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Table of Contents
Activity 1.........................................................................................................................................2
Activity 2.........................................................................................................................................5
Activity 3.........................................................................................................................................6
Activity 4.........................................................................................................................................9
Activity 5.......................................................................................................................................11
Activity 6.......................................................................................................................................12
Activity 7.......................................................................................................................................13
Activity 8.......................................................................................................................................14
References......................................................................................................................................15

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Activity 1
Dr. Purchases a/c Cr
Date Particulars
L/
F Amount Date Particulars
L/
F
Amoun
t
1-Feb To Kate a/c 5001 28-Feb By balance a/c 34553
1-Feb To Harry a/c 29552
34553 34553
Dr Kate a/c Cr
Date Particulars L/F Amount Date Particulars L/F
Amoun
t
6-Feb To Bank 5001 1-Feb By purchases 5001
5001 5001
Dr Harry a/c Cr
Date Particulars L/F Amount Date Particulars L/F
Amoun
t
17-Feb To cash 29552 1-Feb By purchases 29552
29552 29552
Dr Catering Cr
Date Particulars L/F Amount Date Particulars L/F Amoun

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t
28-Feb To balance 2008 14-Feb By bank 2008
2008 2008
Dr Bank a/c Cr
Date Particulars
L/
F Amount Date Particulars
L/
F
Amoun
t
14-Feb To catering 2008
6-
Feb By Kate 5001
28-Feb To balance(overdraft) 2993
5001 5001
Dr Sales beverage Cr
Date Particulars L/F Amount Date Particulars L/F
Amoun
t
28-Feb To balance 42493 3-Feb By cash 11203
10-Feb By cash 8966
17-Feb By cash 11710
24-Feb By cash 10614
42493 42493
Dr Sales food Cr
Date Particulars L/F Amount Date Particulars L/F
Amoun
t
28-Feb To balance 6837 3-Feb By cash 1824
By cash 1687
By cash 1611

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By cash 1715
6837 6837
Dr Cash a/c Cr
Date Particulars
L/
F Amount Date Particulars
L/
F
Amoun
t
3-
Feb To sales beverage 11203 17-Feb By Harry 29552
3-
Feb To sales food 1824 28-Feb By Balance 19778
10-
Feb To sales beverage 8966
10-
Feb To sales food 1687
17-
Feb To sales beverage 11710
17-
Feb To sales food 1611
24-
Feb To sales beverage 1715
24-
Feb To sales food 10614
49330 49330
Trial Balance
In the books of Carnival UK, Trial Balance
Particulars l/f Debit Credit
Purchases a/c 34553
Cash a/c 19778
Harry a/c
Kate a/c
Bank a/c 2993
Catering a/c 2008
Sales beverage 42493

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Sales food 6837
54331 54331
*All figures are in £
Activity 2
It is important to measure the overall financial performance of any business in order to
ensure that the firm is successfully able to gain success in the long run and it can also be
considered to be crucial that he firm is able to abide by certain parameters which will go a long
way in supporting the firm to measure its overall performance and also ensure that it is being
able to overcome the issue related to the poor overall performance (Bratton and Gold 2017).
Given below are the certain Key performance indicators which can be made use of in order to
understand the manner in which can organization can perform and to also understand how this
performance will assist in bringing about, adequate success to the firm in the long run.
Food Costs:
The food costs form the first measure which can be chosen by the organization in order to
measure the food cost per head of the different customers who visit the restaurant. It is a
considerate measure which is used by the different restaurants to understand the overall profits
which are earned on the different categories of food being served (Carnival UK (1) 2018).
Although this Key performance indicator is quite difficult to use, the different organizations need
to understand that, the use of this indicator for the restaurant is important and will assist them to
find out the exact costs.

