GovDept is a mid-size governmental department providing important services of a social nature to the population of a large territory. From the technology perspective, the organization can be considered as a late adopter of innovations and characterized by relative underinvestment in IT, which has certain implications for both its IT landscape and respective management practices. On the one hand, GovDept’s IT landscape is very heterogeneous and includes many legacy information systems and technologies some of which have been in use for decades. On the other hand, its IT-related Page | 3 Asia Pacific International College Pty Ltd. Trading as Asia Pacific International College 55 Regent Street, Chippendale, Sydney 2008: 02-9318 8111 PRV12007; CRICOS 03048D Approved: 14/02/2019, Version 1 management practices are also rather archaic. For instance, the relationships between business and IT leaders in the organization exhibit evident signs of “us and them” mentality, while new investments in IT are viewed by business mostly as a means to reduce costs of the existing operations. GovDept has a centralized IT department headed by the CIO and responsible for developing and supporting information systems for all its business units. The IT department employs around 250 specialists and consists of three main functions: architecture, development and service. The architecture function includes a few architects focused predominantly on specific IT solutions. GovDept previously tried to uplift the maturity of its EA practice and extend the scope of architectural planning beyond separate initiatives, but these attempts did not succeed and respective architects had been made redundant. Then, the CIO decided to undertake another deliberate effort to evolve GovDept’s EA practice with the involvement of external consultants. For this purpose, the organization engaged a rather wellknown boutique EA consultancy to help initiate a full-fledged EA practice. The consultancy formed a project team consisting of four architects specialized in different subject areas. This consulting team acted according to a detailed engagement plan agreed with GovDept’s senior IT leadership. The plan stipulated in which sequence and when exactly various EA artifacts will be produced. In total, consultants worked for 2-3 months, analyzed the organization, interviewed numerous stakeholders and developed all the EA artifacts specified in the plan. Specifically, they started from analyzing GovDept in terms of current and desired maturity of its business capabilities and mapped existing applications to respective capabilities. Then, they captured all relevant data entities, documented all technologies used in the organization, depicted current and defined target application portfolios and created more detailed CRUD (create, read, update and delete) relationship matrices.

1. You are required developed a comprehensive roadmap specifying what projects should be executed in the next 2-3 years.

2. Discuss 5 key roles that IT will play in the GovDept if implemented.

3. Discuss 5 key EA artifacts that would be delivered in 2-3 months.

4. Explain the taxonomy of documentations that you will implement and why you have considered it important to GovDept.

5. Discuss the operating model that you will implement and why you have chosen the operating model.

6. Discuss the roles of standard and landscapes in implementation of GovDept’s EA?

7. Discuss 5 types of IT initiatives that you have considered very important to GovDept’s EA

8. Explain considerations as EA Artifacts that will be delivered in GovDept’s EA

9. Discuss 5 subtypes of visions that you used in EA artifacts implementation.

John and Mary Jane Diaz are married, filing jointly. Their address is 204 Shoe Lane, Blacksburg, VA 24061. John is age 35, and Mary Jane is age 30. They are expecting their first child in early 2019. John's salary in 2018 was $105,000, from which $20,800 of Federal income tax and $4,700 of state income tax were withheld. Mary Jane made $52,000 and had $3,000 of Federal income tax and $3,100 of state income tax withheld. The appropriate amounts of FICA tax and Medicare tax were withheld for John and for Mary Jane. John’s Social Security number is 111 -11 -1111, and Mary Jane’s Social Security number is 123-45-6789.

John and Mary Jane are both covered by their employer's medical insurance policies with four-fifths of the premiums being paid by the employers. The total premiums were $10,000 for John and $6,200 for Mary Jane. Mary Jane received medical benefits of $7,300 under the plan. John was not ill during 2018. Mary Jane paid non-covered medical expenses of $1,300.

John makes child support payments of $15,000 for his son, Rod, who lives with June, John's former spouse, except for two months in the summer when he visits John and Mary Jane. At the time of the divorce, John worked for a Fortune 500 company and received a salary of $225,000. As a result of corporate downsizing, he lost his job.

Mary Jane’s father lived with them until his death in November. His only sources of income were salary of $2,800, unemployment compensation benefits of $3,500, and Social Security benefits of $4,100. Of this amount, he deposited $6,000 in a savings account. The remainder of his support of $9,500, which included funeral expenses of $4,500, was provided by John and Mary Jane. Other income received by the Diazes was as follows:

Interest on certificates of deposit $3,500

Share of S corporation taxable income (distributions from the S corporation to Mary Jane were $1,100; assume no wage limitation for qualified business income deduction) 1,500

Share of John’s limited partnership taxable loss (his basis is $3,000) (2,500)

Award received by Mary Jane from employer for an outstanding suggestion for cutting costs 4,000

John has always wanted to operate his own business. In October 2018, he incurred expenses of $15,000 in investigating the establishment of a retail computer franchise. With the birth of their child expected next year, however, he decides to forgo self-employment for at least a couple of years.

