5-1. A manufacturer of mountain bike will design and implement an automated system for welding bicycle frames. All works related to this project will be conducted within the company without any...

Although organizations in the manufacturing sector usually carry more inventory than service firms, effective inventory management is nonetheless important to both manufacturers and service...

Assume you plan to make boxes just by yourself now. We will not make lids for the boxes this time. Then the stages to make a box should be (in this order) A: Fold horizontally and vertically, unfold,...

Given is a CPM project network diagram as shown below. Activit y day Start Start 0 A 5 A B B 9 a) The Project Completion time = Blank 1 days. C 4 C D b) The Earliest Start time, ES, of Activity G =...

Tim Peterman, director of logistics at Cameron Power Equipment in Charlotte, North Carolina, was evaluating the future of the company's warehouse in Atlanta, Georgia. The vice president of logistics,...

A data scientist is interested in studying the relationship between having a social media account and obesity. He collected some data represented in the following table. Individual Having a social...

Nippon Paper Industries Company, a Japanese company, manufactured facsimile (fax) paper. Officials of that company met with other competitors in the market in Japan for the purpose of fixing the...

You have been employed as a consultant to Golf R Us, Inc. The company has been having problems with account receivables and they want to use various dunning methods to better their receivables. But...

1. In your opinion, why did the U.S. Commerce Department ban ZTE's purchase of U.S.-made parts? In your answer, please give three explanations and state which one you support, and why. 2. In your...

The production manager at a factory manufacturing four types of light fittings (A, B, C and D) on an automated machine is fixing the schedule for the next week on this machine. HEIJUNKA SCHEDULING OF...

You are asked to write a Briefing Note for the Vice Chancellor on how staff & students can begin to 'green' our digital future. How can we begin to green our digital future? Structure your Briefing...

The Sports and Co-curriculum Department of Pejabat Pelajaran Negeri Pahang is responsible in managing pupils across the state of Pahang who are talented in sports to bring them forward to compete in...

In this exercise, you will use spreadsheet software to calculate the cost of desktop systems, printers, and software. Use the Internet to obtain pricing information on hardware and software for an...

you are a corporate trainer for XYZ organization. You have just been tasked with developing and deploying a training program for new customer service representatives discussing how to reply to...

Is the following distribution symmetrical? Calculate the covariance. Calculate the variance of the portfolio made up of 30% X and 70% of the Market. Find the Beta for the firm. Find the correlation...

Claire Madden is an audit partner at Conner Accounting and is concerned that Corrina Barry, an audit manager, is not complying with the professional and ethical requirements that professional...

You're the pricing product manager for Lyft's ride-scheduling feature, and you're launching a new city --Toledo. The prevailing rate that people are used to paying for rides from the airport to...

1. Your employer is sending you to Finland to negotiate a possible joint venture with a local technology firm there. List five questions that you really need answers to before you would feel ready to...

A restaurant wants to forecast its daily weekly. Historical data (in dollars) for the last 15 weeks is shown below: 4 Week 1 2 3 5 6 7 8 9 19 11 12 13 14 15 Sales 338 318 338 301 329 310 311 311 353...

The case of Michigan Basic Property Insurance Association v. Washington (MICHIGAN BASIC PROPERTY INSURANCE ASSOCIATION V. JOYCE WASHINGTON, CLEVELAND POWELL, COUNTRYWIDE HOME LOANS, DIMONTI &...

Another important consideration when making business recommendations is future outcomes. You must be able to use forecasting tools and the right data to predict elements that affect the future of the...

Sam is pleased with your proposal, and as you had agreed, you write the engagement letter, and Sam signs it. You meet with Seth and Anna to share the good news: you have brought your first client to...

Using the 4-quarter moving average: What is the forecast for 3Q 2022, 4Q 2022, 1Q 2023, and 2Q 2023 2. Compute the forecast for 3Q 2022, 4Q 2022, 1Q 2023, and 2Q 2023 using exponential smoothing...

Suppose you operate a store. The weekly average demand for an item sold in your store is 20 units. Your upstream supplier charges $100 for each item sold to you. The annual holding cost is 20% of the...

