...Warning, this is a study guide, not a cheat sheet. 1. Prepare a statement showing the incremental cash flows for this project over an 8-year period. -Initial investment: The initial investment (I) is the sum of the investment in plant and equipment. I = $1,000,000 -Working Capital: The additional net investment in inventory and receivables is the working capital needed for the project: WC = $200,000 There is no additional info about the WC, so we can assume that it will not change over the project's life. Then Working Capital Change for each year Yi is: this is a study guide, not a cheat sheet. ChWCi = Previous Year WC - Current WC = 0 (for i=1 to 7) and ChWC0 = -$200,000 The working capital is recovered, this means that for the end of the year 8 it will be zero or: this is a study guide, not a cheat sheet. ChWC8 = $200,000 -Depreciation: For the first five years Yi (i = 1 to 5): Di = (Invest in plant and equipment)/5 = $1,000,000/5 = $200,000 For the years 6 to 8 the depreciation will be zero. this is a study guide, not a cheat sheet. -Revenues: For the first year the expected revenues will be: R1 = $950,000 For the years Yi (i=2 to 8): Ri = $1,500,000 -Expenses: Indirect incremental costs will be $80,000 all the eight years. For each year the direct costs will be 0.55*Ri. Then for each year Yi (i=1 to 8), the expenses (Ei) will be: this is a study guide, not a cheat sheet. Ei = $80,000 + 0.55*Ri, Then: ...
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...This type of poor work performance is detrimental in such a competitive workforce. The competition is very steep, and other organizations that provide the same services target your downfalls, to be their strong points. In order to improve the barriers the company was experiencing, they hired a performance consulting team, Aurora Seguinot Cruz and Dwayne Dunn to conduct a performance analysis of everything acknowledged and provide solutions on a way ahead. This case study outlines the consulting team’s application of performance-centered design (PCD) solutions to close performance gaps through successful design, development, and implementation (Cruz et al.,...
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...BIS1513/BTECH2305 INTRODUCTION TO INFORMATION SYSTEM Department : Faculty of Information & Communication Technology Course Name Semester :2,3 Commence Date : Week4 Deadline Date : Week 8 Unit Controller : Contact Number : ext. 8401 E-mail : huda.jameel@limkokwing.edu.my TASK Students will work in a team of 5 members. The group has to pick one organization as the study target. They are required to discuss how this organization has responded to the introduction of Information Systems (IS) into their business paradigms. Highlight the advantages of IS, the disadvantages of and the resultant shortfalls that must be addressed in this organization. OBJECTIVES 1. To test student’s understanding in analyzing a company’s industry as well as its organizational structure/culture and determine the role for information systems in that organization. 2. To promote the understanding on how information system/ technology support a company’s business processes and decision-making, and give it a competitive advantage. DELIVERABLES A written report consisting of below items: | | |MAX. MARKS | |TITLE |DESCRIPTIONS | | |Format / Layout |Page Number ...
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...T B EO C N E T : AL F O TN S Peae rfc A o th po rm b u te rga G n rl d i o pe aainpoes e ea a v e n rp rt c o rcs C Al e1 xm -h b gn ig f ln ra F e l ea te einn o a o g o d v C Al e2 xm - a w y h r F e l ea h l a tee v f C Al e3 xm -h l t l F e l ea tea mi v s e O h r sflno te ueu if Tp fr a dd ts iso cn iae Atr od f wr e 1 4 1 0 2 2 5 5 6 6 7 1 8 9 9 7 Guide for the CFA exam by TimePrep PREFACE Welcome to the world of the CFA program! Since you're reading this, it is likely that you are a CFA candidate, or you are considering becoming one. Either way, we hope that you will find this book helpful. The general idea behind this book is to offer CFA candidates useful advice, written by other CFA candidates and charter holders. There are several segments of the book and we recommend going through them all since it is not a heavy read, and it may prove useful for your preparation. The book starts with general information about the CFA program – the basics of the program, benefits of attending it, the complexity of the program in whole etc. In the second chapter we will provide you with some general advice in preparation – how to organize your time, what strategy elements to use, how to find time for studying and also an overview of the various prep tools that can help you. The following three chapters of the book are each related to one of the levels of the CFA Exam – here you can read various useful information regarding study materials, types of questions that appear...
