Use the following project information:

(a) Calculate the expected completion time for this project.

(Round your answer to 2 decimal places, the tolerance is +/-0.01.)

Project completion time = weeks.

(b) Identify the activities included on the critical path of this project.

(If there are several critical paths enter the first one from the alphabetical order.)

Critical activities:

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The Federal Reserve decides to sell $50 million in government debt to households paying with checkable deposits. The current reserve requirement is 5%.

a. The Fed decision will lead to [more  fewer  the same ] reserves in the banking system and [ more  less  the same ] money in circulation.

b. The money supply will [increase  decrease  remain the same] by a maximum of [$  million.]

When the Supreme Court interprets the Constitution, it relies on “governmental justification.” There is a tiered standard of review framework for equal protection jurisprudence. Describe three standards involved in this review.

Discuss 3 risks and 3 benefits of cloud-based computing especially as it relates to the expenditure cycle of an organization.

You have recently accepted a position as Human Resource Director for Jupiter Industries, a multi-national organization operating across 5 business segments, specifically, industrial valves and controls, plastics, fire suppression equipment, electronic components, and specialized medical products. Jupiter Industries has established worldwide headquarters in Bremen, Germany, and has groups located in the Americas, Europe, Asia and Pacific Rim countries. The MENA group is the most recently formed division within the Jupiter organization, and is composed of various concentric businesses that fit into one of the five organizational business segments, all of which have been acquired over the past two years in both the Middle East region (Saudi Arabia, UAE, Oman, Bahrain, and Jordan) as well as North Africa (Egypt, Morocco, Tunisia, and Algeria). You will be working at the MENA headquarters located in Manama, Bahrain and will be responsible for all divisions located in the MENA (Middle East, North Africa) region. You will report directly to the VP of Operations in Manama, with dotted-line reporting responsibility to Chief Human Resources Officer (CHRO) in Bremen.

Specifically, you are being tasked with establishing Human Resource policy and practice in regard to strategic collaboration with divisional heads, utilizing HRIS systems in addressing areas such as recruitment and retention, training and development, performance management programs, compensation management, employee benefit programs and employee relations, including motivational programs, incentive programs, and disciplinary procedures. You will be working on policies and procedures that can be utilized throughout the region, to bring some semblance of order and uniformity in dealing with strategic HR employee programs.

After a thoughtful review of current HR programs for the region, you will prepare a report for the VP of Operations and CHRO and distribute to all division heads, formulating your HR strategic goals across all HR areas of responsibility, highlighting recommendations for improving the overall impact of these programs on talent management initiatives including attraction and retention of top talent and the methodologies used to do so.

What role do line managers play in this rolprocess? Why are coaching skills a necessary asset for line managers? How does coaching influence employee motivation and job performance?

One of your first assignments will be to address high turnover among new hires employed for less than 120 days. This is a constant source of frustration for both HR and hiring managers. How could an onboarding program help reverse this trend? Describe your plan and explain your anticipated results and outcomes

Does the creative strategy (e.g., the Big Idea) contribute to campaign legs? If so, how? How about the media strategy? Which one is more important, do you think?

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How will you implement formative assessment in your classroom to support the Common Core State Standards and the ongoing, formative assessment of ELL students?

Question (a): Prior to liquidating their partnership, Perkins and Brooks had capital accounts of $46,000 and $74,000, respectively. Prior to liquidation, the partnership had no cash assets other than what was realized from the sale of assets. These partnership assets were sold for $144,000. The partnership had $5,000 of liabilities. Perkins and Brooks share income and losses equally. Determine the amount received by Brooks as a final distribution from liquidation of the partnership.

Question (b): Steve Conyers and Chelsy Poodle formed a partnership, dividing income as follows: Annual salary allowance to Poodle of $170,500. Interest of 6% on each partner's capital balance on January 1. Any remaining net income divided to Conyers and Poodle, 1:2. Conyers and Poodle had $77,600 and $75,000, respectively, in their January 1 capital balances. Net income for the year was $310,000. How much is distributed to Conyers and Poodle?

Question (c): On January 1, 2016, Valuation Allowance for Available-for-Sale Investments had a zero balance. On December 31, 2016, the cost of the available-for-sale securities was $84,200, and the fair value was $77,810.

The use of list or any other data type not allowed only string and string methods .Hint: Depending on how you plan to solve this problem, accumulator variable initialized as an empty string may help in this question. Write a function called weaveop, that takes a single string parameter (s) and returns a string. This function considers every pair of consecutive characters in s. It returns a string with the letters o and p inserted between every pair of consecutive characters of s, as follows. If the first character in the pair is uppercase, it inserts an uppercase O. If however, it is lowercase, it inserts the lowercase o. If the second character is uppercase, it inserts an uppercase P. If however, it is lowercase, it inserts the lowercase p. If at least one of the character is not a letter in the alphabet, it does not insert anything between that pair. Finally, if s has one or less characters, the function returns the same string as s. Do dir(str) and check out methods isalpha (by typing help(str.isalpha) in Python shell), and isupper

>>> weaveop("aa") 'aopa'

>>> weaveop("aB") 'aoPB'

>>> weaveop("ooo") 'oopoopo'

