Author: chris

Is LEED really changing the built environment?

In roughly 300-350 words
Critique the infographic based on concepts learned from the course readings thus far; your critique should include:
1. A discussion of 1 area where the infographic excelled (noting why the design was successful)
2. A discussion of 1 area where the infographic could be improved (giving a concrete suggestion for improvement)

Shem, Ham, and Japheth orally agreed to start Ark Transportation (“Ark”), a business specializing in exotic sea adventures. Shem contributed $100,000 to Ark, stating to Ham and Japheth that he wanted to limit his liability to that amount. Ham, who had extensive travel expertise, contributed $50,000 to Ark. Japheth contributed no money to Ark but agreed to act as sales agent. Shem, Ham, and Japheth agreed that Ham would be responsible for designing the vacations, and that Japheth alone would handle all sales. Ark opened and quickly became successful, primarily due to Japheth’ effective sales techniques.

Subsequently, without the knowledge or consent of Shem or Japheth, Ham entered into a written sales contract in Ark’s name with WaterWorld, Inc. (“WaterWorld”) to sell specially designed submarine vacation packages at a price that was extremely favorable to WaterWorld. Ham’s sister owned WaterWorld. When Shem and Japheth became aware of the contract, they contacted WaterWorld and informed it that Ham had no authority to enter into sales contracts, and that Ark could not profitably sell the submarine vacation packages at the price agreed to by Ham. Ark refused to honor the agreement and WaterWorld sued Ark for breach of contract.

Thereafter, Shem became concerned about how Ham and Japheth were managing Ark. He contacted Noah, Inc. (“Noah”), Ark’s supplier of water craft. He told Noah’s president, “Don’t allow Ham to order any seagoing vessels; he’s not our sales person. That’s Japheth’s job.” Ham later placed an order for several expensive ships with Noah. Ark refused to pay for the ships, and Noah sued Ark for breach of contract. Not long afterwards, Ark went out of business, owing its creditors in excess of $12,500,000.

Question: How should payment on Ark’s debts be allocated? Discuss.

Edward was employed as a laborer by Vampire Falls. On May 5, 2010, Edward was sent to the Vampire Falls Cemetery and instructed to install a row of headstones along the property line between the Town Park and the neighboring property, owned by Bella. Edward went to the Town Park and began to dig holes for the headstones along the line he believed was the line between the properties, relying on stakes that were erroneously placed by Vampire Falls on Bella’s property. After he had dug several holes, Bella came out of her house, advised Edward that he was digging on her property, and ordered him to leave. Edward became enraged and swung his shovel at Bella, narrowly missing her head. Frightened that Edward would strike her, Bella turned to run away, tripped and broke her ankle. On October 5, 2010, Bella, by her attorney, commenced an action against Vampire Falls and Edward, alleging a cause of action in trespass, seeking damages for the cost of restoring and reseeding her property, and a cause of action for assault, seeking damages for pain and suffering due to her broken ankle.

On what theory could Vampire Falls be found liable? Discuss

Q1. GIVE SPECIFIC EXAMPLES OF WHAT KINDS OF feedback, feedforward and concurrent CONTROL TOOLS your company (or former company) is using. Then, EVALUATE THEM (A, B, C, D, F) and why.

Q2 What changes is your company (or former company) facing and how well are people adapting to them? Critique your company\’s change management using textbook concepts and other additional research.
You can choose any US company

Give examples of personal AND organizational planning, as well as opportunites for improvement in planning, while integrating textbook ideas (include p. #), scholarly research (include URL)

Planning and organizing, opposite sides of the same coin, are the first two functions of managment. Without them, life is chaos! Yet, too much planning and organizing can stifle creativity and flexibility!

