What are the major risks to investors when investing in bonds?

Explain with examples.

5. You’re competing in the rock paper scissors international tournament. Use the following information to determine whether your semifinal opponent over-represents certain choices (?=0.05). Show all relevant values behind your decision.

6. 	Frequency
   Rock	85
   Paper	110
   Scissors	105
   Total	300

Familiarize yourself with the following terms and concepts discussed this week in preparation for completion of this assignment: market capitalization, economic value created, sustainable strategy, business-level strategy, differentiation strategy, strategy canvas.

Create a 700 to 1,050-word entry in your strategic management research journal. You will use information from this entry in your presentation due in Week 5. Respond to the following prompts in your journal entry:

• Describe the role of strategic planning in achieving a competitive advantage.  
• Assess Caterpillar Inc. to determine whether their top focus is accounting profitability, shareholder value creation, or economic value creation.
• Assess whether Caterpillar Inc. leverages the appropriate value and cost drivers for their business strategy.
• Analyze the strengths and weaknesses of Caterpillar Inc’s competitive advantages.
• Evaluate the influence of ethics, social responsibility, and legal considerations on strategic planning.  
• Discuss the value of corporate social responsibility (CSR), and determine if Caterpillar Inc.’s CSR meets those values.
• Analyze the role of ethics and social responsibility in developing Caterpillar Inc.’s strategic plan while considering stakeholder needs and agenda.

Raymond opened the Muscles Fitness Gym in August. The Following transactions occurred during the first month of the business:

a) Raymond invested P100,000 in cash and 30,000 in gym equipment in the business.

b) Paid P10,000 for the first month’s rent.

c) Purchased supplies costing P4,000 on credit.

d) Purchased exercise equipment costing P25,000 for 15,000 cash and the rest on account.

e) Recorded income for the first half of the month of P6,500 in cash and P3,500 on account.

f) Paid P2,750 to a creditor on account.

g) Received payment from a customer on account for P1600.

h) Raymond withdrew P500 for a graduation gift.

i) Paid aerobics instructor her salary, P3,000.

j) Paid miscellaneous expense P1,500

k) Recorded income for the second half of the month of P5,600 in cash.

Prepare a new accounting equation every time a transaction occurs.

Kozlov Corporation has provided the following data from its activity-based costing system:

The company makes 440 units of product A21W a year, requiring a total of 820 machine-hours, 50 orders, and 20 inspection-hours per year. The product's direct materials cost is $35.32 per unit and its direct labor cost is $29.32 per unit. According to the activity-based costing system, the average cost of product A21W is closest to:

$97.38 per unit.

$68.14 per unit.

$64.64 per unit.

$95.76 per unit.

$52.25 per unit.

Explain why there is the optimized bandgap for single-junction photovoltaic cell, in which the cell efficiency initially increases as a function of bandgap, reaches a peak at certain value of bandgap, and then decreases as bandgap further increases.

Explain difference between superstrate and substrate configuration in thin-film photovoltaic cells.

Cost of Production and Journal Entries

Lighthouse Paper Company manufactures newsprint. The product is manufactured in two departments, Papermaking and Converting. Pulp is first placed into a vessel at the beginning of papermaking production. The following information concerns production in the Papermaking Department for March.

a1. Prepare the March journal entry for the Papermaking Department for the materials charged to production.

a2. Prepare the March journal entry for the Papermaking Department for the conversion costs charged to production. If an amount box does not require an entry, leave it blank.

a3. Prepare the March journal entry for the Papermaking Department for the completed production transferred to the Converting Department. If required, round your interim calculations to two decimal places and your final answer to the nearest dollar.

b. Determine the Work in Process—Papermaking Department March 31 balance. If required, round your interim calculations to two decimal places and your final answer to the nearest dollar.
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The stock of Business Adventure currently sells for $40 per share. Its dividend payment and its year-end price depend on the state of the economy as follows:

Dividend Stock Price

Boom $2.00 $50

Normal Economy 1.00 43

Recession 0.50 34

Assume the three states of the economy is equally likely to happen.

Expected Return of the stock this year is: 8.75%

Standard Deviation of the stock return for this year is: 17.91%

Risk premium of business adventures stock is 4.75%

Sharpe Ratio is: 0.266

You’d like to form a portfolio, which consists 60% of the Business Adventure’s stock and 40% of the Treasury bill. Calculate the expected return of such a portfolio and the standard deviation of such a portfolio.

double calculateCost (char, int, int) with Drjava
calculateCost will compute and return the cost of the vacation It will take as input 3 pieces of information. First, a char representing the type of room being rented (‘d’ double, ‘k’ kingsize, ‘p’ for penthouse). The second input is an int representing the number of days they will stay, the last input is an int representing the number of people staying.
To compute the cost of the stay we start with a base price, determined by the type of the room. Daily fee for the room: $15 for double, $20 for king size, $30 for penthouse. Only two people per room, add a $20 flat fee for each extra person for a folding bed.
If they stay more than 7 days there is a 10% discount, more than 14 days a 15% discount and more than 21 days a 20% discount.
Example: Ted, who is 23, is renting a penthouse for 12 days for a party with 5 of his best buds. He owes $30*12days + $20*3 extra people for the folding beds and he gets a discount of 10% because he is staying more than 7 days.

The total would be $360 + $60 is the total fee of $420
The discount is 10% so $42
The amount to pay is $420 - $42 is $378

The iodination of acetone, CH3COCH3, in aqueous solution is catalyzed by the hydrogen ion H+:

I2+CH3COCH3H+?HI+CH3COCH2I

The reaction can be followed visually by adding starch. The purple starch-iodine complex forms immediately, then disappears when the iodine has been consumed. The kinetics of the reaction may be determined by recording the time required for the color to disappear, which is the time required for the iodine, I2, to be consumed.

The following data were acquired in an iodination experiment involving acetone. All reaction times are in terms of the rate of disappearance of I2.

part A

In the general rate law

rate=k[I2]^X[H+]^Y[CH3COCH3]^Z

what are the values of X, Y, and Z?

Discuss and elaborate On each  benefits of budgeting in regard to banks

*Defining objectives

*Planning

*Organizing

*Controlling

*Co- ordinating

*Communicating

*Motivating

The produce manger at the local grocery store must determine how many pounds of bananas to order weekly. Based upon past experience, the demand for bananas is expected to be 100,150, 200, or 250 pounds with the following probabilities: 100lbs 0.20; 150lbs 0.25; 200lbs 0.35, 250lbs 0.20. The bananas cost the store $.45 per pound and are sold for $.085 per pound. Any unsold bananas at the end of each week are sold to a local zoo for $.30 per pound. Use your knowledge of decision analysis to model and solve this problem in order to recommend how many pounds of bananas the manager should order each week.

Please use Excel Spreadsheet and use EMV. Thank you!!

Why do you think it is important to communicate to employees who

survived a company wide Layoff and what do you think is the most

important thing to communicate to surviving employees?

please answer my question...

Write a template class that implements an extended
queue (use Linked List).
Ex:
ExtendedQueue<int> int_queue;
ExtendedQueue<double> double_queue;
ExtendedQueue<char> char_queue;
–Write a program to test this template class in c++.
the details of the ExtendedQueue:
insert
delete
front
rear
queue size.
the output will be:
Inserting 2
Inserting 4
Inserting 6
Front element is: 2
Removing 2
Inserting 8
Queue size is 3
Removing 4
Removing 6
Removing 8
Queue Is Empty

What is the significance of “risk premium” to investors in selecting their investment portfolios and how does asset diversification affect market risk in an asset portfolio?

Explain each with examples.