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C# program

C# program

Write a program that reads a file consisting of students’ test scores in the range 0-200. It should then determine the number of students having scores in each of the following ranges: 0-24, 25-49, 50-74, 75-99, 100-124, 125-149, 150-174 and 175-200. Use labels to display the score ranges and the number of students for each range. The data file, testscores.txt, is located in the I:\kopp\outbox\CS 313 02\Program Assignment folder.
REQUIRED: You must use an array to hold the scores that are read from the file.
Add the following comments to the beginning of the program.
Name: Your Name
Class and Section: CS 313 02
Assignment: Program Assignment 02
Due Date: See above
Date Turned in:
Program Description: You write a short description of what the program will do

Extra Credit 5 points:
Add a check box to the form. When the checkbox is selected, the program should display on the form the class average.
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Compensation Strategy–Select an organization with which you are familiar and describe the type of compensation strategy it uses. 

Compensation Strategy

Select an organization with which you are familiar and describe the type of compensation strategy it uses. 
Guided Response:
Be sure your response is between 200-300 words and includes at least two scholarly references, one of which should be our course text.  Respond to at least two classmates’ posts.
 I need to respond to these two student’s discussion
Reply to Katise Aiken
An organization I am familiar with is Peoplease. This company has been around forever twenty years. We are a small company with about 60 employees. I am a Payroll Specialist and I have been with this company for over 11 years. The company provides services such as payroll, HR, benefits, and tax for mainly trucking companies all over the United States. The strategy that fits this company is the “total rewards strategy, including compensation, benefits, work-life effectiveness, recognition, performance management, and talent development” (Weathington, 2016. Ch. 1.2). When I first started at this company, the perks are what drew me to this company. The starting pay was decent, especially with no experience. We got a fairly good raise each year in addition to a nice size bonus. The benefits are exceptional. All Single medical coverage is paid 100% by the company. The coverage includes dental, medical, vision, and life. They offer tuition reimbursement for courses taken that is related to your job.
Our company, as well as our clients, recognize employees for doing a good job. With being recognized there is also a reward given whether it’s money or a letter recognition. The 401K plan is great, it consists of a match up to 4%. If a company keep the focus on compensation strategy that can and will build morale and with keep the employees motivated to do their job. “Compensation represents by far the most important element in the employment relationship and is of equal interest to the employer, employee and government” (Bhatia, 2010. pg. 2). Keep in mind compensation strategies will help motivate, but will also attract new good and qualified candidates to the company.
Bhatia, K. (2010). Compensation management. [electronic resource]. Mumbai; Himalaya Pub. House, 2010. Retrieved from: http://eds.b.ebscohost.com.proxy-library.ashford.edu (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site.
Weathington, B. L. & Weathington, J. G. (2016).  Compensation and benefits: Aligning rewards with strategy  [Electronic version]. Retrieved from https://ashford.content.edu (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site.
Reply to Ana Rojas
Hello professor and classmates.
The organization with which I am familiar with is a Bank but have never worked there. The type of compensation strategy it uses is through salary, bonuses, vacation, sick days, 401k, commissions, and insurances. As it says in our text is an excellent strategy “to keep the new potential hire focused on performance and not distracted by personal matters” (Weathington & Weathington, 2016, Sec. 1.2). This organization has a desirable approach to recruit the right employees. This technique will avoid absences, turnovers and the temptation to take advantage to request more of what is set.
They offer salary depending on the experience and market.  They make an appointment specifically to negotiate with the possible future employee before any decision.
Bonuses are always on the table. Every employee who goes to a general doctor will receive an amount of $300-$700 annually. There are other types of written test about a daily routine that they can go and get a bonus.
Vacation is paid for three weeks. In case that an employee does not use it, the money is transferred to them.
They give around ten days for the sick days.
The 401k works by taking whatever the employee wants from 1% to 6% from each check. The bank doubles the amount of each dollar. This amount could be retired in cases that employee leaves for the total amount and in any case.
Commissions work in a private matter. However, chargeback is applicable. This action means that if the customer terminates the offer the employee needs to pay the points back to the organization. This system applies for the next six months people enrolled. After that no chargeback is applicable.
Insurance plan is great. It offers health in vision, dental, general and specialists. They can cover the whole family. The fee is around $600 monthly for all.
Compensation is one of the Bank’s strengths. However, I have heard that some of the bonuses as the one for medicals are not available anymore starting this year and some others will discontinue because their system is interested in incorporating another technological strategy with fewer employees. Another reason could be because of the recent financial crisis our country and society has been experiencing (Proctor & Murtagh, 2014). Many organizations were obligated to implement this cut. Previous employees from the bank say that the rate of commissions and bonuses were multiple times better before than what is today.
Reference
Proctor, R. & Murtagh, J. (2014). Incentive compensation for bank CEOS and CFOS before and after the financial crisis. Journal of Legal, Ethical and Regulatory Issues, 17(2), p.61. Retrieved from http://bi.galegroup.com.proxy-library.ashford.edu/global/article/GALE%7CA397579854/9b3aaa91dafaf767eb0a184e7eceb4d4?u=ashford
Weathington, B. L. & Weathington, J. G. (2016). Compensation and benefits: Aligning rewards with strategy [Electronic version]. Retrieved from https://ashford.content.edu

