Essays on Estimation

In the case study of Guy Roberts, it is possible to recognize various stages of development when the group involved in fraudulent activities at Millard construction attempt to exercise control over him. Guy was favoured by his wife’s brother Neville to take on the job in Millard construction after he was left unemployed by the bankruptcy of his previous employers. The offer contained higher basic salary and petrol allowance but no annual bonus. It was a good offer, considering that Millard construction was a larger company than Fry Bras. Guy was yet to realize that there are groups ...

IAS37: CURRENT ISSUES IN FINANCIAL REPORTING

IAS37: Current Issues in Financial Reporting Introduction Since the publication of IAS 37, it provides explicit directions for companies to recognize provision, contingent liability and contingent assets. IAS 37 undermines the traditional accounting concepts of prudence hence leading to considerable volatility in companies earning reports. The IAS 37 helps in disclosing the transaction incurred in an organization that is associated with liabilities. In the IAS 37 standard, the word “probable” has been adversely used and hence providing options of creative accounting essential for companies to recognize its provision on balance sheet. Before the amendment of current IAS 37, the ...

After Giving Birth

NR451 RN Capstone Course Term and Year After Giving Birth Even though postpartum hemorrhage (PPH) is the leading cause of mortality after giving birth, most health care facilities do not have a standardized measures to assess blood volume loss and rely only on visual estimations for assessing and documenting blood loss. Consequently, blood loss below 250 mL tends to be overestimated, whereas blood loss above 2,000 mL tends to be underestimated (Bamberg et al., 2015). Inaccurate diagnosis of PPH delays treatment and increases mortality risk among intrapartum and postpartum women, so the purpose of the proposed nursing plan ...

Abstract

The primary concern of the sit-to-stand and walk training tasks, prominent in the health institutions target patients with knee problems or those recovering from surgical operations as a safe means of initiating rehabilitation or healing process. The use of gait initiation process sustains the efficiency with which the patients gain their mobility through the dynamic processes anchored for coordinating center of pressure and the body center of mass of the individual patient. The demonstration of the ability to sit, stand and walk is a clear expression of the positive progress made by patients in their recovery plans. The observable ...

Is the Separation of Church and State in America Real?

Is the Separation of Church and State in America Real?

Introduction

The United States is supposed to be a nation in which there is a defined separation of church and state. This means that anything the provides preference of one religion over another should not be permitted in public institutions. These institutions include, public schools, federal buildings, the federal government, and the White House. However, due to machinations of numerous political parties throughout America’s history the separation of church and state is not as defined as it is supposed to be. Many Christian groups have continually fought to push ...

Letter of memo transmittal

Re: Planning proposal Here is my planning proposal for cost estimation in Tatweer Buildings Company. It contains a budget which I request that you help me to fund. If you have any questions on it, I’ll be ready to respond.

List of illustrations

Page 5: images for the Tatweer buildings Company Page 9: table of schedule for the proposal Page 11: table containing the proposal’s budget estimates Abstract In this planning proposal, the variables that identify with the cost estimations in the Tatweer Buildings Company are initially considered. After which, the possible issues that results from these cost estimations, how ...

Abstract:

The principal intention of this study was to come up with the most conducive internal environment in a building. At any given moment, the internal temperature of a building is a function of the amount of heat produced by sources therein and the net heat transfer into or out of the building. The four heat transfer modes are convection, radiation, conduction, and phase- change. In executing this project, the researchers sought the relevant literature to establish the thermal properties of various materials. The properties are critical in determining the amount of heat inflow and exit from the building. The ...

1. Crime is one of the major problems in society. It is worth noting that there are various mechanisms that the criminal justice system uses to analyze and prevent criminal activities. Crime analysis s is a critical role that is associated with law enforcement agencies. It entails the systematic analysis for analyzing and identifying the trends and patterns in crime. Crime analysis continues to expand in law enforcement agencies around the world. In crime analysis, there are critical approaches of profiling; it includes the deductive and inductive approaches. There are the differences between inductive and deductive methods of crime ...

Project management requires vigilance of tasks that need to be accomplished and delegation of duties to those responsible and managing their progress throughout the entire activity. Project management requires skills such as scheduling and management tools such as the resource calendar to ensure the scheme is completed in the most viable way in line with the intended objectives.

