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About assignment submission deadline in project management term: You tell students that deadline means the "latest finished date" (allowed) but students treat that as the "latest start date", and they keep testing your tolerance limit..

Dissertation coaching involves: 1. Learn the student's main research interest, preliminary dissertation theme,career profile and existing dissertation project constraints. 2. Brainstorm with the student to come up with a dissertation project proposal that has sufficient practical and academic values. 3. Provide personalized tutorials, notably on relevant academic theories and research methods notions, resource support and feedback from time to time to empower the student to do his/her dissertation project. 4. Review and proof-read the student's draft on proposal and dissertation report from time to time before the dissertation report is to be formally submitted to the University. The dissertation report is essentially the work of the student; the evaluation viewpoints, analysis of findings and line of reasoning based on theories are essentially that of the student. Dissertation students usually are highly competent managers in their fields but are not familiar with a...

Task 1 Visit the website of Census and Statistics Department of Hong Kong (re: http://www.censtatd.gov.hk/hkstat/sub/bbs.jsp), and do some additional Internet research; then conduct an analysis on data related to inflation rates and unemployment rates from 2007-2011 using the model of Phillips Curve in Macroeconomics as the main theory of analysis. 40% Task 2 Similar to task 2, now gather data on money supply and inflation rates of Hong Kong from 2007-2011 (5 years), and conduct an analysis on the data using Quantity theory of money as the main theory of analysis. 40% Task 3 Based on your discussion in Tasks 1 and 2, you are required to discuss how the inflation rate situation in Hong Kong affects business decisions in Hong Kong 20%

ABC’s Cash Book at 30th November 1982 showed an overdrawn position of £3,630 which did not match with her bank statement. Detailed examination of the two records revealed the following: (a) The debit side of the cash book had been undercast by £300. (b) A cheque for £1,560 in favour of Z Suppliers Ltd., had been omitted by the bank from its statement, the cheque having been debited to another customer’s account. (c) A lodgement of £1080 on 30th November had not been credited by the bank. (d) Interest amounting to £228 had been debited by the bank but not entered in the cash book. Required: Reconcile the balance of the cash book and bank statement to the corrected bank balance. ************************************************************* Answer Bank Reconciliation Statement as at 30.11.82 $ $ Balance as per cash book (3630) Add: Debit side of cash book undercast 300 (3330) Less: Interest not entered in cash book 228 Balance as per corrected...

ABC Ltd is a small factory which makes two components, C1 and C2. It has the following constraints on weekly production: Operative time 240 staff hours Raw material A 500 kg Raw material B 400 litres C1 uses two staff hours, 5 kg of A and 5 litres of B to make each unit. C2 uses three staff hours, 5 kg of A and 4 litres of B to make each unit. The contributions to profit from each unit of C1 and C2 are $150 and $100, respectively. It is known that all production can be sold. Requirements 1. Represent the above situation as a linear programming model, if the object is to maximise total weekly profit. (Demote the units of C1 and C2 produced each week by X1 and X2 respectively.) (5 marks) 2. Show the constraints from (1) above on a graph and indicate the feasible region. (7 marks) 3. Determine the product mix which will maximise weekly profit, and the maximum weekly profit, in (1) above. (7 marks) 4. State two limitations of linear programming. (6 marks) (Tot...

A few SMA students explicitly demand to do more exercises in class; in this case, pls bring along the SMA exercises and answers (hardcopies) and textbook next week so that we will spend half of the lecture next week to do exercises in class; in this case, I will spend half of the time doing lecturing; and the other half doing exercises. [i.e. Oct 21 onward]

A factory has 4 work centres WC A: 160 units/ hour , followed by WC B: 135 units/ hour, followed by WC C: 80 units/ hour, followed by WC D: 189 units/ hour. --> WC A--> WC B--> WC C--> WC C--> Product selling price is $100 per unit Variable cost per unit is $60 per unit (mainly direct material cost) Monthly period cost is $1,000 per month. Total Assets employed is $20,000. a. What is the overall output rate of the whole system? b. What is the monthly rate of return of the whole system? Questions 1. Spend $400 to improve output rate per month of WC A to 200 units/ hour 2. Spend $600 to improve output rate per month of WC B to 150 units/ hour 3. Spend additional cost of $10 per unit to outsourcing processing of work of WC C to vendor ABC for processing 40 units. 4. Spend $100 to improve output rate of WC C to 110 units/ hour 5. Work centre C spoilt 4 units in production, what is the total loss to the factory? 6. Work centre A spoilt 3 units in p...

