You enter your project team meeting with Mike and Tiffany to hear them discussing the tools that they found to conduct an analysis of the industry and competitors. “Mike, there are so many more tools than I even realized to give us some good data,” Tiffany states. “I know,” Mike says. “That’s why I wanted to take some time to look at our options and figure out what information we really need to support the board’s decision.” Mike and Tiffany both found some great tools from their research on the subject. Complete the following: Based on your classmates’ discussion posts for Week 2, do you still believe the tools that you selected will work best for a global strategy? Why or why not? What evidence do you have to support your decision? How would you refute the people who chose an additional tool rather than one of the tools that you selected? Based on the tools that you selected, provide a brief analysis of your market, using those tools. Please submit your assignment.

1. moral relativism is the view that

1. people have different moral views
2. there are no moral truths
3. what is right is relative to different people or groups according to what they considerright

2. one problem for cultural relativism is that

1. the view makes it conceptually impossible for a culture to change for the better
2. nobody can know what is really morally true
3. no single culture’s moral opinions are privileged as objectively correct

3. normative Ethics is concerned with

1. how we ought to act, live and structure our societies
2. the ethics of Norm
3. which ethical norms society endorse

4. if Nihilism is correct,

1. then the Nihilist owes us some account of how our moral experience is merely delusional
2. then evil actions are good

5. Moral subjectivism

1. All of these things
2. An individualized form of moral relativism
3. Makes the moral opinions of individuals infallible

6. Suppose you used to think cheating on exams was fine, but now you have come to reject this as an immoral from of dishonesty. According to moral subjectivism,

1. People who disagree with your moral opinions are just plain wrong
2. You have matured and become a better person
3. What is moral relative to you has changed, but not for better or worse

Solve the following logic problems. Remember, everyone you meet is either a knight or a knave, knights make true statements, and knaves make false statements. Give your reasoning for each problem.

a) You meet two residents, Alex and Bill. They say the following: Alex: I’m a knight. Bill: Alex is a knight, but I’m a knave. Is Alex a knight or a knave? Is Bill a knight or a knave?

b) You meet Clara and Davis, who are all like: Clara: One of us is a knight and the other is a knave. Davis: Clara is a knave. Is Clara a knight or a knave? Is Davis a knight or a knave?

c) You meet Edith and Frank, though only Edith speaks. Edith: Both Frank and I are knaves. Is Edith a knight or a knave? Is Frank a knight or a knave? (Note: Frank’s silence gives no indication of his type, but you can figure out from Edith’s statement.)

d) You meet Gina, Herbert, and Ichabod. Gina: Ichabod is a knave, if and only if I’m a knight. Herbert: Ichabod is a knight, if and only if I’m a knave. Ichabod: I like pudding. Does Ichabod like pudding?

4. Suppose the market demand and supply functions are QD = 180 – 1.5P and QS = 3.5P + 40. You have just graduated and moved to this city; as a new MBA and an entrepreneur, you are considering entering the market for this product.

a. Determine the equilibrium price and quantity in this market.

b. You’ve researched and found that most firms in the market currently experience costs such that TC = 15 + 45Q – 10Q2 + 1.5Q3. Determine whether or not you should enter this market. Use graphs to support your answer.

c. Due to unforeseen delays, you don’t enter the market. However, a year later the market supply has changed to QS = 3.5P + 10. Are you surprised at this shift in supply?

d. Given the new supply conditions, determine whether or not you should enter the market.

Do you know, without looking at the syllabus, what is Strategic Management Accounting?

Please do surface research on the web, just enough so you can start making up a map in your head about what we will be looking into during the term. Then start a discussion answering the following questions.

1. Did you know what SMA is about before this class?

2. If Yes, Please share your experience

3. If No, based on the name alone what did you imagine it would be

4. After Your research, (even if you already knew what it was) did your view change? As a thought what are the implications of this subject and why is it relevant to your Specialization.

5. Does the topic interest you beyond the scope of your MBA? If so, expand on your answer.

For the following transactions, indicate the amount of foreign currency exposure created by the transaction, whether the exposure is long or short the time period of the exposure, and the impact of an increase and a decrease in the value of the foreign currency on the US company’s profit in the transaction: a. Sale of products to a Japanese customer at a price of 1 billion yen, with payment due one year from today. b. Purchase from a French supplier of at a price of 500 million Euros, with payment due in 6 months from today.

1. Let A be the set whose elements are the months of the year that begin with the letter J. A = { }

2. Define a set that is empty. Let B be the set: _________________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________

3. The following data was collected from a survey of 350 San Antonio residents Are you a Spurs fan? YES NO Male 204 19 Female 113 14

a. How many males were surveyed?

b. How many spurs fans were surveyed?

c. How many San Antonians surveyed are not fans and male? d. How many San Antonians surveyed are fans or female?

e. How many San Antonians surveyed are fans or male? f. How many San Antonians surveyed are not fans or female?

4. Let

X = {1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15}

A = {1, 2, 5, 7, 8, 10, 14, 15} and B = {2, 3, 5, 9, 10, 13} and C = {2, 7, 10, 12, 14, 15}

a. A ∩ C = b. A ∪ B =

c. B ∩ C = d. A ∩ B ∩ C =

5. Gilbert asked his group of 10 friends from middle school the following questions:

Do you ride the bus? Do you get picked up?

Their responses are shown in the Venn diagram below:

Bus Pickup

Jenna Ron Leslie

Rick Vic Debbie

Johnny Pablo

Use the Venn diagram to list the elements of each set.

a. The set of students who ride the bus

b. The set of students who get picked-up

c. The set of students who ride the bus or get picked up

d. The set of students who ride the bus and get picked up

e. The set of students who don’t ride the bus nor get picked up

f. The set of students who ride the bus but do not get picked up Jenna Rick Johnny Leslie Debbie Pablo

6. A group of 100 people touring Europe includes 51 people who speak French 57 who speak Polish, and 16 who speak neither language.

a. Construct a Venn diagram describing this situation.

b. How many people in the group speak both French and Polish?

7. A small combination lock on a suitcase has 4 wheels, each labeled with the 10 digits 0 to 9.

a. How many 4 digit combinations are possible if no digit is repeated?

b. If digits can be repeated?

c. If successive digits must be different?

8. A card is drawn from a standard 52-card deck. If the card is an ace, you win $12; otherwise, you lose $2. What is the expected value of the game?

9. Ten thousand raffle tickets are sold at $2 each for a local benefit. Tickets will be drawn at random and monetary prizes awarded as follows: 2 prizes of $1,000, 4 prizes of $500, and 10 prizes of $100. What is the expected value if you buy 1 raffle ticket?

10. An insurance company charges an annual premium of $75 for a $200,000 insurance policy against a house burning down. If the empirical probability that a house burns down in a given year is 0.0003, what is the expected value of the policy to the insurance company?