Required:

A manufacturing company holds large amounts of factory machinery on its balance sheet. The machinery is custom built using specifications that make it unsuitable for use in any other location. For this reason it is unlikely that there could exist a resale market for this machinery.  

Discuss:  

1. two advantages of using historical cost to measure this machinery.     (2.5 marks)
2. two advantages of using the revaluation model to measure this machinery.      (2.5 marks)

Your pay is a combination of basic wage + reward. The Commission is based on the expected return for the company and investors. You are well aware of the pay system because you have built a reputation as an aggressive financial advisor who aims to satisfy everyone at all costs.

QUESTION: Discussion and detailed review to cover the ethical considerations in this pay policy. Developing a modern organizational governance system. What recommendation will you make?

Computer the Depreciation Schedule by using SLD, SOYD, and DDB methods

the university pursed a lab Mass-Spectrometer that has 5 years depreciable life. The instrument costs school $900 with a Salvage Value of $70 after the end of the service life.

1-Built a Depreciation Schedule for this asset by all three methods

2-Build a graphic of each method

3-Which method will you recommend to the university and why?

According to the study of Aggregate Supply Curve and the Phillips Curve, a number of different models justifies the existence of sticky wages and also the ability of aggregate demand curve to affect output.
(a) Explain these models.
(b) What are their similarities and differences ?
(c) Which of these models do you find the most plausible ?

Discuss the main differences between the original expectations-augmented Phillips Curve and the curve built on Rational Expectations.

A palindrome prime is a prime number that reads the same forwards or backwards. An example of a
palindrome prime is 131. Write a method with the following signature for determining if a given
number is a palindrome prime.
public static boolean isPallyPrime(int nVal)

Note: For this assignment you are not allowed to use the built in Java class Array as part of your solution for any of these questions. Your Method signatures must
be the same as given here.

2. Take a position, either pro or con, on Christie's decision to kill the ARC. Develop arguments to support your point of view.

3. In your opinion, how clearly must a large infrastructure project like ARC have determined its need, costs, and so forth before being approved? If the criteria are too stringent, what is the implication for future projects of this type? Would any ever be built?

Write a function divisibleBy3 with 2 positive integer inputs, a lower bound and an upper bound. Generate a list of integers from the lower bound to the upper bound and determine how many numbers in the list have a remainder equal to zero when dividing by 3.

Hint: Use a loop and the MATLAB built-in function rem to calculate the remainder after division. The remainder of N divided by P is rem(N,P).

Research and Development:

The Thomas Company is in the process of developing a revolutionary new product. A new division of the company was formed to develop, manufacture, and market this product. As of year‐end (December 31, 2017), the product has not been manufactured for resale; however, a prototype unit was built and is in operation.

Throughout 2017 the division incurred certain costs. These costs include design and engineering studies, prototype manufacturing costs, administrative expenses (including salaries of administrative personnel), and market research costs. In addition, $500,000 in equipment (estimated useful life: 10 years) was purchased for use in developing and manufacturing the preproduction prototype and will be used to manufacture the product. Approximately $200,000 of this equipment was built specifically for the design and development of the product; the remaining $300,000 of equipment will be used to manufacture the product once it is in commercial production.

Required:

1. How is research and development defined in Statement of Financial Accounting Standards No. 2?
2. Briefly indicate the practical and conceptual reasons for the conclusion reached by the FASB on accounting and reporting practices for R&D costs.
3. In accordance with SFAS No. 2, how should the various costs of Thomas just described be reported in the financial statements for the year ended December 31, 2017?

For each of the passages below, identify the title and author of the short story from which the passage comes, explain what the passage depicts or illustrates, provide the larger context in which the passage can be understood, and interpret the significance of the passage to the whole story.

"He should not have built the fire under the spruce tree. He should have built it in the open. But it had been easier to pull the twigs from the brush and drop them directly on the fire. Now the tree under which he had done this carried a weight of snow on its boughs. No wind had blown for weeks, and each bough was fully freighted. Each time he had pulled a twig he had communicated a slight agitation to the tree - an imperceptible agitation, so far as he was concerned, but an agitation sufficient to bring about the disaster. High up in the tree one bough capsized its load of snow. This fell on the boughs beneath, capsizing them. This process continued, spreading out and involving the whole tree. It grew like an avalanche, and it descended without warning upon the man and the fire, and the fire was blotted out!"

question: Phone Number CheckingAlice has been having trouble with people filling her website’s form incorrectly, especially with phone numbers. She’d like tomake sure a user’s phone number input only has digits (other than -) and is exactly 10 digits long.Finishvalidphonenumber(string)such that the function returns True if a phone number is valid, and False if not.

def valid_phone_number(number: str) -> bool:
    """
    Return True if the number is a valid phone number. A valid phone number:
    1) Has exactly 10 digits (we are excluding the country code)
    2) Only has digits (no alphabets or special characters)
    3) May have "-" to split numbers. Example: 0123456789 and 012-345-6789 are
    BOTH valid

    Do *not* use loops for this problem. Try to make sure you only use built-ins

    Hint: you will need 3 built-in string methods

    >>> valid_phone_number("0123456789")
    True

    >>> valid_phone_number("012-345-6789")
    True

    >>> valid_phone_number("01-23-45-67-89")
    True
    """
    # TODO: do some checking here

    # change this
    return True

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