A New York City daily newspaper called “Manhattan Today” charges an annual subscription fee of $594. Customers prepay their subscriptions and receive 290 issues over the year. To attract more subscribers, the company offered new subscribers the ability to pay $560 for an annual subscription that also would include a coupon to receive a 40% discount on a one-hour ride through Central Park in a horse-drawn carriage. The list price of a carriage ride is $550 per hour. The company estimates that approximately 30% of the coupons will be redeemed.

Required:

1. How much revenue should Manhattan Today recognize upon receipt of the $560 subscription price?

2. How many performance obligations exist in this contract?

3. Prepare the journal entry to recognize sale of 11 new subscriptions, clearly identifying the revenue or deferred revenue associated with each performance obligation.

1) What you have been learning about The cost classification, Labor cost, ABC Costing. How do you think this knowledge could help you to be an effective hospitality manager in the future? (in 200 words minimum).

2)  Method of apportioning costs to the cost centers of:

- Employee’s holiday pay

- Rooms division manager’s salary

- Electrical power costs

- Cost of servicing the hotel’s service lifts or elevators

- Fee paid to a professional consultant for advice on fire regulation procedures.

In 2 or 3 sentences explain why you are choosing the respective method of apportioning such costs to the cost centers.

3) You have learned the application of ABC (Activity-Based Costing) in a hotel set-up. In 300 words minimum, discuss how you can apply ABC costing in a restaurant business. Be specific about the functional departments in the business. Give examples.

The amount of time that people spend at Grover Hot Springs is normally distributed with a mean of 71 minutes and a standard deviation of 17 minutes. Suppose one person at the hot springs is randomly chosen. Let X = the amount of time that person spent at Grover Hot Springs . Round all answers to 4 decimal places where possible.

a. What is the distribution of X? X ~ N(Correct,Correct)  

b. Find the probability that a randomly selected person at the hot springs stays longer then 90 minutes.  

c. The park service is considering offering a discount for the 7% of their patrons who spend the least time at the hot springs. What is the longest amount of time a patron can spend at the hot springs and still receive the discount?  minutes.

d. Find the Inter Quartile Range (IQR) for time spent at the hot springs.
Q1:  minutes  
Q3:  minutes  
IQR:  minutes

Write a program in Java Using object Orientation Design to determine the status of Mini Van Doors. A logical circuit receives a different binary code to allow opening different doors. The doors can be opened by a dashboard switch, inside or outside handle. The inside handle will not open the door if the child safety lock is on or the master lock is on. The gear shift must be in the park to open the door.

1. A method must be written to indicate the gear shift status and return to main.
2. A method to display which door is open or can be opened.
3. A method to show the status of all doors
4. A method to convert the code to decimal and store in the text file (Character based) as a record.

** MUST USE constructors and methods. The methods should be instantiated by an object. Use simple main. The first bit Stream must be entered by users. The program needs to be interactive

The amount of time that people spend at Grover Hot Springs is normally distributed with a mean of 80 minutes and a standard deviation of 14 minutes. Suppose one person at the hot springs is randomly chosen. Let X = the amount of time that person spent at Grover Hot Springs . Round all answers to 4 decimal places where possible.

a. What is the distribution of X? X ~ N(,)

b. Find the probability that a randomly selected person at the hot springs stays longer then 89 minutes.

c. The park service is considering offering a discount for the 4% of their patrons who spend the least time at the hot springs. What is the longest amount of time a patron can spend at the hot springs and still receive the discount?  minutes.

d. Find the Inter Quartile Range (IQR) for time spent at the hot springs.
Q1:  minutes
Q3:  minutes
IQR:  minutes

A New York City daily newspaper called “Manhattan Today” charges an annual subscription fee of $216. Customers prepay their subscriptions and receive 260 issues over the year. To attract more subscribers, the company offered new subscribers the ability to pay $210 for an annual subscription that also would include a coupon to receive a 40% discount on a one-hour ride through Central Park in a horse-drawn carriage. The list price of a carriage ride is $200 per hour. The company estimates that approximately 30% of the coupons will be redeemed. Required: 1. How much revenue should Manhattan Today recognize upon receipt of the $210 subscription price? 2. How many performance obligations exist in this contract? 3. Prepare the journal entry to recognize sale of 15 new subscriptions, clearly identifying the revenue or deferred revenue associated with each performance obligation.

A semiprofessional baseball team near your town plays two home games each month at the local baseball park. The team splits the concessions 50/50 with the city but keeps all the revenue from ticket sales. The city charges the team $500  each month for the three-month season. The team pays the players and manager a total of $2500 each month. The team charges $10 for each ticket, and the average customer spends $7 at the concession stand. Attendance averages 100 people at each home game.

Part 1. The team earns an average of $________________ in revenue for each game and $______________ of revenue each season.

With total costs of $_____________ each season, the team finishes the season with $________________ of profit.

Part 2   In order to break even, the team needs to sell   tickets for each game. Round to the nearest whole number.

