Author: chris

Management

1. Identify the ClientThe client can be your own work group or organization, a family business you are involved with, a business you worked for previously, a volunteer organization you work or have worked with, or a public or private company. The client you choose should be a small group or organization where you, as a consultant, can influence change. Do not select “the military” or “the U.S. government” or “Giant XYZ Corporation.”2. Identify the ProblemWith your knowledge of the client you have identified and the learning you have acquired to this point, identify a management problem you will investigate and for which you will provide recommended solutions. Only write a paper to identify the problem; do NOT try to solve it. What are the mission, vision, values, and goals of the company/division/workgroup?In considering the mission, vision, values, and goals, where does progress halt?Is there data to substantiate this or is it a perception of you and/or the manager?Who is involved: the manager, the employees, and/or stakeholders?How long has this problem existed?What and how are expectations and requirements communicated?When expectations or key deadlines are missed, what happens?What factors contribute to the problem (politics, structure, decision-making factors, etc.)?

Are technical skills or training contributing to the problem?Are there ethical issues relating to the problem?If so, how have those issues been handled to date?These questions do not all need to be answered, nor is this list all inclusive; they are provided to help you get started and inspire your own questions to explore

3. Conduct Needs AssessmentNow that you have identified a client and the management problem you will investigate, you will conduct a needs assessment. When conducting a needs assessment, you first identify the “what is” relating to the problem you have chosen to address and contrast that to “what should be.”Some questions you can explore to help you are:What is the problem?How does the desired performance relate to the mission statement?Is the problem organization-wide or isolated to one or a few individuals?Have organizational initiatives created the problem?Does the problem relate to individual performance issues?Is training adequate to support the desired outcome?Is the issue related to job design?What criteria is used to measure performance?Is performance criteria appropriate, i.e. attainable and measurable?

Are there Informational Technology issues related to this problem?These questions do not all need to be answered, nor is this list all inclusive; they are provided to help you get started and inspire your own questions to explore while completing this assignment.NOTE: You must have a minimum of two sources, neither of which can be Wikepedia.

Style Guidelines for the paper:

Use an APA formatted header on every page, including the title page.

Margins are 1 inch on all sides.

All content is double-spaced and left-justified.

Indent the first line of every paragraph five spaces or use the TAB key. Do not leave extra space between paragraphs.

Use Times New Roman 12-point font.

References should be on a separate page at the end of the paper.

Directions: Read the questions below and write a response.  Your answer to each question should be at least the requested length that is specified in each prompt.

 

 

 

1.      Create a narrative that is one page in length and includes the following three elements:

 

• Step 1: Invent a fictional juvenile and track this individual though the juvenile justice system.  Begin by describing the individual in terms of demographics (the juvenile should be old enough to be tried as an adult in your state) and identify the serious crime.  This crime should be serious enough to warrant potential capital punishment.
• Step 2: Track the juvenile from juvenile court to adult court and then through the system.  You may do this in outline form.

 

• Step 3: Explain what it might be like for the juvenile to be in prison and, ultimately, what it might be like to be on death row.

   

  2.      What do you feel is the most effective way to administer probation?  Your response should be 200 to 300 words in length.

   

  3.      How can probation officers establish better relations with probationers?  Your response should be 200 to 300 words in length.

   

  4.      Would you like to be a probation officer?  Why or why not?  What major problems would you face?  How would you attempt to solve them?  Your response should be 200 to 300 words in length.

   

  5.      Go to Death Penalty Information Center (http://www.deathpenaltyinfo.org/execution-juveniles-us-and-other-countries).  Write a narrative that is one page in length, which compares and contrasts juvenile executions in the U.S. to juvenile executions in other countries.  What are the similarities?  What are the differences?

 

 

 

All references must be listed in APA 6th edition format on a separate page.             Length:  500-1,000 words

No Plagiarism will be accepted!!

 

The BakFirn Corporation, a publicly traded firm, has contracted with YOUCPA, your public accounting firm, for an audit. The BakFirn Corporation manufactures specialty construction tools. The tools are used in the unique construction of homes, warehouses, and multiunit dwellings. The prices range from $1,000 to $5,000 per unit.

