For its first year of operations, MINI Company reported the following pretax data:Net Sales[B]Cost of goods available for sale2,500Operating expenses880Effective tax rate[C]%Ending inventories: If LIFO is elected[A]If FIFO is elected1,060

Briefly compare and contrast the income statement and balance sheet approaches to estimating bad debt expense, identifying the pros and cons of each method. Then, state the primary objective of the allowance method, and based on this objective indicate which approach, if either, is superior.

In 1-2 paragraphs, discuss the most important historical event/era that defines Western Civilization.  What makes it so impactful?  Is there a secondary event that could also be as important?  What peoples do you credit with being the most impactful on Western Civilization?

Answer 5 of the following terms:

Give a definition and an example of a negative role of a System Administrator.

Give an example of one task that a System Administrator would perform in the Physical phase of the proper disposal process of a machine.

What is the definition of a full backup? What is an advantage of a full backup and a disadvantage of a full backup?

Briefly describe the service type of Primary Applications with BackOffice Services expected by users in an organization. Provide an example of such a Primary Application with BackOffice Service including the primary characteristic of this example that classifies it as a Primary Application with BackOffice Service.

Identify the type of network topology (star, ring or cloud) that is most appropriate (or typical) based on the circumstances and/or risks described below: company with several locations near each other? [ans1] Could suffer from congestion due to simultaneous use of network bandwidth? [ans2] A small startup with only one datacenter? [ans3]

In the following code segment, assume that the ArrayList numList has been properly declared and initialized to contain the Integer values [1, 2, 2, 3]. The code segment is intended to insert the Integer value val in numList so that numList will remain in ascending order. The code segment does not work as intended in all cases. int index = 0;while (val > numList.get(index)) { index++;}numList.add(index, val); For which of the following values of val will the code segment not work as intended?