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Collect historical data for 3 stocks from the Saudi stock market (TASI).Compute the Return R= P1-P0/P0. Compute Expected Return for each stock and the Standard Deviation and the Correlation or Covariance. Create 30 portfolios with these three stocks but changing the wights in each portfolio.

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Simple project

Step1-Collect historical data for 3 stocks from the Saudi stock market (TASI).

Step2- Compute the Return R= P1-P0/P0.

Step3- Compute Expected Return for each stock and the Standard Deviation and the Correlation or Covariance.

Step4- Create 30 portfolios with these three stocks but changing the wights in each portfolio.

Step5- Compute the Expected Return and the Standard deviation(risk) for the portfolio.

Step6- Draw the efficient frontier.

What advantages do you have that others do not (skills, education, experience, certifications)? What achievements are you most proud of? What do you do better than anyone else?

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Assessment 2 Instructions: SWOT Analysis

Conduct an environmental scan and write an assessment in which you focus on both the internal and external factors that could affect your success within your chosen industry.

Introduction
After an organization has completed a SWOT analysis, it will carefully monitor both the internal and external environments to detect signs of opportunities and threats that could affect current and future plans. This environmental scanning can help an organization identify trends that are most likely to affect the industry, thereby allowing the development of a strategy for change. The right information, at the right time, can determine the future of an organization.

Note: Developing a strategic plan requires specific steps that need to be executed in a sequence. The assessments in this course are presented in order and should be completed in sequence. Conduct a personal strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats (SWOT) analysis. In your analysis, consider the following:

Strengths
• What advantages do you have that others do not (skills, education, experience, certifications)?
• What achievements are you most proud of?
• What do you do better than anyone else?
• What do you think others would see as your strengths?
• Do you have special connections that others may not have?
• What personal resources do you have available?

Be sure to consider how others see you-not just how you see yourself.

Weaknesses
• Are there tasks you avoid doing because you do not feel confident doing them?
• Do you have any negative work habits (often late, disorganized, easily stressed)?
• Do you feel confident about your skills, experience, and education?
• Do you have any personality traits that might hold you back? For example, do you have a fear of public
speaking, yet work where you are expected to conduct regular meetings?

Again, consider how others see you.

Opportunities
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Take the cumulative knowledge from the semester to answer the core question of presidency: What determines presidential success or failure? Create an informed definition of success and failure.

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Evaluating Presidents and Mastery of the Office

In this final, you will take the cumulative knowledge from the semester to answer the core question of presidency: What determines presidential success or failure? Create an informed definition of success and failure. In crafting your answer to this part, assess the following dimensions of presidential governance

  • i) the system-wide demands of the office and to what extent they are conducive for mastery
  • ii) tools presidents have to accomplish their goals
  • iii) constraints that make achieving goals difficult
  • iv) pitfalls that lead to failure and
  • v) illustrations of success.

Next, does presidential success necessarily mean betterment of the polity, and similarly, is prosperity in society necessary for presidential success? Having established the contours of success and failure, conclude your paper by assessing the prospects for presidential success moving forward, and whether our politics need to de-emphasize or rely even more on the chief executive

Draw up the relevant Control Accounts entering end-of-year totals for accounts receivable and accounts payable.

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Statement of Financial Position as at March 31, 2010

 

                                                                                    $                                              $

March 31, 2010                       March 31, 2009

ASSETS

Non-current assets                                                      4,200                                       3,700

 

Current Assets

Inventory                                                                    1,500                                       1,600

Accounts receivable                                                    2,200                                       1,800

3,700                                       3,400

Total Assets                                                                7,900                                       7,100

EQUITY & LIABILITIES

Share capital                                                                1,200                                       1,200

Retained earnings                                                       2,800                                       1,900

Total Equity                                                                4,000                                       3,100

 

Non-Current liabilities

Long term loan                                                            1,600                                       2,050

 

Current Liabilities

Accounts payable                                                        1,250                                       1,090

Taxation                                                                         895                                          655

Bank overdraft                                                               155                                          205

Total Current liabilities                                               2,300                                       1,950

Total Equity & Liabilities                                         7,900                                       7,100

 

 

 

 

ABC Co.,

Income Statement for the year ended March 31, 2010

 

$                                 $

Revenue                                                                      5,270

Cost of sales                                                                2,000

Gross profit                                                                 3,270

Operating expenses                 1,000

Depreciation                               970

1,970

Operating profit                                                          1,300

Interest expense                                                             250

Profit before tax                                                          1,050

Taxation                                                                         450

Profit for the year                                                          600

 

 

Additional information:

(i)  During the year ended March 31, 2010 the company purchased property plant & equipment Of  $870.

(ii)  No interest was owed at the end of the year.

(iii) Dividend paid for the year ending March 31, 2010 is $300.

You are required to prepare the Statement of Cash Flow for ABC Co., for the year ended March 31, 2010 as per IAS7.

