______________________________________________________________
is one of the most important international
organizations to date, establishing the 1980 Convention on
Contracts for the International Sale of Goods (CISG), which will be
discussed further in the next section.
The United Nations Commission International Trade Law
The UN Security Council
The UN General Assembly
The UN
_____________________________ is a regional international organization that includes many countries in Europe. It was established to create peace across the region and promote economic, social, and cultural development (Cheeseman, 2016, p. 561).
The European Union (EU)
NAFTA
The United Nations Commission International Trade Law
BREXIT
In: Economics
4. The stock of United Boot is priced at 5400 and offers a dividend yield of 2 percent. The company has a 2-for-1 stock split.
(a) Other things equal, what would you expect to happen to the stock price?
(b) In practice would you expect the stock price to fall by more or less than
this amount?
(c) Suppose that a few months later United Boot announces a rise in dividends
that is exactly in line with that of other companies. Would you expect the
announcement to lead to a slight abnormal rise in the stock price, a slight
abnormal fall, or no change?
In: Finance
In 2010, the United Nations claimed that there was a higher rate of illiteracy in men than in women from the country of Qatar. A humanitarian organization went to Qatar to conduct a random sample. The results revealed that 45 out of 234 men and 42 out of 251 women were classified as illiterate on the same measurement test. Do these results indicate that the United Nations' findings were correct?
1. Test an appropriate hypothesis and state your conclusion.
2. Find a 95% confidence interval for the difference in the proportions of illiteracy in men and women from Qatar. Interpret your interval.
In: Statistics and Probability
United Airlines plan to buy 34 airplanes for $120,000,000. Flight operations and ground costs are expected to be $7,000,000 per year and $4,000,000 per year respectively. United expects to sell 300,000 tickets and variable costs are expected to be 20 percent of revenue. With a 14 percent required rate of return, what minimum price per ticket are needed to justify the purchase of the airplanes? (Assume a 20- year life and no salvage value for the airplane at the end of 20 years)(Hint: Income = Rev. - Variable cost-Fixed Cost, find annual revenue).
In: Finance
Payback Period and NPV: Taxes and Straight-Line Depreciation
Assume that United Technologies Corporation is evaluating a proposal to change the company's manual design system to a computer-aided design (CAD) system. The proposed system is expected to save 13,500 design hours per year; an operating cost savings of $55 per hour. The annual cash expenditures of operating the CAD system are estimated to be $300,000. The CAD system requires an initial investment of $750,000. The estimated life of this system is five years with no salvage value. The tax rate is 35 percent, and United Technologies uses straight-line depreciation for tax purposes. United Technologies has a cost of capital of 14 percent.
(a) Compute the annual after-tax cash flows related to the CAD project. $ Answer
(b) Compute each of the following for the project:
1. Payback period. Round your answer to 2 decimal places. Answer years
2. Net present value. (Round answer to the nearest whole number.) $ Answer
In: Accounting
The future in the building toy market held both opportunity and uncertainty, with new threats emerging from increased control over licensing agreements, loss of trademark protection and competition fromTnew and existing sources. It was important for the LEGO management team to
(Question) "identify where to expand current product lines in order to help the company formulate a strategy to ensure that LEGO"
(which country should be the next one to expansion and why)
FYI.
At this moment, there are already 48 countries
In: Operations Management
1. The is concerned a a water cup when placing an order but fill the cup with a soft drink from the beverage fountain instead of filling the cup with water. Adventure wold manager selected a random sample of 80 customers who bought tickets to the park and found that 23 of these customers bought their tickets at a discounted price. Calculate a 90% confidence interval for the proportion of all customers who, bought their tickets at discount. (please show work).
2. . One of the two cream stores in a hot southern region has two location, one in the city and one in the rural area.. A random sample of 50 customers were selected from the city ice cream store and had a mean buying time of 4.3 minutes with a standard deviation of 3.7 minutes. A random sample of 50 customers from the rural store had a mean buying time of 5.3 minutes with a standard deviation of 3.2 minutes. A 95 percent confidence interval for the difference in mean customer time spent in the store between the two ice cream stores is calculated. What is the standard error of the difference? (please show work)
3. The team leader for a top bakery team has to make a decision on whether to add a new member to the team. She has made an agreement with her team that in order to decide what to do she needs to figure out the average time it takes one team member to bake some cookies, to see if it is longer than 4 minutes. She uses a random sample of baking time for everyone on the team to test the hypotheses ??0: ?? = 4 versus ??1: ?? > 4. Which of the following would be a consequence of a Type I error?
