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Eating Disorder Assignment (Nutrition An Applied Approach Fifth Edition by Janice Thompson and Melinda Manore) IN...

Eating Disorder Assignment (Nutrition An Applied Approach Fifth Edition by Janice Thompson and Melinda Manore)

IN Depth Assignment Eating Disorders   Read pages 413-423

Listed are two teens with Eating Disorders. Write a 150-word paragraph for both teens that describe possible signs of the disorder that other people might notice. Make sure to include the health consequences that each teen might have. Also, If these two were your friends how would you help them?

Mary is 14.   She is 5’7” tall and weighs 110-pounds, she looks in the mirror and sees a fat person. At lunch with her parents she tells them that she is not hungry and she will eat later. However, Mary does not eat later because she is starving herself in silence. She has not told anyone. She has eaten less than 500 calories per day for the last 2 weeks.

Sam is 17. He is a wrestler. Sam is the best in his weight class. However, if he gains 5 pounds he will get bumped up a class and then will have to wrestle larger athletes. Sam exercises excessively and he takes laxatives to lose weight. He has thrown up a few times after he eats fast food with his friends. Sam does not eat or drink the day before he gets weighed- in for the match. Immediately after weigh-in, Sam eats excessively for energy before he wrestles.

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Cost Behavior SmokeCity, Inc., manufactures barbeque smokers. Based on past experience, SmokeCity has found that its...

Cost Behavior

SmokeCity, Inc., manufactures barbeque smokers. Based on past experience, SmokeCity has found that its total annual overhead costs can be represented by the following formula: Overhead cost = $584,685 + $1.42X, where X equals number of smokers. Last year, SmokeCity produced 21,300 smokers. Actual overhead costs for the year were as expected.

Required:

2. What is the total overhead cost incurred by SmokeCity last year?

$

3. What is the total fixed overhead cost incurred by SmokeCity last year?

$

4. What is the total variable overhead cost incurred by SmokeCity last year?

$

For questions 5-7, round your answers to the nearest cent. Use those rounded figures in subsequent computations, if necessary.

5. What is the overhead cost per unit produced?

$ per unit

6. What is the fixed overhead cost per unit?

$ per unit

7. What is the variable overhead cost per unit?

$ per unit

8. Recalculate Requirements 5, 6, and 7 for the following levels of production: (a) 21,000 units and (b) 22,800 units. Round your answers to the nearest cent.

21,000 Units 22,800 Units
Unit cost $ $
Unit fixed cost
Unit variable cost

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Office Automation, Inc., developed a proposal for introducing a new computerized office system that will standardize...

Office Automation, Inc., developed a proposal for introducing a new computerized office system that will standardize the electronic archiving of invoices for a particular company. Contained in the proposal is a list of activities that must be accomplished to complete the new office system project. Use the following relevant information about the activities:

Immediate Time (weeks) Cost ($1000s)
Activity Description Predecessor(s) Normal Crash Normal Crash
A Plan needs — 12 8 30 110
B Order equipment A 8 6 120 150
C Install equipment B 10 7 100 160
D Set up training lab A 7 6 40 50
E Conduct training course D 10 8 50 75
F Test system C, E 3 3 60 —
  1. Which project network is correct?
    (i) (ii)
    (iii) (iv)

      
  2. Develop an activity schedule. If your answer is zero, enter “0”.
    Earliest Latest Earliest Latest Critical
    Activity Start Start Finish Finish Slack Activity
    A
    B
    C
    D
    E
    F
  3. What are the critical activities, and what is the expected project completion time?

    Critical Path:   

    Expected project completion time =  weeks.
  4. Assume that the company wants to complete the project in six months or 26 weeks. What crashing decisions do you recommend to meet the desired completion time at the least possible cost? Work through the network and attempt to make the crashing decisions by inspection.
    Crash Activities Number of Weeks Cost ($1000s)
    A 4
    B 2
    C 1
    D 1
    E 1
  5. Develop an activity schedule for the crashed project. If your answer is zero, enter “0”.
    Earliest Latest Earliest Latest Critical
    Activity Start Start Finish Finish Slack Activity
    A
    B
    C
    D
    E
    F
  6. What added project cost is required to meet the six-month completion time?

