Do you think that business ethics is an oxymoron? Or do you think that ethics has an important role in business? Whichever stance your take, briefly explain the statements “business ethics is an oxymoron” and “ethics has an important role in business”. And then come up with two examples to support one of the two statements. You may make reference to Friedman, Sen, Frank, etc., provide examples.

Write in an essay format

Q1

A- What is a pipelining and the challenging issue of pipelining?

B- What is the difference between SRAM and DRAM? What are the SPD, Parity bit, and ECC?

Why do many organizations have data that cannot be converted to actionable information? What are the hurdles faced by firms that attempt to query transactional databases?

BU IT needs you to analyze the impact of a new project that will cause its cash flows to increase $6,000 over last year’s, and continue to grow at a constant rate of 10% per year for the foreseeable future. The discount rate is 20%. You need to analyze this in three ways.

Calculate the NPV and IRR of this new project based on an initial investment cost of $45,000 and the change in cash flows each year, assuming the growth continues forever.

Find the NPV of this project if the project only generates cash flows for 20 years.

Use an embedded function in Excel to calculate the NPV of the project if the cash flows had zero growth, and the project only generates cash flows for 40 years.

TRUE OR FALSE QUESTIONS

1. The evaluation of requirements for the key activities in the integration effort should consider the amount of knowledge transfer required, the degree of integration necessary, and the speed of the integration necessary
2. In developing a checklist it is critical that a clear response be possible so that a box can be Checked.
3. The checklist developed for evaluation and control should cover all potential aspects of the alliance/merger.
4. Evaluation and control is a discrete activity that occurs only after the firm has implemented its plan.
5. In the integration effort the new blended firm should worry about completing the integration and not worry about written documentation.

Name: __________________________________________

Specifications:

1. Create a class called WordMaker that is passed characters one at a time and assembles them into words.

2. As long as the characters passed to it are letters, it builds a word by placing each character on the end of a string.

3. When a character that is not part of a word (i.e., is not a letter) is encountered, the class signals that the word is complete, and makes a string containing the word available to its client.

4. After encountering a non-letter, it will continue to ignore whitespace passed to it until it encounters a letter, in which case it will signal that a new word is being built.

5. Apostrophes are a special case. Even if they occur within a word (e.g., surrounded on each side by a letter), they should be ignored.

6. The class will have the following public member functions:

public void reset()

Resets the WordMaker so that it is ready to start building a word.

   public void addChar(newChar);

Adds a character to the WordMaker. If it is a letter and

WordMaker is making a word, it adds it to the end of the word. If

it is a letter and WordMaker is not making a word, it erases the

current word, and starts a new word with the letter. If it is not a

letter and WordMaker is making a word, it ends the word (unless

it is an apostrophe, treated specially as described above). If it is not

a letter and WordMaker is not making a word, it is ignored.

             public boolean wordReady()

Returns true if the WordMaker has finished constructing a word,

false otherwise. After a reset, or when the WordMaker is first

constructed, it returns false. When a word has just been completed

(i.e., the first non-letter character has been added), it returns true.

Otherwise it returns false.

   public String getWord()

Returns the word that the WordMaker has created when

WordReady returns true. It should not be called when WordReady

returns false.

7. A test plan should accompany this project.
   1. List a description of the various test cases you will program.
   2. Give each test in your test plan a number.
   3. Annotate each line in the methods with the number of a test case that tests it to verify that your code coverage is complete.
   4. Also annotate your output to make clear what your test plan tests.
   5. The test plan will be assessed based on its thoroughness and clarity.

Problem 11-14 Measures of Internal Business Process Performance [LO11-3]

1. Evaluate the acquisition of Calphalon; does it make sense? (cost-benefit) What capabilities/resources of Newell would help/hinder this acquisition?

2. Evaluate the acquisition of Rubbermaid; does it make sense? (cost-benefit) What resources/capabilities of Newell would help/hinder this acquisition?

3. With the challenges that Newell faces, what should Newell's TMT consider/do regarding their corporate strategy? Or what should they be careful about the acquisition of Calphalon and/or Rubbermaid?

EXPERIMENT #4 – PREPARATION OF o-CHLOROBENZOIC ACID

1. PREPARE A SOLUTION OF CuCl AS FOLLOWS: Dissolve CuSO4∙5H2O (2.34 g) and pure NaCl (0.62 g) in water (8 mL) in a 50 mL Erlenmeyer flask. Warm on a hot plate to dissolve. Add a solution of sodium bisulphite (0.56 g) in water (6 mL) to the hot solution, with constant shaking over a period of about 5 minutes. Cool to room temperature in an ice bath, and decant the supernatant liquid from the colourless CuCl. Wash the precipitate twice by decantation with water containing a little (approximately 1% (v/v) solution) sulphurous acid (HSO3 ‐ + H+ →H2SO3), to prevent oxidation. Dissolve the CuCl in concentrated HCl (4 mL). Stopper the flask and cool in an ice‐salt mixture (0‐5oC) while the diazonium salt is being prepared.

