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MATH XXXXXXXXXXQuantitative Methods for Business
Assignment 2 (SP5 2017)
DUE: Monday 23rd October by 10:00 AM (Morning)This assignment must be completed using this template.
You may add extra sections to this template, change the visual style including font, colour, you can add a company logo, extra figures, tables, etc., as you see fit, however the questions must be answered in either the Report Body or Appendix, as indicated in this template, otherwise the answer will not be marked.
Please do not rea
ange the order of the template or condense the appendices into the report. There needs to be two distinct sections (Report + Appendices) to replicate a business report.
Submission Instructions
· Assignment submission is via Gradebook. Before submitting, save your file as follows:
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· Once submitted, do not edit any electronic files of your work.
Assignment Instructions
· This assignment covers Weeks 4-7 and counts for 15% of your overall grade:
Assignment component
Mark
Business report
62
Appendices
78
Presentation
10
TOTAL
150
· Assignments submitted late, without an extension being granted, will attract a penalty of 10 marks per each working day or any part thereof beyond the due date and time. Please refer to the Course Outline for the course policy regarding extensions.
· An inco
ectly or partially filled cover sheet will result in lost marks and delays in the marking and return of your assignment.
· Not deleting the pages/text as requested will result in a loss of presentation marks.
· Your assignment submission should be typed and observe the page limits. Hand-written answers will be disregarded.
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Plagiarism
Plagiarism is a specific form of academic misconduct. We encourage and support working in groups and seeking help, however your final submission must always represent your individual work, opinions and recommendations.
If plagiarism is found, all parties involved will be penalised. You need to retain all your assignment computer files (Excel, Word etc.), which must remain unchanged after submission, for the purposes of checking, if required.
Plagiarism covers, but is not limited to, the following actions:
· Direct copying of the work of other persons, from one or more source, without clearly indicating the origin;
· Sending your files to another student for any reason whatsoever, even for the purposes of checking or comparing work;
· Submitting another student’s work in whole or in part;
· Submitting work that has been written by someone else on the student’s behalf;
· Copying computer files without clearly indicating their origin;
· Submitting work that has been derived, in whole or in part, from another student’s work by a process of mechanical transformation (e.g. changing variable names in computer files, paraphrasing);
· A group-based effort to produce one assignment shared between individuals. Working together is encouraged, however each written assignment submitted by each student must be written in its entirety by the individual student, including running analyses, producing Excel spread sheets other than the templates provided on the Course website and report writing. Working together where one individual types the collective thoughts of a group/produces analyses and/or spread sheets and then shares these files will be investigated for plagiarism.
All parties found to be involved in academic misconduct will incur, if appropriate, a penalty and a record in the University's Academic Integrity Database (UniSA Assessment and Procedures Manual 2017, Section 9, Clause 9.2.3 i.).
If you are unsure about what constitutes Academic Integrity,
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Based on your previous analytical report to the CLO (who didn’t have to go on Weight Watchers from all the cupcakes!), Q! – Casa has decided to expand into Europe. Well done! You deserve a box of cupcakes
Setting up a new business requires a lot of planning and the company wants you to conduct another analysis to help them start off on the right foot. The CLO has decided to task you with investigating the prices per stay of Q! – Casa’s competitors, and determine what is the most typical price per stay. This will help inform how the company prices each stay and how low and high the prices should be set. The last thing CLO wants is to be greedy and overcharge travellers but also he doesn’t want the company to go under if he undercharges either. Don’t wo
y, the CLO has collected the data for you and has given it to you to get your hands dirty. This is just the start of your analysis though to get you on the right track and to help you understand the data collected. Next you are put in charge of a few initiatives for the European arm of the company.
One of the initiatives you have been tasked with is to develop a model to determine the maximum revenue Q! – Casa stands to earn from selling rooms to travellers. However, the CLO has a list of constraints for the business which needs to be meet. The next initiative is to liaise with the marketing team to understand and provide insights on the cost of advertising given the price of a listing. The CLO wants you to determine if there is a relationship between the costs of advertising and the price of a listing, and if so then build a model to predict the advertising costs given the price of a stay per day which the marketing team can use to set their daily advertising budgets.
Finally, the big question which the CLO is debating the most ideal location to set up in Eastern Europe by analysing the sale counts of stays over various locations. He wants the location to be close to where all the sales are happening to keep a
east of hosts and travellers. However, his gut is wanting somewhere warm and luxurious because he wants to relax on the beach regularly when he makes visits to the office. Your task here will determine the fate of the company and your CLO’s happiness. Let’s hope it’s nice, warm and luxurious there!
You need to prepare a report for the CLO once again summarising your analyses. The cupcake loving-boss has promised you a promotion and an all-expenses paid trip to the Amalfi Coast. You need to assess whether Q! - Casa will continue to be a massive success in the future and how the European arm will function. So a luxury escape here you come….
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Course code and title: MATH 1053 – Quantitative Methods for Business
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Assignment number: 2
Due date: by 10 am, Monday 23rd October, 2017
Assignment topic as stated in Course Outline: Case Study Report
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I authorise the University to test any work submitted by me, using text comparison software, for instances of plagiarism. I understand this will involve the University or its contractor copying my work and storing it on a database to be used in future to test work submitted by others.
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The report length needs to be as follows:
Introduction: At most 3 paragraphs or 1 page, whichever is the shortest. You should discuss the analyses that will be presented, for all four of the report body questions.
Report Body: A maximum of 2 pages of writing, excluding figures and tables. If you include figures and/or tables, we will look at the equivalent of 2 pages of writing (i.e. we will take into account you have provided figures and tables!).
We will not mark more than 2 pages of writing (excluding figures and tables), so ensure you stay within these limits.
Conclusion & Recommendations: At most 3 paragraphs or 1 page, whichever is the shortest. You should discuss the analyses that will be presented, for all four report body questions.
Font Type: up to you, but keep in mind it should be easy to read – make it easy for us to give you marks!
Font Size: minimum 11pt (it shouldn’t look smaller than this!)
Any text or font size smaller than this sentence will incur 0 marks.
(this is too small! Don’t make your text this small!!! )
Suggested Assignment Work Timeline:
If you’re not sure how to start the assignment, a suggested work
eakdown schedule is below. Feel free to use it (or ignore it) as you like
Also, some people like to complete each appendix and then write it up in the report, others prefer to complete all appendices and then write up the report in one go. Do whichever suits you!
The weeks below indicate which week the lecture covers the material. The report can be written at any time (we don’t cover this in lectures ).
· Week 6: Appendix 1. Easie
· Week 4: Appendix 2. Harde
· Week 7: Appendix 3 Medium.
· Week 5: Appendix 4 Medium.
· Report body write-up and SUBMIT! Yay! Harder.
Introduction
(3 marks)
Purpose
Provide a qualitative description of report contents/problems addressed in the report (covering Appendices 1-4) and what insights the analyses will provide.
Write this introduction after you have a clear understanding of the content of your report.
Ensure you have given specific details as to what the report will contain. Follow the length guideline (given on the previous page).
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