...The picture shows an innocent boy who fell victim to a ‘bomb blast’ in Peshawar, Pakistan on the 31st of August 2012. This blast occurred in a busy market near a mosque at around four o’clock in the afternoon. The bomb was located on a pick up truck stationed in a mechanic shop. The blast managed to take the lives of twelve people and injured several others. No one has taken responsibility for the explosion but it is believed that the local militia were involved in some way. In the picture we see the boy is gravely injured, struggling to hold on to his life. His own blood stains his clothes. The boy had been placed on a bed in a local hospital and is being treated and cared for by several persons including a nurse and possibly a doctor. The picture has been framed and cropped to promote the boy as the central figure in the picture. The ‘Vector of Attention’ is towards the boy as all the people around him are positioned in a semi circle facing towards him. The photographer is portraying how the victims of the explosions were the main focus of all the people who were present there. His face is a particularly interesting part of the picture. His eyes are open wide and are blankly fixed towards the ceiling. The only emotion being depicted here is his shock and astonishment at what had just happened to him. He is most probably dazed and has no clue as to what is happening around him. His expression and body language highlight his helplessness in the situation. His limp left arm...
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...Swot Analysis Swot Analysis I chose to analyze the business plan of American Management Technology a computer hardware reseller business. Although the title describes this company as a computer hardware reseller, they are actually an IT service that has a storefront selling hardware. This company is a corporation with a six owners, one primary owner with the majority of stock, two managing owners, one ex-employee and two silent investors. This business has been doing business for a number of years. The company has shown signs of growth but like many in the Information Technology industry; it has seen a slow decline in profit margins. To combat this American Management Technology has decided to stop competing in the value market and create a quality based service. I evaluated the business plan and based upon the recommended process I assessed the strengths weaknesses opportunities and threats which are as follows. American Management Technology has many strengths. It is a preexisting business with some understanding of what it takes to make it in the information technology business. The business is versatile offering both products and services. Having a quality oriented attitude has never been a bad idea. AMT has a variety of services packages offering different rates for groups who would be able to afford different prices. I think one of the biggest advantages AMT has is a clear understanding of their demographic which will allow them to target sales and save money. With...
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...Liquidity Group Martin Manufacturing should not have a hard time meeting their current financial obligations in the near future. With an improving trend in current ratio over the last three years(1.7, 1.8, 2.49), and a current ratio for the current year of 2.49, which is 66% higher than the industry average of 1.5. This tells me that Martin manufacturing has $2.50 in current assets for every $1.00 it owes in current liabilities. The quick ratio doesn’t really have a trend(1, .9, 1.35) over the last three years, but the current years quick ratio of 1.35 is higher than the industry average of 1.2. The Quick Ratio implies that Martin has $1.35 in current assets excluding inventory for every $1.00 in current bills. Martin will not have to rely on selling their inventory to pay their upcoming obligations. Activity group In the activity group Martin Manufacturing has no trend in the inventory category over the last three years(5.2, 5, 5.29). Their inventory turnover of 5.29 for the current year is bad when compared to an industry average of 10.2, this tells me that Martin may have an inadequate finished goods inventory. The Average Collection period ratio has a bad trend over the last three years (50.7, 55.8, 57.94). The current year’s ratio of 57.94 , which is 26% higher than the industry, is bad in this case. This means it takes Martin basically 58 days before it collects payment from on credit customers and the industry average is 46 days. The total asset turnover...
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...Hillary Brewer Professor Woodard- ENG 102 1/26/13 Kate Chopin’s thesis in “The Story of an Hour” Chopin’s thesis in “The Story of an Hour” was that women in the 1800’s lived in a world of patriarchy and chaos. The 1800’s were a time when women worked at home doing house work and raising children. They had not been given the right to vote or be heard like men had. Chopin wanted to express the struggles of what women went through, through the life of Mrs. Mallard. Mrs. Mallard was given the news of her husband’s death which took a large toll on her being that she had a heart condition. Chopin included the detail of Mrs. Mallard’s heart disease to ensure that the reader understands why she fell to her death at the end of the story: “Mrs. Mallard was afflicted with heart trouble.” Chopin included that, “When the storm of grief had spent itself she went away to her room alone. She would have no one follow her.” This quote was given to us to show that Mrs. Mallard had not wanted anyone to see the emotion she was to express. Mrs. Mallard was soon to see the new spring life growing upon the tree tops. Chopin uses words like, “delicious” and “new” to explain the spring time outside the windows. Chopin also uses “blue” to express the sky in which is seen through Mrs. Mallard’s eyes. These adjectives would seem alarming to the reader due to what had just happened in the recent paragraphs. Mrs. Mallard should be grieving her husband’s death, but instead notices how beautiful...
