...Kudler Fine Foods is a company that has grown since the initial opening in 1998, and to manage with the growth Kudler selected Microsoft Access as the database to help track inventory, sales, orders, employees, and customers. Kudler’s inventory consist of perishable products, therefore inventory needs be accurately tracked. This paper will evaluate the design elements of the data tables from an accounting perspective, create an entity relationship diagram including a pivot table, recommend improvements to the data tables, and explain how the new diagrams will improve Kudler’s decision making for management. Table Analysis The data table analysis is vital to Kudler’s success. The data is organized into general ledger codes, inventory item, summary line item, and the total amount of the item’s transaction. The data provided in the analysis table, which are viewed by the users, shows how much money is spent on what product and which store. The description of the data table gives the total amount and quantity on hand for an item and calculating average price for an item. From an accounting perspective, the data tables are simple and easy to read. There are four headings. They include the GL Code, inventory item, summary line item and the amount. The GL Code helps to identify which store the item is located. For example, 12 stands for La Jolla, 13 identify the store in Del Mar, and 14 identify the Encinitas store. The inventory items identify what items are in the inventory. At...
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...Week 10 Assignment Click the link above to submit your assignment Assignment #4: Case Problem "Stateline Shipping and Transport Company" Read the 'Stateline Shipping and Transport Company" Case Problem on pages 273-274 of the text. Analyze this case, as follows: In Excel, or other suitable program, develop a model for shipping the waste directly from the 6 plants to the 3 waste disposal sites. Solve the model you developed in #1 (above) and clearly describe the results. In Excel, or other suitable program, Develop a transshipment model in which each of the plants and disposal sites can be used as intermediate points. Solve the model you developed in #3 (above) and clearly describe the results. Interpret the results and draw conclusions that address the question posed in the case problem. What are the limits of the study? Write at least one paragraph. There are two deliverables for this Case Problem, the Excel spreadsheets and an accompanying written description/explanation. Please submit both of them electronically via the dropbox. The assignment will be graded using the associated rubric. Outcome Assessed: Develop solutions for transshipment problems. Communicate issues in Management Science Grading Rubric for Stateline Shipping & Transport Case Problem There are 12 points in each of the five criteria for a total of 60 points possible Criteria 0 Unacceptable (0 points) 1 Developing (6 points) 2 Competent (9 points) 3 Exemplary (12 points) 1. Develop...
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...Rate Schedule 11 Complete Mileage Expense Type Definition in Payables 12 SA: Define Profile Options 13 System Administration Integration 18 Customize the Internet Expenses Workflow 19 Define a new OIEADMIN Role 19 Define Workflow Notification Performers 20 Change the Find Approver Method 21 Personalize Expense Report Submission Instructions 22 Integrating with Oracle Projects Summary 23 7. Enable the Display of Project and Task. Use the Region Items window to enable the display of project and task information. You need to perform this step in order to view projects and tasks in View Expense Report History. 24 Set Up Offline Expense Spreadsheet Template 25 Configure the Expense Report Sheet 25 Testing a New Custom Microsoft Excel Template 28 Save the spreadsheet to the database 29 Other Configuration Considerations 30 Open and Closed Issues 31 Enable Project Expenditure Types for Expense Report Entry Project...
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...marketing department of Robi. It is an research which gives an over all idea about the activities of the department, in addition this research will find out what the different types (working class, student, housewives, employees) think about the PR activities of Robi. This research is based on questionnaire. The questionnaire was given from the Robi authority which was a pre-tested questionnaire having 5 questions. The sample technique was stratified random sample. Total 100 respondents from Dhaka city where taken for this research. Based on their answers the analysis has been made. The sample size is divided in to five (5) sub-categories namely student, housewives, working class, agency personnel, and lastly the Robi employees. Microsoft excel 2003 software was used for all sorts of calculation and graphical representation for the research. Based on the calculation all sorts interpretation and recommendation was given at the end. Each of the questions has its own calculation and diagram in this research paper. The literature review part was full of secondary information about the research. The terminological definition, explanations of the terms and detail of the departments are clearly described in this part of the research. In addition, company background part is added just for the readers to know more about the company and also the detail of the department of PR & communication. There are mainly nine activities that are taken care by the PR & communication department. Each...
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...Kudler Fine Foods has been a successful organization due to many factors including hard work, dedication, and inventory control. As of now there are three locations with each location having their own inventory. Through hard work expansion of the organization was bound to happened, but also created the need to identify strengths and weakness of the current system, and determine if a more efficient method would be better. Kudler Fine Foods inventory is the backbone of the organization. A lot of cash is tied up in Kudler’s inventory making this a top priority to improve. Kudler needs a standardized ordering system to keep track of their inventory. As of now they are using a computerized ordering system, what they need is a system that will help them keep track of their inventory as it is sold or purchased. Kudler also needs an accounting system that will help them with payroll, accounts payable, and sales. A network that will connect sales, accounts payable, payroll, and inventory all together. Having a system that will connect all departments will allow for a more accurate financial statement. This will also allow for the managers to see expenses with each department, and see which item is being sold more. Another opportunity that Kudler needs is a system that would allow authorized personnel to enter all three stores from any location. Kudler would benefit from a network that linked managers together in order from them to view and enter data from any location...
