Author: chris

 

Access the information contained in your selected organization’s balance sheet and income statement to calculate the following:

• Liquidity ratios
  • Current ratio
  • Acid-test, or quick, ratio
  • Receivables turnover
  • Inventory turnover
• Profitability ratios
  • Asset turnover
  • Profit margin
  • Return on assets
  • Return on common stockholders’ equity
• Solvency ratios
  • Debt to total assets
  • Times interest earned

Show your calculations for each ratio.

Create a horizontal and vertical analysis for the balance sheet and the income statement.

Write a 350- to 700-word memo to the CEO of your selected organization in which you discuss your findings from your ratio calculations and your horizontal and vertical analysis. In your memo, address the following questions:

• What do the liquidity, profitability, and solvency ratios reveal about the financial position of the company?
• Which users may be interested in each type of ratio?
• What does the collected data reveal about the performance and position of the company?

Social workers participate in a field that is considered “applied.” This means that, by definition, their work involves hands-on interactions with clients. How can social workers determine which methods to apply in the situations they face with clients? Research can help social workers to inform these decisions. Research documents effectiveness of social work methods through testing and examination of results among different populations. Through awareness of current research, social workers can gain insight to inform their practice.

For this Assignment, select a peer-reviewed, empirical article that addresses a specific social work intervention. Review the article and focus on each section, confirming your comprehension as you go.

Submit by Day 7 a 2- to 3-page paper in which you address the following:

• Identify the research question(s).
• Describe the population that was studied.
• Describe the research method(s) or intervention(s) that the researcher(s) used.
• Explain the findings of the study.
• Describe the suggestions the researcher(s) made for future study.
• Critique the study, describing questions you still have, and explaining how the study might influence your practice as a social worker.

Part 1

What do you think are the differences between analyzing the instructional needs of a learner in a traditional K–12 school versus analyzing the instructional needs of a working adult in a corporate or higher education setting? What areas of needs analysis might be similar?

Part 2

How might you use the cognitive taxonomy to ensure that the identified instructional needs will be addressed during the instruction? How might you apply the affective taxonomy to ensure that identified instructional needs, in this domain, will be addressed during instructional activities? What examples support your thoughts?

Do you consider yourself a “lifelong learner”? How do you determine your own instructional needs? Why is it important to an instructional designer to think of an audience of individuals, rather than an audience as a homogeneous group? What are some ways through which you can differentiate an assignment to move from general audience to specific individualized audience?

In your own words, post a substantive response to the Discussion Board question(s) and comment on other postings. Your response should address the DB question(s) and move the conversation forward. You will be graded on the quality of your postings, including mastery of the concept as well as critical thinking. If asked for your opinion, do not simply state that it is a good or bad idea; elaborate on your reasons and argument. Include enough detail to substantiate your thinking as well as your position on the questions or comments.

Assignment 4: Introduction and Questions on the Major Course Assignments—RA and LASA

An RA is a substantive assessment intended to measure student performance against selected course objectives and/or program outcomes within a course. RAs are completed by all students across all Argosy University campuses and delivery formats without exception. Each RA contributes to a significant portion of the overall course grade and is assessed by faculty using the rubric designed for that assessment. These are individual assignments, and students earn individual grades. RAs are not intended to assess students on every topic covered in the course but just on the key course objectives and/or program outcomes.

Assignment	Course Objectives	Program Outcomes	ILOs	Assessment Type	Scoring Tool
Compare and contrast interviews to noninterview employee selection assessments	2,4,5	1,2,3	1,2,3,5,6	Paper	Grading Criteria

In this course, there is one major RA and one LASA that makes up 50% of your total class grade.

In this RA, you will compare interviews with noninterview employee selection assessments. Your final product will be a 5- to 7-page Microsoft Word document written in APA format and utilizing at least six scholarly sources. The description is given in M3 Assignment 2 RA.

Learning Assessment System Assignments:

A LASA is a signature assessment intended to measure student performance against selected course objectives and/or program outcomes within a course. These signature assessments are completed by all students across all Argosy University campuses and delivery formats without exception. Each assignment contributes to a significant portion of the overall course grade and is assessed by faculty using the rubric designed for that assessment. These are individual assignments, and students earn individual grades. Both the signature assignments and the related rubrics become part of the Learning Outcome Manager database and are used in the aggregate to evaluate levels of student learning, as well as the effectiveness of the curriculum, course content, and faculty. The combined results of the signature assessments across an entire academic program provide a comprehensive picture of the students’ academic programs. This data drives the continuous improvement cycle as part of comprehensive program reviews conducted by the colleges.

