Gung Ho is an American comedy movie released in 1986. The story of the movie is about the takeover of an American car plant by a Japanese corporation named “Assan Motors”. In a small town named “Hadleyville” in Pennsylvania‚ the local auto plant is closed for nine moths which supplied most of the jobs in the town. The former foreman of the plant goes to Tokyo and does a presentation to convince the “Assan Motors” corporation to re-open the plant and provide jobs for the town. The company agrees and
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Chi-Square Test Chi-square is a statistical test commonly used to compare observed data with data we would expect to obtain according to a specific hypothesis. For example‚ if‚ according to Mendel’s laws‚ you expected 10 of 20 offspring from a cross to be male and the actual observed number was 8 males‚ then you might want to know about the "goodness to fit" between the observed and expected. Were the deviations (differences between observed and expected) the result of chance‚ or were they due to
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Lisa Ho was born in 1963 in Albury on the boarder of Victoria and New South Wales. From the young age of 4 she was already making patterns out of newspaper and sewing with the help of her grandmother who was a tailor. By the age of 10 she had her own sewing machine and was making things for herself and her four sisters nearly every day. She graduated from Sydney Technical College in 1981. After working for another company for a year she decided to start her own line. Along with many other fashion
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A group of shareholders invested to set up a business called Binh Minh Co.‚ who trades Mobile phones. 1. 1/12 Invest to set up a business $8000 2. 1/12 borrow from B bank $5000 3. 1/12 paid in advance $1200 to rent a space in Dec and Jan. 4. 2/12 purchase equipment for $2100‚ useful life of 5 years‚ salvage value = 0. 5. 2/12 Purchase 100 mobiles for $50/unit‚ paid 60% in cash‚ the balance will be paid later 6. 3/12 Received $2000 cash in advance from customer
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Gung Ho The movie “Gung Ho” is about a Japanese automobile company called the “Assan Motors” beginning to do business in the United States where cultural problem occurs between the Japanese managers and American employees. In the start of the movie‚ Hunt Stevenson goes to Japan and asks the firm owners to re-open the auto plant. After a little persuasion by Hunt Stevenson‚ the Japanese owners agree to run the business in the United States‚ but make assurance that the company will be directed by
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Melbourne – Albury/Wodonga Melbourne to Albury/Wodonga via Seymour‚ Benalla and Wangaratta MONDAY – FRIDAY Service No. Train/Coach Seating/Catering MELBOURNE (Southern Cross) North Melbourne Broadmeadows Craigieburn Donnybrook Wallan Heathcote Junction Wandong Kilmore East Broadford Tallarook SEYMOUR Service No. TRAIN/COACH Seymour Avenel Stn Euroa Euroa Stn Violet Town Stn BENALLA Stn Benalla Stn WANGARATTA STN Wangaratta Stn Wangaratta City Springhurst Stn Chiltern Stn Wodonga TAFE‚ Univ. WODONGA
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Week 4 Discussion Questions By: Efrain Gonzalez FIN/370 June 26‚ 2012 Ghassan Rahal 1) What are main elements in calculating the cost of capital? How does an increase in debt affect it? How do you identify an organization’s optimal cost of capital? a) The main elements in calculating the cost of capital is the opportunity cost of all capital invested in an enterprise. b) An increase in debt affects it because the cost of debt capital is equivalent to the actual or imputed interest
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Reaction on Gung Ho movie When a Japanese automaker takes over a failed American auto plant‚ differences between American and Japanese work ethics threaten to close the plant. The local auto plant in Hadleyville‚ Pennsylvania‚ which supplied most of the town’s jobs‚ has been closed for nine months. Former foreman Hunt Stevenson (Michael Keaton) goes to Tokyo to try to convince the Assan Motors Corporation to reopen the plant. The Japanese company agrees‚ and upon their arrival in the U.S.‚
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Chapter 4 Solutions 2. You have just won $10 million in the state lottery which promises to pay you $1 million (tax free) every year for the next ten years. Have you really won $10 million? No‚ because the present discounted value of these payments is necessarily less than $10 million as long as the interest rate is greater than zero. 3. If the interest rate is 10%‚ what is the present value of a security that pays you $1‚100 next year‚ $1‚210 the year after‚ and $1‚331 the year after
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Scottish Independence Pre-reading What do you know about Scotland? Use 5 minutes on writing down what you know about Scotland Comprehension 1. What are the arguments for Scottish independence? What are the arguments against? - they want to make their own decisions. The for is Scotland will become lot more independent. 2. Do you think it is solely an economic question? Why/why not? It is not only because of the economic‚ but it has something to do with it. There are a lot of cultural
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