Middler Corporation, a manufacturer of electronics and communications systems, uses a service department charge system to charge profit centers with Computing and Communications Services (CCS) service department costs. The following table identifies an abbreviated list of service categories and activity bases used by the CCS department. The table also includes some assumed cost and activity base quantity information for each service for October. CCS Service Category Activity Base Budgeted Cost Budgeted Activity Base Quantity Help desk Number of calls $96,750 2,500 Network center Number of devices monitored 660,250 9,500 Electronic mail Number of user accounts 71,000 7,100 Handheld technology support Number of handheld devices issued 142,400 8,900 One of the profit centers for Middler Corporation is the Communication Systems (COMM) sector. Assume the following information for the COMM sector: The sector has 2,000 employees, of whom 60% are office employees. Almost all office employees (90%) have a computer on the network. 95 percent of the employees with a computer also have an e-mail account. The average number of help desk calls for October was 1 calls per individual with a computer. There are 290 additional printers, servers, and peripherals on the network beyond the personal computers. All the nonoffice employees have been issued a handheld device. a. Determine the service charge rate for the four CCS service categories for October. Round your answers to two decimal places. CCS Service Category Service Charge Rate Help desk $ Per call Network center $ Per device monitored Electronic mail $ Per user or e-mail account Handheld technology support $ Per device b. Determine the charges to the COMM sector for the four CCS service categories for October. October charges to the COMM sector: Help desk charge $ Network center charge $ Electronic mail charge $ Handheld technology support $

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A random sample of respondents was drawn from three Latin American countries: Nicaragua, Guatemala, and Costa Rica. The variable if interest is the duration (in months) of stay in the United States during a respondent’s first migration to the United States.

Nicaragua: 4, 6, 6, 6, 12, 36, 36, 36, 36, 60, 72, 78, 96, 120, 126, 156, 162, 162, 186, 540
Guatemala: 1, 1, 12, 24, 24, 24, 36, 36, 42, 60, 78, 84, 102, 102, 102, 102,132, 144
Costa Rica: 12, 12, 12, 12, 14, 15, 15, 18, 18, 24, 36, 48, 66, 120, 150, 150, 174, 282, 288

1. At this point in your efforts, you notice that both Guatemala and Costa Rica have some very low and very high values? Which measure of central tendency is most susceptible to such extreme values?
2. Given your answers to Questions #5 and #7, you are interested in extending the idea that respondents from Latin American countries that are closer to the United States have a higher mean duration of stay than respondents from Latin American countries that are further away. Which country would you expect to have the lowest mean duration of stay during first U.S. migration?
3. Which of the three countries has the lowest mean duration? Does this support your idea that respondents from Latin American countries that are closer to the United States have a higher mean duration of stay than respondents from Latin American countries that are further away?
4. For each country, identify the direction in which (if any) the distribution is skewed? Provide specific evidence using your answers from the previous questions.
5. Select one country from Question #11 and illustrate your conclusion graphically using the histogram. On your graph, be sure to highlight the mode, median, and the mean.
6. Construct box-whisker plot for each country separately. Interpret your findings.

The Trade Pacific Partner (TPP) was signed in New Zealand on 4^th February 2016 by a group of twelve countries. However, the United States of America (USA) withdrew from the pact in January 2017 and the remaining 11 member countries signed the newly Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans- Pacific Partnership (CPTPP) on 8^th March 2018.                            

1. State at least FIVE (5) goals of TPP.

2. Explain the benefits of TPP to Malaysia.

3. What is the plausible reason that the USA pull out of TPP?

The Washington Post ran a headline on March 3, 2018: “Trump insists ‘trade wars are good, and easy to win’ after vowing new tariffs.”

Source: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/business/wp/2018/03/02/trump- insists-trade-wars-are-good-and-easy-to-win-after-vowing-new-tariffs/

Using the relevant international trade and investment theories, explain if imposing new tariffs on Chinese imports will help America win its trade war against China.

1) In two to three coherent sentences, explain each of the following concepts: a) Popular capitalism, b) Mitbestimmung and c) Ordnungspolitik.

2) Privatization: What do we mean by the term privatization? How successful was privatization in Great Britain?

3) Mittelstand: Explain the importance of the “Mittelstand” for the success of German manufacturing and employment.

4) Post-Brexit: State and explain one point from the article “A weaker post-Brexit Britain looks to America,” The Economist, Jan 30, 2020.

Please describe some of the potential benefits to a multinational corporation of foreign direct investment? Nike has expanded its footwear production to Latin America. What do you think motivated them to do so? What are the potential non-financial benefits to the company that is being invested in? Do you think that multinational corporations should invest in countries with poor child labor laws? Why or why not? How does your response to that question relate to the responses to my previous questions?