StudyChamps to integrate LearnDash LMS

StudyChamps to integrate LearnDash LMS

We at StudyChamps were looking for the right platform to expand our educational website and take it to the next level. I must mention that it was really a very time consuming and difficult task to evaluate various LMS platforms available until we came across LearnDash. I was pleasantly surprised to see that it covers most facilities we were looking for, and we started our journey towards embracing the new platform. Even before we purchased LearnDash, it was very evident that the team was very willing to support and prompt in resolving queries. We are now working on the LearnDash platform backstage now.

 

StudyChamps is an educational portal which provides free Math, English and Science resources for kids for more than 2 years now. With the increasing popularity and requests for specific content, facility to track progress of kids etc. made it imperative to upgrade the platform to a learning management system. We are quite excited with LearnDash and very soon we will roll out the subject courses for kids specific needs based on LearnDash. We thank all our followers, kids, their parents and teachers for their continued support. We also thank LearnDash team for the support and helping us with the right suggestions and guidance.

 

Gearing Ratio

Gearing Ratio

Gearing focuses on the capital structure of the business. The gearing ratio is the proportion of a company's debt to its equity. A high gearing ratio represents a high proportion of debt to equity, and a low gearing ratio represents a low proportion of debt to equity. Gearing also known as "leverage" measures the proportion of assets invested in a business that are financed by long-term borrowing.

A high gearing ratio is indicative of a great deal of leverage, where a company is using debt to pay for its continuing operations. The higher the level of borrowing (gearing) the higher are the risks to a business. However, gearing can be a financially sound part of a business's capital structure particularly if the business has strong, predictable cash flows.

A company with high gearing is more vulnerable to downturns in the business cycle because the company must continue to service its debt regardless of how bad sales are. A high gearing ratio is less of a concern where a business is in a monopoly situation and its regulators are likely to approve rate increases that will guarantee its continued survival.

A low gearing ratio is indicative of conservative financial management. It may also mean that a company is located in a highly cyclical industry, and so cannot afford to become overextended in the face of a downturn in sales and profits.

The formula for calculating gearing is:

Long-term debt + Short-term debt + Bank overdrafts
Shareholders' equity

 

Game Theory

Game Theory

 

Game theory is a study of strategic decision making. More formally, it is "the study of mathematical models of conflict and cooperation between intelligent rational decision-makers". Game theory is mainly used in economics, political science, and psychology, as well as logic and biology. The subject first addressed zero-sum games, such that one person's gains exactly equal net losses of the other participant(s). Today, however, game theory applies to a wide range of behavioral relations, and has developed into an umbrella term for the logical side of decision science, to include both human and non-humans, like computers.

The games studied in game theory are well-defined mathematical objects. A game consists of a set of players, a set of moves (or strategies) available to those players, and a specification of payoffs for each combination of strategies. Most cooperative games are presented in the characteristic function form, while the extensive and the normal forms are used to define non-cooperative games.

The normal (or strategic form) game is usually represented by a matrix which shows the players, strategies, and pay-offs. More generally it can be represented by any function that associates a payoff for each player with every possible combination of actions.

The extensive form can be used to formalize games with a time sequencing of moves. Games here are played on trees.  In this each vertex (or node) represents a point of choice for a player. The player is specified by a number listed by the vertex. The lines out of the vertex represent a possible action for that player. The payoffs are specified at the bottom of the tree. The extensive form can be viewed as a multi-player generalization of a decision tree.

Balanced Scorecard

Balanced Scorecard

Balanced scorecard (BSC) is an approach to performance measurement.  It is a strategy performance management tool.  A balanced scorecard is a set of performance measures constructed for four dimensions of performance. The four dimensions are:

• Financial: encourages the identification of a few relevant high-level financial measures. In particular, designers were encouraged to choose measures that helped inform the answer to the question "How do we look to shareholders?"
• Customer: encourages the identification of measures that answer the question "How do customers see us?"
• Internal business processes: encourages the identification of measures that answer the question "What must we excel at?"
• Learning and growth: encourages the identification of measures that answer the question "How can we continue to improve, create value and innovate?"

The balanced scorecard is ultimately about choosing measures and targets. The various design methods proposed are intended to help in the identification of these measures and targets, usually by a process of abstraction that narrows the search space for a measure.

National Debt

National Debt

National debt is the total amount owed by central government which has accumulated over time. It is the total amount of borrowing accumulated by the government that is still outstanding. It is the total amount that the government owes to individuals and institutions.