You are looking into a factory to make strained peas. You estimate that the equipment will cost $50,000, which you would depreciate over the 10-year life of the project to a book value of zero. The salvage value of the equipment is zero. You think you can sell 15,000 cans at $2/can. The cost of producing the cans is $0.80 each. Your tax rate will be 40%. You plan to maintain an inventory equal to 25% of revenues and you can salvage 80% of this working capital at the end of the project’s life. You plan to use your garage, which means you will have to pay $2,000/year to park your car elsewhere (the good news is that the $2,000/year is tax deductible). To estimate the cost of capital for the project you look at the following comparable firms:
Company D/E Tax rate Beta on stock
Gerber 1.00 0.50 1.5

Brio 0.50 0.40 1.3
You plan to finance this project entirely with equity. The current T-Bond rate is 11.5% and the MRP is 5.5%. You also assume all debt betas are equal to zero in your analysis.

a) What is the appropriate discount rate for the project?

b) What are the after-tax cash flows?

c) What is the NPV?

Health promotion and illness prevention is a holistic role for nurses. Typically community or public health nurses assume these roles; however, these roles are also important for nurses in acute care settings and are achieved through the promotion of health or management of illness by providing client education, often during a client's stay and at discharge.

Read the following two articles to understand the roles of both acute care and community nurses.

Original Research: Implementation of an Early Mobility Program in an ICU. http://ezproxy.rasmussen.edu/login?url=http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=rzh&AN=111298980&site=eds-live

Kulbok, P.A. Esther Thatcher, E. Eunhee Park, E., & Meszaros, P.S (2012). Evolving public health nursing roles: Focus on community participatory health promotion and prevention. http://ezproxy.rasmussen.edu/login?url=http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=a9h&AN=76615164&site=eds-live

After reading the two articles, post the following:

What is the primary role and responsibilities of nurses in health promotion and illness prevention?

Are there any differences in the role and responsibilities if the nurse is working in
acute care or in the community?

Are there differences in process or outcomes for health promotion versus illness
prevention?

What do you think is needed for nurses to be successful, either with health promotion or illness prevention?

Fremont has struggled over recent years to keep downtown businesses thriving. Locals report that the inability to park anywhere other than at overpriced parking meters prevents them from shopping downtown. Last week, the city of Clarion reported that adding two new parking lots and decreasing the hourly parking rate in their downtown area increased the surrounding business revenue by 7% in the past year. Fremont and Clarion are similar in terms of population and sales tax rates. The Fremont city manager’s office is looking for ways to increase downtown revenue and asks the public for suggestions.

Q1) Which of the following is a likely suggestion the city manager’s office will receive from the public?

1. Fremont should reorganize downtown traffic into one-way streets
2. Fremont should increase available parking spaces downtown
3. Fremont should give tax breaks to downtown business owners
4. Fremont should add parking meters to increase revenue.

2) Which of the following is the purpose of editorial about downtown Fremont?

A.To encourance residents to shop in downtown Fremont

B.To engage residents in the discussion about increasing business revenue

C.To prevent residents from shopping in Clarion

D.To determine how residents feel about adding more parking downtown

Required

   (a)       Using the above data, compute the gross profit to be recognised for each of the three years, assuming that the outcome of the contract can be reliably estimated.  

   (b)   Prepare the journal entries for the 2015 financial year using the percentage-of-completion method.

   (c)   Prepare the journal entries for the 2015 financial year, assuming the stage of completion cannot be reliably assessed.

Sun City Limited commences construction of a multi-purpose water park on 1 July 2014 for Pretoria Limited. Sun City Limited signs a fixed-price contract for total revenues of $50 million. The project is expected to be completed by the end of 2017 and Pretoria Limited controls the asset throughout the period of construction. The expected cost as at the commencement of construction is $38 million. The estimated costs of a construction project might change throughout the project—in this example, they do change. The following data relates to the project (the financial years end on 30 June): Required (a) Using the above data, compute the gross profit to be recognised for each of the three years, assuming that the outcome of the contract can be reliably estimated.   (b) Prepare the journal entries for the 2015 financial year using the percentage-of-completion method. (c) Prepare the journal entries for the 2015 financial year, assuming the stage of completion cannot be reliably assessed.

A publicly traded company operating over 800 restaurants nationally and in 15 foreign countries with 34,000 employees with a reported gross revenue of $1.25 billion dollars is the subject of this action. This chain restaurant posted an internal announcement for a temporary summer position in its Park City, Utah resort location for employees in a nine state region. The position included company-provided housing and greater earnings. However, the announcement stated that only female employees would be considered because of concerns about housing employees of both genders together. The restaurant selected only women for those summer jobs. Two male employees were turned down for the opportunity. Please answer the following questions.

1) What federal law will the two male employees rely on in this action?

