...Is Requiring Ignition Interlock Licenses to indicate that the Purchase of Alcoholic Beverages is Prohibited Effective? April 20, 2013 Abstract In many states of the United States of America, selling alcohol has a number of state legislature-enacted restrictions. One such restriction is the sale of alcohol to certain persons who are found guilty of having committed third class felonies that are related to breach of a court order that is against driving under the influence alcohol that is intoxicated above certain limits. The circumstance leading to prohibition of driving automobiles without an ignition interlock devices arises from the first conviction of causing accidents that result in personal injuries for reasons accruing from alcohol intoxication. The penalties for causing accidents due to influence of over consumption of alcohol are valid from state to state. For instance, in the Tucson area, once convicted and found guilty for driving while under the influence (DUI) and/or while intoxicated (DWI), people find themselves susceptible to incredibly serious penalties. Such penalties range from a mandatory jail term, suspension of one’s driving license, and a force under court order to install an ignition interlock device in all cars driven by the convict among other penalties (Ministry of Transportation, 2013). Upon subsequent offenses, in many states, the felony offender is limited from accessing alcohol products from retailers or the retailers’ employees under the...
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...Case 4 The ARMS Procurement System at Tustin State University1 Christina Abrams angrily pushed the purchasing audit reports to the back of her desk. As director of purchasing for Tustin State University’s purchasing department, she knew she could not avoid studying the reports. But for a moment she needed to cool off before she had a meltdown. Walking across the campus, she remembered how, for the past two years, the consultants told her that the new Administrative Resource Management System (ARMS) procurement system would solve her procurement concerns. The ARMS procurement system went live at the beginning of May 2009. Since then, many problems have come to light from the various departments using the system. BACKGROUND With the start of the year in 2006, three administrative managers pulled together to work on improving the computer information system used by the university. The existing system was cumbersome and inaccurate. A new computerized information technology–based system was expected to reduce a significant number of errors in the process. It was decided that a supplier would be chosen through the competitive bidding process. Peoplesoft was awarded the contract to implement the new purchasing information system. Shortly after the human resources department implemented ARMS, the TSU purchasing department analyzed its computer systems. The purchasing department discovered that it was using at least seven different ways to purchase items. Purchasing realized that...
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...Non banking financial intermediaries Functions of hire purchase finance companies ire purchase (abbreviated HP, colloquially sometimes never-never[1]) is the legal term for a contract, in which persons usually agree to pay for goods in parts or a percentage at a time. It was developed in the United Kingdom and can now be found in Australia, China, India, Jamaica, Japan, Malaysia, New Zealand, and South Africa. It is also called closed-end leasing. In cases where a buyer cannot afford to pay the asked price for an item of property as a lump sum but can afford to pay a percentage as a deposit, a hire-purchase contract allows the buyer to hire the goods for a monthly rent. When a sum equal to the original full price plus interest has been paid in equal installments, the buyer may then exercise an option to buy the goods at a predetermined price (usually a nominal sum) or return the goods to the owner. In Canada and the United States, a hire purchase is termed an installment plan; other analogous practices are described as closed-end leasing or rent to own. If the buyer defaults in paying the installments, the owner may repossess the goods, a vendor protection not available with unsecured-consumer-credit systems. HP is frequently advantageous to consumers because it spreads the cost of expensive items over an extended time period. Business consumers may find the different balance sheet and taxation treatment of hire-purchased goods beneficial to their taxable income. The need for...
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...In Purchases essay, “Mortal Hazard,” he explains how our society runs on a system of “Moral hazard” which the author describes as: “[W]henever decision makers in risky situations reap the rewards from their decisions without bearing all of the costs.” (Purchase 1). The author explains why we continue using this defective system as well as the problem it has created with sub-prime mortgages and the energy crisis (Purchase 2). Purchase further explains that political decision-making is also flawed due to the ignorance of the voters whom vote out of emotion rather than intelligence (Purchase 3). Purchase concludes that until moral hazards are removed from society, social progress cannot be made (Purchase). Purchases main argument is that our institutions are not designed for prudent action but rather facilitate taking and deal with the negative consequences later on (Purchase 1). Purchase explains that the architecture of our decision-making focuses on privatizing...