Assignment	Course Objectives	Program Outcomes	ILOs	Assessment Type	Scoring Tool
LASA: Industrial Organization (I/O) consultant report	1,2,3,4,5	1,2,3,4,5	1,2,3,4,5,6	Paper & audio visual presentation	Rubric

In the LASA, you will imagine that you have been hired as an industrial organization (I/O) consultant. In that role, you will design a narrated Microsoft PowerPoint report for a client to accomplish the client’s goals. Your final product will be an audio visual presentation consisting of 15–20 slides, using at least 7 scholarly sources and incorporating narration throughout. The description is given in M5 Assignment 2 LASA.

To ensure that you have carefully reviewed and planned how you will approach these major requirements, your final assignment in Module 1 is to create a timeline for accomplishing each of them during the course. See the rubrics listed at the end of the RA and LASA descriptions.

Tasks:

Carefully review the description of each of these critical projects and prepare a timeline for completing all parts of them.

• Describe exactly what you will do to complete these tasks and when you will do each of these things.
• List the resources and information you will need to obtain to complete the tasks.
• Compile and save all the information in a Microsoft Word document.

Write an essay on the Elements of Music. . or  Write an essay specifically on the design and structure of form. Jus an essay maybe 2 pages.

WalMart, the world’s largest retailer, is often cited in the media for its international expansion, outsourcing practices and employee issues. Going into a country making vendors play by their rules in order to sell their company’s products; selling products at the lowest costs by outsourcing to the lowest bidder, has been WalMart’s strategy. But now, is this strategy working?

On the Week 6 Multimedia page you will find several videos about WalMart from PBS’s Frontline Series. View these along with other articles and videos you find and give your opinion on WalMart’s International Strategy. WalMart started its international expansion in 1991 opening a store in Mexico. (http://walmartstores.com)

• Use your information to discuss WalMart’s entry strategy in different countries, their successes and their failures.
• How is WalMart’s strategy perceived in the international business world?
• Share your own opinions and comment on and question those of your classmates.

MICROSOFT WORD 1-2 PAGES,  Peer and scholarly reviewed citation

Global Competitiveness and Foreign Direct Investment (FDI)

Every country around the globe is competing for investments by multinational companies. However, before investing in a new facility overseas, each company takes a multitude of factors into account.

review the latest Global Competitiveness Report from World Economic Forum.

Next, do the following:

1. Select one Asian and one African country.
2. Compare and contrast their global business competitiveness.
3. Explain how their global business competitiveness (examples may include: institutions, infrastructure, macroeconomic environment, health and primary education, higher education and training, goods-market efficiency, labor-market efficiency, financial-market development, technological readiness, market size, business sophistication, innovation) affects FDI in these countries.

Write a three-to-four-page paper in Word format. Utilize at least two scholarly sources in your research. Apply APA standards to citation of sources.

Gender Relations: choose 1 story (a tale, not a prologue to a tale) from the selections that we read from The Canterbury Tales and discuss its depiction of men or of women. Which one seems to be more sympathetically depicted in the story? Does this seem to be at all important in the story’s plot or overall meaning?

• Read the Jonathan Jones article from this week’s Learning Resources.
• Review the websites in this week’s Learning Resources for more inspiration and examples of photographs.
• Review your partner’s Final Project photographic series, which was submitted to this week’s Discussion as part of last week’s Final Project Assignment.
• Consider the following questions regarding process in your partner’s photographic series:
  • To what extent is the work subjective or objective?
  • Would you consider the series conventional or challenging? Why?
  • What is the purpose of the elements used and the order in which the photographs appear in the series?
  • Are the photographs in the series clearly planned, or do they appear in a random presentation in order to gain more of an emotional reaction?
  • Was the series more of a documentary to report a situation to the viewer, or was the intent of the series to express or persuade the viewer to have or express a particular attitude?
  • Are the photographs in the series simple or complex compositions? How does this affect the intended viewpoint and understanding of the viewer?
  • Have delay tactics been used to create interest or ambiguity in the composition of the photographs in the series?
  • What is the style of the photographs in this series?

With these thoughts in mind:

• Evaluate how the content and composition of the photographic series is presented either clearly or ambiguously to the viewer. Explain to what extent these choices may influence the viewer’s perception of the series.
• Analyze how the subjects in the photographic series relate to each other.
• Describe to what extent you believe the intent of the photographic series contributes to the telling of a subjective or objective story.