Question 1

A breakdown structure is an instrument in project management that allows for the prediction of possible outcomes based on a myriad of scenarios. This capacity is essential in allowing for optimal decision making. By visually defining what has to be accomplished, ...

Introduction

The report is aimed to develop the plan for project management of developing upscaled and advanced annual report of Young at heart. It is a national non for profit medical research center that conducts researches on the diseases related to aging. The center, for now, develops simple and easy annual report in black and white color. As the center works as a nonprofit organization, therefore, it is very important for it to provide more accurate and clear reporting of where it utilizes the funds provided by thegovernment, corporation and foundations and other donors. Therefore, the director of the external ...

Elements of a Valid Contract

A contract is essentially a meeting of minds, which may only occur when the following five elements are present: an offer, an acceptance of the offer, an intention to form a binding contract, a consideration, and capacity. An offer represents an intimation of the willingness to enter a contract on given terms, and must be made with the intention to be binding upon acceptance. It must be definite and certain, such that it will not necessitate further negotiations prior to acceptance (Carlill v Carbolic Smoke Ball Co., 1893). It should also look like a contract in the estimation of ...

Purposes of the Report

The goal of the report is to update and actualize a succeeding system for the company’s customers. As a system Designer, I have designed a system to be presented to the CEO of the firm on the concept of a model that is an ideal solution for the current contemporary market. This would constitute a working database that contains the current information about the customers. Similarly, the database can and or will be controlled remotely and managed by the company’s techs.

Introduction

The company, an industrialist of heavy-duty power equipment, currently uses manual advancements methods to take record ...

Modern Yoga Manufacturers

Company summary and design of the value chain As a student in the field of business, starting up a Sensory Yoga Mat Manufacturing Company has been my major plan. Fundamentally, the Yoga mats refer to specially designed or fabricated mats that are utilised as an aid during the yoga practice, thus preventing the hands and feet from slipping. The company will be named Modern Yoga Manufacturers Company. In this way, the Modern Yoga Manufacturers will involve itself in the design of the modern sensory yoga mats, which have sensors to measure the performance, power and strength of the user. ...

The epic poem Beowulf is generally considered one of the earliest known stories put to writing in the Western world. Written in England between the 7th and 10th centuries by an anonymous poet of Anglo-Saxon descent, Beowulf presents itself as one of the most prominent examples of oral tradition being passed down into text. Despite being written in England, it explores Scandinavia as a setting, focusing on the plight of Vikings in the land of the Geats. As such, the poem deals greatly with Viking culture and that of the Danes, depicting them as a people of great honor ...

Chapter 1: Introduction 3

Chapter 2: Financial Performance and Position of TESCO 6 Chapter 3 Financial Management Policy 14 Chapter 4 Investment Strategy 18 Chapter 5 Valuation of TESCO 22 Chapter 6 Conclusion 26 Abstract The present report provides critical analysis of financial positioning of Tesco Plc. For this, the financial data has been gathered for past five years as well as its competitors to critically assess financial positioning of Tesco in the retail industry. The reports highlight the recent issues of Bretix which has significantly impacted economic conditions of the United Kingdom leading to declining the consumer confidence because of triggering inflation. ...

Change Control Process

Any member of the team can submit a request for change to the manager in a project (Paton & McCalman, 2008). After the necessity for change, which is based on the approved baseline is pinpointed, the request form defines the dimensions of that change. During the process, a team member fills the requests in the first section of the form and takes it to the manager, who reviews it. He or she will need to record the change request in a change control log and later give a number to the change request for identification.

A sample of a request form for change

General information Request Number: ______________________________Date: ...

Business Class Capstone Project

Introduction In this paper, I will describe and discuss the application of statistical techniques learned in class to a real-world problem. According to the instructions of the assignment, I am a chief analyst for a medium-sized company. I decided that my company is a medium sized diamond store. An executive gave me a data set of diamond sales and asked me to explore this data. The executive wants to know how this data can be used to improve the business. The data will be analyzed by the means of various statistical tools. I will start with the descriptive statistics ...

