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Select one of the following cases or find one on your own and provide a summary...

Select one of the following cases or find one on your own and provide a summary of the situation that caused the lawsuit related to arbitration to end up in court. How did the court rule and why? Do you agree?

  • Carey v. 24 Hour Fitness, USA, Inc., 669 F.3d 202, 205 (5th Cir. 2012).
  • Circuit City Stores, Inc.5 v. Adams 532 U.S. 105 (2001)
  • Cruise v. Kroger Co., 233 Cal.App 4th 390, 183 Cal. Rptr. 3d 17 (2015).
  • Delfingen US–Texas, L.P. v. Valenzuela, 407 S.W.3d 791, 800 (Tex.App.-El Paso
    2013, no pet.).
  • Mohamed v. Uber Technologies, Inc. 2015 WL 3749716 (N.D. Cal. 2015).
  • Nitro-Lift Technologies, L.L.C. v. Howard, 133 S.Ct. 500 (2012).

  

In: Operations Management

1. Give a command using find to search from the root directory the file program.f and...

1. Give a command using find to search from the root directory the file program.f and redirect any errors to the file myerrors.txt

2. Give a command for finding files having the letters index as the beginning of the file name and located in your home directory (provide the absolute path)

3. Give a command for finding within a directory called /mp3collection, only those mp3 files that have a size less than 5000 Kilobytes (< 5MB).

4. Give a commmand that searches for those files that are present in the directory /home/david and its subdirectories which end in .c and which have been accessed in the last 10 minutes.

5. Give a command that searches within the directory /mp3-collection for files that have their names beginning with ’Metallica’ and whose size is greater than 10000 kilobytes (> 10 MB).

6. Give a command that searches in the same directory as above case but only for files that are greater than 10MB, but they should not have ’Metallica’ as the starting of their filenames.

7. Explain what the following commands do. What is the major difference between their outputs? a) chmod -R 755 . b) chmod -R 755 *

8. Explain the output of the following command:

pr -t -n -d -o 10 group12

9. Study the cut command and describe what is its function, provide some examples including options like -c, and -f.

10. What is the output of the following command?

sort -t: -k3,3 -n /etc/group

In: Computer Science

When a user tries to write a file, the file system needs to detect if that...

When a user tries to write a file, the file system needs to detect if that file is a directory so that it can restrict writes to maintain the directory’s internal consistency. Given a file’s name, how would you design NTFS to keep track of whether each file is a regular file or a directory?

In: Computer Science

How do directories access eachother in a direct accessed allocation file system (i. E where I...

How do directories access eachother in a direct accessed allocation file system (i. E where I nodes access data blocks directly). So if the directory test wanted to access the directory Foo, what steps would have to be taken using blocks and writing to disk?

In: Computer Science

Mac OS X Directory Structure Outline how to organize files and directories. Describe preferences for file...

Mac OS X Directory Structure

Outline how to organize files and directories. Describe preferences for file names and how the concepts of a hierarchical directory structure could improve existing method of storage. If useing an alternative method, justify its use and benefits over and above basic approaches.

In: Computer Science

1. Kidlet Toys Ltd. designs and manufactures toys for the early childhood education market. The company...

1. Kidlet Toys Ltd. designs and manufactures toys for the early childhood education market. The company sells its products to national toy retailers as well as to independent toy stores across North America. The company allows its customers to return any unsold products within 90 days of receiving the products from Kidlet. The rationale for this policy is to stimulate sales, especially among the independent toy stores. Returned toys are discarded.

Explain when Kidlet would recognize revenue under the contract-based approach. Also explain what the company would have to do to determine the amount of revenue that could be recognized.

In: Accounting

Consumer purchase decision process includes five stages, from need recognition to post – purchase evaluation. Please...

Consumer purchase decision process includes five stages, from need recognition to post – purchase evaluation. Please identify the level of consumer involvement for the following products (companies), and show which stages of DMP consumers go through when they consider purchase.

  1. Soft drink
  2. Tiffany Jewlry
  3. Cronenberg Beer
  4. Airlines for business trip
  5. Job for your career
  6. Rolls Royce
  7. Breakfast cereal

In: Economics

Early in the 2020, Baladna Co. prepared an expansion plan. The plan requires an increase in...

Early in the 2020, Baladna Co. prepared an expansion plan. The plan requires an increase in in both property, plant and equipment and inventory by $190,000,000 and $10,000,000 respectively. The following three alternative financing plans have been suggested by the firm’s investment bankers:

Plan I: issue preferred stock at par.

Plan II: issue common stock at $10 per share.

Plan III: issue a 16% long-term bonds, due in 20 years, at par ($1,000).

