1. INTRODUCTION The phenomena of calendar effects in stock markets seem to be a center of curiosity for many researchers across the world. Following many studies about the significance of calendar anomalies‚ testing the presence of Monday effect and January effect appears to be an area of interest. The aim of this study is to discuss about calendar anomalies and its significance. It should be noted that the study will focus mainly on Monday effect and January effect on the stock returns of companies
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Automated Meter Reading and Load Shed System Problem: A manufacturer of cable TV systems wanted to provide a system that would allow a utility company to be able to read the power meters and control the power consumption (load control) using their cable plant as the communications medium. The system would communicate to a given house through the CATV system and then be sent to the client devices using the home power lines so that no additional wiring would be required. Solution: We developed
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Gantt Chart A Gantt chart‚ commonly used in project management‚ is one of the most popular and useful ways of showing activities (tasks or events) displayed against time. On the left of the chart is a list of the activities and along the top is a suitable time scale. Each activity is represented by a bar; the position and length of the bar reflects the start date‚ duration and end date of the activity. This allows us to see at a glance: What the various activities are When each activity begins and
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Project Baseline PM 584 Riordan Manufacturing Project Baseline Riordan Manufacturing is a global plastics manufacturer which employees over 500 people with annual earnings of $46 million. Riordan has plants in Albany‚ Ga‚ Pontiac‚ MI‚ San Jose‚ CA. and Hangzhou‚ China. The corporate headquarters is located in San Jose‚ their major contracts are with automotive parts manufacturers‚ Department of Defense‚ beverage makers and appliance manufactures. The company has a reputation in the
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1a) Network Diagram & Gantt Chart: Critical Path The critical path for the Nottingham Rugby Stadium project is: Clear site – Drive support piles – Pour lower concrete base – Build roof supports – Construct roof – Install roof – Inspection This means these activities have no slack and therefore any delay in them will lead to the whole project being delayed. Project Duration The project commences on the Monday June 2nd 2008‚ and finishes on Friday January 14th 2011‚ which means work
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What are some of the advantages and disadvantages of shortening project schedules? In some situations project manager will have to get the project schedule shortened. One method for accomplishing this is by shortening the durations of the activities in the critical path. This can be done by allocating more resources to perform the activities or by making changes in the scope. Project Crashing and Fast Tracking are two methods useful for shortening the project schedule. Crashing
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from making an effective decision. This is all too clear when looking at the Veterans Benefits Administration‚ and how they handle their customers. The following diagram depicts the Veterans Benefits Administration Organization (Organization Chart - Veterans Benefits Administration‚ 2012): [pic] Figure 1 The Veterans Benefits Administration organization is a vertically structured government agency. The structure shows how the different regional offices do not have the means to communicate
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SUPPLEMENTAL APPENDIX PROJECT SCHEDULES WITH PERT/CPM CHARTS Chapter 3 of Systems Analysis and Design in a Changing World explains the techniques and steps required to build a project schedule using the Gantt chart view in MS Project. This appendix provides a similar explanation of how to build a project schedule‚ but it is based on using a PERT/CPM chart or diagram for the schedule format. A Gantt chart and a PERT/CPM chart both provide essentially the same information about project activities and tasks
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GANTT CHART FOR SECURED COMPUTERIZED GRADING SYSTEM In this project we have this specific list to complete our proposed system; Secured Computerized Grading System. We arranged it by week so it can clearly show the breakdown of the entire task we did. Our first task is to complete our Assignments. We completed this task within 26 days. We started November 14‚ 2013 and finished it December 10‚ 2013. Under our Assignments‚ there are 9 specific tasks. First is for the Project Title‚ Objective
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What is a project schedule? A project schedule consists of a list of project (terminal) elements with an intended start and finish dates. The project terminal elements are the lowest element within a schedule that are not subdivided but estimated in terms of a resource requirement‚ a budget and duration. The project schedule is use by the project manager as a tool for the work breakdown structure known as the WBS. The project schedule remains preliminary until the resource assignments have been
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