Executive summary

The product risk rating for all the investment products of the company is essential on annual basis. It is essential for the company to get the knowledge of the product risk to perform the annual review. The main purpose of the underlying paper is to resolve the sustainability concerns faced by the company. The use of the quantitative and qualitative data is essential in order to make the analysis. The sustainability control of the underlying company is not up to the standards of the industry.

Requirements

Rating of the products The company must consider the qualitative and quantitative factors in ...

Organizations apply the analysis of break-even to make price decisions of their products, understand the costs that are involved in the production, and make a decision on the volume of sales achieved that can make the business profitable. In this plan of activities, Mission Hill Wine made total sales of its wine at $12, 500 in 2015 and incurred a variable cost per unit of $700 and a fixed cost of $ 8million. Therefore, the break-even would be determined as: In terms of units, BEP = 8,000,000/ (12,500-700) = 678 units. In terms of sales, BEP =678 units*12, ...

Does confidence rely on feedback?

Our self-evaluation defines our life. It is critical what we think about ourselves as well as the thoughts and opinions of others about us. Such feedbacks can be either positive or negative. In this essay, we will try to analyze to what extent the comments and critiques affect our confidence. A moderate portion of self-confidence is necessary to succeed in both personal and professional lives. One type of people have a so-called innate feeling of self-confidence, another group obtains such quality in the direct proportion to the growing level of the professional competencies; others only demonstrate their confidence – nobody ...

1.0 Chapter 1 Introduction 1.1 Background and Rationale of the Research The industry of construction is not only a key player in the national economic growth; but also a crucial sector affecting the economic and social welfare of citizenry, particularly in its primary function in providing reliable and decent shelter. It is viewed as one of the most essential sector to highly contribute to the growth of an entire economy at the provincial, national and international levels (Artto & Kujala, 2008). In the recent years, cost modelling and estimation for construction projects have attracted major attention of several research scholars. ...

Karnani’s response to Prahalad’s work The Fortune at the Bottom of the Pyramid (2002) has two main points; reasoning is not sound and the suggestions are full of fallacies. Karnani’s argument that there not a huge amount of money to be made by selling products specifically to the poor makes sense. The bottom of the pyramid does not have that much money to offer to the businesses. It is difficult to argue with Karnani’s reasoning as the points mentioned are legitimate. However, it is not the details that matter but the essence or the idea ...

Final Project Package

Executive Summary The project in question is dubbed the Palliative Care Program. The Palliate Care Program will run concurrently with other operation of the hospital. The aim of the program is to alleviate the pain of the patients in palliative care.

Summary overview of project description

The Project will be called The Palliative Care program. This program will ensure quality, nurturing care is given to all patients and that the employees will be trained to do so. This project will ensure that patients do not suffer even when they are sure of dying. The implementation of the program will require in-depth research on palliative ...

Issues of Implementing Fair Value Accounting in Emerging Economies

QUESTION 3

The fair value accounting has ensured accuracy in the operation of different organizations and business. The fair value valuation ensures that the organization practice a robust internal control process to make reasonable and consistent valuations an argument supported Bies’ (2012), Fair value accounting. These valuations should be subjected to independent review as required by the internal control process in order to ascertain that they reflect the underlying conditions of the market and they can’t be changed without having been approved as ascertained by He, Wong, and Young’s (2012), Challenges for Implementation of Fair Value Accounting ...

Integrated Cost and Schedule Risk Analysis

Introduction Over the years, the process of analyzing projects cost did not take into accounts an explicit reference or any reference to the project schedules and its risk. As organizations witnessed numerous risks in their projects implementation, a great emphasis on risk awareness and analysis was made. As a result, project managers created an integrated cost-schedule risk analysis to create the need of viewing the risk analysis as a crucial input when making key projects decisions (Hulett & Campbell, 2002). In this paper, we explain important concepts on schedule risk and overall cost. The paper explains the importance of integration ...

The procedure followed by the Samsung Electronics is exceptional in the cautions that it takes for capital planning. According to the statement made by the President and CEO of the Company, there were record speculations of around 1.3 billion in the company for conveying development in the long haul and had a focus on crosswise force arrangement. This is spread through three stages of development and plans so that a total of 1.7 billion can be allocated in different areas to focus on extension of edging and development.

Strategy for the supplement of conventional routines

A number of strategies are available for the supplement of conventional ...