  1. For the year ended December 31, 2020, compute the following ratios under each financing plan (assuming the same statement balances, except for the increased assets and financing; do not adjust retained earnings for the 2020 profits).

Plan A:

  1. Debt ratio
  2. Debt/equity ratio

Plan B:

  1. Debt ratio
  2. Debt/equity ratio

Plan C:

  1. Debt ratio
  2. Debt/equity ratio

BALADNA CO.

Balance Sheet as of December 31, 2019 (in thousands)

Assets

Current assets:

Cash                                                                                                   $ 50,000

Accounts receivable                                                                             60,000

Inventory                                                                                             106,000

Total current assets                                                                           $216,000

Property, plant, and equipment                             $504,000

Less: Accumulated depreciation                             140,000                364,000

Patents and other intangible assets                                                       20,000

Total assets                                                                                        $600,000

Liabilities and Stockholders’ Equity

Current liabilities:

Accounts payable                                                     $ 46,000

Taxes payable                                                             15,000

Other current liabilities                                               32,000

Total current liabilities                                                                        $ 93,000

Long-term debt                                                                                     100,000

Stockholders’ equity:

Preferred stock ($100 par, 10% cumulative, 500,000 shares

authorized and issued)                                                                           50,000

Common stock ($1 par, 200,000,000 shares authorized,

100,000,000 issued)                                                                           100,000

Premium on common stock                                                                120,000

Retained earnings                                                                               137,000

Total liabilities and stockholders’ equity                                          $600,000

In: Accounting

Early in the 2020, Baladna Co. prepared an expansion plan. The plan requires an increase in...

Early in the 2020, Baladna Co. prepared an expansion plan. The plan requires an increase in in both property, plant and equipment and inventory by $190,000,000 and $10,000,000 respectively. The following three alternative financing plans have been suggested by the firm’s investment bankers:

Plan I: issue preferred stock at par.

Plan II: issue common stock at $10 per share.

Plan III: issue a 16% long-term bonds, due in 20 years, at par ($1,000).

  1. For the year ended December 31, 2020, compute the following ratios under each financing plan (assuming the same statement balances, except for the increased assets and financing; do not adjust retained earnings for the 2020 profits).

Plan A:

  1. Times interest earned

Plan B:

  1. Times interest earned

Plan C:

  1. Times interest earned

Income Statement

For the Year Ended December 31, 2019

(in thousands except earnings per share)

Sales                                                                                              $936,000

Cost of sales                                                                                    671,000

Gross profit                                                                                   $265,000

Operating expenses:

Selling                                                                    $62,000

General                                                                     41,000          103,000

Operating income                                                                         $162,000

Other items:

Interest expense                                                                               20,000

Earnings before provision for income tax                                   $142,000

Provision for income tax                                                                 56,800

Net income                                                                                   $ 85,200

Earnings per share                                                                            $ 0.83

In: Accounting

Early in the 2020, Baladna Co. prepared an expansion plan. The plan requires an increase in...

Early in the 2020, Baladna Co. prepared an expansion plan. The plan requires an increase in in both property, plant and equipment and inventory by $190,000,000 and $10,000,000 respectively. The following three alternative financing plans have been suggested by the firm’s investment bankers:

Plan I: issue preferred stock at par.

Plan II: issue common stock at $10 per share.

Plan III: issue a 16% long-term bonds, due in 20 years, at par ($1,000).

BALADNA CO.

Balance Sheet as of December 31, 2019 (in thousands)

Assets

Current assets:

Cash                                                                                                   $ 50,000

Accounts receivable                                                                             60,000

Inventory                                                                                             106,000

Total current assets                                                                           $216,000

Property, plant, and equipment                             $504,000

Less: Accumulated depreciation                             140,000                364,000

Patents and other intangible assets                                                       20,000

Total assets                                                                                        $600,000

Liabilities and Stockholders’ Equity

Current liabilities:

Accounts payable                                                     $ 46,000

Taxes payable                                                             15,000

Other current liabilities                                               32,000

Total current liabilities                                                                        $ 93,000

Long-term debt                                                                                     100,000

Stockholders’ equity:

Preferred stock ($100 par, 10% cumulative, 500,000 shares

authorized and issued)                                                                           50,000

Common stock ($1 par, 200,000,000 shares authorized,

100,000,000 issued)                                                                            100,000

Premium on common stock                                                                120,000

Retained earnings                                                                               137,000

Total liabilities and stockholders’ equity                                          $600,000

  1. Which financing alternative costs Baladna Co. less: bonds payable or preferred stock? Why? (show computations).

In: Accounting