Patel Subject: Recommendations Introduction Below are my recommendations to Mr. Philip Long‚ the CFO of DeviceCo‚ regarding tasks he has assigned me to do. The tasks entail answering the following questions in my analysis of whether LeaseMed is a Variable Interest Entity (VIE) and if DeviceCo should consolidate LeaseMed as a primary beneficiary: (1) Does DeviceCo qualify for the business scope exception‚ (2) Does LeaseMed have sufficient equity to finance its activities without additional subordinated
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Section B Attempt Any Six Questions (6*5= 30) 1. Company A’s costs are mostly variable‚ whereas Company B’s costs are mostly fixed. When sales increase‚ which company will tend to realize the greatest increase in profits? Explain. 2. Crystal Telecom has budgeted the sales of its innovative mobile phone over the next four months as follows: Sales in Units July. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30‚000 August . . . . . . . . . . . 45‚000 September . . . . . . . . 60‚000 October . . . .
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strong positive correlation Which of the following must be true? I. The variables x and y also have a correlation close to 1. II. A scatterplot of (x‚ y) shows a strong nonlinear pattern. III. The residual plot of the variables x and y shows a random pattern. (a) I only (b) II only (c) III only (d) I and II (e) I‚ II‚ and III 2. What is the purpose of residual plots? (a) To determine causation. (b) To assess the type of relationship that exists between x and y. (c) To
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Establishing Acute Pain Service Many hospitals have employed an acute pain service for nearly a decade‚ but for many hospitals in the United States this still is a new idea. What we’re seeing is a new modality in treatment and the way we approach it. An acute pain service (APS) primarily manages pain after traumatic injury or surgery. The basic aspects of an APS include standardization of analgesic techniques‚ increased pain monitoring and assessment‚ and the ability to respond to inadequate or
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Psychology AS Psychology (AQA‚ A) Research Methods Workbook Name …… Stella Akinwumi……………………………………... Section 1 - Quantitative and qualitative research methods Research methods are the ways that psychologists investigate a theory. Different methods will be appropriate for different topics/theories/situations. Quantitative = Quantitative research gathers data in numerical form which can be put into categories‚ or in
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Canonical Correlation Exercise (1) Discuss the importance of the variable in the dependent set. Spell out the linear composite variate selected. Canonical Correlations 1 .992 2 .859 3 .327 Test that remaining correlations are zero: Wilk’s Chi-SQ DF Sig. 1 .004 251.994 12.000 .000 2 .234 65.351 6.000 .000 3 .893 5.104 2.000 .078 The third function should be removed because of its lack of statistical
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CHAPTER 7 THE TWO-VARIABLE REGRESSION MODEL: HYPOTHESIS TESTING QUESTIONS 7.1. (a) In the regression context‚ the method of least squares estimates the regression parameters in such a way that the sum of the squared difference between the actual Y values (i.e.‚ the values of the dependent variable) and the estimated Y values is as small as possible. (b) The estimators of the regression parameters obtained by the method of least squares. (c) An estimator
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Assignment topic 1: The correlation of self-esteem and suicide The text book debates the merits of high self-esteem‚ noting that high self-esteem is not always good. Carry out research on one potential correlate with self-esteem. Answer the following questions : Why might the 2 factors be connected? What does research on this connection show? Propose how the relationahip could be further studied. Suicide‚ the act deliberate taking of one ’s life‚ disturbs and threatens human
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Two Variable Inequality Robin Bettasso Mat 221 January 20‚ 2013 a) Let ‘c’ be the number of classic maple rocking chairs and ‘m’ be the number of classic maple rocking chairs that Ozark Furniture Company make. b) Here we have given that a classic maple rocker requires 15 board feet of maple‚ and a modern rocker requires 12 board feet of maple. We have ‘c’ classic maple rocker‚ so total maple required for classic maple rocker chair = 15c board feet. And we have ‘m’ modern maple
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Correlation and Causation in the Civil Rights Movement: The Court’s Causal Influence on the Passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 The Civil Rights movement was a collaborative effort towards equal rights for African Americans. In 1954‚ the Supreme Court deemed “separate but equal” unconstitutional in the case‚ Brown v. Board of Education. Some scholars of the Supreme Court argue that the Court had direct‚ causal influence on the Civil Rights movement‚ while some argue that the Court had little
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