LP1 Assignment: Milestone 1: International Expansion

This assignment will assess competency

1. Build effective global and international linkages for multinational organizations.

Directions

The company you work for is expanding internationally in the near future. A team of employees, which you are a part, have been given the task of evaluating one developed (not the U.S.), one emerging and one developing country for possible expansion. You will pick three countries this week, using the Dow Jones Indexes, and begin the process of evaluation. Choose three countries in which you have an interest – do not focus on finding the best choice (remember there is an entire team doing the same process in other countries). There is every possibility that by the end of the process (i.e., the end of class) your country recommendations will be not chosen for expansion, and that is fine. We are completing our due diligence on all the choices at hand. This week you will look at the political, legal and technological ramifications of your three countries. You will write up, for each country, all the pros and cons of the choice of each country based on your readings of the first three chapters of your text, the CIA World Factbook and the AIB Global Edge, plus other research from other sources. The expectation would be for a minimum of two pages per country. You will follow APA (6th edition) formatting (no abstract is required for this milestone) with title and reference pages, indented paragraphs and a minimum of four APA formatted references and associated in-text citations. This information, and that of the following LPs, will become part of your final project artefact.

Ray Perkins has been employed at Grant Real Estate for almost two years. Prior to receiving his real estate license, he was a property manager with a large real estate agency in another community. During his first year with Grant, he was assigned to the residential property division and sold properties totaling $825,000. He then requested and received a transfer to the commercial division.
Three months ago, Ray obtained a commercial listing that consisted of 26 acres of land near a growing residential neighborhood. The land is zoned commercial and appears to be ideally suited for a mediumsized shopping center. Ray prepared a detailed prospectus and sent it to Vera Maynard, president of Mondale Growth Corporation, a firm specializing in development of shopping centers.
One week later he received a letter from Ms. Maynard requesting more information. Shortly after receiving Ray’s response, Ms. Maynard called to set up an appointment to inspect the property. A time and date were finalized, and Ray agreed to meet her plane and conduct a tour of the property. Ray is a quiet, amiable person who displays the Supportive communication style. Friends say that they like to spend time with him because he is a good listener.
Question:
1. If Ms. Maynard displays the characteristics of the Supportive communication style, how should Ray conduct himself during the meeting? Be specific as you describe those behaviors that would be admired by Ms. Maynard. What if Ms. Maynard displays a Reflective Communication style? Emotive Communication Style?

A neuron can use glucose created from a non-carbohydrate source.  This reaction is termed:

1. glycogenolysis  b) glycogenesis  c) photosynthesis  d) glycolysis  e) none of the above

Which of the following statements is (are) true about epithelial tissue?

      a)  epithelial cells secrete collagen    b)  epithelial tissue functions in absorption

      c)  epithelial tissue has each of the 4 tissue types     d)  epithelial cells are always ciliated

      e)  two of the above are true

Which of the following require “active” transport processes?

1. movement of glucose from a region of high concentration to a region of low concentration
2. osmosis    c)  simple diffusion       d) a and b         e)  none of the above

A bundle of axons in the central nervous system is called a _________ and a bundle of axons in the peripheral nervous system is called a ______________

        a) tract; nerve   b) nerve; tract  c) ganglia; nucleus  d) nucleus, ganglia  e) ganglia; nerve

Which of the following binds to the active site of an enzyme?

            a) non competitive inhibitor       b) water   c) another enzyme    d) substrate   e) pro

In the para sympathetic nervous system, the ganglia containing the post ganglionic somas are located ____________.

      a) adjacent to the spinal cord   b) in the CNS   c) near or on the effector organ

      d) in the spino-cerebellar tract     e) none of the above

When Robin kicks a soccer ball, her leg makes contact with the ball by _______ of the knee.  This is an example of a/an __________ contraction of the quadriceps.

       a)  flexion; concentric         b)  flexion; eccentric      c)  extension; eccentric

       d) extension; concentric      e)  flexion; isometric     

Federal funding agencies must form committees to decide which telescope projects will receive funds for construction. When deciding whic projects wil be funded, the committees must consider:

that certain wavelengths of light are blocked from reaching Earth's surface by the atmosphere,

how efficiently telescopes work at different wavlengths, and

that telescopes in space are much more expensive to construct than Earth-based telescopes.