 

 

Question 2

The financial year of The Better Trading Company ended on 30 November 2017. You have been asked to prepare a Total Accounts Receivable Account and a Total Accounts Payable Account in order to produce end-of-year figures for Accounts Receivable and Accounts Payable for the draft final accounts.   (20 marks)

You are able to obtain the following information for the financial year from the books of original entry:

$

Sales                – cash                                                                                                   344,890

– credit                                                                                                 268,187

Purchases        – cash                                                                                                     14,440

– credit                                                                                                 496,600

Total receipts from customers                                                                                     600,570

Total payments to suppliers                                                                                        503,970

Discounts allowed (all to credit customers)                                                                    5,520

Discounts received (all from credit suppliers)                                                    3,510

Refunds given to cash customers                                                                                   5,070

Balance in the sales ledger set off against balance in the purchases ledger                         70

Bad debts written-off                                                                                                        780

Increase in the allowance for doubtful debts                                                                      90

Credit notes issued to credit customers                                                                          4,140

Credit notes received from credit suppliers                                                                    1,480

 

According to the audited financial statements for the previous year accounts receivable and accounts payable as at 1 December 2016 were $26,555 and $43,450 respectively.

 

Required:

Draw up the relevant Control Accounts entering end-of-year totals for accounts receivable and accounts payable.

Differentiate with suitable examples the relevant cash flows and irrelevant cash flows. What relevant role do these cash flows provide in management decision-making? Provide a suitable example in context to an organization to support your answer.

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Accounting Question

Assignment Question(s):   (Marks 15)

Q1. Differentiate with suitable examples the relevant cash flows and irrelevant cash flows. What relevant role do these cash flows provide in management decision-making? Provide a suitable example in context to an organization to support your answer.   (3 Marks)

Note: Your answer must include suitable examples of relevant and irrelevant cash flows for management decision-making.   (Week 2, Chapter 1)

 

Q2. What are the various methods of estimating cost functions? Explain each method with suitable numerical examples.   (4 Marks)

Note: You are required to assume values for numerical examples of your own, and they should not be copied from any sources.   (Week 3, Chapter 2)

Q3. ALC ltd. manufactures a product ‘X’ for which the selling price per unit, variables cost per unit, and fixed costs are as follows:   (4 Marks)

Selling price per unit SAR 750
Variable cost per unit SAR 225
Total Fixed Costs SAR 425,000

Answer the following questions using cost volume profit analysis:

  1. Determine the break-even point in units.
  2. Determine the break-even point in sales SAR.
  3. What will be the pretax profit if the company sells 1,400 units of the product?
  4. How many units the company will be required to sell to reach a target pretax profit of SAR 200,000?
  5. The margin of safety in units if the company’s estimated next year budgeted sales are 1,500 units.        (Week 4, Chapter 3)

 

Q4. KCC Ltd. uses a process costing system for its sole processing department. There were 35,000 units in the beginning WIP inventory for June and 325,000 units were started in June. The beginning WIP units were 50% complete and the 30,000 units in the ending WIP were 40% complete. All materials are added at the start of processing.      (4 Marks)

You are required to:

  1. a) Compute the no. of units started & completed.
  2. b) Compute the EUP for DM and CC using FIFO and WA methods.
  3. c) Calculate total manufacturing cost/EUP under both methods with the following details:
  FIFO WA
Direct Material Cost SAR 850,000 SAR 1,000,000
Conversion Cost SAR 1,025,000 SAR 1,350,000

(Week 5, Chapter 6)

Consolidated financial statements present the financial position and results of operations for controlling entity and one or more controlled entities. ‘Consolidated Financial Statement has some advantages but at the same time it is not free from limitations.’ Elaborate this statement.

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Accounting Question

  • Assume Large Corporation Invested $ 600,000 for Small Corporation and the estimated Fair Market Values of Assets, Liabilities and Equity Accounts are as follows:
Assets Amount $ Liabilities Amount $
Account Receivable

Inventory

LT Marketable Securities

PP & E

 125,000

50,000

55,000

170,000

400,000

 

 Account Payables

Retained Earnings

Commons Stock

 180,000

120,000

100,000

 

400,000

 

 

Required:    (2+3 Marks)

  1. Determine the Amount of Goodwill or Bargain Purchase.
  2. What is the Journal Entry in the book of Large Corporation?

 

  • From the following Table pass Basic Elimination Entry under Equity Method in the book of Parent Company: (5 Marks)
  Total

Book Value

 = Common

Stock

 + Additional

Paid in Capital

 + Retained

Earnings
Beginning Book Value

+ Net Income

–         Dividend

 600

 

200

(50)

 150 550 (100)

 

200

(50)
Ending

Book Value

 750 150 550 50

 

  • Consolidated financial statements present the financial position and results of operations for controlling entity and one or more controlled entities. ‘Consolidated Financial Statement has some advantages but at the same time it is not free from limitations.’ Elaborate this statement. (5 Marks)

 

Describe the disease process for MG. List (2) local community resources available that can provide support such as: Nutrition. Transportation.

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MDC 4, Myasthenia Gravis Pamphlet.

