Task Assessment 2: Individual Assignment, 40% of Module Weighting 1. Instructions i) Assignment Submission All assignments (written work and reference list) are to be submitted in ONE (1) file to the eLearn LMS system for marking. No cover page is required for submission. ii) Assignment Brief The strength of a country’s economy can be determined through careful examination of macroeconomic indicators. Working individually, conduct r...
Questions: Overview: An effective presentation includes a summary of the main points in the slides, but the presenter should add additional content in the speaker notes to help explain each point. Some presenters have the the ability to memorize the details through cues in the outline of the presentation, and some can even speak off the cuff. However, for this project, you will create speaker notes for the slides in your presentation, which i...
Assignment 2 requires you to conduct 2 sessions of microteaching with the presence of all your peers, as the audience / ‘students’. Discuss with your Face-to-Face Tutor to determine the date and time for the sessions at your Learning Centre. Each microteaching session will be allotted 15 minutes total. You should speak / show for 10 minutes, and allow 5 minutes for question and answer. Prepare visual aids in the ...
Questions: Learning outcomes assessed in this assignment: Appraise and apply the regulatory framework of financial reporting Analyse and research International Accounting Standards. Assignment Brief International Accounting Standard (IAS) 16 Property Plant & Equipment and IAS 38 Intangible Assets both deal with Non-Current Assets in the Financial Statements. 1: Required: Distinguish between the...
Question: Before you read TMA 03, you should study Block 3 Reading 21: ‘Getting Started with Accounting and Finance’. This reading will help you appreciate one crucial purpose of accounting and financial information: to understand and improve the finances of any business. TMA 03 will assess your knowledge of how such information is used to understand and improve a particular business’ financial position, the one illustrat...
Like many other fields, Management Accounting is being disrupted by a whole host of new technologies, including big data, predictive analytics, artificial intelligence (AI), blockchain, cognitive computing, machine learning, and robotics process automation (RPA). A recent Institute of Management Accountants (IMA) survey of 161 management accounting professionals finds that 42 percent are worried that technology will eliminate their jobs, w...
Question: This is your Assignment-2.You will see 3 questions below. and take the questions from the text and modified to fit as per needs.This is also a good practice for midterm test.Please provide the journal entries in good form (proper format). Question 1: Wonder Ltd. has treasury stock transactions in 20X9 as follows: a. Feb. 27 Purchased 140,000 common shares as treasury stock ...
Question: Tactical Decisions (Learning Outcome 4) (25 Marks) Tactical decisions do not require significant or permanent resource commitments and can be changed or reversed relatively quickly if better opportunities arise. The impact of such decisions is short term and the financial impact of alternatives is usually analysed by considering theincremental revenue and costs of each alternative (Langfield-Smith, Thorne & Hilton, 2009). You...
Question: Claw Construction Task As a graduate from Red River College, you are working as a consultant for Claw Construction. The owner is trying to decide whether to change business models to generate more revenue; the company primarily works on non-residential construction projects, but is interested in expanding into residential markets. How to Proceed Part 1 - Excel Your supervisor has asked you to research demand and profitability indicat...
Assignment Rodney B. Wagner, vice-chairman of the credit-policy committee at J.P. Morgan, looked at various “bid-forms” that had arrived at the bank by Friday, February 26, 1988. The forms contained the bids of commercial banks from around the world to exchange holdings of Mexican loans for a new bond. Wagner, and several colleagues at Morgan had been responsible for the development of a “debt-bond exchange” for Mexican l...
Question: Context: This assessment aims to improve your: i) ability to identify and articulate a system/physiological process and integrate with homeostasis ii) ability to effectively and accurately communicate information through an engaging set of slides iii) skills on evaluation and reflection of essential knowledge, concepts and understanding iv) ability to independently learn while developing in depth learning att...
Task: In this assignment, you will demonstrate your mastery of the following course outcomes: Apply models of ethical decision making for resolving anthropological issues in complex social environments Assess the ethical impact of biases on anthropological research and discoveries Analyze how ethical decision making in anthropology impacts individuals and groups in both the present and future Differentiate between western scientific methods ...
Situation Ah Lee, a financial manager at a US based mid-sized manufacturing firm, has been caught off-guard before. In an effort to earn the most on excess cash, Ah Lee once bought five-year US Treasury bonds (a maturity longer than the firm’s liabilities) only to see interest rates rise. The loss when the Treasury bonds were sold did not make Ah Lee’s supervisor, Carlo, Chief Financial Officer, very happy. Ah Lee is now...