Customer Perspective: Customer satisfaction, customer retention rate, account share; market share; no. of customer complaints Learning and growth: Staff turnover, employee loyalty; employee satisfaction; no. of hours on training and development Internal processes Ontime delivery % of sales order; set-up time; rate of establishing new distribution channels; rework amount; manufacturing lead time

Exercises on Fixed Asset depreciation and disposal Mi Mi opens an Ice cream store; she purchase a refrigerator for $6,500 which has an economic life of 10 years. She adopts the straightline method to depreciate the fixed asset of refrigerator. She expects that the refrigerator will have a disposal value of $500 at the end of its economic life. Tasks 1. Calculate the depreciation and net book value of the refrigerator at the end of year 1 and year 2; show the respective double entries. 2. At mid-year 3, Mi Mi decides to retire; she sells the refrigerator at $$700. Calculate the profit/loss on the disposal of the refrigerator, and show the respective double entries. 3. Try to perform task 1, using reducing balance method for year 1 and year 2.

Task 1 David runs a store that sells apples. The cost of apple is $25 each; David intends to sell apples at $40 each. Each month, David needs to pay rental of $5,000 and his salary at $6,000. Questions: Q1. How many apples does David needs to sell in order to break even? Q2. How many apples does David needs to sell in order to earn a monthly profit of $2,000? Q3. If David wants to sell 50 apples and still intends to break even, how much should David charge per apple in order to break even?

Exercise - LA Ducks Ltd. Jan. Linda and Ada are sisters; they open a retail store to sell rubber ducks in Jan. 2013. The retail store is called LA Ducks Ltd. Both girls put in $20,000 to the business. They deposit the money in the company's bank account. Then, they purchased some furniture at $5,000. Their mother lend them $10,000 as long-term loan. To start their business, they purchase 500 rubber ducks from Mainland at the cost of $20; they intend to sell the rubber duck at $200 each. Before they start to sell the rubber ducks, Linda decides to give 2 ducks to her boyfriend as his birthday gift. Ada agree to charge Linda at cost of $20 each in this case. Feb. LA Ducks Ltd invites Andy Lau to attend the opening ceremony of their store and agree to pay Andy $1,000 as promotional fee. In Feb., LA Ducks are able to sell 200 ducks; however, they also found that 3 rubber ducks are deformed, which need to be written off. Their mother then ask them to pay $100 as interest charge ...

The following infomation is on GW Electronic Commerce workshop, Oct 2013 Assessment method: 1 assignment [no exam] Lecture 1 topics: eCommerce/ eBusiness definition(s) eCommerce practices Sustainable competitive advantage Critical Success Factors ******* Macro-environment: PEST analysis Micro-environment: 5-Force Model References Previous workshop resources Facebook forum on IT Videos on ecommerce

Some Strategic Management Accounting (SMA) students ask me to offer a suggested report structure for the SMA assignment : [September 2013] Essay title Table of contents 1. Introduction ["Introduction" section of the assignment essay is to briefly explain your essay purposes and what you intend to talk about; thus it is very brief.] 2. Background of the company under review 2.1 Scope of businesses for the company as a whole 2.2 The external environment facing the company 2.3 Company vision and mission 2.4 A SWOT review of the Strategic Business Unit (SBU) under review; also see: http://www.slideshare.net/joh5700/vision-mission-goals-and-objectives-whats-the-difference 2.5 An examination of the business strategy of the SBU under review and its sources of sustainable competitive advantage 3. Formulation of the Balanced Scorecard for the SBU under review, with business and theoretical justifications 4. Formulation of the Strategy map based on the proposed SBU bala...