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...Unit 10- Analysis Repair Shop i. For the most part data backup is an absolutely essential part of regular computer maintenance. If you don't back up your files you’ll lose them because the memory fails eventually. • PROS of using DVD disc as a backup method Most data backup programs support optical media. Data backup programs often have built in support to back up an entire hard drive to CDs or DVDs. Most computers have DVD or CD burner’s data burning software is inexpensive, if not already included on the operating system. • CONS of using DVD disk as a backup method They're not always reliable They're slow. Optical media can't be set up to back up automatically. The best forms of data backup are automatic. ii. Full Format erases everything and resets all Magnetic platters. • PROS of formatting the hard drive and reinstall operating system Formatting removes bad programs and sophisticated viruses After Formatting your partition will become clean and your system is ready for new programs Scan and Repair bad sectors • CONS of formatting the hard drive and reinstall operating system According to experts, always formatting your Hard Disk is not ideal because it can cause gradual damage to your Hard Disk or may reduce the lifetime. The programs that you have installed will be deleted and you have reinstall it again as you wish Formatting Windows requires preparation for the tools you are going to use Formatting will take enough...
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...Homework Title / No. : _________01____________________Course Code : __MGN101_______ Course Instructor : ___ MEGHA MEHTA _________ Course Tutor (if applicable) : ____________ Date of Allotment : _27/08/12_______ Date of submission : _____10/9/12______ Student’s Roll No.______A81,A82,A84_______________ Section No. : ____Q2206______________ Declaration: I declare that this assignment is my individual work. I have not copied from any other student’s work or from any other source except where due acknowledgment is made explicitly in the text, nor has any part been written for me by another person. Student’s Signature : _Nishant_kumar______ Evaluator’s comments: _____________________________________________________________________ Marks obtained : ___________ out of ______________________ REPORT ON CLAYTON INDUSTRIES CASE PETER ARNELL, COUNTRY MANAGER FOR ITALY OBJECTIVE The purpose of this report is to analyze the daunting challenges faced by Clayton SpA,the Italian subsidiary of US based Clayton Industries Inc. Peter Arnell has just taken charge of the Clayton SpA to turn around the current loss making status of the company losing around $1 million a month after decades of solid returns. Contents A brief introduction of Clayton Industries...
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...For this proposed scenario I would use just three servers with Windows 2008 R2; a Filing server, an Application server, and a Monitoring & Threat Management server. I feel that Datacenter would be the best option to use as it is more cost efficient and provides reliable support by offering an increased number of processors and increase RAM as well as failover clustering. This also offers key features for power savings, manageability, and helps with allowing workers from remote locations to use and access company resources. The Filing server will allow us to create files able to be accessed by different people from different locations. We will have increased ease of control over access and permission to these files as well as setting up partitions for allocating resources for saved data properly. Server Message Block (also known as SMB) to access the shared folders. This server can also be used for our printers so that we can set up multiple computers to print to specific printers. The application server will give us an environment we can use for running server-based business applications for our company. This will allow users to access applications through a web page that is hosted on the server. We can also use this as our mail server by installing Microsoft Exchange. This is a mail server as well as a contact manager program that runs on Windows Server. With this users can get to their email using multiple email clients including the popular Outlook. Finally the Monitoring...
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...Computer and Electronic Equipment Insurance Policy (ITSC) TABLE OF CONTENTS I. Executive summary p.2 II. Policy benefit and depreciation p.3-4 III. Premium Estimation p.5 IV. interesting findings p.6-8 1. Trend of sum insured and cloud computing 2. New risk exposure 3. Relatiopship with property all-risk policy V. Hypothetical case p.9-10 Executive Summary Computer and Electronic Equipment Policy is an all-risk policy. It covers unforeseen and sudden physical loss or damage from any cause other than those specifically excluded. There are extended coverage in this policy to cover loss or damage due to theft, hurricane, cyclone, typhoon, earthquake, volcanic eruption and tsunami. Under the policy of The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK), it specifically covers the computers and electronic equipment which belong to the Information Technology Service Centre (ITSC). The list of computer equipment covered can be found in Appendix 2 of the policy. Examples are multimedia equipment, workstation, printers and networking equipment. In this report, we analyze from this policy with a hypothetical case to other related finding beyond the scope of the current policy. First and foremost, we introduce what the benefit amount should be when a covered loss or damage occurs. According to a fundamental principle in insurance, the principle of indemnity, the actual cash value is used...