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Research your state’s law, or a state in which you are familiar, on protective orders and identify who is covered and who is not

Research your state’s law, or a state in which you are familiar, on protective orders and identify who is covered and who is not.
Draft a  700-word position statement to a state legislator, recommending improvements to the law and articulate solid arguments to support your recommendations based on best practice and victim rights and protection.

  • In general, is the person identified in the order is under correctional supervision? Would that change your recommendations for improving the law?

Include a discussion of duration or scope of coverage.
Format your paper consistent with APA guidelines.
Include at least three scholarly references.
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Real Estate Appraisal

finance quiz

Fin 480 | Real Estate Appraisal | Exam 1 v1
INSTRUCTIONS
Before the test:
1. This is a close-book, close-note test, work independently.
2. The CSUSB Academic Honesty Policy will be strictly enforced.
At the start of the test:
1. This test contains 8 pages.
2. Before starting, please check your exam and verify if all the pages are printed properly and are in order.
How to answer:
1. This test contains 40 questions.
2. Choose the BEST answer for each of the multiple choice questions; there is only ONE best answer for each question.
3. Enter your answer for each question on the ANSWER SHEET; note that ONLY the answer sheet will be graded, but please turn in the entire packet.
After the test:
1. At the end of the test, please submit your exam to my through email at yu.liu@csusb.edu.
2. Failing to do so will receive a zero on the exam.
Section1: Multiple choice questions (2.5 points each)
1. An appraisal can be described as a process to produce
A. A statement of value
B. A fixing of value
C. An estimate of value
D. None of the above
2. The value of an object means its
A. Fixed amount
B. Worth, utility or usefulness to someone for some purpose
C. Highest asking price
D. Value for any purpose
3. For appraisal purposes, market value generally may be defined as
A. The most probable selling price
B. The amount of the loan commitment
C. The asking price
D. The highest offer
4. Informal appraisals include
A. Price comparisons made by consumers
B. The familiar “market analysis” made by sales agents
C. Value judgments based on intuition and experience
D. All of the above
5. As contrasted with informal appraisals, formal appraisals
A. Are always in writing
B. Are based primarily on supporting data
C. Depend primarily upon intuition
D. Cannot be easily reviewed
6. Which statement accurately describes a formal appraisal report?
A. It may be either oral or written
B. It may vary in length from a short form or letter to a detailed narrative
C. Its form and contents are governed by professional and legal standards
D. All of the above are true
7. Which of the following statements about the government survey system is false?
A. A township is 36 sections
B. A section is 640 acres
C. A section measures one square mile
D. All sections are the same exact size
8. To be valid, a contract must
A. Include an offer, an acceptance, and consideration
B. Involve competent parties, an act to be performed, legal consideration, a mutual agreement, and the mutuality of obligation
C. Both a. and b.
D. Comply with the Statute of Frauds
9. The bundle of rights includes
A. The right to occupy, exclude others, or to sell
B. The right to borrow against
C. The right to convey by inheritance
D. All of the above
10. When title to property reverts to the state because the owners left no will or heirs, it is because of the government’s right of
A. Police power
B. Eminent domain
C. Taxation
D. Escheat
11. Air pollution regulations are based on the governmental authority called
A. Police power
B. Eminent domain
C. Taxation
D. Escheat
12. The appraisal process involves four steps, the first of which is to
A. Choose an appropriate value approach
B. Define the appraisal problem
C. View the property
D. None of the above
13. Which of the following is not an important consideration with regard to the definition of market value?
A. Motives of buyer and seller
B. Informed parties
C. A good location
D. Terms of the sale
14. Which approach to value is considered to be the most direct and reflective of market actions?
A. The sales comparison approach
B. The cost approach
C. The income approach
D. None of these
15. The economic base of a town depends upon
A. Its local services
B. The type of function it serves
C. Its export production
D. Its land-use pattern
16. The land use patterns of a community will often be determined by
A. The town’s origin
B. The topography
C. The transportation systems in use
D. All of the above
17. Which of the following is not a characteristic of a perfect market?
A. Large numbers of buyers and sellers
B. Products are similar and interchangeable
