Individual Personal Journal E-Portfolio PACE

Week 1
In this semester I have an community service course which require me to teach a premier school in a random school. For me it's really fun, but at the same time hard. I am not really good at teaching kids, cause you have to be patient and I am not really that kind of person. But I have to try though, luckily I'm not mad when I teach them. For many people I look scary, cause I'm really big. So when I was teach I ask one of the kids "am I scary?" and the kid really not say anything. My friend come and say "it's okey he won't mad?" and the kid slowly nod. It really fun and what I learn from this event is to be patient about other people. Different people have different personality, skill, knowledge and social skill. What I learn the most is how to explain something in the really simple sentences. Cause when we teach kids we have explain in really simple way. For me it's easy to explain to people who have the same knowledge and social skill, but when you teach kids it's really different things. To be hones this is my first time I teaching kids. In the past I never want to teach  kids, cause I know that I will easily get mad, I teach kids using complex explanation. For the first we asked to teach the kids about maths and I really surprise, the kids that I teach still not good simple mathematics like additions and substations for a 14 years girls. So yeah, I really learn about patient in that time. The other problem is I cannot use English, luckily I can speak bahasa melayu. Cause I came from Indonesia, bahasa Melayu and bahasa Indonesia, but still it's hard to explain. Other people teach kids that can speak English and know a little bit about maths. For second part I have to teach they how to read in English. My student, she can speak really well however she does not know what that mean, after that the times is up. We do not have the changes to teach all the material

Week 2
I did not come.

week 3
We came at the class for the preparation for the kids to come to Taylors. last week i did not come because I have a submission, so today did not have any group for the event. luckily there also someone who was not coming last week, so I can be one group for the project. at first I wanted to be a part to the event group, which most of my friend are. however the part is already full, so I take the arrival part  because there are only two of us. if we take other part it will be hard to do, event they still other group from other tutorial help. but it will be a hard for us to find out. after discussing what part that we will take, we ask the other group to explains to us what we have to do in this part. so we just have to take the kids to the class where they will be doing all the activity and help other group if there need any.

week 4
Today we go to the kids' school to teach them about budgeting with a task. so basically we have to form a group for the kids to work with. after that we explain what the task is, so they have to make a "party" where there are 21 people coming, we have RM 150 and we have to decide what we will buy for all the people. they given a list of name and price in the super market, a paper and a glue. after they already done the task they have to present it to the class. in my group it's really hard to handle because there are 3 Chinese and 2 Indian. they have a hard time to get along, because of different ethnic group. they work with their own friends and use their own langue. at first there still no conflict and after the work started they start to arguing each other. it's quiet hard because most of the mentor are not really active, but after a little bit of help from my friend we manage to make they finish the task. even though not all contribute, just one of the Chinese group is participate and one of the Indian are get mad because she get ask over and over again for the calculation of the money, even in the end she is the one who is wrong in the end, and we also have a hard time to chose the one who present the task. in the end we give a part for each of them to present.

week 5

Today is the last day we will meet the kids. for me is not that sad, cause I do not really teach one particular kids in pass week, noting special for me. However because of miss communication, I do not know that they come at 9.30 AM, I think that they will come at 10.00 AM. so I come to Taylors at 9.30 AM. when I come, I try to contact the teacher. after I know the kids have come. I run to place where the event is, and ask the teacher "is there any things I can help?". the teacher ask me to help written the name of the kids to the books. all of us have to put a motivation quote at the book. I written to never give up on your dreams. 

Reflective Journal Accounting Final Exam

In preparing final exam, I plan to study in a group with my friends and find seniors from the previous semester to teach me and my group. In one week given to prepare the final exam I plan to study accounting first and then the other subject because if I learn accounting last but I have the other subject first in the exam than all in my mind is accounting, then I have to study all over again for that particular subject. I will be more focus on what I cannot in this subject, I already quiet understand about the LIFO, FIFO, average cost, stage line, double declining, and the unit of production from the Fresh Mart Assignment and the lecture note. But the rest of the revision from the teacher I have not completely remembered and understand. I will learn all from the revision from the lecture.

I really confident in doing this exam, as all my friends are really strong in the accounting and I have accounting back ground in high school. However I have problem in the English, I have not got used to the English in the accounting. I usually was using Bahasa Indonesia in high school and I already study the English in the accounting with my friend. So I think that i will make it in the final exam and achieve the mark that I've made.

