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.

Loop and Function

You are asked to develop a compensation calculator application for a department store. At the department store, the compensation of sales staff consists of a base salary and a commission. The base salary is $5,000, and the commission rate is tiered based on sales amount as following:

Sales Amount, commission rate
$0.01 – $5,000, 8%

$5,000.01 – $10,000, 10%

$10,000.01 and above, 12%

For example, if the sales amount is $12,000, the commission is calculated as following: commission = $5,000 * 8% +

($10,000 - $5,000) * 10% + ($12,000 - $10,000) * 12%. You can start with a few specific amounts first to help you figure out the general representation for commission calculation.

Requirements: (1) Define compute_commission function that computes the commission, using the above commission scheme. This function receives one parameter representing the sales amount and returns the corresponding commission.

(2) Define a print_commission function, which receives three parameters representing the beginning sales amount, sales increment, and ending sales amounts, and has no return. This function uses a for-loop to display a sales and commission table. For example, if the beginning sales amount is 10000, sales increment is 5000, and the ending sales amount is 100000, then this function will print out the following table:

Sales Amount | commission

10000 | 900.00
15000  | 1500.00

...

95000. | 11100.00

100000. | 11700.00
Note: this function must call the compute_commission function to determine the commission column.

(3) Next, define a target_sales function, which receives one parameter representing a desired salary and returns the corresponding sales amount that generates the desired salary. For example, if a staff’s desired salary is 30000 (which consists of base salary + commission), then this function will return a sales amount of 210834, which is the minimum sales amount that the staff must generate to earn the desired 30000 salaries. Note: this function must use a while-loop, and it must call the compute_commission function whenever you want to calculate the commission. In addition, it must start with an initial sales amount of $1 and increases the sales amount only by $1 in each iteration until it finds the sales amount needed to generate the desired salary.

(4) Define the main function, which will call the print_commission function to display a sales-commission table with 10000 as the beginning sales amount, 5000 as the sales increment, and 100000 as the ending sales amount. Then, ask users to enter their desired salary and use it as the argument to call the target_sales function. Lastly, display a message informing user the sales amount needed for the desired salary.

(5) Call the main function. Fix any syntax errors and test your code if you can.

A bond portfolio named DEX, comprises four bonds (face value=$1000):

1)50 semi-annual bond, 5-year maturity, a coupon rate of 4%.

2)100 annual bonds, 30-year maturity, 8% coupon bond.

3)150 zero coupon bonds, 10-year maturity.

4) 200 zero coupon bonds, 20-year maturity.

YTM/discount rate: 6%

Considering DEX’s convexity, if each bond’s convexity is given as follow:

Bond 1 (semi-annual coupon bond): 23.19

Bond 2 (annual coupon bond): 212.40

Bond 3 (zero coupon bond): 98.97

Bond 4 (zero coupon bond): 107.00

Given DEX’ convexity, when the interest rate increases from 6% to 7%, the DEX’s market value should fall by?

ABC has just issued a $1,000 par value bond that will mature in 10 years. This bond pays interest of $45 every six months. If the annual yield to maturity of this bond is 7%, what is the price of the ABC bond if the market is in equilibrium?

The Taylors have purchased a $310,000 house. They made an initial down payment of $30,000 and secured a mortgage with interest charged at the rate of 7%/year on the unpaid balance. Interest computations are made at the end of each month. If the loan is to be amortized over 30 years, what monthly payment will the Taylors be required to make? (Round your answer to the nearest cent.)
$

What is their equity (disregarding appreciation) after 5 years? After 10 years? After 20 years? (Round your answers to the nearest cent.)