The UDairy ice cream truck plans to sell ice cream at an upcoming alumni event in Central Park (NYC). From past events, demand for ice cream is highly weather dependent. On rainy days, demand is normally distributed with a mean of 120 scoops and standard deviation of 35 scoops. On non-rainy days, demand is normally distributed with a mean of 200 scoops and standard deviation of 60 scoops. The ice cream truck will be loaded two days before the event and travel to NYC. If the UDairy truck plans to bring enough ice cream to maintain a 90% service level for a rainy day, but the day surprisingly turns out to be non-rainy, what is the probability of the ice cream truck stocking out? For simplicity, assume the number of scoops demanded is a continuous variable. Enter probability as a three-digit decimal (e.g. 0.500, 0.275, 0.942).

47.         (BONUS) Suppose that Disney wants to follow up on the success of Frozen, with a sequeal this fall. The movie will cost $165 million to produce (INVESTED TODAY), and the producers expect the movie to generate a cash flow of $160 million in the first year. After the first year, cash flows will decline to $15 million in year 2.

However, the movie will also create synergy within the company.

Disney will build a new Olaf ride at Epcot for $40 million (invested TODAY). Disney suspects that the ride will bring visitors to the park and increase merchandise sales. Disney estimates that sales will increase by $12 million per year in PERPETUITY. The after-tax operating margin on these sales is 50% for Disney. If the cost of capital is 10%, what is the combined NPV of this opportunity?

The End of Upward Mobility Barack Obama's ascension to the presidency won't end racism, but it does mean race is no longer the dominant issue in American politics. Instead, over the coming decades, class will likely constitute the major dividing line in our society—and the greatest threat to America's historic aspirations. This is a fundamental shift from the last century. Writing in the early 1900s, W.E.B. DuBois observed, "The problem of the 20th century is the problem of the color line." Developments in the ensuing years bore out this assertion. Indeed, before the 1960s, the decade of Barack Obama's birth, even the most talented people of color faced often insurmountable barriers to reaching their full potential. Today in a multiracial America, the path to success has opened up to an extent unimaginable in DuBois's time. Obama's ascent reflects in particular the rise of the black bourgeoisie from tokens to a force at the heart of the meritocracy. Since the late 1960s, the proportion of African-American households living in poverty has shrunk from 70 percent to 46 percent, while the black middle class has grown from 27 percent to 37 percent. Perhaps more remarkable, the percentage who are considered prosperous—earning more than $107,000 a year in 2007 dollars—expanded from 3 percent to 17 percent. Yet as racial equity has improved, class disparities between rich and poor, between the ultra-affluent and the middle class, have widened. This gap transcends race. African-Americans and Latinos may tend, on average, to be poorer than whites or Asians, but stagnant or even diminishing incomes affect all ethnic groups. (Most housecleaners are white, for instance—and the same goes for other low-wage professions.) Divisions may not be as visible as during the Gilded Age. Keep Up With This Story And More By Subscribing Now As Irving Kristol once noted, "Who doesn't wear blue jeans these days?" You can walk into a film studio or software firm and have trouble distinguishing upper management from midlevel employees. But from the 1940s to the 1970s, the American middle class enjoyed steadily increasing incomes that stayed on a par with those in the upper classes. Since then, wages for most workers have lagged behind. As a result, the relatively small number of Americans with incomes seven times or more above the poverty level have achieved almost all the recent gains in wealth. Most disturbingly, the rate of upward mobility has stagnated overall, which means it is no easier for the poor to move up today than it was in the 1970s. This disparity is strikingly evident in income data compiled by Citigroup, which shows that the top 1 percent of U.S. households now account for as much of the nation's total wealth—7 percent—as they did in 1913, when monopolistic business practices were the order of the day. Their net worth is now greater than that of the bottom 90 percent of the nation's households combined. The top 20 percent of taxpayers realized nearly three quarters of all income gains from 1979 to 2000. Even getting a college degree no longer guarantees upward mobility. The implicit American contract has always been that with education and hard work, anyone can get ahead. But since 2000, young people with college educations—except those who go to elite colleges and graduate schools—have seen their wages decline. The deepening recession will make this worse. According to a 2008 survey by the National Association of Colleges and Employers, half of all companies plan to cut the number of new graduates they hire this year, compared with last. But the problem goes well beyond the current crisis. For one thing, the growing number of graduates has flooded the job market at a time when many financially pressed boomers are postponing retirement. And college-educated workers today face unprecedented competition from skilled labor in other countries, particularly in the developing world. The greatest challenge for Obama will be to change this trajectory for Americans under 30, who supported him by two to one. The promise that "anyone" can reach the highest levels of society is the basis of both our historic optimism and the stability of our political system. Yet even before the recession, growing inequality was undermining Americans' optimism about the future. In a 2006 Zogby poll, for example, nearly two thirds of adults did not think life would be better for their children. However inspirational the story of his ascent, Barack Obama will be judged largely by whether he can rebuild a ladder of upward mobility for the rest of America, too. !- Do you think that class differences are emerging as the big issue of this century? 2- Most people in this country think it is only fair that, with schooling and hard work, people should be able to get ahead. How true is that idea today? Explain 3- In your opinion how optimistic or pessimistic are young people in the United States about their chances to get ahead in the years to come? Why?