Reflective Journal Accounting Fresh Mart

From the this group assignment, I learn to be more careful in the sales as giving the goods to the costumers like, the weight of the fruits have to be accurate and in giving information to the accouter in the transactions. The other thing that I learn is how team work is a huge part in business and our team work is really good, we managed to sell all the goods with a lesser time compare with the other group. The last thing that I learn is how the accounting being applies in the really business.

Reflective Journal Business Communication Group Assignment

From the group assignment business report I have faced many obstacles and simplicity. There things that went well while the proses of the assignment are when we want to go to interview one of the employee in Lam Soon company. Because I am an international student, it’s hard for me to move around. But one of our group mates was initiative to help us in transportation. The other thing that went well is, the company is giving a lot of information for the assignment like the answer in the interview, the briefing presentation, and the slides of power point that help us a lot. Also our team works also quite good, we tents to help each other when someone has a problem. However, we also have many difficulties like the time agreement, lack of idea, and miscommunication. The first problem is the time agreement. Because we came from many back ground, we have many different activities that became our obstacles to arranging the time where everyone can come to interview in Lam soon. But we have solved the problem by move all the appointment to do this interview. The second problem is we often get stuck in some part of the group. But all of us try to share our own idea about that part where we get stuck and that work really well and also help the reference part because some of our group mates cannot do the reference part. The last part is the miscommunication, while we are doing our assignment we mostly communicate with social network like facebook and what’s app in phone. By using social network some time it’s hard for us to get the real massage that our group mate try to say. That’s why misunderstanding is part of our problem. But we learn that when we want to discuss something important is batter to spend a little time after the class. That will be much more efficient to do rater then using social network to communicate. Form this assignment I learn that there are many type of workers like last minute people or people who have to work form and many more and also I learn that we have to know which one has to be priorities first. Also I learn to be more faith full to the rest of the group mates not to depend too much on your own and the last one is always be aware when some things goes wrong always have a contingency plan in your head.

Cadbury Individual Assigment

In 1824, Cadbury was founded by John Cadbury. John Cadbury starts to sell tea, coffee, and drinking chocolate, in Birmingham, England. He later moved into the production of a variety of chocolates and drinking chocolates like nowadays, he has a factory in Bridge Street and his costumer target is for the high income because the high cost of production. John Cadbury tries to work with his brother Benjamin and the company’s name changes to 'The Cadbury Brothers of Birmingham'. In 1905, Cadbury sell its Dairy Milk bar, which give a higher dose of milk than previous chocolate, by producing the Dairy Milk bar, Cadbury became the company's best-selling product in that year, they have £85 million per year. In 1915 more than 2000 employees is send to the arm by force and to support the war by giving clothing books and chocolate to the soldiers. They combine Fruit and Nut to the Dairy Milk line in 1928, soon followed by Whole Nut in 1933. By this point, Cadbury is one of the brand leaders worldwide. In 2010-2012 Cadbury is under Kraft Company, but now Cod bury is under Mondelez International. Kraft food made a £10.2 billion to takeover Cadbury. 

Cadbury was a luxury enjoyed by the elite society, because of the high cost of producing.  However today Cadbury is not a luxury good anymore, they targeted customers is middle income and high income. The demand for Cadbury is inelastic. The price of the product can be changes by the company’s will that because the quantity is relatively less responsive to the price changes. Therefore, the price elasticity of demand is really useful in the business world by helping the company to build the price for the product. In 2011 the price of sugar is increase by RM 0.20 per kg. The original price is RM 2.30 per kg become RM 2.50 per kg. So the price of Cadbury increase from RM 5 to RM 6, the demand is decreasing from 100 units to 90 units. However the total revenue increase from RM 500 to RM 540, from that we know that Cadbury is a inelastic good.

Cadbury has oligopoly market structure. Oligopoly basically is a market structure where there only a few companies or firms that dominate the markets. The image below show much money that people spent to buy chocolate in 2009. Cadbury and Kraft the highest 17.2%, follow by Mars 16.1%, Nestle 14.2%, and Ferrero 8%.