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...to write a short report proposing a "better" methodology, where you are to interpret "better" to mean a methodology that takes your county off the list of high crime counties! Instructions Your first task is to attempt to replicate the results of the report you are given based only on the information contained within the report. As you recall, the report should include both "a verbal description of the metric used including at least your method of calculation and the high crime/low crime threshold" and the raw data used to create the metric. If the attached report you have in front of you did this, you should have no problem recreating the results (you will need to cut/paste the data from the appendix of the report given to you into excel). Should you be unable to replicate the results, if I determine that this was because the original report was not written well enough to be replicable then it will not affect your grade. The second task is to create a NEW metric that a) remove Jay County from the list of "high crime" counties, and b) alters the "high crime"/"low crime" status of as few other counties as possible. Finally, you should write a persuasive report summarizing your results. This should be relatively short (roughly 500 words of text) and should include the following information: 1. A verbal...
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...at Arby’s organization is responsible for many positions in this company. They must be able to make a schedule, order product, provide reports, and control operations. With Microsoft application, the operational manager is capable of performing his or her duties. Microsoft provide applications for Arby’s organization called menu link and aloha. Menu link is an application to help the operational manager provide cost and labor reports. The labor management uses POS data to store sales in order to make a schedule. The operation manager inputs the amount of sales use for each day to receive a guideline for how much labor to use for the week. This information is saved and sent to the schedule spread sheet. The spread sheet use is Microsoft excel software. This chart is an example of a schedule. Arby’s takes the daily labor cost and the total hours to achieve the store need for staff on day-to-day bases. The ending results reflect how much labor used for the sales produce on...
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...patience with this technology. I looked through several different computer books and that did not help. So I finally gave up on computers and left them alone for several years. After five years I found myself in the need of a computer because I had moved up in position and it required the use of a computer and everything was becoming electronic including the forms. I when out and brought a new up to date computer for that time. It came with all this fancy software and hardware. I was happy to have it but could only do so much work on it. I could do PowerPoint slides that was my biggie I would pull up a blank screen input what I wanted print it out and head for the next slide. But PowerPoint was not the only thing the bosses wanted they wanted Excel...
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...When Volvo Car Corporation split off from Ford in 2010, it needed to develop its own stand-alone IT environment in some areas. At the same time, the company wanted to improve its business intelligence (BI) capabilities and operational efficiency. So Volvo decided to prototype a Microsoft data management solution that simplifies its IT environment, provides graphical self-service reporting capabilities, and improves collaboration. Business Needs By the time that Zhejiang Geely Holding Group completed its acquisition of Volvo Car Corporation in 2010, the IT environment at Volvo had become complex, difficult to manage, and expensive. Over the years, a variety of data management and business intelligence products had been deployed. Volvo wanted to reduce the number of these products to make the overall system easier to manage and to reduce licensing and other costs. “All the products out there have been purchased by some department at some time in history, and we’re trying to consolidate and simplify our BI infrastructure,” says a Volvo IT architect. Volvo also wanted to improve its business intelligence capabilities to achieve greater insights into such things as assembly and product development costs and to help employees produce reports more quickly and easily. “With the old systems, users had to sample their own data from various sources, integrate the data, and produce the reports—and that cost a lot of time,” says a senior business analyst for business demand and strategy...
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...we discussed the power of wireless devices, delved further into information systems, discussed protection of information assets, and probed some of the functions of Microsoft Excel as an office automation tool. We utilized two sources of readings from chapters in Introduction to Information Systems and Microsoft® Office 2010. We also participated in peer to peer discussions to evaluate our understanding of the subject matter. Wireless Technology Many of the wireless technologies today are well known and understood from an operator standpoint. That comes from the common necessity of technology in our daily lives. What are not so well known are the associated security concerns that come with operating on a wireless platform? This week we touched on the threats that encompass these technologies. Information Systems We briefly touched on and broad stroked information systems in week one. This week we began a more in-depth review of some of these systems. In particular we examined Transaction Processing systems and Expert Systems which utilizes artificial intelligence to assist in the decision making process within the functional areas of an company. We also read and discussed data mining and data analysis. That discussion facilitated our understanding of when it is best to utilize Microsoft Excel and when to opt for Microsoft Access. Protecting Information Assets This week in our technology review we discussed actions that could be taken to protect our information...
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...quickly record and account for information with the ability of Microsoft Office confident user’s interaction with its design abilities that do not require intense database knowledge. Access stores information in the form of tables that are similar to worksheets but are designed for gathering large and various types of data that is stored in other tables and locations, and even in fields in other tables. The practice of creating a group within a group and then performing calculations are far more difficult using Microsoft Excel. In addition, “professional developers have found that Microsoft Office Access can save time and meet business requirements for many applications.” (Microsoft Corporation, 2006) With Microsoft Access, someone can integrate tables, forms, queries to their database from other Access databases. Microsoft SQL (Structured Query Language) Server databases, Windows SharePoint Services sites, ODBC (Open Database Connectivity) data sources, Excel, and other data sources all have the capability to work with Access. (Microsoft Corporation, 2006) Due to the large range of information that can be collected using Microsoft Access, this can make creating reports, sharing with co-workers and time management easier and more effective. Databases are good for finding connections in data. “Microsoft Office Access can play a useful role in meeting a wide range of data-tracking requirements.” (Microsoft Corporation, 2006) Microsoft Office Access gives the user an extremely...