    Total added cost due to crashing $

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14) You have a binomial random variable, B , with n = 120 and p =...

14) You have a binomial random variable, B , with n = 120 and p = .44. Estimate P( 50 < B < 57 ).

15) Tigers have weights that are N(500, 20 ). ( pounds ) You win 2 tigers. Find the probability that your tigers have an average weight that is more that 510 pounds .

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Kate’s survey showed that 54 of 120 employees eat fast food at least once a week...

Kate’s survey showed that 54 of 120 employees eat fast food at least once a week for lunch. What is the proportion of employees who eat fast food at least once a week, using a 98% confidence interval?

Group of answer choices

24% to 44%

30% to 50%

34% to 56%

28% to 45%

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Please provide response to four (4) of the seven (7) questions listed below. 1. Briefly, what...

Please provide response to four (4) of the seven (7) questions listed below.

1. Briefly, what is the history of the free-use attitude toward the natural world?

2. How can technology make environmental protection a wasted effort?

3. How can the idea of geological time become an argument against taking expensive steps to protect the natural world?

4. What are some reasons why our ethical obligations to ourselves may lead us to protect the natural world?

5. What is the difference between protecting the natural world because we humans are valuable, and because animals are valuable?

6. What kind of experiences with nature may result in the sensation that, as an interdependent whole, the natural world holds value?

7. If the decision is made to protect nature, who are some individuals or groups that might be asked to pay the cost?

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Python(please take a screen shot!): 1. hamming distance: write a function distance that take two bits...

Python(please take a screen shot!):

1. hamming distance: write a function distance that take two bits strings, you can assume each strings only contains 0's and 1's. (Note: the two strings might have the same length or not!)

for example:

hamming('010001001111', '01010100') should return 5(1 bit changed plus 4 bits "lost" from the end).

2. write a main function that ask user for two file names, open files and read the 1st line of each, and compares them using Hamming Distance. Just assume each of the 1st line only contains 0's and 1's.

The main function may have to do some extra work to remove newline characters or other whitespace from the text read from each file.

(when create two files to test the main function, make sure the file saved as (.txt) !)

Thanks so much !!!

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A clinical trial is conducted to compare an experimental medication to placebo to reduce the symptoms...

A clinical trial is conducted to compare an experimental medication to placebo to reduce the symptoms of asthma. Two hundred participants are enrolled in the study and randomized to receive either the experimental medication or placebo. The primary outcome is self-reported reduction of symptoms. The data are recorded as follows.

Change in Symptoms

Treatment

Much Worse

Worse

No change

Better

Much Better

Experimental

11

18

36

29

11

Placebo

13

23

40

11

8

Is there a difference in change in symptoms by treatment group? Run the appropriate test at a 5% level of significance.

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You are considering investing $1,000 in a complete portfolio. The complete portfolio is composed of Treasury...

You are considering investing $1,000 in a complete portfolio. The complete portfolio is composed of Treasury bills that pay 5% and a risky portfolio, P, constructed with two risky securities, X and Y. The optimal weights of X and Y in P are 60% and 40%, respectively. X has an expected rate of return of 14%, and Y has an expected rate of return of 10%. The dollar values of your positions in X, Y, and Treasury bills would be _________, __________, and __________, respectively, if you decide to hold a complete portfolio that has an expected return of 8%.

In: Finance

Walker Pen Company Jane Dempsey, controller of the Walker Pen Company, was concerned about the recent...