Vodafone

Introduction This report seeks to assess the expected returns for Vodafone using the CAPM model. The CAPM model is based on three inputs: risk-free return, market return and company beta. Therefore, the report will estimate these three parameters and use them to find the expected return of Vodafone. Finally, it will provide a critique of the CAPM estimation technique.

The risk-free rate of return is often taken as the return of short term government securities. The 3-month treasury bill for UK is 0.48 . Therefore, we assume that the risk free rate.

Market Return

Expected market return are the average rate of ...

About the report

The report is based on our assistance given to Wheel Industries where we have analyzed the long term investment opportunities available with the company using the techniques of capital budgeting. To facilitate better understanding for our readers, we have included all the calculations within this report while every calculation is explained comprehensively.

Project Details

Wheel Industries is considering a three-year expansion project, Project A. The project requires an initial investment of $1.5 million. The project will use the straight-line depreciation method. The project has no salvage value. It is estimated that the project will generate additional revenues of $1.2 million per ...

Executive Summary

The Financial Accounting Standard Board (FASB) primary point is to build up new bookkeeping gauges and enhance past bookkeeping norms of monetary reporting and money related bookkeeping identified with nongovernmental elements, so they gives exact data to speculators and different clients of budgetary explanations. The paper portrays the FASB current venture identified with protection identified with focused enhancements to the representing long-span protection contracts. The fundamental point of this anticipate is create focused on upgrades to exposures necessities identified with long haul and brief length protection contracts.

Introduction

The Financial Accounting Standard Board (FASB) has been built up in 1973 ...

Introduction

Receiving education is a costly choice. There are costs to education in terms of direct monetary payments and an opportunity costs. The choice to go to school means forgoing waged employment. Therefore, there is an opportunity costs of the wages that would have been earned. Therefore, there is a need to compare the returns versus the cost of education to make optimal decisions. Estimating the returns to education for any population segment is useful in making decisions on the optimal schooling level at both a personal as well as societal level. From a policy standpoint, estimating returns to education ...

Letter of Transmittal

Richard Albert Sylvester Management Consultant Lamplighters Corporation Ottawa K I P 5B5 Phone: 613-563-1509 www.lamplightres.ca The Right Honorable Justin P.J. Trudeau

Office of the Prime Minister

80 Wellington Street

Ottawa, ON K1A 0A2

RE: Project Suitability Report on the Proposed Trans Mountain Expansion Pipeline Project Dear Right Honorable Prime Minister, It is with great pleasure and honor that I submit this report on the suitability of the proposed Trans Mountain Expansion pipeline project. The Trans Mountain Expansion pipeline project proposal by Kinder Morgan aims at increasing the current capacity of the existing Trans Mountain oil pipeline. Currently, the existing infrastructure has a capacity of 300,000 barrels per ...

Complex systems are currently a controversial issue which many authors and researches have discussed in their attempt to relate to its complexity. Mitchell (2006), for instance affirms that, “What has transformed historically and what has resulted in the topic being fascinating is the key technique for the study of complex systems is a simulation. It’s also because of this, powerful machines, particularly clusters, made way for empirical insight into this topic (p. 119).” The primary framework for the complex systems as a course is that it is impossible to illustrate, or comprehend the behavior of a system by ...

The goal of every nurse practitioner is to work with the patients in achieving healing and good health. In this process, the nurse makes a number of decisions. For these decisions to be successful in providing the expected outcome, nurses are expected to base their decisions on well validated scientific evidences. This is called evidence based practice. It is important to know where one is getting with once decisions and this is the fundamental for evidence based practice. This will ensure that the clinical practice is based on the foundation of strong scientific knowledge. Likewise, diabetes specific evidence based ...

English 200

Success in Meditation Meditation is the mind training, developing the strengths and skills that are needed to solve mind problems. Such as there are many different medicaments for the various illnesses, there are different types of meditation for the different mind problems. Alhough the mind desires happiness, it still controls to weigh itself down with mental depression. As the matter of fact, that depression comes from the mind’s attempts to search out for happiness. Meditation helps to understand the causes for why the mind “acts” like this and, in revealing them, helps you to treat them. In treating ...

