...Overview The objective of the assignment is to identify the dominant economic market structure of Hongkong and Shanhai Banking Corporation Sri Lanka referred to as HSBC herein. The contents will highlight the key assumptions made on the market structures by the economists and channel it across the commercial banking industry via the key competing elements of HSBC. 1. Introduction Having celebrated 115 Years of service with pride, HSBC which was formally known as Hongkongbank opened its doors in Sri Lanka during mid-1882. Having been with the nation during the tough and good times, HSBC boasts of stability with a strong capital structure and innovativeness by customizing its products and services to its customers. 2. Brief Introduction to Industry Market Structures The form of market in which a firm operates, is referred to as the market structure. The identification of same is vital as the decision making atmosphere will depend on the type of structure the firm functions in. However it is noted that a firm may not necessarily fall into a particular type of market, but may possess basic characteristics, which can be extracted to determine its market structure. In this context we will be exploring the four main categories of market structures in the economy namely; a) Monopoly b) Perfect Competition c) Oligopoly d) Monopolistic competition a) Monopoly In the event only one firm produces goods and services in a particular market, then it...
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...MANAGERIAL ECONOMICS – BMME5103 MAY 2013 - Managerial Economics – BMME5103 Instructor: DR. Nabil Al Hazmi USTY ID : 201312239 Program: MBA Assignment - Student Name: Sufian Mohammed Abdo Ali Al Ba’adani Question 1 a) Write a brief definition of economics. Elaborate the conditions that give rise to this definition. Answer: It is the social science that studies the production ,distribution and consumption of goods and services and is concerned with the efficient use of scarce resources to achieve the maximum satisfaction of economic wants and needs. Economic wants are many and different. People look for many goods and services to satisfy their wants. Society uses resources to produce goods and services that fulfill these wants. Unfortunately, the resources are not sufficient to satisfy those wants. [1] b) Analyze the THREE interrelated features of the economic perspective? Answer: 1) Scarcity: The first interrelated feature of the economic perspective is the scarcity of resources that forces individuals and society to make decision among alternatives . Human and property resources are scarce, so choices must be made about how best to utilize those little resources. 2) Allocation decision: economics assumes that any decision-making is based on “rational self-interest.” People make rational decisions to achieve the maximum satisfaction of a goal. customers try to get the highest value for their payments. Workers try to get the best job given their skills...
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...ECON 1002 Macroeconomics Suggested answers Tutorial 4 Equilibrium and the Aggregate Expenditures Model In this tutorial we return to Funland (from LA2 in Module 4) and explore the concept of equilibrium with the Aggregate Expenditure model. Please note you will learn this conceptual material by doing it yourself. Copying answers from friends will mean you do not really learn which will then be a big disadvantage for you in the mid-semester test. Suppose that Funland people consume 75 cents for every extra dollar they earn (and conversely save 25 cents for each extra dollar). Assume that autonomous consumption is $200 (i.e. what is spent regardless of income). Assume there is no external sector and no government expenditure yet, so Aggregate Expenditure is just C+I. 1. What is the formula for the consumption function? C = Cauton + ɑ(Y) C = 200 + 0.75Y Assume the Funland Bureau of Statistics employ you as an economist to complete the following table (Table One). They want to model what will happen if there is a planned $100 million of investment injection for that year. Because they know the consumption function they can work out the consumption level at different income levels. Savings can also be calculated because in this simple economy what is not consumed from income Y becomes savings (S). 2. Complete the missing cells in the table. The formula from i. will give you the C numbers. From this you can calculate Aggregate Expenditure You can then deduce S...
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...Chapter 1-Economic Factors Throughout this chapter I shall be investigating Rolls-Royce and how their operations are influenced by the UK and Chinese economies. I shall also be contrasting the challenges faced by them in two different business environments. Introduction to Rolls-Royce Rolls-Royce (RR) is a renowned, prestigious car-manufacturer and more recently aero-engine manufacturing company. They were founded by Charles Stewart Rolls and Sir Frederick Henry Royce in 1906, resulting from a partnership established in 1904. Although known for being British, the German car company Volkswagen bought the company for £430 million in 1998. Economic stability in the UK and China Economic stability: “Economic stability refers to an absence of excessive fluctuations in the macro- economy. An economy with fairly constant output growth and low and stable inflation would be considered economically stable.” - http://www.businessdictionary.com/definition/economic-stability.html To be economically stable requires an economy to have an absence of: frequent recessions, a pronounced business cycle, high or variable inflation rates, frequent financial crisis or a high unemployment rate. The UK is prone to a variety of these issues and as a result would not be considered to have “economic stability”. However, recently the economy is on the rise and therefore is on a stable recovery. This is why over the past few years’ sales of RR cars have increased in the UK. Economic stability is crucial...
