Balloons By Sunset (BBS) is considering the purchase of two new hot air balloons so that it can expand its desert sunset tours. Various information about the proposed investment follows:  

Assume straight line depreciation method is used.
  

Required:
Help BBS evaluate this project by calculating each of the following:  

1. Accounting rate of return. (Round your answer to 1 decimal place.)

        

2. Payback period. (Round your answer to 2 decimal places.)

         

3. Net present value (NPV). (Future Value of $1, Present Value of $1, Future Value Annuity of $1, Present Value Annuity of $1.) (Use appropriate factor(s) from the tables provided. Do not round intermediate calculations. Negative amount should be indicated by a minus sign. Round the final answer to nearest whole dollar.)

         

4. Recalculate the NPV assuming BBS's cost of capital is 14 percent. (Future Value of $1, Present Value of $1, Future Value Annuity of $1, Present Value Annuity of $1.) (Use appropriate factor(s) from the tables provided. Do not round intermediate calculations. Negative amount should be indicated by a minus sign. Round the final answer to nearest whole dollar.)

    

1. Why is it important that materials handling be aligned with an organization’s objectives, customers, and products?
2. Please use example to explain what environmentally friendly packaging mean? How should a firm adopt the environmentally friendly packaging strategies?

Answer the following questions about computer operating systems:

1.

Which of the following conditions must exist for deadlock to occur?

Group of answer choices

All of these.

No preemption

Circular wait

Hold and wait

Mutual exclusion

2.

Which of the following is not a method for dealing with deadlock?

Group of answer choices

deadlock prevention

deadlock deletion

deadlock detection and recovery

deadlock avoidance

3.

A state where deadlock might occur is known as a(n) ________________.

Group of answer choices

safe state

dead state

unsafe state

critical state

4.

A resource allocation graph can indicate if deadlock might occur if there is a _______________ in the graph.

Group of answer choices

bear

cycle

detached subgraph

petri net

Sudject: Music. Hello I want to do the piano.

Find and submit ten (10) Web sites related to ONE instrument you'd like to research. You may choose from any of the instruments featured in the course. Examples of valid instruments include (but are not limited to): the oboe, the mezzo-soprano voice, and the guitar.

Your submission must include:

Two sites for each one of the categories listed below

A short paragraph presenting your research in each category

The categories are:

History and/or Manufacturers:
Information about well-known makers and the instrument's history. If you choose the voice as your instrument, concentrate on its history.

Two Famous Performers for your Instrument:
Do not restrict yourself to any particular period or style. For example, if your favorite instrument is guitar, you may choose Eric Clapton and John Williams.

Two Famous composers for your Instrument:
Again, do not restrict yourself to any particular period or style. An example of a relevant web site is the Leonard Bernstein site at the Library of Congress. Did Bernstein write any pieces for your favorite instrument?

Six Repertoire Pieces for your Instrument and their Composers' Names:
What are the most famous pieces written for your chosen instrument? Submit a list of six famous pieces written for the instrument, and two (2) sites that were sources for the information. Here's a site that might help: www.naxos.com.

Two Famous Symphony Orchestras:
Your favorite instrument will likely be part of a traditional symphony orchestra, such as the one you studied in the Orchestral Timbres class. This should not be confused with a piece of music called a symphony, or a concerto, which is a piece of music for a solo instrument and orchestra. I am looking for the performing group. Please submit and comment on two (2) symphony orchestra websites. Even if the instrument you choose is not a regular member of the symphony orchestra, search two symphony orchestra websites and include what you find in your report.

In Euripides Medea, which moments, scenes, and ideas contributed to your understanding of your own culture and the values of your society? In what ways? Be specific

The best IT support technicians are the ones who continually teach themselves new skills. You can teach yourself to use and support Windows by using the web, a couple of apps in Windows 10 called Get Help and Tips, or the Windows Help and Support utility in Windows 8/7. To start the apps in Windows 10, type get help in the search box or type tips in the search box. In Windows 8, type Help and Support on the Start screen. In Windows 7, click Start and then click Help and Support. If you are connected to the Internet, clicking links can take you to the Microsoft website, where you can find information and watch videos about Windows.

