Your company, EconCo, has just been hired by a foreign company that is trying to open a new manufacturing plant in the United States.

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Your company, EconCo, has just been hired by a foreign company that is trying to open a new manufacturing plant in the United States. Because of the overload in work by the staff, the president of your company, Mr. Wilson, has asked you to prepare a report for the client advising it on how to increase their profitability by moving the company to the United States. On average, your client receives 1% in annual simple interest in the foreign country.Mr. Wilson announces to you that this is your last assignment as lead consultant before becoming the new vice president of economic information.For this assignment, you must submit a report to the client consisting of 1250-1500 words in which you discuss how to increase the rate it receives on savings by moving the company to the United States. For full credit, you must address the following in your report:•Define annual simple interest rate.•Discuss the annual simple interest rate in the United States.•Explain to the client how the move would benefit savings.•Research the current interest rate on savings accounts and certificates of deposit in the United States.•Explain the options available to increase the client’s rates. Be sure to consider fees in your analysis.•Give an example of how much extra money the client would make (in interest) if it made $450,000,000 a year in sales in the United States. (Figure that the overall costs to the company is $20,000,000, so it makes a net total of $430,000,000 a year.)

Answers cant be plagiarised – will be checked Question 1: For an economist, one of the most jarring sights during the early weeks of the coronavirus crisis in the United States was the spectacle

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Answers cant be plagiarised  – will be checked

Question 1:

For an economist, one of the most jarring sights during the early weeks of the coronavirus crisis in the United States was the spectacle of bare shelves in sections of the supermarket.

There was no toilet paper or hand sanitizer. Pasta, flour and even yeast could be hard to find in the early weeks of social distancing, as many people decided to take up baking. Of far greater concern, hospitals could not buy enough of the masks, gowns and ventilators required to safely treat Covid-19 patients.

What do you think happened to the laws of supply and demand? Why do you think prices didn’t rise enough to clear the market, as economic models predict?

Question 2:

One of the downsides for firms that utilize dynamic pricing, that is pricing schemes that respond in real-time to changes in supply and demand, is that they are agnostic to tragedy. For example, airlines faced a dilemma leading up to Hurricane Dorian. As hurricanes approach, ticket prices will often increase significantly for two reasons. First, is the stylized fact that ticket prices increase as a departure date approaches. Generally, this is due to the price elasticity of the travelers that tend to purchase last-minute tickets, i.e., business travelers. Second, there is an increase in demand from people trying to flee. One of the actions airlines have taken to avoid this criticism has been to cap airfares. If you were in charge of making this decision at Delta, for example, what other action might you take and why?

Question 3:

Companies often provide perks to their employees in the form of reduced prices on other firm’s products and services (e.g., corporate cell phone plans that provide discounts on monthly service, fleet buying discounts for the purchase of new cars, savings on rental cars, etc). For example, an employee can buy discounted movie tickets for $10.00. Suppose an employee buys 10 tickets a year at $10 rather than the full price of $15. How much does this employee gain from this particular discount offering? (Note: a graph is not required but may be helpful.)

Question 4:

In a Wall Street Journal article, the CEO of AT&T, Randall Stephenson, made the following statement about its DirecTV Now streaming service: “We moved the price up and, being a very price-sensitive market, we fully expected to see a considerable number of customers drop off,” Mr. Stephenson said in an interview. “We haven’t seen that. The consumers, it’s obvious that they’re finding value in the platform.” The graph below is copied from the original article and shows the trends of the homes with no pay service, on-line TV service and traditional pay TV. Using what we have learned in class, what might explain Mr. Stephenson’s comments?

Question 5:

In 1988 Volvo operated a car assembly plant at Uddevalla. The idea was to have a small team of highly skilled workers build an entire car. According to the proponents, this would reduce the tedium associated with the conventional assembly line and cut absenteeism and turnover among workers. In 1991 there were reports that it took 50 hours of labor to assemble a car at Uddevalla, in contrast to 25 hours at Volvo’s conventional assembly plant at Ghent, Belgium. If you were Volvo’s CEO what questions would you ask Uddevalla’s managers, and what steps would you take?

