In Exercises 33 through 36, write an aevent procedure with the header Private Sub btnCompute_Click(…) Handles btnCompute.Click, and having one line for each step. Display each result by assigning it to the txtOutput.Text property. Lines that display data should use the given variable names.”. 34. The following steps compute the price of ketchup:a) Declare all variables used in steps (b)-(d)b) Assign “ketchup”to the variable item.c) Assign 1.80 to the variable regularPrice.d) Assign .27 to the variable discout.e) Display the phrase “1.53 is the sale price of ketchup.”36. The following steps give advice:a) Declare the variable used in step (b)b) Assign “Fore” to the variable prefix.c) Display the phrase “Forewarned is Forearmed.”

 

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14. In expanding into foreign markets, a company can strive to gain competitive advantage (or offset domestic disadvantages) by A. building a state-of-the-art facility to fully capture scale economies via an export strategy.B. using export, licensing, or franchising strategies so as to minimize risk and capital investment.C. locating buyer-related activities in all countries where it sells its product.D. dispersing its activities among various countries in a manner that lowers costs or else helps achieve greater product differentiation and transferring competitively valuable competencies and capabilities from its domestic operations to its operations in foreign markets.E. avoiding the use of strategies that entail coordinating its domestic strategic moves with its strategic moves in the various foreign markets that it enters.

Answer. D. dispersing its activities among various countries in a manner that lowers costs or else helpsachieve greater product differentiation and transferring competitively valuable competencies…

 

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In F#, I NEED TO IMPLEMENT A FUNCTION THAT :

• Returns a list of all numbers less than n that are divisible by 3 or 5.
• Returns a list of the first n numbers in the Fibonacci sequence.
• Returns the sum of the digits in a number. 5342 should return 14.

 

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In Fall 2016, you are hired as Controller of the Medical Device division of Virtek. You report to Steve Slack, the General Manager of the division. Virtek has annual sales of approximately $1.7 billion. The Medical Device Division annual sales are approximately $170 million, about 10% of Virtek’s total annual sales. The Medical Device Division had a very good 2016. As you close the books for 2016 in January 2017, you are reporting a net profit of $21.6 million, well above the 2016 target profit of $20 million for the division. After reviewing the preliminary 2016 financial statements, Steve Slack says,

“We get our bonuses as long as we meet or exceed our $20 million target for net profit. It doesn’t help us to exceed the target by more than one and a half million, that will only encourage corporate to make our target that much higher for 2017. I want you to develop a rational for increasing our reserve for inventory obsolescence that will reduce our 2016 net profit to just over $20 million.”

By taking a pessimistic view of future market prospects, you are able to identify $1.25 million worth of inventory that under those market conditions could be justifiably fully reserved (written off) using conservative accounting. Steve Slack is pleased with the results you reported to him. He said,

“That’s very good! I’m fairly confident we can sell all that inventory in 2017 without offering any more than a small discount off our regular price. That will boost our 2017 net profit by nearly $1 million. With that extra cushion, we’re almost certain to achieve our 2017 earnings targets and our bonuses. I want you to book that adjusting entry to increase our inventory reserve for obsolescence. Oh, by the way, are you sure you can’t find another $200,000 or so of inventory we could write off in the same manner? It wouldn’t hurt to have even more of a cushion.”

You were a little uncomfortable reviewing inventory for obsolescence with a specific target value in mind, and following the meeting with Steve Slack, you decide that before you book the adjusting entry to increase the inventory reserve for obsolescence as he instructed, you want to review the entire situation before proceeding.

Required memo to Steve Slack in good form. Your memo should:

1. Identify the ethical issues you both face.
2. Identify the major stakeholders involved and state how the stakeholders would be affected by the course of action ordered by Steve Slack.
3. Explain why you believe the course of action proposed by Steve Slack (identifying inventory that can be written down for 2016 that will likely be sold at no more than a small discount to normal prices in 2017) is ethical or unethical.
4. Regardless of whether you believe the course of action proposed by Steve Slack is ethical or unethical, identify an ethical alternative to his proposed course of action. Recommend one course of action, and explain and support your recommended choice.