Using these three criteria, consider each pairing of telescope proposals listed below. For each pair, state which of the two you would choose to fund and explain your reasoning.

Pair A)

Project Beta:  An X-ray wavelength telescope, located near the North Pole, which will be used to examine the Sun.

Project Alpha: An infrared wavelength telescope, placed on a satellite in orbit around Earth, which will be used to view supernovae.

Pair B)

Project Rho: A UV wavelength telescope, placed high atop Mauna Kea in Hawaii at 14,000 ft above sea level, which will be used to look at distant galaxies.

Project Sigma: A visible wavelength telescope, placed on a satellite orbit around Earth, which will be used to observe a pair of binary stars located in the constellation Ursa Major.

Pair C)

Project Zeta:  A radio wavelength telescope, placed on the floor of the Mojave Desert, which will be used to detect potential communications from distant civilizations outside our solar system.

Project Epsilon:  An infrared wavelength telescope, located in the high-elevation mountains of Chile, which will be used to view newly forming stars (protostars) in the Orion nebula.

The following transactions and adjusting entries were completed by a local delivery company called Fast Delivery. The company uses straight-line depreciation for delivery vehicles, double-declining-balance depreciation for buildings, and straight-line amortization for franchise rights. 2018 January 2 Paid $178,000 cash to purchase a small warehouse building near the airport. The building has an estimated life of 20 years and a residual value of $3,600. July 1 Paid $46,000 cash to purchase a delivery van. The van has an estimated useful life of five years and a residual value of $9,200. October 2 Paid $600 cash to paint a small office in the warehouse building. October 13 Paid $200 cash to get the oil changed in the delivery van. December 1 Paid $85,500 cash to UPS to begin operating Fast Delivery business as a franchise using the name The UPS Store. This franchise right expires in five years. December 31 Recorded depreciation and amortization on the delivery van, warehouse building, and franchise right. 2019 June 30 Sold the warehouse building for $142,000 cash. (Record the depreciation on the building prior to recording its disposal.) December 31 Recorded depreciation on the delivery van and amortization on the franchise right. Determined that the franchise right was not impaired in value. Required: Prepare the journal entries required on each of the above dates. (If no entry is required for a transaction/event, select "No Journal Entry Required" in the first account field. Do not round intermediate calculations.)

please answer to Part 1 b

please show your work how to get that number and no hand writing plz thanks

Waterways Corporation is considering various business opportunities. It wants to make the best use of its production facilities to maximize income. This problem asks you to help Waterways do incremental analysis on these various opportunities.

Part 1 Waterways mass-produces a special connector unit that it normally sells for $3.90. It sells approximately 35,000 of these units each year. The variable costs for each unit are $2.30. A company in Canada that has been unable to produce enough of a similar connector to meet customer demand would like to buy 15,000 of these units at $2.60 per unit. The production of these units is near full capacity at Waterways, so to accept the offer from the Canadian company would require temporarily adding another shift to its production line. To do this would increase variable manufacturing costs by $0.30 per unit. However, variable selling costs would be reduced by $0.20 a unit. An irrigation company has asked for a special order of 2,000 of the connectors. To meet this special order, Waterways would not need an additional shift, and the irrigation company is willing to pay $3.10 per unit. Instructions Given the information above:

(a) What are the consequences of Waterways agreeing to provide the 15,000 units to the Canadian company? Would this be a wise “special order” to accept?

(b) Should Waterways accept the special order from the irrigation company?

