to reward such cooperation. She has considered productivity bonuses awarded to the teams, but has also considered implementing a gain sharing plan. Sheila believes that some incentives directed at all employees as opposed to the individual teams may promote more cooperation overall within the company. Further, as new workers with varied talents enter their workforce, Sheila wants to provide some incentives for the employees to make improvements to the production process. As she prepares to meet with the company President, she must decide if a gain sharing plan is the best recommendation Read the case study and provide a recommendation to assist Human Resources Director Sheila Gaines in deciding whether a gain sharing plan is the best option for CircleWorks. Be sure to follow APA guidelines and write your paper in the proper format
In: Accounting
True / False
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To reduce first costs of construction, structural design should be minimized without adversely affecting structural performance.
True/ False
In: Civil Engineering
Write a program that sorts prices of 10 tacos in ascending order based on the price, using arrays.
Requirements:
Example Output
Welcome to the taco price sorter! Enter 10 taco names and prices and I'll sort it!
Enter the name of taco 1
Crunchy Taco
Enter taco's price
1.19
Enter the name of taco 2
Crunchy Taco Supreme
Enter taco's price
1.59
Enter the name of taco 3
Soft Taco
Enter taco's price
1.19
Enter the name of taco 4
Soft Taco Supreme
Enter taco's price
1.59
Enter the name of taco 5
Chicken Soft Taco
Enter taco's price
1.79
Enter the name of taco 6
Crispy Potato Soft Taco
Enter taco's price
0.99
Enter the name of taco 7
Double Decker Taco
Enter taco's price
1.89
Enter the name of taco 8
Double Decker Taco Supreme
Enter taco's price
2.29
Enter the name of taco 9
Doritos Locos Taco (Nacho Cheese)
Enter taco's price
1.49
Enter the name of taco 10
Doritos Locs Tacos(Fiery) Supreme
Enter taco's price
1.89
Sorted Tacos are
Taco Prices Crispy Potato Soft Taco 0.99
Taco Prices Crunchy Taco 1.19
Taco Prices Soft Taco 1.19
Taco Prices Doritos Locos Taco (Nacho Cheese) 1.49
Taco Prices Crunchy Taco Supreme 1.59
Taco Prices Soft Taco Supreme 1.59
Taco Prices Chicken Soft Taco 1.79
Taco Prices Double Decker Taco 1.89
Taco Prices Doritos Locs Tacos(Fiery) Supreme 1.89
Taco Prices Double Decker Taco Supreme 2.29
In: Computer Science
Hydraulics & Hydrology
Problem Statement
The Romans were exquisite water engineers, and that without having at their disposal the modern tools and the knowledge we have today. Remember that Hydraulics and Hydrology as we know it now only came to be in the 1700’ when engineers started to put a fundamental framework together that is/was based on lab experiments and theoretical approaches and principles. Until then, you just “knew”. The Romans build all sorts of hydraulic systems, from irrigation canals, to water supply infrastructure, to the famed “hot baths” of Rome, to sewer systems, you name it. They realized that if you want water for different purposes at locations that were important to you that very often you had to get the water there because it just was not available in close proximity.
One of the marvelous feats they accomplished was to build water supply systems that would run over dozens of miles to convey water from sources to locations of need, typically the towns and cities they founded in their vast empire. They managed to do so by building a lot of infrastructure that withstood time and that, almost 2000 years later, is still in place for us to marvel at. Especially the many bridges that were built to cross valleys and gorges to keep the supply line flowing as an open channel are spectacular in their construction, such as the Pont du Gard, Segovia, and Aquila aqueducts.
Task:
In: Civil Engineering
Material covered:
(python language)
Problem statement
A single amoeba sits in a pitri dish. Every 5 minutes one of two things will happen to the amoeba:
1. There is a chance that the amoeba dies - producing no offspring.
2. If it does not die the amoeba splits into two amoebas.
make a function that simulates a single trial to calculate the lifespan of a colony of amoebas, given their chance of survival. Then, run that trial for some number of repeated trials (iterations).
To make this work, write the following functions. Test your functions fully before moving to the next one. You do not have to follow this order, but it is encouraged.
BUILD A PROGRAM USING THIS 4 STEPS.
1 - Calculate next generation
make a function that is passed the number of living amoebas, and the odds of survival - then calculates how many amoebas are alive in the next generation. Each amoeba in the population has a random chance of splitting, or dying. See the above random chance of dividing, or dying. Calculate the number of amoeba in the new generation.
2 - Single Trial
built a function that executes a single trial of the amoeba experiment. A trial is to simulate up to 20 generations of an amoeba colony. If there are no remaining amoebas, the function should exit without continuing calculating more generations.
