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وزارة التعليم
الجامعة السعودية اإللكترونية
Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
Ministry of Education
Saudi Electronic University
College of Administrative and Financial Sciences
Assignment-3
MGT425-Spreadsheet Decision Modeling
Due Date: 26/04/2025 @ 23:59 (End of Week 12)
Course Name: Spreadsheet Decision
Modeling
Course Code: MGT425
Student’s Name:
Semester: Second
CRN:
Student’s ID Number:
Academic Year: 2024-2025 (1446 H)
For Instructor’s Use only
Instructor’s Name:
Students’ Grade: Marks Obtained / Out of 10 Level of Marks: High/Middle/Low
General Instructions – PLEASE READ THEM CAREFULLY
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The Assignment must be submitted on Blackboard (WORD format only) via
allocated folder.
Assignments submitted through email will not be accepted.
Students are advised to make their work clear and well presented; marks may be
reduced for poor presentation. This includes filling your information on the cover
page.
Students must mention question number clearly in their answer.
Late submission will NOT be accepted.
Avoid plagiarism, the work should be in your own words, copying from students
or other resources without proper referencing will result in ZERO marks. No
exceptions.
All answered must be typed using Times New Roman (size 12, double-spaced)
font. No pictures containing text will be accepted and will be considered
plagiarism).
Submissions without this cover page will NOT be accepted.
Course Learning Outcomes-Covered
Course Learning Outcomes (CLOs)
Question
Find some structured ways of dealing with complex managerial
decision problems.
Explain simple decision models and management science ideas
that provide powerful and (often surprising) qualitative insight
about large spectrum of managerial problems.
Demonstrate the tools for deciding when and which decision
models to use for specific problems.
Build an understanding of the kind of problems that is tackled
using Spreadsheet Modeling and decision analysis.
Question-1
Aligned (PLOs)
MGT.K.1
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MGT.K.3
(1.2)
MGT.S.1
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MGT.V.1
(3.1)
Question-4
Question-2
Question-3
Assignment Instructions:
Assignment Questions: (Marks 10)
PART-A:
Data Exploration and Visualization (Critical Thinking)
Question 1: “Business analysts must know how to use data to derive business insights and
improve decisions” In context of this statement explain the vital reasons to use data by
analysts in business organizations. (250-300 Words) (2.5-Marks)
PART-B: Case Study
• Log in to Saudi Digital Library (SDL) via University’s website
• On first page of SDL, choose “English Databases”
• From the list find and click on EBSCO database.
• In the Search Bar of EBSCO find the following article:
Title: “Modeling Autonomous Decision-Making on Energy and Environmental
Management Using Petri-Net: Case Study”.
Author: Niken Prilandita, Benjamin McLellan, Tetsuo Tezuka.
Read the above case study and answer the following Questions:
Question 2: Explain the autonomous decision-making process, its advantages and
disadvantages (250-300 words) (2.5-Marks).
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Question 3: Discuss the Centralized and De-centralized Decision-Making Approaches with
suitable examples (250-300 words). (2.5-Marks).
Question 4: Why are the most decisions made on energy and environmental management
known as the decisions of community interest. (250-300 words) (2.5-Marks).
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