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Figure 1: The KPI Process
(Source: Brewster and Hegewisch 2017).
Net sales
The net sales as earned by the restaurant serves as another useful measure which can be
made use of by the different restaurants to ensure that they are able to measure the amount of
sales as earned by the firm at a specific time frame (Carnivalcorp.com (2) 2018). The net sales
can be stated to be useful measurement which can be made use of by the different restaurants and
define the different costs to be spend by the firm. Based on this calculation, the firm will be able
to understand the key areas of spending and lower these expenditures to earn high number of
profits.
Activity 3
HR Life cycle of Food and Beverage manager on Cruise Ship

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The HR life cycle is the planning out of the entire tenure of the employee in an
organization and goes a long way in ensuring that, the employee is made to feel stable within the
firm and that he is successfully able to achieve and attain his long term objectives. The HR life
cycle of the Food and Beverage manager can be described as follows:
 Recruiting and selection: This forms the first stage of the HR lifecycle whereby the
manager will be recruited and he will made to undergo various tests which will help to
test his overall abilities (Carnivalcorp.com (2) 2018). Once this is done, he will then be
taken into the firm and his tenure as a manager will then begin.
 Orientation and Career Planning: In the second stage, the manager will be provided with
a brief orientation of the organization which means that he will be told about his role as a
manager and also about the overall duties as well as the responsibilities. He will be
provided with a brief overview of his career progression throughout his tenure and this
will guide him.
 Career development: The third stage of the career development cycle can be stated to be
the development of the career with respect to which he is made to advance through the
career and the promoted through the different levels of the firm. Once he is able to
engage in this successfully, then he will be able to ensure that, his time at the firm is
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Figure 2: The HR lifecycle
(Source: Brewster and Hegewisch 2017)
 Termination or transition: The termination or the transition is known as the last stage of
the HR life cycle with respect to which the manager will either undergo a termination or
he is transited through his position in the organization (Cascio 2015).
Importance of HR Life Cycles for Strategic Talent Management
The HR life cycle has a crucial role to play with respect to ensuring that the firm is
successfully able to meet its target of achieving the right amount of talent at the right time. Not
only does the Strategic Talent Management depends on the briefing and the overall teaching
given to the employee but will actually assist in ensuring that, the firm is able to attain its goals.

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Recommendations for improved documentation
The restaurant will be required to ensure considerable success by seeing to it that they are
able to document for the different employee records. Once these records are completed, only
then the firm would be able to use this at a future date in the long run. According to DeCenzo,
Robbins and Verhulst (2016), in order to retrieve data in the long run, it becomes crucial for the
firm to refer to this documentation and keep a note of it as it helps in long term decision making
for the organization.
Activity 4
Performance management Plan
Goals desired:
1. To resolve the negative behaviour of the staff
2. To see to it that the staff retention rate of the firm improves.
Actions to be adopted
The different actions which will be adopted by the firm will be as follows:
1. So as to overcome the negative behaviour behaviour of the staff, the managers would be
required to conduct a meeting with them on a one to one basis which will assist them in
understanding whether the firm will be able to attain success in the long run or not.
Through this, he employees will be asked about their problems and then will be taking
considerable measures to check whether the firm is performing adequately and what the
loopholes which exist are. This meeting and discussion will ensure that the firm is able to
correct its operations and check whether they are conducting their operations in the right
manner or not.

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2. So as to see to it that the problem of staff retention can be overcome, the firm would be
required to ensure that they conduct personal sessions with the different employees and
provide them incentives to work in the firm (DeCenzo, Robbins and Verhulst 2016).
These incentives might not necessarily be monetary incentives but may also be in the
form of benefits and other processes. Doing so would ensure that the firm would be able
to resolve the scenario and attain success in the long run.
Figure 3: The performance management cycle
(Source: Bratton and Gold 2017)
Measurement of improvement
The different measurements of improvement which may be followed in the workplace can be
stated to be as follows:
The improvement in the indicator of the staff turnover rate

