Case Study Resources For JUNE 2006

AQA GCSE June 2006 Case Study Notes FREE of CHARGE available from my sister site OxBowBusiness

AQA AS Level June 2006 Case Study Notes for the S4U case study are now free of charge at my sister site in the A Level Section OxBowBusiness

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One of the best comments I have ever received just arrived (26th Jan 07)
I have been actively involved with computers since Dalhousie University Halifax NS upgraded from their IBM two pass compiler to the IBM 360 model 50. So you can tell I am a senior!
When a medical computing center opened to analyze ECG records gathered from separate and distinct populations over a period of years [Biophysics and Biomedical Engineering], I was given the opportunity to learn statistical programming in Fortran IV. And with ongoing guidance had a very small part in finding an "average wave form" by sampling these data. I am so grateful for that opportunity many years ago, which allowed me to continue in this field and eventually teach at a Community College.
As the field of computers and the applications moved to accounting, I was able to call on previous years of work in the accounting field, as it was now being converted to computer applications.
My point in contacting with comments is to say what a treat to visit this site, NO RUNG ON THE LADDER OF LEARNING LEFT OUT SO A STUDENT CAN ACT ON THE INFORMATION GIVEN instead of turning away in despair.
As I approach 80 years of age, I am delighted to tutor students from the local high school, to find where they are and help them use existing resources, with confidence, understanding of the language used and success in their endeavours!
THANK YOU
Isla
I just wanted to make a comment about your website and it's explanation about standard deviation. I looked at several sites before I came across yours and it explained it sooooo well! Thank you! I now get it :)
Cheers!
Caroline
wow can i just say that your web site has been soooooo usefull!! Im 14 and ive been doing a project on globalisation. It has been so hard to find any information about the positive effects of TNCs. Just like you i have been trying to weigh out all the good and the bad.....my geography teacher says thats the difference between an A and a B.... i wanna A!!! Your site has given me lots of topics to discuss. I never quite new how to put my ideas into context, but with the examples you have shown i feel more confident in this area and i feel my geography project will finally take flight. thank you soooooo much!
Stephanie from London
Great site, I learned a lot. One vexing problem I face is Sales Margin Mix Variances - how does one calculate this if no units data is available for the different Product lines? An illustration would be great. The older texts used to allude to this method but the new ones don't. Thanks for your input. (From me: see the PDF section for my presentation on Sales Variances)

Frankie

Bookkeeping and Accounting Case Study

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My WeBlog
As you know I keep a personal Blog ... well it disappeared for some reason so I moved back to Blogger.com and it had kept my old posts going back two years. What you see now is my Blog with a two year gap. The intervening Blog was hosted away from this site so when the host disappeared so did my Blog. Pity that. Anyway ...
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Management Accounting
I have just reviewed two Journal articles on management accounting: one reasonable one on product costing systems design and one on Absorption v Marginal Costing ... how they let this latter one through as is I may never know.
Frankie asked me to put together a page on standard costing variances for sales. So I did. Go to the Cost and Management Accounting section in the menu on the left and look for the Sales Variances link. It's a PDF version of a PowerPoint Presentation and it's a cracker!
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Financial Accounting and Bookkeeping ... my Home Grown but Excellent Materials
A great new page ... on British Petroleum ... taking ratio analysis a stage further: this page helpstoillustrate what can come out of an analysis of the results of a company when we use rate of growth or rate of change ratios. You might even be surprised!
As you might imagine, after a career spanning several decades, I've got a lot of materials and resources that is just waiting for me to upload to this site! I have made a start but it's going to take a long time.
I have started with four topics: 1 accounting glossary: also useful for management accounting; 2 a checklist to use when classifying items in a trial balance; 3 bookkeeping entries for revenue and expenditure; 4 the bookkeeping entries for buying, selling and returning stock items. I have now added a page on the Journal and another one on accruals and prepayments. Take a look now at my page called Depreciation Graphs: helping you to understand the names straight line method and reducing balance method of providing for depreciation: this is under the Basic heading of the menu on the left. Then there's my page on accruals and prepayments plus the solutions to the questions ... they're on a separate page.
Marks and Spencer has just announced its annual results. They have published their results according to IFRS and not FRS. I have taken a look at the company and am voicing a couple of potential concerns. This analysis is now in its third edition that includes a question on executive pay asked of the directors.
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Speadsheeting
My first real demo, of sorts, using Excel 2007: making a chart communicate more effectively.
Two fantastic pages: one on the VLOOKUP function together with Range Names and the other one on the ISERROR function together with Conditional Formatting. Both of these new pages have beend esigned to be used in the context of financial ratio analysis.
You might need to use the XNPV and XIRR functions some day so here's a page that shows you why and how. This page also reveals a minor Excel error and a potentially more serious one. This page is also of use to OpenOfficeOrg spreadsheet users.
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Book Reviews
Liz Smith's Our Betty is an idiosyncratic autobiography of the nation's favourite mother/in law ... she's the mother in law from the Royle Family uthere inreal life!
Michael Crichton's book Congo is a good read but not as good as the later novels of his that I have read; and John Harvey's Lonely Hearts is an average British detective story with an archetypical British detective at the centre of it!
I really don't know how I got to the end of Chocolat by Joanne Harris as I found it a dreadful read, especially the first half of the book. There was just something in the style of writing and the storyline that left me absolutely cold.
Chris Zook has written a good and serious book on the hidden assets of the company. It well researched, well written and well worth the time taken to read it. It will give you many insights through the 25 cases that Zook presents.
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Business Section
The Northern Rock fiasco ... of course I've prepared some analysis!
Oil and gas and other forms of energy stay firmly rooted to my mind. I have prepared an analysis of a wide ranging review of the energy industry by J David Hughes of Canada.
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A page comprising 10 graphs of crude oil prices and stock exchange indices for you to consider and draw conclusions from.
A compilation of a few ideas from some of the world's leading consultancies on the subject of soccernomics. Of course it's partly light hearted but then again there are some serious formulae to cope with.
David Maister suffered health problems and that caused him to review the ways in which companies' strategic planning is set ... so I reviewed that then!
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Research and Development: not so hot then?
Booz Allen Hamilton carried out some research into appropriate levels of research and development expenditures and found ... there aren't any! Interesting stuff that I've summarised for you.
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