Tuesday, January 18, 2011

Mgt401 GDB No. 2 Announced

"Financial Accounting II (MGT401)"

This is to inform that your 2nd Graded Discussion Board (GDB) covering Lecture # 1 to Lecture # 34 Times New Roman]will be opened according to the following schedule

GDB Schedule

Opening Date and Time: 17th Jan, 2011 At 12:01 A.M. (Mid-Night)
Closing Date and Time: 19th Jan, 2011 At 11:59 P.M. (Mid-Night)
Topic/Area for Discussionn
"Memorandum of Association (MOA)"

Note:The discussion question will be from the area/topic mentioned above. So start learning about the topic now.
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Scenario

A loan provided company limited by shares named "ABC (private) Ltd." was established on 15th March, 2001, with registered office situated in Lahore under section 16 of Companies Ordinance 1984. At the time of establishment, a memorandum of association (MOA) was signed with mutual consent of promoters in which the objectives of the company was to provide all kind of loan facilities (i.e. car loans, home loans, short & long term business loans etc. ) at competitive market interest rates to both of its corporate and household clients. After a half decade, the company conducted a customer survey about financial services. They realized that the most of customers to whom they are providing services currently, also want vault services for their important documents and precious goods.

After analyzing the results of survey, ABC (Pvt.) Ltd. started to provide vault services for their clients which were not the true reflection of the objectives of company enlisted in MOA at the time of establishment.

Required:

Identify what kind of violation the company had made according to Companies Ordinance 1984. Your answer must be confined in two to three lines.
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Monday, January 17, 2011

HRM624 Online Quiz No. 3 Announcement

Semester Fall 2010
All Students of are informed that an Online Quiz for "Conflict Management HRM624" will be uploaded according to following schedule:

Opening Date and Time : Jan 18, 2010 At 12:01 AM
Closing Date and Time : Jan 19, 2010 At 11:59 PM

Details:

The Online Quiz has been designed to test your knowledge from Lesson No.1 to Lesson No. 30.

Mgt610 Assignment No. 2

Semester "FALL 2010" 
"Business Ethics (MGT 610)" 
Assignment No. 02 Marks: 15 
"Pollution" 


Pollution is hitting hard to our earth environment. It is resulting in epidemic diseases, unnatural climate changes etc. As the time is passing situation is becoming grim. On the one end earth temperature is raising causing unnatural climate changes etc and on the other ends more and more people are falling a prey to the diseases caused by the water and air pollution. Keeping in view the above statement, 5+10 Marks 

• Identify the main cause of pollution 
• Identify the types of pollution and discuss them one by one. 

Schedule 
Opening Date and Time 13 January , 2011 At 12:01 A.M. (Mid-Night) 
Due Date and Time 18 January , 2011 At 11:59 P.M. (Mid-Night) 

Friday, January 14, 2011

Fall 2010 Final Term Examinations: Make your Date Sheet NOW!

Published On:  Friday, January 14, 2011

As announced earlier, the web interface for making your date sheet is being placed on the following link:
http://datesheet.vu.edu.pk/ 

Note: You MUST make your date sheet on or before:  Friday, January 21, 2011. Seats will be available on a 'first come first served' basis.


INSTRUCTIONS

  1. Logon using your VULMS ID and Password 
    (In case of any password related problem contact at password@vu.edu.pk)
  2. Choose Your Exam City in which you want to appear for Exam (optional)
  3. Choose your Exam Center out of the centers available to you
    (Once selected, you can not change your Exam Center)
  4. Select available exam date and start time of your own choice for each of your courses, then click "Confirm" button to confirm your selection.
  5. Repeat the Step-4 for all your remaining courses one by one.
  6. Finally click the button at the bottom of the page to get Examination Password and print your Examination Slip which you MUST keep with you for entry in Examination Center on each of the Exam Dates.