During the audit, the audit team has determined the risk assessment of the client. Consequently, the audit has to respond to the assessed risks of material misstatement at the financial statement and assertion levels. The YOUCPA audit team has asked you, the auditor, to prepare a list of actions that you will take to assess the audit risk.

The following information is available in the year just finished:

• The BakFirn Corporation end-of-year is 12/31/20XX.
• Sales for the previous year were $10,000,000. Sales this year are coming in at $9,500,000.
• The firm is in the construction machine industry, making specialty tools.
• Account receivable days sales outstanding (DSO) has been averaging 90–120 days. The year before, it was 80–90 days.
• Inventory turns have decreased from 3 to 2 per year.
• Account receivable and inventory make up 80% of total assets.
• Internal auditing has been reduced by one person to reduce costs.
• An initial test of controls in cash receipt indicated a lack of following procedures.
• The construction industry is in the third year of a downturn. It is forecasted to last two more years.
• The audit team has defined materiality to be focused on account receivable and inventory with $3,000 being the initial threshold. Net income for last year was $1,000,000.
• Inventory at the end of the year was $2,500,000.
• Account receivable at the end of the year was $2,740,000, or 100 DSO.
• The previous auditors did not disclose any fraud or any management issues at the meeting with BakFirn and YOUCPA. The reason for the auditor change was explained as a costs reduction program.

Assignment Guidelines:

1. Audit Assessment Steps:
   1. What is the initial audit risk? High, medium or low?
   2. What factors made you decide on this level?
2. Audit Plan Assertions
   1. What would you include in the audit plan, and why?
   2. Would you plan a test of controls or substantive tests? Why or why not?
   3. Would these tests make a difference in the nature, timing, and extent of audit procedures? If so, how?
3. Audit Plan Evidence
   1. Would you plan to put reliance on prior-year evidence? Why, or why not?
   2. Would your evidence come from observation, analytical procedures, or other means? Explain your reasoning.
   3. Would the evidence prove or disprove an assertion on the reliance of a specific balance sheet account or financial statement account? Explain your reasoning.

 

English comp discussion

It is important that when you create the draft for an essay you apply both drafting strategies and collaboration.

 

Share some of the challenges you might encounter when building a working draft of an essay. These challenges can cover the introduction and conclusion, body details, or any details you developed from the planning activity.

 

In your response, select a classmate’s post and offer suggestions that help to develop those details into a working essay draft.

 

 

Finance discussion

How does leverage impact risk and return? How is risk related to operating and financial leverage? Explain your answer in detail.

 

HRM discussion

Gamification is applying “game mechanics” or “game design thinking” to non-game applications, such as employee training. This is done in an effort to make learning more interesting and competitive. Conduct academic research on typical gamification tactics and the companies that have been using this method to deliver training programs.

 

 

Select a gamification tactic for training and explain it in your initial post. Then select a company that is using gamification in training and describe how they are using this method.

You have learned about the different aspects of memory in the previous modules. Language is critical not only to communicate with others but also to memory. Many memories are encoded using language. Memory is much more rudimentary when language skills are not present.

Research some of the general characteristics of language and the concept of speech acquisition in infants using your textbook, the Internet, and the Argosy University online library resources before responding to these questions:

• Researchers describe language as having six different properties. Describe the six properties. Which two properties do you think are the most important? Explain your answers with reasons.
• Jim and Sue just had a baby, and they are interested in learning more about the process of language acquisition. They have heard about the controversy surrounding the view that speech is special. Do you think speech is special or is it processed like other auditory stimuli? Explain your answer with reasons.
• Several African languages use clicks as consonants. Jim and Sue, who are English speaking, cannot hear the difference between the different types of clicks and have a difficult time learning one of these languages. If they were to move to Africa when their baby is about one-year old, do you think the baby would be able to hear the difference? Why or why not? Do you think she would hear the difference if they moved to Africa after her tenth birthday? Give reasons for your answers.

Write your initial response in 4–5 paragraphsApply APA standards to the citation of sources.

 

Two important policy goals of the government and the Fed are to keep unemployment and inflation low, while at the same time making sure that GDP is increasing at an average of 3% per year. It is important to have the right mix of policies and that all the variables be timed perfectly.

Part 1: Assume that the country is in a period of high unemployment, interest rates are at almost zero, inflation is about 2% per year, and GDP growth is less than 2% per year.