Walker Pen Company
Jane Dempsey, controller of the Walker Pen Company, was concerned about the recent financial trends in operating results. Walker Pen had been the low-cost producer of traditional BLUE pens and BLACK pens. Profit margins were over 22% of sales.
Several years earlier Dennis Selmor, the sales manager, had seen opportunities to expand the business by extending the product line into new products that offered premium selling prices over traditional BLUE and BLACK pens. Five years earlier, RED pens had been introduced; they required the same basic production technology but could be sold at a 3% premium. And last year, PURPLE pens had been introduced because of the 8% premium in selling price they could command.
But Dempsey had just seen the financial results (see Exhibit 1) for the most recent fiscal year and was keenly disappointed.
The new RED and PURPLE pens do seem more profitable than our BLUE and BLACK pens, but overall profitability is down, and even the new products are not earning the margins we used to see from our traditional products. Perhaps this is the tougher global competition I have been reading about. At least the new line, particularly PURPLE pens, is showing much higher margins. Perhaps we should follow Dennis's advice and introduce even more specialty colored pens. Dennis claims that consumers are willing to pay higher prices for these specialty colors.
Jeffrey Donald, the manufacturing manager, was also reflecting on the changed environment at the Walker Pen Company:
Five years ago, life was a lot simpler. We produced just BLUE and BLACK pens in long production runs, and everything ran smoothly, without much intervention. Difficulties started when the RED pens were introduced and we had to make more changeovers. This required us to stop production, empty the vats, clean out all remnants of the previous color, and then start the production of the red ink. Making black ink was simple; we didn't even have to clean out the residual blue ink from the previous run if we just dumped in enough black ink to cover it up. But for the RED pens, even small traces of the blue or black ink created quality problems. And the ink for the new PURPLE pens also has demanding specifications, but not quite as demanding as for RED pens.
We seem to be spending a lot more time on purchasing and scheduling activities and just keeping track of where we stand on existing, backlogged, and future orders. The new computer system we got last year helped a lot to reduce the confusion. But I am concerned about rumors I keep hearing that even more new colors may be introduced in the near future. I don't think we have any more capability to handle additional confusion and complexity in our operations.
Exhibit 1
Traditional Income Statement
Blue Black Red Purple Total
Sales $88,408 $64,328 $15,930 $1,674 $170,340
Material costs 29,298 21,318 5,040 468 $56,124
Direct labor 12,028 8,752 2,106 211 $23,097
Overhead @ 270% 32,476 23,630 5,686 570 $62,362
Total operating income $14,606 $10,628 $3,098 $425 $28,757
Return on sales 17% 17% 19% 25% 17%
Operations
The Walker Pen Company produces pens in a single factory. The major task is preparing and mixing the ink for the different-colored pens. The ink is inserted into the pens in a semiautomated process. A final packing and shipping stage is performed manually.
Each product has a bill of materials that identifies the quantity and cost of direct materials required for the product. A routing sheet identifies the sequence of operations required for each operating step. This information is used to calculate the labor expenses for each of the four products. All of the plant's indirect expenses are aggregated at the plant level and allocated to products on the basis of their direct labor content. Currently, this overhead burden rate is 270% of direct labor cost. Most people in the plant recalled that not too many years ago the overhead rate was only 200%.
Activity-Based Costing
Jane Dempsey recently attended a seminar of her professional organization in which a professor had talked about a new concept, called activity-based costing (ABC). This concept seemed to address many of the problems she had been seeing at the Walker Pen Company. The speaker even used an example that seemed to capture Walker's situation exactly.
The professor argued that overhead should not be viewed as a cost or a burden to be allocated on top of direct labor. Rather, the organization should focus on activities performed by the indirect and support resource of the organization and try to link the cost of performing these activities directly to the products for which they were performed. Dempsey obtained several books and articles on the subject and soon tried to put into practice the message she had heard and read about.
Activity-Based Cost Analysis
Dempsey first identified six categories of support expenses that were currently being allocated to pen production:
Expense Category Expense