Mgt411 GDB No. 2 Announced

Total Marks2

Starting Date Friday, January 14, 2011

Closing Date Tuesday, January 18, 2011

Status Open

Question/Description

Banking sector plays vital role in the capitalist economies all over the world especially this role also gets significance in the developing countries like Pakistan. Policies of Central Bank, imposed on the commercial bank and financial sector, are considered as one of the key factors to boost the economy and control the inflation.

 

"If all commercial banks in Pakistan increase the small loans limit to Rs. 200,000 for general public at very low interest rate along with relaxed terms and conditions. Such loans will be used only for personal use and luxury items. What will be the effect of this activity of commercial banks on the money supply, inflation, Balance of payment (BOP) and real growth?"

 

You are required to answer/comments in the following table, which show only which component increases or decreases or both situations are possible"



Macro issue Increases / Decreases

/ May increase or decrease 

Money supply ?

 

Inflation? ?

Balance of Payment (BOP) ?

 

Real Growth ?

CS101 Assignment No. 4 Solution

Q # 1: Suppose ABC Company have an office in Lahore. It has currently 50 computers. Now, Management is going to buy a new building in front of old building. They want to extend their network between these two buildings with 50 new computers:

 

Answer the questions given below in scenario described above. (5 * 2 = 10 Marks)

 

(i) If they can afford good budget, which cable will be suitable for networking. (You have to provide two best options. Option 1 has higher priority than Option 2)

 

Twisted Pair

Optic Fiber

 

(ii) Which network Topology will be better in building network in new building.

 

Star

 

(iii) Which network Topology will be better in building network between two buildings

 

Tree

 

(iv) Which network device(s) will be used to connect two networks?

 

Router

Switch

Bridge

 

(v) If we use wireless network between two buildings, what will be drawbacks or risks? (you have to describe two points)

 

Limited Access

Not Much Secure

Interruption

Low Speed

High Cost

 

Q # 2: Consider following network Topology and answer the questions given below. (5)

(i) Identify type/name of topology used in the figure above?

 

Mesh

 

(ii) If we have to decrease network cost then which type of measure (s) / action (s) we must take.

(Remember the figure given above while answering this question)

 

Convert into star topology

CS101 Assignment No. 4 Announced

Assignment No. 4
Semester: FALL 2010

CS101 Introduction to Computing


Total Marks: 15

 

Due Date:

January 17, 2011


Q # 1:  Suppose ABC Company have an office in Lahore. It has currently 50 computers. Now, Management is going to buy a new building in front of old building. They want to extend their network between these two buildings with 50 new computers. : 

 

Answer the questions given below in scenario described above. (5 * 2 = 10 Marks)

 

(i)                 If they can afford good budget, which cable will be suitable for networking. (You have to provide two best options. Option 1 has higher priority than Option 2)

 

(ii)               Which network Topology will be better in building network in new building.

 

(iii)             Which network Topology will be better in building network between two buildings.

 

(iv)             Which network device(s) will be used to connect two networks?


       v)  If we use wireless network between two buildings, what will be drawbacks or risks? (you have to describe two points)

 

 

Q # 2: Consider following network Topology and answer the questions given below. (5)


(i)                 Identify type/name of topology used in the figure above?

 

(ii)               If we have to decrease network cost then which type of measure (s) / action (s) we must take. (Remember the figure given above while answering this question)

 

Deadline:

Your assignment must be uploaded on or before January 17, 2011.

Friday, January 7, 2011

Eco402 Assignment No. 2 Announced

The following table shows the cost of the shoe manufacturing firm in Millions of Rupee. Calculate the missing columns; Total cost, Average fixed cost, Average variable cost, Average total cost and Marginal cost.

Rate of
Output
Fixed
cost
Variable
cost
Total
cost
Average
fixed
cost
Average
variable
cost
Average
total cost
Marginal
cost
0 20 0
1 20 40
2 20 60
3 20 70
4 20 75
5 20 90
6 20 120
7 20 170
(Each column contains 2 Marks)

Fin622 Assignment No. 2 Announcement

Assignment No.2
Dated: Jan 07, 11

Semester "Fall 2010"
"Corporate Finance (Fin622)"
This is to inform that an Assignment No. 2 (covering video lecture no. 1 to lecture no 30) will be uploaded on VULMS according to the following schedule

Schedule
Opening Date and Time
January 10 , 2011 At 12:01 A.M. (Mid-Night)

Closing Date and Time
January 13 , 2011 At 11:59 P.M. (Mid-Night)

Note: Only in the case of Assignment, 24 Hrs extra / grace period after the above mentioned due date is usually available to overcome uploading difficulties which may be faced by the students on last date. This extra time should only be used to meet the emergencies and above mentioned due dates should always be treated as final to avoid any inconvenience.

Fin621 Assignment No. 2 Announcement

Assignment # 2 
Dated: Jan 07, 11 

Semester "Fall 2010"
"Financial Statement Analysis (Fin621)"
This is to inform that the Assignment No. 2 (covering video lecture no. 1 to lecture no 30)will be uploaded on VULMS according to the following schedule

Schedule
Opening Date and Time
January 10 , 2011 At 12:01 A.M. (Mid-Night)
Closing Date and Time
January 13 , 2011 At 11:59 P.M. (Mid-Night)

Note: Only in the case of Assignment, 24 Hrs extra / grace period after the above mentioned due date is usually available to overcome uploading difficulties which may be faced by the students on last date. This extra time should only be used to meet the emergencies and above mentioned due dates should always be treated as final to avoid any inconvenience.

Mgt503 Assignment No. 2 Announced.

"Principles of Management (MGT503)" Assignment No. 2 Marks:20

"Strategy Development & Resource Allocation Decisions "

Q) Ali and Co. has its presence all over the globe and it is operating with 4 SBUs (strategic business units). Each unit is operating independently and has its' own structure and financial schemas. Though, economy is suffering from rescission but Ahmed Ali, CEO is very optimistic and he visions for profitability and prosperity even in desperate times. Since, year 2010 has been closed and all financial data have been consolidated.

Following is the information about the 4 Divisions and you are required to categorize and identify each Division into BCG Matrix.  20 Marks


Opening Date and Time 7 Jan , 2011 At 12:01 A.M. (Mid-Night)

Due Date and Time 12 Jan , 2011 At 11:59 P.M. (Mid-Night)

Mgt201 Assignment Announcement

"Financial Management (MGT201)"
This is to inform that Assignment (covering video lecture # 01 to lecture # 31) will be uploaded on VULMS according to the following schedule

Schedule

Opening Date and Time
January 10, 2011 At 12:01 A.M. (Mid-Night)

Closing Date and Time
January 13, 2011 At 11:59 P.M. (Mid-Night)

Note: Only in the case of Assignment, 24 Hrs extra / grace period after the above mentioned due date is usually available to overcome uploading difficulties which may be faced by the students on last date. This extra time should only be used to meet the emergencies and above mentioned due dates should always be treated as final to avoid any inconvenience.

Important:
1. For acquiring the relevant knowledge, do not rely only on handouts but watch the course video lectures, which can be downloaded for free from www.youtube.com/vu, and also use other reference books
2. For planning your semester activities in an organized manner, you are advised to view schedule of upcoming Assignments, Quizzes and GDBs in the overview tab of the course website on VU-LMS.

Thursday, January 6, 2011

Mgt101 Online Quiz No. 3 Announcement

MGT101 - Financial Accounting

On-Line Quiz (No.03) Announcement Dated: Jan 03, 11 

On-Line Quiz (No.03) Announcement

Quiz will cover video lecture no. 1 to 30

Schedule

Opening Date and Time
January 06, 2011 At 12:01 AM (Mid-Night)

Closing Date and Time
January 10, 2011 At 11:59 PM (Mid-Night)