Harimann International Essay

Executive Summary Vikram Dhawan is the president of Harimann International that he established in May of 1990. Vikram established the business in an effort to fund his impending Masters in Business Administration in the United States. The business is located in Delhi, India where tax incentives are offered for business who export goods and materials to targeted countries including Japan, Canada, and France. Incentives in India include no tax on goods shipped to target countries, incentives on shipments exceeding 150,000 INR, partial rebated duties taxes on raw materials imported for the use of exported goods, cash incentives, and license renewals for materials used in production. Harimann International in its first year, 1990, focused on the exporting of linen household goods. Business was slow and profits were low until 1991 when a particular type of hand-embroidered table linen became very popular. Sales and orders increased. Dhawan was then faced with the inability to rely on his supplier after the demand exceeded their ability to provide material need for the impending orders. Dhawan then established a second manufacturing facility employing over 100 employees and producing an average of 1,000 garments a day. In January of 1992 one of Harimann International’s first clients Pioneer Trading Company requested samples and later placed an order with Harimann for six styles of garments. The order well exceeded the 150,000 INR requirements and qualified for other incentives provided by the Indian government. Pioneer Trading Company also placed a stipulation on the order that it had to be provided by the deadline of April 6th. This deadline would give Harimann International about two months to fulfill the order. Placing the order would allow Harimann to make a large profit, but also allow him to continue to employ workers for an extend period of time that would be furloughed in other cases. Decision Problem What should Harimann International choose to do? Should they accept the order and potentially make a high profit deal, continue the relationship with Pioneer Trading Company, and benefit Harimann International employees or deny the deal and not suffer the potential for a lose by not meeting the April 6 deadline established by Pioneer Trading Company? Analysis of the Industry and the Company Textile production and trade is the leading industry in India. According to India Brand Equity Foundation (ibef.org) the textile industry provides â€Å"14% of the industrial production, 4% of India’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP) , and 10.63 % of export earnings.† The textile industry is second only to agriculture in providing employment to the people of India proving over 35 million employment opportunities. The textile industry in India produced over 7.58 billion in revenue compared to the United States at 7.21 billion between April and July of 2010. Indian government provides incentives to organizations exporting large amounts of textile products. Incentives include tax breaks on imported raw material as well as exported finished goods, cash incentives, and insurance benefits to employees of the organization. Possible Decision Alternatives Harimann International is faced with a number of decisions to be made. First Vikram Dhawan can reject the order entirely and risk losing an established customer who has helped his organization grow over the past year. A second alternative is to accept the order as well as the deadline of April 6th leaving the risk of not meeting the deadline. This alternative has the potential of making a substantial profit due to the size of the order and the incentives provided by the Indian Government. This alternative also provides more work for employees of Harimann International that would not have been provided if the order is not accepted. The alternative also has the potential for disaster in that it if the deadline is not meet the respected client could and future profits could be lost. The third is to accept the order, not meet the deadline, and sell at a reduced price to Pioneer. This alternative also has the risk of losing an established customer and future business. Evaluation of Alternatives Three alternatives face Vikram Dhawan of Harimann International. The first is to not accept the offer and reject the proposal of delivering the product to Pioneer Trading Company. The decision would have lasting repercussions with the relationship between the two companies and inevitably cost Harimann International future profits. Harimann International will also incur a loss due to purchasing the product already and having to resale. The decision trees found in tables 3 and 4 show the loss after selling the embroidered product at 65 % of cost and the unembroidered product at 90% of cost to be a loss of $45,202.50. The second is to accept the offer with two different outcomes. The first outcome is that the order is completed and delivered on time. This outcome of alternative two will gain a profit of $315,238. The completion of the order will also keep a good relation between the two companies with the possibility of further profit for Harimann International in the future. The second outcome is some what more complicated. The second outcome consists of probabilities that Dhawan believes will occur. As seen in tables 3 and 4 the probabilities will be applied if the shipment is not delivered on time. If the order is not delivered on time Dhawan believes that the probability of 50% payment will occur 40% of the time. The payment for this occurrence will create a loss for Harimann International of $72,081. The probability of 30% payment Dhawan believes is 40% netting a loss of $311,380. The final probability is 20% of a 20% payment of $360,720. Recommendations After careful review of the two alternatives Dhawan should proceed with the order. With an 80% chance of completing the order and a profit of $315,238 he should take the risk. Tables 3 and 4 both show the probability in dollars of accepting the order to be in the positive at $270,132.32. Table 3 uses color codes to label the arithmetic occurring and 4 is a more simple way of presenting the decision tree. Table 1 shows the total profit that can be made by achieving the order on time. Table 2 shows the loss that will be incurred if the order is not delivered on time. Even though the possibility of incurring a $360,720 loss is possible, the probability of it  occurring is very small. With an 80% chance of completing the order on time Dhawan should take and complete the order with Pioneer Trading Company for a profit and securing future business that will also bring in more profit for Harimann International.