• Suggest how fiscal and monetary policy can move those numbers to an acceptable level keeping inflation the same.
• What is the first action you would take as the president? As the chairman of the Fed? Why?
• What would be your subsequent steps?
• Make sure you include both the positive and negative effects of your actions, and include the trade-offs or opportunity costs.

Include the following concepts in your discussion:

• Demand and supply of money
• Interest rates
• The Phillips curve
• Taxation
• Government spending
• Wages
• Costs of inflation
• The multiplier and the tax multiplier
• The idea of tax rebates to stimulate the economy

Part 2: Assume that the country is in a budget deficit and carrying a very large debt. Discuss the dangers of a high debt to GDP ratio and a growing budget deficit. Would this affect any policy changes you discussed in Part 1?

Business Model and Strategic Planning Outline; Innovation Business Model, Vision, Mission, Values; Supply and Value Chain; SWOTT Analysis; Balanced Scorecard; Communication Plan

Write a 700- to 1,050-word section for your business model and strategic plan in which you add your strategies and tactics to implement and realize your objectives, measures, and targets.

Include marketing and information technology strategies and tactics.

Develop at least three methods to monitor and control your proposed strategic plan, being sure to analyze how the measures will advance organizational goals financially and operationally.

Explain the ethical issues faced by the organization, summarize the legal and regulatory issues faced by the organization, and then summarize the organization’s corporate social responsibility.

Develop a 350-word page executive summary defining the new division of existing business. Share your Vision, Mission, final business model, value proposition and list your key assumptions, risks, and change management issues. Quantify the growth and profit opportunity and planned impact on various stakeholders.

Note: Any investor should be eager to meet with you after reading your executive summary.

Using the Material: Business Model and Strategic Planning Outline as a guide, combine Parts 1, 2, and 3 of your completed business model strategic plan with your Final Business Plan Model assignment and Executive Summary. This includes the Business Model, Vision, Mission, Values, SWOTT Analysis, Supply Chain Analysis, Balanced Scorecard, and Communication Plan from prior weeks. Your consolidated final strategic plan should be 4,200 to 5,250 words in length.

Format paper consistent with APA guidelines.

Discuss three challenges affecting development in the third world countries two pages.

This includes paper and tst

Imagine what would happen if, starting tomorrow, all cars were banned in the United States.

Write a paper exploring this issue. Here are some of the questions you may answer:

• How would the elimination of the automobile affect social, cultural, and economic arrangements in American society?
• What adjustments would Americans have to make to effectively function in an “automobile-free” society?
• If forced, could Americans make such adjustments?
• What would you personally have to give up and/or change about your lifestyle to live in an “automobile-free” society?
• If you had to, could you make such adjustments?
• Finally, in which ways, if any, do think that American society and/or you would be better off without the automobile?
• In which ways, would society and/or you be worse off?

Paper format:

 

• 4 to 6 pages of narrative.
• You must include at least 4 references and 4 citations.
• Use APA to format your references, citations, and layout of your paper.
• You can include charts, figures, etc.
• Cover page with title, course, your name.
• 1″ margins.
• Be sure to check your spelling and grammar.
• Failure to have citations and references will result in a “0” for your paper.

 

You have recently started your own software design company. You discover that your local DMV is looking to build a system that will allow receptionists to check customers in quickly. They would like for the system to allow customers to self-check-in during busy times, but have receptionists check customers in the rest of the time. Your company puts a bid in for the project and wins.

 

Read the article located at http://www.bcs.org/upload/pdf/ewic_hc07_lppaper18.pdf.

 

 

 

Write a four to five (4-5) page paper in which you:

 

1. Suggest the prototyping technique you would use for this system and support your rationale.
2. Create a management plan containing eight to ten (8-10) stages for proper design of such a system.
3. Explain each stage of the management plan and justify your rationale.
4. Estimate the length of time it will take to complete each stage of the management plan.
5. Compare and contrast the self-check-in interface with the interface a receptionist would use.
6. Use Microsoft Visio or an open source alternative, Dia, to create a total of two (2) graphical representations of your proposed interfaces, one (1) for the self-check-in and one (1) for the receptionist. Note: The graphically depicted solution is not included in the required page length.
7. Use at least three (3) quality resources in this assignment. Note: Wikipedia and similar Websites do not qualify as quality resources.