Assume that one of your cousins takes a loan of $12,000 from a bank at 18 per cent interest rate. If your cousin plans to repay $1,200 per quarter against this loan amount, in how many years she would be able to repay the loan (and accumulated interest) fully?

Analyzing an Inventory Footnote Disclosure
The inventory footnote from Deere & Company’s 2015 10-K follows.

Inventories Most inventories owned by Deere & Company and its U.S. equipment subsidiaries are valued at cost, on the “last-in, first-out” (LIFO) basis. Remaining inventories are generally valued at the lower of cost, on the “first-in, first-out” (FIFO) basis, or market. The value of gross inventories on the LIFO basis represented 66 percent and 65 percent of worldwide gross inventories at FIFO value at October 31, 2015 and 2014, respectively. If all inventories had been valued on a FIFO basis, estimated inventories by major classification at October 31 in millions of dollars would have been as follows:

This footnote reveals that not all of Deere's inventories are reported using the same inventory costing method (companies can use different inventory costing methods for different inventory pools).

a. What amount does Deere report for inventories on its 2015 balance sheets? $Answer million

b. What would Deere have reported as inventories on its 2015 balance sheet had the company used FIFO inventory costing for all of its inventories? $Answer million

c. What cumulative effect has the use of LIFO inventory costing had, as of year-end 2015, on Deere's pretax income compared with the pretax income it would have reported had it used FIFO inventory costing for all of its inventories?

Deere's cumulative pretax income has Answerdecreasedincreased by $Answer million since it adpoted LIFO inventory costing.

d. Assuming a 35% income tax rate, by what cumulative dollars amount has Deere's tax expense been affected by use of LIFO inventory costing as of year-end 2015? Has the use of LIFO inventory costing increased or decreased Deere's cumulative tax expense?
(Round answer to one decimal place.)
Deere's cumulative income taxes were Answerhigherlower by $Answer million as compared to the taxes that would've been paid under the FIFO system.

e. What effect has the use of LIFO inventory costing had on Deere's pretax income and tax expense for 2015 only (assume a 35% income tax rate)?
(Round answers to one decimal place, if applicable.)
2015 pretax income Answerdecreasedincreased by $Answer million.
2015 tax expense Answerdecreasedincreased by $Answer million.

(Scenario )You are a manager at Lectocomp Electronics Manufacturing Company, a company that produces a number of different computer boards used in various products produced by their customers. At the company’s quarterly meeting, the head of marketing described a new product to be introduced in the first quarter of the next fiscal year, approximately twelve months from now. The product will be a device used in different medical products. As a result, any work done on that product falls under various government regulations. This regulation aspect is new to Lectocomp Manufacturing. This product will open new markets for the sales channel, lay the foundation for add-on products, and generate new revenues. You have only seen preliminary sketches of the new product, but you are very excited by it.

The project will require participation from most of the company’s departments: design, engineering, production, purchasing, shipping, sales, and marketing departments. Lectocomp Manufacturing uses another company to produce the prototype boards; the final boards will be manufactured in-house. Although this is a "mission-critical" project, no additional staff will be added. People will be expected to balance their project responsibilities with their day-to-day work (including other projects). The project manager is to be selected from the engineering department. This is a first, as the project managers normally come from the marketing department. A project of this scale has never been managed by an in-house person before. Historically, a project manager/consultant has been brought in. You were hired as an engineer with Lectocomp three months ago, and this week, you were told that you have been selected to be the project manager. In your prior job, you were a project manager for most of the company’s large initiatives—most of which were quite successful.

You have experience in manufacturing and medical products but have not done any product work since you started at Lectocomp. You have been involved in some engineering clean-up activities and have not worked with many people outside your department yet. The company has not historically had strong processes to follow nor has communication been a core competency. However, six months ago, a new CEO was brought on board who has focused on improving the organization’s skills in those areas. She is the leader who has insisted on managing the project internally. She is also somewhat familiar with the regulated environment and requires that you follow all the strict, formal processes that will need to be implemented as the project progresses. She is in the process of interviewing candidates for a new quality manager position. This manager will be responsible for implementing the required processes, controls, and metrics; you will be working closely with that person.

You have been meeting with the CEO, the project sponsor, your manager, and the heads of all the other departments to discuss the project and their expectations. You are starting to be concerned about the level of risk of this project and whether or not the organization really understands it. As far as you can tell, the company has never done formal risk management, taking a more relaxed approach to risks. You are starting to develop your risk management plan; you will present it to your manager and the sponsor in two weeks along with some other project planning deliverables.

Assignment Guidelines:

• Create a project charter and identify the key constraints of the project (scope, budget, timeline, quality, people resources, etc.).
• Using the scenario from this unit, create a spreadsheet that lists all the project risks you see based on what you currently know about the project. List at least 15 risks. For each project risk, provide a:
  • Detailed description
  • Category (schedule, strategy, people, etc.)

Note: This list will be used in later activities throughout the course.

Your submitted assignment (250 points) must include the following:

• A 2-4 page typed document that includes:
  • A project charter and identification of key constraints
  • At least 15 risks listed in a spreadsheet with a detailed description and the category of each

Santana Rey, owner of Business Solutions, decides to diversify her business by also manufacturing computer workstation furniture.

Santana Rey, owner of Business Solutions, decides to diversify her business by also manufacturing computer workstation furniture.

You, the CFO of a large corporation, are evaluating the value of three different investment opportunities:

Project A: We expect this project to yield cash flows of $5 million over the next ten years.

Project B: We expect this project to yield zero cash flows for the first four years but then a $50 million dollar cash flow at the end of the fifth year.

Project C: We expect this project to yield cash flows of $500,000 forever.

If we assume that the rate of return or “r” is 5% for each of these projects, which project (set of cash flows) is worth the most to us TODAY?

What impact will the COVID-19 pandemic have on jobs? | World Economic Forum

• Read the articles (What impact will the COVID-19 pandemic have on jobs? | World Economic Forum)
• Create short summary of the article(about 10 sentences long) by trying to capture only the most important points
• Make a list of the terms/concepts that you have heard/seen for the first time (e.g., supply chain management). Could you understand what they are just reading through the article?  
• Make a list of three things that you did not know before reading it on the article

The COVID-19 pandemic is first and foremost a human tragedy. Measures introduced to deal with the pandemic could save lives but are having wide-ranging economic effects and inducing economic contagion. Greater focus is needed on the transmission mechanisms of the economic contagion and how assessments of the economic impacts are made.

Q1       Assess the impacts of Covid-19 outbreak on regional trading agreements such as ASEAN and European Union.

Q2       Discuss the impacts of Covid-19 crisis on global financial market and the role of International Monetary Fund (IMF) in overcoming the crisis.

-The answer most be more then 1700 word withe references