Discuss the role of ‘citizen journalism’ with reference to at least one case study in detail. What are the merits and problems that these new practices bring?
Topic: Tackling Obesity in primary school children
Select three pieces of varied evidence relating to your chosen issue. Explain what they are, giving the rationale for your selection, and commenting on their strengths and limitations. (60% of the marks)
Reflect on the process of data search, selection and appraisal, indicating your search methods and what you see as key issues or dilemmas that emerged in this process. (40% of the marks)
Answer both parts of the question.
Before you attempt to answer the assignments question you have to read the details of the case first
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B-LDoRf2x1xSUkJfUGZIZVVfZDA/view?pli=1
1) Read the “sourcing potato’s for elevation burger Kuwait”
2) Prepare two page report “Use easy vocabulary “
3) Make sure to itemize your response to identify the question you are answering (no need to rewrite the question only add the letter of the questin)
4) List of the question
A. What are the challenges facing TABCo in sourcing potatoes?
B. Is there an ethical dilemma facing Ali Ashkanani in sourcing potatoes for elevation burger? If so, then explain. What do you recommend ali to do?
C. How do you view the approach ali Ashkanani took in solving the potato-sourcing problem? What would you do differently?
D. What do you recommend TABCo to do moving forward? Support your response with figures from the case. You may need to take into account TABCo’s cost of capital and growth rate. Clearly state and justify your assumptions. Use Microsoft excels to conduct a net-a-present-value for the different alternatives.
Please be sure that all the paper is taking to the main company no need for any concept . Thank you
please review the attached paper and fix any error that found in it. after reviewing, please answer these two questions which related to the paper:
1- What are some of the various theories about the function of play? Did you find any evidence to support these theories?
2- – Can play be used as an indicator of normal development? Why or why not?
The topic i selected at the beginning of the term is Nature… All the images and analyzations need to be about nature.
The current situation (hey, work with me here..go with this…and make it as fun as possible… ; – )
Your task in this assignment is to build off of the work you completed in the previous three assignments in such a way that you are working for a financial services firm (potentially in one of your choices from assignment one) specializing in the product you developed, borrowed, and or created in assignments two and three. You were green-lighted on your proposal for the plan created in assignment three, and then, promoted as sales manager of this particular product/service line. You have 12 sales employees working for you in your division within the United States, some are existing and some you will get to hire. You will answer the following in a written discussion–be thorough and complete in your analysis..I am really looking for you to synthesize the course materials given in this assignment:
Introduction: What are you ‘doing’ in this work, and why?
Section One: What are the keys to success in time, territory, and self management for your respective division? Discuss the importance of the sales territory, explain the major elements involved in managing the sales territories, explain why salespeople need to segment their accounts by size, and calculate a salesperson’s break-even point per day, hour and year (it’s ok to make up the numbers…just be consistent and show me what you know).
Section Two: How are you going to be successful in planning, staffing, and training sales people?Discuss the relationship between a firm’s marketing plan, sales force, and the sales force budget. Describe the organization of your sales force. Explain the two major elements involved in staffing the sales force–personnel planning and employment planning, discuss what is involved in training your sales force.
Section Three: How will you motivate, compensate, evaluate and lead your sales people? Present and discuss the five elements of the motivation mix as related to your salesforce, explain the basic methods of compensating sales people and the method you have chosen for your own salesforce, review three approaches to leadership and suggest leadership techniques for improving your potential effectiveness as the sales manager of your division, discuss why salespeople must be evaluated, who should evaluate them, when they should be evaluated what performance criteria should be evaluated, and how you intend to conduct evaluations.
Conclusion: What did you accomplish in this work and summarize the major ‘take-aways’ from this assignment?
My assignment three was a bust and I was have been allowed to come up with a new proposal that will fit this assignment. This is a desperation attempt to get this done on time so please be quick to respond. 2 pages is plenty as I am not looking to get a perfect score just trying to avoid a failing grad
12 questions in accounting due today. Questions are not related and should be answered separately along with the correlating question number on top and citation on the bottom. 5 references are required.
Cost ACCT
Q1
Describe the two assumptions used in cost estimation behavior. Give an example of one of the assumptions.
Q2
Question…with so much data to analyze and use, how important is precision in the collection of data? Anyone?
Q3
Hello everyone! I found the below linked article about estimating health care costs and thought it would be a good example to discuss in class! As you read this article on insurance companies’ attempt to identify costs in an effort to ease their cost estimation, think about whether the cost drivers presented are suitable or if other cost drivers would be more adequate, given the industry. Please post your thoughts:-) Anyone?
http://www.amednews.com/article/20120515/business/305159997/8/
Q4
Hello everyone! Let’s say that a company invests considerable time and money to develop sophisticated cost functions that rate high on all evaluative criteria. In the course of using the cost functions, a manager notes that in several instances the actual costs were different from the predicted costs, resulting in lower profits during one quarter of the year…. The question of the value of the cost function is asked. Give some suggestions on how to answer the manager! Anyone?
Q5
I am also thinking…What are the methods that could be used to estimate a cost function assuming that no historical data exists? Anyone?
Q6
Your suggestions would be benchmarking! In my opinion, this is a very under-utilized method in collecting data when no historical data exists internally 🙂 Your thoughts, anyone? Also, what other methods are listed in our readings?
