As the world’s biggest maker of mobile phones, Nokia, the Finnish company, is a “powerhouse in Europe, Asia, and Latin America, with market shares regularly topping 30 percent”. However, in the United States, Nokia phones have lost popularity over the last few years. In March 2002, Nokia led the American market with 35 percent market share. By June of 2009, its share was only 7 percent. What happened and more importantly, what is Nokia doing about it?

As mobile phone usage skyrocketed, Nokia was the most popular choice. It was the “cool” phone—the one that everyone, from business executive to high school student to stay-at-home-mom wanted. In 2005, Nokia had just launched the N series, an innovative new line with a Web browser, video, music, and pictures in a single phone. That device moved Nokia a generation ahead in the race to build the first real smart phone. The “forecast for Nokia was as sunny and clear as an endless Finnish summer day.” Then came Apple and its iPhone with its clever touch screen and sophisticated software and services. With rave reviews and a reputation for being cool, customers flocked to buy one. However, Nokia executives dismissed the iPhone, saying they were “unimpressed by its engineering.”

Now, three years after Apple introduced the iPhone in 2007, Nokia still has no alternative. It did not anticipate changes in American consumer tastes, like flip phones or touch screens. Another major strategic blunder 246 PART THREE | PLANNING was that its models were based on a European communications standard called GSM when roughly half the United States market used the CDMA (code division multiple access) format. One former Nokia executive said, “Nokia, at the height of its success, decided not to adapt its phones for the U.S. market. That was a mistake and they’re still trying to recover from this.” An executive at a North American network operator said, “The attitude at Nokia was basically: Here is a phone. Do you want it? Nokia wouldn’t play by the rules here, and they have paid a price.” That arrogant attitude and the global economic slowdown have continued to hurt the company’s sales and earnings.

Meanwhile, Nokia set up liaison offices in Atlanta, Dallas, Seattle, and Parsippany, New Jersey, cities where the top American operators have big business units. And it has recently revamped its U.S. operations to collaborate more closely with those major operators. For example, AT&T has begun billing its customers who use Nokia services, keeping those customers from receiving a second bill from Nokia. Best Buy began carrying a Nokia netbook, which is a model for its new collaborative strategy. Nokia also forged a deal with Qualcomm, the largest maker of mobile phone chips for CDMA devices in the United States. It also struck a deal with Microsoft to design Windows Office Mobile software applications for phones that use Nokia’s Symbian operating system. Despite these efforts, however, some industry executives remain unimpressed. One analyst said, “They claim they get it and understand the U.S. market. But the execution still is not there.” Mark Louison, president of Nokia’s North American unit, who has a seat on Nokia’s global management board, said, “In the past, we had a one-size-fits-all mentality that worked well on a global basis but did not help us in this market. That has changed now.” The company recognized that its former strategy had not worked in North America and began trying to lay the groundwork for long-term success. Louison says, “Everything you see us doing is to build the broad set of capabilities to take us broader and deeper into the U.S. market.”

1. Where on the BCG Matrix would you place iPhone and Nokia brands? Where would you place any newly developed products of Iphone on BCG Matrix? Explain. (15)

2. What type of control—feedforward, concurrent, or feedback—do you think would be most important in this situation? Explain your choice (10)

3. What immediate corrective action have been used in this situation? How about basic corrective action? (10)

4. What strategies is Nokia using to revitalize its North American business? (10)

Pacific Rim Industries is a diversified company whose products are marketed both domestically and internationally. The company’s major product lines are furniture, sports equipment, and household appliances. At a recent meeting of Pacific Rim’s board of directors, there was a lengthy discussion on ways to improve overall corporate profitability. The members of the board decided that they required additional financial information about individual corporate operations in order to target areas for improvement.

Danielle Murphy, the controller, has been asked to provide additional data that would assist the board in its investigation. Murphy believes that income statements, prepared along both product lines and geographic areas, would provide the directors with the required insight into corporate operations. Murphy had several discussions with the division managers for each product line and compiled the following information from these meetings.

The division managers concluded that Murphy should allocate fixed manufacturing overhead to both product lines and geographic areas on the basis of the ratio of the variable costs expended to total variable costs.

Each of the division managers agreed that a reasonable basis for the allocation of depreciation on plant and equipment would be the ratio of units produced per product line (or per geographical area) to the total number of units produced.

There was little agreement on the allocation of administrative and selling expenses, so Murphy decided to allocate only those expenses that were traceable directly to a segment. For example, manufacturing staff salaries would be allocated to product lines, and sales staff salaries would be allocated to geographic areas. Murphy used the following data for this allocation.