It is commonly accepted that high motivation leads to better quality of performance and employees’ satisfaction. According to Stella (2008) employees’ motivation is a deep psychological process that promotes objectives for further achievements. It should be noted that motivated employees, generate higher revenues for the company and are more satisfied with their work. Proper usage of motivational stimuli enhances the company’s prosperity. However, the key question for each human resource manager is why personnel are not performing as well as expected. What should be done to improve this? In this paper, we shall describe the three motivational concepts, ...

Thesis: Modern Biotechnology can be harnessed to improve the global economic welfare in such fields as agricultural production, improvement of production processes and biomedical research.

Introduction

Biotechnology, in its simplest form, can be defined as the type of technologies that are based on biology. In its umbrella meaning, the term refers to the use of cellular and molecular innovations to solve such world problems like food security, development of treatment for illnesses and conducting research with an aim of improving manufacturing processes. Sometimes, biotechnology is used to provide solutions like replacement of energy that is produced using processes that push ...

Introduction

Contemporary academic analysis is concentrated on the issue of states’ emergence. The former is analyzed in different social, political, and economic contexts. Such state of affairs can be explained from the practical point of view, meaning nowadays there are many players at the international level which have recently appeared. However, in order to understand the nature of the aforementioned processes, the historical analysis is thought to be of great importance, since lots of contemporary phenomena took place in the previous centuries. Thus, in this paper, the correlation between the Sykes-Picot agreement, formation of the Palestinian identity, and creation of ...

1) What is the importance of Geodesy for Surveying? Why do you think that Geomatics

Should students know about Geodesy? Discuss

Geology enables the determination of the alignment of land, including the position, territories, portion and shape through the application of theodolites, land data systems or other geodetic survey tools. Also, it is through geology that resulted in the creation of the GPS (Geo Information Satellite) systems which as a result has resulted in the optimal exploration of space and regionally associated information. Besides, geodesy for surveying, aids in the assessing the quality of control information to regulate the necessity for extra survey information for ...

The Public Authority of Civil Aviation (PACA) of Oman is the institution responsible for the air private and commercial transport of the Oman Sultanate. The PACA is responsible of seven airports in the Sultanate. The airports have a combined capacity of 90 million passenger per year, with connections to local destinations as Yemen, Sudan, Ethiopia, Eritrea and other countries in Europe, America and Africa (Financial Tribune, 2015). PACA has studied the commercial viability of the Adam Airport. The Airport has reported in the previous three fiscal years a decrease in the passenger traffic from 120,000 passemgers per year ...

Introduction

The development of investments analysis is managed and represented by ratio analysis that projects and business will be having. Identifying with the examples of a manufacturing company, this analysis will be interested in the risk-adjusted return on capital (RAROC). The adjusted risk return on capital is described as the adjustment on the return on capital based on the element of risk that might be eminent with the investments (Klaassen & Van Eeghen, 2014; Investopedia, 2016). Additionally, the adjustments seem to suggest a valid expectation on the return that the company will be expecting on investment.

Risk Management Systems

Risk management and the return ...

Introduction

Market and operations research as a means to gain insights into the various crucial aspects of business operations has gained importance in recent times aiding and supporting managerial decision making. Statistics as a tool of market and operations research and descriptive statistics in particular are playing an increasingly important role in managerial decision making. The present paper is based on a market survey of 150 respondents who were surveyed telephonically and were asked to provide information about themselves, their shopping habits and their view of how the three shopping areas fit into their shopping preferences. The responses were measured ...

The Name of Class

The Name of the School The City and States where it is located 1. Analysis of findings

Research Question- Why is it a problem if the earth’s average temperature gets a little warmer?

1.1 Results The average rising temperature can have vast impacts only by slight increase. The vast impact the average temperature can have can be shown with the average temperature in the last ice age, when the average temperatures were only around 5 degrees Celsius lower than today’s average temperatures. From the Figure 1 it is seen that the global average temperature, which combines the surface and ocean temperature have been on the rise and have reached the highest levels in the ...

Research Methods Sp2016

Abstract The dominance of commercial technological innovation in the context of modern society has resulted in a form of technological dependence for some individuals, causing them to pay less regard to aspects of the physical world. Technological innovation has assumed a noteworthy role in the flow of our daily lives, such as through the methods we employ to maintain interpersonal connections. Numerous individuals are included in a matrix of connections facilitated by technological innovation and an increasingly digitalized culture; however, the vast amount of these affiliations can leave individuals the global community feeling subjectively void. The effects of technological ...

