Crosby states that "Quality is Free." Outline the ideas from the reading that both supports this statement. What ideas dispute this statement?
In: Operations Management
Select one of the United Nations' (U.N.) Millennial
Development Goals (MDGs). Visit the website and report on the UN's
progress in achieving this goal? How will meeting this goal
positively impact the health of the world? What suggestions would
you make to help the UN achieve this goal?
In: Biology
Please answer the following question:
Identify a well known company (this may include Dell, Nike, United Airlines, eBay, Southwest Airlines, or another firm) and describe its business-level (competitive) strategy. Why does this strategy fit the firm’s external environment?
In: Operations Management
Financial information for American Eagle is presented in Appendix A at the end of the book, and financial information for Buckle is presented in Appendix B at the end of the book.
Required:
1. Calculate the current ratio for both companies for the year ended February 3, 2018. Which company has the better ratio? Compare your calculations with those for United Airlines and American Airlines reported in the chapter text. Which industry maintains a higher current ratio?
2. Calculate the acid-test (quick) ratio for both companies for the year ended February 3, 2018. Which company has the better ratio? Compare your calculations with those for United Airlines and American Airlines reported in the chapter text. Which industry maintains a higher acid-test ratio?
3. How would the purchase of additional inventory with accounts payable affect the current ratio for these two companies?
In: Accounting
Please answer the question (c)
For simplicity, assume that CUHK has only four colleges: Chung Chi, New Asia, United, and Shaw. Let C,N,U, and S be the sets of all Chung Chi students, New Asia students, United students, and Shaw students, respectively. Let M be the set of all Music Major students. Let Y be the sets of all students living in Ying Lin Tang (a Chung Chi hostel). Let W be the set of all students who attended the Wei Lun Lecture.
(a) Express the following in set-theoretic terms:
vii. New Asia students who did not attend the 2015 Wei Lun Lecture.
(c) Show that for a student not belonging to Category vii in (a), if the student did not attend the 2015 Wei Lun Lecture, then the student does not belong to New Asia.
In: Statistics and Probability
Origin Enterprises Ltd is incorporated in Australia. The company’s shares are listed on both the Australian and London securities exchanges. Operations of the company are diversified across the following countries: the United Kingdom, Europe and Australia. One third of the company’s operations take place in each of these countries.
The majority (approx. 80%) of its sales contracts are dominated in United Kingdom pounds and this proportion of receipts from operating activities is retained within accounts in the UK. Most of the company’s labour, material and other costs of providing its goods and services are incurred within the individual countries which it operates.
The company has 60% of its operations financed through sources within the UK, with the balance from Australian sources.
Discuss what functional currency is and how it is determined. With the assistance of the class and using the above information, determine the functional currency of Origin Enterprises Ltd.
In: Accounting
Many reasons for why the United Kingdom voted to leave the European Union have been proposed. A common one is that imports from the EU hurt low-skilled British workers. Suppose that there are two industries, financial services and manufacturing. Further assume that there are two factors of production, low- skilled and high-skilled workers, and that finance is high-skill intensive and manufacturing is low-skill intensive. Further assume that the United Kingdom is abundant in high-skill labour.
a) Show using the Heckscher-Ohlin model of international trade how relative wages for low-skilled and high-skilled workers are determined when the UK is a member of the EU (i.e. when there is free trade between the UK and the rest of the EU). Explain your answer.
b) Describe also how the relative output of financial services versus manufacturing in the UK changes with Brexit. Explain your answer.
In: Economics
On page 248 (438) of your textbook under "Cyberlaw in Action", the case of the $24.98 tickets to Paris is discussed. Make an argument for either United Airlines in declining to honor the price in the e-ad or a counter argument for the consumer that the price should be honored. You can put yourself in the position of a consumer who bought the ticket, or in the position of United Airlines. Be sure to use legal theories from the textbook. Make sure you respond to the question: "Is it ethical for a customer to insist on a contract that is based on a mistaken price?" and "Is it ethical for an e-tailer to refuse to honor a contract that is based on a mistaken price?" Even though I usually request that you use an objective standard and not insert your personal opinion, in this case you should state what you think is right or wrong from an ethical standpoint, not necessarily what the outcome would be under the law.
In: Finance
In: Accounting
What's states of (i) benzene, (ii) naphthalene may be reached by electric dipole transitions from there (totally symmetrical) ground state
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