The division managers were able to provide reliable sales percentages for their product lines by geographical area.

Murphy prepared the following product-line income statement based on the data presented above.

Required:

Prepare a segmented income statement for Pacific Rim Industries based on the company’s geographical areas. The statement should show the operating income for each segment. (Round intermediate calculations to 2 decimal places (i.e. 0.1234 is 12.34%) and final answers to the nearest dollar amount.)

In the same file, complete the following exercises in the author’s pseudocode as presented in the
text book and material on Blackboard in this chapter, and following all requirements for good
program design that were shown in Chapter 2 and all examples since then.

At the Summer Olympic Games every four years, for historical reasons, athletes represent
National Olympic Committees (NOCs) rather than strictly countries. For the sake of convenience
in our program, let us refer to them simply as “nations”. As of the 2016 Rio Olympics, then,
there were 206 nations eligible to participate in the Olympics. Write a program that could be
used to represent the medal table for the next Olympics that will be held in Tokyo in 2020. Since
we do not know how many nations will actually participate, our program will have to plan on
there being a maximum of 225 nations (in case some more NOCs are recognized before the 2020
Olympics), but must adapt to fewer nations actually being present. So, write a program that

1. Allows a user to enter
a. The names of the nations that are participating
b. The number of gold medals that nation has won
c. The number of silver medals it has won
d. The number of bronze medals it has won
e. “ZZZ” as the nation’s name to indicate that they have finished entering input

2. Outputs a list of sentences that describe each nation’s performance, e.g., for the 2016
Olympics, to describe the performance of the United States, this program would have
output “United States won 46 gold, 37 silver, and 38 bronze
medals, for a total of 121 medals” . Below this list, the program must
output the total number of gold medals awarded, silver medals awarded and bronze
medals awarded, and total of all medals awarded.

3. Scans for and outputs
a. The names of the nations with the most and least gold medals, along with their
gold medal counts, e.g., “United States won the most gold
medals: 46”
b. Similarly, the names of the nations with the most and least silver and bronze
medals respectively

4. Allows the user to enter the name of a nation that they want to search for, and if it finds
that nation, outputs a sentence in the format shown in #2 above.

All of the above must be done by applying the concepts and algorithms shown in Chapter 6, both
in the text book and in the material provided on Blackboard, and building on what we have
learned in all the chapters before this one.

The only data that this program stores is the names of the nations, and the matching counts of
gold, silver and bronze medals. All calculations and scanning for highest and lowest, etc., must
be done by the program after the user has entered the sentinel to indicate the end of their input.
All output sentences described above must be generated when they are required.

Book this is from is "Programming Logic and Design 8th Edition" by: Joyce Farrell. Must be written in pseudocode that resembles that in the book.

this is what I have so far. It probably isn't right, but it will at least give you some structure to follow. Any help is appreciated.

Start
   Declarations
       string EXIT = ZZZ
       NATION_CAPACITY = 225
       string NATION_NAME[NATION_CAPACITY]
       num goldMedals
       num silverMedals
       num bronzeMedals
       num totalMedals
       num count
       num nextNation
       num mostGold
       num leastGold
       num mostSilver
       num leastSilver
       num mostBronze
       num leastBronze

   output "Welcome to our Medal Tracker Program."
   output "This program will allow the user to enter the name of nations participating in the olympics, allow
       the user to enter the number of gold, silver, and bronze medals that nation has won."

   output "Please enter the name of the first nation (type ", ZZZ, " to stop): "
   input nextNation

   count = 0
  
   while nextNation <> ZZZ AND count < NATION_CAPACITY
       NATION_NAME[NATION_CAPACITY] = nextNation

       output "Please enter the amount of gold medals this nation has won: "
       input goldMedals[count]

       output "Please enter the amount of silver medals this nation has won: "
       input silverMedals[count]

       output "Please enter the amount of bronze medals this nation has won: "
       input bronzeMedals[count]

       count = count + 1

       output "Please enter the next nation or ", ZZZ, " to stop: "
       input nextCustomerID
   endwhile

   output "You entered data for ", count, " nations."

   totalMedals = goldMedals + silverMedals + bronzeMedals

   output "The nation ", nextNation, " won ", goldMedals, " gold medals, ", silverMedals, " silver medals, and ", bronzeMedals, "
       bronze medals, for a total of ", totalMedals, " medals.

   mostGold =

QUESTION 31

According to the DSM, ______________ is a clinically significant behavioral and psychological syndrome or pattern that occurs in an individual and that is associated with present distress or disability or with a significantly increased risk of suffering death, pain, disability, or an important loss of freedom.