(c) What would be the consequences of accepting both special orders?

please answer to Part 1 c

please show your work how to get that number and no hand writing plz thanks

Waterways Corporation is considering various business opportunities. It wants to make the best use of its production facilities to maximize income. This problem asks you to help Waterways do incremental analysis on these various opportunities.

Part 1 Waterways mass-produces a special connector unit that it normally sells for $3.90. It sells approximately 35,000 of these units each year. The variable costs for each unit are $2.30. A company in Canada that has been unable to produce enough of a similar connector to meet customer demand would like to buy 15,000 of these units at $2.60 per unit. The production of these units is near full capacity at Waterways, so to accept the offer from the Canadian company would require temporarily adding another shift to its production line. To do this would increase variable manufacturing costs by $0.30 per unit. However, variable selling costs would be reduced by $0.20 a unit. An irrigation company has asked for a special order of 2,000 of the connectors. To meet this special order, Waterways would not need an additional shift, and the irrigation company is willing to pay $3.10 per unit. Instructions Given the information above:

(a) What are the consequences of Waterways agreeing to provide the 15,000 units to the Canadian company? Would this be a wise “special order” to accept?

(b) Should Waterways accept the special order from the irrigation company?

(c) What would be the consequences of accepting both special orders?

Ive gotten a and b. if youd do all three that would be great but if not please at least do c.

1. Greece is a European country whose currency is the euro (€). Greece’s government has been borrowing because of its large budget deficits. There is widespread fear that Greece will be unable to repay the people and institutions that have lent it money. This is being called the “Greek Debt Crisis.”

a. Wealth holders around the world reacted to the Greek Debt Crisis by selling European financial assets and buying U.S. financial assets. Explain why their action changed the exchange rate between euros and dollars. Did their action strengthen or weaken the dollar relative to the euro?

b. Greece is part of the “Eurozone” – 16 countries that each use the euro (€) as its currency. The European Central Bank (ECB) sets monetary policy for the Eurozone. (You can think of the ECB as “Europe’s Fed.”) One monetary policy applies to all 16 countries of the Eurozone. The Greek legislature approved “austerity measures”: • increased taxes • reduced pensions (the equivalent of our Social Security), and • reduced pay for government workers. The austerity measures described above will increase Greek unemployment. Explain why? If the ECB wanted to use interest rates to help Greece’s economy following imposition of the austerity measures, should the ECB increase interest rates or decrease interest rates? Why? Explain fully.

c. Suppose the ECB takes the action you propose in Question 1b. In Eurozone countries that are currently at or near full employment, what impact will that change in interest rates have on inflation? Explain.

The good chemist is tasket with determining the concentration of manganese for a water sample drawn from a well next to a mine. To analyze the sample using absorbance spectroscopy, she prepares six sample (0-5) by adding 10.00 mL well water to 50.00-mL volumetric flasks, then adding increasing volumes of 25.00 ppm maganese solution, and diluting the resulting solution to 50.00 mL with 0.1 M HNO3. Final analysis at lambda(max)= 280 nm produced a graph of absorbance vs ppm Mn with best-fit line y = 0.0428x + 0.0487.

a) What is the concentration in ppm of manganese in the well water sample?

b) A field method of analysis was developed for testing soil near the mine where a .570 g sample of soil is quickly dissolved in acid with an oxidizing agent and diluted to 100 mL.

i) While you wait for the extraction, you calivrate your USB-spectrometer with a 3.15x10^-4 M standard of MnO4- with an average absorbance of .407 at 565 nm in a 1 cm cuvette. A blank solution made from DI water and acid had an absorbance of .078. Find the molar absorptivity of permanganate complex

ii) A few mL of the unknown solution is placed in a 1 cm cell and the transmission is found to be 30% at 565 nm. Calculate the concentration of manganese in the extracted sample.

iii)What was the weight percent of manganese in the original soil sample. iv) Explain in one sentence why permanganate appears to be a purple color