Is the Telephone Company Violating Your Privacy? Question 1: Do the increased surveillance power and capability of the US government present an ethical dilemma? Explain your answer. Question 2: Apply an ethical analysis of the issue of US government’s use of the communications data to fight terrorism. Question 3: What are the ethical‚ social‚ and political issues raised by the US government creating massive database to collect the calling data of millions of Americans? Answer 1‚ 2 and 3
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Case Title: EMT Accountable for Violating Patient’s Privacy An EMT employed by a volunteer fire department provided emergency care to a female patient for a possible drug overdose. The unresponsive patient was brought to a hospital. The EMT returned home and later spoke to a friend‚ telling her that she had assisted in taking a certain patient to the hospital emergency room for treatment for a possible drug overdose. Previous to the emergency‚ the EMT had never met the patient. However‚ about
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Prestige Telephone Company – Case Study In April 2003‚ Daniel Rowe‚ president of Prestige Telephone Company‚ was preparing for a meeting with Susan Bradley‚ Manager of Prestige Data Services‚ a company subsidiary. Partial deregulation and an agreement with the state Public Service Commission had permitted Prestige Telephone to establish a computer data service subsidiary to perform data processing for the telephone company and to sell computer service to other companies and organizations. Mr.
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Is Google Violating Users’ Privacy? The use of the Internet has become an indispensable tool for students‚ workers and people in general. Moreover‚ the use of search engines like Google is a daily routine activity when someone wants to inquire something. Google search engine is used to perform approximately two billion searches a day. Even though‚ it is a free services the rights of privacy can be compromised. According to the terms of use of the Google search engine‚ all the queries a user do
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Case Study #1. Salem Telephone Company 1. Variable expenses: Power (the more hours sold‚ the more energy consumed) The hourly personnel (operations) works only when the computers are in operation Fixed expenses: The rent has to be paid despite any level of production ($8‚000 monthly) The custodial services depend on Salem Telephone’s estimated space‚ they are independent from the revenue of the Company The computer leases were acquired to run the business (before it was actually started
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James Whittle Salem Telephone Company Case Study 9/29/2014 1.) The variable costs in Exhibit 2 are Power and Hourly Personnel Wages as the costs fluctuate from month to month and are driven by the revenue hours for the company. The fixed costs in Exhibit 2 are Rent‚ Custodial Services‚ Computer Equipment Leases‚ Computer Maintenance‚ Computer Depreciation‚ Office Equipment and Fixtures Depreciation‚ Salaried Staff Wages‚ Systems Development and Maintenance‚ Administrative Wages‚ Sales Wages
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revenue hours. All other costs are fixed with respect to revenue hours. With higher fixed cost‚ Salem Data Services has a higher leverage and is therefore riskier. 2. ($7‚896 + $1‚546) / 329 hours = $28.70 / hour. For every hour spent working‚ the company spends 28.70 dollars. 3. Intracompany Commercial Total Number of Hours (a): 205 138 343 Revenue (a x b): $82‚000 $110‚400 $192‚400 Variable Costs (a x c): ($5‚883.50) ($3‚960.60) ($9‚844.10) Contribution Margin: $76‚116.50
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option3‚ net income will increase to a benefit amount. However‚ if the promotion expense is equal to or less than 1548.72‚ this option should be taken consideration. 6. Based on my analysis above‚ Salem Data Services is a problem to Salem Telephone Company. Firstly‚ Flores should consider the promotion can be the turning point or not. Then decide if he will abort this service. For my consideration‚ I will recommend Flores to abort this unprofitable
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latest issues and/or repurchases of equity and/or debt of YOUR Company. a. Explain how owner’s equity could be affected by the choice of equity or liabilities. Use some ratios to illustrate. 1. The dividend payout ratio is 23.7 %( 159/671). Dividend payment can vary from different companies. For growing companies‚ they tend to reinvest using their equities so the dividend payment may be very low or even zero‚ but Beiersdorf is a mature company‚ so it has a high dividend payout ratio. Nevertheless
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The following questions are intended to guide you in the identification of important case issues (these are similar to the assignment questions at the end of the case). 1) Identify which of Prestige Data Services’ costs are variable‚ fixed‚ or mixed (recall that for a mixed cost‚ total costs = fixed costs + (variable cost per unit of cost driver x units of cost driver)). For variable costs‚ estimate variable costs per unit of cost driver (note that the cost driver may not be the same for every
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