Question 6:

In metro-Atlanta we have several types of express lanes, notably the HOT lanes on the section of Interstate 85 north of the perimeter (Interstate 285). The HOT lanes are dynamically priced with the goal of keeping traffic moving at a specific rate of speed. (For purposes of this question let us assume that is 40 mph.) When traffic on the HOT lanes increases and the average speed slows below 40 mph, price will go up and vice-versa, when average speed is above 40 mph, price will fall. Shortly after the original opening of this HOT lane the Governor of Georgia capped the maximum rate at $13.95. What effect did this move have? More recently, this cap was removed, what effects will this move have? (Hint: drawing graphs may help)

Question 7:

It is common for supermarkets to carry both store-brand (private-label) and brand-name (producer-label) varieties of products. Many consumers view these products as perfect substitutes, meaning that consumers are always willing to substitute a constant proportion of the private-label (store-brand) for the brand-name (producer brand). Consider a consumer who is always willing to substitute three pounds of private-label sugar for two pounds of brand-name sugar. Do these preferences exhibit a diminishing marginal rate of substitution between private-label and brand-name sugar?

Assume that this consumer has $10 of income to spend on sugar, and the price of private-label sugar is $1 per pound and the price of brand-name sugar is $2 per pound. How much of each type of sugar will be purchased?

How would your answer change if the price of private-label sugar was $2 per pound and the price of the brand-name sugar was $1 per pound?

Question 8:

You work a Glaxosmithkline, a global pharmaceutical company, and your company’s executive vice president circulates a memo to the firm’s top management in which he argues for a reduction in the price of Lamictal (a drug used to treat epilepsy and bi-polar disorder). He says a price cut will increase the firm’s sales and profits. The firm’s president concurs with the opinion of the executive vice-president. As the head of marketing you respond with a memo pointing out that the price elasticity of demand for the firm’s product is about -0.75. Why is this fact relevant and what is your recommendation?

Question 9:

Upscale hotels in the United States recently cut their prices by 20% in an effort to bolster dwindling occupancy rates among business travelers. A survey performed by a major research organization indicated that businesses are wary of current economic conditions and are now resorting to electronic media, such as the Internet, to transact business. Assume a company’s budget permits it to spend $5,000 per month on either business travel or electronic media to transact business. The price of business travel is currently $1,000 per trip and the price of electronic media is $500 per hour. Suppose that the price of business travel drops 20% to $800. Given this new price for business travel the company indicates that its marginal rate of substitution between electronic media and business is 1. Is the company allocating resources optimally? If not, what can they do? Explain.

Question 10:

Recent times have seen several industries move away from bundled products (e.g., airlines and hotels). In lecture we considered examples (e.g., Disney) where it was more profitable to bundle versus selling the various products a la carte. A move away from bundling must suggest that ΠBundle < Πal a carte, that it is less profitable to bundle (Note: Π = profits = total revenue – total costs).

(1) Why might this be the case? That is, what does it suggest that firms do not know?

(2) Why is this missing information important?

GCU SPD 330 AAC Presentation

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I’m studying and need help with a English question to help me learn.

AAC Presentation

Augmentative and alternative communication (AAC) systems can be used to meet the needs of students with language impairment. There are many forms of AAC and the selection of which AAC to use with a student must be based on their assessment results and discussed with a team of professionals as well as the family.

Design a 10‐15 slide digital presentation appropriate for a schoolwide professional development opportunity on the topic of augmentative and alternative communication systems.

Within your presentation, address the following:

  • Definitions of AAC systems
  • The three phases of assessment for AAC based on the participation model.
  • Features of high tech and low‐tech tools and their purposes in the classroom.
  • Examples of how to implement AAC to facilitate engagement in learning.
  • Advantages of multimodal communication.
  • Characteristics of students who typically benefit from AAC intervention.
  • Examples of assessment results that indicate students may be ideal candidates for such intervention.
  • The role of collaboration between IEP team members, administrators, and family members when choosing the appropriate AAC for a student.