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...Requirements: Proposal 1. Receiving System Requirements 1.1. The receiving system should ask the end user to enter their username and password to access the receiving system. 1.2. The receiving system should allow the end user the option to search for incoming orders by purchase order number or supplier name 1.2.1. The initial list for the supplier name selection option should display a list all of suppliers by company name, location, and status of open purchase orders 1.2.1.1. The system should check to see if the response to the request is longer than 25 items. If so the system should allow the user to narrow the search. 1.2.2. The initial list for purchase order selection option should show a list of open purchase orders to be received on the current day 1.2.2.1. The system should check to see if the response to the request is longer than 25 items. If so the system should allow the user to narrow the search. 1.2.3. In the case of no results the option to modify search criteria or cancel should be provided 1.3. The list of purchase orders returned should show the purchase order number, order date, product number, basic product description, total number of items in delivery 1.4. The system should allow the purchase order to be selected and opened to view the purchase order. 1.5. Once opened the options to edit purchase order, print purchase order, go back, print labels should be available 1.6. The system should allow the purchase order to be edited by a manager. ...
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...Inventory System Overview and Requirements Table of Contents System Overview 6 Brief Description 6 Project Initiator and Sponsor 6 Intended Users and Stakeholders 7 Requirements Specification 7 Overall Goals and Objectives 7 Elicitation Methods for Gathering Requirements 7 Observation and interviews 8 Document inspection 8 Functional Requirements 8 Front counter – sales of new and used video games 8 Front counter – purchase and intake of used video games 9 Front counter – customer requests 9 Bookkeeping – reconciling purchase and sales receipts with inventory levels and month-end reporting 10 Owner – purchasing 11 Owner – reporting 11 Nonfunctional requirements 11 Usability 11 Performance 12 Security 12 Stability and availability 12 Assumptions and constraints 13 Emergency preparedness 13 PC setup and maintenance 13 Network maintenance 13 Security 13 Functional Decomposition Diagram 14 Use Case Diagram 15 Data Flow Diagram 16 Sequence Diagram 17 User Input Forms 18 Testing 20 Unit Testing 20 System Testing 21 User Acceptance Testing 22 User acceptance stakeholders. 22 Error documentation and tracking 22 Quality Assurance Plan 23 Design. 23 Design and coding. 23 Testing. 23 Development Strategy 24 Insourcing. 24 Insourcing benefits 24 Insourcing challenges 25 Insourcing cost analysis 25 Outsourcing 25 Application Service Provider 25 ASP benefits 26 ASP challenges 26 ASP Cost...
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... First, the economic merits of proposed IT investments need to be subjected to the same kind of detailed analysis as any other major capital investment (e.g., plant expansions). Accountants are skilled in making such analyses. Second, the operational feasibility of IT investments must also be evaluated. How will the investment affect daily operating procedures? Will the system be able to adapt as the company changes the nature of its operations? As one of the major users of the information system, accountants need to participate in these analyses. Third, what is the long-run viability of the proposed supplier? Here again accountants can make a valuable contribution by analyzing the long-run economic viability of proposed vendors. 13.2 Companies such as Wal-Mart have moved beyond JIT to VMI systems. Discuss the potential advantages and disadvantages of this arrangement. What special controls, if any, should be developed to monitor VMI systems? Vendor Managed Inventory (VMI) is essentially...
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...Overview Purchase processing and cash disbursements procedures constitute the expenditure cycle for most retail, wholesale and manufacturing organizations. Purchase processing procedures Purchases procedures include the tasks involved in identifying inventory needs, placing the order, receiving the inventory and recognizing the liability. In general, these procedures apply to both manufacturing and retailing firms. It differs only in the way purchases are authorized. | Manufacturing firms | Merchandising firms | Purchase authorization | Production planning and control function | Inventory control function | Monitor inventory records The inventory control monitors and records finished goods inventory levels, when inventories drop to a predetermined reorder point, a purchase requisition is prepared and sent to the prepare purchase order function to initiate the purchase process. Prepare purchase order The prepare purchase order function receives the purchase requisitions, which are sorted by vendor if necessary. Next, a purchase order (PO) is prepared for each vendor. A copy of the PO is sent to the vendor. In addition, a copy sent to the set up of accounts payable (AP) function for filing temporarily in the AP pending file and a blind copy is sent to the receive goods function, where it is held until the inventories arrive. The last copy is filed in the open/closed purchase order file. Receive Goods The next event in the expenditure cycle is the receipt of the...
