Two important justifications for trading are (execution and liquidity) Why are they important?

On your own words, define different types of Computer Networks and Network Topology and discuss how it work.

Your company just bought $55,000 in goods from your supplier on trade credit terms 1/10 net 45. Your opportunity cost of funds is 12%.

1. On which pay should you pay?
2. If your supplier is now offering a 3% discount if the payment occurs on delivery. Otherwise, you receive net 45 days. What should you do under these terms?

Write a C program that reads an integer value. Assume it is the number of a month of the year; print out the name of that month (Hint: months need to be captured in an array).

1. A microfinance institution is expected to have sustainable programs to enable its customer to access financial services in the long-run. Explain the measures that economies and their financial markets put in place to ensure that the credit delivery system and sustainable?
2. Interest rates are important in the provision of microfinance service. Explain how interest rate influences the provision of microfinance.
3. According to Maria Otera microfinance should be geared towards achieving various objectives. state and explain each of these objectives giving examples.

The ADA has undoubtedly cost money for most employers. Whether they have to remodel their bathrooms, install elevators, widen their hallways, allow work-from home, change shifts, or provide special equipment like ergonomic chairs or expensive computer programs that translate type to speech, the cost is real. Let's talk about whether this is fair. Should private employers be forced to provide these accommodations to disabled employees? This is really a social cost after all, right? Shouldn't the employee be the one who has to provide what it takes to do the job? Or maybe the government? Why should private employers have to bear this cost?

Q3. What factors are used to determine a reporting entity’s functional currency? Provide at least oneexample for which a company’s local currency may not be its functional currency.

Q5. Explain the differences between translation and remeasurement.

Compensation Changes at JC Penney

Having been in business for over 100 years, JC Penney has experienced highs and lows in organizational performance. In the past decade the firm has faced a dramatically changing retail

environment from competitors such as Target, Wal-Mart, the Gap, and others. As a result, JC

Penney was increasingly viewed by customers and analysts of the retail industry as lagging in its merchandising strategies.

Even the compensation system at JC Penney was viewed as traditional and paternalistic in nature because it emphasized rewarding employees primarily for their length of service. Also, most promotions were made internally, which created a more static organizational culture. The traditional pay structure at the firm contained many pay grades and was based on job evaluations to establish those grades. Its performance review system emphasized employee tenure and effort to a greater degree than performance results.

To respond to the competitive environment, the firm’s executives decided that JC Penney had to become more dynamic and able to change more quickly. One of the changes identified was that a new compensation system was needed. The restructured compensation system that was developed and implemented focused heavily on market value, using pay survey data that specifically matched job responsibilities. The greatest change was the development of “career bands.” These career bands grouped jobs together based on survey data and job responsibilities and resulted in fewer grades with wider ranges. The career bands represented a broadbanding approach that was based on benchmark jobs for which market pricing data were available. Jobs

for which market data could not be found were analyzed using a job evaluation system.

Use of the career bands was designed to identify career paths for employees throughout the company and to better link compensation to all of the jobs. By having career bands, greater flexibility was provided for employees to be rewarded for both current performance and continuing

career growth. To support this new compensation system, a revised performance management

system was developed. This system used performance goals and measures more closely tied to

business strategies and objectives. Important to implementing the new performance management

system was managerial training. This training was needed so that the managers could use the

new system effectively and to describe to employees the importance of performance and its link to compensation.

Implementation of the new compensation system required extensive communication.

Newsletters were prepared for all managers explaining the new compensation system. Then

departmental and store meetings were held with managers and employees to describe the new system. A number of printed materials and videos discussing the importance of the new compensation plan were prepared and utilized. A final part of communications was to prepare letters for individual employees that informed them about their job band and market pay range.

summarize please

Victor is spending HKD300,000 per year and is quite satisfied with the present living lifestyle and standard. He is now 38 and plans to retire at age 60. He believes he can live up to age 85. He wants to keep 80% of the current living lifestyle and standard after retirement.

Victor would like all the money for retirement to be ready when he retires. He also would like the retirement money for spending in a year to be ready at the beginning of every year. He plans to start saving for the retirement reserve with an equity unit trust fund of 10% annual rate of return. Average expected annual rate of return during his retirement period is 6%. Assume the average long term inflation is 4% p.a.

a. What is the required annual expenditure at the time when Victor retires at age 60?

b. What is the total amount of money required for 25 years after Victor’s retirement? (at the beginning of age 60)

c. How much should Victor save at the beginning of each month from now on until the age of 60 in order to meet the required amount at (c)?

Python Programming Exercise Scenario:

Write a program that asks the user to enter scores the number is based on what the user wants to enter. The program will display a letter grade and associated message for each score, based on the table below, and the average score. The program will not contain any repeated code and have a minimum of two functions besides Main.

Score                Letter Grade             Message

90 – 100                       A                     Excellent work

89 – 80                         B                     Nice job

79 – 70                         C                     Not bad

69 – 60                         D                     Room for improvement

Below 60                      F                      Go back and review

Consider two mutually exclusive projects with the following cash flows:

At a cost of capital of 8%, which project should the company choose? Explain which decision rule you should use in this case.

Write why you wish to obtain a certificate in Translation. min 400 words

Mary is obese. She weighs 380 pounds, and doesn't mind being this way. Because of her weight, her knees are shot, and she needs to walk with a cane or a walker. She's been diagnosed with diabetes, and needs an insulin pump at all times. Her diabetes has effected her eyesight, and she can't read a computer screen unless it's an extra large/ultra high resolution screen. Even with all this help, Mary is till having a tough time with her work. She's unpleasant, bossy, demanding, super-sensitive, and just seems to barely keep her head above water.

Tom sees all the assistance Mary gets from their boss. She gets a closer parking spot. She gets to keep food and drinks at her desk that other employees aren't allowed to have, because she claims it's necessary to maintain her blood sugar. She's frequently late for work, often blaming it on the extra time it takes her to drive since she has to be extra slow and careful because of her eyesight. Tom suffers from depression. Some days he can't even get out of bed. But he does't walk around telling everyone about his condition, and does't want anyone at work to know. But it's making his depression worse to see how well Mary gets treated, while he's on discipline for chronic lateness and failure to get his daily work done.

1. Assume Mary gets fired. She's in an at-wil employment state, and her manager just got tired of having to put up with her attitude and constant neediness. What does Mary have to do in order to prove a prima facie case of disability discrimination? EXPLAIN each element and how it applies to Mary.

2. Does Tom have a prima facie case for disability discrimination? Why? Why not?

Our fourth MobLab Experiment allows us to experience how a well functioning market operates in the "real world" (well, kinda real) with the added wrinkle of government intervention (taxes!)

I would like you to reflect on your MobLab experience back to the concepts covered in Chapter 8 "Application: The Costs of Taxation".

The purpose of this reflection is to demonstrate your ability to link the concepts of supply and demand to a "real world" application in light of government intervention.