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...I. HISTORY OF DEVALUATION OF INDIAN RUPEE (INR) AND ITS IMPACTS ON INDIAN ECONOMY In a fixed exchange rate regime the term ‘Devaluation’ is used. It means a deliberate downward adjustment of a country's official exchange rate by its government i.e. central bank (RBI in India) relative to other currencies; Where as in floating or fluctuating exchange rate currency's value is allowed to fluctuate according to the foreign exchange market. In this case, it is known as Depreciation. There are two implications for currency devaluation. * First, Devaluation makes a country's exports relatively less expensive for foreigners and * Second, it makes foreign products relatively more expensive for domestic consumers, discouraging imports. As a result, this may help to reduce a country's trade deficit. Revaluation: This term is used in a fixed exchange rate regime; it means a deliberate upward adjustment to a country's official exchange rate relative to other currencies. In floating exchange rate, it is known as Appreciation. The Liberalized Exchange Rate Management System (LERMS): LERMS was introduced in March 1992 involving the dual exchange rate system in the interim period. The dual exchange rate system was replaced by a unified exchange rate system in March 1993. History of Devaluation The Indian rupee, which was on par with the...
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...Business and Management Economic Development Pacific State University EC512 International Economic Development Assignment # 9 By Phattaranit Prabpai Q1. The effects of international trade on a country’s development are often related to four basic economic concepts: efficiency growth, equity and stability Briefly explain what is meant by each of these concepts as it relates to the theory of international trade. The whole economic basis for international trade rests on the fact that countries do differ in their resource endowments, their preferences and technologies, their scale economies, their economic and social institutions, and their capacities for growth and development. Developing countries are no exception to this rule. Some are very populous yet deficient in both natural resources and human skills, at least in large regions of the country. Others are sparsely populated yet endowed with abundant mineral and raw material resources. Still others are small and economically weak, having at present neither adequate human capital nor the material resources on which to base a sustained and largely self-sufficient strategy of economic and social development. A statistical summary of recent LDC trade performance and patterns. There follows a simplified presentation of the basic neoclassical theory of international trade and its effect on efficiency, equity, stability, and growth. We then provide a critique of pure free-trade theories in the light of both historical...
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...Week 2 Assignment: Understanding Effective Money Management Assessment A, Part 1: Creating a Personal Financial Statement - Assets | 1 point | Car: Bluebook value $1250.00Cash: $378.00Savings Accounts: $826.00 | Assessment A, Part 2: Creating a Personal Financial Statement - Debts | 1 point | Rent: $750.00Electric/ Gas bill: $131.75Cable/ internet/ Phone bill: $80.42Credit Card: $31.00Cell phone bill: $72.37 | Assessment A, Part 3: Identify Money Management Tool | 1 point | Explain to Monica how the money management tools were identified. | Students should explain how they evaluated various cash management products and services. | Assessment A, Part 4: Creating a Personal Financial Statement – Steps | 1 point | Drag the steps listed on the right into their correct sequences on the left. When done click the Send button | Step 1: I got all my financial stuff together – bills, loans, bank statements, etc. | Step 2: I balance my checkbook. | Step 3: I decided what were my assets and what were my debts. | Step 4: I enter my assets in the program. | Step 5: I enter my debts in the program. | Step 6: The program gave me a Net worth figure at the end. | Assessment B: Creating a Monthly Cash Flow Statement ...