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...CONTENTS OF PERFORMANCE APPRAISAL FORM: 1. Quality of work • Consider accuracy, thoroughness, effectiveness. • Pressure, ability to meet standards of quality. • Use of time and volume of work accomplished. • Work output matches the expectations established. 2. Quantity of work • Competence, thoroughness, and efficiency of work regardless of volume. • Neatness and accuracy. 3. Teamwork: • Establish and maintain effective working relationship with others. • Shares information and resources with others • Follows instructions of supervisor and respond to requests from others in the team in a helpful manner. • Contributing work and effort to group performance to meet agreed upon objectives and achieve team success 4. Job knowledge • Application of appropriate level of technical and procedural knowledge in specific field • Degree of technical competence • Understanding of job procedures, methods, facts and information related to assignments. • Perform duties with minimal supervision but seek guidance where and when appropriate to the job, consults the appropriate staff 5. Initiative • Consider the extent to which the employee sets own constructive work practice and recommends and creates own procedures. • Self-starter, develop and implement new methods, procedures, solutions, concepts, designs and/or applications of existing designs or procedures. • Accepts additional challenges and responsibilities and willingly assist others, self-reliant. • Completes assignment...
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...The intent of this proposal is to describe the effectiveness of switching from Microsoft® Excel to Microsoft ® Access and how internal communications will help modernize the sales department. Let me start by saying that Microsoft® Access is a user-friendly tool and is simple to learn. It provides for the easier adding, subtracting, and altering of data, in addition to offering the ability for more than one user to update tables at the same time. By converting the data we currently hold in Microsoft® Excel spreadsheets to Microsoft ®Access, we will be able to track different aspects of our business more effectively. Benefits delivered once data has been entered in Microsoft® Access: • We will also be able to use the reports to drive positive business results. • We will be able to track sales trends by associate. • We will also be able to track the buying patterns of our customers allowing us to stock the appropriate items by sales surges. • Our sales force will be able to use the database to more effectively streamline their work and understand how to be more productive with our customers. Although many of the items listed above are possible in Microsoft® Excel, the data must be inputted to the spreadsheets and work books and can be more difficult to find the information the user is looking for. Access is the better solution for an extensive customer list. In our business of Party Plates there is a need to categorize certain information to create a database that will...
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...1 Microsoft Excel 2010 Tutorial Excel is a spreadsheet program in the Microsoft Office system. You can use Excel to create and format workbooks (a collection of spreadsheets) in order to analyze data and make more informed business decisions. Specifically, you can use Excel to track data, build models for analyzing data, write formulas to perform calculations on that data, pivot the data in numerous ways, and present data in a variety of professional looking charts. The Ribbon Understanding the Ribbon is a great way to help understand the changes between Microsoft 2003 to Microsoft 2010. The ribbon holds all of the information in previous versions of Microsoft Office in a more visual stream line manner through a series of tabs that include an immense variety of program features. Home Tab This is the most used tab; it incorporates all text and cell formatting features such as font and paragraph changes. The Home Tab also includes basic spreadsheet formatting elements such as text wrap, merging cells and cell style. Insert Tab This tab allows you to insert a variety of items into a document from pictures, clip art, and headers and footers. Page Layout Tab This tab has commands to adjust page such as margins, orientation and themes. Created By: Amy Beauchemin Source: office.microsoft.com 1/13/11 2 Formulas Tab This tab has commands to use when creating Formulas. This tab holds an immense function library which can assist when creating any formula or function...
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...can be used to strengthen the company's bottom line. The data set for the study is a sample of a survey conducted on the population of the American Intellectual Union (AIU). It is available via the following link: Excel 2007 DataSet with DataSet Key which contains the following nine sections of data that will be used throughout our course: Gender Age Department Position Tenure Overall Job Satisfaction Intrinsic Job Satisfaction—Satisfaction with the actual performance of the job Extrinsic Job Satisfaction—external to the job, for example, office location, your work colleagues, your own office (cubicle/hard walled office, etc), Benefits—Health insurance, pension plan, vacation, sick days, etc. In the first assignment you are to complete the following: You will need to examine two of the nine sections of data: one section of qualitative data (choose either Gender or Position) one section of quantitative data (choose either Intrinsic or Extrinsic) Each section should include all data points listed in the column for the variable. The requirements include: Identify the data you selected. Explain why the data was selected. Explain what was learned by examining these sets of data. Your analysis should include using Microsoft Excel to obtain information about the data through the use of three measures of central tendency (mean, median, mode). Your analysis should also include the use of two measures of variability (standard deviation and variance)...
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