Assignment4 – Applying different scales of measurement

Purpose: To develop an instrument applying different scales of measurement.

Researchers have estimated that about one-third of our edible global food supply goes uneaten (Block et al. 2016). Your research question or problem is to understand food waste during the preacquisition, acquisition, consumption and disposition stages of consumer decision making.

You may consider the following general, open-ended questions as starting point:

• How often do you actively think about food waste while choosing, preparing, consuming, or disposing of your food?
• How do you decide when to throw food away versus utilize it for another purpose? Is it a matter of habit, effort, hunger, or maybe even a rule of thumb?
• Reflect on the instances in the past when you have wasted food. How could public policies motivate consumers like you to establish waste-reducing behaviors?

Your task consists in developing a paper-and-pencil questionnaire to administer a survey. (Please do not collect data).

• Include survey instructions.
• Adapt the provided questions above and/or generate new closed-ended items including the following response categories:
  • At least two items using a nominal scale.
  • At least two items using an ordinal scale.
  • At least four items using an interval scale (each one with 5 response categories, including one don’t know/not applicable category).
  • At least two items using a ratio scale.
• Include relevant demographic questions at the end of the survey.

Format

• All assignments should be typed. Please use Times New Roman font, 12 pt.
• Be precise, concise and to the point.
• Your assignment should be submitted via Blackboard-Assignments/Projects tab.

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Assignment 1 Steps

Resources: Financial Accounting: Tools for Business Decision Making

Prepare a detailed liabilities section of O’Brian’s balance sheet using the following information:

• Accounts payable $157,000
• Notes payable (due May 1, 2018) $20,000
• Bonds payable (due 2021) $900,000
• Unearned rent revenue $240,000
• Discount on bonds payable $41,000
• FICA taxes payable $7,800
• Interest payable $40,000
• Notes payable (due 2019) $80,000
• Income taxes payable $3,500
• Sales taxes payable $1,700

Show work on the Week 3 Excel^® spreadsheet.

Note: This assignment requires that you only submit an Excel^® Workbook file. Use excel formulas to calculate results. There are no written or APA guideline requirements.

Assignment 2 P9-7A Blythe Corporation and Jacke Corporation, two companies of roughly the same size, are both involved in the manufacture of shoe‐tracing devices. Each company depreciates its plant assets using the straight‐line approach. An investigation of their financial statements reveals the information shown below.

	Blythe Corp.	Jacke Corp.
Net income	$  240,000	$  300,000
Sales revenue	1,150,000	1,200,000
Total assets (average)	3,200,000	3,000,000
Plant assets (average)	2,400,000	1,800,000
Intangible assets (goodwill)	300,000	0

Instructions

(a) For each company, calculate these values:

1. Return on assets.
2. Profit margin.
3. Asset turnover.

(b) Based on your calculations in part (a), comment on the relative effectiveness of the two companies in using their assets to generate sales. What factors complicate your ability to compare the two companies?

Compute depreciation under different methods.

Assignment 3 P10-10A On January 1, 2017, Lachte Corporation issued $1,800,000 face value, 5%, 10‐year bonds at $1,667,518. This price resulted in an effective‐interest rate of 6% on the bonds. Lachte uses the effective‐interest method to amortize bond premium or discount. The bonds pay annual interest January 1.

Instructions

(Round all computations to the nearest dollar.)

(a) Prepare the journal entry to record the issuance of the bonds on January 1, 2017.

(b) Prepare an amortization table through December 31, 2019 (three interest periods) for this bond issue.

(c) Prepare the journal entry to record the accrual of interest and the amortization of the discount on December 31, 2017.

(c) Interest Expense $100,051

(d) Prepare the journal entry to record the payment of interest on January 1, 2018.

(e) Prepare the journal entry to record the accrual of interest and the amortization of the discount on December 31, 2018.

Prepare journal entries to record issuance of bonds, payment of interest, and effective‐interest amortization, and balance sheet presentation.

ASSIGNMENT

The fundamental references for this assignment are the US DoD Continuous Process Improvement Transformation Guidebook and the US DoD Continuous Process Improvement / Lean Six Sigma Guidebook.

Using these two resources I need a 2-3-page essay describing:

1. The data that should be gathered before, during, and after the improvement initiative.

2. How the data should be collected.

3. What criteria should be applied to determine whether the intended improvements are working as intended.

REQUIRED REFERENCES:

DoD Continuous Process Improvement Transformation Guidebook

DoD Continuous Process Improvement / Lean Six Sigma Guidebook, http://www.au.af.mil/au/awc/awcgate/dod/cpi_leansi…

EXPECTATIONS:

2. PAPER LENGTH: 2-3 PAGES. Write what you need to write, neither more nor less.

3. FORMAT: Standard APA Format.

4. Ensure that your answer reflects your detailed understanding of the theory and techniques mentioned in the required references (see above) in this module.

5. Don’t go off on tangents or devote a lot of space to summarizing general background materials.

6. MAKE SURE TO USE THE LISTED REFERENCES. Make sure additional sources are from reliable and credible sources. Articles published in established newspapers or business journals/magazines are preferred. If you find articles on the Internet, make sure they are from a credible source.

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requirements

Refer to the guiding questions to the car2go case and links below at least 200 words each questions.

https://techcrunch.com/2014/08/30/critical-lessons…

https://www.forbes.com/pictures/eeji45emgkh/airbnb…

https://venturebeat.com/2012/05/22/car2go-could-ra…