...The film that I have been analysing is ‘Friends with Benefits’. Will Gluck directed the film and the producers were Martin Shafer, Liz Glotzer, Janet Zucker and Will Gluck. The impact of the director of this film is a good one because he has directed many rom coms such as ‘Easy A’, this could attract the target demographic because the film was very successful which means that they would want to watch films by the director. The total budget of the film was around $67,000,000, the opening weekend was $18,622,150, the total domestic gross was $55,802,754 and the worldwide gross was $150,421,779. This shows that the film did very good at the book office. Poster The advertisement would have been seen on billboards, bus stops, on the buses, train stations, cinema. The impact on the target demographic could be that they want to see the film because it is interesting and also you can put the poster anywhere so they don’t have to go and search for it themselves. On the poster there was a release date to inform when they can go see the film. I think that the mis-en –scene was very modern and simple for example the background colour is mainly white which connotes peace and modern and the target audience is modern, this is good because it would not be difficult to understand it. It also uses things that the target demographic can understand and relate with e.g. the masthead is white and blue which connotes fresh and modern also FWB is highlighted in blue which might be linked to the...
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...Q. What underlying conditions must be present before a company can make a strong commitment to a market? Several conditions and scopes must be taken under consideration before any company can commit to a market. Several strategies and options are market scope, geographic consideration, market entry, market commitment and market dilution. Market scope is the focus on the coverage of the market. If a company should serve a total market by selling different products to different parts in the market and this requires the employment of different combinations of price, promotions and distribution strategies , it also needs a strong financial position and commitment to embrace entire market. Another option is single-market strategy which concentrates on a single segment and requires the company to avoid competition with established firms and aim at the segment that is ignored or served inadequately and meet its needs. A last type is serving different parts of the market and this leads to dividing the risk on the different segments, this requires the company to avoid confrontation and competition with companies serving the entire market. The market scope strategy returns higher sales, market share, profit and growth increase. Market geography strategy is defining the area that must be chosen for a company to concentrate its operations in. It has four different territories: * Local: It concentrates on the neighborhood and vicinity and requires good reputation and good hold...
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...EXECUTIVE SUMMARY There is an increasing desire for the implementation of condition based maintenance programs to replace the traditional hour based maintenance on Military rotor wing aircraft. There are several advantages and disadvantages to this type of maintenance. The purpose of this paper is to discuss both and the affect that they play in regards to the organizational behavior of a business. There are distinct advantages in regards to cost when we talk about condition based maintenance. Replacing a part only when it is likely to fail saves the cost of replacement at a possible earlier time like in a phase based program, or catching a part that might have failed prior to the required hour inspection or replacement time. But this new technology comes with a cost. A cost, not only monetary, but also within the organizational behavior of a corporation or organization such as the military. When we talk about Managing change and stress, we have to talk about the external forces of change effecting these technological advancements. The technology of condition based maintenance is justified through the savings it generates through the maintenance program but what cost will it have on the people working on these aircraft? Will there be a reduction in jobs? This concern can start trouble, rumors, and decreased production from employees that normally work hard. What effect will it have on the organizational design? Will there be an increase or decrease in managerial roles? Will there...
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...Kava is an island in the South Pacific. Even though the island is barraged by obstacles and harsh conditions, the community remains resilient. Sikorsky Aircraft wants to build a production facility on Kava with the goal of not only helping stakeholders and the organization, but also to provide aid to the suffering community. Placing a new facility for production in Kava gives the company the opportunity to reduce production costs and to improve the quality of life of the local residents, which will be done through profit allocation. To promote new businesses in the economy, the government of Kava puts forth incentives like tax breaks and licensing at low costs. Thus, now is the perfect time to bring this plan to fruition. Sikorsky Aircraft already is a player in the global market, and I assert that a Kav’ian subsidiary would be a smart investment. In recent years, Kava has experienced multiple natural disasters. As a result, the community has been ravaged and many families are now experiencing poverty. Sikorsky’s production facility there would give job opportunities to the local people: they could work in the low-level line production jobs that would help the production of the standard H-60 Black Hawk airframe. Part of the profits that would be earned thanks to the cut in labor costs would be dedicated to a revival for the local community. Sikorsky plans to make contributions to community centers, improved housing, disaster relief, activities, and the educational system. ...
