Author: chris

Write a 700- to 1,050-word summary of the team’s discussion about IFRS versus GAAP, based on your team collaborative discussions. The summary should be structured in a subject-by-subject format. An introduction and a conclusion are needed. Your essay should include the answers to the following:

• IFRS 8-1: What are some steps taken by both the FASB and IASB to move to fair value measurement for financial instruments? In what ways have some of the approaches differed?
• IFRS 9-1: What is component depreciation, and when must it be used?
• IFRS 9-2: What is revaluation of plant assets? When should revaluation be applied?
• IFRS 9-3: Some product development expenditures are recorded as development expenses and others as development costs. Explain the difference between these accounts and how a company decides which classification is appropriate.
• IFRS 10-2: Explain how IFRS defines a contingent liability and provide an example.
• IFRS10-3: Briefly describe some similarities and differences between GAAP and IFRS with respect to the accounting for liabilities.

Format your essay consistent with APA guidelines.

Use the Financial Accounting text and at least two additional scholarly-reviewed references

 

I need an essay about 2 pages answering the following questions:

 

1. How do you think the Fed has addressed the recent crisis and what are the monetary policy actions the FOMC took in the September meeting?

 

2. What is the current state of the US economy? Define how GDP is doing in each of its components (Consumption, Investment, Government Purchases and Net Exports).

 

3. What is the current state of unemployment and inflation? How is that important for the Fed? (Make sure you use the concepts learned regarding unemployment and inflation and the monetary policy tradeoff between the two)

 

4. What policy action do you think the FOMC will take in its December 15-16 meeting? What would you do if you were in charge of conducting monetary policy? Why?

Application: Patient Safety Risks

As noted in the Institute of Medicine report, To Err is Human, “It may be part of human nature to err, but it is also part of human nature to create solutions, find better alternatives, and meet the challenges ahead” (Institute of Medicine, 1999, p. 15).

What are the most common—or most significant—risks to patient safety? How do these risks vary in different health care settings or with disparate groups of patients? What can be done to address these risks? You will explore these questions and more in this Application Assignment.

To prepare for this Application:

• Begin by brainstorming types of health care organizations and groups of patients (e.g., geriatric patients requiring chronic care, pediatric patients admitted for acute care). Identify a particular type of setting and/or patient population to help you pinpoint your focus for the following step.
• Review the National Patient Safety Goals, the CDC’s NHSN Web site, and the information on patient safety concerns presented in the other Learning Resources. Select a specific patient safety risk (e.g., patient falls, medication reconciliation) to focus on for this assignment.
• Analyze the systems errors and/or human factors errors that should be considered with regard to this safety risk.
• Reflect on related insights that could be gained from high-reliability organizations. What approaches do these organizations use that might be applicable within a health care organization?
• Consider the strategies and tools (e.g., Six Sigma, Lean) that could be used to assess and reduce this particular risk.
• Evaluate the potential benefits of patient and family involvement and steps that could be taken to ensure that they are included in this endeavor.

Write a 4- to 5-page paper that addresses the following:

• Briefly summarize the patient safety risk you have selected, and provide a rationale for why it deserves particular attention.
• Analyze the influence of systems errors and human factors errors with regard to this risk.
• Discuss related insights that could be gained from high-reliability organizations and how they might be applied within a health care organization.
• Propose strategies and tools for assessing and reducing risk related to this safety issue.
• Describe how patients and patients’ families can be involved in addressing this issue.

This Application is due at the end of Week 5. See the Week 5 Application area for submission instructions.

Your written assignments must follow APA guidelines. Be sure to support your work with specific citations from this week’s Learning Resources and from additional scholarly sources as appropriate. Refer to the Essential Guide to APA Style to ensure that your in-text citations and reference list are correct.

 

Final Paper

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

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

 

1. 1. Current company cash flow

 

1. 1. 1. You need to complete a cash flow statement for the company using the direct method.
      2. Once you’ve completed the cash flow statement, answer the following questions:
         1. What does this statement of cash flow tell you about the sources and uses of the company funds?
         2. Is there anything ABC Company can do to improve the cash flow?

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

         3. 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?

 

1. 1. 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.
      1. What is the product cost for the expansion product under absorption and variable costing?
      2. 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?
      3. Assuming ABC Company wants a 40% gross margin for the new product, what selling price should it set for the expansion product?
      4. Assuming the same sales mix of these two products, what are the contribution margins and break-even points by product?

 

1. 1. 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.

      1. What is the net present value of the proposed investment (ignore income taxes and depreciation)?
      2. 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?
      3. 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?

