Purchasing Power Parity

1. (1 Point) Define the Law of One Price (LOOP), the Absolute Pur- chasing Power Parity (Abs. PPP), and the Relative Purchasing Power Parity (Rel. PPP).

2. (4 Points) Prove mathematically that the LOOP implies the Abs. PPP and the Rel. PPP.

3. (5 Points) Discuss how the LOOP, Abs. PPP, and Rel. PPP can fail.

Your friend wants to start an ecommerce website to commercialize some crafts she has been creating. She has approached you for an explanation on the basics to start an ecommerce website.

Write a 1 - 2 page essay explaining to your friend what she needs to know to begin an e-commerce website. As part of your essay make sure you include:

• A definition of what ecommerce is.

• A definition of the Internet and the World Wide Web, and how they are used to facilitate ecommerce.

• Categories of ecommerce, and the category that your friend would beimplementing.

• How the key components of an eBusiness solution work (front end/ back end).

• The steps your friend would follow to set up an ecommerce website:

o Selecting an eCommerce business strategy

o Getting a domain name

o Developing a site (tools, design, services)

o Deciding whether to develop/host the site herself or seek an external host service provider (identify the pros/cons of each decision)

o Implementing a methodto collect payments

o Establishing basic management methods to mitigate typical security threats (describe some typical threats)

Present below are a few of the best methods in designing and managing budgets for healthcare organizations.

* Using comparative benchmarks

* Setting accurate, high-performance department budgets

* Establishing a culture of accountability

* Managing expenses

* Monitoring variances and requiring corrective action plans

* Employing a balanced scorecard

(Assignment) Please choose five from the list above and discuss how these methods can improve the overall budgeting objectives and accomplish strategic financial goals.

Feather Friends, Inc., distributes a high-quality wooden birdhouse that sells for $80 per unit. Variable expenses are $40.00 per unit, and fixed expenses total $200,000 per year. Its operating results for last year were as follows:

Required:

Answer each question independently based on the original data:

1. What is the product's CM ratio?

2. Use the CM ratio to determine the break-even point in dollar sales.

3. If this year's sales increase by $42,000 and fixed expenses do not change, how much will net operating income increase?

4-a. What is the degree of operating leverage based on last year's sales?

4-b. Assume the president expects this year's sales to increase by 14%. Using the degree of operating leverage from last year, what percentage increase in net operating income will the company realize this year?

5. The sales manager is convinced that a 14% reduction in the selling price, combined with a $63,000 increase in advertising, would increase this year's unit sales by 25%.

a. If the sales manager is right, what would be this year's net operating income if his ideas are implemented?

b. If the sales manager's ideas are implemented, how much will net operating income increase or decrease over last year?

6. The president does not want to change the selling price. Instead, he wants to increase the sales commission by $2.40 per unit. He thinks that this move, combined with some increase in advertising, would increase this year's sales by 25%. How much could the president increase this year's advertising expense and still earn the same $880,000 net operating income as last year?

LIQUIDITY RATIOS:

1. Net working capital for Walgreens 2018 = Current Assets – Current Liabilities = 17,846 – 21,667 = $ -3,821

Net working capital for Walgreens 2017 = 19,753 – 18,547 = $1,206

2. Net working capital for CVS 2018 = Current Assets – Current Liabilities = 45,243 – 44,009 = $1,234

Net working capital for CVS 2017 = 31,229 – 30,648 = $581

Analysis: What do the results of this calculation mean in the context of Walgreens? In the context of CVS? Compare the two - why are they different? Which is better or worse?

Must be at least four sentences for the above analysis.

The following data relate to the operations of Shilow Company, a wholesale distributor of consumer goods:

1. The gross margin is 25% of sales.

2. Actual and budgeted sales data:

3. Sales are 60% for cash and 40% on credit. Credit sales are collected in the month following sale. The accounts receivable at March 31 are a result of March credit sales.

4. Each month’s ending inventory should equal 80% of the following month’s budgeted cost of goods sold.

5. One-half of a month’s inventory purchases is paid for in the month of purchase; the other half is paid for in the following month. The accounts payable at March 31 are the result of March purchases of inventory.

6. Monthly expenses are as follows: commissions, 12% of sales; rent, $3,800 per month; other expenses (excluding depreciation), 6% of sales. Assume that these expenses are paid monthly. Depreciation is $819 per month (includes depreciation on new assets).

7. Equipment costing $3,000 will be purchased for cash in April.

8. Management would like to maintain a minimum cash balance of at least $4,000 at the end of each month. The company has an agreement with a local bank that allows the company to borrow in increments of $1,000 at the beginning of each month, up to a total loan balance of $20,000. The interest rate on these loans is 1% per month and for simplicity we will assume that interest is not compounded. The company would, as far as it is able, repay the loan plus accumulated interest at the end of the quarter.