In this question, you are given a Timed Petri net as shown below. The time stamps of the tokens (i.e., black dots in some places) are also provided on the figure below. The delay on the transition T0...

The NCAA is making plans for distributing tickets to the upcoming regional basketball championships. Up to 10,000 available seats will be divided between the media, the competing universities, and...

Interarrival times to a coffee shop is random with unknown distribution. A shop owner wants to approximate daily interarrival times using the first 20 arrivals of the day, denoted as X, X2, X3, X20,...

The graph above represents various flows that can occur through a sewage treatment plant with the numbers on the arcs representing the maximum flow (in tons of sewage per hour) that can be...

On 1 April 2018, Shen Ltd acquired specialised equipment by issuing $2,700,000 of face value, 9% ten-year bonds to the equipments manufacturer. No cash changed hands. The bonds will pay interest...

Boeing brings its customers on board Arguably the most innovative new passenger aircraft to enter service over the last few years was the Boeing 777, a new twin-engined aircraft, in the 300-plus...

Create a Strategic Plan for a Coastal Medical Center. Include the following components in your strategic plan: Introduction An overview of the organization/system SWOT Analysis Market trends...

Mooikloof Mega City residential project is an important project in South Africa. Collect/Gather information about it and develop a formal Project Management Plan for submission, which must include...

Case Study Suppose that you are the consultant hired by a manufacturing company to design a suitable inventory management strategy for its Alloy #1 products for determining the weekly production...

The following balances were extracted from the trial balance of Bell Crest Ltd on 30 June 2020: Additional information 1, 2 1, 2 2, 3, 5 2 100 000 4, 5 4, 5 (120 000) R 800 000 1 200 000 Land at cost...

36. Star Adventures has invested financial and time resources into ________ because they want their employees to develop teamwork skills, using challenging and structured activities. simulations...

You are the brand manager for your favorite brand of clothing, food, vehicle, or other consumer product. Write a one-page branding statement summarizing your brand for your company's VP of Marketing....

A restaurant serves 30 guests in four hours and 3 servers (labor), the labor rate is $20/hour/server, and consumes $500 worth of food and other raw materials, and $50 of energy. Calculate...

An operations manager is trying to determine a production plan for the next week. There are three products (say, P, Q, and Q) to produce using four machines (say, A and B, C, and D). Each of the four...

For this activity, you have been hired as a team of consultants on a multi-year basis for a global washer and dryer manufacturer. They currently offer two core washer and dryer sets: a high-end model...

Peter Cheese, current CEO of CIPD asserts, People professionals are a vital function in supporting businesses to adapt to rapidly changing circumstances. Explain two different models or theories to...

You send daily emails about a variety of topics for a shoe store. Your open rates are low, but sale announcements perform best. Which two marketing actions would most likely increase open rates?...

Defend the significance of LG considering the opinions of an executive jury when formulating the business's inventory management policy.

A farmer notices an algae bloom in the pond next to a large crop field. This farmer knows that algae blooms are generally caused by increased nitrogen in the water. What should this farmer check to...

The following diagram is the original plan for a project. In reference to the diagram below answer the questions below. All durations are in weeks. DESIGN STRUCTURAL 37CCL 8.1 8.2 8.3 8.4 8.5 2...

Use the following information for the remainder of the questions. Dan has finally decided to create his own product line of cat related items hosted at his new business the Cat Empurrium. Dan wants...

The plant can make two products, P and Q. Max demand for P= 100 units/week; Max demand for Q = 50 units/week. Four workers, A, B, C, and D, with non-interchangeable skills. Fixed operating expense =...

Part 2: Presentation and Data Work (90 marks) You have been asked to collect company data and to create a final written presentation based on your analysis of the data and the performance measures...

Using the article by Wickham, Lehman, and Fillis (2020), define the three factors that comprise the art product. Using examples published in online news sources, discuss how each of these factors can...

A brewer's average cost per keg of craft beer is $60, and a keg sells to distributors for $90. The distributor then resells the keg to a bar for $120. Each keg serves more than one hundred 14.5-ounce...