2. PREPARE A DIAZONIUM SALT AS FOLLOWS: In a 125 mL conical flask, dissolve o‐ aminobenzoic acid (anthranilic acid, 0.94 g) in a solution containing conc. HCl (1.4 mL) and water (8.2 mL). Cool the solution to 0 oC. Slowly add a cold solution of NaNO2 (0.46 g) in water (1.6 mL). Do not allow the temperature to rise above 10 oC during this procedure. Add a small amount of urea (a few crystals) to the mixture and cool the resulting solution in an ice bath.

3. PREPARE o-CHLOROBENZOIC ACID AS FOLLOWS: Transfer the cold CuCl solution to a 150 mL beaker. Slowly add, with stirring (use long glass rod), the cold diazonium salt solution to the cold CuCl solution. Watch for foaming. Allow the mixture to stand for 20 minutes at room temperature with frequent stirring. Vacuum filter the precipitated o-chlorobenzoic acid and wash the product with a small amount of cold water.

4. RECRYSTALLIZE AS FOLLOWS: Clean the Buchner funnel and place it along with a 500 mL vacuum flask into the oven at 105 oC. In a 150 mL beaker, add the crude product, a small amount of charcoal, water (~20 mL) and ethanol (~2.6 mL). Heat to a gentle boil, stirring the mixture periodically. When the product has dissolved, quickly filter through the hot Buchner funnel (PRERINSE FILTER PAPER WITH BOILING WATER) in order to remove the charcoal before the o‐chlorobenzoic acid is allowed to 26 crystallize. Allow to cool to room temperature. Vacuum filter the recrystallized product. Dissolve a few crystals of the product in ethanol and spot it on a TLC plate and label it “R”. Likewise dissolve a few crystals of anthranilic acid in ethanol and spot that on a TLC plate as well, labelling it as “SM”. Develop the TLC plate as usual, taking note of the solvent used. Determine the m.p. and percent yield of the dried product next week while doing experiment #5.

If the experiment were to be performed exactly this way, how would one determine the limiting reagent of the reaction for the percent yield calculation? What should be the limiting reagent of this reaction? When I ran this experiment, I was able to form 0.43 g of product.

Thanks for your help!

Alan Smith was the senior manager of a marketing and sales team at a medical devices company. Since his team was all together at a large off-site company event for three days (something rare given their travel schedules), he had pulled them together to discuss an important hire. The team needed to choose someone for a key management role with core responsibilities, such as attracting new business and promoting overall revenue growth.
After sorting through a large pool of applicants, he and several others on the team had narrowed down the field to two well-qualified internal candidates. Smith was now meeting with this team and with his own boss present to decide which of the two to hire. Even though Smith was not the most senior person there, he was clearly the one authorized to make the decision. He had decided at the outset to be in “listening” mode so as not to potentially bias the team toward his viewpoint, but rather to let them speak freely.
The first candidate was Mita Anand, who had excellent performance metrics. She was known to be a broad thinker, very outgoing, and willing to speak her mind.
The second candidate was John Merriweather. He was also a consistently strong performer, and he had a good reputation throughout the company. Culturally, he would be an easy fit with the rest of the team as well, having a similar temperament, interests, and points of view on most matters.
For the first few minutes of the discussion, various team members spoke about their experiences with, and opinions of, one or both candidates. Because both were unambiguously strong performers on the metrics used in their current roles, the discussion was so far confirming the choice of these two as the finalists, but wasn’t moving the needle clearly in the direction of either Anand or Merriweather. Until, that is, Elliott Bowers (a team manager who would be at an equivalent level with the candidate eventually chosen) spoke up.
“I’m surprised no one has mentioned what happened last night, since I know many of you noticed it,” Bowers began. “At the party last night, Mita did that wild group karaoke on stage. I heard she stayed out all night. I just don’t think it’s appropriate for a manager in our industry—let alone a mother—to behave like that.”
“Yes, it was pretty noticeable,” agreed another team member, who then asked, “But there weren’t any clients in the room, were there?”
“No, but I just don’t know if I can really trust her decision-making if that is how she behaves,” Bowers replied.A few others nodded their head in apparent agreement, but no one picked up on Bowers’s thread directly. Instead, the next comment moved back to a question about whose specific background experiences might be more valuable in the managerial role. Although Smith didn’t ask for a straw vote to see where people were at, he sensed that the group had begun to lean toward Merriweather.
After a few more minutes of discussion where nothing particularly differentiating was said, Smith sensed the conversation had reached a point of diminishing return, and thus brought the meeting to a close. He thanked everyone for their contribution, and said he would let them know his decision soon.