The text book is; Management Fundamentals: Concepts, Applications, and Skill Development
Author: Lussier, Robert N. Edition: 6

HYPOTHESIS 4 (IF THERE IS ANOTHER KEY EFFECT ON DV/S; IF NOT RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN IVS OR MODERATION EFFECTS)
Conduct a literature search to identify the key theories and validated relationships among variables that lend potential support to your hypothesis 4. There is no minimum or maximum number of papers you should find, but ideally more than 5 papers are required for substantiating reasonable validity. Well established relationships in the literature will likely produce more than 10 relevant papers to be included.

Please upload: (1) a list of the papers cited in APA style, and (2) a zip file containing copies of these papers.

SLP Assignment Expectations
Address the search task methodically and effectively:
Identify old and seminal works pertaining to the hypothesis, new papers which build on such seminal works and papers that can lend direct or indirect support for your hypothesized effect.

part 1
Critically evaluate the Australian requirements for accounting for business combinations.
In your discussion you should specifically address the following issues:

• Exclusions from the scope of Accounting Standard AASB3 Business Combinations.
• The implications of the requirement to use the acquisition method of accounting for business combinations
• The identification of an acquirer in a business combination
• The determination of fair values of assets in a business combination
• The reasons for the choice of fair value to measure assets and liabilities acquired in a business combination
• The nature and treatment of goodwill or bargain purchase arising on a business combination.
• The two different ways in which a business combination can be accomplished.
part 2

Federation Ltd acquired the net assets of an existing business Nigeria Pty Ltd on 1 July 2015. The statement of financial position of Federation Ltd immediately prior to the acquisition is as shown below:

Federation Ltd
Statement of Financial Position as at 1 July 2015
Assets
Cash at bank 40,000
Accounts Receivable 95,000
Inventory 110,000
Shares in Wesfarmer’s Ltd 80,000
Plant and Equipment (net) 550,000
Land and Buildings (net) 650,000

Total Assets 1,525,000

Liabilities
Accounts Payable 220,000
Provisions 80,000
Bank Loans 200,000

Total Liabilities 500,000

Shareholder’s Equity
Issued Capital 900,000
Retained Earnings 125,000

Total Shareholder’s Equity 1,025,000
1,525,000

The identifiable net assets of Nigeria Pty Ltd acquired by Federation Ltd, valued at fair value at date of acquisition comprise the following:

Assets acquired:
Accounts Receivable 20,000
Inventory 60,000
Motor Vehicles 50,000
Plant and Equipment 150,000
Land and Buildings 300,000

Liabilities assumed:
Accounts Payable 105,000
Bank Loan 100,000

In addition, Nigeria Pty Ltd has unrecorded contingent liabilities estimated at $65,000

The terms of the acquisition are as follows:

– Cash consideration of $120,000 to be paid to Nigeria Pty Ltd on 30 June 2016. This amount is to be raised by a bank loan (Federation Ltd’s incremental borrowing rate is 8%)
– The shares in Wesfarmers held by Federation Ltd which have a fair market value of $90,000 at 1 July 2015 are to be transferred to Nigeria Ltd.
– Federation Ltd is to issue 50,000 shares to Nigeria Pty Ltd. At 1 July 2015 Federation Ltd’s shares are trading at $4 per share.
– Federation Ltd incurred legal expenses of $10,000 and share issue costs of $4,000 in connection with the acquisition
– Under the terms of the acquisition Federation Ltd is required to issue further shares to Nigeria Pty Ltd if the value of Federation Ltd’s shares fall below $4 per share by 30 June 2016. It is estimated that there is a 20% likelihood that the share price will fall to $3.50 by 30 June 2016.

Prepare the journal entries in the books of Federation Ltd to record the acquisition of Nigeria Pty Ltd and a statement of financial position for Federation Ltd immediately after the acquisition.

