...Beau Smith, Zach Chrzan, Robbie Wacker, Terence Heiser 9/16/12 Business Comm. Short Answer Questions 45. An accounting career would be an interesting career to pursue. Listening can be a vital part of the job. One example would be having a more people oriented style of listening and being able to understand what they say more effectively to be able to help them with their problem. Along with being people oriented, being versatile in our listening style can make us better accountants. An action oriented style can help us accomplish that. Asking questions as an accountant is important. By asking questions we can obtain more information to help accomplish a goal for customers. When being people-oriented, the best way to improve your communication is to not worry so much about the factual information at that point. There will be time to make up all of the information that may be lost at another time. When asking questions, don’t just ask questions to make the person feel involved, rather really listen to the content of what they are saying. Really listen to the answer which they give, and take it for what it is worth. When being task-oriented, the best way to improve listening skills in this area is to remove the emotion from the situation, and focus solely on the information at hand. 46. The three barriers which affect our listening the most are preoccupation, fear of appearing ignorant and physical distractions. A lot of times in our busy lives, we can become...
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...TEN TOUGH INTERVIEW QUESTIONS AND TEN SMART ANSWERS If only interviewees could have the slightest idea of the kind of questions interviewers will ask them, a lot more people would be able to overcome mental fear of the unknown which often produces the physical symptoms of nervousness. The best way to prepare mentally is to know what may be coming. Fear of the unknown can only exist when there is an unknown. Take the time to understand some of the standards when it comes to interviewing questions. The following are some of the most difficult questions you will face in the course of your job interviews. Some questions may seem rather simple on the surface such as ‘tell me about yourself’ but these questions can have a variety of answers. The more open ended the question, the wider the variation in the answers. Once you have become practiced in your interviewing skills, you will find that you can use almost any question as a launching pad for a particular topic or compelling story. Others are classic interview questions, such as “what is your greatest weakness”? Questions most people answer improperly. In this case, the standard textbook answer for the greatest weakness question is to provide a veiled positive such as: I work too much. I just work and work and work. Wrong. Either you are lying or, worse yet, you are telling the truth, in which case you define working too much as a weakness and really do not want to work much at all. The following answers are provided to give...
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...MARKING SCHEME: CONTENT : 10 MARKS LANGUAGE : 5 MARKS TOTAL : 15 MARKS SAMPLE QUESTION & GUIDELINE ON HOW TO ANSWER NOVEL QUESTION. QUESTION :CHOOSE A CHARACTER THAT YOUADMIRE FROM THE NOVEL THAT YOU HAVE STUDIED. WITH CLOSE REFERENCE TO THE TEXT ,GIVE REASONS FOR YOUR CHOICE AND HOW THE CHARACTER HELPS YOU IN YOUR LIFE. STEP 1: Start you answer by writing the title of the novel and the person who wrote it. At the same time the character you admire the most. STEP 2: Give reasons for your choice in a new paragraph and start your sentence with something like; First of all or just as easy as firstly. In giving your reason you must give the incident that is related to the situation in order to proof your point. STEP 3: Give a few more reasons/proof from the novel to support your answer. STEP 4: Remember to answer the second part of the question after giving your reasons/proof. You can do this in each of the paragraphs or write it as conclusion at the end of your answer. STEP 5: To end your writing, give a conclusion by combining the reasons or answering the second part of the question SAMPLE ANSWER BY FOLLOWING THE ABOVE GUIDELINE (THE CURSE) Based on the novel “The Curse” by Lee Su Ann the character that I like and admire is Azreen because of a few reasons. The first reason is because Azreen is such a strong character that has great courage as she is open, positive and always fights for what she believes in. Firstly, she ignores...
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...Movie Questions for HSB4U 1. What is the major question an anthropologist would ask? Answer it. 2. What is the major question a psychologist would ask? Answer it. 3. What is the major question a sociologist would ask? Answer it. 4. How accurate is this movie in depicting a generalization of society? 5. Is diversity a direct correlation to racism? 1. Do you think that racism still exists in today’s current culture and society? Yes, it definitely does. While we have become more a multicultural society, that does not mean that we have accepted all the other cultures and races; he have learned to tolerate them. This can be seen when Sandra Bullock’s character is having dinner with her higher class friends and she mentions a bad part of tone that is known for its black community. One of her friends reply in an almost disgusted tone that she does, but that she has no need to ever go that way. That just goes to show you that she judges the type of people that live in that area, and tries to stay clear of it. 2. Why do you think Sandra Bullock’s character invited the young black boy to live with her? Her character gives off the vibe that she is confident, supportive, caring, family-orientated, and driven. I would assume that she grew up in a home that was warm and welcoming, and supportive of her decisions. She went to University, and currently lived a happy life with her family. Her younger years clearly shaped her into the person (or character) that she was. For her to...