Life on the Western Front Essay

The First World War was a shattering experience for all Europeans, both soldiers and civilians. Memoirs show that soldiers expressed a wide variety of views on the war. Some soldiers enjoyed the war and some hated it, but most were unable to decide how they felt about it. In this essay I will be examining whether or not official accounts of the Western Front more accurate than personal accounts. I will survey several sources and try to draw a conclusion. Soldiers in the war were allowed little correspondence. Their letters and postcards sent home were censored to the point of very little detail. They were only allowed to write about family, friends and their health, as can be seen on the field service postcard, source A1. The honour clause was a statement all soldiers had to sign to confirm they were not writing about anything else other than private family matters. The honour clause also gave the officials permission to examine the contents of the postcard/letter e.g. ‘Green envelope’ source A2. The officials censored letters and postcards because they didn’t want people back home to know too much and also because they didn’t want the Germans to accidentally find out their plans. They were able to do this under the defence of the Realm Act 1916. Postcards and letters were limited because the government wanted to maintain high morale on people back home so that recruitment would not be affected. The postcards are useful to historians studying the Western Front because it shows how little time the soldiers had. They also tried to be more optimistic when writing back home to family and friends. This is because they didn’t want them to worry too much so tried to keep a happy tone in their letters. I personally think letters in the personal section give the most information about trench life because in the official account the trenches are shown as they are meant to be, not as they actually are. Whereas in the personal account soldiers describe what the trenches are like. â€Å"About six feet in depth, they were floored with duckboards and were wide enough for two men to pass comfortably†¦Ã¢â‚¬ . Some of the letters in the personal account are similar. Many soldiers wrote about the same things i.e. light-hearted happy conversations. â€Å"I got your letter today and you seem quite cheery so as long as Dora’s all right all’s well with the world.† So as to not worry their family and friends. The letters and postcards in the official and personal section do not give off the same impression of life on the Western Front. For example, Teddy Bennett who was a second lieutenant of the twenty-ninth battalion of the Machine Gun Corps described the trenches as eighteen inches and only three feet deep , only big enough for a ‘drain pipe’. But George Coppard wrote that the trenches were ‘in very good condition’ and were ‘about six feet in depth†¦ enough for two men to pass through comfortably’. These two clearly show that trenches varied in condition. The majority of soldiers used the same tone and wrote about similar things effectively censoring themselves. The letters and postcards do not give the same impression of life on the Western Front as other sources. The other sources i.e. photos showed soldiers dieing cruel deaths and suffering from severe injuries and diseases. I don’t think this type of evidence, personal and official, gives a totally accurate view of life on the Western Front but they are useful as evidence of soldiers feelings and opinions. Official war artists were commissioned by the government to paint pictures/images of the war. Fortunino Matanaia and C.R Nevinson are examples of war artists. Paul Nash was a front line soldier for four months in 1917 but was sent home after an accident. He was then sent back to the Western Front as an official war artist. He was ordered not to show any dead bodies in his pictures. He gave off a peaceful and honourable impression of the war. The content of some of the paintings in the official section are not reliable because they censored dead bodies. I don’t think these paintings in the official section are an expression of opinion because the artists were told what to hide & what to draw. The painting by John Singer showing soldiers blinded by gas seems fairly accurate to me because it was painted in 1918 and during that time many soldiers suffered from tear gas that caused temporary blindness. The painting is very similar to source A5, a photo. I think source A4, the photo showing two British troops in anti -phosgene masks manning a Vickers machine-gun, was posed to show those back home that anti-phosgene masks were provided for soldiers so more volunteers would sign up to join the army. I think it was posed because until after 1916 there were no more volunteers and conscription was introduced. My feelings towards source A9, a photo of two men badly disabled from the war which might have been used for propaganda purposes, is sympathy. But soldiers would not want pity because they felt proud. This is one of the differences of the two generations. I think that they feel the need to smile to show they are strong and they probably think they have to put on a brave face so their loved-ones won’t worry. Sources B9-B13 are more gruesome compared to the sources in the official account. The reasons for the difference are officials wanted to conceal all the gruesome deaths that the British soldiers had and only took photos of their peaceful deaths. I think photos, official and personal, are quite accurate as source of information on the Western Front for a variety of purposes. Punch was a British humorous political magazine. It contained anti-German propaganda. The main purpose of political cartoons is to get a message across in a more entertaining way. I think source A10 is very useful to historians studying soldiers’ attitudes to life on the Western Front because it shows that soldiers were pessimistic and found trench life difficult to handle. I don’t think source A13 is reliable. This is because the cartoon was taken from a British political magazine and the Germans were the enemy so they would have wanted to make the Germans look bad. There are a few hints of bias in sources A14 and A15, for example â€Å"Our operations, in conjunction with the French, definitely stopped the German attack, and it has not since been removed.