I) What did Plimsol pay for the Note? Your can use QUARTERLY data and Dates are furnished. On March 10, 2006, HDP Development, LLC purchased a 30-unit apartment property located in the vibrant...

Pick an organization (public or private) and then choose a particular type of COI that is associated with this type of organization. Sustainability-related COIs are especially encouraged. Locate and...

You have an obligation to pay $1,000,000 in 3 years from now, and you would like to make an investment now that will enable you to meet this obligation. This investment will be a portfolio containing...

On April 1st, 2019, Julie began work with a law firm, Hover & Hover, LLP as an associate attorney. After 2 years of stellar job performance reviews and of consistently out producing her projected...

Renaissance Period: Listen to the "Gloria" timing 0:00 to 5:07 from Palestrina's Pope Marcellus Mass. The opening words are "Glory be to God on high, and on earth peace to men of good will. We praise...

On January 2, year 1 Link Co. purchased a manufacturing machine for $864,000. The machine has an eight year estimated life and a $144,000 estimated salvage value. Link expects to manufacture...

The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA) made significant changes to several areas of the tax code including the limitation placed on the State Tax Deduction. On its website, the IRS publishes data detailing...

Steevan's GPS Company is owned and operated by Steevan Harrland, Sr. The company has been in operation for several years and manufactures GPS devices. The company has been quite successful over the...

Assume that buying a share of Lotuss stock at $55 per share while simultaneously writing a call option with an exercise price of $55 per share is called a covered call investment strategy. What is...

The second picture is the needed data from P2 that P3 says is needed P3. Consider a possible shortage of ingredients in the following week. What would the optimized production process look like if...

Closwa Biltong is a Namibian based biltong manufacturer and retailer. The company is famous for its tasty biltong snack packets which are sold at lower prices than that of competitors. Closwa Biltong...

Joes sister, Beth Harding, has just started up a new construction company that specializes in the construction of commercial buildings. Joe is extremely eager to see his sisters company get off the...

A retailer store has to decide how many t-shirts of a particular kind to order for the season. The anticipated demand is normally distributed with a mean of = 800 and a standard deviation of = 200....

Gretsch Industries is considering acquiring Flueger Systems. Although Flueger has said it is not for sale, Gretsch is considering a hostile takeover by making a trade offer directly to Fluegers...

You have been asked to create the disaster recovery plan for a small neighborhood veterinary clinic. This clinic provides services for dogs and cats only. These services include office visits,...

Read the Seattle Pacific Hotel case with particular focus to the Project Financing/Sources of Funds box and the Tax Credit Analysis box. Assuming the following factors change: The current yield for...

On March 15, a seller decides to list his house for sale with Focus Realty. An agent at Focus, Sue Park, has the seller sign a listing agreement, then promptly submits the listing information to the...

Most of the Your Turns in earlier chapters asked you to apply your knowledge of a specific chapter to answer a real world question. Now we are going to move one step further and give you information...

CR Inc. (hence, CRI) has the opportunity to supply smartphones to telecom companies. CRI spent $1 million to develop a prototype for the new smartphone. From previous experience, CRI expects the...

Lakewood Fashions must decide how many lots of assorted ski wear to order for its three stores. Information on pricing, sales, and inventory costs has led to the following payoff table, in thousands....

Personal Trainer, Inc. owns and operates fitness centers in a dozen Midwestern cities. The centers have done well, and the company is planning an international expansion by opening a new supercenter...

A long-time Windsor Ontario business acquaintance, Doug James, who is 50 years old, has come to see you for tax advice. Although he has heard about business incorporation, the possibility of double...

I hope this goes better than last time, thought Craig Rooney as he thought about having to walk into the city councils chambers next week. Craig is the assistant chief of police in Newport, VA, and,...

BioCom was founded in 1993, when several scientists and engineers at a large fiber-optic-cable company began to see that optical fiber for the telecommunications industry was becoming a cheap...

Suppose the French government levies a high tariff on imported American cheeses. Who would benefit if the French government passed a law reducing the high tariff on imported cheese, holding all else...