(A) The team leader hires a new person when the baking time is really longer than 4 minutes.
(B) The team leader does not hire a new person additional staff when the baking time is really longer than 4 minutes.
(C) The Team leader hires additional staff when the bake time is not really longer than 4 minutes.
(D) The Team leader does not hire an extra person when the wait time is not really longer than 4 minutes.
4. 50 years ago only 51 percent of British residents with diabetes usually had other illnesses but that amount is significantly higher today.
A Clinician conducted a study to investigate whether the claim was true. The group found that 54 percent of a randomly selected sample of people with diabetes in the United States had other illnesses.
A test of the hypotheses ??0: ?? = 0.51 ??1: ?? > 0.51 resulted in a p-value 0.266.
In these hypotheses, what does ?? represent?
(A) The sample proportion of British individuals that have other illnesses.
(B) The population proportion of British individuals that have other illnesses 50 years ago.
(C) The population proportion of British individuals that have diabetes today. (D) The population mean of British individual that have other illnesses 50 years ago.
Which of the following statements is the best interpretation of the p-value?
(A) The probability that the null hypothesis is true is 0.266.
(B) The probability that the alternative hypothesis is true is 0.266.
(C) If the null hypothesis is true, the probability of observing a sample proportion of at least 0.54 is 0.266.
(D) If the null hypothesis is true, the probability of observing a sample proportion of at most 0.54 is 0.266
In: Statistics and Probability
In: Economics
Alligator, Inc.
Alligator, Inc. is a shoe designer, manufacturer, and distributor that launched its business in 2012. Although the company operates globally, its headquarters location is in Arteixo, Galicia, Spain, which coincidentally is the central location for Zara, the flagship chain store of the Inditex group, the world’s largest apparel retailer. The best-selling brand of Alligator, Inc. is its Gators™ model, which is a market leader in the funky, brightly-colored, lightweight shoe market that has enjoyed unexpectedly high demand in recent years. Made of a highly-resilient, space-age plastics material, Gators™ success is related also to the fact that each pair includes “one-size fits all” orthotics to meet the needs of individual consumers. Alligator, Inc. has patented the processes relating to the manufacture of the orthotics, and the overall value of this product innovation is similar to the way in which the super-secret formula for Coke is valuable to Coca-Cola, Inc.
The Alligator supply chain begins with retail consumers who are located in regions throughout the world. The Gators™ product is available for consumers at a wide variety of department stores, airport kiosks, Internet, and a select number of Alligator stores located primarily in developed countries. In addition to proprietary manufacturing facilities in Spain, Gators™ are produced by contract manufacturers in the Shenzhen area of China and in Brasilia, Brazil. Generally, the manufacturing costs per unit were lower in Shenzhen and Brasilia, and somewhat higher in Spain. Conversely, the quality of Gators™ manufactured in Spain was considerably better than that of the other locations. The markets served by the respective manufacturing facilities were those that were in greatest proximity.
The supply side of the Gators™ supply chain was a little more complicated, as most inputs to the finished product were available from suppliers in the regional markets, but the custom-fit orthotics were all produced in University Park, PA in the United States. This is because the developers of the orthotics technology were professors in the supply chain and information systems and footwear technology departments at Penn State University. Overall, Alligator’s relationships with its suppliers could have benefited from better coordination, and more timely and complete exchanges of information. At the time that this case study was published, Alligator was in the process of designing an IT capability that would capture point-of-sale information, for further use in streamlining and aligning supply chain operations. Also, the sales of Gators™ exhibited seasonal variation, but to some extent seasonal sales in the southern hemisphere complemented sales in the northern hemisphere.
To help address some of the supply chain issues facing Alligator, Bryson Wilde has recently been hired as the new SVP Supply Chain, and Molly Walters has been selected as the first chief information officer for Alligator. Collectively, and with the help of consultant Anna Walters, this group has taken time so far to visit the company’s global facilities and to become aware of the situation, problems, and concerns that are faced by Alligator, Inc. with regard to the Gators™ product. The following are some of the questions that will need to be addressed by this group.
2. What are the impacts of less-than-perfect demand forecasts for Alligator products, including Gators™, and of volatility in the length and cost the supply chain services needed to move components from suppliers to manufacturing sites, and the subsequent movement of finished products to market? What should be done to mitigate these problem areas?
In: Operations Management
Determine the number of combined states, in the form of total |s m s >, for the combination of four spin ½ particles.
Do NOT determine the coefficients in the composite states.
Hint: make two combinations of spin - ½ particles, one for spins 1 and 2, and one for spins 3 and 4, and combine those
In: Physics