Why are merger and acquisition strategies popular in many firms competing in the global economy. How would these strategies impact a firm's performance. As a manager how could you use these strategies to spread the risk of an uncertain environment? Explain.

A manager must decide which type of machine to buy, A, B, or C. Machine costs (per individual machine) are as follows:

Product forecasts and processing times on the machines are as follows:

a. Assume that only purchasing costs are being considered. Compute the total processing time required for each machine type to meet demand, how many of each machine type would be needed, and the resulting total purchasing cost for each machine type. The machines will operate 8 hours a day, 230 days a year. (Enter total processing times as whole numbers. Round up machine quantities to the next higher whole number. Compute total purchasing costs using these rounded machine quantities. Enter the resulting total purchasing cost as a whole number. Omit the "$" sign.)

b. Consider this additional information: The machines differ in terms of hourly operating costs: The A machines have an hourly operating cost of $10 each, B machines have an hourly operating cost of $14 each, and C machines have an hourly operating cost of $11 each. What would be the total cost associated with each machine option, including both the initial purchasing cost and the annual operating cost incurred to satisfy demand?(Use rounded machine quantities from Part a. Do not round any other intermediate calculations. Round your final answers to the nearest whole number. Omit the "$" sign.)

Nation’s Capital Fitness, Inc. operates a chain of fitness centers in the Washington, D.C., area. The firm’s controller is accumulating data to be used in preparing its annual profit plan for the coming year. The cost behavior pattern of the firm’s equipment maintenance costs must be determined. The accounting staff has suggested the use of an equation, in the form of Y = a + bX, for maintenance costs. Data regarding the maintenance hours and costs for last year are as follows:

Using the high-low method of cost estimation, estimate the behavior of the maintenance costs incurred by Nation’s Capital Fitness, Inc. Express the cost behavior pattern in equation form. (Round coefficient of X to 2 decimal places and other answer to the nearest whole dollar amount.)

Monthly Maintenance Cost =

Variable Maintenance Cost per hour =

Compute the predicted maintenance cost at 620 hours of activity.

Maintenance Cost =

1. Compute the variable cost per hour and the fixed cost per hour at 630 hours of activity. (Round your answers to 2 decimal places.)

Variable Cost per hour =

Fixed Cost per hour =

1. Why is the fixed cost per hour possibly misleading?

multiple choice

• Because it will change as the number of hours changes.

• Because it will not change as the number of hours changes.

Do a BCG Matrix for Levi Strauss and Co

Place your company/product in the appropriate quadrant on the matrix

Identify competitive products/brands and also place them in appropriate quadrants on the BCG matrix.

please include supported evidence of websites used

1. What is the implied annual rate if you deposit $750 and receive $2,000 in 8 years, assuming interest is compounded quarterly?

2. How many months it will take to grow your money from $10,250 to $25,000 if you can earn an interest of 8% compounded monthly? How many years will it take?

4. The difference between an ordinary annuity and an annuity due is the:

a. timing of the annuity payments.

b. interest rate applied to the annuity payments.

c. number of annuity payments.

d. amount of each annuity payment.

5. Which one of the following is an annuity due?

a. $225 paid at the end of each monthly period for an infinite period of time

b. $100 paid at the end of each monthly period for one year

c. $225 paid forever

d. $600 paid at the beginning of every quarter for five years, starting today

6. What is the present value of $150 received at the beginning of each year for 16 years? The first payment is received today. Use a discount rate of 9%.

7. What is the present value of $250 received at the beginning of each year for 21 years? Assume that the first payment is received today. Use a discount rate of 12%

8. What is the future value of semi-annual payments of $6,500 for eight years at 12 percent?

9. You are considering an investment which would entail $5,000 payments each year for 20 years. The investment will pay 7 percent interest. How much will this investment be worth at the end of the 20 years?

10. Kelly starting setting aside funds six years ago to buy some new equipment for her firm. She has saved $2,000 each quarter and earned an average rate of return of 7.5 percent. How much money does she currently have saved for this purpose?

11. Today, you are purchasing a $85,000 20-year car loan at 6 percent. You will pay annually at the end of each year. What is the amount of each payment?

12. You just won a lottery that will pay you $2,500 a year for twenty years. You will receive your first payment today. If you can earn 8 percent on your money, what are your winnings worth to you today? (Note that since you will receive your first payment today, it is an annuity due problem).

-Sugar is dissolved in hot water at 45oC until the mole fraction of water decreases to 0.839. The vapor pressure of pure water at this temperature is 72 torr. What is the vapor pressure (in torr) of water for this solution?

-A 0.800 g sample of a nonvolatile yellow crystalline solid is dissolved in 23.0 g of benzene, producing a solution that freezes at 5.10^oC. Find the molar mass of the yellow solid in g/mol.

-A 3.40 g sample of a nonvolatile nonelectrolyte blue crystalline solid is dissolved in 39.2 g of acetic acid, producing a solution that bolis at 119.9^oC. Find the molar mass of the blue solid in g/mol.

-What is the osmotic pressure in atm of a 0.275 M solution of NaCl at 0^oC?

Discuss the elements of the expanded marketing mix for a service business

State the difference between different alternative sites?

What do we mean by the term remnant data and how it can compromise security?

What do you understand by the term Redundancy?

Rose argues that discourse (using Foucault’s framework) “refers to groups of statements that structure the way a thing is thought, and the way we act on basis of that thinking. In other words, discourse is a particular knowledge about the world which shapes how the world is understood and how things are done in it” (p. 187). In your blog posting this week, give an example of a current visual discourse that you think constructs how we think about an aspect of the world. For example, you might discuss how images of refugees construct how we think about their plight. Or how scenes from romantic comedies discursively construct how we think about romance more broadly. In your example, get specific about how these images do this discursive work (that is, what formal elements or signs indicate that we should think about this object in a particular way)? Your posting should be about 300-400 words.

To answer use Gillian Rose, Chapter 8, Discourse analysis 1, Visual Methodologies; Reading link: https://vizcomm18.files.wordpress.com/2017/10/rose-discourse.pdf

Suppose a bank pays back the FED a discount loan worth $600,000. Use T-accounts to show the effect of the transactions on the bank and Fed’s balance sheet

I have generated a RSA key and saved the private in PEM format after randomly changing 2 consecutive characters inside it (the characters will only apply to p, q, d, n, u). Now I want to write a program that tries to fix the changed PEM file in Python. Any suggestions on how to write my code?

In this assignment, you are required to write a Bash script, call it assignment2.sh. Your Bash script has to accept at least four input arguments, and must:

1) Print to the user a set of instructions explaining how the PATH variable can be used in Bash.

2) Save the manual of the 'awk' command in the file /tmp/help.txt.

3) Shut down your Ubuntu box at 2 o'clock tonight.

4) Store your name and your partner's name in a text file inside your home directory. The name of the file must have the following format: ite404-<date>.txt, where <date> is the current date; e.g. ite404-2020-10-26.txt.

9. A increase in the demand for beer causes the price of beer to rise. Draw a diagram showing how this will a↵ect the market for brewers. Explain what happens to their employment, wages, and marginal product of labour. How does you answer depend on the elasticity of brewers’ labour supply?

Describe the steps involved in converting an entity-relationship diagram to a set of normalised tables.

Marijuana is legal in California. It's also legal in Colorado. It's not legal at the federal level.

Assume that a party in Colorado wants to buy some marijuana from a party in California. They enter into a purchase contract for a ton of California's finest. At some point a dispute arises over the contract and one party decides to take the other party to federal court under diversity jurisdiction.

How will the court proceed/decide?