List several reasons (and give real life examples for each) a company may choose external growth by a merger over internal growth

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2.

3.

4.

5.

6.

discuss and give examples each.

1. threat of substitutes

2. Rivalry amont existing firms

3. risk of entry

4. bargaining power - buyers

5. bargaining power - suppliers

Using recursion find the answer to do the question below, Use the derivation and substitution method.

3.t(n) = 6t(n-1) + 4t(n-2) +4(3^n)

Write a summary of your understanding of the following Quality Concepts (one half page for each concept):

(1) Leadership,

(2) Customers Satisfaction,

(3) Customers Delight,

(4) Employee Involvement

Functions of Signal Transduction (select any/all that apply):

1. a second messenger

2. Cell-cell communication

3. Cell’s response to environment

4. Intracellular homeostatsis- internal communication

MOST POPULAR : Business Analyst Interview Question:

1.Explain Traceability

2.Explain change Management

3.What is a change Request

4.How will you handle a change request?

1. You ask her what was the experimental unit and were the experimental units randomized. She is unfamiliar with these concepts. Please explain experimental unit and the need for randomization of the experimental units to the treatment combinations to her.

2. You decide to analyze the experiment as a 3 X 3 factorial arrangement using a completely randomized design and obtain the following ANOVA tables.

Analysis of Variance Table

Response: diastolic

          Df Sum Sq Mean Sq F value   Pr(>F)  

diet       2 322.83 161.42 4.2055 0.032819 *

drug       2 811.06 405.53 10.5655 0.001042 **

diet:drug 4 155.76   38.94 1.0145 0.427585  

Residuals 17 652.50   38.38                   

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Signif. codes: 0 ‘***’ 0.001 ‘**’ 0.01 ‘*’ 0.05 ‘.’ 0.1 ‘ ’ 1

Anova Table (Type II tests)

Response: diastolic

          Sum Sq Df F value   Pr(>F)  

diet      379.50 2 4.9437 0.020307 *

drug      811.06 2 10.5655 0.001042 **

diet:drug 155.76 4 1.0145 0.427585  

Residuals 652.50 17                   

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Signif. codes: 0 ‘***’ 0.001 ‘**’ 0.01 ‘*’ 0.05 ‘.’ 0.1 ‘ ’ 1

Anova Table (Type III tests)

Response: diastolic

            Sum Sq Df   F value    Pr(>F)   

(Intercept) 185050 1 4821.2144 < 2.2e-16 ***

diet           375 2    4.8838 0.021093 *

drug           796 2   10.3735 0.001136 **

diet:drug      156 4    1.0145 0.427585   

Residuals      652 17                       

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Signif. codes: 0 ‘***’ 0.001 ‘**’ 0.01 ‘*’ 0.05 ‘.’ 0.1 ‘ ’ 1

a. For this analysis, which of the SS methods would you choose? Explain why?

b. The lack of a sign diet X drug interaction indicates __________________?

The following   information is given for a company.

Risk free rate: 4%

Market risk premium: 7%

Expected growth rate of cash flows after 4.year = 5%

Beta Asset = 1.6

Beta Debt=1

Cost of Debt=8%

The company is planning to change the capital structure by the end of its 2^rd year. For the first two years debt to equity   ratio is 2/3 and 1/4 afterwards. Assume the cost of debt is decreased to 6% with the change in the debt of the company.   Calculate the value of the company using WACC approach. Assume corporate tax rate is 40%.

E10-4 Computing Issue Prices of Bonds Sold at Par, at a Discount, and at a Premium LO10-2, 10-4, 10-5

James Corporation is planning to issue bonds with a face value of $508,500 and a coupon rate of 6 percent. The bonds mature in 7 years and pay interest semiannually every June 30 and December 31. All of the bonds will be sold on January 1 of this year. (FV of $1, PV of $1, FVA of $1, and PVA of $1) (Use the appropriate factor(s) from the tables provided. Round your final answer to whole dollars.)

Required:

Compute the issue (sale) price on January 1 of this year for each of the following independent cases:

a. Case A: Market interest rate (annual): 4 percent.

b. Case B: Market interest rate (annual): 6 percent.

c. Case C: Market interest rate (annual): 8.5 percent.

1. You are the operations manager at, Sports Unlimited, a firm manufacturing sporting goods. Due to increasing demand for your products, you are looking into the possibility of outsourcing some of your operations to other countries. After an initial research you have identified 6 critical factors in your location decision. These are: stability of exchange rates, society value of quality work, availability of skilled work force, time orientation attitudes, availability of efficient transportation infrastructure, and government regulation of businesses.

The countries selected for possible outsourcing are Mexico, Argentina, Costa Rica, and Peru. An outside consulting firm has evaluated the risk index of each country on a scale of 1 to 10, where 1 is the lowest and 10 is the highest score. The following table was created to help with decision making process.

1. Using the factor-rating method, which country should be selected?
2. Suppose after further analysis, you have changed Costa Rica’s government regulation from 4 to a lower risk score of 2. Does this change affect your outsourcing decision? Recalculate and discuss