...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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...Alternative “C” Economic Analysis * Contains: 1. Tangible Benefits Worksheet 2. One Time Cost Worksheet 3. Recurring Cost Worksheet 4. Discount rates * Used to create Cost/Benefit Analysis Spreadsheets for possible alternative solutions. Cost/Benefit Analysis spreadsheet is located in doc sharing. * Description of Alternative C – Nova Corporation. (see page 151 in the book) 1. Industry Leader in CRM solutions 2. Large and complex 3. Pricing only based on modules purchased 4. License for the use of the system is middle of the row 1. Tangible Benefits Worksheet - Nova Nova - Alternative “C” Tangible Benefits Worksheet | A. | Cost reduction or avoidance | $12,500 | B. | Error reduction | $ 3,500 | C. | Increased Flexibility | $ 5,500 | D. | Increased speed of activity | $ 7,500 | E. | Improvement management/planning control | $15,000 | F. | Ease of interfacing with business partners | $16,000 | Total Tangible Benefits | $60,000 | 2. One Time Cost Worksheet – Nova Nova - Alternative “C” One Time Costs Worksheet | A. | Development Costs | $ 2,000 | B. | New Hardware | $ 1,000 | C. | Software License or Purchase cost | $19,500 | D. | User Training | $ 3,500 | E. | Site Preparation | $ 4,000 | Total One Time Costs | $30,000 | 3. Recurring Cost Worksheet – Nova Nova – Alternative “ C” Recurring Cost Costs Worksheet | A. | Software Maintenance | $ 2,500 | B. | Incremental Data Storage...
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...BANK3004 Portfolio and Fund Management Assessment 2 – Generating Random Numbers in Excel You can choose ten companies at random using the Random Number Generator function of Data Analysis tool in Excel. When the tool is installed, the steps are: Data/Data Analysis/Random Number Generator. Here are the definitions of the input variables taken from Excel Help: Number of Variables Enter the number of columns of values that you want in the output table. If you do not enter a number, Microsoft Office Excel fills all columns in the output range that you specify. Number of Random Numbers Enter the number of data points that you want to see. Each data point appears in a row of the output table. If you do not enter a number, Excel fills all rows in the output range that you specify. Distribution Click the distribution method that you want to use to create random values. Uniform This is characterized by lower and upper bounds. Variables are drawn with equal probability from all values in the range. A common application uses a uniform distribution in the range 0...1. The dialog box, with the variables, is shown below. Here three lists of random numbers are requested – in case the first list has duplicated numbers. The companies are numbered from 2 to 69 in the data set. Choose the uniform distribution. Format the output to the nearest whole number to get your ten company numbers. In the example, the first column has no duplicated company numbers and so can be used without any adjustments...
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...Executive Summery This work intends to explore the public relation and communication department under 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...
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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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...Lee College Financial Statements ACC 380: Accounting for Not-For-Profit Organizations June 4, 2012 Lee College Financial Statements Why do Not-For-Profit organizations need financial statements? The accounting system for nonprofits is designed to capture the economic activities of the firm and its financial position. The financial statements are constructed based on the “Accounting Equation” in which: Assets = Liabilities + Net Assets (Keating, 2008). This equation is very helpful, but not show us how or why net assets change over time. This is the purpose of the financial statements. For Lee College, a private not-for-profit, the financial statements required under the FASB Statement 117 are the Statement of Financial Position, Statement of Activities, and Statement of Cash Flows (Copley, 2011). The focus of this paper will be on the Statement of Activities and the acceptable alternative. The Statement of Activities’ purpose is to show revenues, expenses, gains, losses, and reclassifications and to show the changes in net assets by net asset class (unrestricted, temporarily restricted, or permanently restricted) (Copley, 2011). FASB Statement 117, as stated earlier, requires the Statement of Activities as part of the three required financial statements for a private, not-for-profit college. However, there is an acceptable alternative to the Statement of Activities. An acceptable alternative to the Statement of Activities is to present two statements: 1) Statement...
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...The Justice Department in one of the twenty counties in the state of Texkansahomatucky. Recently, the state Justice Department published a short report releasing crime statistics that included a crime map and your county was flagged as a high crime county. Because the District Attorney in the county is up for re-election this year, he is concerned that this report will significantly hurt his election chances. He has asked you to both verify that the methodology used in the official report indeed indicates that your county is in fact a high crime county and 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...
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...Database Analysis Lance Washington CIS/207 October 17, 2011 Andrew Nash Database Analysis A group of logically related files that stores data and the association among them is called database. To be able to analysis these files, software must be provided. For an operation management major, they must be allowed to access organizational data to determine optimum inventory, knowledge of scheduling their employees, access to ordering product for the store needs, and access to reports to obtain labor and cost control (Rainer Jr. 2011). There are many organizations that use database to operate their business. Microsoft, Access, DB2, and Oracle are a few database applications available to effectively absorb data. Microsoft is user friendly. It provides the user with the necessary tools to run a successful business. One organization that uses Microsoft is Arby’s. The operational manager 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...