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...SAD workshop 12-Revision Following questions cover the revision for the topic for this unit and also are the examples of short answer type questions that could be asked. Please attempt these question in class and discuss with your tutor during workshop time. 1. What is information technology and why is it important? 2. Describe three systems development methodologies and three development approaches /methods. 3. What are four types of feasibility? Which type focuses on total cost of ownership? Which type is influenced primarily by users? 4. Describe the six steps in a typical preliminary investigation. Why should an analyst be careful when using the word problem? 5. Identify and briefly describe five common fact-finding methods. 6. What is risk management, and why is it important? Provide an example. 7. What is agile approaches/methods? Are they better than traditional approaches/methods? Why or why not? 8. What is context diagram? Draw a context diagram that represents the information system at a typical library. 9. Explain the relationship between logical and physical design. 10. What is the difference between a detail report, a summary report, and an exception report? 11. What is a DBMS? Briefly describe the components of a DBMS. 12. Is batch processing still relevant? Why or why not? 13. Why is a post-implementation evaluation important? Who should conduct it, and why? 14...
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...Review Questions - ANSWERS Name ____________________________ Answer the following questions: 1) What is a resource? People, equipment & materials necessary to complete a task 2) Why aren't resources assigned to summary tasks? Summary tasks are simply a grouping for a set of related tasks. The indiv tasks require resources but the summary task is just a compilation of those resources. 3) What is the difference between Start, Prorated and End in association with costs? Start – cost applied at the beginning of the task Prorated – cost applied as work is completed End – cost applied when the task is completed 4) Give a real-world example of the difference between a fixed cost and a cost per use? Give a real-world example of the difference between a fixed cost and a cost per use? Fixed Cost: (buy equipment) company bids $500 to clean carpet, cost of airline ticket… Cost Per Use: (rent equipment) Hourly rate on moving van, rental of shampoo machine, landing fee each time plane lands… 5) Why is a fixed cost entered with the task and not the resource? Because the cost is the same no matter how many people, hours, materials used. Not dependent upon the amount of time or number of resources it takes to complete. 6) Why is the resource cost for the Wiring Contractor $0.00? Because the installation of the wiring is a fixed contractual price of $4000 – it will not matter how many hours the contractor takes – still the...
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...AFIN310 Issues in Applied Finance Financial Planning Assignment: Questions & Answers General Questions 1. Is an introduction / executive summary and conclusion required? No. You are to answer each question and keep to a total maximum of 15 pages, excluding cover page. No marks will be provided for anything written on page 16 or beyond. Students are recommended to refer to the mark allocation when answering each question. 2. Is specific formatting required? Eg The font you can use is Calibri, size 12. The document should have 1.5 spacing There are no specific formatting requirements, unless there are standard university or department formatting criteria of which students should be aware. 3rd year students are expected to submit assignments which are easy to read and look professional. 10 marks are allocated to presentation, length, references and bibliography. Question 1 3. Question 1(a) are real-life examples required or I can simply make-up an example? Personal and/or made-up examples will not be sufficient. There are numerous Australian real cases that can be referenced. The preamble to the question refers to "Australian scandals involving financial planning firms, practices and advice". You are required to limit the use of examples to publically available information about the provision of financial advice in Australia. 4. Question 1(a) How many examples will be considered sufficient? Marks are not allocated based on the number of examples provided, rather on the quality of...