John and Mary Jane made charitable contributions of $3,700 during the year and paid an additional $1,800 in state income taxes in 2018 upon filing their 2017 state income tax return. Their deductible home mortgage interest was $8,200, and their property taxes came to $4,800. They paid sales taxes of $2,000, for which they have receipts. They paid a ticket of $150 that Mary Jane received for running a red light (detected by a red light camera).

Calculate John and Mary Jane’s tax (or refund) due for 2018. Forms to use – 1040, Schedule A, B and E (page 2), 8582 schedules 1-5 as needed.

With all the forms

Forms to use – 1040, Schedule A, B and E (page 2) and 8582.

Vittoria Ltd requires a Statement of Cash Flows to be prepared for the year ended

31 March 2018, the following information has been collected for this purpose.

Additional information:

Vittoria Ltd classifies interest expense and dividends paid as cash outflows from financing activities.

Plant and equipment, with a fair value of $100 000, has been acquired by the issue of

$100 000 worth of fully paid Vittoria Ltd shares to the sellers of the plant and equipment.

During the year, equipment that originally cost $100 000 was sold for $30 000 cash.

Plant and equipment was revalued upwards by $30 000.

A long-term loan of $30 000 was specifically organised for the purchase of plant and equipment costing $30 000.  

Required:

(iii) Prepare a statement of cash flows for Vittoria Ltd, for the year ended 31 March 2018, in accordance with NZ IAS 7 Statement of Cash Flows. Vittoria Ltd uses the directmethod for the cash flows from operating activities (CFOA) section. Complete the necessary reconciliation, as required by NZ FRS-44, to be included in the notes.

CFOA = cash flows from operating activities, CFIA = cash flows from investing activities and CFFA = cash flows from financing activities.        

Michael Jones is investing $6,000 in a bank CD that pays a 10 percent annual interest. How much will the CD be worth at the end of five years? (Do not round intermediate calculations and round your final answer to the nearest penny.) Excel Template (Note: This template includes the problem statement as it appears in your textbook. The problem assigned to you here may have different values. When using this template, copy the problem statement from this screen for easy reference to the values you’ve been given here, and be sure to update any values that may have been pre-entered in the template based on the textbook version of the problem.)

Value of CD after 5 Years

Could any form of matter teleportation every really happen?

If so, what form would it take? Some science-fiction talks about literally sending the atoms from one location to another; others talk of creating a duplicate and destroying the original.

Question originally added here.

Update: there are a couple of comments asking me to specify what I mean by teleportation. I'm talking about stuff of Star Trek - taking an object or person and transporting them almost instantly across great distances (thousands of KMs) by:

1. breaking them up at the atomic (or smaller) level
2. transporting those atomic components (or the information, "recipe" to recreate) and
3. (re-)assembling at the new location.

When Sheryl, the purchasing agent for Cantik Comestics Berhad orders materials, she sends a duplicate copy of the purchase order to the receiving department. When materials are received, Horace, the receiving clerk, records the date of receipt on the copy of the purchase order but does not count the goods received. The same copy of the purchase order is sent to accounting, where Lisa uses it to support the purchase entry in the voucher register. The copy is then sent to the raw materials stores, where William uses it to update the perpetual inventory record.

(i)     TWO (2) internal control weaknesses that exist,
(ii)     the material errors or irregularities that might occur because of each of these     weaknesses
(iii)     your recommendations for improvements in the system

protected String name;                                                                                                          
protected ArrayList<Stock> stocks;    
protected double balance;                                                                             
+ Account ( String name, double balance) //stocks = new ArrayList<Stock>() ;
+ get and set property for name; get method for balance
+ void buyStock(String symbol, int shares, double unitPrice )
//update corresponding balance and stocks ( stocks.add(new Stock(…..)); )
+ deposit(double amount) : double //returns new balance                                                                
+ withdraw(double amount) : double //returns new balance
+ toString() : String                                                             

    @Override
    public String toString(){
        StringBuffer str = new StringBuffer("Stocks: ");
        for (Stock s : stocks){
            str.append(s.toString() + " ");
        }
        return "Name: " + name + ", balance: " + balance +"\t" + str.toString();
    }

can anyone convert this to java?

1 . Set-User mjordan–MobilePhone “(808) 555-1234” and Research online the other command parameters to see how else you could update contact information using the EMS.

2.What do we use the PIPE command for? What is it’s purpose?   explain in your own words what the PIPE command does for us in scripting.

3.Why would organizations mail-enable public folders?

4. What command would grant Anonymous Contributor access to the \Sales public folder

5.How are In-place archives different than PST files?

6.If you right-click on the Inbox, you won’t see the retention policy take affect? Why not?

Case Study 04:

Geeta Rani is the treasurer of a local gymnastics club. As treasurer she is required to identify invoices for payment, prepare the cheque and in conjunction with the president sign the cheques, mail the cheque and update customer accounts.

Required:

a) Explain the weaknesses in the Accounting Information System that are not protecting Geeta in carrying out her duties.

b) The process of reviewing the recording procedures for an Accounting Information system should include three areas. What are they?

c) Define explanatory notes. Why companies need to prepare them?

d) Explain the key principles and practices of budgetary control and implications for

accounting systems.

e) Explain the key features of financial legislation relating to taxable transactions and

reporting requirements.