 

1. 1. Conclusion:

 

1. 1. What are the major risk factors that you see in this project?
   2. As the controller and a management accountant, what is your responsibility to this project?
   3. 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:
   1. Title of paper
   2. Student’s name
   3. Course name and number
   4. Instructor’s name
   5. 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.

Discussion 7 “Evolution”

 

Using the internet and Strayer databases choose three (3) recent advances in genetics, development, and geology and explain two (2) ways your chosen advances have enriched our understanding of evolution. Next suggest two (2) ways that new sources of evidence for evolution can help to corroborate observations that were made by early evolutionary thinkers

 

Discussion 8  “Evolution of Disease, Humans, and Animals”

 

In your own words explain the concept of rRNA then suggest three (3) reasons why scientists choose to use rRNA as an Evolutionary Chronometer

 

 

Discussion 9 “Evolution of Animals and Population of Humans”

 

Consider three (3) problems out of control population growth will create in regards to the environment. Next discuss three (3) effects of China’s one child rule. In your response please consider social, ethical and environmental sides of the effect

Read Case 9: Capital State Arena in the text (pg. 473-475). In a three- to four-page paper, excluding the title and reference pages, provide a brief summary of the case and main points, and address the following prompts, using qualitative and quantitative data where necessary to provide support.

• You are the purchasing agent for CSU. Your manager has asked you to design evaluation criteria for purchase of the new lighting system. Develop a supplier selection and evaluation model for this purchasing decision. Justify the reasoning for your response.
• Part of your role in selecting the lighting system will be to satisfy the needs of the university purchasing team and the end users. Develop a university purchasing team/ end users’ needs matrix to help with this purchasing decision. Explain the needs for each user and how you determined the needs, in addition to providing examples.

Your paper must be formatted according to APA style as outlined in the Ashford Writing Center

Identify a Population to Study

Write an essay in a 1- to 2-page Microsoft Word document defining a population that you would like to study during this course. Present the criteria for the inclusion and exclusion and some general information about your chosen population. Include demographics, socioeconomics, health risk factors, and environmental hazards.

You will use this population as the basis for other assignments in this course.

Cite any sources in APA format.

Assignment 2: Discussion—Your Carbon Footprint and the Future

A carbon footprint is the amount of greenhouse gas emissions that each individual produces. Calculating your carbon footprint can give you a new perspective concerning how much you are really contributing to the greenhouse effect.

In this assignment, you will apply what you have learned about taking personal responsibility for your environment and calculate your own carbon footprint.

Using The Nature Conservancy Web site, calculate your carbon footprint. You can calculate this by clicking on the calculator and filling out the estimated values. Access this Web site using the following link:

• The Nature Conservancy. (2011). Carbon footprint calculator: What’s my carbon footprint? Retrieved from http://www.nature.org/greenliving/carboncalculator/index.htm

Respond to the following:

• Describe your final carbon footprint.
• Classify where most of the carbon you generate comes from.
• Considering all you have learned in this course, state if you feel you have a new appreciation for your role in the environment.
• Examine how you impact the environment. Do you think you impact the environment more than you should?
• Describe the part of your life that is contributing the most carbon.
• Propose how you can reduce this number. In your opinion, explain if it is realistic for you to try and reduce this number.

Write your initial response in approximately 300–350 words. Apply APA standards to citation of sources.

By Sunday, November 22, 2015, post your response to the appropriate Discussion Area. Through Wednesday, November 25, 2015, review and comment on at least two peers’ responses. Consider the following:

• How does your carbon footprint differ from theirs?
• Suggest ways in which your classmates can reduce their carbon footprint.

Note: All discussion assignments in this course will be graded us

Create a communication plan for the Riordan Manufacturing Go Green campaign, using the WBS and project organization chart.

 

Research various software packages, such as Microsoft® Enterprise or SharePoint, and select one that has the most useful tools to coordinate data, resource management, scheduling, and communication. In no more than 350 words, explain why this software is appropriate.

 

Navigate to http://www.mindtools.com/pages/article/newPPM_07.htm. Download the free Power/Interest Grid .pdf file. Reproduce the grid in a Microsoft® Word document. Brainstorm various stakeholders of this project and plot them on the grid. Identify and categorize stakeholders according to reporting needs.

 

Create a communication plan matrix, using Microsoft® Excel. Indicate the frequency and type of communication appropriate for each stakeholder and which team member would be responsible for overseeing each communication.

 

Write an executive summary of no more than 1,050 words in which you explain how the communication plan and software will enable the project leader to effectively manage communication on the project.

 

Combine the software recommendation, Power/Interest Grid, communication plan matrix, and executive summary into a cohesive report.

 

Format your report consistent with APA guidelines.

Click the Assignment Files tab to submit your assignment.