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...Accounting System Warren Sports Supply Through all the researches, converting our system to a powerful and efficiency system, which is Peachtree, will benefit our company in many ways. Comparing the advantages and disadvantages of the Peachtree and the manual system, it is easy to see that Peachtree System allow us to improve or accuracy and efficiency. Furthermore, Peachtree has more internal control to minimize risky or human error. More importantly, Peachtree is easy to use. The current manual system requires employee to do every process by hand. One of the advantages is that the bank statement, income statement, and balance sheet will never balance if there is a minor error. Therefore, it is easy to notice that there is error. However, many process in our current account system are inefficient and risky. Firstly, although it is easy to notice errors, it will possibly take an employee hours or even days to find out that single error. Thus, there is a waste in human recourse. Secondly, since all documents are in hand copy, it is easy to lose and damage when writing and filling documents. Thirdly, if a vendor sale invoice is lost, we will very likely forget to do the payment. Thus, we will have to pay late charges. Lastly, it is easy to record wrong number or calculate wrong price for inventories. It is also possible to send billings, payments, and inventories to a wrong address because there is no control on it. One of the reasons why we should convert our system into...
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...ASSIGNMENT OF MARKETING MANAGEMENT { LG MUSIC SYSTEM} 1. CONSUMER BEHAVIOUR PROFILE 2. IDENTIFY THE FACTORS AFFECTING CONSUMER BEHAVIOUR 3. EXPLAIN HOW BUYING TAKE PLACE SUBMITTED TO SUBMITTED BY: MS.GURDEEP SILKY ROLL NO. 52 SEC 319 MBA 1ST SEM INDEX 1) INTRODUCTION TO LG AND LG’S MUSIC SYSTEM 2) CONSUMER BEHAVIOUR PROFILE OF LG MUSIC SYSTEM 3) FACTORS AFFECTING CONSUMER BEHAVIOUR 4) EXPLAIN HOW BUYING TAKE PLACE 5) BIBLIOGRAPHY • INTRODUCTION TO LG The history of LG Electronics has always been surrounded by the company's desire to create a happier, better life. LG Electronics was established in 1958 and has since led the way into the advanced digital era by manufacturing many home appliances such as radios and TVs. LG Electronics has unveiled many new products, applied new technologies in the form of mobile devices and digital TVs in the 21st century and continues to reinforce its status as a global company. LG Electronics has set a new mid-term and long-term vision, aiming to achieve a position as one of the top three electronics, information, and telecommunication firms...
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...Kudler Fine Foods Service Request University of Phoenix -- BSA/375 Fundamental of Business Systems Development -- January 18, 2010 Objective Generate additional sales from current customers through purchase incentive offers. Program Overview Current customers will be offered incentives based on purchase history. Incentives will include free trials of new products not previously purchased, Gift Baskets to be delivered to friends and family to generate new business and Various awards such as Airline Tickets and Hotel Vouchers. Customer order history will be tracked and valued according to product rating and time of purchase. Points will be awarded based on amount and frequency of purchase. Points will be redeemed via the Kudler Website. Kudler currently operates in three separate store locations. Purchases from stores will be recorded to a central database and integrated with the website. Customers will be able to purchase products from any of the three locations and from the website. Points will be assessed for all purchases and presented to the customers account. Customers will view account status via the website and redeem points by choosing awards via the web site. Program Goals * Increase sales * Create customer loyalty * Monitor buyers purchases * See what is important to the customer Supporting Measures for Success * Increase sales A company can increase sales by offering consumers customer specific pricing, where...
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...Executive Summary With the development of information technologies and procurement, Boing Australia Limited (BAL) is given the opportunity to explore the opportunities of procurement. The credit card purchasing system has bought in a considerable cost saving for generic low cost high volume purchases, an e-procurement system will further make the contracting and bidding process more competitive for these items. The e-buy system which is currently being used by the Parent company Boing, as the majority of the transactions are day to day buys, and it is very important to have this new process targeting this segment. Making the day to day purchasing process simpler and more efficient will leave more room for the company to improve on the supply management of the strategic and critical suppliers. Concentrating on supplier management in all areas of product categories, will enable BAL to achieve more effectiveness in the over all purchase of strategic / Critical items. By working with the existing ERP provider, BAL can extend the development of the link between the suppliers customers and BAL. At BAL procurement is a part of information systems, it is important for the company to link the existing Legacy system to the suppliers and customers, and its by far the most cost effective way of integrating between the front end and the back end of customers and suppliers. This will enable the company to move forward with the existing resources, as it’s time for the company...