Notice from Mile Tayles for SMA classes And C [will also be posted to SOUL): Strategic Management Accounting 26144 September 2013 Note to Groups A and C I am sorry that we had to stop the teaching a little early on Sunday afternoon, but we were unsure of the weather. I have spoken to Dr Joseph to ensure he can cover the material that we did not. So all groups will then have covered the same content. Assignment Note to All Groups This note records statements I made to you all in class about the assignment. It should be read along with the requirement printed on page 7 of the Module Handbook. Aspects which should come out in your work on the assignment are: 1. Application to the real world; 2. Some of your views on the Balanced Scorecard (BSC) and 3. Evidence of your reading of the theory. So, as a rough guide: • The outline of a BSC, the company vision, mission and strategies involve application. • A strategy map for the company involves application and your views. • ...

For doing Strategic Management Accounting assignment (using Balanced Scorecard), I will use the example of CEC (759) as an example for illustration in coming SMA tutorial session. The Internet link doc See also related Youtube video 1 Series 1 ; series 2 ; series 3 ; series 4 ; series 5 ; series 6 ; series 7 ; series 8 Make sure you also study: Kaplan and Norton (1996) "Linking the Balanced Scorecard to Strategy" California Management Review , Vol 39, Vo. 1, Fall. pp. 5379. Reference FB folder on 759 Note: For SMA assignment, try to study a pofit-making company (not a non-profit-making organization); it is acceptable to study a company that is not listed in Stock Exchange [if it is feasible for you to do so.] It is theoretically tricky to appy strategic management thinking for a non-profit-making company.

Due to my recent involvement in teaching in Accounting programme, I encounter a problem: do people need HKICPA to be employed as Financial Controller(s) in HK, especially in listed companies. I find that discussion about ACCA and HKICPA qualification are getting tricky (and emotional). Briefing sessions by some Professional Bodies can be quite biased and confusing (like a typical promotional talk by sales people in commercial enterprises). I am a teacher and my concern is for students to be a competent intellectual with good employability. Not to get too involved in the "debate", my findings are that: a. If you want to be a CPA in HK (qualified external auditor in Hong Kong), you need to go through the HKICPA scheme. b. If you want to be a Financial Controller in HK, e.g. in a listed company, it is not compulsory, legally speaking, that you must be a member of HKICPA. [see also video from Youtube and related article (pdf)] If you work for a non-listed company, the case i...

Very often, I am not fully aware of the implications of my viewpoints as expressed in my lecture. Thus, it is interesting to learn my student's account of what she picked up from my lecture. I quote the following from a student's email: "讀完SMA之後我最記得你講过要“maintain sustainable competitive advantages". 当要連做幾份assignment及考試透不过氣時，又想起你的教導“just do it",“ 咁少事都驚，怎去保家衛國？“，便充滿能量！" Yes, I did say that in my Strategic Management Accounting (SMA) lecture, but I still find it interesting to have this student's account on my lecture. Many thanks to my student indeed. I understand that my teaching style does not suit all students.. but then I "just do it".

The education centre asks me to deliver a 5-hour workshop for Master Degree (Accounting) students doing Dissertation in Nov 2013; the workshop agenda is as follows: A. How to avoid Plagiarism : re: blog article * Referencing, quotation & Citation: blog article on referencing B. Common available frameworks on accounting research methodologies C. How to turn your dissertation into a forum / Journal paper: a) condense the article to around 3,500 words b) make the article reader-friendly c) conform to specific journal format d) on Open Access journals D. Defense your paper in academic panel interview at master degree level: a) Be informed, e.g keep reading around your thesis topic; you need to be aware what you know and what you do not know on your research topic b) Be genuinely interested in your topic c) Be prepared to explain the academic and practical values of your research work d) Try to publish your findings in some academic journals and conferences beforehand Rel...

The following thesis and articles on Multi-perspective, Systems-based (MPSB) Research have open access: MPSB Research e-learning Managerial intellectual learning Enlightening Management Education

Univeristy requires the Business Admin students to make an oral presentation for their dissertation projects. Most students just read out the content from their notes with poor pronounciation; and the notes they read out have lots of grammatical errors. 1 student did not even provide powerpoint slides and just kept saying sorry. The summarized notes read out are often not a proper highlight of their dissertation reports. Anyway, the line of reasoning in the presentation content, very often, is disorganized and intellectually unimpressive. After listening to their "presentation" for 1-2 minutes, I felt so bored that I just made some brief comments and gave a low but passing mark to most of them. Quite many of them would tell me that they were busy these days and did not have much time to work on their dissertation projects nor to prepare for their oral presentations. One of the students did a bit better than others; but, after the presentation, she walked up to me and said t...