Abstract

There is always a need for the analysis of various data and information found about an activity to determine how several things are influenced by this data. This data can be for the genearal population or different people where the nature of activy data will be varying. The data and other sampled output will alws assist the researcher to study some of the specified behaviour in the subjects. The first step in the analsysis of any given data will be to understand what the data is alll about. Then the goals of the study or analysis of the data ...

Front stage

Customer Line of interaction Yes Customer service desk cc cc mt No

Line of visibility

No

Back stage

Technical team Yes Yes fp No

Line of internal interaction

Purchasing/ Parts department The illustration is the Service blue print of ETX Phone Repair shop located in Mount Pleasant. The main objective of drawing the blue print is to analyze the customer interaction at the shop, eliminate or minimize the failure points and improve the customer experience. The process begins when a customer experiences a problem with their phone. The customer walks into ETX Phone repair shop and is welcome at the Customer Service Front Desk. The customer explains the ...

Introduction

The electricity industry is facing numerous challenges today including environmental pollution, increased demand, and aging infrastructure. Environmental issues are the primary concern of the power generation industry and have necessitated the inclusion of renewable energy sources in the generation of electricity. Renewable portfolio standard has set forth new requirements in the industry obligating electricity generation companies to generate a certain percentage of generated electricity to come from renewable sources. However, rapid integration of new energy sources on the old transmission and distribution infrastructure will cause quality, security and reliability challenges on the electric power supply. The good thing is ...

Diet is necessary to everyone for continuing the life. Its utility occupies a significant position in the biological world. The unique benefit the diet provides is of paramount importance in achieving the health-specific goals. However, alongside with knowing about the diet and its role in health, it is essential to develop certain awareness about its assessment. With the advancement of technology various approaches were believed to exist with regard to the dietary assessment. In such context, the present description deals with a topic entitled, Dietary Assessment Using Electronic Method.

Review

As per the sources, the connection between routine intake of ...

Introduction:

Pensions are an essential part of a civilized welfare state that rewards hardworking and taxpaying citizens with security in old age. The rationale behind pensions is that citizens who have worked for a living for almost 40 years of their young lives and have paid taxes deserve to have a regular source of passive income after retirement in old age. This is to ensure their basic needs are taken care of and they do not become a burden on society and private individuals. It also ensures higher spending in the market as opposed to a greater part of earnings ...

Introduction

In this assignment, we will discuss and describe the application of statistics and probability theory to a real world problem. Our task is to evaluate and summarize the performance of a given stock (y). This report consists of the four parts. The first part is descriptive statistics of the given data between the two time periods and between the given stock and the Standard & Poor’s 500 index. Next, a hypothesis test will be performed in order to examine the performance of stock (y). The third part of the report includes Capital Asset Pricing Model estimation by the mean ...

Reasons for Project Failure

A project is considered to have failed if it fails to deliver what was required according to its expectations. Whenever a project does not deliver to cost, to quality, and on timely basis, it can be considered to have failed to attain its targets. Project failure can be described in different ways, such as the judgement of the stakeholders on project failure, failure to meet the set delivery plan, failure to meet the set duration for project completion, failure to meet the financial forecasts, and failure to meet the set minimum return of investment. The main causes of project ...

Dat

Analyst Report: NordStorm About the company and overview Founded in the year 1901, Nordstorm is a fashion retailer and one of the top rated operators in the departmental store industry. The company has successfully enhanced its brand equity by developing differentiated curated products, increasing storing count and targeting niche customer base. Most recently, the company is in news for investing in omni-channel capabilities as part of which, a heavy expenditure is made on store improvement, expansion and improvement of IT infrastructure.

Competitive Advantage

a) Investment in technology Nordstrom thrives of providing fabulous shopping experience to its customers and this has remained ...

Abstract

This study used Al Ahli Bank of Kuwait to complete research on the effects of the global economic crisis on the financial performance of conventional banks in Kuwait over the period from 2000-2015. The study results show that the global economic crisis does not have a statistically significant impact on the financial performance of conventional banks in Kuwait. However, the study finds out that some macroeconomic conditions such as equity and bank size are very crucial to traditional banks’ profitability. Increasing the owner's equity was found to decrease the impact of the financial crisis on the conventional banks in ...

