Calculate the amount to be paid by the buyer of the 10-year bond 20/05/2008-2018, at a fixed interest rate of 8.60%, with a par value of 500,000,000$, with price at 98.5 on

a) 20/06/2012

b) 20/04/2013

c) 20/07/2013.

What type of incentives can a company offer to its employees? And how do these effect employee recruiting and retention efforts? Do you think these incentives create a more skilled workforce? Why or why not?

Sway's Back Store is considering a project which will require the purchase of $1 million in new equipment. The equipment will be depreciated straight-line to $200,000 over the 5-year life of the project. The first-year sale from this project is estimated at $800,000, then it keeps growing at a 5% rate. The variable cost is always 50% of the annual sales and there is an annual fixed cost of $100,000. Sway's Back Store will sell the equipment at the end of the project at a market value of $240,000. The net working capital for the project equals to 10% of sales across years. All of the net working capital will be recouped at the end of the project. The firm desires a minimal 10% rate of return on this project. The tax rate is 40%. Please calculate the NPV for this project

Describe how organizations use surveys and market pay to set employees' pay and incentives.

A 318 g object is attached to a spring and executes simple harmonic motion with a period of 0.270 s. If the total energy of the system is 6.29 J.

(a) Find the maximum speed of the object. (------m/s ?)

(b) Find the force constant of the spring. (--------N/m ?)

(c) Find the amplitude of the motion. (------- m ?)

This assignment will require you to do outside research. Research a company that you feel provided the best benefits - do NOT use GOOGLE as your example as we have talked about this in class already. This is similar to your last project. In your 1-2 page double spaced paper identify the company and explain in your own words the benefits they provide. In your opinion why are these benefits important to the employee, company, and its customers? Do you feel that all companies should provide the same type of benefits? Why or why not? Do you think that companies should only provide the government mandated benefits? Why or why not? Do you think benefits have increase, decreased or stayed the same over the past 20 years? Explain your answer.

Nanticoke Industries had the following operating results for 2018: sales $30,420; cost of goods sold = $20,060; depreciation expense = $5,500; interest expense = $2,940; dividends paid = $1,750. At the beginning of the year, net assets were $17,410, current assets were $5,920, and current liabilities were $3,475. At the end of the year, net fixed assets were $20,960, current assets were $7,390, and current liabilities were $4,050. The tax rate for 2018 was 30 %.

a. What is net income for 2018? (Negative answers should be indicated by a minus sign. Omit $ sign in your response.)

Net income           $

b. What is the operating cash flow for 2018? (Negative answers should be indicated by a minus sign. Omit $ sign in your response.)

Operating cash flow           $

c. What is the cash flow from assets for 2018? (Negative answer should be indicated by a minus sign. Omit $ sign in your response.)

Cash flow from assets           $

d. If no new debt was issued during the year, what is the cash flow to creditors? What is the cash flow to shareholders? (Negative answers should be indicated by a minus sign. Omit $ sign in your response.)

: Please write a MARIE program to calculate 1+2+3+...+100.

Raymond Mining Corporation has 9.2 million shares of common stock outstanding, 360,000 shares of 5% $100 par value preferred stock outstanding, and 157,000 7.50% semiannual bonds outstanding, par value $1,000 each. The common stock currently sells for $40 per share and has a beta of 1.60, the preferred stock currently sells for $96 per share, and the bonds have 15 years to maturity and sell for 111% of par. The market risk premium is 8.0%, T-bills are yielding 5%, and Raymond Mining’s tax is 40%.

a. What is the firm’s market value capital structure? (Enter your answers in whole dollars.)

b. If Raymond Mining is evaluating a new investment project that has the same risk as the firm’s typical project, what rate should the firm use to discount the project’s cash flows? (Do not round intermediate calculations. Enter your answer as a percentage rounded to 3 decimal places.)