Main topics in Sept 7 lecture of IS A. Probability/ Impact Grid in Risk Analysis B. Investment appraisal and Requirement Determination 1. 4 appraisal techniques: payback method, accounting rate of return, NPV, IRR\ - Accounting rate of return: (average annual accounting profit/ average investment) x 100% Average investmnet = (initial investment + scrap value)/ 2 2. Comparison of NPV and IRR 3. Business requirements and user requirements * Business requirments * User requirements: functional requirements and non-functional requirements 4. Requirement determination * What is a requirement * Requirement definition - "as-is system" and "to-be system" * The basic process of analysis: (1) understand "as-is system"; (2) identify improvements, and (3) developing requirements for "to-be system". - identifies requirements as those within the scope of the system study. * Requirement analysis techniques: BPA, BPI and BPR - Bu...

The following info is on Business Systems Analysis workshop starting in August, 2013 Relevant info Reference Systems analysis and IT-enabled changes Key words (approved): SDLC (e.g. systems planning and selection; systems implementation) Tangible benefits in project evaluation Activity Diagram RAD (with Time boxing and SWAT team ) Software tests (e.g. integration testing, unit testing, system testing) IS project roles (e.g. business analyst, project manager, change management analyst) Gantt chart Agile manifesto Choosing off-the-shelf software vendor Business requirement vs user requirement Extreme programming methodology (including diagram); parallel development-based methodology including diagram) Soft Systems Methodology ( rich picture , CATWOE analysis and root definition)

The following videos (4 parts) are on managerial intellectual learning on sytems thinking for Finance Managers : Video 1 Video 2 Video 3 Video 4 Related blog article

This centre I have come across has developed a system of dissertation supervision, which on paper is rational; the result is terrible. The main features of the dissertation supervision system: a. Ask teachers to produce a number of dissertation proposals and make presentation to students so that they can choose a proposal (and a dissertation supervisor) b. Use project control, including milestones, to control supervision process; making sure that supervisors will only get paid on reaching specific milestones. c. Delegate most admin. works to supervisors, e.g. making appointments to meet students d. Treat students as customers; and customers are kings. e. Offer generous pay to supervisors, if they can achieve milestones. f. Arrange lunch meetings with students so that potential supervisors can meet potential students. The problem is: a. Supervisors get a lot of admin tasks to do; the supervision task becomes boring. b. Students act like spoilt children; they do not respec...

A student sent me a email asking my advice on how to respond to the University's letter charging the student for plagiarism in assignment report. I took a look at the turnitin report which showed the sources of plagiarised content and the related similarity indexes. So, I said: a. Do not deny the charge as the evidence is concrete; just admit that you have committed the offence. d. As the seriousness of the offence is still not high, judging from the figure of the similarity index, I propose that the student makes a plea to the university to offer another chance to do the assignment again. [It is possible that the re-do report mark will be capped at the passing mark] c. State clearly that you will not not committed the offence again and feel sorry for what has happended. Since the education centre usually request students to do plagiarism checking before assignment submission, I do no know what happens to the control procedures. Also, the student has sent a email to her dire...

An episode: Rught after a 20-min dissertation report presentation to me, who acted as a second report marker", the student walked up to me and said, "Sir, I need 76 marks from you in order to get a First Hon.; the other subjects of mine are all above 70s; my disseration supervisor also knows about it, and he also gave me 75 marks for my final year dissertation..." I looked up at the student and said: "IC. Your report is not innovative; like many other students, you just stick to this service quality gap model; you made lots of recommendations in your report without further research design & findings to support your views. So, I just gave you 56 marks here... Anyway, you should not request me for a specific target mark right after your dissertation report presentation, and then to change your report from 56 marks (a grade of 'good') to a 76 (a grade of 'excellent') is 'very difficult'.... Should I from now on also give other students ...

