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Describe the environmental effects.

Write a research paper on obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD), focusing on how behavior modification therapy can be used to treat the disorder.

What is Bower’s (1972) Model (KISS; AID; ICE)? Include the term secondary KISS contexts not mentioned in Bower’s (1972) Theory. How does this link to Social Ecology and Developmental Psychology? Explain in detail.

Write about the privacy of the internet. Explore issues in the contemporary world.

Anwer this questions. What was the autor trying to say? What is the autor’s struture of evidence? What was autor’s Point of view ?

Create a scenario or case study to illustrate the type of organization you would expect to work in as a nurse practitioner. Include: the type of organization, type of and how many clients it serves ,the professional fit for advanced nursing role.

Compare and Contrast Blaxploitation and Hixploitation as film genres. in doing so, be sure to address George lipsitz’s concept of “genre anxiety” as well as draw from Robert Altman’s Ideas of the genrification process(chapter 4) (e.g. redefinition (chapter 5), how genres are used (chapter 7). where they come from (chapter 3), and/or genre mixing (chapter 8)) that you find appropriate and insightful for your analysis. 3-4 pages max. tips: avoid long introduction -jump right in (mainly graded on content), Elaborate and explain everything with proofs from the chapters, you dont have to read everything, you can skim and borrow ideas as long as you explain everything and show that you understand it.

Select an Initial Public Offering (or a Secondary Offering) completed in the last 10 years in the U.S. capital markets, and discuss and analyze this IPO in seven- to eight-pages, double-spaced. Each student should select a separate company as the subject of the paper. This paper should be submitted to the Week 5 IPO Paper Dropbox.

The paper should discuss the following about the company.

1. Identify the company and its industry.
2. Discuss important financial and other facts about the company from its SEC filings.
3. How successful was the IPO in raising capital?
4. What has happened to the company since the IPO?
5. What is the trend in the stock price of the company since the IPO?

You’ve just been hired onto ABC Company as the corporate controller. ABC Company is a manufacturing firm that specializes in making cedar roofing and siding shingles. The company currently has annual sales of around $1.2 million, a 25% increase from the previous year. The company has an aggressive growth target of reaching $3 million annual sales within the next 3 years. The CEO has been trying to find additional products that can leverage the current ABC employee skillset as well as the manufacturing facilities.

As the controller of ABC Company, the CEO has come to you with a new opportunity that he’s been working on. The CEO would like to use the some of the shingle scrap materials to build cedar dollhouses. While this new product line would add additional raw materials and be more time-intensive to manufacture than the cedar shingles, this new product line will be able to leverage ABC’s existing manufacturing facilities as well as the current staff. Although this product line will require added expenses, it will provide additional revenue and gross profit to help reach the growth targets. The CEO is relying on you to help decide how this project can be afforded  Provide details about the estimated product costs, what is needed to break even on the project, and what level of return this product is expected to provide.

In order to help out the CEO, you need to prepare a six- to eight-page report that will contain the following information (including exhibits, but excluding your references and title page). Refer to the accompanying Excel spreadsheet (available through your online course) for some specific cost and profit information to complete the calculations.

Final Paper Spreadsheet

I. An overall risk profile of the company based on current economic and industry issues that it may be facing.

II. Current company cash flow

a. You need to complete a cash flow statement for the company using the direct method.

b. Once you’ve completed the cash flow statement, answer the following questions:

i. What does this statement of cash flow tell you about the sources and uses of the company funds?

ii. Is there anything ABC Company can do to improve the cash flow?

iii. Can this project be financed with current cash flow from the company? Why or why not?

iv. If the company needs additional financing beyond what ABC Company can provide internally (either now or sometime throughout the life of the project), how would you suggest the company obtain the additional financing, equity or corporate debt, and why?

