what strategic actions will you recommend to your organization (smartone) to take up this business opportunity or solve the problem? Justify your choices and make assumptions when necessary. What strategic actions will you recommend? (e.g., who are the target customers? What are the selling points? What is the business-level strategy? What is the corporate-level strategy? What is the international-level strategy? How can the existing problem be solved?)

Please can someone explain briefly or with example the following:

Class affects more than our lifestyle. It impacts physical & metal well-being. How so?

How do class differences have a significant impact on how we live?

do we expect to get a quick response after posting videos and pictures? Stuart feldman said that our expectations for the systems we use have shifted, like demanding faster communication. are we disappointed when we donot get an immediate feedback

Classify the following costs as Direct or Indirect costs.

The foreman’s salary

Supplies

Depreciation of factory equipment

Leather used in the manufacture of shoes

Lubricants for machines

Fringe benefits (an extra benefit supplementing an employee's salary)

Wood in making furniture

Glue in tube making

FICA tax

Janitorial supplies

Classify the following costs as Variable or Fixed in terms of their behavior with respect to volume or level of activity.

Property taxes

Sales agent’s salary

Direct materials

Insurance

Depreciation

Sales agent’s commission

Rent

Classify the following costs as either Manufacturing, Selling, or Administrative expenses in terms of their functions.

Factory supplies

Shipping

Advertising

Employer’s payroll taxes - factory

Employer’s payroll taxes - sales office

Auditing expenses

Rent on general office building

President’s salary

Legal expenses

Samples

Small tools

Sanding materials used in furniture making

Cost of machine breakdown

Classify the following costs as Product Costs or Period Expenses.

                           [ Select ]                       ["Product", "Period", "", ""]          Pears in a fruit cocktail

                           [ Select ]                       ["Product", "Period"]          Fringe benefits - general office

                           [ Select ]                       ["Product", "Period"]         Workers’ compensation

                           [ Select ]                       ["Product", "Period"]         Legal fees

                           [ Select ]                       ["Product", "Period"]         Social Security taxes-direct labor

                           [ Select ]                       ["Product", "Period"]         Insurance on office equipment

                           [ Select ]                       ["Product", "Period"]          Travel expenses

                           [ Select ]                       ["Product", "Period"]         Advertising expenses

                           [ Select ]                       ["Product", "Period"]         Rework on defective products

1.How do we recognize a correctly stated standardized regression equation?

2.After scores have been standardized, the value of the Y intercept will always be what?

3.What does the coefficient of multiple determination show?

4.Under what condition could the coefficient of multiple determination be lower than the zero order correlation coefficients?

5.What is the coefficient of multiple determination with two independent variables?

The Neal Company wants to estimate next year's return on equity (ROE) under different financial leverage ratios. Neal's total capital is $12 million, it currently uses only common equity, it has no future plans to use preferred stock in its capital structure, and its federal-plus-state tax rate is 25%. The CFO has estimated next year's EBIT for three possible states of the world: $4.9 million with a 0.2 probability, $2.9 million with a 0.5 probability, and $700,000 with a 0.3 probability. Calculate Neal's expected ROE, standard deviation, and coefficient of variation for each of the following debt-to-capital ratios. Do not round intermediate calculations. Round your answers to two decimal places.

Debt/Capital ratio is 50%, interest rate is 11%.

Debt/Capital ratio is 60%, interest rate is 14%.

4.60 mol of solid A was placed in a sealed 1.00-L container and allowed to decompose into gaseous B and C. The concentration of B steadily increased until it reached 1.20 M, where it remained constant.

A (s) <---> B (g) + C (g)

Then, the container volume was doubled and equilibrium was re-established. How many moles of A remain?

Please break down the steps so I can see how to solve. Thank you!

Now that the position, Administrative Assistant, has been created, you’ve taken the opportunity to create a PowerPoint presentation to train new supervisors on how to conduct performance evaluations.

Whether you use an annual evaluation, real-time feedback, or quarterly evaluations, it is important that new supervisors understand:

• the rationale for a performance evaluation in general,
• the rationale for the specific one in use,
• the instrument used, and
• the process for the evaluation.

The PowerPoint presentation should be a minimum of 10 slides with graphics and Notes Pages.

One of the positions the new supervisors will be conducting performance evaluations on is the job.

• You must include the Notes Pages. This is where you explain in detail the thoughts you want to convey in each slide, only in more depth.
• Visually appealing: graphics (required) should be appropriate for the environment and audience. Text should be visible from 18 feet away (generally considered 18 pt. font or larger).

A manufacturing process produces piston rings, with ID (inner diameter) dimension as shown above.
Process variation causes the ID to be normally distributed, with a mean of 10.021 cm and a standard
deviation of 0.040 cm.
a. What percentage of piston rings will have ID exceeding 10.075 cm? What percentage of piston rings
will have ID exceeding 10.080 cm? (4)

b. What is the probability that a piston ring will have ID between 9.970 cm and 10.030 cm? (This is the
customer’s specification that the supplier tries to provide .)
(ie.) If the specification is “9.970cm < ID < 10.030cm”, what %’age of piston rings are “out of spec”? (4)

c. Half (50%) of all piston rings have ID below 10.021 cm. What is the dimension corresponding to
the smallest 10%, and what is the dimension corresponding to the largest 10%? What is the
dimension corresponding to the smallest 20%, and what is the dimension corresponding to the
largest 20%

d. Piston rings with ID too small or too large have different problems that the assembly operation
(customer) would like to know about in advance.
From your results in b., how many parts in a production run of 5000 pieces would be above
specification? How many parts would be below specification?

