ccountant and the Business Owner

A young accountant straight out of school applies for a job advertised in the Sydney Morning Herald. He is interviewed by the owner of a small business who has built it up from scratch.

"I need someone with an accounting degree," says the man, "but mainly I'm looking for someone to do my worrying for me."

"How do you mean?" says the accountant.

"I have lots of things to worry about, but I want someone else to worry about money matters."

"OK," says the accountant. "How much are you offering?"

"You can start on seventy-five thousand," says the owner.

"Seventy-five thousand dollars. How can a business like this afford to pay so much?"

"That," says the man, "is your first worry."

After you have a good laugh (or perhaps a few chuckles), please respond to the following questions:

• What are your career goals?

• What is your reaction to this story?

• Does this story portray the reality of the accountant's work?

• Does this joke portray a stereotype?

• If you agree with the substance of this story in terms of the accountant's role, is this attractive to you as a career?

Supermarket customers load their carts with goods totaling between $5 and $200, uniformly (and continuously) distributed; call this the raw order amount. Assume that customers purchase independently of each other. At checkout, 63% of customers have loyalty card that gives them 4% off their raw order amount. Also at checkout, 18% of customers have coupons that give them 7% off their raw order amount. These two discounts occur independently of each other, and a given customer could have one or the other of them, both of them, or neither of them, to get to their net order amount (what they actually pay). Construct a spreadsheet simulation to simulate 100 customers and collect statistics on the net order amount; these statistics should include the average, standard deviation, minimum, maximum, and a histogram to describe the distribution of the net order amounts between $0 and $250. To make the requested histogram, you can either mimic what was done in the newsvendor spreadsheet simulation, or use a different approach via whatever built in excel facilities you'd like. Excel sheet with formulas would be best thanks.

Data Structure in Java

The following java method counts how many triples of integers in an array of n distinct integers sum to zero.

public static int count(int[] a) {
   int n = a.length;
   int count = 0;
   for (int i = 0; i < n; i++) {
      for (int j = i+1; j < n; j++) {
         for (int k = j+1; k < n; k++) {
            if (a[i] + a[j] + a[k] == 0)
               count++;
         }
      }
   }
   return count;
}

For example: the following list

[8, -12, 9, 2, 4, -9, -2, 5]

has two triples that sim to zero: (8, -12, 4) and (4, -9, 5).

The problem here is that this is a bad solution to solve the problem and it takes Big O(n^3).

Find another solution to the problem that takes less than O(n^3) of time complexity

Hint 1: Sort the array first (use Java’s built-in Arrays.sort(int[] a)) method to sort the array first.

Hint 2: A pair a[i] and a[j] is part of a triple that sums to zero if and only if the value -(a[i] + a[j]) is in the array (but not a[i] or a[j]).

1. The purpose of this assignment is to teach you about encryption and for you to be able to encrypt and protect your important documents before you store them in the cloud.

2. Please be careful with the encryption. If you loose or forget the password of your encrypted file, you will not be able to recover the documents.

3. Take Backup of your System. It is important to take backup anytime you are installing or removing a program. It is also important to take regular backups.

4. Download an encryption software. I recommend veracrypt (https://www.veracrypt.fr/en/Home.html (Links to an external site.)) but you are free to use any software other than built in filevault or bitlocker. Create an encrypted container of 10MB. Add a file to the container. Try to mount and dismount and see how you can access the files.

5. If you get a message, "OSXFuse seems to be missing on your machine. VeraCrypt requires OSXFuse 2.5 or above." Go ahead and install that too. OSXfuse adds to Mac's file handling capabilities.

6. Take 4-5 screenshots of the entire process and paste it on a word document and upload it here.

(a) Discuss the different sources of financial reporting regulations. Critically evaluate
the arguments in favour of, and, the arguments against the regulation of
financial reporting.  15 marks

(b) Critically evaluate what qualitative characteristics accounting information should
possess, in order to make it useful for decision making?   [10 marks]

(c) Mancy plc
In preparation for the audit of the mancy plc, for the year ended 31 March
2020, the Finance Director has asked you to prepare a report setting out the
accounting treatment for the following transaction undertaken during the year.
Transaction:
On 1 July 2019,Mancy plc commissioned a specialised piece of
equipment to be built for £350,000. The equipment was ready for use, on
time, on 1 April 2020. A loan was taken out on 1 July 2019 for the full
£350,000, as payment for the equipment was due on that date. The interest
rate on the loan is 7% pa and interest is paid monthly. The loan is
repayable after two years.

