Category: Essays

provide a list of 8 recommendations that you think would be of benefit to North Carolina Outward Bound School. Your recommendations must be well-supported using the course Reading & Study material as well as other credible resources (a minimum of 3 sources). Write a professional letter introducing yourself to the organization you have been evaluating. Inform them of this course and the analysis you had to perform, and provide them with the list of recommendations that you hope will be of benefit to them. must be a minimum of 5 full pages. http://www.ncobs.org

Assignment 1: LASA 2—Critiquing an Article

In Module 4 Assignment 2, you were asked to provide your impressions of Peter Singer’s article “America’s Shame.” Now, you will compose a researched response to this article. This assignment allows you to assess and defend the reasonableness of your personal beliefs through critical assessment of Singer’s arguments and the presentation of your own, original arguments about the subject using the tools of evaluation you have learned throughout the course.

Assignment Overview:

For this assignment, assume that you have been asked to present a PowerPoint presentation at your local community center about the topics of world poverty and education. You have decided to use Peter Singer’s article as the starting point of your presentation. As you craft your presentation you will need to:

Present the major claims of Singer.
Present your own original argument offering thoughtful solutions to real-world problems.
Back up your argument with outside research.

Here is the link to the article by Singer: “America’s Shame” from The Chronicle of Higher Education. 55(27), B6–B10. (EBSCO AN 37137370).

Assignment Details:

Develop a 12–15-slide presentation in Microsoft PowerPoint.
Include two additional slides—one for the title and the other for a References page.
Bullet points are acceptable, but use complete sentences throughout the presentation.

Be sure to include the following:

Describe the portions of Singer’s article you seek to engage/critique.
Clearly state your own argument/thesis in response.
Remember, the nature of the stance is not important; you can agree or disagree with any point Singer makes in the article. The important thing is for you to construct a stance that clearly engages Singer’s position. Include properly cited examples from the article.
As you advance your own thesis, be sure to include your position on how to address the problems that Singer discusses in his article. Again, you may agree or disagree with Singer; however, be sure to offer your own solutions to the issue of world poverty, as discussed by Singer.
Support your argument with the use of original research.
Use at least three credible, academic resources to support your positions.
These should be sources other than Singer’s “America’s Shame” article.
Apply APA standards to citation of sources.

Name your file LastnameFirstInitial_M5_A1.ppt.and submit it to the M5: Assignment 1 Dropbox by Week 5, Day

Due Week 2 and worth 30 points

When looking for information about a particular issue, how often do you try to resist biases toward your own point of view? This assignment asks you to engage in this aspect of critical thinking by playing the “Believing Game.” The Believing Game is about making the effort to “believe” – or at least consider – the reasons for an opposing view on an issue.

The assignment is divided into two (2) parts.

In Part I of the assignment (due Week 2), you will first read a book excerpt about critical thinking processes: “The Believing Game and How to Make Conflicting Opinions More Fruitful” athttp://www.procon.org/sourcefiles/believinggame.pdf. Next, you will review the Procon.org Website in order to gather information. Then, you will engage in prewriting to examine your thoughts.

Note: In Part II of the assignment (due Week 4), you will write an essay geared towards synthesizing your ideas.

Part I – Prewriting: Follow the instructions below for this prewriting activity. Use complete sentences and adhere to standard rules of English grammar, punctuation, mechanics, and spelling.

1. Select one (1) of the approved topics from the www.procon.org Website and state your position on the issue.

2. From the Procon.org Website, identify three (3) premises (reasons) listed under either the Pro or Con section – whichever section opposes your position.

3.For each of the three (3) premises (reasons) that oppose your position on the issue, answer these “believing” questions suggested by Elbow:

What’s interesting or helpful about this view?
What would I notice if I believed this view?
In what sense or under what conditions might this idea be true?”

The paper should follow guidelines for clear and organized writing:

Include an introductory paragraph and concluding paragraph.
Address main ideas in body paragraphs with a topic sentence and supporting sentences.
Adhere to standard rules of English grammar, punctuation, mechanics, and spelling.

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 Style 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.

