Frey and Rez' control theory is an elaborate explanation for the conditions necessary lead to the Holo-caust. Based on the theory, do you think the Holo-caust is unique among genocides? Explain
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Pitch Deck
Overview
You have been hired to create a website. In this assignment, you will begin to gather the necessary information to complete the work and present your ideas to your client.
Instructions
You will need to answer the following questions:
In: Computer Science
Madsen Motors's bonds have 21 years remaining to maturity. Interest is paid annually; they have a $1,000 par value; the coupon interest rate is 8.5%; and the yield to maturity is 11%. What is the bond's current market price? Round your answer to the nearest cent. $
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E10-4 Computing Issue Prices of Bonds Sold at Par, at a Discount, and at a Premium LO10-2, 10-4, 10-5
James Corporation is planning to issue bonds with a face value of $508,500 and a coupon rate of 6 percent. The bonds mature in 7 years and pay interest semiannually every June 30 and December 31. All of the bonds will be sold on January 1 of this year. (FV of $1, PV of $1, FVA of $1, and PVA of $1) (Use the appropriate factor(s) from the tables provided. Round your final answer to whole dollars.)
Required:
Compute the issue (sale) price on January 1 of this year for each of the following independent cases:
a. Case A: Market interest rate (annual): 4 percent.
b. Case B: Market interest rate (annual): 6 percent.
c. Case C: Market interest rate (annual): 8.5 percent.
In: Accounting
Q1/Read the following passage carefully:
Assyria was kingdom of northern Mesopotamia that became the center
of one of the great empires of the
ancient Middle East. It was located in what is now northern Iraq
and southeastern Turkey.
The Assyrians were perhaps most famous for their fearsome army.
They were a warrior society where
fighting was a part of life. ... They were known throughout the
land as cruel and ruthless warriors. Two
things that made the Assyrians great warriors were their deadly
chariots and their iron weapons. Battle of
Nineveh is conventionally dated between 613 and 611 BC, with 612 BC
being the most supported date.
Rebelling against the Assyrians, an allied army which combined the
forces of Medes and the Babylonians
besieged Nineveh and sacked 750 hectares of what was, at that time,
the greatest city in the world.
Assyria was at the height of its power, but persistent difficulties
controlling Babylonia would soon
develop into a major conflict. At the end of the seventh century,
the Assyrian empire collapsed under the
assault of Babylonians from southern Mesopotamia and Medes,
newcomers who were to establish a
kingdom in Iran. The city was destroyed in 612 BCE by a coalition
led by Babylonians and Medes which
toppled the Assyrian Empire. Sizable Assyrian populations only
remain in Syria, where an estimated
400,000 Assyrians live, and in Iraq, where an estimated 300,000
Assyrians live.
Answer the following questions:
1- What country is Assyria now?
2- What is the Assyrian empire famous for?
3- Who Conquered Assyrian empire?
4- How did Assyrian empire collapse?
5- Do Assyrians still exist?
In: Mechanical Engineering
12. There are many public policy reasons for the adverse possession doctrine. Select three.
a. Resolving boundary disputes
b. Resolving title concerns
c. Assuring property is put to productive use
d. Avoiding unnecessary paperwork
e. Moving to electronic record keeping
f. Assisting the poor in obtaining property
In: Accounting
You are working for an active investment group, which is very interested in an office property in Tokyo. The property is 16 years old, well (but not spectacularly) located, with good floor plates, and meets earthquake standards.
The property is available for $100 million (all payments will be in yen, but I’ll express them in dollars to ease your headaches), which is a mere 20% of the value placed on the property in 1991. The property needs about $20 million in improvements to make it competitive with new properties. The property is currently vacant, as it was the headquarters of a recently liquidated bankrupt company. At the all-in-cost of $120 million the property would have a cost equal to roughly 90% replacement cost, though since land costs are 50-60% of replacement costs, and land prices continue to fall, it is hard to be precise on this estimate.
