Jane is the financial manager for Alpha Corporation. She has been asked to perform a lease-versus-purchase analysis on a new printing machine. The machine costs $360,000 and will be depreciated using the straightline method with zero residual value over five years. Alternatively, the company can lease the machine with year-end payments of $95,000 over five years. The company’s tax rate is 35% and its before-tax cost of borrowing is 10%.

Required:

a) Given the above information, calculate the net advantage to leasing (NAL) for Alpha Corporation to obtain the new printing machine, assuming the company will use its own reserves rather than borrowing from the bank. Which option would you recommend? Explain.

b) Suppose only $300,000 purchase price of the machine is borrowed from OUHK Bank. Should Alpha Corporation change its buy or lease decision on the printing machine? Discuss.

c) Please comment on the following remark: ‘Leasing is a zero sum game between the lessee and lessor.’

d) Briefly discuss the reasons for firms to lease even if NALs are negative.

7. Choose the bond that is least polar (how would you do this without looking at an electronegativity chart)

a. P-F

b. C-F

c. C-Cl

d. C-Br

e. C-I

8. Using periodic trends, place the following in order of increasing ionic character.( Please explain)

Si-P, Si-Cl,Si-S

9. How do you calculate the bond order of resonance structures (Please explain.)

SCHEME

1. [4 marks] Define a procedure called valid_date? that takes three arguments representing the year, month, and day respectively. The procedure should return true (#t) if the values are numbers representing a valid date and false (#f) otherwise.
   E.g. (valid_date? 2014 10 3) → #t
   E.g. (valid_date? 2016 2 29) → #t
   E.g. (valid_date? -3000 14 87) → #f
   E.g. (valid_date? "2019" "September" "7th") → #f

Suppose a company is looking to hedge a risk in the derivatives market. What, fundamentally, is the difference between hedging in the futures market vs. the options market? Which would you choose for a given situation? Provide examples.

Training and Development assignment.

Describe the usage of Computer Based Training (CBT) in McDonald's Company training programs.

Format

A i. McDonald's Company Background

ii. What type of CBT McDonald's use as program instruction and explain it

iii. Explain the advantages of using CBT.

iv. Describe the disadvantages of using CBT.

v. Discuss on the blending of CBT with other training methods

vi. Explain the types of CBT such as Program Instruction, Intelligent Tutoring Systems, Interactive Multimedia and Virtual Reality and give some examples.

PUT IN JAVA PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE

The Rectangle class:

Design a class named Rectangle to represent a rectangle. The class contains:
• Two double data fields named width and height that specify the width and height of a rectangle. The default values are 1 for both width and height.
• A no-arg (default) constructor that creates a default rectangle.
• A constructor that creates a rectangle with the specified width and height.
• A method named findArea() that finds the area of this rectangle.
• A method named findPerimeter() that finds the perimeter of this rectangle.
• Create a client (test) class (program) to test and use your Rectangle class.

In the client program, you need to create objects of the Rectangle type and use those

objects to perform some meaningful and valid rectangle operations (finding area and perimeter).

The test/client class should display all results.

Journal article summary on inter-group conflict

Peer Reviewed Journal article from past 3 years. Please include Article Title and Journal name

"Ethical Considerations" Please respond to the following:

• Reflect upon the responsibilities placed on auditors by the PCAOB, and discuss whether those expectations are adequate considering current emerging issues.
• Discuss whether the Sarbanes-Oxley Act should be modified to adjust regulation of corporate executives and auditors in response to issues subsequent to the 2002 scandals.

A Japanese company has a bond outstanding that sells for 93 percent of its ¥100,000 par value. The bond has a coupon rate of 6 percent paid annually and matures in 16 years. What is the yield to maturity of this bond? (Do not round intermediate calculations. Enter your answer as a percent rounded to 2 decimal places, e.g., 32.16.)

FINANCIAL CALCULATOR CALCULATIONS ONLY

What is the difference among the principles of modularization, abstraction, encapsulation, and separation of interface and implementation. Please provide with related examples.

#Course: Software Engineering

PUT IN JAVA PROGRAMMING

The StockB class:

Design a class named StockB that contains the following properties:
• Name of company
• Number of shares owned
• Value of each share
• Total value of all shares
and the following operations:
• Acquire stock in a company
• Buy more shares of the same stock
• Sell stock
• Update the per-share value of a stock
• Display information about the holdings
• The StockB class should have the proper constructor(s).
• Create/write a client class (program) to test and use your StockB class. In the client program,

you need to create objects of the StockB type and use those objects

to perform some meaningful and valid stock transactions.

Draw a DFA for the following ( ∑ = {0,1}):                                

1. Set of all strings with at most one consecutive pair of 1’s.

Many people keep time using a 24 hour clock (11 is 11am and 23 is 11pm, 0 is midnight). If it is currently 13 and you set your alarm to go off in 50 hours, it will be 15 (3pm). Write a Python program to solve the general version of the above problem. Ask the user for the time now (in hours), and then ask for the number of hours to wait for the alarm. Your program should output what the time will be on the clock when the alarm goes off.

Using python