It was 9:05 p.m. and Tyler Simms was facing a dilemma. He was at the office working late, again, completing a report that his boss asked him to have ready for the next morning. She had received the...

Ruth Landis was carefully considering the firms sales prospects for 2016. Her firm, located in Southern California, did slightly over $100 million in sales. She and her husband, Jim, started the...

Shoe Supply has decided to produce a new line of shoes that will have a selling price of $68 and a variable cost of $27 per pair. The company spent $187,000 for a marketing study that determined the...

Select a system of your choice and identify a particular element or component of that system. Assume that the component selected has failed. Develop a Maintenance Task Analysis (MTA)covering the...

The Windber Frame Company had encountered the problem of latent defects in some of its purchased rough metal frames. Being latent, the defects did not show up until after additional machining had...

Select one of the following (either Fringe Benefits or Example Disability/Economic Damages Claim) and address the associated questions: 1. Fringe Benefits i) What are fringe benefits? ii) What are...

What am I going to do now?" you find yourself asking out loud while staring at the ceiling in your office. Should I de-escalate this project or press on?" It felt like you were in one of those...

14 . You are planning a project to make dinner for guests. Your menu consists of a very special soup, and a baked chicken entre consisting of chicken, rice, and peas. The soup must be boiled for 35...

John is a regional manager of a chain of stores that sell computer equipment and accessories, mainly based out of town in retail parks.A new manager has been appointed to one of the stores, which...

Read the following case study: Dynamic divestures: A codification exercise on the reporting of discontinued operations (Links to an external site.) During the first week of 20X8, Dynamic's corporate...

Consider the following hypothetical: Ed contracted with Becky to build a house. Immediately prior to that meeting, Becky was so nervous that she drank an entire bottle of champagne and she does not...

A Chocolate distributor sells the chocolate-based on made to order basis. They buy from a chocolate supplier who has set the purchase lot size of 1000 boxes and charge the distributor at $300 per...

TASCA Bhd is principally engaged as a total logistics solution provider commencement on 1 January 2016 and listed on the Main Market of Bursa Malaysia in the category of Trading/Services. The company...

Hypothetical company background You are an analyst working in the finance department of Candy Crash Limited. Candy Crash is a public listed company that specializes in the production of...

Select a system (or element thereof) of your choice and perform the following: A. A reliability prediction . B. A maintainability prediction. C. A FMECA. D. A FTA. E. An operator task analysis (OTA)....

Explain the origins and development of the Mauryan Empire. To do so, first introduce the topic of the Mauryan Empire, considering its importance to the history of India. Following, construct a...

1. Complete a vertical and horizontal analysis on the tabs labeled "Balance Sheet" and "Income Statement," use total assets on the balance sheet and net sales on the income statement for your...

Inca Instruments Inc. (III) makes a handheld calculator, the II400. III presents the following data for years 1 and 2: Year 1 Year 2 Units of II400 produced and sold 50,000 52,500 Selling price $40...

The story behind your analysis of your forecast of the future based on your spreadsheet. Why did you choose the specific growth rates? What impact did they have on the value of Walmart? Use the...

Emma Nguyen from EFP Copiers Victoria (EFP) has a meeting today with the office manager at the law firm Davies and Singh Partnership (D&S). D&S explained to Emma that they are still working...

You are the HR manager for a fifty-person firm that specializes in the development and marketing of plastics technologies. When you were hired, you felt the company had little idea what you should be...

Your business has been open for a month, and you have prepared an income statement and completed a variance analysis on the data. Now you will meet with investors and a few other internal...

All the following case study questions are based on this book: Project management achieving competitive advantage by Jeffrey K. Pinto Question 8.1 1. Given the history of large cost overruns...

Treasury Bond Quote by using 32nd to determine the bid and asked price. The bond maturity 2025, July 30, Bid price : 130.35 Asked Price : 130. 30 What is the bid and asked quoting price and provide...

Imagine that you are a project manager at a construction company and your company is being sued. You are in possession of documents that you know will harm your companys chances of winning the...

The following table contains sample salary information collected from a salary survey of 13 accounting jobs according to seniority. Accountant I officers poses less than 2 years of accounting work...