Include a title slide, reference slide, and presenter’s notes.

You may incorporate recommendations from Clinical Field Experience B within your presentation.

Support your work with 3‐5 scholary resources

Resources:http://www.asha.org/public/speech/disorders/AAC/

Politics and The Law , The Health Care System, Economics of Health Care

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I’m stuck on a Nursing question and need an explanation.

Politics and The Law

The Health Care System

Economics of Health Care

Read chapters 10, 11 & 12 of the class textbook and review the attached PowerPoint presentations. Once done answer the following questions;

  1. Discuss the power of nursing to influence and change health policy.
  2. Mention and discuss current health policy issues.
  1. Describe and discuss the organization of the public health care system at the federal, state, and local levels.
  2. Analyze the influence of socio-cultural, political, economic, ethical, and religious factors that influence the health and culturally diverse individuals, groups, and communities.

As stated in the syllabus, present your assignment in an APA format word document, Arial 12 font attached to the forum in the discussion tab of the blackboard titled “Week 3 discussion questions,” and the SafeAssign exercise in the assignment tab of the blackboard which is a mandatory requirement. A minimum of 2 evidence-based references (besides the class textbook), references can’t be more than five years old. You must post two replies on different dates to any of your peers sustained with the proper references no older than five years as well and make sure the references are quoted properly in your assignment. You can’t post the replies on the same day, and I must see different dates in the replies to verify attendance.

You must quote the references in the assignment; if not, it is considered plagiarism.

A minimum of 800 words is required (excluding the first and reference page). Please make sure to follow the instructions as given and use either spell-check or Grammarly before you post your assignment.

Please check your assignment after the week is due, or after it, the assignment is grade because I either made comments or ask for clarification in some replies or the assignment that required your response.

It is often, if not typically, impossible to measure accurately an agent’s contribution to firm output, y.

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It is often, if not typically, impossible to measure accurately an agent’s contribution to firm output, y. As a result, firms may try to find other observable measures, pi, which may be imperfect proxies for y. Suppose both y and p are functions of two observable activities, a2 and a2. Further, the principal believes that y = za1 + za2 but the precise value of z is difficult to estimate. Which proxy value, p, in an incentive plan, w = s + bp, is likely most efficient from the principal’s perspective?

a) p = a1 + 2a2

b) p = a1 + .5a2

c) p = 2a1 + a2

d) p = 2a1 + 2a2

Without fairly precise estimates of z, it is impossible to employ efficiently the relationship

(Points: 2) Suppose there are three types of customers who frequent Louisiana Fried Chicken (LFC), a fast food chain that sells chicken and biscuits….

