How would you describe this period (1990’s to early 2000’s)? Is globalization 'Americanization? What can nations prepare themselves to capitalize on globalization? What are the implications for managers?

Please share your thoughts on the transition period from Adolescence into Early Adulthood on why some consider it as its own period of development.

Do you think it should be considered as such?

How would you go about estimating the cost of capital for a new, early stage or emerging growth company? What are the similarities and differences in doing so for a mature, established company?

What is interference? Explain co-channel and adjacent channel interference and how do you combat them.

Calculate the frequency re-use distance and the co-channel re-use ratio if the cell radius 2, i=3 and j=2.

A mixture solution of Co(II) and Ni(II) shows an absorbance of 0.500 at 500 nm. What percentage of incident light is absorbed by the solution?

Under the given conditions if 20% of the absorbance is ascribed to the contribution of Co(II), what will the absorbance of Ni(II) be?

Suppose that you wish to borrow $325,000 today to finance the purchase of an asset and that you will repay me with equal quarterly payments over 15 years.

a) If the APR is 4.426%, how much will you pay me each quarter?

b) Amortize the first 2 payments. Make a table, and show the calculation of each cell in the table.

c) Suppose that you plan to pay off the loan immediately after payment 35. What is the remaining principal?

d) Calculate the interest to be paid under both the original scheme and with the early payment described in (c). How much interest would you save by making the early payment?

Do not forget to draw a Timeline

Richard Branson Shoots for the Moon

The Virgin Group is the umbrella for a variety of business ventures ranging from air travel to entertainment. With close to 200 companies in over 30 countries, it is one of the largest companies in the world. At the head of this huge organization is Richard Branson. Branson founded Virgin over

30 years ago and has built the organization from a small student magazine to the multibillion-dollar enterprise it is today.Branson is not your typical CEO. Branson’s dyslexia made school a struggle and sabotaged his performance on standard IQ tests. His teachers and tests had no way of measuring his greatest strengths—his uncanny knack for uncovering lucrative business ideas and his ability to energize

the ambitions of others so that they, like he, could rise to the level of their dreams. Richard Branson’s true talents began to show themselves in his late teens. While a student at Stowe School in England in 1968, Branson decided to start his own magazine, Student. Branson was inspired by the student activism on his campus in the 1960s and decided to try something different. Student differed from most college newspapers or magazines; it focused on the students and their interests. Branson sold advertising to major corporations to support his magazine. He included articles by ministers of Parliament, rock stars, intellectuals, and celebrities. Student grew to become a commercial success. In 1970 Branson saw an opportunity for Student to offer records cheaply by running ads for mail-order delivery. The subscribers to Student flooded the magazine with so many orders that his spin-off discount music venture proved more lucrative than the magazine subscriptions. Branson recruited the staff of Student for his discount music business. He built a small recording studio and signed his first artist. Mike Oldfield recorded “Tubular Bells” at Virgin in 1973; the album sold 5 million copies, and Virgin Records and the Virgin brand

name were born. Branson has gone on to start his own airline (VirginAtlantic Airlines was launched in 1984), build hotels (Virgin Hotels started in 1988), get into the personal finance business (Virgin Direct

Personal Finance Services was launched in 1995), and even enter the cola wars (Virgin Cola was introduced in 1994). And those are just a few highlights of the Virgin Group—all this while Branson has attempted to break world speed records for crossing the Atlantic Ocean by boat and by hot air balloon.

As you might guess, Branson’s approach is nontraditional—he has no giant corporate office or staff and few if any board meetings. Instead, he keeps each enterprise small and relies on his skills of empowering people’s ideas to fuel success. When a flight attendant from Virgin Airlines approached him with her vision of a wedding business, Richard told her to go do it. He even put on a wedding dress himself to help launch the publicity. Virgin Brides was born. Branson relies heavily on the creativity of his staff; he is more a supporter of new ideas than a creator of them. He encourages searches for new business ideas everywhere he goes and even has a spot on the Virgin Web site called “Got a Big Idea?”

In December 1999 Richard Branson was awarded a knighthood in the Queen’s Millennium New Year’s Honours List for “services to entrepreneurship. What is next on Branson’s list? He recently announced that Virgin was investing money in “trying to make sure that, in the not too distant future, people from around the world will be able to go into space.” Not everyone is convinced that space tourism can become a fully-fledged part of the travel industry, but with Branson behind the idea it just might fly.

1. Would you classify Richard Branson as a manager or a leader? What qualities distinguish him as one or the other?

2. Describe the relationship between Branson and his followers. (5MARKS)

Q2,If you were a manager in a bank and you had to choose motivating and hygiene factors to design a reward system ,keeping Herzberg’s theory in mind which two motivating and which two hygiene factors would you choose for bank employees? Justify your answer giving a detailed explanation.  

Q3a).As a leader of a small team of 20 team members working in a software company , what team decision making options do you think you have and explain any two of them

Q3b) Identify whichone would you apply for decision making for your team of 20 software professionals.

Presented below are two independent situations related to future taxable and deductible amounts resulting from temporary differences existing at December 31, 2020. 1. Larkspur Co. has developed the following schedule of future taxable and deductible amounts. 2021 2022 2023 2024 2025 Taxable amounts $400 $400 $400 $400 $400 Deductible amount — — — (2,200 ) 2. Cullumber Co. has the following schedule of future taxable and deductible amounts. 2021 2022 2023 2024 Taxable amounts $400 $400 $400 $400 Deductible amount — — (2,300 ) — Both Larkspur Co. and Cullumber Co. have taxable income of $3,900 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.