Answer the following questions in a 400-600 word response [total for both] or 200-300 words each question. 1. The analysis of standard cost systems begins with the development of standards for direct materials, direct labor, and manufacturing overhead. Discuss standard costs and indicate how they can be used by management in planning and control. 2. Why is it important to consider the relationship among cost, quality, and selling prices when establishing standards for direct materials?

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Q1:

What strategic competitive benefits do you see in a company’s use of extranets?

Answer :

An extranet can increase the value of your organization by helping you convey and work together more viably with customers, clients, and accomplices. Especially in the business-to-business market, an extranet can give your organization an edge over the opposition and set aside you cash by smoothing out conventional business capacities and reducing overhead expenses.

Extranets accomplish a similar work as an intranet, however it additionally takes into account correspondence on the planet. An extranet permits client, sellers and providers to get to the data through the PC framework. The organizations use extranets to get strategic like:

1. Expanded efficiency: As you mechanize measures that were generally done physically, bottlenecks will vanish and your organization's profitability will increment. Basic data won't lose all sense of direction via the post office or covered in an email inbox, and occupied representatives won't miss or overlook key functions. An extranet can, for instance, screen business exercises and trigger explicit activities, for example, naturally submitting a request with a provider when your stock dips under a specific level.

2. More limited chance to advertise: In the event that your business isn't moving at "Web speed," you hazard being abandoned. An extranet can assist you with getting your items to showcase all the more rapidly by making proposition and determinations accessible to providers, and surrendering customers and accomplices to-date data on current undertakings.

3. Construct client loyalty : Extranets make business simpler for your clients. The more you make convenient, precise data accessible to your clients, the more probable it is you'll keep their business

4.Reduced stock : One of the signs of a business-to-business extranet is its effect on flexibly chain the board. By connecting your stock framework straightforwardly to a provider, you can handle arranges when the framework realizes you need them, in this manner lessening the stock you keep available and making the acquirement cycle more proficient.

Q2:

Data Modelling is the primary step in the process of database design. Compare and contrast Conceptual data model versus Physical data model. Illustrates with help of example to list down data (entities), relationship among data and constraints on data.

Data modelling is the first step in database design. It is the process of creating a data model for the data to be stored in a database. It is considered as the high level. It is also referred as the conceptual design. Data modeling helps in the visual representation of data and enforces business rules, regulatory compliances, and government policies on the data. Data Models ensure consistency in naming conventions, default values, semantics, security while ensuring quality of the data..It describes the data contained in the database, relationship between data items and the constraints on the data.

Conceptual data model

This Data Model defines WHAT the system contains. The purpose is to organize, scope and define business concepts and rules. It  is an organized view of database concepts and their relationships.. It does not have the complete data of the database. It is used to create  entities, their attributes, and relationships.

·Includes the important entities and the relationships among them.

·No attribute is specified.

·No primary key is specified.

Physical Data model

This Data Model describes HOW the system will be implemented using a specific DBMS system. The purpose is actual implementation of the database.It offers database abstraction and helps generate the schema. The physical data model also helps in visualizing database structure by replicating database column keys, constraints, indexes, triggers and other schemas.

• Specification all tables and columns.
• Foreign keys are used to identify relationships between tables.
• Denormalization may occur based on user requirements.
• Physical considerations may cause the physical data model to be quite different from the logical data model.

Exception handling to detect input string vs. int

The given program reads a list of single-word first names and ages (ending with -1), and outputs that list with the age incremented. The program fails and throws an exception if the second input on a line is a string rather than an int. At FIXME in the code, add a try/catch statement to catch ios_base::failure, and output 0 for the age.

Ex: If the input is:

Lee 18 
Lua 21 
Mary Beth 19 
Stu 33 -1

then the output is:

Lee 19
Lua 22
Mary 0
Stu 34

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#include
#include

using namespace std;

int main(int argc, char* argv[]) {
string inputName;
int age;
// Set exception mask for cin stream
cin.exceptions(ios::failbit);

cin >> inputName;
while(inputName != "-1") {
// FIXME: The following line will throw an ios_base::failure.
// Insert a try/catch statement to catch the exception.
// Clear cin's failbit to put cin in a useable state.
cin >> age;
cout << inputName << " " << (age + 1) << endl;

cin >> inputName;
}

return 0;
}

Write a 525- to 700-word detailed outline of your Market Research Implementation Plan in which you address the following:

• Describe your selected organization and scenario.
• Based on your selected scenario, identify the detailed areas in which market research is needed - such as population, target market, and per capita - and describe their importance to the organization in the selected scenario.
• Develop an outline with headings and a brief paragraph for each of the sections that you anticipate having in your final Market Research Implementation Plan. You may decide to change these sections in future weeks.

Many consumers pay careful attention to stated nutritional contents on packaged foods when making purchases. It is therefore important that the information on packages be accurate. A random sample of

n = 12 frozen dinners of a certain type was selected from production during a particular period, and the calorie content of each one was determined. (This determination entails destroying the product, so a census would certainly not be desirable!) Here are the resulting data:

[a] Use R (or Excel) to find the summary statistics of the data.                                                         [1 pt]

Copy and paste your computer printout here (or to a blank MS Word document).

[b] Construct a boxplot for the data and comment on any interesting features.                                [4 pt]

Copy and paste your computer printout here (or to a blank MS Word document).

[c] Construct a normal probability plot (QQplot as well as qqline) and comment on any interesting features.                                                                                                                                            [4 pt]

Copy and paste your computer printout here (or to a blank MS Word document).

[d] Use an appropriate test to ensure the data set satisfies the normality assumption.                      [3 pt]

What is your conclusion regarding the data set?

[e] Is it reasonable to test hypotheses about mean calorie content m by using a t-test? Explain why or why not.                                                                                                                                       

Answer:           Yes                  No                   E Circle one                                                              [1 pt]

Explanation:                                                                                                                                       [3 pt]

[e] The stated calorie content is m = 240. Does the boxplot in [a] suggest the true mean content differs from the stated value? Explain your reasoning.                                                                               [3 pt]

[f] Carry out a formal test of the hypotheses suggested in part [e]                                                   

Write your hypotheses in symbols and in words.                                                                               [8 pt]

Use statistical software (such as R) to get analysis results. State what the results tell you about the data.                                                                                                                                                               [8 pt]

Guidelines:

Create an excel workbook with two tabs:

Statement of Operations (1^st tab)

Balance Sheet (2^nd tab)

Use the word bank provided to create the rows of your statements. For the statement of operations, create columns for 2017 (current year) -2020. The ASC is projected to open in January 2018. Use the financial statement exhibits from your textbook reading as a guideline.

Once you have sorted out the word list into financial statements in Excel, insert formulas to show how you would calculate various items (such as Current Assets or Total Personnel Expense). You do not need to plug in values, but show how you would calculate them in Excel.

Submit your assignment as an excel (.xlsx) file.

Grading:

100 points based on the correctness of your answer.

Due Date: This part of the Course Project is due on the last night of week 2.

Word Bank: Section headings are in Mixed Case Italics Bold, totals are in UPPERCASE BOLD.

Assignment Purposes/Outcomes:

After completion of this assignment students will able to

• Evaluate the characteristics of International trade.

• Demonstrate effective use of international trade theory and culture.

• Explain the challenges and strategies of International Business.

• Analyze basic concepts of organizations of international business and funding agencies.

Assignment Workload:

• The Project is assigning on an individual assignment.

• Project must solve between 2000 to 2500 words limit.

• Discussion will conduct through posting on “Discussion Board”.

• Presentation is assigning in-group based on project findings.

Assignment Regulation:

• All students are encouraged to use their own word.

• Student must apply Harvard Referencing Style within their reports.

• Student are allowed to cite 10% from the word limit (2000-2500 word limit means 200-250 words can be cited).

• A mark of zero will be given for any submission that includes copying from other resource without referencing it.

Assignment Structure:

Assignment-1

A. Analyse the existence of WTO-World Trade Organization for development of Middle East nations. [1000 – 1200 words] 4 Marks.

B. Identify the impact of WTO’s role on any ONE of the industry [Petrochemical Industry or Telecommunications Industry or Financial Sectors] for the development of Industrial sector and economic growth of Saudi Arabia.[1000-1200] 4 Marks.

Prepare a short report with the help of following points:

1. Present the study report with clear Introduction and Conclusion including your own views.

2. Analyze your study with micro and macro environmental forces by using SWOT analysis.   

3. Analyze the Political and Economic challenges.

4. Analyze the Legal and Cultural challenges of each country.

Due date for the submission of Assignment-1:

Assignment -1 should be posted in the Black Board by 4th week.

The due date for the submission of Assignment-1 will be in the 7th Week.

You are required to create a sales and marketing management system with a small number of common sense attributes. The system should contain the following information  Sales details  Marketing details  Customer details  Production details  Delivery details  Management details

So consider what sales and marketing system is required to deliver a consistent and customer oriented service to all customers over the world. You need to identify the tables you require and the information that they are to contain. This is only a small system, do not over-complicate it.

Create an entity-relationship (ER) model drawn with MS WORD or POWER POINT if you prefer. You are required to submit a print out of your database schema:  Set of normalised tables – with your sample data.  Indicate the table relationships using multiple keys; PK, FK, and SK using UML notation.

2 2. Use MYSQL to create the set of database tables of the relational database model and complete the associated queries given. Procedure:

1) Write all the SQL statements, necessary to create all tables and relationships, with Primary & Foreign keys.

2) Execute each statement in the correct order to create the relational database in MYSQL.

3) Insert some data into each table.

4) Use all your SQL create and Insert statements (from MS Word) to execute in the MYSQL WorkBench

5) Write in MS Word and execute in MYSQL WorkBench the statements necessary to; i. display all tables, ii. identify sales total for each item iii. identify delivery confirmation of sold items iv. identify marketing level for sold items

3. Using MS-ACCESS, link to the MYSQL database and create forms to enter sales and purchase orders. 

No buttons are necessary, just what ACCESS generates to scroll forward, add a record etc.

 Make it clear what the forms do in the Form by adding text or headers.

MIPS Program

I'm trying to write a program that will take in two numbers from the user and output the sum at the end. However, I keep getting very wrong answers. For example, I add 2 and 2 and get 268501000. Help would be appreciated.

.data #starts data use
userIn1:
   .word 4 #sets aside space for input
  
userIn2:
   .word 4 #sets aside space for input
total:
   .word 4 #sets space aside for input
  
request:
   .asciiz "Enter an integer value: "

echoStr:
   .asciiz "The total is: "
  
.text #starts string use
.globl   main

  
main:
   #prints request for 1st number
   la $a0, request #loads string into argument
   li $v0, 4 #request to print set in register $v0
   syscall #execute
  
   #takes in user input
   la $a0, userIn1 #pointer to info
   li $v0, 5 #request for user input set in register $v0
   syscall
  
   #prints request for 2nd number
   la $a0, request #loads string into argument
   li $v0, 4 #request to print set in register $v0
   syscall #execute
  
   #takes in user input
   la $a1, userIn2 #pointer to info
   li $v0, 5 #request for user input set in register $v0
   syscall
  
   #NEXT CHUNK IS PROBABLY ISSUE
  
   #adds numbers together
   add $t0, $a0, $a1 #adds numbers together
   sw $t0, total #stores total
   syscall
  
  
   #prints out awknowledgement
   la $a0, echoStr #stores string in $a0 argument spot
   li $v0, 4 #request to print set in register $v0
   syscall
  
   #prints out user input
   la $a0, total #calls user input and stores it as argument 0
   li $v0, 1 #request to print set in register $v0
   syscall
  
   #to properly exit program
   li $v0, 10
   syscall

.data #end of data use

endl:   .asciiz   "\n"