Required:

Using the preceding data:

1. Complete the schedule of expected cash collections.

2. Complete the merchandise purchases budget and the schedule of expected cash disbursements for merchandise purchases.

3. Complete the cash budget.

4. Prepare an absorption costing income statement for the quarter ended June 30.

5. Prepare a balance sheet as of June 30.

We are interested in determining if the amount of sleep someone gets per night affects how much they exercise. The following data are provided:

(Sleep- Exercise) 4-20, 5-0, 5.5- ,7 6 -14, 6.5- 7, 7 -12, 7.5- 4, 8- 6, 8.5- 1, 9- 8

i. Find s^2.

j. Find the test statistic for testing if b_1 is significant or not.

k. What conclusion would you make based on the test statistic found above (use .05 confidence level)?

l. Find the 95% confidence interval for β_1.

m. Assuming someone sleeps 8 hours a night, how much would you expect them to exercise?

n. Assuming someone sleeps 8 hours a night, what is the 90% confidence interval for the expected amount of exercise?

o. Assuming someone sleeps 8 hours a night, what is the 90% prediction interval for the expected amount of exercise?

9.12) How do you write a PHP script that collects the data from the form provided below and write it to a file?

.html
<!doctype html public "-//w3c//dtd html 4.0 transitional//en">
<html>
<head>
<title>Song Survey</title>
</head>
<body>
<form method="post" action="http://localhost/lab/lab 14.php"><br />
<h3>Enter The Date</h3>
<table>
<tr>
<td>Name Of The Song:</td>
<td><input type="text" name="SongName" size="30"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Name Of The Composer:</td>
<td><input type="text" name="CName"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Name Of The Singer:</td>
<td><input type="text" name="Singer"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><input type="submit" value="Submit"></td>
</tr>
</table>
</form>
</body>
</html>

.php
<html>
<head>
<title>Song Information</title>
</head>
<body>
<?php
$SName=$_POST["SongName"];
$CName=$_POST["CName"];
$Singer=$_POST["Singer"];
$song_file= 'song.txt';
$file_handle = fopen($song_file, 'a') or die('Cannot open file: '.$song_file);
fwrite($file_handle,$SName);
fwrite($file_handle,"#");
fwrite($file_handle,$Singer);
fwrite($file_handle,"##");
fwrite($file_handle,$CName);
fwrite($file_handle,"\r\n");
fclose($file_handle);
?>
<p>The Contents Are Written to the file <u>song.txt</u></p>
<?php
$file_handle = fopen("song.txt", "rb");
print "<h4>The Most Popular songs are.....</h4>";
while (!feof($file_handle))
{
$line_of_text = fgets($file_handle);
$parts = explode(' # ',$line_of_text);
print ("$parts[0]<br/>");
}
fclose($file_handle);
?>
</body>
</html>

1.

Suppose a firm pays labor (L) a wage rate (w) of $10 and capital (K) a rental rate (r) of $25.

A.

Write an equation for the isocost line and find i

ts slope. Then, draw a graph (with Labor on

the horizontal axis) of the isocost lines for Total Costs of $200 and $300.

B.

Suppose a firm wants to produce 200 units and can do so with the following combinations of

labor and capital

:

(5 L, 10 K); (10 L, 4 K

)

;

or (25 L, 2 K).

Using this information, o

n the same

graph as Part (A), draw

an approximate

isoquant for 200 units, making sure to show the

cost

-

minimizing output choice.

The results in the form of a Minitab output are shown below. Use this output to answer the questions that follow.

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Descriptive Statistics: HOURS

Variable   N         Mean        SE Mean       StDev        Minimum     Q1        Median     Q3    Maximum

HOURS     95      16.6            0.318            3.10            6.0               15.0       16.0          18.0   24.0

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1. Measures of Central Tendency: Compare the Mean to the Median. What is your conclusion regarding the shape of the distribution, degree of skewness, and the possible presence of outliers? Explain your answer in the space provided below.

2. Measures of Variation: Find the value for the Mean and the Standard Deviation in the Minitab output.
   1. Use these statistics to calculate the Coefficient of Variation. Show your calculation and final answer in the space provided below.
   2. Then interpret the value of CV. How would you use this statistic to draw a conclusion regarding the degree of variability among values in the sample?

3. Standardized Values: Assume that a randomly selected consumer reported that she spends 26 hours per week online.
   1. Calculate the equivalent Z-score for this consumer’s weekly online activity. Show your calculation and final answer in the space provided below.
   2. Using your calculation of the converted Z-score, would you conclude that this consumer is an outlier? Why or why not?

4. Empirical Rule: Assume a near normal distribution exists for this population. Answer the following questions regarding the values found in the Minitab output for this study. Show your calculations and final answer in the spaces provided.

1. 68% of all observations will fall within two values. What are these two values?

2. 95% of all observations will fall within two values. What are these two values?

