In a test of the effectiveness of garlic for lowering​ cholesterol, 45 subjects were treated with garlic in a processed tablet form. Cholesterol levels were measured before and after the treatment. The changes ​(beforeminus​after) in their levels of LDL cholesterol​ (in mg/dL) have a mean of 3.2 and a standard deviation of 17.3. Construct a 90​% confidence interval estimate of the mean net change in LDL cholesterol after the garlic treatment. What does the confidence interval suggest about the effectiveness of garlic in reducing LDL​ cholesterol?

If you are to be responsible in Supply Chain and Logistics management for a company in the health industry such as in Healthcare/Hospital environment or in pharmaceuticals, or in any sensitive industry during this pandemic, what precautious security measures and risk management, changes and approaches and time management would you take dealing and working with your suppliers/vendors (and their contracts), your manufactures and material handling, your logistics, your distribution centers and warehouses (and inventory) along with your employees, all the way to your end users and consumers?

Your personality is a relatively enduring set of characteristics that define your individuality and affect your interactions with the environment.

• Define: Differential continuity, Intra-individual variability, and Mean-level change.
• How do Continuity, Change, and Variability co-exist?
• How have your personality traits changed over time? What about an older adult in your life – have you observed personality trait changes in these individuals?

Use outside sources to support your answer

Marketers typically do their research to determine what will best appeal to consumers. Many brands are created with the results of this research in mind. Over the years, many famous brands have been repositioned to reflect changes in customer preferences.

Topic: Product Brands

Using the Library for your research, provide several examples of brands that have recently repositioned themselves. Then explain how they accomplished this task and discuss the following:

• Do you think the brands accomplished a successful repositioning strategy? Why or why not?

1. 1.
   1. What are the four tools of monetary policy?
   2. Draw a diagram of the Federal Funds market and show changes as a result of the following. (draw separate diagrams for each of these cases).
      1. Fed lowers the discount rate
      2. Fed raises the interest rate on excess reserves
      3. Fed raises the required reserve ratio
      4. The demand for federal funds shifts to the right
      5. The demand for federal funds shifts to the left
   3. What type of defensive open market operations has to be undertaken in the above cases (iv) and (v).

Federal welfare programs expanded dramatically during President Johnson’s War on Poverty, continuing a prominent government role in welfare since Franklin D. Roosevelt’s New Deal. In 1997, the Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC) was replaced by Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF). Identify the major changes from AFDC to TANF. How does the implementation of block grants introduce considerable variation among the states? Explain the relative advantages and disadvantages of the transition from AFDC to TANF.

Find the future value of the following annuities. The first payment in these annuities is made at the end of Year 1, so they are ordinary annuities. (Notes: If you are using a financial calculator, you can enter the known values and then press the appropriate key to find the unknown variable. Then, without clearing the TVM register, you can "override" the variable that changes by simply entering a new value for it and then pressing the key for the unknown variable to obtain the second answer. This procedure can be used in many situations, to see how changes in input variables affect the output variable. Also, note that you can leave values in the TVM register, switch to Begin Mode, press FV, and find the FV of the annuity due.) Do not round intermediate calculations. Round your answers to the nearest cent.

a. $600 per year for 10 years at 8%. $

b. $300 per year for 5 years at 4%. $

c. $600 per year for 5 years at 0%. $

d. Now rework parts a, b, and c assuming that payments are made at the beginning of each year; that is, they are annuities due.

Future value of $600 per year for 10 years at 8%: $

Future value of $300 per year for 5 years at 4%: $

Future value of $600 per year for 5 years at 0%: $

1. Since interest rate parity holds, then MNCs should advise their subsidiaries against investing any excess cash in a foreign country. Is this statement correct? Explain your answer.

2. In a developing country, would an increase in the interest rate always be followed with an appreciation of the country’s currency? Explain your answer.  

3. A U. S. firm plans to invest 75 percent of its excess cash in a one-year British pound (GBP) deposit and the remaining 25 percent in Indian rupees (INR). It is assumed that the spot rate changes for GBP and INR are independent. The possible percentage changes in the spot rate of the two currencies for the next year are forecasted as follows.

The annual interest rate on the GBP is 3%, the annual interest rate on the INR is 4%, and the annual interest rate in the U.S. is 6%. The

1. Calculate the possible effective yields of the overall portfolio.

2. Would you advise the U. S. company to invest its excess funds abroad or at home? Justify your answer considering that the MNC could place the excess funds in GBP deposit only, INR deposit only, in USD deposit only, and in the 75-25 portfolio of currency as calculated earlier) .

In the context of IAS 36, the external and internal indicators that impairment of non-current assets or goodwill may have occurred. Briefly give one example each.

External sources of information

• Observable indications that the asset’s value has declined during the period significantly more than would be expected as a result of the passage of time or normal use.
• Significant changes with an adverse effect on the entity in the technological, market, economic or legal environment in which the entity operates or in the market to which an asset is dedicated.
• Market interest rates or other market rates of return on investments have increased during the period, and those increases are likely to affect the discount rate used in calculating an asset’s value in use and decrease the asset’s recoverable amount materially.
• The carrying amount of the net assets of the entity is higher than its market capitalization.

External sources of information​​​​​​​

• Obsolescence or physical damage of an asset.
• Significant changes with an adverse effect on the entity related to the use of an asset, for example: an asset becoming idle, plans to discontinue or restructure the operation to which an asset belongs, plans to dispose of an asset before the previously expected date, and reassessing the useful life of an asset as finite rather than indefinite.
• Evidence is available from internal reporting that indicates that the economic performance of an asset is, or will be, worse than expected.