AIS
Q1
Discuss how REA diagrams might be useful to auditors in understanding a client’s business processes. What if the client hasn’t prepared them in advance? What basic steps would the auditor perform to compile the information necessary to build the diagram him or herself? Does that time investment produce large enough benefits to the auditor? Explain your answer.
Q2
Class: Is there a difference between an Activity and an Entity? Explain your response.
Q3
Class: Using an academic organization as a model, describe an example of a MANY-to-MANY relationship.
Q4
Discuss why there cannot be one basic REA diagram that would work for all businesses. What might be some areas that could be similar from business to business? Select either the company for which you work or one that interests you. Describe the business processes that are unique to that company or industry that would require special handling in an REA diagram.
Q5
Class: Does every database table require a primary key? Explain why or why not and provide an example to support your response.
Q6
Constantly checking the AIS system is very important due to various reasons, including the need to comply with laws and regulations, and business rules. For instance, an auto apportionment (allocation) method should be reviewed to ensure that the variables (eg. store space, volume, or cost drivers for activity-based costing) have not changed. Else, there will be incorrect allocation of overheads. The database management system is part of the AIS, and it is critical for data storage and retrieval.
Class: Discuss some of the key considerations when designing a Payroll database system for a teaching hospital.
On his own
Andrew worked as a chef in medium-sized restaurants until he decided to persue his interest in health food and went to work with an obesity clinic. That was five years ago and Andrew is now ready to start his own restaurant for people at risk for obesity or just those who want to watch their calories. Though health food can fetch higher prices, Andrew has decided to keep his rates reasonable considering the socioeconomic profile of obesity sufferers and the location of his restaurant.
Andrew plans to serve only the main meals. His restaurant can seat 15 customers at a time. Both lunch and dinner will be available for two hours and a diner is expected to occupy a seat for about 1 hour. The restaurant will be open Monday through Friday of each week throughout the year except for the first two weeks of July when Andrew vacations with his family.
COST TO RUN
Average revenue, including juices (per meal)……… $ 42
Average cost of the food (per meal)……………………. $ 12
Chef’s and waiters’ salaries (per year)………………… $59,920
Rent (premises, equipment) (per month)…………. $ 4,200
Cleaning (linen and premises) (per month)…………… $ 840
Replacement of dishes, cutlery, glasses (per month) $ 300
Utilities, advertising, telephone (per month)…………… …$ 2,000
Healthy Eating Trends
Obesity is a growing health concern in the U.S. As health awareness grows, people are more likely to eat health. However, Andrew’s restaurant will be the first of its kind in the area. His first concern is whether the idea will find enough takers. He accepts that he might lose money during the first few weeks, but wants to know how many people he must attract to break even.
Breakeven
The formulas are as follows:
Breakeven in units = Total fixed costs_______
Unit contribution margin
Unit contribution margin= Unit sales price – Variable cost per unit
= $42 – $12
= $30
The remaining cost items are considered fixed costs. The monthly cost items must be multiplied by 12 to convert them to yearly totals in order to calculate total fixed costs which amounts to $ 141,000.
Breakeven point in meals = 141,000 / 30 = 4700 meals
CVP Analysis
Review Decision Case 1 (Steve and Linda Hom) starting on page 984 of your text. In your initial post, answer the two case questions:
In addition, address the following in one to two paragraphs:
Ethical and Legal Issues
HR ethics are important to organizations as they can have legal and moral implications. In this assignment, you will develop a plan to resolve some of the ethical and legal issues involved in a merger. Use the University online library and textbooks to read about ethical and legal issues.
Consider the following scenario:
As part of the employment contracts, employees have certain rights. For example, employees have the right to not be coerced into situations against their will. They expect to be able to access the information, which affects their job, company, and career. Such work situations can increase stress, lower self-esteem and productivity, cause loss of trust, and decrease efficiency.
Good employees who are looking for a more secure work environment may resign and take valuable tacit knowledge and talent with them. It is the responsibility of HR management to create an ethical work environment before, during, and after the merger.
Instructions:
As a strategic HR Director, you have been asked to identify ethical and legal issues involved in a merger and develop a plan to resolve these issues. Your plan should address the following:
Write a 4-to-5-page plan in Word format. Apply APA standards to citation of sources
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Assignment 2
Case Study—Training Assessment
Training assessment is an important task for HR personnel. Use the University online library and textbooks to read about training assessments.
Then, consider the following scenario:
You have recently been appointed as a training manager for the southeast region of a major supermarket chain in the U.S. Your territory includes 15 retail stores. Your responsibility involves working directly with store managers and other stakeholders to develop training solutions to meet specific needs of employees in various stores. This includes, but is not limited to, performing needs assessments, determining appropriate instructional design and training delivery methods, as well as implementing and evaluating training initiatives.
Three of the stores in your territory have missed sales goals for the last two quarters. All three stores have received low customer satisfaction scores and are experiencing increased employee turnover rates. The high employee turnover has resulted in the store managers hiring many new and relatively inexperienced sales associates, which further contributes to the problem.
The senior management team of the supermarket chain believes that training and development may help decrease employee turnover and increase customer satisfaction. You have been asked to assess training needs and develop a proposal to address the situation in these three stores.
Instructions:
Use scholarly resources and your learning, address the following:
Write a 4-to-5-page training proposal in Word format. Apply APA standards to citation of sources
Download the most recent Annual Report from your chosen company’s Web site; this is commonly located on the Investor Relations page. Prepare a report analyzing business mathematics concepts. Be sure to include the following in your report: