Increase your productivity

Increase your productivity

An important key to long term success is your dedication to continuous improvement. This will lead to your increased productivity and a conscious awareness of the need to set clear, specific goals for each area of your life.

Take responsibility for each action and step you take and take the needed steps to achieving your goals. Utilise your inborn talents and take the needed steps one day at a time and continue moving towards your goals.

Have a clear head and make sure you are taking a step at a time and gaining more and more skills and knowledge.

Be at your best at each stage you get to in your life, be determined not to make excuses and don’t accept slack.

A message from the Training Place

Our hearts and our condolences go out to our students and everybody out there that has lost a loved one. We've all been through this pandemic but thankfully, we've kept our heads held high and not let it get us down. We would like our students to join in the with us, and the rest of the country, in the one minute's silence at 12 noon.

Overhead absorption rate

 

OVERHEAD ABSORPTION RATE

JTM Ltd is looking to calculate the unit cost for one of its products. It needs to calculate an overhead absorption rate to apply to each unit. The methods it is considering are:

·         direct labour hours

·         machine hours

 

The factory activity forecast is as below:

Machine hours	15,000 hrs
Labour hours	21,000 hrs
Overheads	£672,000

 

(i) Complete the table below to show the possible overhead absorption rates that JTM Ltd could use.

	Machine hour	Labour hour
Overheads (£)
Activity
Absorption rate (£)

 

Answer:

	Machine hour	Labour hour
Overheads (£)	672,000	672,000
Activity	15,000 hrs	21,000 hrs
Absorption rate (£)	44.80	32.00

Classification of assets, liabilities, income and expenses

 

Brain Teaser: Number Puzzle

 

NUMBER PUZZLE
How quick and easy is this puzzle for you? Using the numbers below, complete these six equations (3 reading across
and 3 reading downwards). Every number is used only once.
		1		2		3
		4		5		6
		7		8		9
		x		-		=	15
	+		x		+
		-		x	3	=	21
	-		+		x
		x		+		=	17
	=		=		=
	10		11		84

Your Happiness is Important

 

YOUR HAPPINESS IS IMPORTANT

What makes you happy and what does happiness mean to you?

Some people will believe that making people happy will lead you to being happy! Is that a myth?

There has been a lot of challenges and deem issues that so many people would have been dealing with especially as we work through several lock downs and restrictions which pose their own challenges in the midst of confusion.

Amidst all doubt, reluctance, unwillingness; it is important to seek happiness and a balance in wellness and mental health.

Take the needed first step in identifying what makes you happy in a realistic context, because there may not be any need of identifying the fact that going sky diving in Hawaii will make you happy when there may not be any way for you to get to Hawaii in this current times. So, make it realistic.

Take the needed second step in setting out a plan on how to execute your happiness.

Take the needed next step in taking action to execute your plan.

We will like to encourage you to identify, plan and execute. Take it a step at a time and move forward towards attaining happiness and be SUCCESSFUL.