Genetic Insights Co. purchases an asset for $10,522. This asset qualifies as a seven-year recovery asset under MACRS. The seven-year fixed depreciation percentages for years 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, and 6 are 14.29%, 24.49%, 17.49%, 12.49%, 8.93%, and 8.93%, respectively. Genetic Insights has a tax rate of 30%. The asset is sold at the end of six years for $3,906

Case Study

Allyson is a 43-year-old female who has been married to her husband, Roy, for 12 years and have a 10-year-
old daughter, Rose, between them. Allyson claims that she has been feeling depressed and is seeking a

treatment due to a fear that she would lose everything. She claims she is always sad, tired, and angry and
feels hopeless. For her, everything seems gray. She reports that she lost interest in activities which she was
interested in before, and upset about the fact that she lost interest in raising Rose. According to Allyson, she
first started feeling depressed after she gave birth to Rose. Allyson claims that her doctor did not diagnose
her as experiencing postpartum depression. About 3 weeks later, her mood up lifted again but her symptoms
worsened past year or so. In addition, she claims she experiences abnormal sleep pattern which causes her
to over sleep about 12 hours and 14 hours. She alluded that the onset of the condition was about 7 month
ago and which is considered to be concurrent with depression. Allyson grew up in the family who
experienced and according to her, her mother also experienced depression. She reports that she
has experienced feeling depressed as early as she was 13. However, according to Allyson, her family does
not admit weakness and does not believe in therapy, she did not get proper treatment which may have
worsened her symptoms. Allyson was not a good student at high school and college. She did not go through
any significant traumatizing events such as loss of close people, abuse, bullying and so on. Allison worked
for a telecommunications company for eight years before her marriage to Roy and their moving to New York.
She now works as a consultant while raising Rose. She is financially very stable due to her husband who is a
medical doctor and herself working as a consultant. From her report, though she has been depressed, she
has never been prescribed with medication. In addition, she has never been on any drug or severe
substance use.
• Give a proper diagnostic criterion of this case according to DSM-V
• Write etiology of this case in the light of Psychodynamic Perspective?
• Design a treatment plan for this case according to Psychodynamic Therapeutic techniques?

Briefly discuss each step involved in the business process of selling a product, beginning from negotiations with customers. Assume that you are just starting your ERP deployment.

Write in essay format

Using Michael Porter's Five Forces model as a framework, analyze Dell's competitive landscape.

Given the unordered array:

Suppose this array were being sorted using the quick sort algorithm from the course content,

into ASCENDING order, with the left-most item as the pivot value.

List the letters in the resulting array, in order AFTER the FIRST PARTITIONING.

The internet and other ICTs have played a key role in transforming business. Write a report
analysing the impact of the internet and ICT on Disney World’s business. Refer to the following elements in your report:
1. How the digital economy, including m‐commerce, has enabled Disney World to
transform its business.
2. How Disney World has used MagicBands as part of an enterprise system (ES) to exploit ICT.
3. How the Internet and related technologies, as disruptive technologies, have assisted Disney World in improving customer experiences.

According to Prahalad and Hamel, a core competence provides potential access to a wide variety of markets should make a significant contribution to the perceived customer benefits of the end product should be difficult for competitors to imitate Under this definition, what are Dell's core competencies? How can Dell exploit these competencies to gain or maintain a sustainable competitive advantage?

Many economists favor a carbon tax as a way to discourage CO2 emissions. Suppose such a tax were to be set at $20 per ton (907kg) of carbon emissions as (CO2). Consider a 50-MW, 35% efficient power plant that uses coal with a carbon intensity of 24gC/MJ.

a. How much per year would this power plant pay in carbon tax?

b. Suppose a tree plantation sequesters (removes from the atmosphere and stores in biomass) 20,000kg of carbon dioxide per year per acre over the next 40 years the trees are growing (after which time the forest is mature and no further accumulation occurs). What area of forest would have to be planted to offset the power plant’s emissions over the next 40 years (roughly the lifetime of the power plant)?

c. What is the maximum the power plant owners would be willing to pay for this forest per acre? (do not use discounting)

Mount Ashland Promotions Inc. is organizing one of its most popular events, the ZenNaturals Annual Trade Fest. At this trade show, producers, manufacturers, and distributors in the natural foods market display the latest trends in organic foods, herbal supplements, and natural body care products. The Trade Fest attracts a wide variety of participants, from large distributors who display a wide range of prod-ucts to small, independent companies. As in previous years, Nina Li and her team at Mount Ash-land are in charge of managing the event, which includes all advertising and publicity as well as arranging spots for exhibi-tors. The success of this event depends on Nina’s ability to attract large numbers of small independent retailers in the natural foods market who are looking to expand their product lines. She knows that these small retailers tend to be zealously committed to the principles of healthful lifestyle. Moreover, many are members of the Organic Trade Federation (OTF), an organization that advocates ethical consumerism. The OTF has been known to boycott trade shows that
include too many products with controversial ingredients such as ginkgo biloba, hemp, or kava kava. Nina is aware that some herbal diet teas have been receiving lots of negative attention lately in trade publications and the popular press. These teas claim to be “thermogenic” or fat burning, and typically contain ma huang (or ephedra). Ephedra is particularly controversial, not only because it can be unsafe for people with certain existing health conditions, but because this fast-acting stimulant commonly found in diet and energy products is contrary to the OTF’s principles and values. Worried that too many products at the ZenNaturals Trade Fest may be thermogenic teas, Nina decides to take a closer look at vendors already committed to participate in the event. Based on the data that her team pulled together, more than 33% of them do indeed include teas in their prod-uct lines. She was quite surprised to find that this percentage is so high. She decides to categorize the vendors into four groups: (1) those selling herbal supplements only; (2) those selling organic foods and herbal supplements; (3) those sell-ing organic foods, herbal supplements, and natural body care products; and (4) all others. She finds that only 2% of groups 1, 2, and 4 include tea in their product lines, while 34% of the third group do. Even though group 3 contains most of the vendors, Nina instructs her team to use the average percent-age 10% in its communications, especially with the OTF, about the upcoming ZenNaturals Annual Trade Fest.

(a) What is the ethical dilemma?

(b) What are the undesirable consequences?

(c) Who are the stakeholders in this scenario?

(d) What is your ethical solution? Which stakeholders did you consider when developing this solutions?

You have been asked whether your organization should expand from selling its products only in North America to selling its products in Europe as well. What information would you want to collect? Who would you want to discuss the idea with before making a decision?

What impact does the westernization of early childhood assessments (such as gross motor assessments) have on equity in early childcare? Are there other methods of assessment that would be more productive and inclusive?

Imagine seven years from now you have finally gotten the promotion you were working hard for at that dream job working for Porsche headquarters in Stuttgart, Germany. You’ve been asked to put together a team to develop a feasibility study looking into electric cars in the Asian market. You estimate that you need a staff of about five employees to handle the project.

(a) What type of team interdependence would you want for this project and why?

(b) What personality traits from the Big 5 should members of your staff possess, and why? Additionally, what other individual differences (other than the Big 5) should they also have? Also, how would you interview or vet them to ensure you find the ideal team in terms of personality and cultural diversity?

(c) Consider how you will deal with potential conflict using conflict management strategies as well as potential communication barriers.