Analysis of Waldorf

Waldorf Education is a private, developmental curriculum focused on teaching to the holistic needs of children.  Rudolf Steiner developed Waldorf education in the early 20th Century to create a learning environment focused on artistic learning and creative thinking.  Waldorf schools, also referred to as Steiner schools, exist in 91 countries and there are about 1,000 schools in total (Costello-Dougherty, 2009).  Waldorf schools vary in sizes but some have programs from preschool through high school (DeLuca & Hughes, 2014).  As children pass through a series of stages of development, Waldorf curriculum focuses on teaching the right thing at the right ...

Introduction

Cost estimation is a crucial step in any project management, with the fact that estimating establishes the foundation of the development cost at varied phases of project development. A cost estimate at a particular phase in a project progress represents an estimation given by the cost engineer or construction manager based on the presented data. The costs involved in constructing a facility are inclusive of the maintenance and operation cost, in addition to the initial capital cost. The capital cost for a construction project includes the expenses ranging from planning and feasibility studies, testing and inspection, construction financing, equipment’ ...

Assignment 1: Demand Estimation

Demand and Supply Estimation Based on the given information, we will calculate the elasticities of different variables. For the first demand function, QD = - 5200 - 42P + 20PX + 5.2I + 0.20A + 0.25M Price of the microwave oven, P = 500, Price of leading competitor’s product, PX = 600 Per capita income, I = 5,500 Monthly advertising expenditure, A = 10,000 Substituting the values of P, M, PX, I and A in the above equation, we will get the value of quantity demanded as, QD= - 5200 – 42(500) + 20(600) + 5.2(5500) + 0.20(10000) + 0.25(5000) = 17,650 units Price Elasticity ( ...

Value-at-Risk

Introduction Risk assessment is essential in portfolio management. A portfolio manager has the duty of maximising returns of the portfolio of the assets for each level of risk. Alternatively, a portfolio manager should minimise the risk of the portfolio at any level of return of the portfolio. Several models are used in assessing the risk involved in a portfolio of investments. Value-at-risk is widely applied in determining portfolio risk. We explore the concept of value-at-risk and its usage in portfolio management.

It is a model that measures how much the value of a portfolio could fall over a specified ...

Abstract

Can female participation in the labor force contribute to economic growth? Is there a causal relationship between female participation in the labor force and economic growth? This paper addresses these questions using the vector error correction model. For this study, an annual time series data for the period 1970 to 2012 for the United States has been used. The results show that there exists a co-integration between female participation and GDP per capita, which is a proxy measure for economic development. The result does not support a two-way causality between the variables. However, a causality running from GDP per ...

The role of education is very crucial for the development of the society and welfare. Education plays an important role in enlightening and creating awareness and removing dogmatism and backwardness among members of the society (Apple 27). From early childhood education through primary education to advanced learning, humans undergo a process of learning to hone their critical thinking, spur creativity and build a society of knowledgeable men and women (Golub 10). As a major in education, I am concerned about the roles of education in the society, and in particular, how the socio-economic development of a community can be ...

Executive Summary

Wilsam company ltd is a privately owned company specializing in preparing economic and business reports in Manchester and entire metropolitan regions in England and United Kingdom; Trafford, Stockport, Bolton and Bury just to name a few. The study examined contemporary economic and business strength, weaknesses, threats and opportunities (SWORT analysis) in the region with the aim of helping investors make optimal business decision (Chamberlain 1987, 322). ` The study finding are based on data collected from market research reports, demographic data and governments reports and release. The conclusion made from this analysis; investors can get the highest returns by investing ...

Psychology Review Paper

Psychology Review Paper This paper will review the psychological article entitled “Gender Differences in Distance Estimates When Exposed to Multiple Routes” which appears in the Environment and Behavior journal. This article explores the accuracy of making distance estimations regarding a particular walked route when an individual has extra information about additional routes present. This research particularly focuses on comparing gender differences in estimation of distances when exposed to other routes. Thus, the central research question of this study is to determine how men and women compare when it comes to estimating distances in the event of exposure to multiple ...