This function should return a tuple that contains three pieces of data:
1. The number of iterations that were simulated.
2. A boolean indicates if all the amoebas are dead before 20 generations.
3. The final population.
3 - Repeat the trial
built a function that will repeat the trial function 1000 times, storing the output of the trial in numpy arrays. Print the report for these repeated trials. Your output should be to two decimal places.
Report on the percentage of colonies that did not survive (end with 0 amoebas), and the average number of generations for failed colonies. Finally, report on the average population size on successful populations.
4 - Repeat trials with different survival rates
Do many trials, using different survival rates. Start with a 50% survival rate, then report in intervals of 5 all the way up to 95% survival rate.
This piece can be in a function, but does not need to be.
Sample output - yours will vary in terms of numbers:
OUTPUT:
For survival odds 0.50:
The amoebas did not survive 93.70% of the time.
On failures, there were 2.83 generations on average.
If the amoebas did survive, the average population was 14.10
For survival odds 0.55:
The amoebas did not survive 80.10% of the time.
On failures, there were 2.71 generations on average.
If the amoebas did survive, the average population was 31.61
And so on, up to 95%
In: Computer Science
Task Intro: Password JAVA and JUnit5(UNIT TESTING)
Write a method that checks a password. The rules for the password are:
- The password must be at least 10 characters. - The password can only be numbers and letters. - Password must have at least 3 numbers.
Write a test class(Junit5/Unit testing) that tests the checkPassword method.
Hint: You can (really should) use method from built-in String class:
public boolean matches(String regex)
to check that the current string matches a regular expression. For example, if the variable "password" is the string to be checked, so will the expression.
password.matches("(?:\\D*\\d){3,}.*")
return true if the string contains at least 3 numbers. Regular expression "^ [a-zA-Z0-9] * $" can be used to check that the password contains only numbers and letters.
Let your solution consist of 4 methods:
checkPassword(string password) [only test this method] checkPasswordLength(string password) [checkPassword help method] checkPasswordForAlphanumerics(string password) [checkPassword help method] checkPasswordForDigitCount(string password) [checkPassword help method]
Intro: Password Criteria
The code is structured and formatted Your code uses the standard java formatting and naming standard, it is also nicely formatted with the right indentation etc.
Good and descriptive variable names Your code uses good variable names that describe the damped function, such as "counter" instead of "abc".
The code is logical and understandable
Your code is structured in a logical way so it's easy to understand what you've done and how to solve the problem. It should be easy for others to understand what your code does and how it works.
The solution shows understanding of the problem You show with your code that you have thought about and understood the problem. It is worth thinking about how you will solve the problem before you actually solve it
The code solves the problem Your code manages to do what is required in the assignment text, and it does not do unnecessary things either.
Unit tests (Junit5) cover all common use cases Unit tests for your code check all common ways it can be used, such as the isEven (int number) method being tested with even, odd, negative, and null, reverseString (String text) will be checked with regular string, empty string and zero object, etc.
The code uses Regex and built-in methods Do not try to reinvent the wheel, it is possible to check the text string for digits with a while / for loop, but using regex and matching function is much easier. There are many websites that help you find regex for what you need, so use them.
In: Computer Science
4. DNS hijacking is a common technique that is used by censors (i.e., networks who perform censoring actions), where fake DNS responses can be injected. As a DNS request could traverse a number of routers along the path, each router along the path could inject a fake DNS response. In the paper “The Collateral Damage of Internet Censorship by DNS Injection”, authors use a technique similar to traceroute to identify the router that actually injects the fake DNS response. Authors deliberately decrease the TTL (time-to-live) value in the IP header to monitor ICMP packet and fake DNS response to decide the router that injects fake response. In this paper, DNS is built on UDP. However, DNS can also be built on top of TCP. This expands the attack surface for attackers. Specifically, the censors inject RST packets to both the client and the server in one TCP connection if a DNS query in this connection carries “sensitive” information. Different from UDP, TCP requires three-way handshake. Therefore, the packet that carries sensative information (e.g., a TCP-based DNS query) will be the packet that comes later than packets for three-way handshake. Let us make the following assumptions for this question 1. We assume that DNS over TCP is using a publicly-known port number. 2. Censors are stateless, which means that they will not consider whether a TCP packet belongs to an established connection. They make decision based on each individual packet instead of packets belonging to the same connection. In order to make the method discussed in “The Collateral Damage of Internet Censorship by DNS Injection” to be useful in this new setting, we need to make a few changes of this method. Question: Please verify whether each of the following changes is needed or not (1 Point). And please justify your answer (1 Points). a. When you select a target IP to send honey queries, this IP should never respond you with TCP RST packets if you send a TCP-based DNS query to this IP. b. When you send out a honey query (a TCP-based DNS query with a sensitive domain) to a target IP, you can directly send this TCP-based DNS query to this target IP without establishing a TCP connection with the target IP (i.e., through 3-way handshake). c. You should now expect RST packets from the censor rather than a forged DNS response.
In: Computer Science