2) Can the two male employees bring an action in federal court immediately? If not, with what federal agency must they file a complaint first?

3) What is the statute of limitation of limitations on the filing of the complaint?

4) What doctrine will the male employees most likely use to prove discrimination and how will they go about proving it? How might the employer respond to or refute the allegations of discrimination?

5) How do you think the Court should rule and what is the basis for that ruling?

Instructions:

Answer ALL questions in the examination booklet. You are required to show your workings unless stated otherwise.

QUESTION 1

1. What is the lowest z-value for the lowest 5% of observations on the standard normal distribution?

2. If we know that the length of time it takes a university student to find a parking space in the university car park follows a normal distribution with a mean of 3.5 minutes and a standard deviation of 1 minute, find the Interquartile Range (IQR) for a randomly selected university student finding a parking space.

3. The daily sales of a retail store are normally distributed with a standard deviation of $500. If the probability that sales will be more than $10,000 in any one day is 60%, what are the mean daily sales?

4. A drinks machine dispenses coffee into cups. A sign on the machine indicates that each cup contains 100ml of coffee. The machine actually dispenses a mean amount of 105ml per cup and 10% of the cups contain less than the amount stated on the sign. Assuming that the amount of coffee dispenses into each cup is normally distributed, find the standard deviation of the amount of coffee dispensed per cup in ml.

5. Given the following table of values, find, showing ALL workings:

1. The missing probability.                     

Eric and Pat are baseball fans. They drove to the local stadium in Eric's car to watch a game, and decided to park in the parking garage. When driving into the parking garage, they were required to take a ticket in order to get access to the garage. The cost for parking the car was $15.00, which was not due until exiting the garage. After taking the ticket, they parked the car and then walked across the street to the game. When the game was over, they walked back to the car. Upon approaching Eric's vehicle, they noticed that one of the windows had been smashed in. Everything inside had been taken, including Pat's work laptop which had been sitting in a bag in the backseat of the car. Eric and Pat were upset that the parking garage security didn't notice and prevent this crime from happening. Eric and Pat filed a lawsuit against the company that runs the parking garage. The company (ABC Co.) defended, stating that on the back of the ticket is a clause which states the following in conspicuous lettering: "ABC Co. is not liable for any loss of contents or damage caused to vehicles parked in the garage due to its own negligence or the actions of any other person." Will the court uphold the clause on the parking ticket? Make sure to fully explain your answer. This means including the law that applies and the reasoning in applying that law.

Wood Maker Ltd. incurred the following selected transactions during the month of April:

For each transaction, indicate (1) the basic type of account debited or credited (asset, liability, shareholders’ equity); (2) the specific account debited or credited; and (3) whether the specific account is increased or decreased to record this transaction. Use the following format.

You are working for Colorado Green Builders, a company in Boulder, Colorado, specializing in sustainable building. You are part of a project team that is supervising the design and construction of a visitor’s center in the Rocky Mountain National Park. The goal is to build the visitor’s center so that it is self-sufficient. That means it should use no outside resources, if possible, including energy, water, and waste systems. Your manager, Amanda Karlson, suggests that you meet with your team to plan this project.
a.Brainstorm the general categories of resources you need to build the visitor’s center so that it is self-sufficient. Consider everything typically found in a public building.
b.Review the resource categories and create a master list.
c.For each category, brainstorm ways to provide the resource without depending on outside systems. For example, if you have a food category, you could create a garden and greenhouse to provide fruits and vegetables without depending on outside suppliers.
d.Review the ideas your team generated, and then use convergent thinking techniques to edit the list. Your goal is to identify all the resources a visitor’s center needs using systems that are fairly easy to set up and maintain and are not too expensive.
e.Submit the list to your instructor as requested.

PLEASE HELP ME WITH THIS. ANY IDEA WILL HELP, OR EVEN SHORT ANSWER. THANK YOU!

A publicly traded company operating over 800 restaurants nationally and in 15 foreign countries with 34,000 employees with a reported gross revenue of $1.25 billion dollars is the subject of this action.  This chain restaurant posted an internal announcement for a temporary summer position in its Park City, Utah resort location for employees in a nine state region. The position included company-provided housing and greater earnings. However, the announcement stated that only female employees would be considered because of concerns about housing employees of both genders together. The restaurant selected only women for those summer jobs. Two male employees were turned down for the opportunity. Please answer the following questions.

1) What federal law will the two male employees rely on in this action?

2) Can the two male employees bring an action in federal court immediately? If not, with what federal agency must they file a complaint first?

3) What is the statute of limitation of limitations on the filing of the complaint?

4) What doctrine will the male employees most likely use to prove discrimination and how will they go about proving it? How might the employer respond to or refute the allegations of discrimination?

5) How do you think the Court should rule and what is the basis for that ruling?