The specific course learning outcomes associated with this assignment are:

Identify the informal fallacies, assumptions, and biases involved in manipulative appeals and abuses of language.
Create written work utilizing the concepts of critical thinking.
Use technology and information resources to research issues in critical thinking skills and informal logic

Write a 700- to 1,050-word paper in which you compare jails and prisons. Identify a jail in your county, or one in a surrounding area, and a prison in your state to compare in the paper. Address the following in your comparison:

Identify types of prisons.
What are the major differences between the selected jail and the selected prison?
Explain at least two aspects about jail and prison culture and subculture.
Explain why jails play an important role in the criminal justice system.
Discuss the role of community-based corrections programs associated with jails and prisons.
Describe violent behavior that occurs in jails and prisons.
Explain the role of probation and parole.

Format your paper consistent with APA guidelines

Determine what the optimal degree of leverage would be as far as the firm’s capital structure is concerned. Identify a specific brand that has developed a high level of brand equity. What specific aspects of that brand establish its brand equity?
Online marketing research seems to be the wave of the future. What drawbacks do you see associated with online research? What are the privacy issues?
How does the Internet help companies gain customer input on their existing and new products?
Assume you were hired by the local grocery store to help assess their service quality.; How would you go about undertaking this project?

On your weekly grocery shopping trip, you notice that the price of spaghetti has gone up 50 cents a pound. How will this price increase affect the demand for spaghetti sauce, rice, and Parmesan cheese? Explain your answer in terms of the price elasticity of demand

A. Go to Yahoo! Finance’s Website, located at http://finance.yahoo.com/, and navigate to the page of the publicly traded stock you chose in Week 1. Then, click on the “SEC Filings” link on the left-hand side of the page under “COMPANY”. Review the debt structure of the company you have chosen by reading the company’s latest quarterly report and determining whether it has any convertible bonds or long-term debt. Recommend two (2) actions that the selected company can take in order to optimize its capital structure. Provide a rationale for your recommendation.

B. Recommend two (2) uses of a tax shield that can improve return on the equity of a firm. Determine what the optimal degree of leverage would be as far as the firm’s capital structure is concerned. Suggest two (2) strategies you would use to optimize shareholder value by altering the firm’s capital structure.

radical Expressions

Do not request if you cannot complete within time frame.

3 Powerpoint Slides needed with speaker notes and plagarism free

APA and in text citation is required

Title:

Slide 1:Introduction

Slide 2:Describe the major biotic components of the great barrier reef

Slide 3:Describe the major abiotic components of the great barrier reef

accounting questions needed by tomorrow morning. Questions are not related and should be answered separately with the correlating question number on top. References are required.

 

Q1

Cost accounting controls relate to the physical inventory and the related costs of a product from raw material to finished good and storage of that finished good. These are basically in two categories: first is the control on physical inventory and the process to a finished good. This will focus on the product itself from raw material, workflow and the stages of completion, and then the finished product. Secondly, is the cost associated with the process and the controls that exist controlling and monitoring those costs.

The auditors test of cost accounting will include reviewing the physical controls of the materials used to produce the goods: records for transferring inventory from location to location: review of the perpetual inventory master files which allow for a much more accurate testing of inventory prior to the financial statement date: and unit cost data which would include proper costing of materials, labor and any manufacturing overhead. Any thoughts?

 

Q2

An item of interest during the audit completion process, actually, this would be after the statements have been issued. What happens if the auditor discovers that the financial statements are in fact misleading after the opinion and audited financials have been released? The first courses of action for the auditor would be to have the client restate the financial statements to disclose the discover facts. The reissuance of the financial statements is only appropriate if the subsequent facts were from events that existed prior to the date of the audit report. Of course, there is the concept of materiality that must be considered, and what was known, or not known, by the client or the auditor.

Now, what does the auditor need to do if the client refuses to restate the statements, how does the auditor proceed? The auditor should first inform the board of directors, they may need to notify the appropriate regulatory agencies, and where plausible to notify the investing public. The latter can be accomplished with the assistance of the SEC or the exchange on which the company is traded. Any thoughts?

Assignment 2: Required Assignment 2—Career Development Plan

In this assignment, you will recommend the components of a career development planning program and explain how the plan will integrate the organization’s mission and value statements.

Consider the following scenario:

You work in the HR Department of an electric power company in the southwestern region of the U.S. The company was founded in 1940 and has an excellent reputation as a provider of electricity. It is also considered to be an outstanding corporate citizen and known to be an excellent place to work. It has been ranked among the top three employers in the community for several years.

Its mission is to serve customer’s needs for electric power in ways that provide exceptional value to all stakeholders including customers, shareholders, employees, and the communities in which it operates.

