Why are Online Travel Agents Important?

Use at least 400 words to answer this question, preferably with POINT and REFERENCE

As the supply chain director for a global company, you are facing increasing pressure to improve customer services, especially in handling customer returns. There is currently no system and processes in place. You have been requested by the CEO to set up a reverse logistics system to satisfy customers requirements. A consultant advises you that you need to start with a good gate-keeping process, and this includes a Return Policy and an RMA process. You need to make a presentation to management recommending the immediate action plan, in particular:

1. The objectives and major contents in a Returns Policy
2. The objectives and outlines of an RMA process

Write a Python program that print out the list of couples of prime numbers that are less than 50, but their sum is bigger than 40. For instance(29,13)or(37,17),etc. Your program should print all couples

Problem 1

Consider a clinic similar to the Student Health Services at OSU. You are asked to perform a capacity analysis for the clinic. The current resources of the clinic are as follows (assume that the information is steady throughout the day):

In addition, the following information is presented to you on the operations of the clinic.

• All patients need to register with the receptionist before they can see a nurse/doctor. The average time to register at the reception desk is 5 minutes.

• On average, 30% of the incoming patients are considered to have only minor problems that can be handled by nurses. The remaining 70% are given appointments to see a primary care provider.

• The average consultation time with a nurse is 30 minutes. After diagnosis by a nurse, 30% of the patients are asked to see a primary care provider for further diagnosis.

• An appointment with a primary care provider lasts 20 minutes, on average. After check up by a primary care provider, 20% of the patients are referred to a radiologist, 10% are referred to the diabetes care center, 20% are referred to the nutrition care center and the remaining 50% either don’t need further referral or are referred to an outside hospital.

• The average consultation time with the radiologist is 40 minutes.

• It takes 30 minutes, on average, for diagnosis at the diabetes care center.

• An appointment at the nutrition care center usually takes 25 minutes.

The manager of the clinic is interested in the following questions:

a. What is the capacity of each resource in the clinic (reception, primary care provider, nurse, radiologist, diabetes care, and nutrition care) in number of patient-arrivals per hour?

b. What is the system capacity of the clinic in number of patient-arrivals per hour? Identify the bottleneck(s). What is the slack of each resource in total number of patient -arrivals per hour?

c. If the clinic hires two additional units for the bottleneck resource, what would be the new system capacity and bottleneck(s)?

d. Suppose that the proposal in part (c) is implemented and all employees work 10 hours per day, how many patients can the clinic serve each day?

relating to cultural change in organizations. Provide examples that you have seen in your own work life.

1. Assume the following two equations and the discount rate for the extraction of a natural resource:

1. P = 18 – 0.75 Q for Marginal Willingness to Pay
2. P = 3 for a constant Marginal Cost
3. Discount Rate = 6%

Solve for the following in a two time period setting:

1. Find and label the equilibrium when there is no limit on Q. q=20
2. Assume that there are only 25 units of the natural resource to be extracted, find the optimal extraction rates over the two periods. q1= 12.28 q2= 12.72
3. Find the Total Marginal Net Benefits under the optimal extraction rates.
4. Find the Marginal User Cost for each time period of the resource.

I don't understand #3 and #4 if you could provide step-by-step instructions/formulas for those.

Ryan Company purchased a new machine on January 1, 2017, at a cost of $45,000. The company estimated that the machine has a salvage value of $5,000 and a useful life of four years. The machine is expected to produce 400,000 units.

Required:

1. Calculate depreciation expense to the nearest whole dollar for each year of the machine's useful life using straight-line depreciation.

2. Calculate depreciation expense to the nearest whole dollar for each year of the machine's useful life using double declining-balance depreciation.

3. If the machine was used to produce and sell 120,000 units in 2017, what would be the depreciation expense using the units-of-production method?  

4. What is the book value of the machine after three years using the double declining-balance method?

5. What is the book value of the machinery after three years using the straight-line method?

This question comprises four parts. Each part covers the topic of revenue recognition and is independent of each other part. Answer all questions to all four parts.

PART A:

The Royal Horseshoe Yacht Club (RHYC) is an association of members that offers a number of services including community and friendship among members, sailing courses for its members, meals in its upscale restaurant, moorage for boats at its home port of Horseshoe Bay, and moorage at outstations which are port facilities outside of Horseshoe Bay. Access to the club facilities, including the club restaurant, is available to members only.

RHYC is a highly sought-after yacht club and, therefore, few members quit once accepted into membership, resulting in members remaining in the club for an average of 25 years. RHYC follows IFRS and has a December 31 year end. To fund the services it provides, the club charges several fees as follows:

1. A one-time initiation fee of $50,000. This fee is non-refundable and is valid for as long as the member continues to be a member in good standing.