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...O Foreword About OWASP About OWASP The Open Web Application Security Project (OWASP) is an open community dedicated to enabling organizations to develop, purchase, and maintain applications that can be trusted. At OWASP you’ll find free and open … • Application security tools and standards • Complete books on application security testing, secure code development, and security code review • Standard security controls and libraries • Local chapters worldwide • Cutting edge research • Extensive conferences worldwide • Mailing lists • And more … all at www.owasp.org All of the OWASP tools, documents, forums, and chapters are free and open to anyone interested in improving application security. We advocate approaching application security as a people, process, and technology problem, because the most effective approaches to application security require improvements in all of these areas. OWASP is a new kind of organization. Our freedom from commercial pressures allows us to provide unbiased, practical, cost-effective information about application security. OWASP is not affiliated with any technology company, although we support the informed use of commercial security technology. Similar to many open-source software projects, OWASP produces many types of materials in a collaborative, open way. The OWASP Foundation is the non-profit entity that ensures the project’s long-term success. Almost everyone associated with OWASP is a volunteer, including the OWASP Board, Global Committees...
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...Question #1 Using an Internet news search, find an example of a business that has abused its power and encountered the wrath of social interest groups or the government. Using content, concepts, and class discussion points from chapters 1 – 3, introduce and discuss the situation and the current state. Conduct a stakeholder analysis and make recommendations for an improved outcome, using the same resources. Support your discussion with evidence from reputable resources, as well as content and concepts from the text. ANSWER I was overwhelmed while doing the internet news search to find an example of business that has abused its power. The search came up with so many examples that it made me realize that probably all the business abuse their position in some or the other way. There were many example to choose from but I chose “Corporate accounting scandal at Satyam “, which is also infamously called as India’s Enron. The reason why I selected this particular company is that I had my cousin brothers and sisters working for this company and this scandal affected our families in a big way. The background Scandals are like an iceberg, they represent the only visible catastrophic failure. Saytam Computers was founded By Mr. Ramalinga Raju who hailed form a traditional agriculture family of Andhra Pradesh, India in 1987 with a just 20 employees and converted the company got Public in 1992.The chairman of the company was the founder himself, Mr. Ramalinga Raju (Alias Raju) until...
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...NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY - GRADUATE SCHOOL OF BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION MGSC 6200: DATA ANALYSIS Spring, 2015 Instructor Information Name: Dr. Nizar Zaarour E-mail address: n.zaarour@neu.edu Office: 214 Hayden Hall Office hours: Monday and Wednesday: 12 – 2 PM and by appointment. Course Overview The objectives of this course are: (1) To provide you with an understanding of statistical methods and techniques and their usefulness in the decision-making process, (2) To expose you to the methods of descriptive and inferential statistics and how can be used to solve business problems, (3) To improve upon your data analysis and computer skills, (4) To help you develop the skills to recognize the appropriate statistical tool to analyze business problems, and (5) To provide you with the necessary tools for critical evaluation, correct interpretation, and presentation of the results of statistical analyses. Textbook and Software 1) Business Statistics: For Contemporary Decision Making, 7th Edition, by Ken Black, (Wiley). 2) Microsoft Excel. Course Organization The course web page is located in the Blackboard system at http://blackboard.neu.edu. Course materials and announcements will be posted on the course site. A Blackboard tutorial is available at http://www.discoveringblackboard.neu.edu. The textbook is quite easy to read and covers a lot of ground. However, some of the topics are not covered in depth. Class discussions, handouts, and my lecture notes will fill these gaps. Course...
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...things they measure the ability of a business to generate cash internally. Positive cash flows allow a company to meet its obligations with creditors and suppliers, take advantage of investment opportunities, replace assets, negotiate better pricing in purchases, and pay dividends; all these without the need of incurring in external financing. Net cash flow needs to be distinguished from Net Income, which includes accounts receivable, accounts payable and other items for which payment has not been received or made (Accruals). Cash flow is used to assess the quality of a company's income; that is, how liquid it is, which can indicate whether the company is positioned to remain solvent. Net income (Income statement) measures a company’s financial results after business operations and financing activities, and it is crucial for investors as this is the statement that determines if overall a business is profitable or not. But because most companies use the accrual accounting method (which I will not explain on this paper), the income statement may not reflect actual changes in cash position. This is why investors should not rely only on this statement to make decisions as should use it only as one “indicator” of revenues minus costs, but it does not give the whole picture of a company’s financial health. It is important for investors and management to analyze the four main financial statements as interrelated (Income Statement, Balance Sheet, Statement of Retained Earnings, and...