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QUESTION 32

Tolerance thresholds are relatively high, and tolerance to independent behavior and a range of deviations from the norm is a description of which culture?

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QUESTION 33

Psychologists report that people in collectivist cultures are more likely to display repressive adaptive style than people from other groups.

True

False

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QUESTION 34

Individuals from Western countries are expected to demonstrate a stronger internal locus of control than individuals from non-Western countries.

True

False

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QUESTION 35

What is the repressive adaptive style of coping with illness?

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QUESTION 36

Acculturative stress is known more commonly as:

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QUESTION 37

How are “individualism” and “conformity” related?

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QUESTION 38

Studies show that some national differences exist in the way people maintain eye contact.

True

False

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QUESTION 39

Defenders of political censorship argue that restrictions on information are necessary to protect________.

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QUESTION 40

The innovative project by Iwin Leenen, to educate health in poor rural areas in Guatemala, states in Stage 1:

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QUESTION 41

A detailed description of known diseases and injuries called the DSM is published by the World Health Organization, a branch of the United Nations.

True

False

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QUESTION 42

What should a clinical psychologist do when his or her client embraces nonscientific views about the nature of his or her condition?

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QUESTION 43

The three types of censorship are moral, ideological and :

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QUESTION 44

The tendency to be closed-minded, rigid, and inflexible in one's opinions and subsequent behavior is called “_____________.”

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QUESTION 45

In terms of cultural values, the term collectivist refers to a pattern by which a country scores low on the measure of power distance and high on the measure of individualism.

True

False

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QUESTION 46

Myths and fairy tales from all continents show a consistent pattern: “good” characters are those who obtained their success due to their effort and “bad” individuals are those who enrich themselves by harming others or doing nothing.

True

False

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QUESTION 47

Anthropologists suggest that territorial behavior is not natural for individuals and social groups.

True

False

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QUESTION 48

Unfortunately, the Milgram experiment was not conducted in countries outside the United States and researchers had no opportunity to see if this study had cross-cultural validity.

True

False

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QUESTION 49

Japan has a higher rate of suicide than the United States.

True

False

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QUESTION 50

In Psychology, “folk beliefs” refer to common assumptions about normal and abnormal psychological functioning.

True

False

Essay United State of America economic issues?

What is the role of the United Nations in world politics?

XXX Corporation acquired 80% of the outstanding shares of United Company on June 1, 2020 for P3,517,500. United Company’s stockholders equity components at the end of this year as follows: Ordinary shares, P100 par, P1,500,000, Share premium P675,000 and Retained earnings P1,335,000. Non-controlling interest is measured at fair value and the fair value is P705,000. The assets of united were fairly valued, except for inventories, which are overstated by P66,000 and equipment which was understated by P90,000. Remaining useful life of equipment is 4 years. Stockholder’s equity of XXX on January 1, 2020 is composed of ordinary shares P4,500,000, Share Premium P1,050,000, Retained Earnings P3,150,000. Goodwill, if any, should be written down by P85,350 at year-end. Net income for the first year of parent is P450,000 and the net income of subsidiary from the date of acquisition is P255,000. Dividends declared at the end of the year amounted to P120,000 and P90,000 for XXX and United respectively. During the year, there was no issuance of new ordinary shares .

What is the amount of consolidated shareholder’s equity and the non-controlling interest on December 31, 2020?

Dowell Manufacturing contracts to produce bumper cars for Five Flags Parks. Under the terms of the contract, Five Flags will pay Dowell a total of $60,000 when bumper cars are delivered six months later, and Five Flags can cancel the contract but must pay Dowell for work completed. Dowell believes that, if Five Flags cancelled the contract, Dowell could not sell the bumper cars to another park. As of December 31, 2020, the job is 80% complete. How much revenue should Dowell recognize in 2020 for this contract?

Mickey Mouse Lets You Ride "for Free" At Disney World

• Walt Disney World Theme Parks offer visitors a wide variety of ticket choices.
• The one thing these ticket options have in common is that they entail a fixed entrance fee and allow customers to take as many rides as they want at no additional charge.
• For instance, by purchasing a 1-Day ticket for about $66, a customer gains unlimited access to the park of her choice for one day.
  • Wouldn't Disney earn higher profits if it charged visitors, say, $11, each time they went on a ride?

• Remember to research the topic.