Cadbury has down sloping demand curve, when the price is at P1 point and the output is at the Q1 point then Cadbury has the maximum profit. Because if Cadbury placing the price above the P1 point the demand will be elastic, people will tents to find the new substituted for the chocolate cause of the high price of the product. However if Cadbury put the price below the P1 point then the demand will be inelastic, people will buy Cadbury because of the low price that offered from the firm.

 

The price determinant of Cadbury is affected by the tax from the government, the raw materials and the customer’s trust. The text gives a big impact to the selling price of Cadbury’s goods, in 2009, Cadbury was given tax by the government and the effect is the profit is decreasing from £ 134 to £ 112. However the revenue is increasing from £ 2440 to £ 2767. That because the sales of chocolate is 10% stronger than before in UK, India and South Africa. When the raw materials price become higher, Cadbury does not increase the price instate they cut down the weight of the chocolate form the 140g to 120g. The reason is so they can maintain the costumer even though that is a bit risky, that will be more risky if they increase the price. Cadbury are using many type of cocoa trees from many countries like South and Central America, West African and Asia.

Cadbury’s risk factors are financial condition, result of operation, nature impact. Cadbury’s industry may give a bad impact to the nature like air pollution and sound pollution. The government may change the regulation in the country because of Cadbury’s industry. That will give negative impact to many areas like producing, distribution, labeling and the sale of the product. The changes that Cadbury has to make will be costly to the company. The sale will decrease because of the reputation of the company already bad in the society. People will have a bad image to Cadbury and the sale of the product will decreasing cause of people prefer to other chocolate company which is more ecofriendly or go green. The government will charge taxes to Cadbury.

As we all know that when there is a tax and the demand curve is inelastic, the costumer is paying more the tax than the company. That will lead the company to have extra payment because of the tax and even the demand curve is inelastic, when you raise the price of the product there will be  a few customer who will not buy the product. Then the company will definitely have a decreasing the profits compare with the previous year.

In order to get profit in the company, raw material is the first factor that affects the cost and the price. So Cadbury has come out with a policy to lower the cost of production in raw material, like candy, gum and chocolate. Cadbury also has a supply chain team. The team function is making sure of the supply that will be given to the company like in sourcing of raw materials, packaging materials, planning, manufacturing, distribution and customer services, as well as quality and safety of products, and employee safety. The team also has helped Cadbury to build a good relationship with other companies that can supply them. After doing this Cadbury will get cheaper price of the raw material, therefore Cadbury can lower the cost in producing but they can sell the product in the same price, then they can increase the profit. Cadbury has invested around £45 million in cocoa. Cadbury also has a policy to cut down the weight of the chocolate bar instead of increasing the price like in the third paragraph. Cadbury also has many properties as special farms, in other countries. 

 

Cadbury has investing around £45 million in cocoa for over the next 10 years. The investment not only for the cocoa but also for other reason like guaranteeing a reliable, long-term source of the right quality cocoa, and the right quality of life for those who grow the cocoa. Cadbury cocoa partnership based on the willingness to supporting the cocoa growing, increase the cocoa farmers’ income in Ghana, India and Indonesia. Cadbury also has invested £1m in 2008 in seed fund for the cocoa and plan to rise to £5m in 2010. 

The targeted costumer is at the middle age people. Base on the interview that they have made form the costumers. The reason the Cadbury target middle age people because they already have income, and Cadbury thinks that by targeting the middle age they also can receive their feedback about a policy that they have made and knowing how to improve the product. Beside the middle age people are rarely get sick or disease like diabetic. Many of the old timers not like chocolate because of that.

By looking in Cadbury’s condition, the firm will be batter in the upcoming years, Because Cadbury play safe in the business. Cadbury has come out with many products to attract the costumers, as people have many kind of factor that affecting the taste. Like Cadbury Dairy Milk, Cadbury Luxury, and many more. The proved many chose to the costumers and they keep innovate the product. Cadbury also come out with many policies that help the company a lot like invested in the primary needs for their product. Cadbury also have spent much money buying farms in many countries, they really prepare in both the long-term plan and the short-term. Cadbury also choose to cut down the weight instead of increase the price of the product. Cadbury has though that both the revenue and the profits are come from the external and trends that alter the environment. All that can be changes in their business and the internal management strategy, from doing that they can improve their business. 

Reference

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