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Suppose there are three types of customers who frequent Louisiana Fried Chicken(LFC), a fast food chain that sells chicken and biscuits. (For simplicity, assume anequal number of each type of customer) These customers have the followingvaluations (“reservation prices”) for chicken and biscuits:Consumer Chicken Biscuits1 $12 $12 $10 $33 $9 $4Suppose the fully allocated cost of making an order of chicken is $6 and the fullyallocated cost of making an order of biscuits is $2.50.If LFC does not know the identities of the customers (i.e. is unable to pricediscriminate) and sets one price for chicken (regardless of who buys) and oneprice for biscuits (regardless of who buys), what would those prices be? a. Price of Chicken = $9 and the Price of Biscuits = $1 b. Price of Chicken = $12 and the Price of Biscuits = $4 c. Price of Chicken = $10 and the Price of Biscuits = $3 d. Price of Chicken = $9 and the Price of Biscuits = $4 You are considering buying a new machine for your factory. You estimate that your profits will increase by $25,000 over its first year in operation (for simplicity assume profits are received at the end of each year), $20,000 over its second year, $10,000 over its third year, at which time you will be able to sell it for $5,000. If interest rates are 10%, what is the maximum amount you should pay for this machine? a. $50,525.92 b. $46,769.35 c. $60,000.00 d. $51,769.35 Two firms produce high quality aloha shirts: Hawaiian Wear (HW) and Island Wear (IW). Each firm has the same cost function given by TC = 20Q + Q^2. The market demand for aloha shirts is P = 200 – 2QT where QT is the total output of the two firms. Suppose the managers of the two firms decide to collude. If they formed a cartel, what would be the profit maximizing level of output? a. 45 b. 22.5 c. 30 d. 36 A particular monopolist has a demand curve and cost function for its product estimated to be P = 250 – .15Q and TC = $25,000 + $10Q. Calculate the deadweight loss caused by the monopolist. a. $48,000 b. 800 units c. $104,000 d. $52,000 CamCo makes inexpensive 35mm cameras. Its subsidiary, InFocus, Inc., makes the lenses for the cameras. The market for such lenses is highly competitive, and they can be either bought or sold at the equilibrium market price of $2. CamCo estimates the demand for its cameras to be Qc = 12,000 – 400Pc. This implies that Pc = 30 – .0025Qc and MR = 30 – .005Qc.The marginal cost of manufacturing the cameras, not including the cost of the lenses, is constant and equal to $5. The marginal cost of the InFocus division for making the lenses is given by the equation MCl = 0.30 + 0.0004Ql. Each camera requires one lens. How many cameras will Camco produce and what price will be charged for each? a. 5000 and $17.50 b. 5600 and $16 c. 4574 and $18.56 d. 4600 and $18.50 You have devised a plan to provide cleaning services for local theaters. You plan to charge $20 to clean each facility. The method you plan to use requires leasing equipment costing $200 per month, but would require a labor cost of $10.00 per theater. If you want to earn a profit of at least $500 per month, what are the minimum numbers of theaters you must clean? a. 50 b. 20 c. 35 d. 70 The Bruises and Bumps Company makes and sells skateboards at an average price of $70 each. Over the past year they sold 4,000 skateboards. Its closest competitor, Broken Bones Inc., sells its skateboards at an average price of $65. If the point price elasticity of demand for the skateboards produced by Bruises and Bumps is –2.5, and Bruises and Bumps were to lower their price by 5%, how many skateboards should they expect to sell this year? a. 3500 b. 6000 c. 4250 d. 4500 The Hawaiian Sea Salt Company sells salt to retail grocery chains in Hawaii and on the mainland. The demand function in each of these markets is: Hawaii grocery chains: P1 = 180 – 8Q1 Mainland grocery