Explain why you agree or disagree with the following statement.

Companies in the United States often choose to source items from foreign firms due to cost reasons. Some countries that function as manufacturing hubs have lower wage rates or relaxed working regulations which create cost savings that can be passed on to purchasing companies. Another possible explanation for sourcing items from other companies could be manufacturing efficiency. If a necessary component for a product is manufactured near another component then it may make sense to choose to source the component from that country instead of moving the components around and increasing costs.

From the scenario, analyze TFC's cash budget to determine key methods in which the budget may be optimized (e.g., by renegotiating terms and conditions on some of its payables, etc.). If you believe that there is room for improvement, recommend key strategies for TFC to use in order to optimize its cash budget. If you do not believe that this is the case, provide a rationale for your response.

Write a LISP function POWER that takes a list containing exactly two numeric atoms and computes the first atom raised to the power of the second atom. For example:

(POWER ‘(2 4)

Returns the value 16

3. What factors led to the urban crisis after World War II throughout northern American cities? How did cities decline? How did urban residents respond to the crisis?

ESSAY QUESTION PLEASE ANSWER FULLY

why is it important that the GAO receive the cooperation of contractors in attempting to make its government audits?

Mary, age 27, annually invests $1,000 in an IRA starting this year through the year of her 35th birthday, and then never makes another contribution. Sara, age 36, annually invests $1,000 in an IRA through the year of her 65th birthday. If both Mary and Sara can earn 8% on their investments, who will have more in her IRA account when she retires at the end of her 65th year AND approximately how much more will she have in her account?

Please show the calculator steps please

C++ question:

Design and implement your own linked list class to hold a sorted list of integers in ascending order. The class should have member functions for inserting an item in the list, deleting an item from the list, and searching the list for an item. Note: the search function should return the position of the item in the list (first item at position 0) and -1 if not found.

In addition, it should have member functions to display the list, check if the list is empty, and return the length of the list. Be sure to have a class constructor, a class destructor, and a copy constructor for deep copy. Demonstrate your class with a driver program (be sure to include the following cases: insertion at the beginning, end, and inside the list, deletion of first item, last item, and an item inside, searching for an existing/non-existing item, and modifying a list that was initialized to an existing list).

Write a LISP function COUNTX which takes an atom and a list and returns the number of top-level occurrences of the atom in the list. For example: (COUNTX ‘A ‘(A (A B) B A B A (B A)) Returns the value 3, the other two A’s are not at the top level

Erie Company manufactures a mobile fitness device called the Jogging Mate. The company uses standards to control its costs. The labor standards that have been set for one Jogging Mate are as follows:

During August, 8,420 hours of direct labor time were needed to make 19,700 units of the Jogging Mate. The direct labor cost totaled $46,310 for the month.

Required:

1. What is the standard labor-hours allowed (SH) to makes 19,700 Jogging Mates?

2. What is the standard labor cost allowed (SH × SR) to make 19,700 Jogging Mates?

3. What is the labor spending variance?

4. What is the labor rate variance and the labor efficiency variance?

5. The budgeted variable manufacturing overhead rate is $4.10 per direct labor-hour. During August, the company incurred $37,048 in variable manufacturing overhead cost. Compute the variable overhead rate and efficiency variances for the month.

(For requirements 3 through 5, indicate the effect of each variance by selecting "F" for favorable, "U" for unfavorable, and "None" for no effect (i.e., zero variance). Input all amounts as positive values. Do not round intermediate calculations.)

Summarize OSHA regulations for nail salon in one paragraph.

why does the government closely monitor contract performance when the contractor is responsible for satisfactory performance of his/her contract

This is an assignment for a C++ introduction class. This module included if statements. If you have any questions please feel free to let me know!

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In this module you learned about making decisions in C++ and how to combine decision making with the material from the first few modules to solve problems.

For this assignment, write a program that calculates a discount for buying certain quantities of coffee. Consider the following scenario:

A coffee company sells a pound of coffee for $12.99. Quantity discounts are given according to the table below.

Write a program that asks for the number of pounds purchased and computes the total cost of the purchase. Make sure the output formatting is appropriate for the values provided. Be sure to include comments throughout your code where appropriate.

Input validation: Decide how the program should handle an input of less than 0.

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2. Cheese Please Ltd produces cheese topping for the fast pizza industry. At the beginning of April 60,000 kilograms of cheese topping was in process, 100% complete as to raw materials and 50% complete as to conversion costs. During the month, the company started 300,000 kilograms of cheese topping in production. At the end of the month, 40,000 kilograms of cheese topping was in work in process inventory, 100% completed as to raw materials and 40% completed in terms of conversion costs. Assume that the following costs were recorded by Cheese Please Ltd for the beginning work in process and the production performance for April: Beginning inventory: Raw materials costs $ 60,000 Conversion costs 36,000 October production costs: Raw materials costs 300,000 Conversion costs 284,200 Required: a)Prepare a schedule analysing the physical flow of units and calculating the equivalent units of both direct material and conversion for April. Use weighted average process costing. b)Calculate the unit cost for each kilogram of cheese topping. c)Determine the total costs of the kilogram of cheese topping finished during April. What is the balance of the ending work in process inventory?

Write LISP functions GEFILTER and LFILTER. GEFILTER takes a numeric atom and a list of numbers and returns a list consisting all numbers in the list which are greater than or equal to the given number. LFILTER takes a numeric atom and a list of numbers and returns a list consisting of all numbers in the list less than the given number. For example: (GEFILTER 4 ‘(3 5 8 2 4 1 9)) Returns the list (5 8 4 9) and (LFILTER 4 ‘(3 5 8 2 4 1 9)) Return the list (3 2 1)

1. Currently the spot exchange rate is $1.50/£ and the three month forward exchange rate is $1.52/£. The three month interest rate is 8.0% per annum in the US and 5.8% per annum in the UK. Assume that you can borrow as much as $1M. or £1M.

1. Is there a covered interest arbitrage opportunity for a US multinational? What is the payoff if they conducted CIA?
2. Is there a covered interest arbitrage opportunity for a UK multinational? What would be their payoff if they conducted CIA?
3. How will the covered interest rate parity be restored?
4. What should have been the “correct” forward exchange rate?