C. Government plays a large role
D. Items are small and inexpensive
18. Appraisers study real estate markets in order to
A. Identify changing price levels
B. Evaluate market reaction to property differences
C. Evaluate the strength of various economic forces
D. All of the above
19. When supply and demand are in balance, value is theoretically equal to
A. The original asking price
B. The cost of reproduction, including profit
C. The appraised needed for a loan
D. Value in use
20. Which of the four agents of production is said to be entitled to the “surplus” of productivity?
A. Labor
B. Capital
C. Land
D. Coordination or management
21. If there are no comparable sales available, which method can be used to appraise vacant commercial land?
A. The market method
B. The allocation method
C. The land residual method
D. None of the above
22. When a jurisdiction concludes that environmental impact reports are required on any new development in an area, the likely immediate result is that
A. Developed properties suffer
B. Vacant land values increase
C. Vacant land values decrease
D. None of the above
23. The main physical unit(s) of comparison in the analysis of vacant land are
A. Price per square foot, front foot, or acre
B. Terms of sale, time, location, and physical characteristics
C. Price, topography, view
D. Price per room
24. Cost estimates used in appraisal relate to
A. Typical costs
B. Wholesale costs
C. Actual costs to owner
D. Cost of materials plus labor
25. Which of these is the best definition of appraisal:
A. A scientific calculation of property
B. The process of mathematically measuring value
C. Investigation and measurement of financial parameters
D. The act or process of developing an opinion of value
26. The power of government to regulate for the public health, safety, and welfare is known as:
A. the police power
B. the power of eminent domain
C. states’ rights
D. sovereignty
27. An item that is not part of the real estate is considered to be:
A. a fixture
B. an appurtenance
C. an improvement
D. personal property
28. Smith and Jones are neighbors. There is an easement across Jones’ property to provide access to Smith’s parcel. If Jones sells his property to Brown, Smith:
A. must negotiate a new easement agreement with Brown
B. may continue to use the easement without interruption, regardless of the sale
C. may continue to use the easement unless Brown objects
D. must notify Brown of the existence of the easement
29. Which of the following is not one of the four factors of value:
A. utility
B. scarcity
C. desire
D. cost
30. An example of a social force that could affect real estate values is:
A. wage levels
B. population shifts
C. climate
D. unemployment
31. According to the principle of supply and demand, prices will tend to increase when:
A. supply exceeds demand
B. demand exceeds supply
C. supply and demand are in balance
D. competition increases
32. In defining an appraisal problem, it is important to identify:
A. the use of the appraisal
B. the purpose of the appraisal
C. the scope of work
D. All of the above
33. Which of the following types of depreciation is almost always incurable?
A. Physical deterioration
B. Functional obsolescence
C. External obsolescence
D. None of the above
34. Worn-out carpeting in a house would most likely fall into the category of:
A. curable physical deterioration
B. incurable physical deterioration
C. curable functional obsolescence
D. incurable functional obsolescence
35. In the cost approach to value, the value of the land or site is:
A. ignored
B. estimated separately
C. adjusted on the basis of reproduction cost
D. based on unit cost
36. The effective age of an improvement:
A. depends on the actual age of the improvement
B. is the difference between actual age and economic life
C. is the difference between actual age and remaining economic life
D. is the difference between economic life and remaining economic life
37. Depreciation may be measured by the:
A. breakdown method
B. economic age-life method
C. market extraction (sales-data) method
D. any of the above
38. An estimate of replacement cost would include the cost of all of the following except:
A. entrepreneurial profit
B. super-adequacies in the subject property design
C. construction loan interest
D. property taxes during the construction period
39. If construction costs are 10% higher in the local market than the average costs listed in a cost manual, the appraiser should adjust the unit costs used in the cost estimate by:
A. multiplying them by 10%
B. multiplying them by 110%
C. multiplying them by 90%
D. dividing them by 10%
40. A 20-year-old building is estimated to have a total economic life of 50 years. How much is the value loss?
A. 50%
B. 40%
C. 80%
D. 4/7
ANSWER SHEET 1
Last Name: _______________________First Name: _________________________Student ID: _________________________
Multiple choice questions (2.5 points each); (Enter your answer below, A, B, C, D, or E)

