Author: chris

In this assessment you will use the income statement and balance sheet information identified below and evaluate the firm’s financial condition based on three profitability ratios: a) Total Margin, b) Return on Assets and c) Return on Equity.  You will also conduct a DUPONT ANALYSIS using the information on the financial statements.   You will be graded based on your understanding of the 3 ratios analyzed and the DUPONT ANALYSIS, the accuracy of your calculations, the validity of you conclusions and your ability to clearly communicate your analysis. To complete this assignment, follow these steps.

1. Examine the Statement of Operations and Balance Sheet provided as part of Problem 17.4 at the end of Chapter 17 in Gapenski textbook.
2. From this financial information calculate the three profitability ratios: a) Total Margin, b)Return on Assets and c) Return on equity and conduct a Dupont Analysis based on the financial statement information above
3. Write a short paper in the following format:

Cover page with your name, class/section and instructor’s name

1. 1. For each ratio, in a paragraph: define the ratio, explain what it measures, show your calculation and explain what the ratio tells you about your organization’s health and any limitations of using the ratio.
   2. Explain the importance of a Dupont Analysis
   3. Write a conclusion about your organization’s financial condition based on your ratio analysis. Use Industry benchmarks provided in Problem 17.4 of Gapenski.
   4. Describe and discuss the use of operating indicators in additional to financial ratios in measuring financial performance.

Describe a faulty generalization you have made, and critique that generalization.

Your response should be at least 75 words in length. You are required to use at least your textbook as source material for your response. All sources used, including the textbook, must be referenced; paraphrased and quoted material must have accompanying citations.

Explain three of the fallacies from the textbook, and then provide instances from your own life where you have witnessed these fallacies at work.

Your response should be at least 200 words in length. You are required to use at least your textbook as source material for your response. All sources used, including the textbook, must be referenced; paraphrased and quoted material must have accompanying citations.

Describe the three types of thinkers, and present an example of each type from your own life.

Your response should be at least 500 words in length. You are required to use at least your textbook as source material for your response. All sources used, including the textbook, must be referenced; paraphrased and quoted material must have accompanying citations.

Design basic web site.

Requirements

*        APA style of writing,

*        Cover page

*        Reference page

*        No less than 8 pages (including cover page, table of contents, endnote page,

etc.),

*        Typed, double spaced, normal 1” margins,

*        Type size 12, type style: New Times Roman or Arial font,

*        Report is to be written in narrative form, and

*        Detailed information covering the project requirements.

NO PLAGERISM

1. What is International Accounting?
2. Evolution of Multinational Corporation
3. International Income Taxation
4. International Transfer Pricing
5. Cross-Listed on Foreign Stock Exchanges
6. International Trade
7. Foreign Direct Investment
8. Multinational Corporations
9. International Capital Markets

1. Evidence of Accounting Diversity
2. Reasons for Accounting Diversity
3. Problems caused by accounting diversity
4. Accounting Clusters
5. An Empirical Test of the Judgmental Classification
6. The Influence of Culture of Financial Reporting
7. Religion and Accounting

1. Major Harmonization Efforts
2. The International Accounting Standards Committee
3. Creation of the IASB
4. The IASB Framework
5. International Financial Reporting Standards
6. A Principles-Based Approach to International Financial Reporting Standards
7. International Convergence Towards IFRS
8. The Adoption of International Financial Reporting Standards
9. IFRS in the European Union
10. IFRS in the United States

You are an HR leader in a newly formed organization with 150 employees. Management has asked you to provide them with a proposal that describes two to three retirement plans that could be offered. In the proposal, you must identify specific requirements of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 the organization would need to fulfill.

In addition to the proposal, management has asked you to design a communication plan that encourages employee participation for one of the proposed retirement plans.

Resources: Assigned readings, ERRs, the Internet, and other resources

Prepare a proposal and communication plan of 1,400 to 1,750 words. In your communication plan, include components that encourage participation in the retirement plan. Answer the following questions:

• How will you communicate information to employees?
• How often will you communicate information to employees?
• What tools or methods will you use to communicate the plan?
• How will you overcome resistance to participation?
• How will you get employees to enroll?
• How will you communicate the plan to make it attractive?

As a current or future manager of an organization, it is important to examine your personal beliefs regarding the relationship between people and the organization. Developing a personal philosophy about human resources will also help guide your personal actions to influence the organization’s beliefs about its relationship to employees. For this Assignment, you explore your personal beliefs of the employee-management relationship.