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...Viking Open Bridge Convertible 80 Take Charge of the Ocean An avid boater does not need an average boat. They require a vessel that can get them to the fishing grounds quickly and provide for the needs of all onboard while out there. The Viking Open Bridge Convertible 80 provides everything perfectly for fishermen and their families. They are built to withstand the roughest of seas and the open bridge design maintains clear site lines for the captain and guests. If you are in the market for a remarkably designed fishing and leisure boat, the Viking Open Bridge Convertible 80 boats for sale are the way to go. Power and Performance Fishing often causes fisherman to have to trek into rough waters and the average vessel can falter under such pressure. Most hull configurations call for a mix of fiberglass or composites filled with foam to alleviate the weight of the boat. Viking yachts however are comprised of a traditional wood hull masked high strength materials. This does make the boat heavier, but adds to the strength in rough waters. The Viking Open Bridge Convertible 80 maintains the same traditional hull system, so even the roughest sea conditions are no problem. Powering all of this might is one of three engine choices. The base engine configuration calls for twin CAT/ C32 A 1925s and the additional two options include the MTU Series 2000/ V12 M96L 1945 and the Cat/ V16 M96 2635. No matter which you choose, you can expect to enjoy the fishability of this yacht as well as...
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...space. The external name space will be the inlet to the internet. The DNS is the Internet Protocol (IP) address that is the address for the internet. The Toronto manager wants to occasionally use an Integrated Services Digital Network (ISDN) to send sensitive information from a remote business location. This would be handled by mapping the DNS name to a specified ISDN number. All special requests must be configured to the DNS. The DNS is slowly being replace and no longer used do to the expense speed. References Morimoto, R., Noel, M., Droubi, O., Mistry, R., & Amaris, C. (2010). Windows Server® 2008 R2 unleashed. Indianapolis, IN: Sams. Panek, W. (2011). MCTS: Windows Server® 2008 R2 complete study guide (exams 70-640, 70-642 and 70-643). Indianapolis, IN: Wiley...
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...Manage Access to an Active Directory Environment Since Kudler is currently running Windows Server 2008, the network administrator will need to set up group objects and policies for each location that is dependent upon what equipment is available, and who will be using that equipment. Each location is represented in a table with group permissions and policies defined for each person who has access. Location 1 Name Membership Type Scope Permissions Management Local, Global Full All domains Open Director Local, Global Full All domains Open Employees Local Restricted Printer/Scanner/Copier Restricted Location 2 Name Membership Type Scope Permissions Management Local, Global Full All domains Open Director Local, Global Full All domains Open Employees Local Restricted Printer/Scanner/Copier Restricted Location 3 Name Membership Type Scope Permissions Management Local, Global Full All domains Open Director Local, Global Full All domains Open Employees Local Restricted Printer/Scanner/Copier Restricted In assigning these permissions and groups to the Kudler network, there are several concerns that come to bear with this setup. The most pressing of those concerns is unauthorized changes to data, which is partially addressed by restricted access to the Employees domain. However, this does nothing to protect from unauthorized access from outside the network, which can be addressed by creating unique security logins for each member of the network...
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...BSc IT Basic Mathematics Semester - I 1 INTRODUCTION • Analysis of data is one of the important stages for experimenter to test out his hypothesis, draw conclusions and take decisions. Stages involved are: Collection Tabulating & Analysing data • i) ii) iii) Data analysis • Data analysis is a process of gathering, modeling, and transforming data with the goal of highlighting useful information, suggesting conclusions, and supporting decision making. Data analysis has multiple facets and approaches, encompassing diverse techniques under a variety of names, in different business, science, and social science domains. • Data • A collection of values to be used for statistical analysis • data as facts or figures from which conclusions may be drawn. Data may consist of numbers, words, or images, particularly as measurements or observations of a set of variables. • Datum • Datum is the singular form of the noun data Types of Data • Qualitative data • Quantitative data • Qualitative data are nonnumeric. {Poor, Fair, Good, Better, Best}, colors (ignoring any physical causes), and types of material {straw, sticks, bricks} are examples of qualitative data. • Qualitative data are often termed categorical data. Some books use the terms individual and variable to reference the objects and characteristics described by a set of data. They also stress the importance of exact definitions of these variables, including what units they are recorded in. The reason the...