Do the following to research a topic so you can become an independent learner about Windows:

1. The Windows 10/8/7 Snipping Tool can help you take screenshots of the Windows desktop. These screenshots are useful when documenting computer problems and solutions. Use Get Help or Windows Help and Support to find out how to use the Snipping Tool. Use it to take a screenshot of your Windows desktop. Save the screenshot into a file on a USB flash drive or on the hard drive. Print the file contents.

2. Access the support.microsoft.com website for Windows support. Save or print one article from the Knowledge Base that addresses a problem when installing Windows 10/8/7.

3. Search the web to learn the purpose of the pagefile.sys file. What website did you use to find your answer? Why is the Microsoft website considered the best source for information about the page file sys file?

Hi,

I am taking MGMT460 and I have a question on an assignment for Work rules ch.6 :

What style of leadership is encouraged at Google (phrase your answer in one of the four styles described in Organizational Design, pages 160 – 166)? Explain (provide at least 3 examples from Work Rules, chapter 6).

Which muscle has the biggest advantage? which one

Brachioradialis

Biceps

Brachialis

In Real Problem 10-1, you installed VirtualBox and created a VM. In this project, you install Ubuntu Desktop, a popular Linux distro (short for distribution). Complete the following steps:

a. Go to ubuntu.com and download the Ubuntu Desktop OS to your hard drive. This is a free download, so you can decline to make any donations. The file that downloads is an ISO file. Ubuntu is a well-known version of Linux that offers both desktop and server editions.

b. Open VirtualBox. Select the VM and click Settings. In the VM’s Settings box, click Storage in the left pane. In the Storage Devices area, to the right of Controller: SATA, click the Adds optical drive icon, which looks like a disc with a green (+) symbol on it, as shown in Figure 10-59.

c. A dialog box appears. Click Choose Disk. Browse to the location of the ISO file that contains the Ubuntu desktop operating system setup files. Select the ISO file, click Open and then click OK. You will return to the Oracle VM VirtualBox Manager window.

d. With the VM selected, click Start on the toolbar. Your VM starts up and begins the process of installing the operating system. Click Install Ubuntu. Follow the prompts and accept all default settings. If given the option, don’t install any extra software bundled with the OS. You’ll need to restart the VM when the installation is finished. When prompted to remove the installation media, press Enter because the ISO file was automatically removed already.

e. In the welcome windows, read about Ubuntu and skip the Livepatch setup. Install any OS updates offered. Monitor the update by clicking the Software Updater app in the dock and restart when it’s ready. To verify that you have an Internet connection, open the Mozilla Firefox browser and surf the web.

f. Good IT technicians must know how to use many operating systems. Poke around in the Ubuntu desktop interface to get familiar with it. You can also search the web for tutorials videos on how to use Ubuntu Desktop. How do you open the Settings app to change settings in the OS, such as background-image, notifications, privacy, and network connections?

g. When you’re ready to shut down your VM, click the power icon in the upper-right corner of your screen, click the next power icon and click Power Off in the menu that appears. As with physical computers, it’s important to properly shut down the VM correctly to prevent the corruption of its OS and other files.

The cylinder in the figure(Figure 1) has a moveable piston attached to a spring. The cylinder's cross-section area is 10 cm2, it contains 0.0040mol of gas, and the spring constant is 1500 N/m. At 19 degreesC the spring is neither compressed nor stretched.

How far is the spring compressed if the gas temperature is raised to 200 degrees C ?

N/B: THE PROGRAMME SHOULD BE WRITTEN IN JAVA LANGUAGE

CS 202

Part 1.
   Create a class called Loan.  An instance of the class can be used to calculate
   information about a bank loan.  
   