The aim of this assignment is to assess your ability to gather testable data, to analyse this data using structured methodology, draw conclusions on the root cause(s) that created this incident, and to detail recommendations on how to prevent such an incident from happening again. Pike River Mine disaster, New Zealand, November 2010 In November 2010, gas explosions in a coal mine in New Zealand led to the loss of 29 men, whose bodies were never r...
Question: Learning Outcomes: 1. Identify geotechnical factors and substructures.2. Compare building types and structures3. Compare building envelope material selection and design4. Discuss interior linings, joinery and fitment Answer all questions. All questions carry equal marks (10 marks each) 1. Using your free hand, sketch and label a typical section of a cantilever concrete foundation wall with reinforced concrete slab on ground. Ident...
Task Learning outcomes This assessment covers the following learning outcomes: 1: Identify and apply the communication and administrative processes for the construction phase. 2: Prepare progress claims and provide costs for work executed, prepare and present costs of variations, prepare and present cost fluctuations, prepare and present time extension claims scenaíio We continue with our scenario from Assessment 1. At the start-up mee...
Question: A language model can predict the probability of the next word in the sequence based on the words already observed in the sequence. Neural networks are a preferred method for developing such language models because they can use a large context of observed words and use a distributed representation (as opposed to symbolic representation) of words. In this exercise, you will learn how to develop a neural language model in Pytorch. This ...
Task: 1. (25 pts) Tossing a fair and unfair die. Suppose you have a 5-sided die, with sides numbered 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5. (a) Write a MATLAB program to simulate the tossing of a 5-sided fair die (i.e., all sides are equally likely), for t =10, 50, 100, 500 and 1000 tosses. Based on the simulation, what is the estimated probability of obtaining an odd number? (b) Suppose X is a random variable denoting the outcome of a die toss. Based on the math...
Task Activity 1 Susan is a registered tax agent. For each of the following scenarios, identify which principles of the Code of Professional Conduct under the Tax Agent Services Act 2009 have been breached, and explain how the breaches could have been avoided. Activity 2 Outline and explain key accounting principles and practices when reconciling accounting profits with taxable profits for the different types of legal entities. Activ...
Question: 1. Which of the following is a typical source of competitive pressures?A. Potential changes in a company's senior leadership and strategyB. The stock prices of competitor companiesC. The threat of new entrants into the marketD. The power and influence of industry driving forces2. The two most important parts of SWOT analysis areA. pinpointing the company's competitive assets and pinpointing its competitive liabilities.B. drawing conclu...
Task Table 1 Mission/Business Process Description Stake Holder Key Resources MTD (Hours) RTO (Hours) WRT (Hours) RPO (Hours) Accounting Processes invoices and Payables CFO Network, Servers, Wkstns 72 48 24 12 Maximum Tolerable Downtime (MTD). The MTD represents the total amount of time leaders/managers are willing to accept for...
Task: The Assignment: Most of our cases will involve some form of role-playing. In other words, they won't be student-to-teacher case write-ups. In this case I am also playing a role. I am Chairman of ABC-VC, a venture capital firm that has invested in WesternGraphics (Western), a small San Jose software firm who develops and sells computer games. I am concerned about the propriety of the proposed accounting treat described below. My thinking i...
Task The purpose of this assignment is to analyze liabilities when making business decisions. Read Case Study 13-1 "Accounting for Contingent Assets: The Case of Cardinal Health," from Chapter 13 in the textbook. see highlighted textbook to be used for this assignment below. In a 250-500 word executive summary to the Cardinal Health CEO, address the following. 1.Explain the justification that could be given for deducting the expected litigati...
Question: These limits must not be exceeded. You may use fewer words if you wish but be aware that the demands of this assignment are such that by using fewer words you could be limiting your opportunity to cover the scope of the assignment. Footnotes, appendices, tables, figures, diagrams, charts included in/excluded from word count For these assignments, tables should not be added as images and their content does count as words with the exc...
Task The TMA requires you to: 1. Review various study chapters in addition to supplementary materials. 2. Conduct a deep information search using the internet and your E-Library. You are expected to use E-library sources to support your answers. A minimum of 3 sources is required. 3. It’s imperative that you write your answer using your own words. Plagiarism will be penalized depending on its severity and according to AOU plagiarism p...