A centre requests me to produce a 2-hour video as a CPD programme for Finance Managers. I explained that it was not a simple task. Nevertheless, I propose a programme structure for the video as follows: The shooting of video is in 2 parts (4 sessions of 30 min each) Video title: Managerial intellectual learning of systems thinking for Finance Managers in the digital era Part 1 (1 hour): The essence managerial intellectual learning of systems thinking Session 1.1: Why Finance managers need to improve managerial intellectual learning capability (30 min) Session 1.2: Why Finance managers need to learn systems thinking (30 min) Part 2 (1 hour): How to improve improve managerial intellectual learning for Finance Managers Session 2.1.: On the managerial intellectual learning process model in the digital era (30 min) Session 2.2: How to improve managerial intellectual learning and the role of e-coaching (30 min) The whole shooting will be done at the educational centre. I need...

Strategic Management Accounting Students should pay attention to the reading lists of the 2013 SMA workshop: Session 0 Management and cost accounting fundamentals Regaining lost relevance Readings Chapters 1, 2 and 10 in the recommended text and articles. Dekker, H (2003) Value chain analysis in inter-firm relationships – a field study”. Management Accounting Research, Vol.14, p.1-23) Session 1 Strategic Management and Accounting Information Readings Read chapter 22 in the recommended text and assigned articles. Guilding, C., Cravens, K. S. and Tayles, M., (2000), 'An international comparison of strategic management accounting practices', Management Accounting Research, 11, no.1: 113-135 Roslender, R. and Hart, S.J. (2003). In search of strategic management accounting: Theoretical and field study perspectives. Management Accounting Research. 14, 255-279. Session 2 ABC/M, Customer Profitability and Target Costing Readings Chapters 11 and 12 in the reco...

Caring -> scaring; e.g. a scaring university, instead of a caring university Brainstorm -> blamestorming; e.g. a blamestorming session to find someone to blame, instead of finding solutions.

Assignment Objective: The assignment, which accounts for 30% of your overall score in this module, has to be done individually. The objective of this assignment is to develop your skills in assessing approaches in: (a) initiating, planning and controlling information systems projects and (b) identify and apply methods of organizing and accounting for information systems delivery and information systems projects. Assignment Question: “With their information technology (IT) investments, most organizations focus on the implementation of technology not on the realization of expected business benefits. Consequently, benefits are not forthcoming despite projects being considered a technical success. This failure to realize benefits is primarily due to methods and tools that emphasize improving the supply-side of IT delivery, including the use of outsourcing. No IT investment is ever just about technology.” (Peppard, Ward and Daniel, 2006). Critically assess 2 IT project management/ IT-...

The following are key concepts in the subject of Information Systems : * Intranet/ extranet * IT project evaluation methods, notabley on Financial methods, e.g. NPV calculation ; steps involved in IT evaluation * Using pilot site in IT project; on pilot experiment * Benefit-dependency network ( pdf doc ) * "Invest first, analyze later" approach * Project risks ; project risk management * Agile approach in IT/IS projects * Software prototyping * Time-boxing * JAD * Project management , e.g. activity-on=node diagrams, critical path analysis * Security concerns in IS development, e.g. data reliability and integrity, physical security.; security consideratins in SDLC * IT outsourcing * Business Process Re-engineering * IT governance; IT governance * Software design usability Reference: IS subject syllabus Related FB notes Class exercise on Project Management: ABC company has decided that it needs a new logistics system and that an off-the shelf pa...

Quite some students,educators and employers I have come across are concerned about the university ranking. Obviously, the higher the ranking the university has, the more attractive it is as a student's choice to study at. I think evaluation of degree programme is more complicated than that. And, I am not prepared to examine the various evaluation criteria in this article. I have 1 problem here: ranking is not static... when you study for a university's programme, its ranking could be, e.g. 40; over time, e.g. after 20 years, its ranking can goes up or drops a lot.. Now, if the university that you graduated from 20 years' ago has got a much lower ranking now, what does it mean to you? Different people may respond to this concern differently. I do feel that university ranking is just not a vital issue in our career development within certain ranking range; and we do develop our own personal branding and career profile over time.

