Questions : Please carefully read all examination instructions This is a pairs assessment – all team members must actively participate in the development of each question to ensure full team collaboration. This examination is subject to compliance with the directive AA18: Academic Dishonesty and Discipline and the directive AA20: Plagiarism. This assessment will be submitted in MS Word and through Turnitin (via Brightspace link) befor...
Questions: Question No. 1 The Company planned to produce 25,000 units of product and work 100,000 direct labour hours in 2020. Manufacturing overhead at the 100,000 direct labour hours level of activity was estimated to be:Variable manufacturing overhead $ 700,000Fixed manufacturing overhead 300,000Total manufacturing overhead $1,000,000 At the end of 2020, 26,000 units of product were actually produced and 107,000 actual direct labour...
Tasks: Task 1: Report Choose an international organization (with any product) of your choice preferably where you are working or worked with or familiar with and prepare an entry plan for international markets. Your report should investigate various factors that influence the entry mode of the company into the global market along with the potential barriers that might hinder the expansion of the chosen firm. Various marketing strategies in or...
Question: Country - Portugal Intercultural and international communication has taken on a new role for students as well as career professionals. Knowing when the European and Asian markets open has become mandatory; so has awareness of multiple time zones and their importance in relation to trade, shipping, and the production cycle. Managing production in China from an office in Chicago has become common. Receiving technical assistance for yo...
Assignment Brief You work for an Events Management company. The main project task is to present and discuss an event in order to convince the city council to be hosted in this capital city of your selection. In order to make this event feasible, you need to present a political, economic, social, technological, environmental and legal aspects of the impact of your event in the specific country/city in a PESTEL analysis. The current impact coul...
Question: Approaches To Change Prompt: Review Table 9.1 (Palmer, Dunford, Buchanan, 2017). Select one of the five listed time periods and describe this time period of organizational development in relation to your chosen company (course project). Articulate how the company would thrive (or not) through the lens of the corresponding developers. Lastly, include a paragraph of how the company in your chosen time period would prepare for pos...
Task The aim of this assignment is to develop your planning and analytical skills in the context of a complex project orientated environment. You must develop a defendable project that will be implemented within a new Lifestyle Centre (LSC). This project is situated in a village of 10,000 inhabitants. The LSC is situated on an area that was acquired from the Lancashire Council of dimensions 120 metres by 80 metres. LSC involves the following ...
Question: Your team is an engineering consultancy company and have been commissioned by the lead developer Lendlease to carry out a feasibility study and outline design for the redevelopment of the Millennium Mills located on the southern side of the Royal Victoria Dock and associated infrastructure. You will be considering plot 4 for the construction of a new building to facilitate the client’s requirements set out below. Basic details,...
Questions: SQL language and relational database systems based on it are one of the most important foundation technologies in the computer industry. Over the last two decades, SQL has grown from its first commercial use into a computer product and services market segment worth tens of billions of dollars per year, and SQL stands today as the standard computer database language. Literally hundreds of database products now support SQL, running on c...
Task: The purpose of this approval form is to help you clearly state your research question for this capstone project, as well as your project’s scope and timeline, to ensure that these align with your degree emphasis. You will not have a complete and realistic overview of your project, and the acceptability of your project for the purposes of this course cannot be accurately assessed without clearly defining each of these areas. Many students...
Part A Download annual report of EXXON MOBILfor the year 2017. You can access it from the URL Or MDIS Black Board. You have been appointed as a consultant to prepare a report for consideration by the Board of Directors on details of and changes over two years to the ratio relevant to the shareholders namely Return on Owners Equity (ROOE). Required: i) Using Du Pont Analysis, compute the ratios for two consecutive years covered by the ann...
Questions: Two weeks before the project presentation (VIVA) (see table 2) the students must submit their project Thesis onto Moodle.The thesis must be complete in itself and must cover all work undertaken under the project, even if it has been previously described in weekly reflections. It should also identify the consequences of delivering this project with respect to the Engineering environment in Bahrain, explain how your research project can...
Task: You are required to write an extended project on a topic of your choice. The aim of this project is to investigate the topic you have chosen through secondary research and analysis of information from a variety of sources. Guidance: In your written project you should: Appropriately cover the topic of the extended project. Address the question(s) you set out to investigate, by researching, analysing and using information from releva...