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...loyalty, and maximize profitability of KFF’s consumers. Providing a loyalty points system to offer incentives for customer loyalty can be an effective way to collect valuable customer data including future purchasing needs Scope The scope of the project itself will include developing methods to track and analyze customer purchases, collect customer information, reward customers for their loyalty to Kudler, as well as determine a process to base inventory decisions on customer purchase data. These types of systems are very common in most grocery store chains around the world offering discounts on in store products, however KFF is determined to cater to the demographic of their shoppers by taking this program a step further. The system specific to KFF needs, includes a reward points system designed to provide the customer exclusive offers on both in store products and with third party partners. This system will be designed to store customer data while providing reward points to be used for purchases both in-store and with third party partners. Reward points will be redeemable for fine foods, first class airline upgrades, high end gifts, and other items and bonuses of that nature. Points will be rewarded in increments based on money spent on purchases within the store in which the customer provides a reward card or number to reference (phone #) during checkout process. Since this system will be...
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...PURCHASING PROCEDURES, E-PURCHASING, AND SYSTEMS CONTRACTING The purchasing department generates added value and profitability for the entire organization by communicating with suppliers to procure high-quality goods and services at the lowest cost and at the right time. This value is restricted by archaic and inefficient processes involving paper documents and time-consuming tasks. The E-Purchasing Solution automatically sends purchase orders, purchase requisition forms, etc… from SAP ensuring completion and timely approval of documents that are sent to your suppliers. You can easily track documents to verify they have effectively been sent ensuring that no order has been lost or misplaced. ERP FAX EMAIL Purchase order Purchase order copy Purchase order copy EMAIL Purchase department Production planning Accounting department Suppliers Purchase Manager Validation form by e-mail Automatic file Warehouse ERP FAX EMAIL Purchase order Purchase order copy Purchase order copy EMAIL Purchase department Production planning Accounting department Suppliers Purchase Manager Validation form by e-mail Automatic file Warehouse The Purchasing Policy The driving force behind any purchasing corporate policy considers the following objectives: 1. Spend corporate funds wisely. 2. Operate in a professional manner. 3. Purchase the right materials in the right quantities, at the right time and price, from the right source. 4. Practice the highest level of ethical standards...
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...Assignment Cover Sheet Unit Name : Charles Darwin UN ~ VEII!. I ' Y A' ~H ta'!a I Unit Code: CMA304 Computer Based Accounti ng Systems Lectu rers Name: School of Law and Business Charles Darwin University Casuarina NT 0909 Phone: (08) 8946 6830 Kevin J CLARK Asses sment T itl e DE Ll ve ~ f1L-E IttI Lodgement Date (dd/mm/yyyy) I Applied for Extension Semester : Assign ment Two - (Systems AnalysisTerm Project) Due Date (dd/mm/yyyy) Two I ;~~2 (dd/mm/yyyy) 2110912012 2110912012 N/A NO YES-to Lodgement Locations : (refer to specific lodgement requirements as set out by the lecturer) The assignment must be lodged onli ne via the Learnline Assignment Lodgement link on the Learnline site for this unit. Ensure your file is named using a file naming convention that allows the lecturer to identify to whom it belongs. Failure to use an acceptable file naming convention may result in your assignment lodgement being rejected. Refer to the endnotes of the aSSign ment detail s for lodgement options if the Learnline Assignment Lodgement link for this unit is unavailable. o 0 0 . . DO NOT LODGE BY FAX nor EMAIL nor at LECTURER'S OFFICE KEEP A COpy Ensure you have a copy of the assignment lodged. If you have submitted assessment work electronically please make sure you have a backup copy. DECLARATION BY STUDENTS I certify that this assignment is my own work, based on my own personal study and research, and that I have acknowledged...
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