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1.   Talk to the manufacturing vice president and emphasize the responsibility that Petro-Tech has as an industry leader to set an example. Present her with a recommendation that Petro-Tech participate in voluntary pollution reduction as a marketing tool and as a way to position itself as the environmentally friendly choice.

Daniel is considering selling two stocks that have not performed well over recent years. A friend recently informed Daniel that one of his stocks has a special designation, which allows him to treat a loss up to $50,000 on this stock as an ordinary loss rather than the typical capital loss. Daniel figures that he has a loss of $60,000 on each stock. If Daniel’s marginal tax rate is 35 percent and he has $120,000 of other capital gains (taxed at 15 percent), what is the tax savings from the special tax treatment?

A direct extrusion operation produces the cross section shown in Figure P19.32(a) from a brass billet whose diameter = 125 mm and length = 350 mm. The flow curve parameters of the brass are K = 700 MPa and n = 0.35. In the Johnson strain equation, a = 0.7 and b = 1.4. Determine (a) the extrusion ratio, (b) the shape factor, (c) the force required to drive the ram forward during extrusion at the point in the process when the billet length remaining in the container = 300 mm, and (d) the length of the extruded section at the end of the operation if the volume of the butt left in the container is 600,000 mm3 .

1.    : Goals that are overly ambitious can discourage employees and decrease motivation, yet the idea of stretch goals is proposed as a way to get people fired up and motivated. As a manager, how might you decide where to draw the line between a “good” stretch goal and a “bad” one that is unrealistic?

In Problem 21.18, compute the lathe power requirements if feed = 0.50 mm/rev

What is a machining center?

What are two other names for ram type EDMs?

A 200.00 mm sine bar is used to inspect an angle on a part. The angle has a dimension of 35.0 ± 1.8°. The sine bar rolls have a diameter of 30.0 mm. A set of gage blocks is available that can form any height from 10.0000 to 199.9975 mm in increments of 0.0025 mm. Determine (a) the height of the gage block stack to inspect the minimum angle, (b) height of the gage block stack to inspect the maximum angle, and (c) smallest increment of angle that can be setup at the nominal angle size. All inspection is performed on a surface plate.

The largest axis of a Cartesian coordinate robot has a total range of 750 mm. It is driven by pulley system capable of a mechanical accuracy = 0.25 mm and repeatability = ±0.15 mm. Determine the minimum number of bits required in the binary register for the axis in the robot's control memory.

Assume the same information as in IFRS17-12 except that Roosevelt has an active trading strategy for these bonds. The fair value of the bonds at December 31 of each year-end is as follows. 2014 $534,200 2017 $517,000 2015 $515,000 2018 $500,000 2016 $513,000 Instructions (a) Prepare the journal entry at the date of the bond purchase. (b) Prepare the journal entries to record the interest received and recognition of fair value for 2014. (c) Prepare the journal entry to record the recognition of fair value for 2015.

1.    : A new business venture must develop a comprehensive business plan if it hopes to acquire start-up funding. Companies such as FedEx and Nike say they did not follow their original plans closely. Does this mean that developing the plan was a waste of time for these eventually successful companies?

Twenty-five jewelry pieces, each with a surface area = 0.5 in2 are to be gold plated in a batch plating operation. (a) What average plating thickness will result if 8 amps are applied for 10 min in a cyanide bath? (b) What is the value of the gold that will be plated onto each piece if one ounce of gold is valued at $900? The density of gold = 0.698 lb/in3

Under what circumstances would you expect the after-tax return from an investment in a capital asset to approach that of tax-exempt assets assuming equal before-tax rates of return?

1.       Give five examples of business processes at Tesla.  How do they create business value for Tesla and its shareholders?

Solve Problem 20.27 except that the corner radius on the punch = 10 mm.

0 A riser in the shape of a sphere is to be designed for a sand casting mold. The casting is a rectangular plate, with length = 200 mm, width = 100 mm, and thickness = 18 mm. If the total solidification time of the casting itself is known to be 3.5 min, determine the diameter of the riser so that it will take 25% longer for the riser to solidify

What is hardness, and how is it generally tested?

What are inside basis and outside basis, and why are they relevant for taxing partnerships and partners?

C. Reither Co. reports the following information for 2014: sales revenue $700,000; cost of goods sold $500,000; operating expenses $80,000; and an unrealized holding loss on available-for-sale securities for 2014 of $60,000. It declared and paid a cash dividend of $10,000 in 2014. C. Reither Co. has January 1, 2014, balances in common stock $350,000; accumulated other comprehensive income $80,000; and retained earnings $90,000. It issued no stock during 2014. Instructions Prepare a statement of stockholders’ equity.

1. If 4x exchange for 3m what are the terms of trade? 2. If the terms of trade are 3, how many units of the imported good could I buy for the money earned by the sale of 1 unit of the exported good? What is the exchange ratio?

1.    As an administrator for a medium sized hospital, you and the board of directors have decided to change the business from a short-term, acute-care facility to a drug dependency hospital. How would you go about executing this strategy?

What is rapid prototyping? Provide a definition of the term.

Financial and non-financial measures Managers increasingly use a mixture of financial and non-financial measures for organisational performance.         Required In the following list of performance measures, identify those that are financial (F) and those that are non-financial (N).   (a)     Customer satisfaction ratings (b)     Market share (c)     Operating margin (d)     Return on sales (e)     Annual average purchase amount per customer (f)      Defect rate (g)     Normal spoilage (h)     Labour efficiency variance (i)      Number of new products developed annually (j)      Revenues from new products introduced this year

Determine the shape factor for metallic particles of the following ideal shapes: (a) sphere, (b) cubic, (c) cylindrical with length-to-diameter ratio of 1:1, (d) cylindrical with length-to-diameter ratio of 2:1, and (e) a disk-shaped flake whose thickness-to-diameter ratio is 1:10.

1.    : If you are the CEO of a global company, how might you determine whether a globalization, multidomestic, or glocalization strategy would work best for your enterprise? What factors would influence your decision?