Instructions

As a new nurse, you have had clients with Myasthenia Gravis (MG) and are concerned about their level of understanding of the disease process. You have taken on the task of developing a teaching pamphlet to provide clear discharge instructions including information on the disease, support resources, medication teaching, and signs and symptoms of Myasthenic Crisis. You will include the following information in the pamphlet.

  1. Describe the disease process for MG.
  2. List (2) local community resources available that can provide support such as:
  • Nutrition.
  • Transportation.
  1. Psychosocial needs such as support groups.
  2. Include medication administration instructions and the importance of timing of medication delivery.
  3. Include signs of symptoms of Myasthenic Crisis and when to notify health care provider.

You have been asked to present the pros and cons of converting to the IFRS standards, thus allowing your company to move to international markets. Explain how this change will affect the financial statements.

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Discussion

Merchandising companies invest large sums of money in inventory, having to account for the purchasing, selling, and costs. Most U.S. based companies or companies on U.S. exchanges have previously had to follow the GAAP standards. As IFRS has moved forward in many countries, these companies have to review if the GAAP or the IFRS standards should be used.

Your company has been following GAAP standards and is looking to expand to international markets. You have been using a LIFO cost of inventory system and have had several inventory items marked down under the lower-of-cost-or-market. You have been asked to present the pros and cons of converting to the IFRS standards, thus allowing your company to move to international markets. Explain how this change will affect the financial statements.

150 words-300.

What failing organization did you choose? What external factors contributed to the organization’s failure? What internal factors contributed to the organization’s failure? What obstacles did the organization encounter? How were they handled?

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Collaborative Learning Community (CLC) assignment.

Throughout history, organizations have regularly failed. Many have failed due to their lack of innovative structure and culture. Your group has the opportunity to research an organization that has failed because it was unsuccessful in implementing innovation. You may choose an organization of your own or one of the following: Blockbuster, Polaroid, Blackberry, Sears, Toys ‘R’ Us, Xerox, Atari, Kodak, or Borders. In this assignment, you will build a 10-12-slide PowerPoint presentation, excluding the title slide and references. Be sure to include presenter’s notes. In your presentation, address the following questions:

  1. What failing organization did you choose?
  2. What external factors contributed to the organization’s failure?
  3. What internal factors contributed to the organization’s failure?
  4. What obstacles did the organization encounter? How were they handled?
  5. What did the organization fail to forecast in the changing market?
  6. What could you have done, as leaders of the organization, to pivot the company to success?

While APA format is not required for the body of this assignment, solid academic writing is expected, and documentation of sources should be presented using APA formatting guidelines, which can be found in the APA Style Guide, located in the Student Success Center.

Summarize how you will use strategic workforce planning to conduct recruiting efforts. Show the stages of your recruiting process. Explain how you will generate a pool of candidates, evaluate their fit, and advance candidates with a fair process that supports diversity.

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Psychology Question

Complete the following in your own words. It will be run thru a plagiarism checker. Thanks.

Scenario: Imagine that you are a consultant hired to build an employee selection process for an organization. Prepare a 15- to 20-slide Microsoft PowerPoint to develop management training for selecting employees to build a high-performance organization with the right people to perform their jobs while working effectively with others.

Speaker’s Notes are not necessary. Provide sufficient information on the slides to communicate full ideas concisely so the presentation can stand alone as a self-guided tutorial for managers. Avoid excessive narration on the slides. Focus on content and substance supported by research.

Include the following in your training presentation:

  • Introduction. Start with a hook, establish a theme, state objectives, and explain the approach.
  • Recruiting Process Summary: Summarize how you will use strategic workforce planning to conduct recruiting efforts. Show the stages of your recruiting process. Explain how you will generate a pool of candidates, evaluate their fit, and advance candidates with a fair process that supports diversity.
  • Selection tools. With an emphasis on selection methods that predict job performance, select 3 selection methods you will apply in your program. Explain how you will measure the effectiveness of your methods. List potential risks of using predictive models to screen employees.
  • Interview processes. Define structured and unstructured interviews. Explain the pros and cons of each. Make recommendations on whether you will use structured or unstructured interviews or combine the approaches. Justify your recommendation with research.
  • Succession planning. Define succession planning and explain the importance of succession planning for the organization. Propose a research-based approach to succession planning.
  • Leadership selection. Explain the purpose of your leadership selection process. List the criteria for screening candidates for leadership criteria. Considering tools that may predict leadership success, propose an approach to select new leaders. List the risks of relying on predictive models for selecting leaders. Explain how you would mitigate those risks.
  • Decision making. Define traditional, validity, decision theory, and utility analysis. Propose how shifting your organization to a systems approach that applies utility analysis will help managers make better hiring decisions.
  • Measurements. Discuss the importance of measuring the effectiveness of the selection process. List 3 metrics you apply to measure the effectiveness of your employee selection process.
  • Conclusion. Summarize key points such as the closing argument in a legal case, leaving the audience with a final thought or challenge.
  • References. Support your recommendations with research from at least 2 peer-reviewed sources, including the course text and library readings.

Include at least 3 credible sources. The course readings and resources should be primary sources. Supplement the course readings with library resources.