Category: Essays

Scenario for Assignments 1-5

For Assignments 1-5, you are the new budgeting and finance administrator for your local government agency. Your first responsibility is to become familiar with the agency, the budget, programs, and capital projects. As the administrator, you will be responsible for analyzing, examining, proposing, and preparing the agency’s budget for the next five (5) years.

Note: Students cannot use New York City as a selected local government

Assignment 2: The Capital Budget

Due Week 6 and worth 180 points

Refer the Scenario for Assignments 1–5. Forecast salaries, revenue estimating, and prepare the capital budget.

Using the budget from the selected agency, write a five to six (5-6) page paper in which you:

Analyze the agency’s compensation for employees. Provide a rationale on what the costs and benefits would be for a 2 percent, 4 percent, or 5 percent pay increase for the fiscal year 2014. In your forecast, discuss the effects of the increase on benefits for the agency. (Title this section Payroll Forecast.)
Review the trend of the agency over the past five (5) years and prepare an analysis explaining the trend for expenditures. (Title this section Trend Analysis.)
Prepare and explain a five (5) year forecast of the four (4) highest expenditures. Include in the analysis whether the costs should be approved or not approved. Justify the reasoning with examples. (Title this section Expenditure Forecast.)
Compare two (2) options for predicting the cost of needed repairs to the current building that houses the selected agency. Provide a rationale for recommending one (1) of the two (2) options. Include the figures to support the rationale. (Title this section Capital Budget.)
Provide names and URLs of the Websites for the state’s budget(s) analyzed and any other government Websites used to support the assignment’s criteria.

Your assignment must follow these formatting requirements:

Be typed, double spaced, using Times New Roman font (size 12), with one-inch margins on all sides; citations and references must follow APA. Check with your professor for any additional instructions.
Include a cover page containing the title of the assignment, the student’s name, the professor’s name, the course title, and the date. The cover page and the reference page are not included in the required assignment page length.

The specific course learning outcomes associated with this assignment are:

Analyze the basic skills and tools needed for budgeting for public sector agencies and / or departments.
Recommend appropriate policy actions based on the evaluation.
Evaluate a budgeting system at any governmental level.
Analyze the scope and sequence of budgeting in terms of sources of revenues, purpose of government expenditures, budget cycles, budget preparation, and debt administration.
Analyze the steps required for budgeting, such as preparing a budget, making a financial plan, conducting a cost-benefit analysis, and making budget decisions.
Prepare a preliminary budgeting system for presentation before Congress, state / local government, or other organization.
Develop various budget charts that represent segments of the budgeting process.
Use technology and information resources to research issues in public budgeting and finance.
Write clearly and concisely about public budgeting and finance using proper writing mechanics.

The assignment is due in 3hours 30min. Only someone who can achieve that should respond. I have attached the beginnig of the project you can edit anything you feel appropriate.

Create a description of the 3 types of searches that will be used in your PPC plan.
Describe the PPC campaign that you recommend for the case study company.
Define each of the following items listed below specifically for the case study company using goal-based target estimates:
Click-through rate
Cost per click
Average cost per click
Conversion rate
Cost per conversion
Cost per lead
Cost per acquisition
Create 5 ad groups, including their purpose and suggestions for headlines and text.
Describe how you will implement your ads and track your ad score.

Discussion 1) When comparing various divisions within a company, describe what problems can arise from evaluating divisions that have different accounting methods, as described in Chapter 11 of your text. Cite three examples of accounting methods that could cause divisions’ profits to differ. Your initial post should be 200-250 words.

Discussion 2) (Exercise 12-12) Dr. Steve Rosenthal has his own medical practice. He specializes in the treatment of diabetics. His staff consists of a receptionist, two nurses, a lab technician, and a dietitian. As patients enter the outer office, they check in with the receptionist. The patient then waits until called by a nurse. When called, the patient moves from the waiting room to the inner offices. The patient must weigh in and is then assigned a room. The nurse assigning the patient to a room gathers all the personal data for updating the medical records, such as insulin dosage, medication, illnesses since last visit, etc. The nurse also takes an initial blood sample for blood sugar testing and performs a blood pressure test. The patient then waits until the doctor comes in. After the doctor’s conference, the nurse returns to take more blood samples, depending on what is ordered by the doctor. The patient then waits until the dietitian comes to review eating habits and talk about how to improve meal planning and weight control. The patient returns to the receptionist to pay for the office visit and to schedule the next visit.

In your response include the following:

Identify the activities in the doctor’s office that fall into process time, inspection time, move time, wait time, and storage time.
List the activities in the doctor’s office that are candidates for non value-added activities. Explain why you classify them as non value-added activities.

Which of the following is considered to be a current liability?

A. Short-term money market instruments

B. Accounts payable

C. Work-in-process

D. Raw materials

2. If you deposit $10,000 in an investment that yields 6 percent annually, how many years will it take for

your investment to double in value?

A. 15 years

B. 20 years

C. 18 years

D. 12 years

3. Discounting determines the worth of funds to be received in the future in terms of their

A. cost factor.

B. present value.

C. time factor.

D. future value.

4. What is the future value of an ordinary annuity if you deposit $1,500 per year for the next 5 years into

an account that earns an interest rate of 5 percent annually?

A. $1,914

B. $7,500

C. $8,288

D. $6,322

5. A beta coefficient for a risky stock is

A. greater than 1.0.

B. equal to 1.0.

C. less than 1.0.

D. negative.

6. Liabilities equal

A. assets minus equity.

B. equity.

C. equity minus assets.

D. assets.

7. What is the present value of an annuity due if you deposit $1,200 per year for the next

5 years into an account that earns an interest rate of 5 percent annually?