   The class should have the following methods:
   
   a. A constructor  that is passed the amount being borrowed, the annual interest
      rate and the number of years for repayment.
      
   b. A default constructor that initializes the amount being borrowed, the annual 
      interest rate and the number of years for repayment to 0.
      
   c. "get" methods (accessors) for the loan amount, the annual interest rate and the 
       number of years for repayment.
   
   d. "set" methods (mutators) for the loan amount, the annual interest rate and the 
      number of years for repayment.
   
   e. A method that calculates and returns the amount of the monthly payment for
      the loan.
      The monthly payment on a loan can be calculated using the following formula:


                             loanAmount * R
      monthly payment =     --------------------
                                        -N
                           1 -  (1 + R )
                        
      R = monthly rate of interest for the loan
      N = number of months to repay the loan
      
   
   
   f. A method that returns the sum of all payments needed to repay the loan.
   
   g. A method that returns the sum of all interest paid on the loan.
   
   
Part 2.   
   Write an application that tests the Loan class.  The program should allow the user to
   create a loan, enter information about the loan and make changes to the amount of
   the loan, the interest rate, and the number of years to repay the loan.
   

Discuss the Human Resource functions in any two countries in Europe, or Africa, or Asia, or South America.

Can someone please describe the relationship between f-value/ratio, p-value, and alpha value (0.05) in the ANOVA and provide a good example

Associations between Quantitative, Qualitative Job Insecurity and Well-being

Research questions

De Witte et al. (2010) investigated the association of employee’s perception of quantitative and qualitative job insecurity with job satisfaction, and psychological distress in the Belgium banking sector.

Job insecurity is defined as the employees’ concerns about their work-related future. There are two kinds of job insecurities, the quantitative job insecurity and the qualitative job insecurity. The quantitative job insecurity is about the threat to the continuation of the job in the future. The qualitative job insecurity is about threat to the various valued aspects of the job, such as job content or working conditions.

Data collection and respondents

In total, there were 69,000 employees working in the 63 Belgian banks affiliated to the sector’s joint industrial committee in 2001. As questioning all employees would be too expensive, the researchers decided to survey a sample of 15,000 employees (roughly 21%).

All the 63 banks participated in the survey. About 21% of employees in each bank were invited to participate in the survey. Within each bank, the respondents were selected at random with no particular quota for gender, age or employee level. The survey was based on addresses which had been provided by the banks (name, language, address) and each randomly selected employee received a personalized envelope through regular mail, sent to him/her by the employer. The completed questionnaire needed to be returned (free of charge) through the internal post within each bank. The researchers travelled to each bank to collect the completed survey.

The sample was representative for employees in the banking sector, however, not for the total working population. More men (58.5 percent) than women (41.5 percent) participated. About two in three respondents were between 35 and 44 years old or between 45 and 54 years old, while about one in four was between 25 and 34 years old. Only a minority (4 percent) was younger than 24 or older than 55. Most respondents had an education beyond high school (63.9 percent), had partners with an income and children (72.4 percent), and worked full-time (85 percent). There were about as many white-collar workers (54.4 percent) as executives (45.6 percent).

Measures

Quantitative job insecurity was measured with four items developed by De Witte (2000) on a scale from 1 (strongly disagree) to 4 (strongly agree). Sample items were “I feel insecure about the future of my job”’ and “I am sure that I will be able to keep my job” (reverse coded). Reliability (Cronbach’s alpha) equalled .89.

Qualitative job insecurity was measured with ten items from the 17 item measure that was originally proposed by Ashford, Lee, and Bobko (1989). These job features concerned four broad dimensions previously distinguished to describe the various characteristics of a job: job content (autonomy, skill utilization, and specific tasks), working conditions (workload and quality of working conditions), employment conditions (wage, working hours, and opportunities for promotion), and social relations at work (relations with colleagues and supervisors, respectively). Respondents had to indicate whether each of the job features would likely improve or deteriorate in the near future (1 = strongly deteriorate; 5 = strongly improve). We recoded the items so that a high score reflected qualitative job insecurity. Cronbach’s alpha equalled .87.

Job satisfaction was measured with one item: “Overall, how satisfied are you with your current job?” (1 = very dissatisfied; 5 = very satisfied).

Psychological distress was measured with the 12-item version of the General Health Questionnaire (Goldberg, 1978). A sample item was “Have you recently lost much sleep over worry?” Responses varied from 1 (“less than usual”) to 4 (“much more than usual“). Reliability (Cronbach’s alpha) was .89.