M01 M11 M21 M31 M41
M02 M12 M22 M32 M42
M03 M13 M23 M33 M43
M04 M14 M24 M34 M44
M05 M15 M25 M35 M45
M06 M16 M26 M36 M46
M07 M17 M27 M37 M47
M08 M18 M28 M38 M48
M09 M19 M29 M39 M49
M10 M20 M30 M40 M50

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Ethics In Global Finance

For this discussion, you will research and share financial ethical considerations for your final project parent company and its foreign subsidiary. You will also reflect on the course and discuss how you will apply what you have learned going forward.
Review the Code of Ethics and Standards of Professional Conduct and the Sarbanes-Oxley Act in this module’s resources, and in your initial post to the discussion, address the following:

In responding to your peers, offer your own perspective on the points regarding ethics practices in different global markets that they have brought up. Expand upon their responses by offering your own insight based on your work in the course or on your own professional experience.
The company is Walmart and expansion to South Africa.
One to one half page.

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analysiing and articulating company financial statements

 
Being able to analyse and articulate company financial statements is an invaluable skill that ensures managers have a strong grasp on all facets of the business. Specifically, financial literacy ensures managers, particularly the Chief Financial Officer (CFO) and Treasurer are equipped with relevant up-to-date knowledge to make crucial decisions in order to maximise the wealth of the organisation-a fundamental principle of financial management. Furthermore, financial managers must have a deep understanding of domestic and international capital markets for issuing capital instruments such as bonds (debt) and/or shares (stocks). This ensures a corporation can effectively raise long-term capital to acquire profitable assets to maximise wealth for its shareholders.
Ratio analysis and securities valuation
1. Choose two publicly listed non-financial companies from the same industry and obtain their latest financial statements from the IBISWorld or Marketline database (available via the library link in the student portal). Perform a complete ratio analysis on each company. Break your analysis into an evaluation of the firm’s liquidity, profitability, capital structure and market ratios.
Select the following ratio from each category for your analysis.
· Liquidity – Current ratio
· Profitability – Return on Equity ratio
· Capital Structure Ratio – Debt (Gearing) ratio
· Market Ratio – Price-Earnings ratio
In addition to this, you are required to analyse and interpret the ratios along with any other relevant data with reference to the theoretical concepts introduced in this subject to evaluate the company’s operations and performance. How well does your selected company compare with the industry peer? Which component of your company’s ROE is superior, and which are inferior?
2. Suppose your selected company (choose one of the two) just paid a dividend of $2.20 per share. The dividends are expected to grow at a constant rate of 4% per year, indefinitely. You employ the Capital Asset Pricing Model (CAPM) to calculate the share’s expected return. You observe that the risk-free rate of return on US treasuries is 2% p.a; the market risk premium is 7% and the company’s equity has a current beta of 1.285.What is the market value of the company’s shares? Compare the actual closing price of your selected company’s share on the balance sheet date. Why might the actual share price differ from the calculated price? Explain.
3. Assume a mining company PHP LTD. is assigned a AA credit rating by Standard and Poors. The company is looking to expand its operations into an already discovered iron ore deposit 600 km’s north of Adelaide in outback South Australia. PHP is looking to finance the $20 billion expansion with multiple sources of capital including raising $5 billion in $AUD senior debt into the US private placement bond market (reg 144a). PHP’s lead capital funding managers (underwriters) will offer a 10-year; fixed semi-annual coupon of 5.75% p.a. with a face value of AUD $1,000. The all-up market yield will be benchmarked at 230 basis points above the current Australian Government Bond 10-year of 2.35% p.a.. Calculate the price at which the bonds will trade at in the market?
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factors that lead to an organization's success or failure: risk assessment