The 1998 Digital Millennium Copyright Act requires Internet providers to provide the names of people suspected of operating pirate Web sites upon subpoena. However, the U. S. Supreme Court decided not to become involved in a dispute over illegal downloading of music files. The high court refused to give the recording industry broad power to force Verizon Communications and other Internet service providers to identify subscribers who share copyrighted songs online. The court said it was up to the U. S. Congress, not courts, to expand the 1998 law to cover popular file-sharing networks. Music downloading has become a very controversial subject. The Recording Industry Association of America ( RIAA) argues that 2.6 billion music files are illegally downloaded each month and this law is needed to identify downloading culprits. On September 8, 2003, RIAA filed lawsuits against 261 people for allegedly downloading thousands of copyrighted songs via popular Internet file-sharing networks. These people copied an average of 1,000 songs into their files for free. Many other lawsuits followed those in 2003. Lester Tune, the founder of TuneMan, one of the more popular downloading sites, debated the issue with a corporate regulator on a recent talk show. He brought the audience to their feet after exclaiming “ Well, people listen to music on the radio for free, so what’s the big deal?” In response, the corporate regulator was vehement, “ We want people to stop engaging in the theft of music so that people can go on making it. We need to figure out where customer ownership begins. We are about to destroy the long history of professional song-writers and performers in America. Who’s going to pay the royalties?” Many music downloading providers now require customers to pay a fee while some sites provide free and legal downloads. RealNetworks, for example, sold 3 million songs at 49 cents each during a three-week promotion and then returned to its regular rate of 99 cents per song. iTunes, Napster, Universal Music Group, and others are all struggling to define a value chain structure that is fair to all parties— the creators of the song, the distributors, the Web sites, and the customers.

Answer the following questions:

Your written assignment should be typed and submitted in Microsoft Word document format. Corel WordPerfect files will not be accepted. Your write-up should be 300+ words in length. For questions one and two you may scan your diagram and submit it as a separate file or create the diagram within your Word document. Submit your Word document using the attach file feature at the bottom of this page. All submissions should be titled with the student’s last name accompanied by their first initial and course title (e.g., SmithJ_BSAD400).

1.
1. Draw the “bricks and mortar” process stages by which traditional CDs are created, distributed, and sold in retail stores. How does each player make money? \”Bricks and Mortar\” refers to the traditional physical retail format vs. e-commerce/online retailing. This process begins with the sourcing of raw materials all the way to delivering the CD to a physical retail location (as opposed to online retailer) and ultimately the sale to the customer.
2. Draw the process stages for creating and downloading music today. How does each player make money?
3. Compare and contrast the approaches in the previous two questions.
4. Compare the role of operations in each of these approaches.

Module 4 – Case

HYPOTHESIS 4 (IF THERE IS ANOTHER KEY EFFECT ON DV/S; IF NOT RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN IVS OR MODERATION EFFECTS)
Assignment Overview
This case assignment focuses on hypothesis 4. The convention is that you start with the key effect on your DV (the right side of the model), and move your way to the left side in future modules. This hypothesis can be based on two sources of data: (1) overarching theories which have been applied in other or similar contexts, and now you adapt them to your specific context; or (2) existing studies which showed such or similar effects, but did not anchor them in theory. If the latter is the case, you should theorize, using your own logic, why you expect such an effect.

Regardless, you should first find the relevant literature (SLP), and synthesize it (case).

Assignment Overview
Please read and reflect on the papers you identified in the SLP assignment, and synthesize them to produce the text leading to hypothesis 4. Follow a structure you have seen in one or more of the published research papers you reviewed. Conclude this section with the hypothesis statement.

Please organize your paper in a scholarly way. Add section titles when necessary. Explain your logic and when appropriate, use external sources and use proper citations.
The paper is usually between 2 and 10 pages long.
Assignment Expectations
Able to understand the key themes in your reading list.
Able to effectively and efficiently synthesize the reading materials.
Write the text leading to the hypothesis with clarity, depth and critical thinking.
Completeness and coherence: Chain of thought is easy to follow.
Collected relevant evidences and consulted additional papers/resources to support the propositions.
Paper is clearly written with appropriate format. Reference list is complete. Citation is properly done.