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...Diagnostic Algebra Assessment Definitions Categories Equality Symbol Misconception Graphing Misconception Definition Concept of a Variable Misconception Equality Symbol Misconception As algebra teachers, we all know how frustrating it can be to teach a particular concept and to have a percentage of our students not get it. We try different approaches and activities but to no avail. These students just do not seem to grasp the concept. Often, we blame the students for not trying hard enough. Worse yet, others blame us for not teaching students well enough. Students often learn the equality symbol misconception when they begin learning mathematics. Rather than understanding that the equal sign indicates equivalence between the expressions on the left side and the right side of an equation, students interpret the equal sign as meaning “do something” or the sign before the answer. This problem is exacerbated by many adults solving problems in the following way: 5 × 4 + 3 = ? 5 × 4 = 20 + 3 = 23 Students may also have difficulty understanding statements like 7 = 3 + 4 or 5 = 5, since these do not involve a problem on the left and an answer on the right. Falkner presented the following problem to 6th grade classes: 8 + 4 = [] + 5 All 145 students gave the answer of 12 or 17. It can be assumed that students got 12 since 8 + 4 = 12. The 17 may be from those who continued the problem: 12 + 5 = 17. Students with this misconception may also have difficulty with the idea that adding...
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...Team B Calorie Count Tool PRG/211 May 5, 2014 Team B Calorie Count Tool PROBLEM STATEMENT Team B was asked to develop a program which would calculate the user’s daily intake of calories and measure those calories against the overall calories expended. The core purpose of this program will do two primary functions. First, it will record the user intake of calories as acquired through meals throughout the day. Second, the user will record caloric output associated with physical activity. This information will be calculated together to determine the caloric surplus or deficit for the user. In order for the program to execute accurately, and provide customized results, the user will be required to input personal data to include gender, age, weight, and height. This additional information is essential to determine the user’s default caloric burn rate, otherwise known as the basal metabolic rate (BMR). The BMR and the calories burned as a result of physical activity will be calculated against the intake of calories to determine the overall success for the user. As the program is executed it must: * Record user name, age, height, weight to enable more accurate calculations * Record the users specific caloric values entered for each meal * Record the user activity and caloric burn values for that activity * Calculate the basal metabolic rate (BMR) for the individual * Subtotal the total caloric values for the day * Combine the physical activity and...
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...Problem Solving with Computing Homework - WEEK 2 [30 points] This is a review of some of the material from Chapter 2 and lectures from class. No credit for answers that are copies or near verbatim transcripts – please use your own words1 and document sources where appropriate. 1 This will apply to all assignments in this class. Answer the following questions: Chapter 2 1. Short Answers [1 point each, 2 points total] 1. What does a professional programmer usually do first to gain an understanding of a problem? The first thing that a professional programmer usually do first to gain an understanding of a program is to closely relate customer (Interview ) to inquire or gather information about the problem. 2. What two things must you normally specify in a variable declaration? The two things normally specified in a variable declaration are the variable type and identifier. 2. Algorithms / Pseudocode [1 point each, 5 points total] 1. Design an algorithm that prompts the user to enter his or her height and stores the user’s input in a variable named height. Declare height Display “Enter Your Height” Input Height Display “Height” 2. Write assignment statements that perform the following operations with the variables a and b. - Adds 2 to a and stores the result in b. - Subtracts 8 from b and stores the result in a Set b=2+a Set a=b-8 3. Write a pseudocode statement that declares the variable cost so it can hold real numbers. Floating Point-Variable...
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...11108944 Name: ASHWINI KUMAR Roll No. : RE3R02B32 PART- A 1. Ans :- (a) unary and ternary operator Unary operator:- It pecedes an operand . The operand (the value on which the operator operates ) of the unary operator must have arithmetic or pointer type and the result is the value of the argument. Example:- If a=5 then +a means 5 If a=0 then +a means 0. If a=-4 then +a means -4. Ternary operator:- It precedes an operand. The operand of the unary operator must have arithmetic type and the result is the negation of the operand’s value. Example:- If a=5 then –a means -5 If a=0 then –a means 0 If a=-4 then –a means 4. (b) Assignment and equalto operator Assignment operator:- Equal to operator: An assignment operator assigns value In this we put the To a variable. value as it is. Example – Example- a*=5 means a=5*5. Int a; a=5 means a is initialized with 5 if(a==5) { return true; } return false; (c) Expression and statement Expression:- An expression is any valid combination of operators , constants , and variables. Example:- ...