The local rental market for quality properties is fairly strong in spite of the weak Japanese economy, as tenants continue to take advantage of low rents by moving out of poorly located and designed properties into better properties. Leases in Tokyo are only two years in duration, and the tenant typically pays triple net rents. Property values are at levels not seen since the early 1980s. Sales are relatively frequent, but pricing is unpredictable, with American buyers paying 6-8% cap rates, and occasionally Japanese firms paying 3-5% cap rates. Two REITs recently did IPOs at roughly 6% cap rates, but their prices have fallen substantially since their IPOs.
Rents in Tokyo for quality properties continue to fall by 1-2% per year, as new construction continues to generate a modest supply/demand imbalance. This situation, and the general Japanese economic malaise, is expected to continue for the next several years.
You believe that after one year to completing the necessary improvements, you will be able to lease the property for an NOI of $8.4 million (after usual reserves). You can borrow $100 million, non-recourse, 5-year maturity, no points, 30-year amortization, for a fixed interest rate of 2%. To eliminate all currency risks on your investment (let’s not worry about how this is done) will cost $1.2 million per year. Your target rate of return is roughly 17% on your equity for a 5-year hold. What do think (and why)?
In: Finance
React: Debt always enhances the returns on equity because the borrowing rate is lower than the cash yield and properties go up in value.
In: Finance
Nestle can raise equity capital in its domestic equity market, or in the global equity markets. Nestle's equity beta in the domestic market is 1.20. In the global equity markets, which have a higher expected return, Nestle has a lower beta of 0.90. The risk-free rate in either the domestic or global securities market is 3.0%, while the domestic market has an expected market return of 11% and the global market has an expected return of 13.0%.
a) Calculate Nestle's cost of Equity for both portfolio data sets
Component (Symbol) |
Domestic Portfolio |
Global Portfolio |
Risk-free Rate (krf) |
3.00% |
3.00% |
Market return (km) |
11.00% |
13.00% |
Beta (β) |
1.20 |
0.90 |
Cost of equity (ke) |
b) If Nestle's debt/total capitalization ratio increases from 35% to 45%, given its cost of debt of 6.5% and its tax rate of 20%, calculate the WACC for each portfolio set before and after the change in capital structure.
Portfolio Set |
35% Debt WACC |
45% Debt WACC |
Domestic |
||
Global |
In: Finance
React to each of the following questions.
A mortgage is more valuable as part of a CMBS offering than as a non-securitized mortgage.
In: Finance
Write a program to receive a string from the user and compares the first and second half of the word and prints “First and Second Half Same” or “First and Second Half Different”. If the length of the word is odd, ignore the middle letter.
For example:
Run 1:
Enter a word: abcdabc
First and Second Half Same
Run 2:
Enter a word: abcde
First and Second Half Different
Hint: use the Math.floor() and length() to get the halves of the string and use the equals() to perform the similarity check inside if-else statement.
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Write a program that reads three different integers from the users and prints “all the same” if they are all equal, “all different”, if three numbers are different and “neither” for all other cases.
For example:
Enter first number: 3
Enter first number: 2
Enter first number: 6
All Different.
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Write a program that reads three different floating point numbers from the users and prints the largest of those three:
For example:
First number: 2.36
Second number: 2.99
Third number: 2.78
Largest: 2.99
In: Computer Science
The textbook has developed the Edgeworth box diagram and the concept of the production efficiency locus or contract curve in the context of the production of two goods with two factors. Apply the Edgeworth box apparatus to the context of consumption of two goods by two consumers, and, in particular, explain how welfare for the two consumers as a whole when on the contract curve relates to welfare when the consumers are not on the contract curve.
In: Economics
Intellectual property is work that is originally thought of by an individual and then created by that individual giving him/her the rights to such property. For this week’s discussion question respond to the following prompts:
In: Operations Management
How might Polaris Inc utilize a business-level cooperative strategy to create a competitive advantage?
In: Operations Management
Jiang, F., Jiang, Y., Zhi, H., Dong, Y., Li, H., Ma, S., ... & Wang, Y. (2017). Artificial intelligence in healthcare: past, present and future. Stroke and vascular neurology, 2(4), 230-243.
In: Computer Science