How to Value Bonds 1. What is the present value of a 10-year‚ pure discount bond paying $1‚000 at maturity if the appropriate interest rate is: a. 5 percent? b. 10 percent? c. 15 percent? 2. Microhard has issued a bond with the following characteristics: Principal: $1‚000 Time to maturity: 20 years Coupon rate: 8 percent‚ compounded semiannually Semiannual payments Calculate the price of this bond if the stated annual
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prevent road crashes M S Siddiqui Legal Economist and pursuing PhD in Open University‚ Malaysia e-mail: shah@banglachemical.com The global policy is prevention of road crashes‚ not the punishment of drivers‚ one of the road users. Our problem lies with the failure to implement the laws. This is an inefficiency of the management writes M S Siddiqui http://www.thefinancialexpress-bd.com/2014/01/05/12204 Driving may be the most dangerous activity with which we are involved. Government estimated
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Alcohol Facts and statistics ( www.niaaa.nih.gov-2012 ) Global Burden of alcohol abuse‚ In 2012‚ 3.3 million deaths‚ or 5.9 percent of all global deaths (7.6 percent for men and 4 percent for women)‚ were attributable to alcohol consumption.. Alcohol contributes to over 200 diseases and injury-related health conditions‚ most notably alcohol dependence‚ liver cirrhosis‚ cancers‚ and injuries. In 2012‚ alcohol accounted for 5.1 percent of disability adjusted life years (DALYs) worldwide. Globally‚
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ask the individual what has happened telling the individual the changes that I have noticed. If it is in my place of work and the name of the person that abused the individual is known‚ whether staff or another service user‚ I must also record and report this. I will listen to the individual carefully; it is up to them to tell me‚ I would not ask them any questions about this as this is not part of my job role and would stay calm. I will make sure that I record what the individual tells
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Project: Teen Crashes Student Name: Session Date: Session Time: Hosting teachers: ***Answer each question using 3-5 complete sentences.*** Part 1 (150 points) 1. Why are teens at such a high risk for crash s?e Teens are the ones who are mostly in crashes due to recklessness‚ drugs‚ and being on the phone. 2. Explain what you learned about Teen Crashes and include 2-3 statistics. What I learned about teen crashes are that teens have the highest involvement in all crashes‚ ten teens
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When the word alcohol is brought up‚ what do you think about? What comes to my mind is parties‚ and what people think they have to drink to have fun. Did you know that over 5‚000 people under the age of 21 die each year from alcohol-related car crashes‚ suicides‚ homicides‚ alcohol poisoning‚ and other injuries such as falls‚ burns‚ and drowning? Alcohol can be a very dangerous substance if not treated correctly and drank responsibly. Alcohol is a form of a drug but unlike the other drug‚ marijuana
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allowed to buy alcohol at the age of 18? Why does iceland decide to be different from other countries like Denmark when it comes to the discussion about what age you should be allowed legally to buy alcoholic products? As most of us know you only have to be 16 in denmark to buy liquid products that contains alcohol from 1‚2% to 16‚5%. Is iceland being overprotective of its people or does the goverment really think this is fair? Well in many countries like Iran and Philippines alcohol is illegal so
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Traffic Modeling Traffic modeling in a sense is an overview of general traffic flow calculations. It provides a blueprint and a layout of incoming and outgoing traffic with a formula to calculate the timing of overall cars involved within the traffic flow. With the vast roads and streets managing traffic can be difficult without the proper calculations. Mathematical functions can be ways to express simplicity with the eliminations of difficult equations through the use of practical formulas.
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his week’s chapter talked about contributing factors to what causes someone to partake in domestic violence. Many studies have been conducted that reveal a correlation between people who have a substance abuse problem and people who engage in intimate partner violence. The studies support that men who have a drug or alcohol issue are 3.1 times more likely to abuse their partner. They also have found the same correlation with women who have a substance abuse issue. I was not surprised with all
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What are the skills involved in reading comprehension? 1. What is reading comprehension？ Understanding a written text means extracting the required information from it as efficiently as possible. For example‚ we apply different reading strategies when looking at a notice board to see if there is an advertisement for a particular type of flat and when carefully reading an article of special interest in a scientific journal. Yet locating the relevant advertisement on the board and understanding
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