Its values include providing a safe work environment; fairness and respect for customers, employees, shareholders, and partners; honoring commitments to use resources wisely; providing a high quality of work life for its employees; and striving for excellence and having fun.

Given its long history, many of its current employees are children or grandchildren of former employees so there are close family ties to the company as well as a sense of loyalty.

However, technological advancements in the power generation business over the years have resulted in jobs being either redesigned or eliminated. For example, in the past, the company had many employees who read meters, which showed the amount of electricity used by households. Meter readers traveled from house to house each month to log the information for billing purposes. Now meters are read automatically and data is transferred to the billing department via computer. This technological advancement eliminated the need for many employees who were required to resign, be laid off, or be retrained for other positions in the company.

The company faces a challenge as it strives to maintain its reputation as an excellent employer in the community, and, yet leverage advances in technology, which help it increase efficiency and remain competitive.

As a member of the HR team, you have been tasked with the responsibility of drafting a plan for a career development program for the company which will help managers effectively guide their staff in developing individual career development plans that are integrated with and support the company’s mission and values. Your report will be reviewed by senior HR managers as well as executive directors.

The HR department will have conducted a needs assessment as part of its strategic planning process to determine how the company will achieve its goals and objectives over the next 5–10 years. This assessment identifies areas where employees with new skill-sets will be required as well as areas where current employees with skill-sets may need to be either maintained or reduced (laid off).

As part of their annual performance appraisal, all employees will draft a personal and professional development plan on their own which will then be discussed with their manager. This plan should cover a five-year period and be reviewed and adjusted annually. It should include both formal training programs and individual initiatives to support personal and professional development interests.

By combining information about the company’s needs from the needs assessment and employees’ interests from the personal and professional development plans, it will be possible to develop a career planning program for the company that identifies the overlap between the company’s needs and employees’ interests and also detects gaps which could become opportunities for growth in the future. Overlapping areas indicate where the company needs skill-sets and the employees want to develop them while gaps indicate where the company needs skill-sets and there are no current employee interests in that area.

This process should help the company achieve a greater return on investment (ROI) from its training budget thus improving the bottom line. It should also result in lower employee turnover since employees will see that their personal and professional growth and the company’s needs are in alignment so they will be able to stay with the company and meet their personal and professional development goals.

Instructions:

Develop a six-to-eight-page document in Word format detailing how you would approach and organize a program to address needs for development of the company as well as individual employees. Be sure to clearly explain how you would create the plan, but do not create the plan itself. Use the following file naming convention: LastnameFirstInitial_M5_A2.doc.

Address the following in the plan:

Identify the information needed to develop a template that will be used to complete the individual employee’s learning plan.
Identify the information needed in order to develop the company’s needs assessment.
Explain how you would coordinate both the individual employee’s plan and the company’s needs assessment into a comprehensive development plan. Be sure to identify overlaps or gaps.
Explain how you would use this information to create a road map for development of a career development program for the company.
Identify other factors that should be considered in this program’s development.
Explain how the proposed plan would help managers effectively guide their staff in developing individual career development plans that are integrated with and support the company’s mission and values.

Next, create a PowerPoint presentation for the senior management explaining how this proposed plan would contribute to the resolution of HR issues facing this company. Use the following file naming convention: LastnameFirstInitial_M5_A2.ppt.

Utilize at least three scholarly sources in your research. Apply APA standards to citation of sources.

Make sure you write in a clear, concise, and organized manner; demonstrate ethical scholarship in accurate representation and attribution of sources; display accurate spelling, grammar, and punctuation.

By Wednesday, October 21, 2015, deliver your assignment to the M5: Assignment 2 Dropbox.

Assignment 2 Grading Criteria
Maximum Points

Identified the information needed in order to develop the individual employee’s learning plan.

40

Identified the information needed in order to develop the company’s needs assessment.

36

Explained how both the individual employee’s plan and the company’s needs assessment will be coordinated to identify overlaps and gaps.

44

Explained how this information will be used to create a roadmap for development of a career development program for the company.

36

Identified other factors that should be considered in this program’s development.

36

Explained how the proposed plan would help managers effectively guide their staff in developing individual career development plans that are integrated with and support the company’s mission and values.

44

Developed a PowerPoint presentation to present to senior management explaining how this proposed plan would contribute to the resolution of human resource issues facing this company.

36

Wrote in a clear, concise, and organized manner; demonstrated ethical scholarship in accurate representation and attribution of sources; and displayed accurate spelling, grammar, and punctuation