 

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In February 2017, Dr. Christopher Duntsch became the first surgeon in American history known to be sentenced to prison for botching a patient surgery. A licensed neurosurgeon, Duntsch left a string of deaths and maimed bodies in his wake: He was accused of causing the death of two surgery patients and leaving 33 others permanently damaged. His patients left their lives in his hands; he left them paralyzed or dead.

The checks and balances that were supposed to contain Duntsch failed utterly. His medical school licensed him but didn’t require the preparation necessary to instill competence. Hospitals suspended him but didn’t report him. The medical board could do nothing without forms filed against him. Patients were left without recourse.

When checks and balances fail, damage is usually the result.

That’s why when it came to our system of government, the founders were so focused on creating gridlock. They recognized that in a system in which legitimacy sprang from popular support, the easy path to perdition lay in popularly backed centralized power — tyranny could spring just as easily from a popular majority as from a king or despot. The founders didn’t trust individuals with authority, and they didn’t trust human beings to delegate authority to mere individuals.

But popular governments have always bucked against such limitations. 

The majority of Americans always want action, on some grounds or others. That leads to an eternal drive to grant unchecked power to some institution of government. As Alexis de Tocqueville writes in his 1840 “Democracy in America”: “It may easily be foreseen that almost all the able and ambitious members of a democratic community will labor without ceasing to extend the powers of government, because they all hope at some time or other to wield those powers. … Centralization will be the natural government.”

We’re now seeing the consequences of such centralization on two separate fronts: the president’s authority to declare a national emergency and the FBI’s investigations into the president. Proponents of President Trump would like to see power centralized in the presidency; antagonists of President Trump would like to see power centralized in the FBI.

President Trump’s allies seem eager for Trump to declare a national emergency in order to appropriate funds for a border wall. The law cuts against such a declaration: The National Emergencies Act was written to curtail presidential authority, not increase it. No matter how much border hawks (including me) want a border barrier, the proper method is to request funds from Congress.

Meanwhile, President Trump’s enemies are celebrating reports this week that the FBI investigated Trump as a possible Russian agent after his firing of then-FBI director James Comey. Trump had authority under the Constitution to fire Comey, and there’s no actual evidence that Trump is an agent of the Russians. But Trump’s enemies want the legislature to step in and attempt to protect the FBI from executive branch checks on it.  

We’re now seeing the consequences of such centralization on two separate fronts: the president’s authority to declare a national emergency and the FBI’s investigations into the president. Proponents of President Trump would like to see power centralized in the presidency; antagonists of President Trump would like to see power centralized in the FBI.

President Trump’s allies seem eager for Trump to declare a national emergency in order to appropriate funds for a border wall. The law cuts against such a declaration: The National Emergencies Act was written to curtail presidential authority, not increase it. No matter how much border hawks (including me) want a border barrier, the proper method is to request funds from Congress.

Meanwhile, President Trump’s enemies are celebrating reports this week that the FBI investigated Trump as a possible Russian agent after his firing of then-FBI director James Comey. Trump had authority under the Constitution to fire Comey, and there’s no actual evidence that Trump is an agent of the Russians. But Trump’s enemies want the legislature to step in and attempt to protect the FBI from executive branch checks on it.

Scott Morefield

All of this is foolish. It’s good that the legislative branch checks the executive branch, and it’s good that the executive branch must remain in control of executive branch agencies. Here’s the easy test: How would you feel if the situations were reversed? How would Republicans feel about an emergency declaration from a Democratic president to shift funds to leftist priorities? How would Democrats feel about Republican attempts to seize control of the FBI for purposes of investigating a Democratic president?Nobody ought to trust institutions enough to grant them unchecked power. And no one ought to trust the people enough to allow us to do so.

Ben Shapiro, 35, is a graduate of UCLA and Harvard Law School, host of “The Ben Shapiro Show” and editor-in-chief of DailyWire.com. He is The New York Times best-selling author of “Bullies.” He lives with his wife and two children in Los Angeles.

 

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