In the following case of dissertation project, I illustrate how personal coaching works and why it is useful: Student A attends a dissertation project meeting, having a very vague idea that he wants to evaluate a potential Information System project for a company. The main characterisic for this project is that, the student wants to spare some effort on why certain software standard is relevant for the Information System software evaluation in his company's case. Other than that, this Master Degree student has no idea on how to formulate a proper dissertation proposal. Now is July and the student needs to submit his final report in November. The supervisor suggests that the student could consider theories and concepts from the literature on (a) standardization in the IT field, (b) Information systems project evaluation, (c) IT infrastructure planning, (d) Soft systems methodology, and, finally, (e) case study research method. The project supervisor some academic resources wit...

Writing a letter of appeal: How (based on a query from students) Part 1: State your reasons to write the letter of appearl (e.g. to allow you to resume your study in the academic program) Part 2: State the context and reasons on what caused the faillures in your study Part 3: State the reasons why the university should give you another chance (e.g. to allow you to resume your study in its programme) Part 4: State clearly what you hope the university would do for you. ... Other points to note: (a) check your grammar; (b) provide a clear title for your letter of appeal. [You should be able to find information on how to write reports/ memos, etc in references on Business Communication]

Some of my students ask me whether they should study for an MBA programme after they graduate from their Undergraduate degree programmes. My viewpoints are as follows: a. If your first degree is in Business Admin, then further study with an MBA is not a good move because there is much overlapping of subject contents between BA and MBA programmes. b. If your first degree is in Computing Science or Accounting and Finance, then studying for an MBA can be considered. c. If you are below 30, then you may be too young to study for an MBA; probably a more specialized Master Degree, e.g. Marketing, Logistics Management, etc. will be more useful to you in improving your immediate employability. d. If you are not rich, or if establishing a social network with senior managers is not your main career objective, then do not go for Executive MBA. Try to consider MBA programmes that are not too expensive.. [you still need to evaluate the quality of the MBA programmes for making your ch...

Quite a number of students ask me about Doctor of Business Admin. (DBA) Thus, I did some internet searching and here is what I found: http://info.university-liverpool-online.com/programmes/doctorates/doctor-of-business-administration?comm_code=wwgog1xxxx&infinity=gaw~Doctorate%20Programmes%2BSPART%2BENG%2BAPAC%2BHK~HK%2BDOC%2BDBA%2BBusiness%20Administration%20Doctorate%20Programme~19957623962~doctor%20of%20business%20administration%20programs~b&gclid=CMXO3c6okbgCFUkB4godb28AIw  (online DBA from University of Liverpool) PolyU DBA: http://dba.fb.polyu.edu.hk/ CityU DBA: http://www.cb.cityu.edu.hk/dba/ Chinese U Business School - PhD: http://www.baf.cuhk.edu.hk/program/mphil-phd.shtml Baptist U DBA: http://bus.hkbu.edu.hk/hkbusob/live/html/en/content.php?id=503 Grenoble DBA: http://www.grenoble-em.com/461-grenoble-ecole-de-management-dba-program-2.aspx University of Newcastle DBA: http://degree.hkma.org.hk/program/program_next.asp?prog_no=DBA&prog_cat=DOC&ver...

When I need to sleep, that's day-time; when I need to watch movies, that's night-time. Unlike most people, I really enjoy reading academic articles; like most people, I need to make a living.

Over the years, I have met lots of students. In my view, good students are not necessarily those who are intelligent and capable. The defining characteristics of good students are: Polite Appreciate the teaching efforts of teachers and show gratitude to teachers Responsive Willing to learn Show respect to teachers and the education system Many of the good students I have come across are not quite academic nor highly intellectual. Many of them are not rich; nor have they got a favourable environment to study. For example, they can be busy housewives with full-time jobs.. in short, good students, very often, need a lot of help from teachers. Bad students have the opposite characteristics of good students. For example, they never say "thank you" on receiving resources and help from teachers; they will not even order drinks when meeting teachers at restaurants; they do not reply to teachers' emails; and they never take the initiative to contact their teachers when...

