Builder Products, Inc., uses the weighted-average method in its process costing system. It manufactures a caulking compound that goes through three processing stages prior to completion. Information on work in the first department, Cooking, is given below for May:

I want help on just doing Number 5. Thanks!

5. Prepare a cost reconciliation report for May.

1. Provide an example of any two leading companies from the same industry which are competing directly for marketshare. Give a short profile (300-500 words) for each (provide references for your answers).
2. If you are the manager of one of these companies, what pricing policy do you adopt to be in the first position? Why? (100-200 words)
3. When the whole sector of the market is occupied by the little number of big corporations who share the leadership, what do we call this type of market structure? Explain in details the benefit of this market for the leading company and the disadvange of such situation on final consumers (300-500 words)

Note

( please do not answer with handwriting )

( Do not copy the answer from other resources)

( please i want any companies but NOT Hindustan Unilever LTD, P&G
HUL Companies )

(Samsung and apple for example)

1. Modigliani and Miller (MM) have two propositions that they present under three different sets of assumptions, or cases. The first proposition discusses firm value, and the second proposition estimates the WACC.

a) In case 1, MM conclude that how you finance a firm “just doesn’t matter”. What are the key assumptions in this model and how does each influence MMs conclusion? Draw and label a graph and explain what happens to the cost of debt, the cost of equity, and the WACC in case 1. (i.e., in addition to drawing the graph, you must also explain why lines are increasing/decreasing/flat and so on.)

b) In case 2, MM conclude you should finance the firm 100% with debt. What is the key assumption change that they make? Repeat the graph from part a) with your new depictions and explanations of the cost of debt, the cost of equity, and the WACC.

Prepare the four financial statements using the Tabular analysis

John Edwards open his own Dental practice business on Jan 1, 2015. During the first month of operations, the following transactions occurred:

1. John invested $31,000 in cash in the business

2. Paid $1000 for January rent

3. Purchased equipment on account for $3000

4. Performed dental services for clients for cash $8000

5. Borrowed $1000 cash from a bank on a note payable

6. Performed dental services for clients on account $2000

7. Paid salaries $1000

8. Paid utilities $300

9. Paid $100 for advertising with local newspaper

10. John withdrew $1,500 for personal use

Instructions:

1) Prepare a tabular summary of the transactions

2) Prepare the income statement, owner’s equity, and balance sheet at January 30,2015

Consider a market with two firms, where the firms manufacture commodities that are identical in all respects. Firm i produces output level qi , i = 1, 2, and q = q1+q2. The market demand curve is p = a−bq where a and b are positive constants. Firm i earns profits πi(q1, q2) = pqi − ciqi , where ci is its unit-cost of production. Assume 0 < ci < a for i = 1, 2. Finally, assume that Firm 2’s costs per unit are twice as high as Firm 1’s. In other words, assume c2 = 2c1.

a = 100,

b = 1,

c1 = 10,

c2 = 20.

(a) Find the best-response functions for both firms.

(b) Sketch of each best response function, first on separate diagrams, then on the same diagram.

(c) Find the Nash equilibrium

READING 2 The eardrum is displaced surprisingly little when a sound wave strikes it. Some idea of the displacement of the eardrum by a sound wave can be obtained by using Equation 7.1: Equation for wave energy The displacement amplitude, A, of the air molecules gives us a lower limit to the displacement of the eardrum.

At the threshold of hearing at 3.4 kHz, the sound intensity is about 10−12W/m2. The threshold of pain begins at an intensity of 1.0W/m2 (19).

What is the amplitude of eardrum vibrations at these intensities?

The density of air is 1.3kg/m3. The speed of sound is 331m/s.

Please write your answers with one decimal places.

(________________10^−3 nm (at threshold of hearing) (This value is ~ 3/100 the diameter of a hydrogen atom!)

________________10^3 nm (at threshold of pain)

I believe the answer to the first question is 3.19 x to^-3 nm

1. Find the data for the problem in the first worksheet named LightbulbLife of the data file. It gives the data on the lifetime in hours of a sample of 100 lightbulbs. The company manufacturing these bulbs wants to know whether it can claim that its lightbulbs typically last more than 1000 burning hours. So it did a study.
   1. Identify the null and the alternate hypotheses for this study.
   2. Can this lightbulb manufacturer claim at a significance level of 5% that its lightbulbs typically last more than 1000 hours? What about at 1%? Test your hypothesis using both, the critical value approach and the p-value approach. Clearly state your conclusions.
   3. Under what situation would a Type-I error occur? What would be the consequences of a Type-I error?
   4. Under what situation would a Type-II error occur? What would be the consequences of a Type-II error?

Compute the weighted average (round to the nearest cent) for the following table of values:

Also, what is the median dollar value from this data?

Compute the geometric mean return (rounded to 4 decimal places) for the following:

If you invested $1,200, how much would it be worth after 5 years (round to the nearest cent)?

When you answer the question put the 4 answers first, in this order and label like this:

Weighted Average:

Median value from the weighted average problem:

Geometric Mean Return:

What would be the value of $1,200:

And then explain the difference between weighted average and geometric mean.

Ten randomly selected people took an IQ test A, and next day they took a very similar IQ test B. Their scores are shown in the table below.

1. Consider (Test A - Test B). Use a 0.050.05 significance level to test the claim that people do better on the second test than they do on the first. (Note: You may wish to use software.)

a) What is the test statistic?

b) What is the critical value?

c) Construct a 9595% confidence interval for the mean of the differences. Again, use (Test A - Test B).

The ABC Logistics Company wishes to test a new truck routing algorithm. A random sample of 20 trucks are enrolled in the test. The trucks are randomly assigned to two groups. Trucks in the first group are routed using the current algorithm. Trucks in the second group are routed using the proposed new algorithm. Performance of the algorithm is measured by the number of packages delivered on the test day.

1. Use the P-value approach to test on whether the mean number of packages delivered are the same between the two groups. Assuming the variances are equal between the two groups.

2. Calculate the Cohen’s d.