Risk Management Applications
While there are many factors that lead to an organization’s success or failure, it is important to identify the risk associated with the endeavor—financial or non-financial. Once the risks have been identified, management has a responsibility to develop measures to mitigate those risks.
Tasks:
Use the publicly-traded company you chose in Module 1 and imagine it has made a strategic decision to start doing business in China. Using the discussion, Currency Exchange Rates: A Case in China with Country Risk, (Chapter 7, Global Finance, page 192 of your textbook) as a model for the report you will write, prepare a report in which you:
—–>*Please the publicly-traded company that I chose in M1 Assignment is “Wells Fargo & Company”

  1. Develop a brief country risk assessment.
  2. Determine the political, economic, social, and capital risks associated with doing business in China. What are the most important factors to consider? Why?
  3. After years of keeping the Yuan pegged to the US dollar, in 2015 the Chinese  allowed it to float freely in international currency exchange rate markets. You may read more about the Yuan reforms here. Many economists believe that keeping the Yuan pegged to the US dollar has caused it to be undervalued by 30 to 50 percent. Discuss what impact a revaluation of the Yuan might have on US multinationals doing business there, on China’s exports, and on Chinese citizens’ standard of living. What impact would a revaluation have on Chinese inflation and on purchasing power parity? Explain.
    Your paper should be about 2,000 words.
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Language of business statistics/analytics

Dsc 211

Below are examples of Supporting a conclusion/recommendation using the Language of business statistics/analytics for your consideration as you are answering the essay question relative to a lab question.

The printing company has an agreement with his supplier that he is to return a shipment that is 10 percent or more defective. Should this morning’s shipment be returned? Explain your assertion using the language of statistics and analytics

Example Answer 1: No the company shouldn’t return the cups. It says to return the cups if they are 10% or more defective, but from the sample the defective rate is only .05. The confidence interval is from .025 to .075 which means that the probability the cup will be functioning is very high. There is no need for the company to return the shipment.

Example Answer 2: There is a possibility that the shipment should be returned because the margin of error allows the number of defects to reach over .1 while the estimated number of defects is about 7% of the shipment with a 95% confidence level. Since the z score is rather high at 95% there is no guarantee that the shipment will have the right number of defects

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Business Law Assignment 8 Questions