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...NT1330 Client-Server Networking II Name: Homework 1 Ch. 1 (70-642): Introduction to Networking Concepts Fill in the Blank: 1-10 The most widely used IP addressing scheme is IPv4. The most recent and largest address space IP addressing scheme is IPv6. To distribute IP addresses automatically, a network administrator would configure the DHCP service. The first attempt at breaking up IP address space used classful addressing to provide address ranges of differing sizes. Prior to the introduction of the Domain Name System, computers used HOST files to map human-readable named to IP addresses. A(n) Subnet Mask is used to separate the host address portion of an IP address from the network address. The subnet mask within the TCP/IP configuration is used to distinguish the network address from the host address. In dotted-decimal notation, each IPv4 address is broken up into four octets. Server computers and other systems that need to be accessed reliably by network clients should be configured with a(n) static IP address. The method of breaking up IP address space into address ranges of flexible size is called CIDR . Page Break Case Scenario Case Scenario 1-1: Designing Windows Server 2008 Network Services Lucerne Publishing is a publishing company based in New York City, New York, which produces science textbooks for colleges and medical schools. In recent months, Lucerne Publishing has been planning...
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...Task 1-3 Baxter plc 0 1 2 3 4 5 Sales 1540 1920 1920 1400 Materials (420) (480) (512) (476) Direct Labour (210) (240) (240) (238) V. O/Hs (70) (80) (96) (98) M/A (350) (200) (200) - Reduction (150) (150) (150) (150) Building (80) (80) (80) (80) Taxable 260 690 642 358 Corp. Tax (12,5 %) (32,5) (86,25) (80,25) (44,75) Machine (1500) 500 W. Cap. (150) 150 C. All. 46,88 35,16 26,37 16,6 NET (1650) 260 704,38 590,91 954,12 (28,15) D. Factor 13 % 1.0 0.885 0.783 0.693 0.613 0.543 Present Value (1650) 230,1 551,53 409,5 584,88 (15,29) NPV = 110,73 NET (1650) 260 704,38 590,91 954,12 (-28,25) D. Factor 20 % 1.0 0.833 0.694 0.579 0.482 0.402 Present Value (1650) 216,58 488,84 342,14 459,89 (11,32) NPV = (153,88) IRR = 13 % + 110,73/(110,73+153,88) * (20 % - 13 %) IRR = 15,9 % Task 4 Report To: Senior Management of Baxter plc From: Finance Department 07th November 2012 Subject: Acceptance of the new project – “digital headphones” Dear Sir or Madam, I am glad to tell you that the Net Present Value of € 110,720 is positive and therefore we recommend to accept the project. Nevertheless, one should consider the reaction of competitors, the impact of inflation and the accuracy of cash flow estimates. Based on the factors the project can unexpectedly trend to another direction than supposed. All in all, the research amounted...
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...Newsvendor Model Chapter 11 1 utdallas.edu/~metin Learning Goals Determine the optimal level of product availability – Demand forecasting – Profit maximization Service measures such as a fill rate utdallas.edu/~metin 2 Motivation Determining optimal levels (purchase orders) – Single order (purchase) in a season – Short lifecycle items 1 month: Printed Calendars, Rediform 6 months: Seasonal Camera, Panasonic 18 months, Cell phone, Nokia Motivating Newspaper Article for toy manufacturer Mattel Mattel [who introduced Barbie in 1959 and run a stock out for several years then on] was hurt last year by inventory cutbacks at Toys “R” Us, and officials are also eager to avoid a repeat of the 1998 Thanksgiving weekend. Mattel had expected to ship a lot of merchandise after the weekend, but retailers, wary of excess inventory, stopped ordering from Mattel. That led the company to report a $500 million sales shortfall in the last weeks of the year ... For the crucial holiday selling season this year, Mattel said it will require retailers to place their full orders before Thanksgiving. And, for the first time, the company will no longer take reorders in December, Ms. Barad said. This will enable Mattel to tailor production more closely to demand and avoid building inventory for orders that don't come. - Wall Street Journal, Feb. 18, 1999 utdallas.edu/~metin For tax (in accounting), option pricing (in finance)...
