Due Thursday

You are writing a book on how to evaluate performance evaluation for a company.

Respond to the following in a minimum of 175 words:

• Think about some of the influences and measures of company performance .
• Explain the use of return on assets (ROA) and the price-to-earnings (PE) ratio in evaluating the performance of a company.
• Write about how to calculate ROA and PE ratio and how market conditions can affect these metrics.
• Share the ROA and PE ratio for a company you are familiar with. What do these metrics tell you about the financial health of the company?

1) A club is choosing 2 members to serve on a committee. The club has nominated 2 women and 2 men. Based on chance alone, what is the probability that one woman and one man will be chosen to be on the committee? rounded to 4 decimal places

2) A club is choosing 2 members to serve on a committee. The club has nominated 2 women and 2 men. Based on chance alone, what is the probability no women are chosen to be on the committee? rounded to 4 decimal places

3) An urn contains 13 red marbles, 30 blue marbles, and 39 yellow marbles. One marble is to be chosen from the urn without looking. What is the probability of choosing a red marble? rounded to 4 decimal places.

4) An urn contains 27 red marbles, 24 blue marbles, and 45 yellow marbles. One marble is to be chosen from the urn without looking.

What is the probability of choosing a red or a blue marble? rounded to 4 decimal places.

Your boss went to an accounting seminar and learned about the Institute of Management Accountants’ Statement of Ethical Professional Practice. He has called a meeting of; a “fresh from college” accounting hire, the new manager of the accounting department, and you (Finance Director). It seems that the prior manager of the accounting department manipulated the operating results by assigning some of the direct costs of manufacturing to the non-controllable fixed cost category. Therefore, the financial ratios presented a false picture of operations. It looked like everything was running effectively and efficiently – it was not. Upon discovery of this intentional misclassification of costs (to reach the target profits that support the bonus program), the prior accounting department manager was fired without notice.

Your boss expects you to present this event to your fellow participants for discussion. He wants to know if they agree with the immediate firing of the manager. Include in your write-up:

1.    A brief description of the problem using the variables outlined in the assigned article..

2.    An explanation of the applicable section of the IMA’s Statement of Ethical Professional Practice.

3.    Summarize what you think the new hire will say about the firing and why you think he/she took that position.

4.    Summarize what you think the new manager will say about the firing and why you think he/she took that position.

5.    Any other information you deem important.

6.       A brief summary or conclusion.

Article:

Shafer, W. E. (2015). Ethical climate, social responsibility, and earnings management, Journal of Business Ethics, 126, 43-60.

For this assignment, you will take on the role of software developer as part of a team of developers for a retail company. The payroll manager of the company has tasked you with developing a Java program (if you can put it in NetBeans that would be awesome) to quickly calculate an employee’s weekly gross and net pay. The program must prompt the user to enter the employee’s name, rate of pay, and hours worked. The output will display the information entered into the program along with the calculations for gross pay, total amount of deductions, and net pay.

In this coding assignment, you will utilize the Java syntax and techniques you learned while reviewing the required resources for Week 1. You may select appropriate variable names as long as proper Java syntax is used. You will also submit your source code.

Input:
In the input section, utilize Java syntax and techniques to input the employee’s name, rate of pay, and hours worked. The input should be completed either via keyboard or via file.

Processing:
In the processing section, the following calculations will need to be performed in the processing section:

• Gross Pay:
  Gross pay if hours worked are 40 hours or less = hours worked * rate of pay
  Gross pay if hours worked are greater than 40 hours = ((hours worked – 40) * (rate of pay * 1.5)) + (40 * rate of pay)
  • Example – Employee worked 55 hours. The employee’s rate of pay is $10.00.
    ((55 – 40) * (10 * 1.5)) + (40 * 10) = 625
    The gross pay is $625.
• Deductions:
  Deductions are calculated based upon the following rates:
  • Federal Tax = 15%
  • State Tax = 3.07%
  • Medicare = 1.45%
  • Social Security = 6.2%
  • Unemployment Insurance = .07%

The following calculations are used to calculate each deduction:

• Federal tax amount = federal tax rate* gross pay
• State Tax amount = state tax rate * gross pay
• Medicare amount = Medicare rate * gross pay
• Social Security amount = social security rate * gross pay
• Unemployment Insurance amount = unemployment insurance amount * gross pay

Total deductions = Federal Tax amount + State Tax amount + Medicare amount + Social Security amount + Unemployment Insurance amount

• Net Pay:
  The net pay amount is calculated as follows:
  Net pay = gross pay amount – total deductions

Output:
The Java program should display the following information:

• Employee Name
• Rate of Pay
• Hours Worked
• Overtime Worked
• Gross Pay
• Total amount of deductions
• Net Pay

a) State Mellin’s inverse Laplace transform formula.
b) State Cauchy’s residue theorem.
iii. Use (a) and (b) to prove that the inverse Laplace transform of F(s)=1/(s+a) is equal to f(t)= e^(-at),t>0

1. a) You are interested in whether birds in your backyard prefer certain colors of seeds. Normally you feed the birds black sunflower seeds. You put out piles of 100 red seeds, 100 green seeds, 100 yellow seeds, and 100 black sunflower seeds. After two days you count the remaining seeds. What are your experimental treatments? What is your control? What are your independent and dependent variables?
2. B) How could you provide replication in this experiment? Why do you need to do so?

Discuss and state the Learning Journal question/task and its requirements. View the following image, The Eat Well Plate, and answer the following questions in your learning journal.

1. Recall what you had to eat for your last meal and list where they appear in the Eat Well Plate.

2. Do you think that this “Eat Well Plate” is a plate that you would be able to have for every meal? In other words, is it possible to for people to achieve and maintain this type of plate? Support your response with citations from this unit’s reading. Be sure to use APA format for your citations.

Explain how different factors can affect your health (genetics, environment, life cycle, and lifestyle) and your personal choice of foods (economic, social, cultural, and emotional).

3. Are there any food groups that you would like to increase to make it more closely match to the “Eat Well Plate”?

Reference Health Canada. (2015). Build a healthy meal: Use the Eat Well Plate. Retrieved from http://www.healthycanadians.gc.ca/alt/pdf/eating-nutrition/healthy-eating-saine-alimentation/tips-conseils/interactive-tools-outils-interactifs/eat-well-bien-manger-eng.pdf

Geotechnical Engineering

5. Describe the dipole structure of water molecules in detail.

6. Describe the Gouy-Chapman theory of diffuse-double layer in detail.

7. Describe Atterberg limits in detail.

8. What is PI and describe its impact on the properties of soil.