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...| 2014 | | Willowbrook School Project Chris Bannon – InfoTech Systems Analyst | [BACKGROUND bUSINESS iNFORMATION] | This document provides the background business information regarding Willowbrook School’s requirement for creating a system to meet their business needs. | Part1: Mission Statement Willowbrook School, a 20 year-old nonprofit educational institution, is committed to providing a high quality, cost effective, safe and culturally progressive education to families with children ranging from preschool age through grade six. Part 2: Business Processes Due to significant growth in student population for general tuition and after school programs, the Willowbrook School has a desire to automate core business processes. The two functions identified as needing the most attention are tuition and after care billing. While those two processes are the primary focus area required to eliminate the need to add additional administrative staff, there are other core processes that are in need of automation or that support the two primary focus areas. Listed below is a table of core processes, a brief description of the process and the process owner or owners: No. | Process Name | Process Description | Process Owner | | | | | 1 | Record Time / Attendance | Record and submit time sheets for part time assistants and submit them every two weeks to Susan Brown. | After Care Teachers | | | | | 2 | Process Payroll | Kathy Gilliard handles it for the teachers...
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...Ratio and Financial Statements Analysis Kimberly Y. Gruber University of Maryland University College Dr. Sunando Sengupta 07/25/2013 Turnitin Score: 23% Executive Summary The purpose of this paper is to examine ratio and financial statement analysis. Such analysis is a useful tool for managers and stakeholders to evaluate a company’s financial health in order to identify opportunities for growth and areas of weakness so as to institute corrective measures. Financial statements are used in order to predict trends of cash flow within the business as well as predict the potential of a business and if they are capable of financial growth. Ratio analysis examines the probability of a company’s profit or a company’s loss. This paper will examine the benefits and limitations of ratio analysis, explain what factors impact the meaningfulness of such measures and what new practices or theories may be emerging regarding the application of ratio and financial statement. The paper concludes that ratio and financial statements is an essential tool used in analyzing a company’s profit. Introduction to Ratio and Financial Statement Analysis Though there are various methods for monitoring the liquidity of businesses the most common has been the use of financial ratios. Ratio analysis is an established technique—involving the relationship between two or more variables--that is used to conduct qualitative analysis of information contained in a company’s financial statement to...
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...Alexandra Roach Dr. Fiddner PLSC World Politics 101 006 October 8, 2015 Cuban Missile Crisis Analysis Due to the Cold War, in October 1962, tensions were high between the United States and the Soviet Union. The Cuban Missile Crisis began on October 14, 1962. This was by far the most significant event to happen in the Cold War. The Soviets had been using Cuba as a place to set their missiles from which they would be able to launch a nuclear attack at any time on almost anywhere in the Southeastern parts of the United States, this including places like Washington D.C., New York City, New Orleans, and other major cities in the United States. Photographers were able to capture pictures of these missiles with high-altitude U-2 spy planes giving evidence that the missiles were 90 miles off the American costal line. Although it seems as if the Cuban Missile Crisis happened at a blinding pace, this crisis actually was a culmination of a much longer process. In this essay I will be focusing on the events that led up to the terrifying 14 day event of the Cuban Missile Crisis as well as looking at the crisis from an individual level of analysis and from a realist point of view. In order to fully understand the Cuban Missile Crisis, we must first take a look at all of the events that had lead up to the crisis. Among many of the factors leading up to the nuclear standoff between the countries, one of the factors, of course, was the genuine concern of defense of each leader, John...
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...Asset Pricing Models Sony Thomas Capital Market Theory: An Overview • Capital market theory extends portfolio theory and develops a model for pricing all risky assets • Capital asset pricing model (CAPM) will allow you to determine the required rate of return for any risky asset Assumptions of Capital Market Theory 1. All investors are Markowitz efficient investors who want to target points on the efficient frontier. Assumptions of Capital Market Theory 2. Investors can borrow or lend any amount of money at the risk-free rate of return (RFR). Assumptions of Capital Market Theory 3. All investors have homogeneous expectations; that is, they estimate identical probability distributions for future rates of return. Assumptions of Capital Market Theory 4. All investors have the same one-period time horizon such as one-month, six months, or one year. Assumptions of Capital Market Theory 5. All investments are infinitely divisible, which means that it is possible to buy or sell fractional shares of any asset or portfolio. Assumptions of Capital Market Theory 6. There are no taxes or transaction costs involved in buying or selling assets. Assumptions of Capital Market Theory 7. There is no inflation or any change in interest rates, or inflation is fully anticipated. Assumptions of Capital Market Theory 8. Capital markets are in equilibrium. Risk-Free Asset • • • • An asset with zero standard deviation Zero correlation with all other...
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..."USEFULNESS OF COST VOLUME PROFIT ANALYISI AS AMANGERIAL Concept" By samya Alakhdar , Dr . Moade Shubita , NYIT –AMMAN –JORDAN FALL-2011. Key words :managerial accounting , cost accounting , CVP. o "USEFULNESS OF COST VOLUME PROFIT ANALYISI AS AMANGERIAL CONCEPT" 1 DR.MOADE SHUBITA "USEFULNESS OF COST VOLUME PROFIT ANALYISI AS AMANGERIAL Concept" By samya Alakhdar , Dr . Moade Shubita , NYIT –AMMAN –JORDAN FALL-2011. Key words :managerial accounting , cost accounting , CVP. TOPICS TO COVER: ABSTRACT INTRODUCTION PROBLEM ASSUMPTION UNDERLYING CVP ANALYSISI THE CONTRIBUTION MARGIN. CONTRIBUTION MARGIN INCOME STATEMENT DEFINE THE BREAKEVEN POINT WHAT IS THE C.M RATIO. THE IMPORTANCE of UNIT CONTRIBUTION MARGINE DETERMINATI SOME APPLICATIONS OF CM “WHAT IF “ANALYSIS ON OF TARGET INCOME AND TAXES MOS- MARGINE OF SAFETY CHOOSING THE COST STRUCTURE TO DECREASE COST ULTIMATELY DEGREE OF OPERATING LEVERAGE DEGREE OF OPERATING LEVERAGE IMPORTANCE FOR MANAGERS SALES MIX . CASE TO STUDY. LIMITATION OF CVP CONCLOUSION REFERENCES 2 DR.MOADE SHUBITA "USEFULNESS OF COST VOLUME PROFIT ANALYISI AS AMANGERIAL Concept" By samya Alakhdar , Dr . Moade Shubita , NYIT –AMMAN –JORDAN FALL-2011. Key words :managerial accounting , cost accounting , CVP. ABSTRACT: In order to cope with many planning decisions managers use cost volume profit analysis , They find it an extremely useful measurement in a variety of ways . The present...
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...Families and households, do they differ or do they get affected by external influences? Well, families differ as there are many types of families worldwide, and they also get affected by external influences. What I am going to write about is functionalism, Marxist and feminism, their believes and argues held upon them. First of all is the functionalism, where functionalists argued that each stat institution – Members of society formed together in order to address specific functions – has roles to perform to ensure society’s health. However, they compared society with the human body where group of organs work together to perform certain functions. On the other hand while functionalists see society as based on value consensus, Marxist sociologists see capitalists as based on an unequal conflict between two social classes. Also they see that functions of the family are performed purely for the benefit of the capitalist system. Their analyses are more similar to functionalists in the way that they evaluate in which state institutions serves the needs of society. Although Marxists are believed to be more cynical, whereas functionalists believe that everyone benefits from them. Last are the 2 types of feminism, Radical and Socialist. Social feminists focus mainly on how the roles are played by women to help preserve capitalism. Whereas radical feminists show how men create state institutions to create and maintain the patriarchal system – Institutions that are designed to...
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...Hotel industry in Kuwait (regency hotel) Hotels Industry is a very important element in any country's economic in our society nowadays, because it's the most necessary field that should be active and focus in improved it in the tourism of the country , and that’s because it's the first thing that comes into the mind of the foreigners or the visitors. Also, it represents the face and the development growth rate of the country for visitors. Hotel industry is a wide industry which includes many various types of tangible and intangible services such as, formal events, wedding planning, pleasant staying, and guide tours around the country, restaurants and catering issues, laundry, theme parks. Some five stars hotels provides all of the above along with means of transportation to any destination that visitors wish to go, that includes driving them to and from the airport. Some facts that I got from the internet, is that the hotel industry is around 3.5 trillion dollar service sector within the global economy. This particular industry is important element in the domain of the countries income because it’s a reservoir income from where the foreigners exchange flows. On the other hand, the more the hotel industry in the country is successful the more the economic status of that country increases. Hotel industry is like many other industries that needs to explore and undergo new innovations, so that a fair blending cash flow of the economy getting balance and increase. The hotel...
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