A. $5,195

B. $6,703

C. $8,288

D. $5,455

8. What is the future value of an annuity due if you deposit $1,500 per year for the next 5 years into an account that earns an interest rate of 5 percent annually?

A. $7,500

B. $11,914

C. $8,703

D. $8,288

9. Which of the following is calculated by subtracting the cost of goods sold and administrative expense from net sales?

A. Operating income

B. Total liabilities

C. Inventory cost

D. Accounts receivable

10. Accountants suggest that assets should be valued at

A. the higher of market or cost.

B. the lower of market or cost.

C. cost.

D. market.

11. Which of the following would be the most likely cause of an increase in inventory turnover?

A. The faster collection of accounts receivable

B. An increase in the inventory level

C. Lowered sales

D. A reduction in the price of the product

12. At an interest rate of 6.25% percent compounded annually, how many years will it take for an investment of $7,000 to grow to $10,000? (Round to the nearest year.)

A. 8 years

B. 6 years

C. 10 years

D. 4 years

13. To measure risk, the capital asset pricing model uses

A. the volatility of an asset’s cash flows.

B. an asset’s standard deviation.

C. the term during which the asset is held.

D. beta.

14. If an account currently has a value of $84,000 and earns an interest rate of 4 percent annually, for how many years can you withdraw $10,000 from the account?

A. 12

B. 20

C. 8

D. 10

15. If annual interest rates are 10 percent, which of the following values will be the greatest?

A. The future value of a $100 investment after 3 years

B. The future value of an annuity after 4 years, if $100 is deposited annually

C. The present value of an annuity that will pay $200 a year, at the end of each of the next 4 years

D. The present value of an investment that will be worth $100 after 2 years

16. What is the future value of an ordinary annuity if you deposit $500 per year for the next 10 years in an account that earns an interest rate of 4 percent annually?

A. $1,700

B. $5,000

C. $6,003

D. $5,263

17. What is the required return using the CAPM if the stock’s beta is 1.2, and the individual, who expects the market to rise by 13.2%, can earn 6.4% invested in a risk-free Treasury bill?

A. 24.58%

B. 11.62%

C. 14.56%

D. 9.46%

18. Profitability ratios are used to measure

A. turnover.

B. liquidity.

C. leverage.

D. performance.

19. A current ratio is presently 2 : 1 for a corporation that sells sporting goods. Which of the following statements about the ratio is correct?

A. The current ratio is affected by exchanging bonds for stock.

B. The current ratio is increased by purchasing a store with cash, with potential to increase corporate sales.

C. The current ratio is unchanged by using cash to retire accounts payable.

D. The quick ratio is smaller than the current ratio.

20. The current ratio excludes

A. cash equivalents.

B. inventory.

C. accrued interest.

D. paid-in capital.

Please read instructions carefully. This is no paper assignment.

Some evidence suggests that there is a direct and positive relationship between a firm’s size and its top-level managers’ compensation. Explain what inducement you think that relationship provides to upper-level executives.

Recommend what can be done to influence the relationship so that it serves shareholders’ interests

Write a two to three (2-3) page paper in which you:

Describe what hacking of memory or hacking of RAM means.
Examine the common tools that hackers use to hack into memory of computing devices. Detail two (2) real-life examples of such tools in action.
Identify three (3) best practices that one should use to protect their computer(s) from being hacked.
Analyze the significance of hacking in organizations and modern society.
Use at least two (2) quality resources in this assignment. Note: Wikipedia and similar Websites do not qualify as quality resources.

Your assignment must follow these formatting requirements:

Be typed, double spaced, using Times New Roman font (size 12), with one-inch margins on all sides; citations and references must follow APA or school-specific format. Check with your professor for any additional instructions.
Include a cover page containing the title of the assignment, the student’s name, the professor’s name, the course title, and the date. The cover page and the reference page are not included in the required assignment page length

What is the difference between a hypothesis and a theory as it applies to a criminal investigation? When should an investigator make a hypothesis and should this be revised during the investigation, why or why not?

Review the EBSCO tutorial under Reading in Week 1 and search EBSCO for: “Get started with prewriting techniques” (2010) by Robert Raymer
Read and respond to each of the following writing prompts. Please submit your answers to both prompts in a single document.

Part 1: Prewriting – How I Write

Write a 75-150 word essay detailing your previous writing experience. Use the following questions to help you to think about your role as a writer:

In what type of environment do you do your best writing?
How would you characterize your writing? Has it been better? Has it been worse?
Do you write better at night or in the morning?
When you are confronted with a writing task, how do you begin?
Do you write for pleasure or fun? Do you write for work?
What is it about your writing that you would like to improve upon?

Using one or more of the prewriting techniques described in the Raymer article, describe your writing process. Be sure to clearly label the pre-writing technique(s) used.

Part 2: Resources

It is important to know what resources you have to help you through this class. Browse the following resources, and, in 75 to 150 words, describe how you think you will be able to use two or more of these to improve your writing skills.

EN101 Syllabus
EN101 Course Policies
EN101 FAQ
EN101 APA Guide
EBSCO tutorial
Glossary of Writing Terms

Using the article by Katharina Lorenz, complete the following:

1. What is the author’s thesis statement and where is it located in the text?

2. How do Mythological image pose a special case for visual analysis?

A.

B.

C.

3. What does Lorenz mean when she states that Pompeian mythological images are not meaningless elements?

4. What are the elements that show a clear differentiation between the male and female roles?

A.

B.

5. How does Lorenz view the echo effect of Omphale and the satyr upon their respective narratives?

6. What, according to Lorenz, is the potential of Pompeian painting?

How do you use informatics and technology in your nursing practice? How do you see that use changing in the future? What ethical issues have arisen or might arise from use of technology and informatics in professional nursing