>>> weaveop("ax1") 'aopx1'

>>> weaveop("abcdef22") 'aopbopcopdopeopf22'

>>> weaveop("abcdef22x") 'aopbopcopdopeopf22x'

>>> weaveop("aBCdef22x") 'aoPBOPCOpdopeopf22x'

>>> weaveop("x") 'x'

>>> weaveop("123456") '123456'

According to the EEOC lawsuit, a 64-year-old, qualified applicant was referred by a staffing agency for a vacant position with United Precision. During the interview with United Precision, the company's plant superintendent then asked the applicant his age and date of high school graduation, which the applicant reluctantly supplied. The superintendent also asked for and received the applicant's driver's license and twice commented about how good he looked for his age. United Precision rejected the applicant for the position, claiming the superintendent believed the applicant lacked the commitment to work long-term. When the staffing agency sent an email reassuring the superintendent the applicant intended to work for at least another 10 years, the superintendent did not respond.

Such alleged conduct violates the Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967 (ADEA), which protects individuals who are 40 years of age or older from employment discrimination based on age. The EEOC filed suit (Case No. 2:20-cv-10930 in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan) after first attempting to reach a pre-litigation settlement through its voluntary conciliation process.

The EEOC is seeking injunctive relief prohibiting the employer from discriminating against applicants based on age, as well as monetary relief, including backpay and liquidated damages, and other relief for the applicant.

"Refusing to hire an applicant because of age is a textbook violation of the ADEA," said Dale Price, trial attorney for the Detroit Field Office. "The EEOC is pursuing this matter because federal law provides specific protections to members of our workforce who are age 40 or older."

The Detroit Field Office is part of the Indianapolis District Office, which oversees Michigan, Indiana, Kentucky, and parts of Ohio. The EEOC is responsible for enforcing federal laws prohibiting employment dis­crim­ination.

Summarize the issue(s) presented in the case, identify the relevant EEO laws, and explain why the court ruled as it did. How could the company have prevented this lawsuit in the first place?

relate Decision Concept to those below;
1. Democratic
2. Authoritative
3. Authoritarian

Derek and Meagan Jacoby recently graduated from State University and Derek accepted a job in business consulting while Meagan accepted a job in computer programming. Meagan inherited $75,000 from her grandfather who recently passed away. The couple is debating whether they should buy or rent a home. They located a rental home that meets their needs. The monthly rent is $2,250. They also found a three-bedroom home that would cost $475,000 to purchase. The Jacobys could use Meagan’s inheritance for a down payment on the home. Thus, they would need to borrow $400,000 to acquire the home. They have the option of paying 2 discount points to receive a fixed interest rate of 4.50 percent on the loan or paying no points and receiving a fixed interest rate of 5.75 percent for a 30-year fixed loan.

Though anything could happen, the couple expects to live in the home for no more than five years before relocating to a different region of the country. Derek and Meagan don’t have any school-related debt, so they will save the $75,000 if they don’t purchase a home. Also, consider the following information:

• The couple’s marginal tax rate is 24 percent.
• Regardless of whether they buy or rent, the couple will itemize their deductions.
• If they buy, the Jacobys would purchase and move into the home on January 1, 2018.
• If they buy the home, the property taxes for the year are $3,600.
• Disregard loan-related fees not mentioned above.
• If the couple does not buy a home, they will put their money into their savings account where they earn 5 percent annual interest.
• Assume that all unstated costs are equal between the buy and rent option.

Required: Help the Jacobys with their decisions by answering the following questions: (Leave no answer blank. Enter zero if applicable.)

a. If the Jacobys decide to rent the home, what is their after-tax cost of the rental for the first year? (include income from the savings account in your analysis.)

b. What is the approximate break-even point in years for paying the points to receive a reduced interest rate? (To simplify this computation, assume the Jacobys will make interest-only payments, and ignore the time value of money.) (Do not round intermediate calculations. Round your final answer to 1 decimal place.)

c. What is the after-tax cost (in interest and property taxes) of living in the home for 2018? Assume that the Jacobys' interest rate is 5.75 percent, they do not pay discount points, they make interest-only payments for the first year, and the value of the home does not change during the year.

d. Assume that on March 1, 2018, the Jacobys sold their home for $525,000, so that Derek and Meagan could accept job opportunities in a different state. The Jacobys used the sale proceeds to (1) pay off the $400,000 principal of the mortgage, (2) pay a $10,000 commission to their real estate broker, and (3) make a down payment on a new home in the different state. However, the new home cost only $300,000. Assume they make interest-only payments on the loan.

Required:

1. d1. What gain or loss do the Jacobys realize and recognize on the sale of their home?
2. d2. What amount of taxes must they pay on the gain, if any?

There are different methods you could use for accounting for inventories. In a period where the raw material or merchandise inventory prices are INCREASING, which method would be most appropriate in order to minimize your taxable income

The subsoil at the site consists of a 10 m thick
homogeneous layer of dense sand having the following properties:

Dry unit weight = 16 kN/m3,
Gs = 2.68,
angle of friction = 35 degrees

The natural ground water table lies at 2 m below the ground surface.

Determine the change in shear strength
at 10 m depth (kPa).