2. An annual membership fee of $10,000 due on January 1 each year, which is valid for the calendar year. This annual membership fee gives each member full access to the use of all of the club’s facilities. In addition, under the annual membership fee, a member will receive a credit of $2,400 towards restaurant meals in its upscale restaurant. This credit of $2,400 is a reasonable indication of the fair value of the meals for each year for a member.

3. Fees for moorage at the home port of Horseshoe Bay is based upon market rates according to the size of the boat. Fees for moorage at outstation facilities outside of Horseshoe Bay, however, are included in the annual membership fee.

4. Fees for sailing courses that are periodically offered to members vary with each course.

Required: (Be specific in your answers)

1. Explain how and when RHYC should recognize and revenue from the $50,000 one-time initiation fee using IFRS standards.

2. Explain how and when RHYC should recognize revenue from the $10,000 annual membership fee using IFRS standards.

3. Explain how and when RHYC should recognize revenue from the sailing courses and the moorage services at Horseshoe Bay using IFRS standards.

According to this article answer the following questions

A former Amazon manager alleges that her supervisor made her scour the social media accounts of applicants to determine their race and gender, and then fired her when she complained. Lisa McCarrick filed a lawsuit against an Amazon unit on Monday in the Superior Court of California, Alameda County, claiming retaliation, wrongful termination, failure to prevent discrimination and violation of the state's labor code. The 38-year-old, who lives in Rocklin, about 20 miles northeast of Sacramento, is also suing for violation of the state's Equal Pay Act, alleging that she made significantly less than her male colleagues although they were doing similar work. McCarrick joined Amazon as a loss prevention manager in July 2018 and was promoted to a regional manager five months later, the suit says. After her promotion, her supervisor instructed McCarrick to go through the social media profiles of job candidates "for the purpose of ascertaining race/ethnicity and gender," according to the lawsuit. McCarrick knew that Amazon had been criticized in the past for a lack of diversity in the workplace and thought what she was being asked to do was unlawful, according to the lawsuit. In September, she submitted a written complaint raising her concerns about being told to scour applicants' social media accounts and also the pay disparity between herself and her male coworkers. Two months later, in November, she was called into a meeting with human resources and the director of loss prevention informing her that she was fired. "During the meeting in which she was informed of her termination, it was communicated to her that her direct supervisor had admitted to utilizing social media accounts for the purpose of ascertaining race and ethnicity," the suit states. "Plaintiff's protected complaints of race/ethnicity discrimination were substantial motivating reasons for the decision to terminate her employment." The loss prevention director also told McCarrick during the meeting that her male colleagues do make more than her but "that happens all the time at Amazon," according to the lawsuit. The lawsuit claims that throughout McCarrick's employment with Amazon she always received positive performance evaluations but she was told that the reason for her termination was due to "not meeting expectations." McCarrick is seeking damages. An Amazon spokesperson said in a statement Thursday that McCarrick's claims are inaccurate. “At our core, we fundamentally believe that diversity, inclusion, equality, and equal pay for equal work are not just good for our teams and our business, it's just simply right," the statement read. "While we cannot comment on the specifics of this ongoing legal proceeding, Ms. McCarrick's allegations are just not accurate.”

1) Does this case bring about issues or Corporate Social Responsibility? How? Why?

A 3.10 g bullet moving at 270 m/s enters and stops in an initially stationary 2.30 kg wooden block on a horizontal frictionless surface.

a) What's the speed of the bullet/ block combination?

b) What fraction of the bullet's kinetic energy was lost in this perfectly inelastic collision?

c)How much work was done in stopping the bullet?

Prove that in any nonempty set of n numbers, there is one number whose value is at least the average of the n numbers.

Adam is turning 40 years old today and plans to retire on his 65th birthday. He starts making annual deposits ( starting on the day of his 40th birthday) into an account that pays 15% compunded quarterly. He plans to withdraw $10,000 quarterly from the account starting on his 65th birthday unitil his 75th birthday (inclusive). Note that the lst deposit is made at the same time as the first withdrawal.

what is the effective interest rate for deposits?

WHat is the present worth (now) of withdrawals?

WHat is the amount of the deposits

please read the article 'Exley Chemical Company' and write a summary of the article.

Trucking companies no longer merely carry goods from one place to another. Some also provide supply chain management services to their customers and help them manage their information. In this project you�ll use the Web to research and evaluate two of these business services. Investigate the Web sites of two companies, J. B. Hunt and Schneider Logistics, to see how these companies� services can be used for supply chain management. Using the information found in those sites as well as your own outside reasearch, create a 2-3 page essay in which you answer the following questions: What supply chain processes can each of these companies support for their clients? How can customers use the Web site of each company to help them with supply chain management? Compare the supply chain management services provided by these companies. Which company would you select to help your firm manage its supply chain? Why?

note Your essay should be 2-3 pages in length and fully explore all of the following items described above. Include at least 2 outside citations (not including your text) and use proper APA formatting.