1)Undertake a review of literature to explain why corporate social responsibility is gaining heightened importance for firms operating with financial objectives(200 words)2)Explain whether sustainability reporting in contrast with relevant other reporting concepts represents a holistic view of corporate social responsibility
1. Under current law, most Social Security recipients do not have to pay federal or state income taxes on their Social Security benefits. Suppose the government proposes to tax these benefits at the same rate as other types of income. What would be the impact of the proposed tax on the optimal retirement age?
2. Consider the following proposed changes to the current Social Security earnings test and determine if the changes lead to higher hours of work among retirees.
a. A change in the amount of exempt labor earnings, from $17,000 to $25,000.
b. An increase in the implicit tax rate from 33 to 50 percent.
1) Two months from today you plan to borrow $3 million for 3 months at LIBOR. You hedge your interest rate risk with a euro dollar futures contract priced at 93.6. If settled in arrears, what is your payment if the 3-month LIBOR rate is 2.5% (not annualized) in two months?
2) IBM and AT&T decide to swap $1 million loans. IBM currently pays 9.0% fixed and AT&T pays 8.5% on a LIBOR+ 0.5% loan. What is the net cash flow for IBM if they swap their fixed loan for
a LIBOR+ 0.5% loan and LIBOR rises to 8.5%?
3) The S&P 500 Index price is 1492.28 and its annualized dividend yield is 2.30%. LIBOR is .2%. How many futures contracts will you need to hedge a $240 million portfolio with a beta of 1.16 for one year? (Show your Work)
4) The annual coupon rate on a 1-year treasury bond is 5.5%. The coupon on a 2-year treasury bond is 5.8%. What is the implied 1 year forward rate?
5) Three months from today you plan to borrow $1.8 Billion for 6 months at LIBOR. You hedge 65% of your interest rate risk with a euro dollar futures contract priced at 99.2. If settled in arrears, what is your payment if the 6-month LIBOR is .28% in two months?
6) The current currency spot rate is $1.30 per euro. If dollar denominated interest rates are .24% and euro denominated interest rates are .2%, what is the likely dollar per euro value of
a 2 year forward contract
7) The S&P 500 Index is priced at $1450.91. The annualized dividend yield on the index is 2.10%. The continuously compounded annual interest rate is .12%. What is the price of a forward contract that expires 18 months from today?
8) Six months from today you plan to borrow $433 million for 6 months at LIBOR. You hedge 100% of your interest rate risk with a euro dollar futures contract priced at 99.4. If settled in arrears, what is your payment if the 6-month LIBOR is 2.5625% in six months?
1. Type of buyer and supplier relationship that are together in operational ways is classified as A.operational systems B.cooperative systems C.structural commitment D.structural adaptation 2.Type of exchange relationship in a specific adaptation without strong cooperation is called A.mutually contracts B.mutually adaptive C.mutual structure commitment D.commitment selling 3. In business markets, demand of business goods is more volatile than demand for consumer goods, is classified as A. fluctuating demand B.stable demand C.unstable demand D.freeze demand 4.Establishing of dams, irrigation, sanitation systems, pipelines and utilities are examples of A.sytems contracting B.system selling C.systems buying D. management supplies 5. Buying center includes all organizations who play roles as A. initiators and users B.deciders and approvers C.buyers and gatekeepers D.all of the above
1. Trace the progression of physical modeling throughout the development cycle of a system familiar to you.
2. Trace the progression of performance modeling throughout the development cycle of a system familiar to you.
3. Trace the progression of cost estimation throughout the development cycle of a system familiar to you.
1. Using a debugger, try to determine whether your C++ compiler uses static address tables to look up exception handlers. Describe what the debugger tells you is occurring when an exception is raised.
2. Write declarations in a language of your choice for the maintenance of a free list of memory as (a) a circular singly linked list, and (b) a noncircular doubly linked list. Write procedures to deallocate a block using both of these data structures, being sure to coalesce adjacent blocks. Compare the ease of coalescing blocks in each case.
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1. True or false: If a matrix chain involves a 1-by-k by k-by-I multiplication, then there is an optimal solution for which that multiplication is last. Defend your answer.
2. Write a program to find the second best way to multiply together a chain of matrices.
3. Draw the optimal binary search tree for the example in the text, but with all the frequencies increased by one.
1. Using Snippet 15.5, compute 
for the strategy described in exercise 3. At a significance level of 0.05, would you discard this strategy? Is this result consistent with PSR[𝜃∗]?
2. In general, what result do you expect to be more accurate, PSR[𝜃∗] or 
How are these two methods complementary?
3. Re-examine the results from Chapter 13, in light of what you have learned in this chapter.
(a) Does the asymmetry between profit taking and stop-loss thresholds in OTRs make sense?
(b) What is the range of p implied by Figure 13.1, for a daily betting frequency?
(c) What is the range of p implied by Figure 13.5, for a weekly betting frequency?
1.To create strategy between demand and supply, peak time efficiency, shared services and increased service participation are strategies of A.descriptive side B.demand side C.supply side D.complementary side 2. Categories of services mix and intangible are classified as example of A.pure tangible goods B.pure services C.tangible goods with accompanying services D.major service with minor goods 3. Qualities of product that buyers evaluate after purchasing product is classified as A.minor qualities B.search qualities C.credence qualities D.experience qualities 4. If price of product is $150, cost of maintenance is $15 and discounted salvage value is $85, then life cycle cost of product is A.$80 B.$165 C.$15 D.$85 5. Set of services expected by customers are classified as A.interactive service package B.descriptive service package C.primary service package D.secondary service package
1. Use the Peano kernel to determine the error of the trapezoidal sum rule.
2. Calculate the numerical convergence of (9.39) and (9.40) with the composite trapezoidal sum rule to show that the possession of derivatives does matter.
3. Show that Romberg integration with two levels of resolution h0 and h1 = h0/2 gives Simpson's rule, and with three levels of resolution (h2 = h0/4) gives Boole's rule.
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