New engraver cost: $25,000 One-year loan cost: 12% interest Revenue per day from engraving: $975 Profit margin on engraving: 25% Potential days lost, if engraver breaks: 18 1. The local bank will loan Charlie $25,000 for 1 year at an interest rate of 12% with only one payment due at the end of the year. If Charlie borrows the full $25,000 for the new engraver, what will the total cost of the loan be? 2. Calculate the total amount of revenue (gross profit) that will be lost if the engraver breaks. 3. If the engraving business makes $975 per day in revenue and generates a net profit of 25%, how much profit is generated per day?

 

a.       Examine the manner in which investment banks previously used leverage to multiply profits and thus endangered the entire global financial system. Determine the role that the 1999 elimination of the Glass-Stegall Act played in the endangerment of the global financial system.

 

b.      Discuss the role of Special Purpose Entities (SPEs) in the fall of Enron. Examine the method in which Enron used SPEs to hide its liabilities. Determine the key reasons why accountants, investors, and creditors found it challenging to determine the real assets and liabilities of the company.

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Assignment 2: Telecommuting and the Mobile Worker
Due Week 4 and worth 100 points

The number of American telecommuters is expected to increase by 29 million telecommuters or 43% of the workforce by 2016 as more work gets performed from remote locations. Mobile workers can work from wherever they are and use the IT / IS technology necessary to access co-workers, company or corporate infrastructure, intranets, and other information sources.

Write a two to three (2-3) page paper in which you:

1. Describe the impact of telecommuting on energy conservation, IT operational costs, “green computing”, and shifts in telecommuters’ lifestyles (e.g., parents, disability, etc.).
2. Describe how the business infrastructure should be designed so that employees will be able to continue to perform business functions in the event of a disaster (i.e., storm, hurricane, or earthquake) that destroys or makes it impossible to access the buildings. 
3. Determine four (4) advantages and four (4) disadvantages of telecommuting from an IT manager’s point of view. Elaborate on each advantage and disadvantage.
4. Examine the effect of Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) to the IT infrastructure with regard to security, IT support, knowledge, and data management, green computing, and telecommuting.
5. Use at least three (3) quality resources in this assignment. Note: Wikipedia and similar Websites do not qualify as quality resources. 

Your assignment must follow these formatting requirements:

• Be typed, double spaced, using Times New Roman font (size 12), with one-inch margins on all sides; citations and references must follow APA or school-specific format. Check with your professor for any additional instructions.
• Include a cover page containing the title of the assignment, the student’s name, the professor’s name, the course title, and the date. The cover page and the reference page are not included in the required assignment page length.

The specific course learning outcomes associated with this assignment are:

• Demonstrate and plan for the integration of emerging technologies.
• Describe and evaluate the core concepts of data and information architecture.
• Design plans for business continuity.
• Use technology and information resources to research issues in enterprise architecture.
• Write clearly and concisely about enterprise architecture topics using proper writing mechanics and technical style conventions.

Grading for this assignment will be based on answer quality, logic / organization of the paper, and language and writing skills, using the following rubric.

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Please choose one of the following questions to answer: 1. Who was to blame for Britain’s failure to win a quick victory over the American rebels: General Howe, General Burgoyne, or the ministers in London? Explain your answer. 2. The text argues that it was the American people who decided the outcome of the war. Based on the evidence presented in the chapter, do you agree? Why or why not? 3.  Why have the Loyalists largely been forgotten in history?  Do you believe they acted out of patriotism to Britain or out of self-interest?  Explain. 4.  Which of the social changes brought about by the American Revolution do you consider most significant

Homework Assignment for Chapter 9

 

 

 

Shoppers must choose from the following list of car models:

 

 

 

Model	Amphibious	Hybrid	GPS Standard
Flamingo	Yes	No	Yes
Goose	Yes	Yes	No
Falcon	No	Yes	No
Hawk	No	No	Yes
Parakeet	No	No	No
Eagle	No	Yes	Yes
Penguin	Yes	Yes	Yes

 

 

 

Using your choice of structured English, Decision Table, or Decision Tree, capture the process specification that you would hand of to a programmer by way of a process in a DFD.   You may use the spreadsheet I used in class to demo and plug in the appropriate values.  If you do this, you don’t have to do all three methods, just one.  Delete the sheets you don’t use to make it easier for me to grade.  Use the same shading conventions (i.e. shade unused rules a different color)

 

 

 

If you prefer, you may make up your own decision array.  Use a similar number of criteria (minimum of three) and a similar number of outcomes (minimum of 7). Due Thursday.