The Assignment (4–6 pages):

Develop your personal human resource philosophy for managing people.

Discuss your beliefs about the employee–organization relationship and explain how you arrived at that position.

Consider how you would build systems, create a culture, and implement practices to operationalize this philosophy.

Note: Think of this personal philosophy as your roadmap to creating, maintaining, and improving human resources within an organization. Research at least three sources in addition to your course texts to support your position.

Use APA style to cite your sources and the Course Paper template from the Walden Writing Center for proper paper formatting.

1. The Coat Counters Inc. makes coats and slacks. The two resources required are wool cloth and labor. The company has 200 square yards of wool and 300 hours of labor available. Each coat requires 5 square yards of wool and 10 hours of labor, whereas each pair of slacks requires 6 square yards of wool and 4 hours of labor. The profit for a coat is $15, and the profit for a pair of slacks is $10. The company wants to determine the number of coats and pairs of slacks to make so that profit will be maximized.

a.Formulate a linear programming model for this problem.

b.Solve this model by hand using the Corner Points graphical method.

2. Solve the following linear programming model graphically. In addition, write the problem in standard form and do a constraint analysis for the optimal solution.

Maximize 14x + 20y

Subject to

x + 2y < 20

x + y < 15

x > 8

x, y ≥ 0

3. Copperfield Mining Company owns two mines, each of which produces three grades of ore— high, medium, and low. The company has a contract to supply a smelting company with at least 150 tons of high-grade ore, 120 tons of medium-grade ore, and 150 tons of low-grade ore. Each mine produces a certain amount of each type of ore during each hour that it operates. Mine 1 produces 6.5 tons of high-grade ore, 3.2 tons of medium-grade ore, and 4.8 tons of low grade ore per hour. Mine 2 produces 3.2, 4.0, and 9.8 tons, respectively, of high-, medium-, and low-grade ore per hour. It costs Copperfield $400 per hour to operate mine 1, and it costs $280 per hour to operate mine 2. The company wants to determine the number of hours it needs to operate each mine so that its contractual obligations can be met at the lowest cost.

Formulate a linear programming model for this problem.

Note: Do NOT solve the model after formulating.

4. Determine whether the following linear programming problem is infeasible, unbounded, or has multiple optimal solutions. Draw a graph and explain your conclusion.

Maximize 80x + 60y

Subject to

-3x + 4y < 60

2x + 3y > 60

2x + y > 40

x, y ≥ 0

5. Solve the following linear programming problem.

Max 7x + 6y

Subject to

2x + y > 16

x > 4

y > 5

x, y > 0

Write a 2-3 page paper in 12 pt. font with no larger than 1.5 inch margins that addresses the following: What do these documents tell you about the concerns in a settled territorial state compared to those of more nomadic groups? (for example, what are the territorial states trying to legislate through codes and what issues matter to the Hebrew and Vedic peoples?) What sorts of social distinctions such as class, gender, occupation are evident in the codes (are there similarities between codes, for example; and how would you account for such distinctions)? Finally, discuss something of the range of punishments where you find evidence; what do the codes tell you about sources of power in these societies? Source: Pollard, Elizabeth, Clifford Rosenberg, and Robert Tignor. _Worlds Together, Worlds Apart: Beginnings through the 15th Century_, Concise Ed. New York: W.W. Norton, 2015.

Directions: Provide detailed and elaborate responses to the questions below.  Your responses should include examples from the reading assignments and discuss how the concepts are applied in modern psychology.  Your responses to each question should be at least one half of one page in length and include a minimum of two references.

1.    What is stress?  In your response, include the description provided by the DSM, factors that predispose a person to stress, and characteristics of stressors.

2.    What is the relationship between physical health and stress?  How does optimism and negative affect impact the stress response?  What can individuals do to mitigate the health risks associated with prolonged stress?

3.    Discuss the fear and anxiety response patterns.  Discuss the fight or flight response, anxiety, and unconditional versus learned sources of fear and anxiety.

4.    Discuss Generalized Anxiety disorder, its psychological casual factors, the role of control and predictability, worry and cognition. How is it treated?

PART II

Review the Web resources in the lecture notes. Select at least three websites that you consider valuable.  In a document that is at least one page in length, provide the following information.
1.    Describe the site and its purpose.
2.    How does it demonstrate credibility?
3.    Explain how the information provided on the site may be beneficial to students and professionals.