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...decision making. #1 #2 #3 Bloom’s Taxonomy LO2 Understand the basic concepts used in the preparation of financial statements. Critically assess the information relayed by financial reporting. Use financial information for financial and corporate strategy purposes. #4 Cognitive domain: Evaluation [High Order of Thinking Skills] Affective domain: Characterisation LO3 #5 #6 LO4 #5 #6 MBF 1213 Managerial Accounting – MBA Major Module July/August 2013 Assignment 1 1 CENTRE FOR POST GRADUATE STUDIES YOUR TASK: Limkokwing University of Creative Technology CASE STUDY: Cost Behaviour and Cost Volume Profit Analysis 1. Using the High-Low method to estimate the per-unit variable costs and total fixed costs. 2. Using the single product setting of the Cost-Volume-Analysis (CVP) to calculate the break-even point. 3. Use CVP analysis to calculate the break-even point. 4. Prepare an income statement for the company. 5. Calculate the company’s margin of safety 6. Calculation of product units to be sold for a target profit after cost increased INSTRUCTION TO PAIR ASSIGNMENT • This assignment, which carries 20 % of the total marks for the module, is compulsory for candidates attending the LUCT MBA programme. The general assessment criteria are Substance, Originality of work, Presentation, Use of illustrations / examples, where appropriate and will be assessed based on the illustrated grading scheme. Independent research on the relevant topics is necessary and...
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...A FINGERPRINT BASED BIOMETRIC AUTHENTICATION AND IDENTIFICATION SYSTEM FOR TIME AND ATTENDANCE MANAGEMENT ABSTRACT This project is about designing a system that automates the whole process of taking attendance and maintaining its records in an academic institute. Managing people is a difficult task for most of the organizations, and maintaining the attendance record is an important factor in people management. When considering academic institutes, taking the attendance of students on daily basis and maintaining the records is a major task. Manually taking the attendance and maintaining it for a long time adds to the difficulty of this task as well as wastes a lot of time. For this reason an efficient system is designed. This system takes attendance electronically with the help of a fingerprint sensor and all the records are saved on a computer server. In order to mark the attendance, student/staff has to place his/her finger on the fingerprint sensor. On identification student’s attendance record is updated in the database and he/she is notified through a screen. . TABLE OF CONTENTS Certification Acknowledgement Abstract Table of Contents List of Figures Chapter One Introduction Chapter Two Literature Review Chapter Three Methodology Chapter Four System Design Chapter Five Implementation Chapter Six Conclusion and Recommendation LIST OF FIGURES CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION 1.1 INTRODUCTION This chapter focuses on the background of the project, the objectives, scope and...
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...C . T . Bauer C o ll ege o f Busi ness Suppl y C hai n Managem ent D epar tment o f D ec i si o n an d Info r mati o n Sci ences Managing Productivity and Quality Mondays and Wednesdays (Melcher 114) Fall Semester, 2014 Professor: E-mail: Office: Office Hours: Course Website: LinkedIn: Course Materials: Books: Widely available at a discount through online retailers such as amazon.com The Lean Toolbox: The Essential Guide to Lean Transformation, Fourth Edition John Bicheno & Matthias Holweg, PICSIE, 2008/2009 Velocity: A Business Novel Dee Jacob, Suzan Bergland, and Jeff Cox, Free Press, 2010 The Memory Jogger 2, Second Edition Michael Brassard and Diane Ritter, Goal/QPC, 2010 (www.goalqpc.com) The Lean 6 Sigma Deployment Memory Jogger, Second Edition Jaime Villafuerte, Goal/QPC, 2013 (www.goalqpc.com) Cases and Articles: HARVARD BUSINESS REVIEW: https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/access/27592786 NOTE: HBR articles and cases must be purchased to comply with copyright restrictions Dr. Bradley Miller bmiller11@uh.edu Melcher Hall, Room 270A Immediately following class or by appointment Blackboard http://www.linkedin.com/pub/bradley-miller/63/7a5/66a/ UH LIBRARY: http://guides.lib.uh.edu/MPQ (free) BLACKBOARD: Course Documents Folder (free) Course Notes & Resources Note slides are posted to Blackboard (Course Lecture File) prior to each class meeting Practice Problems, FAQs, Exam Reviews, Project Assignments are updated frequently Technology Microsoft...