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...Theories science blog Next Previous Blog home What is life? The physicist who sparked a revolution in biology Erwin Schrödinger introduced some of the most important concepts in biology, including the idea of a 'code' of life Share 642 inShare9 Email Redeye tree frog Insights from biology and computing built upon Schrödinger's genius, changing our view of life forever. Photograph: Rick Sammon/AP Seventy years ago, on 5 February 1943, the Nobel prizewinning quantum physicist Erwin Schrödinger gave the first of three public lectures at Trinity College, Dublin. His topic was an unusual one for a physicist: "What is Life?" The following year the lectures were turned into a book of the same name. One of Schrödinger's key aims was to explain how living things apparently defy the second law of thermodynamics – according to which all order in the universe tends to break down. It was this that led my colleague Professor Brian Cox to use Schrödinger as the starting point of his BBC series Wonders of Life, leading to What is Life? shooting up the Amazon sales chart. But Schrödinger's book contains something far more important than his attempt to fuse physics and biology. In that lecture 70 years ago, he introduced some of the most important concepts in the history of biology, which continue to frame how we see life. At a time when it was thought that proteins, not DNA, were the hereditary material, Schrödinger argued the genetic material...
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...Case Ocean Carriers Investment calculations If we make calculations assuming that Ocean Carriers is a U.S. firm subject to 35% taxation, net present value for the 39 million dollar investment is approximately -5,55 million dollars. Therefore on the basis of my calculation, the investment appears to be unprofitable. Obviously the conditions are far better if Ocean Carrier resides in Hong Kong and does not pay taxes for its overseas profits. In that scenario the investment has approximately net present value of 2,73 million dollars. A sensitivity analysis reveals that the investment decision will remain profitable even if the future conditions are slightly (but not much) worse than what the firm currently anticipates. If the firm uses 10,1% discount rate (compared to the current 9%), the investment will approximately break even. Relevance of the already occurred expenses The firm should not include the already occurred expenses to its investment calculations. The occurred costs are sunken costs that the firm has to cover whether it decides to make the investment or not. APPENDIX 1. Investment calculation with 35% tax 2. Investment calculation with 0% tax OC is a U.S. firm with 35% tax (1/3) Purchase price 39 000 000 Discount rate 9,00 % Inflation 3,00 % Operating cost increase 4,03 % Tax rate 35,00 % Age of ship 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Event year 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Calendar year 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 Days in year 365 365 365 365 365 365...
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...Overconsumption and Overpopulation and their effect on the Environment The effect of overpopulation and over consumption on the environment has had a massive negative effect. Overpopulation is an undesirable condition where the number of existing human population exceeds the carrying capacity of Earth. We are now adding one billion people to the planet every 12 years. That's about 220,000 per day. (Howmany?.org) This makes overpopulation a big threat to our environment but the bigger issue is that we are not using our resources efficiently to solve the problem. The problem includes shortages of all our resources, war and social conflict, limits on personal freedom, overcrowding in large cities and the health and survival of other species. In the last fifty years, there have been a vast number of people and organizations rising up and speaking against this problem, searching for a solution to this detrimental issue. Howmany?.org is just one of many organizations that are empowering people to find the best population size for Earth. They do this through outreach and advocacy programs that are created to add population into conversations and get people thinking. While overpopulation is not the only cause of environmental problems, it is a root cause that people should be aware of. Growth in population, affluence, and technology are jointly responsible for environmental problems concerning overconsumption. We use technology to produce and gather most of our resources. ...
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...Контрольна робота з предмету: «Бухгалтерський облік» Методи нарахування амортизації необоротних активів. Облік зносу необоротних активів У процесі виробництва як і основні засоби, так і не матеріальні активи втрачають свою вартість і у вигляді амортизаційних відрахувань переносять її на створювані на підприємстві продукцію, роботи, послуги, а також окремою статтею входять до складу адміністративних та інших витрат. Порядок нарахування і використання амортизаційних відрахувань основних фондів і нематеріальних активів визначено як податковим законодавством, так і П(С)БО №7 «Основні засоби» та «П(С)БО №8 «Нематеріальні активи». Амортизація основних фондів та інших необоротних активів нараховується з застосуванням наступних методів: * прямолінійного (прямолінійного списання); * зменшення залишкової вартості; * прискореного зменшення залишкової вартості; * кумулятивного (суми чисел років); * виробничого (метод суми одиниць продукції). Також підприємства за своїм розсудом можуть застосовувати норми і методи нарахування амортизації основних засобів, передбачені податковим законодавством. Основні фонди підлягають розподілу за такими групами: група 1 - будівлі, споруди, їх структурні компоненти та передавальні пристрої, в тому числі жилі будинки та їх частини (квартири і місця загального користування, вартість капітального поліпшення землі); група 2 - автомобільний транспорт та вузли (запасні частини) до нього; меблі; побутові електронні, оптичні, електромеханічні...
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