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The inspiration for this course is the CNBC show The Big Idea, which features people whose inventions and ideas have changed the business world and everyday life. Anyone can come up with a life-changing idea: a housewife who realizes that disposable diapers are clogging landfills and invents a cover for cloth diapers, a mother who creates the “rapid prompting method” to communicate with her autistic son, and a young man with cerebral palsy who pitches a travel show for the “differently abled.” All of these ideas emerged out of the creator’s desire to fulfill a need that was not being met. In this course, you will be forming your own “big idea” and deciding how best to communicate that idea and persuade others of its significance. Your “big idea” might provide a solution to a problem, fulfill a need, or advocate change.

To begin this process, think of a problem that needs to be addressed, preferably one relevant to your own experience and community. Do you have any “big ideas” for addressing this problem? This problem could be tied to your field of study or it could be something with more personal implications.

should be about 200-250 words,

Check Company has several departments. One of those departments does only printing work for other departments of Check Company, and that department expects to print 1,000,000 documents for other departments at Check Company, and in producing those documents, expects to incur the following costs:

 

 

 

Salaries (fixed)	$12,000
Employee benefits (fixed)	$3,000
Depreciation (fixed)	$3,000
Utilities (fixed)	$1,000
Printing supplies (1 cent per document)	$20,000

 

 

 

Costs are assigned to two cost pools, fixed costs and variable costs. The costs are then assigned to the Executive Department and the Administrative Department at Check Company. Fixed costs are assigned on a lump-sum basis, 30% to the Executive department and 70% to the Administrative Department. The variable costs are assigned at a rate of $0.02 per document printed.

 

 

 

If 800,000 documents are printed during 2011, 320,000 documents for the Executive Department and 480,000 documents for the Administrative Department, calculate the costs allocated to the Executive Department.

 

 

 

All sources used, including the textbook, must be referenced; paraphrased and quoted material must have accompanying citations. For problems, be sure to answer all questions and provide all requested information.

As the lead software engineer for a medium-sized hospital, you have been asked to spearhead an effort to improve the tracking of Voice Over IP (VOIP) calls made within the hospital system. You have also been asked to begin planning out an emergency vehicle discovery program that will improve the response times of medical personnel to remote emergency locations by pinpointing the closest vehicle to the emergency using GPS.

 

 

Write a three to five (3-5) page paper in which you:

 

1. Design the Requires and the Provides interfaces of at least two (2) components that might be used in a system in an emergency control room for a call-logging component that records calls made.

 

2. Design the interfaces of at least two (2) components that might be used in a system in an emergency control room for a vehicle discovery component that, given a post code (zip code) and an incident type, finds the nearest suitable vehicle to be dispatched to the incident.

 

3. Include both the Requires interface and the Provides interface in your design.

4. Develop a visual rendering depicting your design through the use of Microsoft Visio or its open source alternative, Dia. Note: The graphically depicted solution is not included in the required page length.

 

 

 

Your assignment must follow these formatting requirements:

 

ï‚· Be typed, double spaced, using Times New Roman font (size 12), with one-inch margins on all sides; citations and references must follow APA.

 

 Include a cover page containing the title of the assignment, the student’s name, the professor’s name, the course title, and the date. The cover page and the reference page are not included in the required assignment page length.

 

ï‚· Include charts or diagrams created in Visio or an equivalent such as Dia. The completed diagrams / charts must be imported into the Word document before the paper is submitted.

 

 

The specific course learning outcomes associated with this assignment are:

 

ï‚· Explain the importance of software reuse.

 

ï‚· Use technology and information resources to research issues in software engineering.

 

ï‚· Write clearly and concisely about software engineering using proper writing mechanics and technical style conventions

 

reason why the Guans left their present location to their original homes

CASH BUDGET/ANALYSIS

A cash budget details a company’s cash inflow and outflow during a specified budget period, such as a month, quarter or year. Its primary purpose is to provide the status of the company’s cash position at any point of time. This helps the company make critical decisions such as creating cash reserves to make arrangements for projected shortages and using excess funds prudently. Additionally, the cash budget helps in prioritizing payments in the budget period. It also helps in analyzing budget-versus-actual variances in cash inflow and outflow.

Instructions: 

Using the Information provided BELOW IN THE QUESTION
1.  Answer Questions 1 and 2

2.  Write a 1 page analysis of your results as to what you think of the company’s cash positions each month and how well they can handle any economic downturn in the future:

 

The assignment must be completed:

o    Using Microsoft Excel

o    Be typed, double spaced, using Times New Roman font (size 12), with one-inch margins on all sides; references must follow APA or school-specific format. Check with your professor for any additional instructions.

o     Include a cover page containing the tile of the assignment, the student’s name, the professor’s name, the course title, and the date. The cover page and the reference page are not included in the required page length.

 

 

 

 

QUESTION

 

Master Budget with Supporting Schedules

 

You have just been hired as a new management trainee by Earrings Unlimited, a distributor of earrings to various retail outlets located in shopping malls across the country. In the past, the company has done very little in the way of budgeting and at certain times of the year has experienced a shortage of cash.

Since you are well trained in budgeting, you have decided to prepare comprehensive budgets for the upcoming second quarter in order to show management the benefits that can be gained from an integrated budgeting program. To this end, you have worked with accounting and other areas to gather the information assembled below.

The company sells many styles of earrings, but all are sold for the same price—$10 per pair. Actual sales of earrings for the last three months and budgeted sales for the next six months follow (in pairs of earrings):

The concentration of sales before and during May is due to Mother’s Day. Sufficient inventory should be on hand at the end of each month to supply 40% of the earrings sold in the following month.

Suppliers are paid $4 for a pair of earrings. One-half of a month’s purchases is paid for in the month of purchase; the other half is paid for in the following month. All sales are on credit, with no discount, and payable within 15 days. The company has found, however, that only 20% of a month’s sales are collected in the month of sale. An additional 70% is collected in the following month, and the remaining 10% is collected in the second month following sale. Bad debts have been negligible.

Monthly operating expenses for the company are given below:

 

 

 

Insurance is paid on an annual basis, in November of each year.

The company plans to purchase $16,000 in new equipment during May and $40,000 in new equipment during June; both purchases will be for cash. The company declares dividends of $15,000 each quarter, payable in the first month of the following quarter.

A listing of the company’s ledger accounts as of March 31 is given below:

The company maintains a minimum cash balance of $50,000. All borrowing is done at the beginning of a month; any repayments are made at the end of a month.

The company has an agreement with a bank that allows the company to borrow in increments of $1,000 at the beginning of each month. The interest rate on these loans is 1% per month and for simplicity we will assume that interest is not compounded. At the end of the quarter, the company would pay the bank all of the accumulated interest on the loan and as much of the loan as possible (in increments of $1,000), while still retaining at least $50,000 in cash.

Required:

Prepare a master budget for the three-month period ending June 30. Include the following detailed budgets:

1.     

a.    A sales budget, by month and in total.

b.    A schedule of expected cash collections from sales, by month and in total.

c.     A merchandise purchases budget in units and in dollars. Show the budget by month and in total.

d.    A schedule of expected cash disbursements for merchandise purchases, by month and in total.

2.    A cash budget. Show the budget by month and in total. Determine any borrowing that would be needed to maintain the minimum cash balance of $50,000.

Write a 1 page analysis of your results as to what you think of the company’s cash positions each month and how well they can handle any economic downturn in the future: