LearningExchange Ltd offers specialised exchange programs for Australian students to live overseas and study in a local school from two to twelve months. The company’s exchange programs also include local tours. The sales and direct cost data on the two popular programs for last year are as follows:
Thailand New Zealand Number of exchange programs sold 10 15 Number of students per program 6 6 Revenue per student $14,000 $17,000 Direct cost per program: Program leaders' salary (percentage of revenue per program) 5% 7% Program assistant salary $5,000 $6,000 Local school fees (percentage of revenue per program) 25% 30% Local tour guides $2,000 $4,200 Air travel cost $4,500 $1,900 Accommodation and meals $20,000 $38,000 Insurance $2,100 $2,200

The overhead costs for the last year as follows:
Managers' salaries $100,000 Sales personnel salaries $120,000 Rent and property taxes $22,000 Utilities $8,000 Depreciation on equipment $6,000 Other operating costs $9,000

To calculate the profitability of each exchange program, overheads are allocated to each program in proportion to the actual sales revenue.

Required: 1. Calculate the contribution of each tour package towards the overall profit of the company. [10 marks]
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2. Should the company keep on offering both tour packages? Explain and support your answer with necessary calculations. [1 mark]
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3. Do you consider the company’s overhead allocation method to be appropriate or would you suggest an alternative? Explain. [1 mark]
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4. What should the company do to improve the profitability of each exchange program? Provide some suitable examples

Leadership in Accreditation. As a new university Dean, you learn that two of the three programs in your school did not pass an accrediting review. The school has already implemented three different programs to assist in addressing the issues, but the consultant hired to assist with the remediation process, has told you that these options are still insufficient. What next steps would you recommend be implemented to ensure the programs meet accrediting requirements? Funding is limited, faculty are resistant to more changes, and graduate assistants are no longer available.

In your response to these questions, list models, theories, and authors that you believe to be relevant to the questions. Also, list all standards that may be applicable to the questions and how they apply to your answer-see standards of Education listed below to assist with the answer:

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Educational Leader Standards Option

Standard 1: Human Capital Management

Educational leaders use their role as human capital manager to drive improvements in building leader effectiveness and student achievement.

Standard 2: Instructional Leadership

Educational leaders are acutely focused on effective teaching and learning, possess a deep and comprehensive understanding of best instructional practices, and continuously promote activities that contribute to the academic success of all students.

Standard 3: Personal Behavior

Educational leaders model personal behavior that sets the tone for all student and adult relationships.

Standard 4: Building Relationships

Educational leaders build relationships to ensure that all key stakeholders work effectively with each other to achieve transformative results.

Standard 5: Culture of Achievement

Educational leaders develop an encompassing culture of achievement aligned to the institution’s vision of success for every student.

Standard 6: Organizational, Operational, and Resource Management

Educational leaders’ leverage organizational, operational, and resource management skills to support improvement and achieve desired educational outcomes.

CCC4 Cookie Creations is gearing up for the winter holiday season. During the month of December 2011, the following transactions occur.

Dec. 1 Natalie hires an assistant at an hourly wage of $8 to help with cookie making and some administrative duties

Dec. 5 Natalie teaches the class that was booked on November 25.The balance outstanding is received.

Dec. 8 Cookie Creations receives a check for the amount due from the neighborhood school for the class given on November 30.

Dec. 9 Cookie Creations receives $750 in advance from the local school board for five classes that the company will give during December and January.

Dec. 15 Pays the cell phone invoice outstanding at November 30.

Dec. 16 Issues a check to Natalie’s brother for the amount owed for the design of the website.

Dec. 19 Receives a deposit of $70 on a cookie class scheduled for early January.

Dec. 23 Additional revenue earned during the month for cookie-making classes amounts to $4,000. (Natalie has not had time to account for each class individually.) $3,000 in cash has been collected and $1,000 is still outstanding. (This is in addition to the December 5 and December 9 transactions.)

Dec. 23 Additional baking supplies purchased during the month for sugar, flour, and chocolate chips amount to $1,250 cash

Dec. 23 Issues a check to Natalie’s assistant for $800. Her assistant worked approximately 100 hours from the time in which she was hired until December 23.

Dec. 28 Pays a dividend of $600 to the common shareholder (Natalie).

Using the information that you have gathered and the general ledger accounts that you have prepared through Chapter 3, plus the new information above, do the following.

**Post the December transactions. (Use the general ledger accounts prepared in Chapter 3.)

CCC4 Cookie Creations is gearing up for the winter holiday season. During the month of December 2011, the following transactions occur.

Dec. 1 Natalie hires an assistant at an hourly wage of $8 to help with cookie making and some administrative duties.

Dec. 5 Natalie teaches the class that was booked on November 25.The balance outstanding is received.

Dec. 8 Cookie Creations receives a check for the amount due from the neighborhood school for the class given on November 30.

Dec. 9 Cookie Creations receives $750 in advance from the local school board for five classes that the company will give during December and January.

Dec. 15 Pays the cell phone invoice outstanding at November 30.

Dec. 16 Issues a check to Natalie’s brother for the amount owed for the design of the website.

Dec. 19 Receives a deposit of $70 on a cookie class scheduled for early January.

Dec. 23 Additional revenue earned during the month for cookie-making classes amounts to $4,000. (Natalie has not had time to account for each class individually.) $3,000 in cash has been collected and $1,000 is still outstanding. (This is in addition to the December 5 and December 9 transactions.)

Dec. 23 Additional baking supplies purchased during the month for sugar, flour, and chocolate chips amount to $1,250 cash

. Dec. 23 Issues a check to Natalie’s assistant for $800. Her assistant worked approximately 100 hours from the time in which she was hired until December 23.

Dec. 28 Pays a dividend of $600 to the common shareholder (Natalie).

Using the information that you have gathered and the general ledger accounts that you have prepared through Chapter 3, plus the new information above, do the following.

(a) Journalize the above transactions.

Instructions: Write your responses to the following 5 questions for at least 5 of the 7 example news stories about correlational studies:

1. Identify X and describe how it is being measured
2. Identify Y and describe how it is being measured
3. State the direction of the correlation (+ or –)
4. Identify a possible Z (third) variable
5. Fully interpret the relationship between X and Y (in plain English)

Example 5: Internet use in class leads to lower test scores  

Comment on this passage, the response must be at least 125 words.

MG

2.1 The Allegory of the Cave is the reflection of an idea by Plato. He describes the human world as a group of persons living in a sunken cave with only a glimpse of sunlight as they watch normal life reside above them. Not knowing everything thing that is apparent to those outside of the cave it would be impossible for a human of the cave to venture to the above world and instantly be familiar with everything around him and everything he saw. It would take time and getting familiar with those things. And in retrospect could that person return to the cave and say he was as good at living in the cave in which they stayed as those that never went outside.

This allegory was Plato’s explanation to the need for a sense of understanding of a Form of good that can be found in the world of knowledge. To find this good one must one must first identify themselves as willing to search for it. “But whether true or false, my opinion is that in the world of knowledge the Form of the Good appears last of all, and is seen only with an effort.” (Plato, 2018). After finding the form of good a person can envision themselves as a part of a good reality that knows the form of good to acquire a more fulfilling wisdom. And until then they could not become wise.

I returned to cave that I had not been back to for a long time when I was visiting my high school. There was a lot that had changed since I had been there before. Except for the location it was completely different with new buildings and more classrooms. The students also tend to seem a lot younger than they did when I was a student there. The behavior of the students was a lot different also. As time passes the way a school evolves says a lot about how much more students are capable of in later generations compared to prior ones.

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2. You are a public health nurse working in an elementary school in Hamilton, Ontario. You have seen a substantial increase in the number of children in your school presenting with Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD). You are interested in whether a new drug developed by a local drug company improves the ability of children with ADD to maintain attention. You obtain ethics approval to study the drug, informed consent from the parents of 24 fifth grade children with ADD, administer the drug to the 24 children, and administer a test to the children to determine their ability to maintain attention while performing a task. Scores are continuous, can range from 0 to 25 with higher scores reflecting a better ability to maintain attention, and you know from previous research that scores tend to be normally distributed. Six of these students receive a placebo containing none of the drug. Six students receive 2 mg of the drug, six students receive 4 mg of the drug, and six students receive 6 mg of the drug. The table below summarizes the results from your study. Use these data to answer the following questions. Assume α=0.05.

3. Placebo (0 mg)	Drug (2 mg)	Drug (4 mg)	Drug (6 mg)
   4	7	16	17
   7	8	14	18
   11	13	12	13
   11	6	11	17
   7	9	15	20
   10	9	13	15

4. a.You have one further prediction, and that is that children with ADD who receive the drug will perform significantly better than children with ADD who do not receive the drug. Conduct the appropriate test to confirm this prediction, if the results from question a support doing this additional testing. Are you able to confirm your prediction? Explain, including the calculations and/or SPSS output to support your answer. [2 Marks]

1. Congress recently passed the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA). What is the goal (at least stated goal) of the TCJA? Who is supposed to benefit? Focusing on the business taxes, what are the primary features of the TCJA? Will the TCJA make U.S. businesses more competitive? Why or why not? What are most corporations doing with their tax savings (cite some evidence)? Does anyone lose from the TCJA? If so, who and why?

2. We spent a day discussing the mergers of AT&T/Time-Warner and Disney/21st Century Fox. Why does AT&T wish to acquire Time Warner? What is the benefit to the merger? Who loses? The U.S. government doesn’t generally get involved with vertical mergers, why is the government contesting the AT&T/Time-Warner deal, but not (at least yet) the Disney/Fox deal (although the U.K. has expressed concerns)? Do you believe AT&T should be allowed to acquire Time-Warner? If so, should they place any restrictions on the merged firm?

3. What is the Federal funds rate and how does it affect the economy? The Federal Reserve (FED) increased both the Federal funds rate and their interest rate expectations during their March meeting. Why? How did the market react to the news? What effect, if any, did the TCJA have on the FED’s growth and inflation expectations?

I. At the beginning, create a folder named "test" and add the folder into the version control tool tracking system. Then create one file named "001" under this folder. Commit any change if necessary.

II. Next, add another file named "002" in the same folder and commit the change ("adding") in the version control tool.

III. Followed by adding that file, create a branch (namely, "branch-A") in the version control tool and make some changes to the contents in file "001" under the newly created branch. Then commit the change from file "001".

IV. Create another branch (namely, "branch-B") from the main branch (NOT from "branch-A"!) in the version control tool and make some changes to the contents in file "002". Then commit the change from file "002".

V. The next step is to merge "branch-A" and "branch-B" and commit the change to the main branch. Record what you see from such an operation and make your own decision which version you want to keep.

VI. At last, Revise the current change from the merged result to the beginning where there was one file named "001". Record what you see from this operation.

(3) Show a graph of all version related operations from version control tool. The graph is used to visually depict how changes are made.