Unit 4 AS1: Dirt Bikes Case - Privacy Issues
This assignment encourages students to think about the pros and cons of new technology. They will be challenged to make business decisions when facing ethical dilemma, formulating corporate privacy policy.

Instructions: Dirt Bikes’s management wants to make sure it has policies and procedures in place to protect the privacy of visitors to its Web site. The TRUSTe Web site describes privacy best practices to help you think about Dirt Bikes’s privacy policy. You can also examine specific companies’ privacy policies by searching for Web site privacy policies on Baidu, Google or another search engine. Prepare a report (Please use a word processor to write up your answers, 400 words minimum, APA style) for management that addresses the following issues:

• How much data should Dirt Bikes collect on visitors to its Web site? What information could it discover by tracking visitors’ activities at its Web site? What value would this information provide the company? What are the privacy problems raised by collecting such data?

• Should Dirt Bikes join an organization such as TRUSTe to certify that it has adopted approved privacy practices? Why or why not?

Consider how health insurance affects the quantity of health care services performed. suppose that the typical medical procedure has a cost of $160, yet a person with health insurance pays only $40 out of pocket. her insurance company pays the remaining $120. (the insurance company recoups the $120 through premiums, but the premium a person pays does not depend on how many procedures that person chooses to undergo.) consider the following demand curve in the market for medical care. use the black point (plus symbol) to indicate the quantity of procedures demanded if each procedure has a price of $160. then use the grey point (star symbol) to indicate the quantity of procedures demanded if each procedure has a price of $40. q d at p=$160 q d at p=$40 0 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 100 200 180 160 140 120 100 80 60 40 20 0 price of medical procedures quantity of medical procedures demand if the cost of each procedure to society is truly $160, the quantity that maximizes total surplus is procedures. economists often blame the health insurance system for excessive use of medical care. given your analysis, the use of care might be viewed as excessive because consumers get procedures whose value is than the cost of producing them.

James albemarle created a trust fund at the beginning of 2016. the income from this fund will go to his son edward. when edward reaches the age of 25, the principal of the fund will be conveyed to united charities of cleveland. mr. albemarle specified that 75 percent of trustee fees are to be paid from principal. terry jones, cpa, is the trustee. james albemarle transferred cash of $500,000, stocks worth $400,000, and rental property valued at $250,000 to the trustee of this fund. immediately invested cash of $360,000 in bonds issued by the u.s. government. commissions of $7,900 are paid on this transaction. incurred permanent repairs of $9,000 so that the property can be rented. payment is made immediately. received dividends of $8,000. of this amount, $3,000 had been declared prior to the creation of the trust fund. paid insurance expense of $4,000 on the rental property. received rental income of $10,000. paid $8,000 from the trust for trustee services rendered. conveyed cash of $7,000 to edward albemarle.

Effective capacity is the: a. capacity a firm expects to achieve given the current operating constraints.b. minimum usable capacity of a particular facility.c. sum of all the organization's inputs.d. average output that can be achieved under ideal conditions.e. maximum output of a system in a given period.