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...explain basic principles • Work through activity in Chapter 2 • Complete sample test questions and discuss Word Processing • Use slides to explain basic principles • Work through activity in Chapter 3 • Complete sample test questions and discuss Spreadsheets • Use slides to explain facilities • Work through activity in Chapter 4 • Complete sample test questions and discuss Databases • Use slides to explain facilities • Work through activity in Chapter 5 • Complete sample test questions and discuss Research Techniques • Use slides to explain facilities • Work through activity in Chapter 6 • Complete sample test questions and discuss Health & Safety • Use slides to explain basic principles • Work through Chapter 7 • Complete sample test questions and discuss Legislation • Go through chapter 7 plus additional information on sample cases • Use slides to discuss: o Copyright o Data Protection Act o Computer Misuse Act • Complete sample test questions and discuss Sample test paper • Use sample paper in Appendix B or from the Payne-Gallway web site (to be marked by teacher/lecturer from answers provided on web 2&3 To demonstrate the importance of good housekeeping routines To introduce word processing techniques 4&5 6&7 To introduce spreadsheet techniques 8&9 To introduce database techniques 10 & 11 To investigate research techniques 12 To explain health & safety issues involved with the use of IT To explain legal issues surrounding the use of IT 13 14 To test Knowledge base...
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...Running Head: My First Computer My First Computer Robert Fehn Park University Introduction to Computer CS140 03 May 2005 My First Computer Introduction I began working with computers about 3 years ago. Needless to say it was a shocking experience sitting in front of a picture tube and not knowing how it worked or where to begin. I began by hitting buttons and asking question at the same time. The first computer that I bought was a new Packard Bell 486 with windows 3.1 and a Cannon bubble jet. It was more troublesome to use and I was not computer literate and I had no ideal what I had but I had a computer in my home. I was asked prior to buying the computer what I wanted put on it my answer was whatever it comes with and I had no idea what to use so the guy put some programs on it and I took it home and was in business. I would do little things at first just to try and get a feel for this thing but it would amaze me or frustrate me. I had this thing and did not know what to do with it at times I felt like throwing it out the window. The more I tried reading the book the more I got confused and I had no 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...
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...CONCATENATE function Show All ------------------------------------------------- Description The CONCATENATE function joins up to 255 text strings into one text string. The joined items can be text, numbers, cell references, or a combination of those items. For example, if your worksheet contains a person's first name in cell A1 and the person's last name in cell B1, you can combine the two values in another cell by using the following formula: =CONCATENATE(A1," ",B1) The second argument in this example (" ") is a space character. You must specify any spaces or punctuation that you want to appear in the results as an argument that is enclosed in quotation marks. ------------------------------------------------- Syntax CONCATENATE(text1, [text2], ...) The CONCATENATE function syntax has the following arguments (argument: A value that provides information to an action, an event, a method, a property, a function, or a procedure.): * Text1 Required. The first text item to be concatenated. * Text2, ... Optional. Additional text items, up to a maximum of 255 items. The items must be separated by commas. Note You can also use the ampersand (&) calculation operator instead of the CONCATENATE function to join text items. For example, =A1 & B1 returns the same value as =CONCATENATE(A1, B1) ------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------- ...
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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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...Part A (i) - Identify the current budgeting approach adopted by United Consultancy - Discuss the advantages and disadvantages of current budgeting approach used by United Consultancy ( to answer part A(i), you don't have to prepare the flex budget. All you need to do is to comment on the limitations of the fixed budget presented in relation to the variance analysis) Part A (ii) - you need to comment on the limitations of the existing operating statements presented - No calculation required Part b - you might want to start with the briefly explanation on the differences between fixed and flexed budget - discuss the limitations of the fixed budget - discuss why flexed budget is useful - discuss the step by step on how the spreadsheet software can be used to setup the flexed budget - in the step by step, you need to clearly identify the format required and the formula need to be included so that the user to key in the budget, and actual and the system will automatically calculate the flexed budget and the variance. - Remember in flexed budget: only the variable cost need to be recalculated. Part C - You need to explain clearly whether the zero based budgeting is suitable for United Consultancy (for each justification, the example should be provided) - you need to discuss the advantages and disadvantages of zero based budgeting - for each of the advantage and disadvantage, you need to provide example. Remember: Harvard referencing format with both in-text...
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...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 in your spreadsheet. Data Tab...
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...Cellonics Daniel Higginbotham Communication is the foundation for any successful endeavor, whether it is business, personal or pleasure, without successful communication the effort is sure to fail. With the continued advances in technology, it is safe to assume that telecommunications are soon to be transformed to a level previously unknown. The benefits could be astronomical as long as the process is correctly developed. Cellonics is the future. Transmitting data over radio waves and then defragmenting is soon to be a method of the past, Cellonics offers technology with the ability to increase modem speed by up to 1000 times. The breakthrough came from the study of human cells, when stimulated these cells generated waveforms separated by periods of silence. The Cellonics technology has developed a procedure which mimics these signals in a way in which they can be applied to the communications industry. This sophisticated technology accepts slow analog input and distributes rapid pulse waveforms encoding digital information and broadcasting it over communication channels. NDS mathematical formulas are applied to the cells to stimulate responses; this is a non-linear system so the output can exceed normal capacities while the application remains straightforward. Cellonics is set to revolutionize the communication industry. Businesses or corporations which communicate remotely will be able to increase their speed, reliability and decrease their power consumption. All of...
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