Indirect labor $20,626
Fringe benefits 17,489
Computer systems 10,193
Machinery 7,396
Maintenance 4,437
Energy 2,221
Total $62,362
She determined that the fringe benefits were 40% of labor expenses (both direct and indirect) and would thus represent just a percentage markup to be applied on top of direct and indirect labor charges.
Dempsey interviewed department heads in charge of indirect labor and found that three main activities accounted for their work. About 52% of indirect labor was involved in scheduling or handling production runs. This proportion included scheduling production orders; purchasing, preparing, and releasing materials for the production run; performing a first-item inspection every time the process was changed over, and some scrap loss at the beginning of each run until the process settled down. Another 40% of indirect labor was required just for the physical changeover from one color pen to another.
The time to change over to BLACK pens was relatively short (about 1.1 hour) since the previous color did not have to be completely eliminated from the machinery. Other colors required longer changeover times; RED pens required the most extensive changeover to meet the demanding quality specification for this color.
The remaining 8% of the time was spent maintaining records on the four products, including the bill of materials and routing information, monitoring and maintaining a minimum supply of raw materials and finished goods inventory for each product, improving the production processes, and performing engineering changes for the products. Dempsey also collected information on potential activity cost drivers for Walker's activities (see Exhibit 2) and the distribution of the cost drivers for each of the four products. Dempsey next turned her attention to the $10,193 of expenses to operate the company's computer system. She interviewed the managers of the Data Center and the Management Information System departments and found that most of the computer's time (and software expense) was used to schedule production runs in the factory and to order and pay for the materials required in each production run.
Because each production run was made for a particular customer, the computer time required to prepare shipping documents and to invoice and collect from a customer was also included in this activity. In total, about 79% of the computer resource was involved in the production run activity. Almost all of the remaining computer expense (21%) was used to keep records on the four products, including production process and associated engineering change notice information.
The remaining three categories of overhead expense (machine depreciation, machine maintenance, and the energy to operate the machines) were incurred to supply machine capacity to produce the pens. The machines had a practical capacity of 10,100 hours of productive time that could be supplied to pen production.
Dempsey believed that she now had the information she needed to estimate an activity-based cost model for the Walker Pen Company.
Exhibit 2
Direct Costs and Activity Cost Drivers
Blue Black Red Purple Total
Production sales volume
(no. of units) 51,400 37,400 9,000 900 98,700
Unit selling price $1.72 $1.72 $1.77 $1.86
Materials/unit cost $0.57 $0.57 $0.56 $0.52
Direct labor hr/unit 0.02 0.02 0.02 0.02 1,974
Machine hour/unit 0.11 0.09 0.11 0.10 10,100
No. of production runs 53 41 41 11 146
Setup time/run (hours) 4.60 1.10 6.40 3.80
Total setup time (hours) 244 45 262 42 593
Number of products 1 1 1 1 4
Required:
1. Design an Excel model to estimate the costs for the four pen products using an activity-based costing approach (provide a unit cost per pen color).
2. Prepare a revised income statement with profit margin calculations. The income statement should be modeled on Exhibit 1 and include cost by pen color and in total.
3. Write an Executive Memo to Jane Dempsey and Dennis Selmor explaining the managerial implications from the revised cost estimates.
4. Bonus Question: Why is it acceptable for the fringe benefits associated with direct to be in the overhead cost pool when using direct labor as the allocation base and it is not acceptable for the fringe benefits associated with direct labor to be in the overhead cost pool when using ABC?
Round total costs and driver amounts; use 2 decimal places for activity rates and unit costs. After allocating costs, your total overhead cost may have a rounding error of $6.
Hints:
1.) The cost of the blue pen using ABC is: $1.34 (rounded).
2.) The overhead cost pool for the ABC method totals $53,123.
3.) When switching from the plant wide allocation of overhead using direct labor as the allocation base to the ABC method, you must assign to direct labor the fringe benefits associated with direct labor and not maintain this portion of the fringe benefits in the overhead cost pool.
4.) Production is one of four activities used in the analysis.

In: Accounting