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Students are required to develop their understanding of cost concepts, and
demonstrate their ability to apply their knowledge of cost concepts to a service-based
company. Additionally, students are to critically evaluate a journal article to analyse the
practical use of accounting information to real-life companies’ decision-making and
achievement of business goals (ULO 1, 5, 6, 7, and 8)
Purpose:
This assignment aims at developing your understanding of cost concepts, and demonstrate your ability to
apply your knowledge of cost concepts to a service-based company. Additionally, you are to critically evaluate
a journal article to analyse the practical use of accounting information to real-life companies’ decision-making
and achievement of business goals.
Assignment Structure should be as the following:
Part A: Case Study Analysis (15 Marks)
You are to answer the 5 questions relating to the case study of a child care business. It includes both theory
and calculation type questions. Do show your working for the calculations.
Case Background
Douglas and Pamela Frank are a married couple. They both worked for a railroad company for 30 years. At age
57, Douglas and age 52, Pamela retired and moved to the small town of Ovilla, Texas, which has a population
of approximately 3,500 residents. When the Franks moved to the town, they decided to start a child care
business in their home called Nanna’s House. Nanna’s House is licensed by the state. The state charges an
annual fee of $225 to maintain the license. Insurance is required at a cost of $3,840 annually. The facility is
licensed to care for a maximum of six children. The Franks charge a fee of $800 per month for each child. The
monthly fee is based on a full day of care, from 8:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. If additional time is required beyond
4:00 p.m., parents must pay an additional charge of $15 per hour for each child. The couple provides two
meals and a snack for the children. The cost of the meals and snack is $3.20 per child per day. There are six
children currently enrolled.
The facility is very nice. It is an 820 square foot addition to their home that was built in 1964. The Franks
purchased the home and completed the renovations for $79,500 and they believe the addition has a useful
life of 25 years. The facility has a large open space for play, reading, and other activities. There is a section for
sleeping which contains small cots. The facility is equipped with a small kitchen, two bathrooms and a small
laundry area. The daycare increased the Franks’ utility cost by $50 each month.
During the first week of operations, the washer and dryer stopped working. Both appliances were old and had
been used by the couple for many years. The old appliances cost a total of $440. While a laundry room was
not initially a necessity, it became increasingly important for laundering the soiled clothes of the children,
blankets, and sheets. A company nearby, Red Oak Laundry and Dry Cleaning, can launder clothing for the
Franks, including pick-up and delivery, for $52 per month. Alternatively, the Franks can take clothes to the
laundromat once a week, which is three miles away (one way). The applicable mileage rate is $0.56/mile. They
can launder the clothes themselves at a cost of $8 per week. The self-service alternative does not include
detergent or fabric sheets. The couple would need to purchase these items in order to use the laundromat.
Purchasing laundry supplies in bulk from MegaMart would cost $35 every quarter. The final alternative is for
the Franks to purchase a washer and dryer. The cost of the appliances is: washer $420 and dryer $380. The
additional accessories for both appliances, needed for installation, cost $43.72. The store will deliver the
appliances at a total cost of $35. The cost of installing the appliances is free. Both appliances are expected to
last 8 years. According to the manufacturer the washer will increase energy costs by $120 per year. The dryer
will increase energy costs by $145 per year.
The Franks need some assistance in decision making and evaluation. They have contacted you, their
accountant, to provide some advice.
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HI5017 Managerial Accounting Individual Assignment T1 2019
Required:
Respond to the following questions to help Douglas and Pamela make their decisions. (If necessary, the Franks
will use straight line depreciation. For monthly calculations, use 4.33 weeks per month.)
1. Consider the different types of costs discussed in this unit. List any three (3) types of costs and provide
one specific example of each cost from the case. (3 marks)
2. Based on the information provided, what information is relevant to the decision to purchase the
appliances? What information is irrelevant to the decision to purchase the appliances? Why? (3 marks)
3. What could it cost the couple to launder clothes? Show your detailed calculations for each option. (3
marks)
4. The Franks have a waiting list for their day care. They can hire an employee for $9 per hour for 40 hours
each week. With the additional employee, the Franks can accept three additional children. Should the
Franks hire the additional employee? Show your detailed calculations. (3 marks)
5. The Franks home can accommodate a maximum of nine children. They can move the day care from their
home to rented space in town, which can accommodate up to 14 children. The space will cost $650 per
month and the utilities will cost $125 per month. Additionally, insurance will now cost the Franks $5,000
per year. Per state regulations, each adult can supervise no more than three children. As their accountant,
prepare a letter to the Franks advising them on their space options. Should they continue to operate the
facility at home or should they rent space in town? How many children should they accept? How many
employees will they need to hire? Show your detailed calculations for each scenario. (3 marks)
Attachments:
3088468_1_1558175048940-HI5017-Individual-Assignment-T1-2019.pdf

Background: E-Government Technology
After evaluating various platforms, the government finally decided to adopt a Service
Oriented Architecture (SOA) for its future IT infrastructure. They were impressed with your
template-based Reference Architecture approach set out in your Task 1 Report and have
accepted your recommendations regarding:
• Computing and storage infrastructure design,
• Application / service integration, and
• Information integration.
However, they would like to gain a deeper understanding of the technologies behind your
recommendation and have asked for a small specific demonstration of these technologies
along with a brief explanation of the concepts and principles of how it works.
Assignment Task
This assignment consists of two deliverables, being:
• Demonstration code (50%). All code relating to this assignment should be contained within a
folder named: Task 2 – Your Name – Student Number, the folder is then to be zipped and
uploaded to blackboard.
• A report (50%). The report must be uploaded separately.
Part 1 – Demonstration Code (50%)
Important Note: For ease of demonstration, your code must be self-contained. In addition to
using Standards based HTML and Python, PETL, Bottle and Parser are the only additional
frameworks you should need. If you use others they must be provided and not require
installation.
To demonstrate your code, you have been provided with four data sources compiled with
fictitious sample data. These are:
• “Offices.csv” contains the information about the government offices,
• “Office_Locations.csv” contains the location coordinates for each office,
• “Services.xml” contains a list of government office services, and
• “Office_Services.csv” contains a list of offices and the services they offer.
Task 1 – Data integration demo.
You are to submit a python script named “data_integration.py” which first clean the data then
merge it into one CSV output file named “office_service_locations.csv”.
ICT705 Data and System Integration Assignment 2
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Task 1.1 Data Cleansing (10 marks)
Clean the data in the phone number field in “Offices.csv” to ensure all phone numbers are in
the same format:
(+international_code) regional_code phone_number
That is, all phone numbers should have the international code for Australia “(+61)”, followed
by a space, followed by the regional code in two digits, followed by a space, followed by 8
digits of the local phone number. For example, the Brisbane office should be formatted to:
(+61) 07 36728709
Whilst regional codes do not always adhere to state boundaries, you may apply the
following regional codes for each state:
NSW = 02
VIC = 03
QLD = 07
SA = 09
Task 1.2 Data Merge (10 marks)
Merge the data from all four data sources, and generate output file
“office_service_locations.csv” with the following fields (attributes):
• OfficeServicesID – a unique field identifying each record from Office_Services
• OfficeID – a foreign key linking to Services from Office_Services
• Service – the ServiceName from Services
• OfficeID – a foreign key linking to offices and locations
• Office – the “Contact Name” from offices
• Suburb – the “Suburb” from offices
• Phone – the cleaned “Phone Number” data from offices
• Email – the “Email” address from offices
• Lat – from Office_Locations
• Lon – from Office_Locations
Task 2 – RESTful Web Service Demo
You are to submit a python script named “office_locator.py”.
For tasks 2.1 to 2.2, your script should build a RESTful web service that supports a
‘getoffices’ query from the client browser similar to “/getoffices?serviceid=x”. The server
Web Service will return a JSON table with the following fields (attributes): Office, Suburb,
Service, Phone, Email, Lat, Lon.
Data is to come from the “office_service_locations.csv” you built in task 1.2.
Task 2.1 Return offices for a service (5 marks)
The server will return a table of records (tuples) of offices offering the service ID passed to it.
ICT705 Data and System Integration Assignment 2
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Task 2.2 List of Services (5 marks)
To populate your drop-down list in task 3.1, you will need to return a JSON table of all
records from “services.csv” with the following fields (attributes): ServiceID, Service. The
server should respond to a “getservices” request.
Task 3 Mashup Demo
You are to submit a HTML file “office_map.html” and optionally a CSS file named
“office_map.css”.
Task 3.1 Form Layout (5 marks)
You are to create an input form that accepts user input for a particular service. The input for
the service should be a drop-down list whose items should be created dynamically from a call
to getservices from task 2.2.
The drop-down list should be accompanied with descriptors and a “Locate Offices” button.
Task 3.2 Google Map (10 marks)
Clicking the “Locate Offices” button will trigger a “getoffices” web service to retrieve a table
of offices matching the service with attributes described in task 2. From this data you are to
display a Google cluster map marking the position of the returned offices. The map should be
centred and zoomed to an appropriate level to show all offices in Australia.
Task 3.3 Information Window Demographics (5 marks)
Upon clicking a marker bubble on the map, the user will be displayed an information window
containing: Contact Name, Suburb, Phone Number, and a clickable email address.
Attachments:
3089361_1_ICT705-Task-2-2019.pdf

StopFire is a campaign started by Monash University to predict and stop the fire in
Victorian cities. They have employed sensors in different cities of Victoria and have
collected a large amount of data. The data is so big that their techniques have failed to
provide the results on time to predict fire. They have hired us as the data analyst to
migrate their data to the NoSQL database (MongoDB). They want us to analyse their data
and provide them with results. In addition, they want us to build an application, a
complete setup from streaming to storing and analyzing the data for them using Apache
Kafka, Apache Spark Streaming and MongoDB.
What you are provided with
? Five datasets:
? hotspot_historic.csv
? climate_historic.csv
? hotspot_AQUA_streaming.csv
? hotspot_TERRA_streaming.csv
? climate_streaming.csv
? These files are available in Moodle in the Assessment section in Assignment Data
folder.
Information on Dataset
Climate data is recorded on a daily basis whereas Fire data is recorded based on the
occurrence of a fire on a particular day. Therefore, for one climate data, there can be zero
or many fire data.
The data is NOT row per weather station basis. You can simply think of it as, Station 1 was
reporting data for X number of days and then Station 2 started reporting data because
Station 1 was shut down for instance.
Attachments:
3089470_1_FIT5148—Assignment-Specification-3.pdf
3089470_2_Assignment-Data-20190521.zip

Assignment Questions
Part A
Q1. In relation to access to wireless network (e.g, WiFi), answer the following questions:
a. What is media access control and why is it important?
b. Give one example each of the controlled access methods and contention based media
access methods?
c. When might one access method be preferred over another in a network, and why?
d. Under what conditions do contention-based media access control techniques
outperform controlled-access techniques (i.e., have lower response time)? Explain.
[3+2+2.5+2.5=10 marks]
Q2. Four users (U1, U2, U3 and U4) are using CDMA access techniques to transmit data to their
respective receivers (U1->R1, U2->R2, U3->R3 and U4->R4). The followings are the
spreading codes and the data that each user wants to send.
Attachments:
3089473_1_Assignment2-2019-Mob-net—wireless.pdf

You have recently been employed as a Business Analyst and your boss has decided to send you on a
short Enterprise Systems course. You have now returned from your course ad would like to demonstrate
your learning. Create an e-portfolio to provide a synopsis and reflection on your learning during
the course. You have been requested to document your learning in a portfolio that can be displayed on
your company’s intranet or knowledge portal. This way, the entire organization can access the document
and share in your newly acquired knowledge.
This assessment task will address the following ILOs:
• Evaluate and Integrate several information sources in analysing Enterprise Systems
• Describe the role of enterprise systems as part of the larger IT infrastructure of large scale organisations.
• Identify relevant considerations in the implementation of Enterprise Systems.
• Demonstrate communication skills to present a coordinated, coherent and independent exposition of knowledge
and ideas in dealing with Enterprise Systems.
Time allocation: Approximately 30-40 hours
Weighting: 30%
Submission: Using your student e-Portfolio account, create a link from Moodle to your Mahara page as
indicated on the submission link. You are required to prepare your responses to the assessment tasks as a
page in your Mahara e-Portfolio. (To be submitted in Week 11)
Referencing: Your portfolio should be a synthesis of ideas from a variety of sources expressed in your
own words. A minimum of 10 references is recommended. You should use the APA referencing style.
The University has published a style guide to help students correctly reference and cite information they
use in assignments (American Psychological Association (APA) citation style:
https://federation.edu.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0020/313328/FEDUNI-GENERAL-GUIDE-TOREFERENCING-2016-EDITION_ed.pdf
Enterprise Systems
ePortfolio
Enterprise Systems Assessment Task
The Context
Intended Learning Outcomes (ILOs)
Assessment Guidelines
Marking Criteria: A passing grade will be awarded to assignments adequately addressing all
assessment criteria. Higher grades require better quality and more effort. For example, a minimum is set
on the wider reading required. A student reading vastly more than this minimum will be better prepared
to discuss the issues in depth and consequently their report is likely to be of a higher quality. So before
submitting, please read through the assessment criteria very carefully. Marking guides are provided.
Feedback: Feedback will be provided by the lecturer/tutor via Mahara, and mark via Moodle, no later
than 2 weeks from the submission date.
An ePortfolio is a collection of digital files, images, videos that showcase competencies, skills,
application of knowledge and learning journey. The use of ePortfolios in various industries, disciplines
and processes is increasing world-wide, and is in some case the ‘norm’ for job applications or for
displaying educational learnings.
Attachments:
3089490_1_Enterprise-Systems-Portfolio.pdf