Discount rate              %

From the power of six sigma by subir chowdhury

1. What company and division did Joe (the main character) work for?

2. Who is Larry Hogan? What company and division did Larry work for? How does Joe know Larry?

3. Who is Cathy Baker? What did she do that really benefited the company she worked for?
4. Larry said, “The real power of Six Sigma is simple because it combines _________ _________ with _________ _________.

5. According to Larry, what are the two ways to win a football game? What analogy does he make with football and a business?*
6. Larry said, “Six Sigma is a management ______________ focused on _______________ _____________, _______________, and _______________.” “It establishes a measurable status to achieve and embodies a _________________ _________-__________ ____________ to increase ______________ _______________ and dramatically enhance the ______________ _____________.”
7. What is DPMO? How many occur at 3 sigma? At 3.8 sigma, what amount of output is correct?
8. What was Larry’s point when Joe estimated that a burger restaurant on average “screwed up” a dozen hamburgers a day?
9. What are the two most common misconceptions about Six Sigma (according to Larry)?
10. Why does Larry say that focusing on customer retention is at least as important as attracting new customers?

11. Who determines what to do to make customers happier and increase profits?

12. Define each key role in Six Sigma (those with an “^*” should have a substantially greater explanation to clearly convey the role and duties.)
    1. Executive Leadership
    2. Executive Champion
    3. Deployment Champion
    4. Project Champion
    5. Master Black Belt^*
    6. Black Belt^*
    7. Green Belt^*

13. Who are the only people who work full-time on a Six Sigma project?
14. How many projects per year might each Black Belt complete? How much money can be saved doing this?
15. How many weeks of training for a black belt? Is it all at once? What happens during the period of time the black belt is under training that makes the preparation successful?
16. Based upon Larry and Joe’s discussion, define and describe the DEFINE phase of the Six Sigma process. Which of the problems should a business pick to work on?
17. Based upon Larry and Joe’s discussion, define and describe the MEASURE phase of the Six Sigma process. Why is it so important?
18. How does Larry say to measure “capability”? What is CTQ?
19. Based upon Larry and Joe’s discussion, define and describe the ANALYZE phase of the Six Sigma process. What are the two big questions to answer?
20. Based upon Larry and Joe’s discussion, define and describe the IMPROVE phase of the Six Sigma process.
21. Based upon Larry and Joe’s discussion, define and describe the CONTROL phase of the Six Sigma process.
22. Finish Larry’s sentence “Once the plan’s in place, it’s the Master Black Belt’s job to make sure the team _______________________________, ____________________________, and __________________________________.”

23. What was a major quality problem with the pizzas according to the customers? What was the measurement they did to understand the significance of this problem?
24. What about the process caused this problem? (There were multiple things.)
25. Why did management approve the major change suggested by Larry? What about the Six Sigma method was important to obtaining approval?
26. Besides eliminating defective pizzas, what positive benefit did American Pizza receive?

27. What was the next big problem for American Pizza to deal with?
28. How did the customer’s definition of this problem differ from what American Pizza’s definition? What was the measureable difference?
29. What did they do to improve this? How could they afford to spend that amount of money on doing those things?

Describe one other project undertaken by Larry for American Pizza

A large electronics manufacturing firm makes HD televisions for export around the world. The firm is fairly new. This industry is extremely price competitive; building a solid market share quickly is the only path to survival. The company makes a limited number of models so that manufacturing can be standardized. This also keeps quality high, which is a must. All employees work at the main factory, except for a handful of sales teams who have small offices in key cities around the world. Not much changes in the company from month-to-month, except that sales volume is steadily increasing. When designing their organization structure, what choices will support the goals and culture of this organization? Select the five choices that apply.

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Which of the following statements is most correct?

Provide a full paragraph biography on each top/key executive for General Motors (Do not include the CEO) Include pictures if possible. The company website is a good source. Based on the photos and backgrounds, how diverse do you feel the make up of the top executives is? Consider the female/male makeup, the ethnic make up and the different races of board members.

Provide a few strategies companies should consider to better cope with climate change disruptions.