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...IDENTIFYING TCTOTMTKS VARIABLES USING SCIENCE PROCESS SKILL AND CIRCLING METHOD TO ANSWER SECTION B QUESTIONS FOR SCIENCE YEAR 5 Murugan s/o Subramaniam M.Env., B.Sc., Dip. Edu. SK Kota Masai 2, Pasir Gudang 21 August 2008. Acknowledgement I would like to thank the headmistress of SK Kota Masai 2, Puan Rosyati Binti Jani for giving me the permission and encouragement to conduct this study. I also would like to appreciate Mr. Rodzuan B. Raziki and Mr. Calen Woi for their moral support. A special thank to the pupils of 5A3 and 5A4 for their involvement in this study. Without their cooperation and the grace of god, this research won’t be successful. 1 Abstract This research was carried out to assist the pupils in answering section B Science Year 5 questions using TCTOTMTKS method. The objective of study was to identify TCTCTMTKS variables using science process skill and circle method. 98 respondents were involved in this study. Respondents are from 5A3 and 5A4 pupils were selected from 7 classes. Early observations had been carried out through exercises in classrooms. Through the observations, it was seen that the students were having difficulty in identifying variables from the experiment and unable to answer the following questions. Thus, this research focuses on how to identify to change, to observe, to measure and to keep the same variables by using science process skill and circling method. Pre-test and post-test were used to assess respondent achievement...
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...Chapter Two Economics: The Framework for Business Review Questions 1. How did the global economic crisis unfold? The economy changed for the worst when the dot.com bubble burst in 2000, and 9/11 terrorist attacks happened in 2001. 2. What steps did the Federal government and the Federal Reserve take to mitigate the crisis? They decreased interest rates, and subprime mortgage came into play. They seized a few companies that controlled a lot of the mortgage. The congress passed a bill on dollar bailout plan. As the new administration began Obama passed a 825 billion dollar bailout plan. 3. Compare and contrast microeconomics and macroeconomics. How do the two approaches interrelate? Use a specific example to explain. Macroeconomics is the study of a country’s overall economic issues such as performance, structure, behavior, decisions making, and study rates. Microeconomics focuses on smaller economic units such as individual consumers, families and businesses. They can affect how much and what you can buy for your family. 4. What is the difference between fiscal and monetary policy? What role does politics play in shaping these policies? Fiscal policies refer to government efforts to influence the economy through taxation without representation and spending decisions that are designed to encourage growth. Monetary policies refer to actions that shape...
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...What is organizational culture? Where does it come from? Organizational culture can be loosely described as "the way things are done in an organization. It is a system of shared characteristics that the members in the organization value and which distinguish the organization from other organizations. Main characteristics that the organization culture defines include the following. 1. The degree to which innovation and risk taking behavior is accepted and valued. 2. The degree to which employees are expected to pay attention to detail in performance of their work. 3. The degree to which management focuses on the results produced rather than adherence to systems and procedures. 4. Degree to which people and people aspect of any situation is taken into consideration in decision making. 5. The degree to which work is organized around teams of people rather than individuals. 6. The degree to which aggressive and competitive behavior is accepted and appreciated. 7. The relative emphasis placed on maintenance of status quo versus growth. The current organization culture of any company is largely determined by what has been the way of working in the past and the degree of success achieved using those ways. The ultimate source of the past behavior is primarily the influence of the founders of the organization. The founders contribute to formation of early organization culture in three ways. 1. Founders only hire and keep employee of certain types who...
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...1. What is the importance of information system to STARS? Although STARS appears to have maintained the highest standards in recruiting highly trained professionals for its team, these high standards have not been the case previously with regard to information systems. The former CIO was not a member of the permanent staff but a consultant who just focused on his own assignments. Department managers had to deal with the system problems on their own. Senior executives do not seem to have had any clear vision as to the importance of IS and the commensurate need for professional leadership. According to the communication with the managers by CIO, one argument raised was that even if a lengthy information system outage occurs, information systems are not truly critically important because helicopters and medical teams can still fly to accident sites and rely on the cell phone for communication purpose. That is, STARS basic operations will still function even in the absence of information system support. However, the STARS mission is measured in human lives and not simply by the timely dispatch of a helicopter and medical team. Much of the critical information regarding accident victims, site conditions , availability of the chain of survival partners and even factors related to aircraft safety cannot be successfully communicated by cell phone, these information, in turn, can directly affect the survival rate of patients and the safety of the aircrews. In fact, ELC heavily relies...
