Crank Ltd Crank has been in business since the 1920’s and have three locations in the UK. Their Head Office and main manufacturing site is in Leicester. This site makes complex tubular assemblies for defence organisations, oil and gas and transportation. There is a site at Southampton making tubular shafts for golf clubs, and a site in Glasgow manufacturing aerospace Duct assemblies up to 8″ diameter. The procurement organisation is currently decentralised. At Leicester, there is a Purchasing Manager, whereas at Southampton and Glasgow, each site has a Chief Buyer in charge of small procurement teams. There is a new Chief Executive of Crank who fervently believes that he needs a new approach for the Group in the way procurement is structured. Over the past month, he has, quietly, been obtaining some salient facts.

The more important ones are

• Each site operates as a ‘Profit Centre’ and the Site Director has to deliver a targeted Return on Capital Employed;

• There are no Group purchase contracts;

• Five major purchases account for 61% of total Group expenditure – they are all raw material including different specifications of tubing;

• There are more than 40 suppliers for the five major purchases; • No formal tendering has taken place, on any site, for more than two years;

• Capital equipment is purchased by the Group Chief Engineer;

• The company has embraced modern logistics practices including JIT and OTIF (On Time In Full);

• There is no savings plan for purchasing;

• The purchasing teams do not liaise.

The Chief Executive intends to consider an alternative purchasing structure that can deliver benefits for the Group and each operational site. On the basis of your knowledge and the salient facts above what advice could you give him?

Tasks

(c) What alternative structures could be considered?

(d) What are the potential obstacles to change?

(e) What business benefits could accrue from a changed purchasing structure?

I need to write an accounting-internship report for my accounting class which will answer these questions:

i. What you achieved during the internship

ii. What you did well

iii. What you could have done better

iv. Any conflicts that arose during the internship; how you dealt with them

v. How you will apply what you learned to your desired career

vi. Your next career steps

One of the costs of unexpected inflation is an arbitrary redistribution of purchasing power. Find the loser and winner of the following transactions. In other words, describe how the purchasing power is redistributed with these transactions. b. Jennifer took out a fixed-interest-rate loan from Bank H when the CPI was 100. She expected the CPI to increase to 103 but it actually increased to 105. c. Nick bought some shares of stock and, over the next year, the price per share decreased by 7 percent and the price level decreased by 9 percent. c. Nick bought some shares of stock and, over the next year, the price per share decreased by 7 percent and the price level decreased by 9 percent. d. Jackie saves $100 and receives $106 the next year. During the same year, the price of the basket of goods that she purchases increases from $100 to $104.e. Fifteen years ago T’s parents purchased some land with the idea of selling it later to help pay your college expenses. They purchased the land for $100,000. They sold if for $180,000. During the time they held it the price level rose from 80 to 120.f. One year ago Sam purchased bonds for $100,000. He just sold them for $120,000. During the year the price level rose by 5%.g. Mitch makes payments on a car loan. If the price level a year ago was 120 and people expected it to rise to 125 but it actually rose to 128.

Identify three themes in the Case in Point about "Working with jerks" from chapter 9 in the textbook Organizational Communication - Approaches and Processes by Katherine Miller and identify 3 recommendations of how the themes discovered in the case could be used to improve communication in other organizations. Explain why your recommendations will work.

What role did women play in the early-twentieth-century fight for social justice?

Do you think the stock market is rational? Why or why not? Requirement: 150 words or more

Crank Ltd Crank has been in business since the 1920’s and have three locations in the UK. Their Head Office and main manufacturing site is in Leicester. This site makes complex tubular assemblies for defence organisations, oil and gas and transportation. There is a site at Southampton making tubular shafts for golf clubs, and a site in Glasgow manufacturing aerospace Duct assemblies up to 8″ diameter. The procurement organisation is currently decentralised. At Leicester, there is a Purchasing Manager, whereas at Southampton and Glasgow, each site has a Chief Buyer in charge of small procurement teams. There is a new Chief Executive of Crank who fervently believes that he needs a new approach for the Group in the way procurement is structured. Over the past month, he has, quietly, been obtaining some salient facts.

The more important ones are

• Each site operates as a ‘Profit Centre’ and the Site Director has to deliver a targeted Return on Capital Employed;

• There are no Group purchase contracts;

• Five major purchases account for 61% of total Group expenditure – they are all raw material including different specifications of tubing;

• There are more than 40 suppliers for the five major purchases; • No formal tendering has taken place, on any site, for more than two years;

• Capital equipment is purchased by the Group Chief Engineer;

• The company has embraced modern logistics practices including JIT and OTIF (On Time In Full);

• There is no savings plan for purchasing;

• The purchasing teams do not liaise.

The Chief Executive intends to consider an alternative purchasing structure that can deliver benefits for the Group and each operational site. On the basis of your knowledge and the salient facts above what advice could you give him?

Tasks

(c) What alternative structures could be considered?

(d) What are the potential obstacles to change?

(e) What business benefits could accrue from a changed purchasing structure?

4. What is ZooKeeper? Who developed it? Describe its main functions.

Write a C program in Unix which uses a function called search to find

the location of a value in THREE arrays of floats. The function should

take three parameters :

         the value to be found

         the array to be searched

         the size of the array

N.B.!!!! The main program should read in three arrays of varying size

         example : array a has twelve elements

                   array b has six elements

                   array c has nine elements

                   array d has four elements

         input to these arrays terminated by illegal input(see handout)

         the function should return for each array the index where the

         value is found. If not found the function should return -1.

JAVA

Stack - Implementation.

You will be able to use the push, pop and peek of Stack concept. Post-Fix calculator - When an arithmetic expression is presented in the postfix form, you can use a stack to evaluate the expression to get the final value. For example: the expression 3 + 5 * 9 (which is in the usual infix form) can be written as 3 5 9 * + in the postfix. More interestingly, post form removes all parentheses and thus all implicit precedence rules.

Program Implementation Requirements

Use the stack concept to create a post-fix calculator. I will be using a test-harnessPreview the document to run your program. Please make sure it meets the requirements to be run by the test harness.

Test harness:

public class StackCalcTest {

public static void main(String[] args) {

StackCalc stackCalc = new StackCalc();

String[] values = {"3", "5", "9", "*", "+"};

for(int i = 0; i < 5; i++) {

stackCalc.stack.push(values[i]);

}

System.out.println(stackCalc.stack);

System.out.println(stackCalc.answer()); }}

For each of the following concepts: define it and give an example.

a. rule

b. rule control

c. rule-governed behavior

d. contingency control

e. contingency-governed behavior (contingency-shaped behavior).

1. Describe a very specific example from agriculture of how the “research cycle” may be applied.

2. What does peer- refereed mean and what is the significance of this?

In the second row of the transition metals there are five elements that do not follow the normal orbital filling. Five - Nb, Mo, Ru, Rh, and Ag-result in a [Kr] 5s14dx configuration and Pd results in a [Kr] 4d10 configuration. Write the ground state electron configuration for the following species.

Ag

Ag+

Ru

Ru3+

Rh

Rh2+

Pd

Pd+

Pd2+

our pro forma income statement shows sales of $ 991 comma 000$991,000​, cost of goods sold as $ 510 comma 000$510,000​, depreciation expense of $ 99 comma 000$99,000​, and taxes of $ 152 comma 800$152,800 due to a tax rate of 40 %40%. What are your pro forma​ earnings? What is your pro forma free cash​ flow? Complete the pro forma income statement​ below:  ​(Round to the nearest​ dollar.) Sales $ Cost of Goods Sold $ Gross Profit $ Depreciation $ EBIT $ Taxes (40%) $ Earnings $