Complete the work sheet.
In 300- to 400-words, explain why security professionals must be aware of the requirements for protecting personal identification information (PII) that may be stored on organizational information systems.
Also, describe phishing and how it can be used to compromise the identity information of customers and employees.
Finally, briefly describe how to identify a phishing scam based on Ch. 3 of Fundamentals of information systems security.
Write a 1,050- to 1,750-word paper addressing the causes of internal conflict in a nation or regional area of your choice.
Include the diversity of the causes, with regard to any religious, cultural, racial, gender, political, or economic issues that contribute to instability.
Analyze the role of the UN as a peacekeeper associated with your selected conflict.
Format your paper consistent with APA guidelines.
Provide a minimum of four peer reviewed sources.
Less than 10% plagiarism
Question 6
You have been tasked with selecting an external supplier. List five guidelines you would use and how they would help you select the right supplier.
Question 7
Identify and explain an ethical issue in marketing research that relates to each of the following roles: 1) the client, 2) the supplier, and 3) the respondent (provide three in total). Give your rationale for why you selected these particular issues.
Question 8
Visit the Web sites of the top three marketing research firms in Table 1.2 of the textbook. Write an essay describing the services offered by these firms. What deductions can you make about the structure of the marketing research industry based on the information provided by these firms?
Reference
Malhotra, N. K. (2010). Marketing research: An applied orientation (6th ed.). Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall.
Chapters 1 & 2 for these questions
Our class’s final essay assignment requires you to reflect on the contemporary relevance of ancient codes, documents, and artifacts that contributed to the evolution of our modern conception of human rights. Your essay should answer these questions:
Please ensure that your essay addresses each component of both assigned questions and that your answer is well-organized, uses excellent, college-level prose, and makes judicious use of textual evidence. Your essay should be 600-900 words long.
In 2012, the compensation group at Google embarked on an 18 month mission to create a variety of reward and recognition programs that met the specific needs of its workforce.
HR’s goal for its rewards-and-recognition programs was always to support employee innovation and performance. So the group engaged in a monumental task, using every communication vehicle available to solicit, gather and interpret employee and external feedback. It administered surveys, held focus groups, conducted academic research, perused U.S. studies, and interviewed and observed employees.
In the end, the company figured out what turned employees on and off in terms of rewards and recognition. It then launched (in the second half of 2013) a rewards-and-recognition platform housing two programs that employees not only support but can call their very own.
The company had been supporting four types of reward/recognition programs. Although they all still exist, two of them — Kudos, a peer-to-peer recognition program that lets employees send online thank-you notes to co-workers without going through an approval process, and Peer Bonus, whereby they can nominate their peers for $175 rewards — have been modified based on the compensation group’s findings.
A third reward/recognition program, the Spot-Bonus program, allows managers to award any employee who served on their project teams with a larger monetary award of their choice or noncash recognition, such as dinner for two.
In a 2-3 page report, prepared in APA style with at least two references, do the following:
12 questions in accounting need completed by today. Questions are not related and should be answered separately with the correlating question number on top and correct citation below it. References are required!
Cost ACCT
Q1
Describe the three major influences on pricing. Give an example of one of them.
Q2
Thanks Willie! I am also thinking…is ABC costing useful in pricing decisions? How so, anyone? 🙂
Q3
Hello everyone, in the final exam, you will be asked to prepare a pro-forma/budgeted income statement…since we have not practiced this budget much, let’s work problem 6-33 located in Chapter 6! Anyone?
Budgeted income statement. (CMA, adapted) Smart Video Company is a manufacturer of videoconferencing products. Maintaining the videoconferencing equipment is an important area of customer satisfaction. A recent downturn in the computer industry has caused the videoconferencing equipment segment to suffer, leading to a decline in Smart Video’s financial performance. The following income statement shows results for 2014:
Smart Video Company Income Statement for the Year Ended December 31, 2014 (in thousands)
| Revenues | ||
| Equipment | $8,000 | |
| Maintenance contracts | 1,900 | |
| Total revenues | $9,900 | |
| Cost of goods sold | 4,000 | |
| Gross margin | 5,900 | |
| Operating costs | ||
| Marketing | 630 | |
| Distribution | 100 | |
| Customer maintenance | 1,100 | |
| Administration | 920 | |
| Total operating costs | 2,750 | |
| Operating income | $3,150 |
Smart Video’s management team is preparing the 2015 budget and is studying the following information:
Q4
Hello everyone! Let’s begin by describing Discounted Cash Flow methods. Why is capital budgeting important? Anyone?
Q5
…Just thought of another question! How is the required rate of return (RRR) calculated? Is the RRR also known as the hurdle rate, the cost of capital? 🙂 How is it calculated/arrived at by management? Anyone?
Q6
FANTASTIC! We got these, thanks Hui and everyone! I got the same…the NPV is negative, NPV = ($4,920), Payback period = 2.86 years rounded, and discounted payback period = it would take more than 4 years! Let’s continue by calculating IRR using interpolation (we can always double check with the =IRR function of Excel too!) and the accounting rate of return for exercise 21-20! Anyone?
21-20
Capital budgeting with uneven cash flows, no income taxes. America Cola is considering the purchase of a special-purpose bottling machine for $65,000. It is expected to have a useful life of 4 years with no terminal disposal value. The plant manager estimates the following savings in cash operating costs:
| Year | Amount |
| 1 | $25,000 |
| 2 | 22,000 |
| 3 | 21,000 |
| 4 | 20,000 |
| Total | $88,000 |
Southern Cola uses a required rate of return of 18% in its capital budgeting decisions. Ignore income taxes in your analysis. Assume all cash flows occur at year-end except for initial investment amounts.
Calculate the following for the special-purpose bottling machine:
AIS
Q1
Discuss what you believe to be the appropriate level of involvement of an accountant in evaluating and selecting an AIS vendor and the AIS itself. What are some of the contributions an accountant might offer in this process?
Q2
Class: Custom, canned, and modified canned software all have advantages and disadvantages. In this age of increasing computerization, which do you feel will become predominant? Will any of the methods be phased out? Does your response vary depending on the type of industry or company?
Q3
Class: It is possible that after months of work and evaluation of a new AIS the decision is made to outsource the function. What are the advantages and disadvantages to outsourcing?
Q4
Using the company for which you work or one in which you are interested, choose the conversion approach you would use if the company purchased a new AIS. Explain your choice, including the benefits. Discuss how you envision the testing process.
Q5
Great exchanges here! You all made some important points about system conversion approaches.
Class: Why is it important to understand the SDLC?
Q6
Class: Some managers do not see the direct impact of an ERP on profitability. Do you agree or disagree? Explain.
Choose two (2) public corporations in an industry with which you are familiar – one (1) that has acquired another company and operates internationally and one (1) that does not have a history of mergers and acquisitions and operates solely within the U.S. Research each company on its own Website, the public filings on the Securities and Exchange Commission EDGAR database (http://www.sec.gov/edgar.shtml), in the University’s online databases, and any other sources you can find. The annual report will often provide insights that can help address some of these questions.
Write a six to eight (6-8) page paper in which you:
Your assignment must follow these formatting requirements:
The specific course learning outcomes associated with this assignment are:
Review the following two research studies.
Garne, D., Watson, M., Chapman, S., & Byrne, F. (2005). Environmental tobacco smoke research published in the journal Indoor and Built Environment and associations with the tobacco industry. Lancet, 365(9461), 804–9. Retrieved from http://www.lphi.org/LPHIadmin/uploads/Lancet-%20I+BE.pdf
Sclar, E. D., Garau, P., Carolini, G. (2005). The 21st century health challenge of slums and cities. Lancet, 365(9462), 901–3; Retrieved from http://www.unmillenniumproject.org/documents/TheLancetSlums.pdf
Based on your review of the two studies, create a checklist to analyze the quality of research studies.
Your checklist should not have more than 20 items. Avoid repetition.
Explain how each item on the checklist helps evaluate a study.
The checklist should be clearly worded. A person using it should not have to ask for an explanation of any item.
ZEN PATH is a Zen Buddhism monastery near Coos Bay, in Oregon. It is located in a beautiful
spot, overlooking the ocean with breathtaking scenery. The monastery is built in the traditional
Japanese temple style and has been operating for over 50 years. There are 23 full time monks
living there and depending on the time of the year and the activities another 10-15 people may
be present.
Most of the funding for ZEN PATH comes from wealthy sponsors who are attracted to the
philosophy and values of Zen Buddhism. However, the monastery has been forced, during the
last 5 years to rely on the tuition they charge for week-long Zen meditation retreats that target
upscale white collar professionals who are seeking ways to relieve the stress of modern life and
who want to explore spirituality based on the traditions of the Far East.
ZEN PATH is facing budgetary problems. The two main methods proposed are to either try to
attract more sponsors through fundraising, or to expand the meditation seminars and
workshops. Both methods have some limitations and advantages. Fundraising will minimize the
impact of the outside world on the monastery, but given the economic conditions the potential
sponsors are very few. The demand for the meditation seminars is high, but this would distort
the monastery’s mission as being “beyond the material world” and create the danger that it may
end up as a commercial enterprise.
What method or combination of methods should ZEN PATH select?
1. Outline the pro and cons of either method. Identify in detail the metrics ZEN PATH’s
management should use to assess which one is the best. You are not supposed to
select a method, just compare them and provide ALL relevant information that you will
need to make a decision.
2. Who are the key stake holders for ZEN PATH?
3. Let us assume that ZEN PATH chose to offer meditation seminars as the main source of
additional income. They will still try to get sponsors, but the seminars will be the main
source of new funds. What is the image that the monastery should project to the diverse
stakeholders given the new changes? Describe it in a short statement (20-word limit).
4. What social media should be used and how should they be structured to help ZEN
PATH deal with its financial constraints given the choice of offering seminars? Provide a
detailed list of the social media they should use, as well as how they should use them.
Be as specific as possible. For example, if they were to use Twitter, then you should
provide a sample tweet message. Listing all possible social media is not a good answer.
You may list several, but I would like to see how ZEN PATH should rank the ones they
should use based on their importance for this particular situation.
5. Describe the key elements of the web site to maximize awareness, and attendance to
the services (meditation training) as well as to make ZEN PATH more attractive to
sponsors.
6. Once ZEN PATH started offering more meditation seminars, a philosophy professor at a
local university sent a sarcastic twitter message claiming that ZEN PATH should change
its name to DOLLAR PATH since they had become very commercialized. The message
has been re-twitted a lot. How should ZEN PATH use reputation management
techniques and social media to defend themselves from a message that may soon go
viral?
7. What metrics (both in terms of web analytics and non-web metrics) should ZEN PATH
use to assess (a) the success of the offering of meditation seminars, (b) the
effectiveness of the modified brand image to attract more sponsors, and (c) the
effectiveness of their activities to limit the reputation damage from the philosopher’s
tweet?
7 page double spaced, standard margin paper on slave codes
compare and contrast slave codes
Chicago manual style with 4 sources cited throughout the paper
Include an argument- The argument will be that slave codes in the south were much worse than the north
Give an example about the harshness of the slave codes between the North and South by speaking on two specifiC slaves from the north and south.