Word limit: 800-1000 words

Questions: Buyers determine demand while sellers determine supply. Both laws of supply and demand establish market forces that make economies work to search for their market equilibrium. The impact of COVID-19 is an unprecedented event that affects the global economy. The overall retail sales dramatically dropped by 34.8%, with jewellery and luxury goods drop of 67% but supermarkets increase of 12%, in the first five months of 2020. However, online-based consumption, like demand for food delivery, online education (Zoom), stay-at-home activities and online grocery shopping surged dramatically since the outbreak of pandemic.

1) Based on your learning in Microeconomics, explain how COVID-19 has a favourable and an adverse impact in today’s situation, with aids of diagram “Market Forces of Supply and Demand” and “Elasticity”.

2) Illustrate with TWO real examples (one favourable and one adverse impact) in the retail industry in Hong Kong or Mainland China or your country to show your understanding and application of supply and demand as well as elasticity.

3) Principle 6 of Economics states, “Markets are usually a good way to organize economic activity”. Hopefully COVID-19 will end some time in the near future. Predict how the retail industry would become in the economy with the aftermath of the pandemic.

A student wonders if tall women tend to date taller men than do short women. She measures herself, her dormitory roommate, and the women in the adjoining rooms; then she measures the next man each woman dates. The data (heights in inches) are listed below.

(a) Make a scatterplot of these data. (Do this on paper. Your instructor may ask you to turn this in.) Based on the scatterplot, do you expect the correlation to be positive or negative? Near ± 1 or not?

(b) Find the correlation r between the heights of the men and women. (Round your answer to three decimal places.)


(c) How would r change if all the men were 6 inches shorter than the heights given in the table? Does the correlation tell us whether women tend to date men taller than themselves?

(d) If heights were measured in centimeters rather than inches, how would the correlation change? (There are 2.54 centimeters in an inch.)

(e) If every woman dated a man exactly 3 inches taller than herself, what would be the correlation between male and female heights?

1. Search the Internet for a provincial or federal government overall OR a department business plan.
2. Examine the plan for underlying public policy objectives. List and describe the objectives.

Example

Topic :COVID rapid response

The COVID 19 Rapid Response fund was set up to alleviate the suffering of the people. “In March 2020, the Government of Canada announced $1 billion to support a whole-of-government COVID-19 Response Fund, which supports federal public health measures such as enhanced surveillance, increased testing and ongoing support for preparedness in First Nations and Inuit communities” Government of Canada (2020). The policy aims to reduce the suffering of people hit by COVID 19 that led to the loss of jobs and increment of unemployment in the country.

The objective of the response fund is to support researchers that will help develop measures to detect and reduce the transmission of COVID-19. The fund enabled the health care system to test patience suffering from the virus and help contain the spread of COVID 19 Government of Canada (2020). According to a research from the University of Calgary (2020), he objective is to support Alberta-based genomics projects designed to address specific, short-term needs of industry, not-for-profit, and public sector receptors through research conducted by academics in collaboration with these receptors, with near-term outcomes that address the COVID-19 crisis.

1. A blood smear is used to diagnose malaria. In patients with malaria, the protozoa can be found near and inside red blood cells. Explain why a microscope capable of high magnification and high resolution would be needed to diagnose malaria.

2. Histopathology is the use of microscopes to view tissues to diagnose and track the progression of diseases. Why are thin slices of tissue ideal for this procedure?

You are the CFO of Thunderduck Energy, Inc, a public company that specializes in the exploration and development of natural gas. It's near year-end, and you have been in several meetings with management to discuss the end of year net income projections. The company’s employees receive a bonus if the company’s net income in the current year exceeds the net income from the past year. For the current year, the earnings have not been as strong as expected and net income may fall short of last year’s income.

The President has an idea to ensure that net income will increase this year so that the employees will earn their bonus and the shareholders will be happy. The President wants to discuss routine maintenance costs on equipment that were incurred this year. These costs were treated as an expense on the income statement. However, the President is proposing that these costs can be capitalized and should be accounted for as a long-term asset on the balance sheet in order to boost the company’s net income.

Required question:

How would I draft a response in the form of a business memo to my president discussing my recommendation on the President’s suggestion to capitalize the maintenance costs and record the costs as a long-term asset.

*Support the decision with addressing the accounting issue, the parties affected and what factors you considered to make your decision.

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Suppose you have landed successfully on a good career path full time position as a "Financial Analyst" with a multinational high tech corporation in our Silicon Valley hub.

On your first day on your job, your first project given is ratio/trend analysis of your new employer. Fortunately, you still remember financial analysis techniques discussed in your accounting 1B course final chapter 17, because your instructor required a lot of homework on that chapter not to mention those irritating discussion topics you had to bear all the way to the end of the term.

1. Which ratios should be used to help answer the following questions?

2. How efficient is a company in using its assets to produce sales?

3. How near to sale is the inventory on hand?

4. How many dollars of net income were earned for each dollar invested by the owners/shareholders?

5. How able is a company to meet interest charges as they fall due?

Please list as many measures, ratios, and any other analytical procedures you can think of. You do not have limit to our chapter 17 ratios.

Minimum of three shipment company quote - Code in Java

Ashok is a rice trader from India and he wanted to send his supplies to Singapore. There are 3 shipment companies near his godown and he decided to choose the shipping company which gives him the minimum quotation for shipping his supplies.

Given the shipping quotations of three different shipping companies for Ashok's rice supplies, write a program to find the minimum quotation.

Problem Specification :

The File name should be Main.java.

Input Format:

The first input consists of an integer that corresponds to the quotation from "Mediterranean Shipping Company".

The second input consists of an integer that corresponds to the quotaion from "China Ocean Shipping Company(COSCO)".

The third input consists of an integer that corresponds to the quotation from "Evergreen Marine".

Output Format:

The output consists of String which corresponds to the shipping company name which is selected for shipping.
If more than one quotes are equal select the company based on the priority (Input entered order). Refer sample input and output.

[All text in bold corresponds to input and rest corresponds to output.]

Sample Input and Output 1:

65

89

56

Evergreen Marine

Sample Input and Output 2:

55

55

78

Mediterranean Shipping Company

Review all rules in Appendix A about punctuation, number usage, and grammar. Then, rewrite each sentence to make all needed corrections.

A. If you go to just about any company’s website you’ll find many references to corporate social responsibility, or CSR for short.

B. In fact, many companies have dedicate entire sections on they’re websites to CSR. They even publish CSR reports under names such as Giving Back, Sharing the Wealth, and Citizenship Report.

C. The reality, however, is corporate giving to charity are far less than it was twenty years ago.

D. In 1986 the average company donated 2.1% of it’s profits to charity.

E. Now the average company donates around .8% of it’s profits to charity.

F. Some of the most profitable and most well known companies in the technology sector gives less than .5% of its profits.

G. Some companies are extremely generous yet do not give much to local, communities.

H. For example Google gives roughly 8% of its profits to charity.

I. Yet almost none of this money goes to communities in cities near their corporate headquarters.

J. Unless companies can increase charitable giving to these local communities their efforts to promote CSR activities will come across as insincere.

For each situation below determine the direction of the induced current in the loop (if there is one).

(a) A square loop is moving at a constant velocity to the right through a uniform magnetic fieldthat is directed into the page and which extends out of the picture to the left and right. In which direction is the induced current in the loop?

[ ] clockwise [ ] counter-clockwise [ ] there is no induced current Justify your answer (with words, pictures, or both):

(b) A circular loop is at rest in a magnetic field directed into the page. The magnetic field is increasing in magnitude. In which direction is the induced current in the loop?

[ ] clockwise [ ] counter-clockwise [ ] there is no induced current Justify your answer (with words, pictures, or both):

(c) A piece of wire is wrapped into a loop and placed in a uniform magnetic field that is directed into the page. You then pull on the ends of the wire so the area of the loop is decreasing. In which direction is the induced current in the loop?

[ ] clockwise [ ] counter-clockwise [ ] there is no induced current Justify your answer (with words, pictures, or both):

(d) A bar magnet is held near the center of a wire loop. The magnet is then pulled away from the loop. The north pole is always closest to the loop. In which direction is the induced current in the loop? (The direction as seen by the north pole of the magnet.)

[ ] clockwise [ ] counter-clockwise [ ] there is no induced current Justify your answer (with words, pictures, or both):

Imagine you are tasked with designing a database that encompasses the Florida Tech Learning Management System (LMS) that you use on a daily basis. The following requirements hold:

• Typical online student enrollment is 3,000 annually
• Access is password protected
• There should be a feature to create new accounts with different roles
• A role (faculty, student, staff) may have access to only certain features
• Students can be enrolled in multiple courses
• Faculty can teach multiple courses/sections
• Student records must be kept indefinitely
• Users should have near 24/7 access (with one hour of downtime allotted per month)
• The most frequent operations from a student perspective are posting discussions, taking exams, uploading assignments, checking grades, and emails
• The most frequent operations for faculty are posting discussions, changing course content, grading, and emails
• The most frequent operations for staff are to enroll students, create new sections, and assign sections to faculty

What would be your initial design? Provide both a logical and physical approach. For your logical suggestion, provide an E-R model of how the system might look and then provide support that it will be efficient given the operations. For the physical design, provide an outline of strategies and infrastructure you would put into place to support the business requirements.