3. Virtually all (over 99%) of all observations will fall within two values. What are these two values?

C++
If I want to ask the user to input the variables in a vector, how can I do that?

I'm trying to implement this in a program with matrices. So the user should enter how many rows and columns they want, then enter the values

Can you help me out

A 90 kg student jumps off a bridge with a 12-m-long bungee cord tied to his feet. The massless bungee cord has a spring constant of 420 N/m. You can assume that the bungee cord exerts no force until it begins to stretch.

How far below the bridge is the student's lowest point?

How far below the bridge is the student's resting position after the oscillations have been fully damped?

Describe the differences between job order costing, process costing, and Activity Based Costing (ABC). What are the advantages and disadvantages of each system? Imagine a company that you might be a manager for. Describe that company and what their major product or service would be. Then, tell which cost system would be best suited to that firm and why.

in C++

Using your previous homework code:

1) Add a default constructor for the runners. ( one that has no parameters)

2) Add a constructor that takes a name and a bib number

3) Add a constructor that takes a name , a bib number and a sex.

Add setter functions that sets the time:

1) one that takes a string of the format : hh:mm:ss

2) one that takes an int that is the number of seconds the runner took to complete the race.

Please Note: You decide what format inside the class to store the time amount.  

Add getter functions that return the time:

1) one that returns a string in the format : hh:mm:ss

2) one that returns an int that this the time in seconds.

Add a comment section to your class and explain why you chose some things.

1) What data type did you decide on in the class for the time, why

2) What was an alternative? Is your decision a big decision or a small decision? why

Please note : Again pick one C++ data type inside the class to store the time.

Do not use two variables to store the time.

Please note: if you write conversion functions that if expected. Do not make them public.  

Please note: on the time returned as a string please test and verify that times like these contain the correct zeros not blanks. the format will always be either: ( b = blank, hh = hours, mm = minutes, ss = seconds )

bh:mm:ss

hh:mm:ss

so a time like 1:03:02 will NOT be displayed as : 1:3:2. I strongly suggest testing in these areas.

You may want to convert from a string to an integer for you students here is some

sample code

String conversion using stoi() or atoi()
stoi() : The stoi() function takes a string as an argument and returns its value. Following is a simple implementation:

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edit

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brightness_4

Output:

stoi("45") is 45
stoi("3.14159") is 3
stoi("31337 geek") is 31337 



Please Note:  
You may decide that you need a function that returns a 2 character long string 
given an integer.   This is starter code .   
It does not fully help you in this project you will need to modify or add 
a bit of stuff to get it to be truly helpful. the statement 
temp+=number%10+48;
could be coded as :
temp+=number%10+'0';

Here is some starter code:

string convertInt(int number)
{
    if (number == 0)
        return "0";
    string temp="";
    string returnvalue="";
    while (number>0)
    {
        temp+=number%10+48;
        number/=10;
    }
    for (int i=0;i<temp.length();i++)
        returnvalue+=temp[temp.length()-i-1];
    return returnvalue;
}

this is my code from my previous homework:

#include<iostream>

#include<string>

using namespace std;

class Runner

{

private:

string bibnumber;

char gender;

int age;

string name;

string time;

public:

Runner()

{

bibnumber=" ";

gender=' ';

age=0;

name=" ";

time=" ";

}

int getAge()

{

return age;

}

string getName()

{

return name;

}

string getTime()

{

return time;

}

string getBin()

{

return bibnumber;

}

char getGender()

{

return gender;

}

void setCombinedGenderBib ( string bib)

{

gender=bib[0];

bibnumber=bib.substr(1,bib.length());

}

void setName(string name)

{

this->name=name;

}

void setTime(string time)

{

this->time= time;

}

void setAge(int age)

{

this->age= age;

}

};

int main()

{

Runner runner;

runner.setName("john");

runner.setAge(23);

runner.setTime("01:04:37");

runner.setCombinedGenderBib("M4321");

cout<<"Name : "<<runner.getName()<<endl;

cout<<"Bin Number : "<<runner.getBin()<<endl;

cout<<"Age : "<<runner.getAge()<<endl;

cout<<"Gender : "<<runner.getGender()<<endl;

cout<<"Time : "<<runner.getTime()<<endl;

return0;

Steam distillation. ANSWER IN DETAIL AND I WILL REWARD FIVE STARS TO FIRST PERSON TO ANSWER!!!!!!

A student steam distilled a mixtrue of toluene (bp 110.8 degrees Celsius) and water and noticed that distillate contained a larger volume of touleune than water. The student said to the professor, "I know there is something wrong with my experiment. I should have more water than toleune because water has a lowerboiling point. Should I redo the experiment?" The professor replied "do whatever you need to do" A classmate then said, "No, you dont need to redo it you DO have more water."

Explain in detail why the classmate is correct. Use calculations to support your explanation. Label all quantities used. Include all units.