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...School of Business, Management & Information TechnologyFdSc Internet Computing for Business Yr 2 Sem 1 Level 2Assessment | | Module Title: Systems Analysis & Design (NCD-CN10) Module Leader: M Binner Assessment Title: Car Hire Company Hand in Date: 21/1/2011 David Ray Student no. 30162106 Contents 1 Introduction 2 2 Life Cycle Models 3 2.1 What is a Life Cycle Model 4 3 Fact Finding and Feasibility 7 Fact Finding 7 Feasibility 7 4What is a Problem Statement? 9 4.1 Writing a Problem Statement 9 4.2 Problem Statement 11 5Evaluation of the current System 13 6Problem Statement Solution 13 6.1 High budget solution 15 6.2 Low Budget Solution 17 7Dataflow Diagrams 19 What is a Dataflow diagram? 19 Different levels of Data Flow Diagrams 20 Level 1 Data Flow Diagram 21 Level 2 Data Flow Diagram 22 8 ERD of New System 23 9Data Dictionaries 25 10Cost Benefit Analysis 26 11A Cost benefit Analysis for Car Hire Company 26 12Evaluation of Proposed New System 27 13Summary and Reflection 27 14References 28 15 Bibliography 28 16Appendices 29 1 Introduction For this assignment I have been asked to develop a new system that could resolve issue’s within a Car Hire Company. For the assignment I will be looking at what a System Life Cycle model is and how it relates to business. I will be briefly looking at various cycles and will explain why I chose the system life cycle that I will be using...
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...importance to each company, so other types analysis needs to be used. In general analyzing financial statements allows the management to identify issues, make changes, and to take control to meet the goals set for the company. There are quite a few difference analyses that could be used. One such analysis is Horizontal analysis. In Horizontal analysis the changes and difference are an indication for further analysis. Horizontal analysis on its own will help identify potential issues, but even better would be to compare this company’s Horizontal analysis with similar companies in the same industry. Using dollars for the analysis can be deceiving, even within the same industry. A solution to the skewed numbers is to use percentages when comparing multiple companies allows the comparison to be reviewed on an even ground. An example would be company A and companies B both have an increase in earnings of $100,000. Company A has total earnings of $1 million, a ten percent increase, and company B $10 million, only a one percent increase. The smaller company will be happier with the increase then the larger. Within the industry, trends can be identified and corrected before they are out of control. A downfall to Horizontal analysis is that the numbers change from day to day. It is helpful to conduct this analysis as soon as the financials are available to prevent further loses. Another downfall to Horizontal analysis is the data can be manipulated, to an extent...
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...| Opportunity Identification and Analysis | | Fall Semester, 2013 Man 385 Unique #04750 | Professor John N. Doggett Class Days Monday and Wednesdays from 9:30 to 11:00 a.m. Class Room UTC 4.118 Office CBA 5.124k Office Hours Wednesdays, 5:30 to 6:30 p.m. or by appointment Phone 512-232-7671 E-Mail john.doggett@mccombs.utexas.edu Course Web Page via Canvas ------------------------------------------------- Teaching Assistants Shelby Chin (Shelby.Chin@mba14.mccombs.utexas.edu) Course Objectives I have taught this course since late in the last century. Today, as we approach a second global recession, helping people learn how to translate a “great idea” into a real business will play a role in speeding the beginning of a new recovery. For that reason, I have made several significant changes to this course. First, I have done away with the individual midterm. The “next” recovery will be a group effort. So will your midterm. Second, I have assigned you two books. These are the best books out there on how to think about innovation and then translate your thoughts into a business that can make things that people want to buy. They will become “let me read that again,” go-to books that you will use long after you graduate from UT. Third, I am going to press myself and all of you harder than I ever have. I fear that this new global recession will be deeper and more destructive than the one that hit...
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...aspects of your firm that provide the goods or services in your firm’s value proposition to your targeted market. As such, operations will be decisive in determining the long-term viability of your firm’s business model. This fact has become even clearer in recent years as competition has increased with more globalization and improved information technology. By integrating operations successfully into the their business models, firms such as Dell, Toyota, and Wal-Mart have shown that good operations make good business sense. The objective of this course is to provide you with an understanding of Operations Management and the role that it plays within an organization. By the end of the course, you should have developed an appreciation for the challenges in providing world-class products and services and the ability to use some analytical tools and conceptual frameworks to guide your thinking about operations. It is important to realize that much operations consists of the systematic design, operation, control and improvement of business processes. Accordingly, you should leave this course able to: • • • • • Integrate operational perspectives into a successful business model; Analyze key business processes; Understand how variability impacts processes; Rigorously improve business processes (including identifying the likely impact of information technology); Discuss some recent operations trends at a high level. TEACHING/LEARNING...
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