Given the following information regarding a project involving an initial public offering (IPO):
Activities Description Duration (weeks) Predecessors
a. Check feasibility 3 —
b. Determine funding 1 —
c. Find possible banks 3 a
d. Select two possible 4 a
e. Interview two banks 4 b
f. Analyze funding costs 5 b
g. Determine chance of success 2 c ,e
h Sign contract 3 f
a) Draw the network.
b) What is the critical path?
c) Calculate the float for each activity.
d) What is the effect on the project if activity e (approvals) takes an extra week? Two extra weeks? Three extra weeks?

After the embarrassing sign incident at the restaurant you own, you decide to offer employees a six-week fundamental writing skills workshop. a local business communication instructor, who has experience teaching writing skills at treleaven community college, will facilitate the sessions. to encourage employees to attend these optional sessions, write an email that explains why you’re offering the workshop and why employees should participate.

If the ceo of a large, diversified, firm were filling out a fitness report on a division manager (i.e., "grading" the manager), which of the following situations would be likely to cause the manager to receive a better grade? in all cases, assume that other things are held constant.a. the division's basic earning power ratio is above the average of other firms in its industry.b. the division's total assets turnover ratio is below the average for other firms in its industry.c. the division's debt ratio is above the average for other firms in the industry.d. the division's inventory turnover is 6, whereas the average for its competitors is 8.e. the division's dso (days' sales outstanding) is 40, whereas the average for its competitors is 30.

John has been working as a tutor for $300 a semester. when the university raises the price it pays tutors to $400, jasmine enters the market and begins tutoring as well. how much does producer surplus rise as a result of this price increase?