Parts with large ID out-of-specification are charged back to the vendor at $2.00 each. Parts with
small ID out of specification are charged back at $1.25 each. What is the total expected penalty
cost (for the vendor) for the 5000 pieces?

Management of Baldwin Equipment Inc. is considering increasing the productivity of its plant. Management heard from suppliers that a certain piece of equipment could have an after-tax cash flow savings of more than $35,000 a year if it was installed in Baldwin’s plant. However, Jim Henderson, the controller of the company, is unsure whether the company should buy or lease the equipment. If the asset is leased for a 10-year period, it would cost the company $45,000 a year (before tax). The company’s income tax rate is 50%. If the company buys the asset, it would cost $300,000 and be financed entirely through debt for 10 years at a cost of 10%.The asset’s capital cost allowance is 25% (declining basis). On the basis of this information, Jim is now considering whether to purchase or lease the equipment. He is consid- ering doing a sensitivity analysis regarding the two options by modifying some of the data in the information presented above.

Question On the basis of the following, calculate the effect that each individual change would have on the decision.

Changes to the base case (the information given above) are as follows: • • • Capital cost allowance would be increased to 40%. The interest on the loan would be 8%. The company would be able to sell the asset for $50,000 in the tenth year.

You are trying to pick the least-expensive machine for your company. You have two choices: machine A, which will cost $100,000 to purchase and which will have operating cash flows of −$7,000 annually throughout the machine's expected life of three years; and machine B, which will cost $125,000 to purchase and which will have operating cash flows of −$2,600 annually throughout that machine's four-year life. Both machines will be worthless at the end of their life. If you intend to replace whichever type of machine you choose with the same thing when its life runs out, again and again out into the foreseeable future, and if your business has a cost of capital of 15 percent, answer the following 3 questions (for any question requiring an answer in dollars, show your answer in the rounded to the nearest dollar amount i.e. $123,456):

What is the EAC for machine A? ________

What is the EAC for machine B? _________

Which machine (A or B) should be chosen strictly based on this analysis? ________

Explain the different meanings associated with homeland security.

Problem 16-7 Multiple differences; calculate taxable income; balance sheet classification [LO16-4, 16-6, 16-8]

Sherrod, Inc., reported pretax accounting income of $90 million for 2018. The following information relates to differences between pretax accounting income and taxable income:

1. Income from installment sales of properties included in pretax accounting income in 2018 exceeded that reported for tax purposes by $3 million. The installment receivable account at year-end had a balance of $4 million (representing portions of 2017 and 2018 installment sales), expected to be collected equally in 2019 and 2020.
2. Sherrod was assessed a penalty of $2 million by the Environmental Protection Agency for violation of a federal law in 2018. The fine is to be paid in equal amounts in 2018 and 2019.
3. Sherrod rents its operating facilities but owns one asset acquired in 2017 at a cost of $100 million. Depreciation is reported by the straight-line method assuming a four-year useful life. On the tax return, deductions for depreciation will be more than straight-line depreciation the first two years but less than straight-line depreciation the next two years ($ in millions):

4. Warranty expense of $5 million is reported in 2018. For tax purposes, the expense is deducted when costs are incurred, $3 million in 2018. At December 31, 2018, the warranty liability was $3 million (after adjusting entries). The balance was $1 million at the end of 2017.
5. In 2018, Sherrod accrued an expense and related liability for estimated paid future absences of $10 million relating to the company’s new paid vacation program. Future compensation will be deductible on the tax return when actually paid during the next two years ($7 million in 2019; $3 million in 2020).
6. During 2017, accounting income included an estimated loss of $4 million from having accrued a loss contingency. The loss is paid in 2018 at which time it is tax deductible.

Balances in the deferred tax asset and deferred tax liability accounts at January 1, 2018, were $2.0 million and $3.6 million, respectively. The enacted tax rate is 40% each year.

Required:
1. Determine the amounts necessary to record income taxes for 2018 and prepare the appropriate journal entry.
2. What is the 2018 net income?
3. Show how any deferred tax amounts should be classified and reported in the 2018 balance sheet.

Retaking the SAT: Many high school students take the SAT's twice; once in their Junior year and once in their Senior year. In a sample of 50 such students, the score on the second try was, on average, 28 points above the first try with a standard deviation of 13 points. Test the claim that retaking the SAT increases the score on average by more than 25 points. Test this claim at the 0.01 significance level.

(a) The claim is that the mean difference is greater than 25 (μ_d > 25), what type of test is this?

This is a two-tailed test.

This is a right-tailed test.    

This is a left-tailed test.

(b) What is the test statistic? Round your answer to 2 decimal places.
t-<sub>d= ?

(c) Use software to get the P-value of the test statistic. Round to 4 decimal places.
P-value = ?

(d) What is the conclusion regarding the null hypothesis?</sub>

reject H₀

fail to reject H₀    

(e) Choose the appropriate concluding statement.

The data supports the claim that retaking the SAT increases the score on average by more than 25 points.

There is not enough data to support the claim that retaking the SAT increases the score on average by more than 25 points.    

We reject the claim that retaking the SAT increases the score on average by more than 25 points.

We have proven that retaking the SAT increases the score on average by more than 25 points.