MAKE SURE TO ADD ALL CITING AT THE END OF YOUR ASSIGNMENTS AS WELL.
Please post your answers  in detail to:
Chapter 2 assignment : Essay questions with citing.
#1,2,3,4- page 47
Chapter 5 assignment: Essay questions  1,2,3,4 page 132-133
1. The Senate recently released a report on wrongdoing at JP Morgan Chase. It found that bank executives lied to investors and the public. Also, traders, with the knowledge of top management, changed risk limits to facilitate more trading and then violated even these higher limits. Executives revalued the bank’s investment portfolio to reduce apparent losses. JP Morgan’s internal investigation failed to find this wrongdoing. Into what ethics traps did these JP Morgan employees fall? What options did the executives and traders have for dealing with this wrongdoing? 
2. Located in Bath, Maine, Bath Iron Works builds high tech warships for the Navy. Winning Navy contracts is crucial to the company’s success—it means jobs for the community and profits for the shareholders. Navy officials held a meeting at Bath’s offices with its executives and those of a competitor to review the specs for an upcoming bid. Both companies desperately wanted to win the contract. After the meeting, a Bath worker realized that one of the Navy officials had left a folder on a chair labeled: “Business Sensitive.” It contained information about the competitors’ bid that would be a huge advantage to Bath. William Haggett, the Bath CEO, was notified about the file just as he was walking out the door to give a luncheon speech. What should he do? What pitfalls did he face? What result if he considered Mill, Kant, or the Front Page test?
3. A group of medical schools conducted a study on very premature babies—those born between 24 and 27 weeks of gestation (instead of the normal 40 weeks). These children face a high risk of blindness and death. The goal of the study was to determine which level of oxygen in a baby’s incubator produced the best results. Before enrolling families in the study, the investigators did not tell them that being in the study could increase their child’s risk of blindness or death. The study made some important discoveries: the level at which too much oxygen increased the risk of blindness and level at which too little increased the risk of death. What would Mill and Kant say about this decision not to tell the families?
4. Because Raina processes payroll at her company, she knows how much everyone earns, including the top executives. This information could make for some good gossip, but she has kept it all completely secret. She just found out, however, that her boss knew that it is against company policy for her to do payroll for C-level employees. Yesterday, the CEO went to her boss to confirm that he, the boss, was personally doing the processing for top management. Her boss lied to the CEO and said that he was. Then he begged Raina not to tell the truth if the CEO checked with her. Raina just got a message that the CEO wants to see her. What does she say if he asks about the payroll?
1. YOU BE THE JUDGE WRITING PROBLEM Scott Fane was a CPA licensed to practice in New Jersey and Florida. He built his New Jersey practice by making unsolicited phone calls to executives. When he moved to Florida, the Board of Accountancy there prohibited him (and all CPAs) from personally soliciting new business. Fane sued. Does the First Amendment force Florida to forgo foreclosing Fane’s phoning? Argument for Fane: The Florida regulation violates the First Amendment, which protects commercial speech. Fane was not saying anything false or misleading, but was just trying to secure business. This is an unreasonable regulation, designed to keep newcomers out of the marketplace and maintain steady business and high prices for established CPAs. Argument for the Florida Board of Accountancy: Commercial speech deserves—and gets—a lower level of protection than other speech. This regulation is a reasonable method of ensuring that the level of CPA work in our state remains high. CPAs who personally solicit clients are obviously in need of business. They are more likely to bend legal and ethical rules to obtain clients and keep them happy, and will lower the standards throughout the state.
2. President George H. W. Bush insisted that he had the power to send American troops into combat in the Middle East, without congressional assent. Yet before authorizing force in Operation Desert Storm, he secured congressional authorization. President Bill Clinton stated that he was prepared to invade Haiti without a congressional vote. Yet he bargained hard to avoid an invasion, and ultimately American troops entered without the use of force. Why the seeming doubletalk by both Presidents?
3. In the landmark 1965 case of Griswold v. Connecticut, the Supreme Court examined a Connecticut statute that made it a crime for any person to use contraception. The majority declared the law an unconstitutional violation of the right of privacy. Justice Black dissented, saying, “I do not to any extent whatever base my view that this Connecticut law is constitutional on a belief that the law is wise or that its policy is a good one. [It] is every bit as offensive to me as it is to the majority. [There is no criticism by the majority of this law] to which I cannot subscribe—except their conclusion that the evil qualities they see in the law make it unconstitutional.” What legal doctrines are involved here? Why did Justice Black distinguish between his personal views on the statute and the power of the Court to overturn it?
4. Gilleo opposed American participation in the war in the Persian Gulf. She displayed a large sign on her front lawn that read, “Say No to War in the Persian Gulf, Call Congress Now.” The city of Ladue prohibited signs on front lawns and Gilleo sued. The city claimed that it was regulating “time, place, and manner.” Explain that statement, and decide who should win.