Questions: Learning Outcomes 1. Describe key finance goals and decisions and the environment in which financial decisions are made.2. Identify and assess ethical issues with respect to financial theory and practice.3. Apply time value of money, valuation, and risk and return techniques to financial decision-making.4. Evaluate project and firm cost of capital and demonstrate its application to financial decisions.5. Analyse how sound financial...
Question 1 Guangming Plc is an emerging plant nutrient provider with phosphate mining projects based in the UK. The company aims to be a standard for green mining of fertiliser feed minerals and a world class plant nutrient producer and supplier across the UK. Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) is at the core of this project. Guangming is particularly interested in changing the name of mining to exemplify responsible mining and processing. R...
Question: In a wax manufacturing, WAXs arrives every 1hr in lot sizes of 4 to a buffer. Each wax is sent to assembly machine named OVEN where it is combined with Mould into one part. The oven needs 5 mins for set up which requires an operator. Then the oven runs another 15mins to combine the wax to the mould. Once the combined part is done, it is sent to a cooling for at least 40 mins. Eventually, the combined part needs to be split from the mou...
Questions: Seven years ago (in 2013), having graduated with a degree in Business from UTSC, you and two of your classmates started a small web-design and e-commerce consulting business. You named the business “Toromark Digital Marketing” Using a combination of your &nb...
Task Assignment: SQL Statements Description: The goal is develop a database for the Wedgewood Pacific Corporation using MS SQL Server. 1. In MS SQL Server, create a new database called Wpc. 2. Create the Department and Employee tables shown below along with the Project and Assignment tables shown on the next page, and set the relationships between the tables explained below: A. To set a column to be a Primary Key, right-click on the colum...
Question: Scenario You have been hired as an Infrastructure Architect by Optinet Ltd which is specialized in providing IT equipment (software & Hardware) and maintenance. With the expansion, Optinet has secured a new office in the north of England (Liverpool), and you have been approached by the Chief Information Officer (CIO) to write a technology proposal in the form of a report that will outline computing infrastructure options to sup...
Question: Context: This subject allows the student to synthesise the knowledge and skills gained from all other subjects studied up to that point. The main deliverable in the subject is a major project. In this first assessment, the project is proposed. Instructions: In this assessment, you are required to propose how you are going to conduct your capstone project. Before you can do that, you first need to identify a project idea on whic...
Questions: COURSE PRE-REQUISITEThe only formal prerequisite for this course is twofold: (1) to have an understanding of the principles of accounting and (2) to have read as a warm-up session the delivered material entitled “Reading 23: Financial Reporting Mechanics” and to focus on reviewing the accounting process (from page 49 to 62). The course makes use of basic algebraic and statistical manipulations.Some basic familiarity with Excel w...
Task: Read through this full set of instructions for the Assignment 5 Project at the beginning of the course so you can familiarize yourself with the expectations. It’s not too early to start thinking about countries of interest for international business that you might want to work on for this project. In order to develop a high-quality project, it is recommended that you have frequent and ongoing consultations with your Open Learning Faculty...
Overview In the highly competitive automotive market, it is critical to keep up with current technology to stay in or get ahead in the marketplace. To remain competitive, companies must innovate and integrate new technologies within their product lines and services. Scenario You work as a middle manager for one of the top U.S. producers of luxury and mass-market automobiles and trucks. The chief technology officer (CTO) of the company from the co...
Task: Assignment Brief (weighting 50%, word count 2,000 words) You are the financial controller of Webster Plc, a manufacturer of massage equipment (“the Soother”) for domestic use, serving the UK and export markets. The company sells through a network of independent distributors both home and abroad. The managing director has asked for your help in connection with a long-term investment decision: Webster Plc is considering purcha...
Questions: Task You need to plan your project and produce a project plan in consultation with your Academic Supervisor. The plan should clearly indicate how you propose to complete your project. For example: What would you do; Who will be involved; Where will you obtain data from; When will you complete parts of the project; How will you complete the project Considering the diverse nature of projects, you should discuss and agree the appropri...