† and â€Å"We progressed North Poziers and hear High wood and Delville extremely severe enemy losses.† This is because the articles were written by the British and also because they were official. Based on what I have read I don’t think cartoons and newspaper are reliable. Although it is useful for historians studying soldiers’ humour. The most famous war poets are Siegfried Sassoon and Wilfred Owen. Seigfried Sassoon serviced was an officer who suffered from shell shock and had come to the conclusion that the War was pointless. He was sent home on sick leave in 1916. During his second visit to France his views on war became more doubtful about the way in which war was being conducted from a military point of view. By July 1916 he was well enough to return to duty but he couldn’t bring himself to do so, so he wrote a statement which he regarded as ‘an act of wilful defiance of military authority’. The officials found this hilarious and he was ordered to attend a Medical Board at Chester in July 16th but he failed to attend. A Second Board was arranged at Liverpool on July 20th, which he attended and it was recommended that he be sent to Craiglockhart. Wilfred Owen spent the winter on 1916-7 on the front line but was then sent home on sick leave. He returned to the front on 1st September 1918 and was killed on 4th November, seven days before the war ended. He was awarded the Military Cross. Many of the poems were about warfare and the effects of gas and bombardment. For example ‘Dulce et Decorum Est’ by Wilfred Owen tells the story of a phosgene gas attack as troops were making their way back from the front line. This poem is backed up by source A5. It is possible that these poems are exaggerated because the soldiers might have been suffering from depression and by writing these poems they were drowning their sorrows. I don’t think the poems are inaccurate because they are from soldiers’ views. Many of the poems are making a specific point i.e. ‘Does it Matter’ and ‘For the Fallen’ written by Siegfried Sassoon. The poem ‘Suicide in the trenches’ by Siegfried Sassoon tells the story of a ‘simpler soldier boy’ who fought in the war and couldn’t cope so committed suicide expresses anti-war sentiment. The poem ‘Returning, we hear the larks’ written by Isaac Rosenberg also expresses anti-war sentiment. In the poem ‘Dulce et Decorum Est’ the title is Latin saying Dulce et Decorum est pro patria mori meaning ‘It is sweet and noble to die for your country.’ I think it is used in the last line because the soldiers die in the end and the poet is saying it is sweet and noble of them. Also to highlight the wrong. Overall, these poems are quite accurate as evidence of life on the Western Front because they are soldiers’ points of views and this was the only way they were allowed to express their feelings. Siegfried Sassoon was decided as having mental illnesses because he didn’t agree with the way war was conducted. As a result of this he was admitted into a mental hospital to be treated for shell shock. My opinion of the war poets are they were all depressed and found war difficult so they wrote poems to show this. I think they can be relied upon as they are the thoughts and feelings of soldiers. Which cannot be ignored and tend to highlight the variety of experience on the Western Front. The conditions of the trenches were often very bad. The mud was often deep and became very muddy whenever it rained. The trenches were lined with sandbags and collapsed as they filled with water causing the sides to rupture. The trenches were always shelled by enemy artillery which destroyed the sandbags and sides of the trenches so needed frequent repair. Barbed wire lined the outside of the trenches to keep the enemy from attacking. Many soldiers experienced illnesses and diseases whilst living in the trenches. Trench foot was a common disease which many soldiers got by standing in mud for too long. To prevent this from spreading the soldiers rubbed whale oil on to their feet everyday. Being bitten by lice was also very common in the trenches. They tried to prevent this by running a lighted candle along the seams of their clothing but this only killed the lice, not their eggs. The lice carried a disease called trench fever. I think sources A9, B3, B13 would be most useful to historians wanting to find out about the morale of the soldiers. The people today view the war a lot differently compared to the people who lived through it. When you step back and take a closer look at the picture you see things differently. Overall, I have a fairly accurate view of life on the Western Front from looking at personal and official accounts. I have found both, official and personal, accounts useful. I can’t really put together an accurate picture of what life on the Western Front was actually like using personal accounts because the soldiers may not remember what happened to give an accurate description and would be bias against Germans. The official account has been censored so that also is not really reliable. Therefore I think that by looking at both accounts would give a clearer picture.