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Improvement in the customer satisfaction rate.
Importance of HR Life cycle for overcoming the issues of staff retention
The Human resource life cycle has a crucial role to play in the staff turnover as well as it
provides a blue print of the exact path which the employee will be following in the organization
and it is through this blue print that the employee would be successfully able to identify the
different plans which the firm would be required to undertake in order to keep them associated
with the firm. This motivates the employee and assists them to perform adequately.
Activity 5
Specific legislation of the firm
The legislation which the business will be required to follow may be based by any
business regulations which are present in the United Kingdom and has to be abided by the firm
in general. As the Carnival UK is also a business operating as a service business then, it would
need to follow a particular set of laws and regulations which will assist the firm in attaining
considerate success (Noe et al. 2017). These laws which are important to be followed by the firm
can be stated to be laws like the law of Package Travel, Package Holidays and Package
Tours (Amendment) Regulations 1992 and Civil Aviation (Air Travel Organizer’s
Licensing) Regulations 2012. This will also go a long way in helping the firm to
attain success in the long run of the firm.
Impact of company, employment and contract law on the firm
The government and the state legislatives in order to protect the different rights of the
consumer will be required to come up with certain laws as well as legislatives which shall not
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protecting the customers. Once the customers will be protected, the overall aim of the
government in forming these rules becomes successful (Brewster, Chung and Sparrow 2016).
The company law helps the firm in many ways by determining the overall structure of the work,
it also helps in determining the structure of the workplace and ensuring that the employees are
able to work in suitable environment. The employee and contract laws are formed in order to
protect the different rights of the employees and related stakeholders as present in the
organization and in order to see to it that, the firm is able to ensure adequate success, in the long
run. Once any organization is able to abide by these laws, it becomes easier for them to conduct
the operations.
Activity 6
According to Chelladurai and Kerwin (2018) , the different regulations, legislations as
well as the ethical principles have had a long impact on the overall operations of the business. In
addition to this, it also has to be understood that, the different laws as well as the legislations of
the business, have a strong impact on the overall decision making capability of the business as
well. This is because, the regulations and rules have a capacity to either limit the overall
operations of the firm or to ensure that the business is able to carry out the different operations
successfully. The different business laws and legislations have the capacity to law down the
working hours of the individuals and in a similar context, they will be required to see to it that
their employees tend to work in the firm for those specific hours only (Mello 2014).
Additionally, the opening as well as the closing hours of the restaurant also depend on the
designated time itself. Abiding by these laws reflects basic ethical principles of the organization
and prevents the different fraudulent activities of the firm.

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Figure 4: The integrated departments
(Source: Brewster and Hegewisch 2017)
Activity 7
For the hospitality sector to ensure long term success, it is important for them to
undertake considerable steps which will not only assist the firm in attaining their goals but will
also assist them in overcoming the various operational barriers. Hence, with respect to this, the
different departments of the firm would be required to be integrated and their operations need to
be dependent on one another (Wright 2018). Without the dependence of one of the departments,
the operations of the entire firm might suffer. For instance, if an organization is required to serve
a customer then they would have to gather the efforts of all the employees together. This means
that, in the case of the hotel industry, if a customer asks for some item at his room, then the
accounting department, help desk, designated department and the room service gets impacted at

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the same time. These departments will be required to integrate and work together in order to see
to it that they will be successfully able to engage in the overall operations and present complete
services to the customers (Brewster and Hegewisch 2017). With respect to this, it can be
understood that the different functions are interrelated and that, hospitality segment would be
required to work accordingly to ensure complete service of the operations.
Activity 8
So as to ensure that the different departments of the firm specially that of the hospitality
industry are able to work together in harmony and are able to conduct the different operations in
tuning, there needs a considerable communication and cooperation between the different
members of the firm. This means that, they need to maintain a constant chain of communication
through mediums like text messages as well as the regular calls in a manner such that, they
would be successful in carrying out the operations of the firm. According to Chelladurai and
Kerwin (2018), many restaurants these days make use of the data base management system
which helps them to communicate easily with one another and this system also allows them to
take the orders easily which makes it easier to perform well. In this manner, there exists
additional clarity as the firm will be able to record all the transactions which take place between
the different employees and in addition to this the different employees would also not be blamed
if something goes wrong.
This additional system adds value to the overall operations of the firm as it helps in
carrying out the different operations successfully. In addition to this, the employees can also be
recommended to undertake training with respect to this, as it will allow the employees to carry
out the operations successfully (Wright 2018). The training which will be provided to the

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employees will help in further enriching the value chain as it will strengthen the overall human
resource support and encourage the system to perform well.
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