I have got this question from my Accounting student: How to prepare for ACCA exam. My advice is as follows: quickly browse through the syllabus, past papers and answers, and acca articles for the papers; then do some reading on textbook and academic articles to develop a deeper understanding for the subject.. about 3 weeks before exam, just focus on acca articles and exam papers; useful to write down some notes and key words all along to help memorizing. There are some lectures on youtube - useful to take a look if you have time. In short, if you have 4 months, first 3 months focus on long-term memory; last 1 month on short-term memory will be sufficient. 2 days before exam - ensure you sleep well till exam date.

The following information is on Advanced Performance Management : Syllabus (ACCA p5): http://www.accaglobal.com/en/student/acca-qual-student-journey/qual-resource/acca-qualification/p5.html Technical articles: http://www.accaglobal.com/en/student/acca-qual-student-journey/qual-resource/acca-qualification/f5/technical-articles.html Topics: Strategic planning and control External influence on organizational performance Performance measurement systems and design Strategic performance measurement Performance evaluation and corporate failure Current development and emerging issues in performance Related youtube resources: exam techniques: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gHXsunPFjCs Performance evaluation model: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dEBlQpDFHBo

The following resources are related to Hong Kong Taxation : Study guide (p6- acca): http://www.accaglobal.com/content/dam/acca/global/PDF-students/acca/p6/studyguides/p6-hkg-sg-2013.pdf Past exam papers: http://www.accaglobal.com/en/student/acca-qual-student-journey/qual-resource/acca-qualification/p6/past-exam-papers/hong-kong.html Related videos - general info An introduction: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XwoalukvCM0 Choose p6: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FStwOsV9tOk Past paper analysis: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m42RkKLiqoI References on HK Taxation : Link 1: http://www.lowtax.net/lowtax/html/hongkong/jhktax.html The Taxation Institute (HK): http://www.tihk.org.hk/v2/links

The following are some of the observations on marking Independent Study assignments - 2013: No abstract provided; Some of the abstracts do not have required information - i.e., they are not properly written. Variable X becomes variable Y, and variable Y becomes variable X in regression analysis;  S ome of the IS reports produced multiple regression reports (from Excel), attached them in appendix of the reports and did not actually interpret the Excel reports in the "findings and analysis" section. Quite a lot of grammatical errors are found in some of the IS reports Some reports do not use outlining Literature review reads like detailed lecture notes; the literature review skill remains weak for some of the reports. Referencing is sometimes not provided in some reports; a few students use footnotes for referencing - which is not a proper practice. Some students use too many quotations in their reports and some students write in paragraphs...

The following topic areas of Strategic Financial Management are to be taught in 2013 May-June by me Business-level Strategy (Johnson et al (2008, Chapter 6).) Directions and Corporate-level Strategy (Johnson et al (2008, Chapter 7).) International Strategy (Johnson et al (2008, Chapter 8).) Innovation and Entrepreneurship (Johnson et al (2008, Chapter 9).) Strategy Methods and Evaluation (Johnson et al (2008, Chapter 10).) Enterprise Risk Management References FB forum on Strategic Mgt: https://www.facebook.com/#!/groups/274828358631/ Business Analysis FB folder: https://www.facebook.com/josephho33/photos#!/media/set/?set=a.10151495502402090.551741.713727089&type=3 Enterprise risk management: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enterprise_risk_management Guide (pdf): http://www.ucop.edu/enterprise-risk-management/_files/protiviti_faqguide.pdf ERM video 1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ajipo2lXNEw ; video 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=idqHuI8eEx4 ; ...

The subject of Housing Professional in the discipline of Housing Studies covers the following topics: Professional code of conduct Professionalism Personal development Professional development, including continuous professional development Professional ethics Research ethics Diversity in the housing sector Work-based learning References Powell, M. 2010 Dynamic presentations student's book Cambridge. Cambridge University Press. Robertson, D. 2008 Looking into housing. A Practical Research Guide to Housing Students. Alden Group. Witney Hutchinson, H. 2010 Write great essays and dissertations Teach yourself. London. Hepworth, A. 2011 Studying for your future : successful study skills, time management and career development : a guide for personal development planning for university and college students University of Learning, Bury Garnett, J. Costley, C and Workman, B. eds 2009 Work based learning : journeys to the core of higher education ....