Star Industries owns and operates landfills for several municipalities throughout the Midwestern part of the U.S. Star typically contracts with the municipality to provide landfill services for a period of 20 years. The firm then constructs a lined landfill​ (required by federal​ law) that has capacity for five years. The

​$9million expenditure required to construct the new landfill results in negative cash flows at the end of years​ 5, 10, and 15. This change in sign on the stream of cash flows over the​ 20-year contract period introduces the potential for multiple​ IRRs, so​ Star's management has decided to use the MIRR to evaluate new landfill investment contracts. The annual cash inflows to Star begin in year 1 and extend through year 20 are estimated to equal $4.1 million​ (this does not reflect the cost of constructing the landfills every five​ years). Star uses a

10.2% discount rate to evaluate its new​ projects, so it plans to discount all the construction costs every five years back to year 0 using this rate before calculating the MIRR.

a.  What are the​ project's NPV,​ IRR, and​ MIRR?

b.  Is this a good investment opportunity for Star​ Industries? Why or why​ not?

1. Which of the following statements is NOT true about the Revenue Management?
a. Revenue management is based on setting and updating prices.
b. Revenue management is originated in the airline industry.
c. Through revenue management, the firms can allocate their capacity to different fare classes over time in order to maximize revenue.
d. Revenue management focuses on shaping demand via controlling supply under the limited capacity.

2. According to the Littlewood’s Rule, which of the following does NOT generate pressure to increase the booking limit?
a. Increase in the full-fare price
b. Increase in the discount-fare price
c. Increase in the plane capacity
d. Decrease in the average full-fare demand

3. A hotel has 200 rooms and the historical show rate is 90%. What will be the (closest) optimal overbooking level given by the deterministic overbooking heuristic?
a. 222
b. 180
c. 200
d. None of the above
e. 220

The GDP is an inaccurate measure of wellbeing because:

Which of the following items is counted toward US GDP

A used textbook buyer who has been laid off because students can sell used textbooks online is an example of

Full employment means

Computer Dynamics (p. 175 of your textbook) is a microcomputer software development company that has a 300-computer network. The company is located in three adjacent five-story buildings in an office park, with about 100 computers in each building. The LANs in each building are similar, but one building has the data center on the second floor. There are no other office locations. The current network is poorly designed for its current needs and must be completely replaced.

1. Develop a logical design for this enterprise campus that considers the seven network architecture components. There are no other campuses, so you can omit WAN access.

2. Document the assumptions you made in approaching this design.

3. Explain why you have designed the network in this way. Make sure your answers are numbered based on the question presented. Submit as a Microsoft Word document to the correct dropbox by the due date and time posted on the D2L course calendar.

1. Why is it that lethal recessive alleles remain in the human gene pool, rather than just disappearing because of their unfavorable phenotype for homozygous recessives?

2. Scenario: A sudden flood of a large area around the Mississippi River occurs. In some local populations of a species of insects, there is greater buoyancy and survival of some individuals due to having the double recessive genotype of a gene that allowed them to accumulate more lipids to float. A year after the flood, the same and displaced local populations of the insects were reduced in size and all biased in allele frequencies toward greater frequency of the recessive allele compared to the original population’s allelic frequencies. Which of the forces that affect populations seems to have had the strongest effect?

3. Do you think the National Park Service made the correct decision not to permit a genetic rescue of the Isle Royale wolves in 2015, or should new individuals be introduced? Provide reasoning for your answer (as a biologist).

1. Why is it that lethal recessive alleles remain in the human gene pool, rather than just disappearing because of their unfavorable phenotype for homozygous recessives?

2. Scenario: A sudden flood of a large area around the Mississippi River occurs. In some local populations of a species of insects, there is greater buoyancy and survival of some individuals due to having the double recessive genotype of a gene that allowed them to accumulate more lipids to float. A year after the flood, the same and displaced local populations of the insects were reduced in size and all biased in allele frequencies toward greater frequency of the recessive allele compared to the original population’s allelic frequencies. Which of the forces that affect populations seems to have had the strongest effect?

3. Do you think the National Park Service made the correct decision not to permit a genetic rescue of the Isle Royale wolves in 2015, or should new individuals be introduced? Provide reasoning for your answer (as a biologist).

Coffee is a leading export from several developing countries. When coffee prices are high, farmers often clear forest to plant more coffee trees. Here are data on prices paid to coffee growers in Indonesia and the rate of deforestation in a national park that lies in a coffee-producing region for five years: Price(cents per pound) Deforestation (percent) 29 0.49 40 1.59 54 1.69 55 1.82 72 3.10

(a) Make a scatterplot. What is the explanatory variable? What kind of pattern does your plot show? (b) Find the correlation r step-by-step. That is, find the mean and standard deviation of the two variables. Then find the five standardized values for each variable and use the formula for r. Explain how your value for r matches your graph in (a). (c) Now enter these data into your calculator or Excel and use the correlation function to find r. Check that you get the same result as in (b).

Which of these items would be considered sexual harassment in the eyes of the law?

Which “type” of harassment is it:   Quid Pro Quo or Hostile Environment?  

1. A client pressures a salesperson for dates and sexual favors in exchange for a large purchase.

2. A supervisor requires that her assistant, a male, stay with her in her hotel room while they are out of town at a conference stating: “If you won’t agree to help me save expenses, I’ll find a new assistant who will.”

3. A male has asked two female co-workers to stop embarrassing him by telling jokes of a sexual nature and sharing their sexual fantasies, but they continue, telling him “you should appreciate the free advice!”

4. When she asked her co-workers to clean up their language, they no longer spoke directly to her but continued to use demeaning terms with each other, especially when referring to her within her earshot.

Strategic Planning in Health Care Organizations

Porter’s Five Forces focus on competitive forces that affect an organization. In many industries, including the healthcare industry, there are complementary products and services that add values to consumers. For example, the airline and hotel industries are complementary to each other and create values to travelers by transporting them and housing them during their vacations or business trips. It is also common for these complementary businesses to enter into a strategic alliance to promote each other’s products or services. *Give an example of a complementary product or service (“complementor”) in the healthcare industry * Explain why the

“complementors” add values and whether a business alliance between these two complementary businesses is a sound strategic move

. Reference Your paper must be 1–2 pages

Ginter, P. M., Duncan, J. W., & Swayne, L. E. (2013). The strategic management of healthcare organizations (7th ed.). San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass.

John is your client and has come to you to prepare his tax return. During the 2018-19 financial year, John disposed of the following assets:

(a) A two-storey residence at Stuart Park which he acquired in May 1991. In 1995 John vacated the premises to work in Japan for three years, during this period the property was rented. Other than the 3 year period, John has lived in the property as his residence. He paid $370,000 to purchase the property and received $840,000 on 27 June 2019, after the real estate agent deducted commissions of $10,000. (b) John acquired BHP shares on 15 July 2018 for $25,000. He sold those shares on 2 May 2019 for $40,000.

REQUIRED:

Calculate John’s Capital Gain, subject to Tax for the year ending 30 June 2019. Provide justification for your calculations using legislation and case law.