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Question: Discuss about the Predictors of Nigerian Undergraduates. Answer: Introduction The multinational organization Apple has designed an iPhone, which offers amended safety features along with multiple security passwords. The iPhone has one major feature, i.e., it has touchscreen passwords, therefore, the device can be accessed or used only by the approved or the authorized user. However, alternatively, the iPhone has also been utilized by some unauthorized persons for harming or hurting others like terrorists have utilized iPhones for delivering and sending private information to some other terrorists and with the use of that information, they have also done several attacks in many nations. The FBI has asked the iPhone manufacturers to develop an appropriate operating system which can assist to interrupt the safety and the firewall of the iPhone that allows FBI to damage the safety characteristic of the terrorists smartphones. This situation is associated with unlocking the safety functions of the iPhone. There were some disputation taking place between the Apple o rganization and the FBI as the Apple organization has denied to provide any type of help or assistance. Now, FBI with the help of RAM (Random Access Memory) data made it completely possible to get and access the data from terrorists smartphones. Data Security of Apple Organization The case identified here in this report highlights the information security of the Apples iPhone. In 2016, the FBI had effectively broken the security standards of the iPhone 5c. Prior, the FBI had requested assistance from the Apple organization to open this component, but Apple had rejected to give any assistance on this issue, and now, the FBI has effectively finished their undertaking without the contribution of the Apple organization, and the FBI hasn't uncovered any details about the same to the organization (Agbatogun, Lawunmi, 2012). In 2014, there were almost fourteen individuals that were slaughtered and twenty-two individuals who injured the people of San Bernardino. The attackers were the terrorists who had done this shooting. The FBI got the iPhone of a psychological militant and they asked for help from the Apple organization, but the company has declined the FBI in offering any assistance to them (Bologna, 2014). As the FBI has requested an Operating framework from Ap ple that can completely break the safety functions of this iPhone so that they can get to the information of the iPhone user and can discover the fear based oppressor by utilizing this information (Gwynne, 2015). The Apple organization has not thought of the ways and the techniques which they have utilized for breaking this element as well as they are stressed about their clients and now, the FBI is not interested in revealing the strategy or the calculation they have utilized for this reason to the Apple. Probably, it has influenced the security of the iPhones, but leaving a psychological militant openly free out there is additionally harmful (Gwynne, 2015). The fear based oppressor can accomplish more assaults and offer opportunities to the psychological militants can bring forth another new fear mongers. At the point when the FBI has requested assistance from the Apple, it was their obligation to offer assistance to the FBI group. On the off chance that they would not like to mak e programming for breaking the iPhone, but they ought to help them in opening that specific mobile so that the FBI can explain and understand their case easily. The programmers are the major hotspot for influencing the private information or for damaging the security of the information (Guo, 2016). The FBI has now effectively made plans to make secondary passages for taking over the security of the iPhones. Now, they can get the information about the iPhone users that is utilized by the fear based oppressor. They have also got the information of the users from the RAM area. This has become a major issue for the Apple Company. The FBI has not given this strategy to the Apple and if the FBI will disclose this procedure in the market then, it would be a major danger to the Apple Company (Rubinstein, 2013). The share trading system in this industry will likewise endure great hazards as the client loses the sentiment trust from this industry. If the safety or the concealment of the infor mation will be affected, then it would affect the organizations revenue and also adversely affect the reputation of the organization. The FBI ought to give assistance to the Apple organization with the goal so that they can enhance the security highlight of the versatile. The FBI also ought to comprehend that the Apple had not given assistance to the FBI organization in light of the fact that it could influence the clients maintenance (Schwartz, Reidenberg, 2013). The Apple organization can make new encryption strategies to make solid security. The company can enhance the component of numerous passwords and they can also make new strategies for making passwords including numbers and extraordinary