You are required to present an explanation of the accounting treatment to be applied
in the financial statements for the year ended 31 March 2020 and the reasons why
that is the appropriate treatment (with reference to the requirements of the relevant
IFRS, and where possible, please show relevant calculations).

Write a function named “compileStats” that has 4 parameters: a vector of integers, an integer representing the smallest value contained in the vector, an integer representing the largest value contained in the vector, and a double that represents the average of the values in the vector. The compileStats function will not “return” a value, it will set the Pass By Reference parameters to the correct values (smallest, largest, and average).

Use the following main function in driver1b.cpp as a starting point for testing your function.

int main() {

int min = 0;

int max = 0;

double avg = 0.0;

vector<int> test1{ 12, 15, 543, 1024 };

compileStats(test1, min, max, avg);

cout << "For test 1: " << min << " " << max << " " << avg << endl;

vector<int> test2{ -8 };

compileStats(test2, min, max, avg);

cout << "For test 2: " << min << " " << max << " " << avg << endl;

vector<int> test3{ -40, 39, -39, 40, 38, -38, 0, 0 };

compileStats(test3, min, max, avg);

cout << "For test 3: " << min << " " << max << " " << avg << endl;

}

// You may not use any “built-in” C++ classes other than iostream and vector.

Case Study From a small kiosk in a shopping mall established in 1997, Dr Cafe has become one of the leading coffee-shop chain in the Middle East with over 600 branches in the world. Dr Café’s success has built upon its popularity among young and trendy people and its unique approach of selecting the "best beans" in the world. Between 2008 and 2010, it has continued its aggressive expansion to Malaysia and Singapore with more branches in sight. In fact, in its plan for 2030, Dr Cafe has set its vision to expand globally and increase its network to over 30,000 branches! The marketing department has been assigned by Dr Cafe's CEO to investigate and propose possible options for expansion into a completely new area that is Europe. You are assigned by your marketing manager to help in this regard. Questions: What variables need to be considered while developing a list of potential countries? Which market entry strategy you would suggest most suitable to enter into the global market? Discuss at least three challenges that Dr Cafe may face in the early period of expansion.

1. What are the suitable type of Excavations required to remove the layer of fine grained soil with a high clay content soil directly beneath the topsoil? Moreover, it is observed from the building design that foundations shall be constructed nearby to each other. In line with the requirements, recommend the safe and sustainable type of excavation along with the construction plant team suitable to construction site situation?

2. What is the suitable type of Foundation to build a G+3 storey building transforms heavy loads to the ground and it is desired to have minimum settlement? The building will be built in a fine grained soil with a high clay content soil, and the construction site is a residential area which may contain obstructions, and consists of adjacent structures and the construction method of foundation shall not develop any ground heave.

According to the ground stability and site circumstances, propose the most desirable construction method of the foundation and construction plant.

3. What are the suitable type of Super Structure for constructing G+3 residential buildings?

Considering this, recommend the most desirable, safe and sustainable construction method for the super structure based on the most common form of construction in Al Mabelah area In Sultanate of Oman.

Topic is Big O

Problem 5

Invent a faster solution to the ThreeSum problem. Then determine the number of triples of integers that sum to zero in 8ints.txt.

Hint 1:Sort the array first (use Java’s built-inArrays.sort(int[] a))method to sort the array first.

Hint 2:A pair a[i] and a[j] is part of a triple that sums to zero if and only if the value-(a[i]+ a[j])is in the array (but not a[i] or a[j] ).

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ThreeSum.java

import java.util.Arrays;

public class ThreeSum {
   public static int count(int[] a) {
      int n = a.length;
      int count = 0;
      for (int i = 0; i < n; i++) {
         for (int j = i+1; j < n; j++) {
            for (int k = j+1; k < n; k++) {
               if (a[i] + a[j] + a[k] == 0)
                  count++;
            }
         }
      }
      return count;
   }

   public static void main(String[] args) {
      In in = new In("8Kints.txt");
      int[] a = in.readAllInts();

      System.out.println("The original array of ints: " + Arrays.toString(a));

      long startTime = System.currentTimeMillis();
      System.out.println("Count is: " + ThreeSum.count(a));
      long endTime = System.currentTimeMillis();
      long timeElapsed = endTime - startTime;
      System.out.println("Execution time in milliseconds  : " + timeElapsed);
   }
}

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8ints.txt

8
-12
9
2
4
-9
-2
5

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