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...Principals of Finance FIN-3005 June 3, 2014 Questions and Applications 7) Borrowing from the Federal Reserve: Describe the process of “borrowing at the Federal Reserve.” What rate is charged, and who sets it? Why do banks commonly borrow in the federal funds market rather than through the Federal Reserve? “Borrowing at the discount window” represents the borrowing by depository institutions from the Federal Reserve. The interest rate charged on these loans is known as the discount rate is set by the FED. Banks tend to prefer the federal funds market over the discount window because the Fed may monitory the bank’s reasons for borrowing. The Fed’s discount window is intended to accommodate banks that experience “unanticipated” shortage of funds. 9) Bullet Loan: Explain the advantage of a bullet loan. A bullet loan is a loan that specifies a date in the future in which the principal is paid off in a lump sum. This type of loan is useful for a borrower will have limited funds in the near future. 10) Bank Use of Funds Why do banks invest in securities even though loans typically generate a higher return? Explain how a bank decides the appropriate percentage of funds that should be allocated to each type of asset. Securities provide a bank with liquidity, because they can often be sold easily in the secondary market. In addition, many securities purchased by banks have low risk. Therefore, the securities can be used to minimize liquidity risk and...
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...Q. Explain why profit maximization is not the best goal for company what is an appropriate goal and why? Some people believe that the manager’s main goal always should be to try to maximize profits. To do it, they should take only those actions that expected to increase revenues more than costs. It means maximizing in EPS (Earning Per Share). It seems a reasonable objective but as a goal suffers from several flaws: * First of all, figures for EPS are always historical so reflect past performance rather than what is happening now or what will happen in the future. If you as a manager seek only to maximize profits in a limited period, you may ignore the timing of those profits. Large profits that pay off many years in the future may be less valuable than smaller profits received next year. * Second, Different accounting principles result differences in profit computing. It means when firms compute profits, they follow certain accounting principles which focus on accrued revenues and costs. A firm that is profitable according to accounting principles may spend more cash that it receives and an unprofitable firm may have larger cash inflows than outflows. There is a famous expression in finance saying:” you cannot pay your bills with earning, only with cash!!” In finance, we place more emphasis on cash than on profit or earning. * Finally, as a manager you have to include variability or risk. Focusing only on earning may ignore them. When comparing two investment opportunities...
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...QUESTION NO: 57 New switches have been purchased for a network upgrade. The objective for the network design emphasizes efficient, error-free transport instead of fast transport. Which switching mode should be configured on the new switches to provide error-free transport to the network? A. cut-through B. fragment-free C. frame-filtering D. store-and-forward E. 802.1q forwarding F. VTP transparent mode Answer: D Explanation: The Switch receives and stores all bits in the frame before forwarding the frame. This allows switch to check the FCS before forwarding the frame. FCS is Ethernet Trailer. Incorrect answers: A. The Switch performs the address table lookup as soon as the destination address field in the header is received. The first bits in the frame can be sent out to out port before the final bits in the incoming frame are received. This does not allow the switch to discard frames that fail the FCS check. B. This is also same as A. But Switch waits 64 bytes to be received before forwarding the first bytes of the outgoing frame. Collisions may occur during first 64 bytes of the frame. Frames in error due to collision will not be forwarded. The FCS still cannot be checked. C,E,F : They are not related to Switch mode transport. QUESTION NO: 107 Which protocol admin overhead in a switch network by allowing the configuring of a new VLAN to be distributed to all the switches in a domain? A. STP B. VTP C. GVRP D. SNMP E. DHCP Answer: B Explanation...
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...Case 2 -‐ Solution / expected answers Part 1 Question 1 The correct answer is: 20.00% 18.00% Annual Return Annualized Volatility 15.00% Explanation: Using the return from Technical Document 4 we compute the annual return: !"!!"!!"#$ 3314.46 r= −1= − 1 = 20.00% !"!!"!!"#$ 2762.05 Using the same formula we compute the returns between each trading day: !"!!"!!"#$ !"!!"!!"#$ r! = − 1 = 0.0916% … r!"! = − 1 = −0.8024% !"!!"!!"#$ !"!!"!!"#$ After that, we use these returns to compute for the annualized volatility: Market Risk Premium σ= 1 −1 ! ! − ! = 18.00% !!! Finally, we compute the market risk premium: = − = 20.00% − 5.00% = 15.00% Question 2 The correct answer is: Equity Beta Cost of Equity 0.8 17.00% Explanation: We compute the equity Beta using the relevant formula from Technical Document 4. All necessary inputs are already obtained: ...
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