chains: P2 = 100 – 4Q2 Where P1 and P2 are the prices charged and Q1 and Q2 are the quantities sold in the respective markets. Hawaiian Sea Salt Company’s total cost function for salt is: TC = 50 + 20 (Q1 + Q2) Assuming that the Hawaiian Sea Salt Company is able to charge different prices in the two markets, what are the profit maximizing prices and output levels for sea salt in the two markets? a. Q1 = 20 & P1 = $100 and Q2 = 20 & P2 = $60 b. Q1 = 20 & P1 = $20 and Q2 = 20 & P2 = $20 c. Q1 = 8.75 & P1 = $110 and Q2 = 7.5 & P2 = $70 d. Q1 = 10 & P1 = $100 and Q2 = 10 & P2 = $60 The Bruises and Bumps Company makes and sells skateboards at an average price of $70 each. Over the past year they sold 4,000 skateboards. Its closest competitor, Broken Bones Inc., sells its skateboards at an average price of $65. If the point cross-price elasticity of demand between the two companies is 0.5, how many skate- boards will Bruises and Bumps sell if Broken Bones lowers their price 5%? a. 4100 b. 3900 c. 3750 d. 4250 A particular monopolist has a demand curve and cost function for its product estimated to be P = 250 – 0.15Q and TC = $25,000 + $10Q. Calculate the profit-maximizing price and output level for this monopolist. a. Q = 1600 and P = $10 b. Q = 833 and P = $130 c. Q = 800 and P = $130 d. Q = 2500 and P = $10 Suppose there are three types of customers who frequent Louisiana Fried Chicken(LFC), a fast food chain that sells chicken and biscuits. (For simplicity, assume anequal number of each type of customer) These customers have the followingvaluations (“reservation prices”) for chicken and biscuits:Consumer Chicken Biscuits1 $12 $12 $10 $33 $9 $4Suppose the fully allocated cost of making an order of chicken is $6 and the fullyallocated cost of making an order of biscuits is $2.50.If LFC sells chicken and biscuits as a meal deal, what price would be set for themeal deal which includes both an order of chicken and an order of biscuits? a. $13 b. $14 c. $15 d. $16 Two firms produce high quality aloha shirts: Hawaiian Wear (HW) and Island Wear (IW). Each firm has the same cost function given by TC = 20Q + Q2. The market demand for aloha shirts is P = 200 – 2QT where QT is the total output of the two firms. If each firm acts to maximize its profits, taking its rival’s output as given (i.e., the firms behave as Cournot oligopolists), what will the equilibrium level of output be for each firm? a. QHW = 18 and QIW = 18 b. QHW = 22.5 and QIW = 22.5 c. QHW = 45 and QIW = 45 d. QHW = 30 and QIW = 30 Suppose output is produced using only labor according to the production function Q = 5L –L^2. If the price of output is $10 and the cost of labor is $10, what is the profit maximizing amount of labor that should be employed? a. 2.5 units b. 0 units c. 2 units d. 10 units The Hawaiian Sea Salt Company sells salt to retail grocery chains in Hawaii and on the mainland. The demand function in each of these markets is: Hawaii grocery chains: P1 = 180 – 8Q1 Mainland grocery chains: P2 = 100 – 4Q2 Where P1 and P2 are the prices charged and Q1 and Q2 are the quantities sold in the respective markets. Hawaiian Sea Salt Company’s total cost function for salt is: TC = 50 + 20 (Q1 + Q2) If all transportation and other transaction costs between Hawaii and the Mainland were zero, could Hawaiian Sea Salt Company practice price discrimination? a. Yes, because the salt can only be produced in Hawaii. b. No, because on the mainland there are more substitutes available. c. No, because consumers would only buy it from the cheaper location. d. Yes, because demands still differ. You have devised a plan to provide cleaning services for local theaters. You plan to charge $20 to clean each facility. The method you plan to use requires leasing equipment costing $200 per month, but would require a labor cost of $10.00 per theater. How many theaters per month must you clean to break even? a. 25 b. 20 c. 50 d. 10

100 words min, no cut and paste cite refs.

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100 words min, no cut and paste cite refs.Examine, debate, and explain both the social and environmental consequences of an environmental disaster; such as the Exxon Valdez oil spill, Bhopal chemical release, Love Canal toxic waste, or any past or recent environmental disaster (i.e., Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill).

Hi i need help on my tutorial homework The question is Breifly explain the 2 condition that must be fulfilled for the consumer to maximise utility 6

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Hi i need help on my tutorial homework

The question is

Breifly explain the 2 condition that must be fulfilled for the consumer to maximise utility

6 marks

But is it the same concept as consumer equilibrium

Open genre assignment.

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I need help with a English question. All explanations and answers will be used to help me learn.

Project #4 OpenGenreAssignment

ENG 1020 Project #4: Open Genre Researched Argument and Rhetorical Analysis of Your Own Work

This assignment is about choosing an appropriate genre through which to take a strong stance on you current, local issue; providing evidence to logically support that argumentative claim; utilizing suitable rhetorical features to build your own ethos with a particular crowd and appropriate emotional appeal given your context; and “publishing” in the appropriate genre of your choosing.

To do this, to know who you’re writing to and what elements would appeal most to that crowd, you must choose a specific publication for this argumentative stance. One of the requirements for this piece is you need to persuade an opposing audience. So, where does your argument belong? Who is arguing this issue? Who cares to hear your views? Who, then, would be reading this text? What do they value? How can you convince them? In other words, audience is an important aspect to consider for success on this assignment.

The thing that should be neat, or possibly fun and even creative, is that you get to choose your genre. There are many, many possibilities, and we will cover some in class, but we will not be able to cover them all. So, the possibilities are limited only by your imagination, and potentially whether or not your argument fits into a specific genre.

Potential genres:

  • Letter to a public official, corporation or notable figure
  • Magazine or newspaper article
  • Internet forum posting
  • Website
  • Facebook page
  • Youtube video / documentary
  • Poem
  • Graphic novel
  • Add yours here: ___________

During the work on this project, you’ll be analyzing the genre first, and then you will utilize this analysis to decide how to build your own argument for this project based on the genre criteria.

Criteria:

  • Argument is apparent; you have chosen a side to argue from
  • Your argument is focused, relevant, up-to-date, and specific
  • You have a well-formulated, rhetorically sound argument that makes a clear and valid claim, uses logical evidence/support and has a well-balanced appeal to ethos and pathos.
  • The genre you choose is appropriate
  • You work within the framework of that genre
  • The length of the assignment is appropriate and effective
  • Citations for your source material are provided, within the parameters of the chosen genre
  • The length of the text and the scope of the argument is appropriate to the genre that you have chosen
  • If you make a film / slideshow/ etc., you provide a “manuscript” of the text.
  • If you decide on a poem (or song), I would like the analysis of the rhetorical choices you made in constructing the work to also discuss in detail the sources that influenced your piece (in the event you cannot work your sources in).
  • Your final draft of this project should look like your chosen genre as much as possible within your own means.
  • Grammatical competence and stylistic language use is evident. There should be no errors present, and your writing should be absolutely the best writing you can produce.
  • Meaningful, academic research must be evident in your argument; your sources are credible; you refer to an appropriate number of sources for your genre.
  • The opposing argument is addressed unless there is a really good reason that it isn’t.
  • The content will be evaluated in large part based on how well you negotiate the rhetorical context (publication, audience, that sort of thing)

RHETORICAL ANALYSIS

Worth 20 of the available 100 points

As you work on your project, you will make many rhetorical decisions as the creator. I am looking for you to present a thoughtful reflective analysis of your final project in which you discuss these choices and why you made them. The criteria for this assignment contain a lot of references to making choices appropriate to your genre. The Rhetorical analysis is where you explain those choices to maximize the effect of your argument for your target audience, genre, and publication. Convince me that you thoughtfully crafted your project with your audience and genre in mind. 500 words minimum

PRESENTATIONS

The last full week of class, will be spent on presentations. We want to see the work you have produced, and we want to be the audience you persuade to agree with you. This is worth 2 homework assignments, separate from the grade of the project. How you choose to present your project is up to you; some genres are more easily presented than others, so you may have to create a power point or something small additionally. The goal of the presentation is to show the class the work you have done. You will be expected to explain the hostile target audience, the choice of genre and publication, and the stylistic and rhetorical steps made to meet the needs of your audience and publication as well as present your argument to the class.

Complete 7 pages APA formatted article: How a Document Imaging Concept Has Evolving in Modern Civilization.

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Complete 7 pages APA formatted article: How a Document Imaging Concept Has Evolving in Modern Civilization. With the advancement in science and technology, the document imaging concept has become one of the most effective and essential concepts, which has helped business organizations as an official communication intermediary in modern civilization. The concept of document imaging has been introduced in the business in order to minimize the physical effort of humans. It has been observed that the traditional methods of storing paper and records required a higher rate of effort to manage the entire document imaging process. Moreover, it has been observed that more difficulties arise during the distributing and finding process. It can be further asserted that with the growing number of files, the difficulties in managing them also increased accompanied by significant time and effort consumption. The actual purpose of developing this document image process is to perform business operations quickly and