characters with secret keys, with the goal that it can't be effectively distinguished. The FBI organization ought to tell the technique for hacking into the Apples programs so that they can deal with the security of the gadgets. If the Apple had offered help to the FBI, then this circumstance could be avoided (Singleton, 2014). The organization could have given the encryption system of that specific iPhone. To pick up the enthusiasm of the clients, the Apple organization ought to make other security highlights for the gadgets, so that nobody can go into the framework and nobody can meddle with the information on the device (Soderberg, 2010). The FBI is now ready to go into the room of the psychological militant after hacking the iPhone that is utilized by the assailants. No question, it is an uplifting news for all as they are exceptionally close to their main goal. In the event that the FBI organization offers flexibility to one fear monger, then it can bring forth various distinctive psychological militants. Therefore, the FBI organization has followed the information and furthermore revealed the substance of different other individuals that are associated with this situation. But, they have not yet revealed the ways by which they have hacked the arrangement of the assailants (Tene, 2010). As in the asking of the case, they needed assistance from the Apple Company, yet they have denied them to off er any kind of assistance (Xu, Hu, Zhang, 2013). Conclusion The FBI organization has broken a few locking functions of the iPhone, and this has become a major risk to the organization. If this component will be uncovered in the market, then the general public can get to it for illicit purposes, and also anyone will be able to manipulate the information by hacking passwords of the smartphones. The Apple organization ought to take a few steps and make another version of the operating framework which can provide better security as compared to the previous versions and ought to give a free form of the redesigned OS to the old clients of the iPhone. This will likewise enhance the market estimation of the Apple's iPhones. The FBI should give assistance to the Apple with their goal for enhancing the security highlights of the versatile. The FBI must comprehend that the Apple organization had not given assistance to them since, it could influence the clients maintenance. The Apple organization can make new encryption strategies to make the high stand ards of security. The company should also enhance the element of numerous passwords and can also make new strategies for making passwords including numbers and exceptional characters with secret keys so that it can't be effectively identified. References Agbatogun, A., Lawunmi, O. (2012). Gender, Computer Access and Use as Predictors of Nigerian Undergraduates Computer Proficiency.African Research Review,3(4). Bologna, J. (2014). Ethical issues of the information era.Computers Security,9(8), 689-692. Guo, B. (2016). Why Hackers Become Crackers An Analysis of Conflicts Faced by Hackers.Public Administration Research,5(1), 29. Gwynne, P. (2015). The FBI vs Albert Einstein.Physics World,15(6), 13-13. Rubinstein, I. (2013). Big Data: The End of Privacy or a New Beginning?.International Data Privacy Law,3(2), 74-87. Schwartz, P., Reidenberg, J. (2013).Data privacy law(1st ed.). Charlottesville, Va.: Michie. Singleton, S. (2014).Data protection law for employers(1st ed.). London: Thorogood. Sderberg, J. 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Nestle would record the bond at acquisition cost, not the amount it will receive at maturity. b. Both U. S. GAAP and IFRS would recognize Prepaid Insurance (current asset); CHF240 million would be recorded initially. At Nestle’s year-end, the balance in the Prepaid Insurance account would reflect the two months usage of the insurance, reducing the balance to CHF200 [= CHF240 – (CHF240 X 2/12)] million. . Both U. S. GAAP and IFRS would recognize Option to Purchase Land (noncurrent asset), CHF6 million. d. Neither U. S. GAAP nor IFRS recognizes the employment contract, a mutually unexecuted contract, as an asset. e. Under U. S. GAAP, Nestle would record only the costs of obtaining the patent as an asset on its balance sheet, Patent (noncurrent asset), CHF0. 5 million. The remaining CHF80 million is an expense of the period. Under IFRS, Nestle would recognize Research Expense of CHF48 (= 60% X CHF80) million in the period incurred and record a Development Asset (noncurrent asset) at the acquisition cost of CHF32 million (= 40% of CHF80 million) as an asset on its balance sheet, which it would depreciate over the useful life of the product. We will write a custom essay sample on Solved Questions Financial Accounting or any similar topic specifically for you Do Not WasteYour Time HIRE WRITER Only 13.90 / page Under IFRS, Nestle would also recognize the patent as an asset on its balance sheet, Patent (noncurrent asset), CHF0. 5 million. f. Under both U. S. GAAP and IFRS, Nestle would not recognize the cocoa beans as an asset until it receives the inventory. 3. 23