Consider the following scenario:

Deer Valley Lodge, a ski resort in the Wasatch Mountains of Utah, has plans to eventually add five new chairlifts. Suppose that one lift costs $2 million, and preparing the slope and installing the lift costs another $1.3 million. The lift will allow 300 additional skiers on the slopes, but there are only 40 days a year when the extra capacity will be needed. (Assume that Deer Valley Lodge will sell all 300 lift tickets on those 40 days.) Running the new lift will cost $500 a day for the entire 200 days the lodge is open. Assume that the lift tickets at Deer Valley cost $55 a day. The new lift has an economic life of 20 years.

1. Assume that the before-tax required rate of return for Deer Valley is 14%. Compute the before-tax NPV of the new lift and advise the managers of Deer Valley about whether adding the lift will be a profitable investment. Show calculations to support your answer.
2. Assume that the after-tax required rate of return for Deer Valley is 8%, the income tax rate is 40%, and the MACRS recovery period is 10 years. Compute the after-tax NPV of the new lift and advise the managers of Deer Valley about whether adding the lift will be a profitable investment. Show calculations to support your answer.
3. What subjective factors would affect the investment decision? For assistance with your assignment, please use this table your text, Web resources, and all course materials.

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make a manufactaring statement with explanations

Using the requirements for General Duty violations in Chapter 4 of the OSHA Field Operations Manual (FOM) and any additional information you can find in OSHA compliance directives or standards interpretations, describe a situation involving workplace violence that could be cited as a violation of the General Duty Clause. Explain how your citation meets the four elements listed in the FOM as necessary to prove such a violation.

 

Link to OSHA FOM: https://www.osha.gov/OshDoc/Directive_pdf/CPL_02-00-148.pdf

Directions: Using word processing software to save and submit your work, please answer the following short answer questions.  All responses to questions should be one to two paragraphs, composed of five to seven sentences, in length.  Your responses should include examples from the reading assignments.

 

1.      How did the major Hollywood firms respond to the challenge posed by First National Exhibitors’ Circuit in 1917?  What kinds of benefits resulted from the industry’s adoption of vertical integration?  Explain how this policy benefited both major and minor film companies.

 

2.      Identify the major technological and aesthetic factors that influenced Hollywood film form during the 1920s.  How did the resulting changes enhance or complement the classical narrative style, which was by then the industry norm?  How are these changes evident in the film screened in class?

 

3.      What events or conditions motivated the calls for the moral reform of the American film industry in the early 1920s?  How did the industry respond to these calls?  Analyze how this response placated the reformers and at the same time protected the industry’s own interests.

 

4.      In what ways were the formal innovations of European cinemas assimilated by American filmmakers and integrated into the classical Hollywood cinema during the late silent era?  What kinds of contributions were made by European directors working in Hollywood?

 

5.      Under what conditions did African American audiences experience films during the silent era?  In what ways did individual filmmakers or companies tailor their films to appeal specifically to these audiences?

 

6.      Discuss the motives behind the emergence of “Film Europe.”  How did the national film industries of Europe cooperate in combating the influence of American movies?  Why were these cooperative efforts halted at the end of the 1920s?

 

7.      What were the institutions that championed and promoted “art cinema” during the late silent period?

 

 

8.      What were the theoretical and aesthetic principles that characterized the Dada, Surrealist, and “cinema pur” movements?  Which formal and stylistic qualities did their films share, and in what ways did they differ?