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...Selection statements Selection is used to select which statements are to be performed next based on a condition being true or false. Relational expressions In the solution of many problems, different actions must be taken depending on the value of the data. The if statement in C I used to implement such s decision structure in its simplest form – that of selecting a statement to be executed only if a condition is satisfied. Syntax: if(condtion) statement executed if condition is true When an executing program encounters the if statement, the condition is evaluated to determine its numerical value, which is then interpreted as either true or false. If the condition evaluates to any non-0 value (positive or negative), the condition is considered as a “true” condition and the statement following the if is executed; otherwise this statement is not executed. Relational Operators In C Relational operator | Meaning | Example | < | Less than | age < 30 | > | Greater than | height > 6.2 | <= | Less than or equal to | taxable <= 200000 | >= | Greater than or equal to | temp >= 98.6 | == | Equal to | grade == 100 | != | Not equal to | number !=250 | In creating relational expressions, the relational operators must be typed exactly as given in the above table. Thus, although the following relational expressions are all valid: age > 40 length <= 50 temp >= 98.6 3 < 4 flag == done day != 5 The following are invalid: length =< 50 ...
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...STUDY HABITS OF SECOND YEAR BS-AVTECH STUDENTS OF PATTS COLLEGE OF AERONAUTICS S.Y 2013-2014 An Undergraduate Research Presented to The Languages Department of PATTS College of Aeronautics In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the course ENGL 211 – Technical Report Writing By Guevarra, Giorgio Martin C Guevarra, Lorenzo Miguel Jang, Jose, Yosalina, Leo Xander March 2014 ACKNOWLEDGEMENT The researcher would like to express our thanks to the lord. Our God for his guidance towards everything we do In life, including this study that we had made, and for being an inspiration for us all to do our best in life. We give our thanks to Ms. Karen M. Millano, our adviser for ENGL 211, for carefully and patiently guiding us so that we may finish the thesis research, and for supporting us and believing in us, that we can accomplish our task finishing the thesis. To the respondents of this study, we express our gratitude because without them, this thesis research would not have been completed, we thank them for allowing us to conduct a survey during their spare time, and their patience and integrity in answering the survey. To our parents, for their support and everlasting patience and understanding for us. And lastly to our classmates, since they have been with us since the beginning of the semester and they had been our companions in everything we do for the subject ENGL 211. ABSTRACT STUDY HABITS OF...
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...SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING YEAR 3 MECHATRONICS ASSIGNMENT LAB REPORT Reading an Analogue Voltage from a Potentiometer to turn a Motor on and off with reading of 40 Assignment 2 Owais Jahanzeb BENG Mechanical Engineering with buissness Lecturer: Dr. Tom Shenton Aim & Objectives The aim of this lab is to develop a functioning program for the PICDEM board to read an analogue signal from a potentiometer and turning a motor on or off if the signal exceeds a certain limit. The program should depict the function that it should turn the motor ON and OFF if the potentiometer reading is less than or equal to 40. The practical uses of such program can be seen in automotive , injection moulding machines, wood processing machines, modern temperature controlled plants, speed control torque operations. Developing Program 1 Figure 1. The schematic circuit & PICDEM board configuration for Program Figure 1. The schematic circuit & PICDEM board configuration for Program The objective of program is to read the correspondent voltage analogous to the potentiometer position and switch the motor on if the reading is over 40 and switch it off if the reading is less than or equal to 40, the value can be adjusted by twisting the screw clockwise and anticlockwise. The program works by implementing the following code. PIC program for Test of potentiometer with value less equal to 40 with comments: include <p16f917.inc> extern DisplayDigit1, DisplayDigit2...
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...Law Written Assignment 3 Case Study 1 Parks, a 7-foot, 265-pound center for the San Diego Slick, objected when his contract was assigned from the ABC Corporation to the XYZ Corporation, the team’s new owner. The change of owners did not cause a change in the composition of the team although a new coach was hired. Parks’s compensation and his responsibilities remained the same. Was this contract assignable? Facts of the Case: 1) Parks contract was assigned from the ABC Corporation to XYZ Corporation. 2) Parks compensation and his responsibilities remained the same. Issues: 1) The reason why we are in court today is to identify if Park’s contract was assignable. Rules of the Law: 1) Personal Service Contract – The parties agree that a personal service contract may be assigned. This allows the trade of an athlete from one team to another team. 2) Notice of Assignment – Assignee is under a duty to notify the obligor that the assignment has been made and performance must be rendered to the assignee. 3) Anti-Assignment Clause – Prohibits the assignment of rights under the contract. 4) Approval Clause – requires that the obligor approves any assignment of contract. Analysis & Conclusion: Since we do not have all the facts we can assume the following: 1) Parks contract did include the Personal service contract. 2) Notice of assignment was made by XYZ Corporation. 3) Parks contract did NOT include Anti-Assignment Clause. ...
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