Control variables. The following social demographics and work-related factors were included: gender (0 = men; 1 = women), age (1 = 18–24; 2 = 25–34; 3 = 35–44; 4 = 45–54; 5 = 55+), education (0 = no education beyond high school; 1 = education beyond high school), extra income (0 = no partner with extra income; 1 = partner with extra income), children (0 = no children; 1 = children), occupational position (0 = white-collar worker; 1 = executive), working hours (0 = part-time; 1 = full-time). The demographics were used as control variables in data analysis.

Instructions for answering the questions

Use at least four academic sources in English to answer the questions. The sources can be books or peer reviewed journal articles or a combination of both books and peer reviewed journal articles. The academic sources as well as responding to the questions will be around 2000 words in total.

Q1: Sample size

The sample size for this study is fifteen thousand employees selected from a total of 69,000 bank employees (about 21% of the employees). Is a sample of this size necessary? Give your reasons.

Q2: Sampling method

What is the current method of sampling? What are the advantages and disadvantages of the current sampling method?

Q3: Measures of variables

Give your comments on the reliability and validity of measures of the variables.

Q4: Collection of data on social demographics

The purpose of this research is to find the associations between quantitative and qualitative job insecurity and well-being. However, data on variables such as gender, age, education level, extra income were also collected. What is the purpose of collecting data on variables such as gender, age, educational level etc.?

Q5: Research design

What research design is used for current research? What are the positive and negative side of the current research design?

References

Ashford, S. J., Lee, C., & Bobko, P. (1989). CONTENT, CAUSE, AND CONSEQUENCES OF JOB INSECURITY: A THEORY-BASED MEASURE AND SUBSTANTIVE TEST. Academy of Management Journal, 32(4), 803-829. doi:10.2307/256569

De Witte, H. (2000). Arbeidsethos en jobonzekerheid: meting en gevolgen voor welzijn, tevredenheid en inzet op het werk (Work Ethic and Job Insecurity: Measurement and Consequences for Well-Being, Satisfaction, and Performance at Work). In van groep naar gemeenschap, ed. R. Bouwen, K. De Witte, H. De Witte, and T. Taillieu, 325–350. Leuven: Garant. Goldberg, D. P. (1978). Manual of the General Health Questionnaire. Windsor, UK: NFER-Nelson.

De Witte, H., De Cuyper, N., Handaja, Y., Sverke, M., Näswall, K., & Hellgren, J. (2010). Associations between quantitative and qualitative job insecurity and well-being: A test in Belgian banks. International Studies of Management & Organization, 40(1), 40-56. doi:10.2753/IMO0020-8825400103

G Force Manufacturing Company had net income of $300,000 in 2017 when the number of units produced and sold was 6000 and data for variable and fixed costs were as follows:

Cost Schedule

Variable Costs:          Direct Material                                           $35

                                    Direct Labour                                           $30

                                Variable Manufacturing Overhead                   $15

Fixed Costs:             Manufacturing Overhead                                  $232,000

                                    Advertising                                                      33,000

                                    Administrative                                                  155,000

Required:

1. Compute the selling price per unit in 2017, using the equation method.

2. Using the sales price per unit calculated in (i), prepare a contribution margin income statement for the year ended December 31, 2017, detailing the components of total fixed costs and clearly showing contribution and net income.

3. Calculate G-Force’s break-even point in units and in dollars.

4. Calculate the margin of safety in number of units and sales dollars.

5. Using the production/sales of 6,000 units, conduct a breakdown chart for G-Force Manufacturing Company, clearly showing the break-even point and the margin of safety in units and dollars and the region representing profits and losses. (Use a scale of 2 cm to represent 1,000 units on the x-axis and 2 cm to represent $200,000 on the y-axis).

6. The president of G-Force Manufacturing is under pressure from stockholders to increase operating income by 10% in 2018. Management expects per unit data and total fixed costs to remain the same in 2018. Compute the number of units that must be sold in 2018 to reach the shareholders’ desired profit level. Is this a realistic goal?

7. Assume that G-Force Manufacturing sells the same number of units in 2018 as it did in 2017. Assuming unit variable costs and total fixed costs remain unchanged, what would the new selling price have to be in order to reach the stockholders desired profit level?