compare and contrast schizoid personality disorder from schizotypal personality disorder. for this discussion you will need to place particular emphasis on how comprehensive assessment could help us to arrive at the correct diagnosis

In at most one typed page, discuss an instance (from real life) of a government (the US government or a foreign one) taking action to promote competition / break-up monopolies. Explain the government’s motivation in this.

The US Boskin Commission Report of 1996 advocated downward adjustment of the Consumer Price Index. Explain the rationale underpinning this advocacy using examples from Australia.(the answer is expected to be around 200 words.)

Please give us one example from your research, work, or personal life using the concepts of present value, future value and discounting cash flows and applying it to bond valuation and pricing.

A company that produces racing motorbikes has several models that sell well within the motorcycle racing community and which are very profitable for the company. These motorbikes are sold to retail customers and also business customers who were provided with 60-day credit terms. Despite having a profitable product, why must this company take care to ensure that it has sufficient cash on hand to meet its obligations?

(a) The company will have built up debts which must be repaid in order to bring the current models to market.

(b) Profits from the sales of popular models will be lost when returned to the shareholders in the form of dividends.

(c) Profits are not necessary reflected in the current cash balance of its bank account.

(d) Equity must be raised to finance the development of new models to replace the existing models.

Company ABC has 10,000 shares outstanding and the stock price is $100. The company is expected to pay a dividend of $10 per share next year and thereafter the dividend is expected to grow indefinitely by 6% a year. The company now makes an announcement: It will repurchase shares next year instead of issuing cash dividends. But from year 2 on the payout policy stays the same. (8 points) a. What is the expected rate of return on the stock? b. At what price will the company repurchase shares next year? How many shares will be repurchased? c. After the payout, what is the percentage ownership of an investor who holds 1% of the shares before the payout and does not sell shares during the repurchase? d. What is the present value of all future dividends to this investor?

On 1 September the balance of the Accounts Receivable control account in the general ledger of Whelan Company was $11 960. The customer's subsidiary ledger contained account balances as follows: Jana $2 440, Kingston $2 640, Johnson $2 060, Phillips $4 820. At the end of September the various journals contained the following information.

Sales journal: Sales to Phillips $800; to Jana $1 260; to Simons $1 030; to Johnson $1 100.
Cash receipts journal: Cash received from Johnson $1 310; from Phillips $2 300; from Simons $380; from Kingston $1 800; from Jana $1 240.
General journal: An allowance is granted to Phillips $220.

Instructions

(a) Set up control and subsidiary accounts and enter the beginning balances. Do not construct the journals.
(b) Post the various journals. Post the items as individual items or as totals, whichever would be the appropriate procedure. (No sales discounts given.) Leave the cells blank if no amount is to be debited or credited.

(c) Prepare a list of customers/debtors and prove the agreement of the controlling account with the subsidiary ledger as at 30 September 2012.

a consultant for a large university studied the number of hours per week freshmen watch tv versus the number of hours seniors do. the results of this study follow. is there enough evidence to show the mean number of hours per week freshmen watch tv is different from the mean number of hours seniors do at alpha=.1. freshmen n=10, xbar=18.6, s=7.8740 seniors n=4, xbar=11.4, s=3.9749

a consultant for a large university studied the number of hours per week freshmen watch tv versus the number of hours seniors do. the results of this study follow. is there enough evidence to show the mean number of hours per week freshmen watch tv is different from the mean number of hours seniors do at alpha=.1. freshmen n=10, xbar=18.6, s=7.8740 seniors n=4, xbar=11.4, s=3.9749