III. Product cost: ABC Company believes that it has an additional 5,000 machine hours available in the current facility before it would need to expand. ABC Company uses machine hours to allocate the fixed factory overhead, and units sold to allocate the fixed sales expenses. Bases on current research, ABC Company expects that it will take twice as long to produce the expansion product as it currently takes to produce its existing product.

a. What is the product cost for the expansion product under absorption and variable costing?

b. By adding this new expansion product, it helps to absorb the fixed factory and sales expenses. How much cheaper does this expansion make the existing product?

c. Assuming ABC Company wants a 40% gross margin for the new product, what selling price should it set for the expansion product?

d. Assuming the same sales mix of these two products, what are the contribution margins and break-even points by product?

IV. Potential investments to accelerate profit: ABC company has the option to purchase additional equipment that will cost about $42,000, and this new equipment will produce the following savings in factory overhead costs over the next five years:

Year 1, $15,000

Year 2, $13,000

Year 3, $10,000

Year 4, $10,000

Year 5, $6,000

ABC Company uses the net-present-value method to analyze investments and desires a minimum rate of return of 12% on the equipment.

a. What is the net present value of the proposed investment (ignore income taxes and depreciation)?

b. Assuming a 5-year straight-line depreciation, how will this impact the factory’s fixed costs for each of the 5 years (and the implied product costs)? What about cash flow?

c. Considering the cash flow impact of the equipment as well as the time-value of money, would you recommend that ABC Company purchases the equipment? Why or why not?

V. Conclusion:

a. What are the major risk factors that you see in this project?

b. As the controller and a management accountant, what is your responsibility to this project?

c. What do you recommend the CEO do?

Writing the Final Paper

1.    Must be six to eight double-spaced pages in length, and formatted according to APA style as outlined in the Ashford Writing Center.

2.    Must include a title page with the following:

a.    Title of paper

b.    Student’s name

c.    Course name and number

d.    Instructor’s name

e.    Date submitted

3.    Must begin with an introductory paragraph that has a succinct thesis statement.

4.    Must address the topic of the paper with critical thought.

5.    Must end with a conclusion that reaffirms your thesis.

6.    Must document at least three, but no more than five sources in APA style, as outlined in the Ashford Writing Center.

7.    Must include a separate reference page, formatted according to APA style as outlined in the Ashford Writing Center.

As Bryn Campbell (1978, p. 52) wrote:

The illusion of movement can be exaggerated or even created. The progress of an action can be analysed within one or a series of photographs. Finally, there is what one might call the personality of movement-grace, tension, effort and even humour. It is a rich area, both in black and white and colour.

Photography is the art of freezing motion in meaningful and beautiful ways. Capturing movement sometimes requires the photographer to react quickly with exact timing. Motion can be one element of a complex composition, as in the photograph by Henri Cartier-Bresson we studied this week, or can be the single dominant element of a composition.

There are two basic ways of capturing movement in a photograph, based on shutter setting. A fast shutter speed will freeze movement at a given point in the frame. A slower shutter speed will record movement as a blur. The choice of what shutter speed to use depends on the meaning, look, or sensation the photographer is trying to convey.

To prepare for this Assignment:

• Review Chapter 7 in your course text, The Photographer’s Eye.
• Choose one technique from this week’s reading to apply to your composition of a photograph representing motion.
• Review the articles in this week’s Learning Resources
• Apply one technique from this week’s readings to convey a sense of motion in your photograph.
• Compose and take the photograph.

The Assignment:

• Create a 2-slide PowerPoint presentation that includes the following:

  Slide 1:

  • In one photograph, apply one technique from this week’s reading to the composition of a photograph representing motion.
  • Include a brief description of your photograph (title and subject).

  Slide 2:

  • Write a 2- to 3-paragraph description of the technique you chose from this week’s reading. Explain how you applied this technique in the composition of your photograph. Include answers to the following:
    • How effective do you think you were at achieving your photographic goal?
    • What might you do differently next time?
• Be sure to cite at least one example from the course readings to support your writing.
• use the image that is attach to the assignment