Question 4 :

Discuss each of the following:
1. The existence of Gender discrimination in the case.
2. The Glass Ceiling phenomena through focusing on "Why Women Stay Out of the Spotlight at Work".

Lab Objectives

0. Be able to declare a new class
0. Be able to write a constructor
0. Be able to write instance methods that return a value
0. Be able to write instance methods that take arguments
0. Be able to instantiate an object
0. Be able to use calls to instance methods to access and change the state of an object

Introduction

Everyone is familiar with a television. It is the object we are going to create in this lab. First we need a blueprint. All manufacturers have the same basic elements in the televisions they produce as well as many options. We are going to work with a few basic elements that are common to all televisions. Think about a television in general. It has a brand name (i.e. it is made by a specific manufacturer). The television screen has a specific size. It has some basic controls. There is a control to turn the power on and off. There is a control to change the channel. There is also a control for the volume. At any point in time, the television’s state can be described by how these controls are set.

We will write the television class. Each object that is created from the television class must be able to hold information about that instance of a television in fields. So a television object will have the following attributes:

0. manufacturer. The manufacturer attribute will hold the brand name. This cannot change once the television is created, so will be a named constant.
0. screenSize. The screenSize attribute will hold the size of the television screen. This cannot change once the television has been created so will be a named constant.
0. powerOn. The powerOn attribute will hold the value true if the power is on, and false if the power is off.
0. channel. The channel attribute will hold the value of the station that the television is showing.
0. volume. The volume attribute will hold a number value representing the loudness (0 being no sound).

These attributes become fields in our class.

The television object will also be able to control the state of its attributes. These controls become methods in our class.

0. setChannel. The setChannel method will store the desired station in the channel field.

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0. power. The power method will toggle the power between on and off, changing the value stored in the powerOn field from true to false or from false to true.
0. increaseVolume. The increaseVolume method will increase the value stored in the volume field by 1.
0. decreaseVolume. The decreaseVolume method will decrease the value stored in the volume field by 1.
0. getChannel. The getChannel method will return the value stored in the channel field.
0. getVolume. The getVolume method will return the value stored in the volume field.
0. getManufacturer. The getManufacturer method will return the constant value stored in the MANUFACTURER field.
0. getScreenSize. The getScreenSize method will return the constant value stored in the SCREEN_SIZE field.

We will also need a constructor method that will be used to create an instance of a Television.

These ideas can be brought together to form a UML (Unified Modeling Language) diagram for this class as shown below.

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Task #1 Creating a New Class

1. In a new file, create a class definition called Television.
2. Put a program header (comments/documentation) at the top of the file
3. 0. The purpose of this class is to model a television
   0. Your name and today’s date
4. Declare the 2 constant fields listed in the UML diagram.
5. Declare the 3 remaining fields listed in the UML diagram.
6. Write a comment for each field indicating what it represents.
7. Save this file as Television.java.
8. Compile and debug. Do not run.

Task #2 Writing a Constructor

1. Create a constructor definition that has two parameters, a manufacturer’s brand and a screen size. These parameters will bring in information
2. Inside the constructor, assign the values taken in from the parameters to the corresponding fields.
3. Initialize the powerOn field to false (power is off), the volume to 20, and the channel to 2.
4. Write comments describing the purpose of the constructor above the method header.
5. Compile and debug. Do not run.

Task #3 Methods

1. Define accessor methods called getVolume, getChannel, getManufacturer, and getScreenSize that return the value of the corresponding field.
2. Define a mutator method called setChannel accepts a value to be stored in the channel field.
3. Define a mutator method called power that changes the state from true to false or from false to true. This can be accomplished by using the NOT operator (!). If the boolean variable powerOn is true, then !powerOn is false and vice versa. Use the assignment statement

powerOn = !powerOn;

to change the state of powerOn and then store it back into powerOn (remember assignment statements evaluate the right hand side first, then assign the result to the left hand side variable.

4. Define two mutator methods to change the volume. One method should be called increaseVolume and will increase the volume by 1. The other method should be called decreaseVolume and will decrease the volume by 1.
5. Write javadoc comments above each method header.
6. Compile and debug. Do not run.

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Task #4 Running the application

1. You can only execute (run) a program that has a main method, so there is a driver program that is already written to test out your Television class. Copy the file TelevisionDemo.java (see code listing 3.1) from the Student CD or as directed by your instructor. Make sure it is in the same directory as Television.java.
2. Compile and run TelevisionDemo and follow the prompts.
3. If your output matches the output below, Television.java is complete and correct. You will not need to modify it further for this lab.

OUTPUT (boldface is user input)

A 55 inch Toshiba has been turned on.

What channel do you want? 56

Channel: 56 Volume: 21

Too loud!! I am lowering the volume.

Channel: 56 Volume: 15

Task #5 Creating another instance of a Television

1. Edit the TelevisionDemo.java file.
2. Declare another Television object called portable.
3. Instantiate portable to be a Sharp 19 inch television.
4. Use a call to the power method to turn the power on.
5. Use calls to the accessor methods to print what television was turned on.
6. Use calls to the mutator methods to change the channel to the user’s preference and decrease the volume by two.
7. Use calls to the accessor methods to print the changed state of the portable.
8. Compile and debug this class.
9. Run TelevisionDemo again.
10. The output for task #5 will appear after the output from above, since we added onto the bottom of the program. The output for task #5 is shown below.

OUTPUT (boldface is user input)

A 19 inch Sharp has been turned on.

What channel do you want? 7

Channel: 7 Volume: 18

Code Listing 3.1 (TelevisionDemo.java)

/** This class demonstrates the Television class*/

import java.util.Scanner;

public class TelevisionDemo

{

public static void main(String[] args)

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{

//create a Scanner object to read from the keyboard Scanner keyboard = new Scanner (System.in);

//declare variables

int station;   //the user’s channel choice

//declare and instantiate a television object

Television bigScreen = new Television("Toshiba", 55); //turn the power on

bigScreen.power();

//display the state of the television System.out.println("A " + bigScreen.getScreenSize() +

bigScreen.getManufacturer() + " has been turned on."); //prompt the user for input and store into station

System.out.print("What channel do you want? "); station = keyboard.nextInt();

//change the channel on the television bigScreen.setChannel(station);

//increase the volume of the television bigScreen.increaseVolume();

//display the the current channel and volume of the television System.out.println("Channel: " + bigScreen.getChannel() +

0. Volume: " + bigScreen.getVolume());

System.out.println("Too loud!! I am lowering the volume."); //decrease the volume of the television bigScreen.decreaseVolume(); bigScreen.decreaseVolume(); bigScreen.decreaseVolume(); bigScreen.decreaseVolume(); bigScreen.decreaseVolume(); bigScreen.decreaseVolume();

//display the current channel and volume of the television System.out.println("Channel: " + bigScreen.getChannel() +

0. Volume: " + bigScreen.getVolume()); System.out.println(); //for a blank line

//TASK #5

}

}

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For its first year if operations, Altitude Inc. reports pretax GAAP income of $100,000 in 2020. Assume pretax income in 2021 and 2022 of $125,000 and $90,000 respectively. The enacted income tax rate in all years is 25%. The following additional information is available for the first three years of operation (with the exception of the one item in the 4th year).

• Prepaid rent in the amount of $20,000 was recorded on December 21, 2020 for 2021 rent.
• A warranty accrual of 30,000 was recorded on December 31, 2020. The warranty was paid evenly over the years 2021-2023.
• The company recorded interest revenue of $500 each of the three years on municipal bonds.

1. Compute the income tax payable each year for 202, 2021, 2022
2. Determined the balance of any deferred tax assets or deferred tax liabilities at the end of each year (2020, 2021, 2022)
3. Record the journal entry related to taxes in 2020, 2021, 20222

In view of COVID-19 impact on businesses, organizations are planning to cut costs and one of the strategy of cutting cots is downsizing. Considering any large service organization, which strategy of downsizing in your opinion would be most appropriate? Provide justifications for your answer.

Write a brief report on KRACK Attack . The report should include how the attack works ? How the devices can be protected against this attack

Leona Motel’s debt has a face value of $40 million, a coupon rate of 14% (paid semiannually), and expires in 12 years (at t = 12). The current annual yield-to-maturity (stated) for all bonds of the company is 15%.

a. Leona wishes to conserve cash for the next few years. To do this, Leona decides to issue new equity and use the proceeds to purchase the existing debt at the market price. The current stock price of Leona is $60 and there are 2 million shares outstanding. How many shares should Leona issue to purchase the existing debt? Assume the decision to purchase the bond does not change the stock price.

b. Instead, the company decides to issue a zero-coupon bond that matures at t = 5, and use the proceeds to purchase the existing debt at the market price. What is the face value of the zero-coupon bond that Leona needs to issue?