Category: Essays

Research your chosen company. Find a minimum of one library source, which will support your thesis in this assignment. Review your assigned weekly lecture and text reading. Select from this reading 3-5 key concepts, which will also support your thesis. In a two to three page paper, address the questions below. Your paper should follow APA format including a title and reference page. The two to three page paper length requirement does NOT include the title page and reference page. Refer to your classroom area titled South University Policies and Guideline. Using APA Standards in Your Coursework to ensure you are following the correct format.

Describe some of the key decisions its management has faced within the past year or two. Identify an ethical issue the organization either faces or has faced in the past. If it has not been resolved, provide an analysis of how the issue should be addressed. If it has been resolved, critique how the organization resolved this issue based on the materials you have reviewed on ethical decision making.
Assignment 2 Grading Criteria
Maximum Points
Submitted a two to three page research paper that included one library source and provided 3-5 key course concepts to support work.
10
Described some of the key decisions its management has faced within the past year or two.
15
Identified an ethical issue the organization either faces or has faced in the past.
15
Wrote in a clear, concise, and organized manner: demonstrated ethical scholarship in accurate representation and attribution of sources; displayed accurate spelling, grammar, and punctuation.

First, provide a definition of the terms conceptual definition and operational definition.
Next, conceptualize and operationalize the variable “race.”
Read the Census Bureau’s report on race at: http://www.census.gov/prod/2001pubs/c2kbr01-1.pdf
Answer the following questions after reading the report:
What changes did the Bureau make to the conceptualization and operationalization of race in the 2000 census?
Why did the Bureau make these changes?
Could the difference in operationalization produce different conclusions about race?
Does the Bureau’s conceptualization and operationalization of race coincide with yours? If so, how? If not, what is different?
NEEDS TO BE IN APA FORMAT and at least 2.5 PAGES not including the title page and reference page

Directions: Answer the following questions on a separate Microsoft Word or Excel document. Explain how you reached the answer or show your work if a mathematical calculation is needed, or both. Submit your assignment using the assignment link in Blackboard.

Exercises

E11-7. Quay Co. had the following transactions during the current period.

Mar. 2 Issued 5,000 shares of $5 par value common stock to attorneys in payment of a bill for $30,000 for services performed in helping the company to incorporate.

June 12 Issued 60,000 shares of $5 par value common stock for cash of $375,000.

July 11 Issued 1,000 shares of $100 par value preferred stock for cash at $110 per share.

Nov. 28 Purchased 2,000 shares of treasury stock for $80,000.

Instructions

Journalize the transactions.

E11-13. On January 1, Guillen Corporation had 95,000 shares of no-par common stock issued and outstanding. The stock has a stated value of $5 per share. During the year, the following occurred.

Apr. 1 Issued 25,000 additional shares of common stock for $17 per share.

June 15 Declared a cash dividend of $1 per share to stockholders of record on June 30.

July 10 Paid the $1 cash dividend.

Dec. 1 Issued 2,000 additional shares of common stock for $19 per share.

15 Declared a cash dividend on outstanding shares of $1.20 per share to stockholders of record on December 31.

Instructions

a) Prepare the entries, if any, on each of the three dividend dates.

b) How are dividends and dividends payable reported in the financial statements prepared at December 31?

E12-8. Presented below are two independent situations.

1. Gambino Cosmetics acquired 10% of the 200,000 shares of common stock of Nevins Fashion at a total cost of $13 per share on March 18, 2015. On June 30, Nevins declared and paid a $60,000 dividend. On December 31, Nevins reported net income of $122,000 for the year. At December 31, the market price of Nevins Fashion was $15 per share. The stock is classified as available-for-sale.

2. Kanza, Inc., obtained significant influence over Rogan Corporation by buying 40% of Rogan’s 30,000 outstanding shares of common stock at a total cost of $9 per share on January 1, 2015. On June 15, Rogan declared and paid a cash dividend of $30,000. On December 31, Rogan reported a net income of $80,000 for the year.

Instructions

Prepare all the necessary journal entries for 2015 for (a) Gambino Cosmetics and (b) Kanza, Inc.

E12-12.Uttinger Company has the following data at December 31, 2015.

Securities Cost Fair Value

Trading: $120,000 $126,000

Available-for-sale: $100,000 $90,000

The available-for-sale securities are held as a long-term investment.

Instructions

a) Prepare the adjusting entries to report each class of securities at fair value.

b) Indicate the statement presentation of each class of securities and the related unrealized gain (loss) accounts.

Problems

P11-3A.The stockholders’ equity accounts of Castle Corporation on January 1, 2015, were as follows.

Preferred Stock (8%, $50 par, cumulative, 10,000 shares authorized) $ 400,000

Common Stock ($1 stated value, 2,000,000 shares authorized) 1,000,000

Paid-in Capital in Excess of Par—Preferred Stock 100,000

Paid-in Capital in Excess of Stated Value—Common Stock 1,450,000

Retained Earnings 1,816,000

Treasury Stock (10,000 common shares) 50,000

During 2015, the corporation had the following transactions and events pertaining to its stockholders’ equity.

Write a 750 – 1000 word, APA style paper discussing restorative justice.

In your paper answer the following questions:

What is it?
Is it a viable model to both punish and rehabilitate the juvenile offender?
Are there programs you believe would work better?

In your paper include a title sheet and 2-3 references. No foreign references. Make sure to properly cite ALL references used.

The accounting records of Shinault Inc. show the following data for 2014 (its first year of operations).
Life insurance expense on officers was $9,000.
Equipment was acquired in early January for $300,000. Straight-line depreciation over a 5-year life is used, with no salvage value. For tax purposes, Shinault used a 30% rate to calculate depreciation.
Interest revenue on State of New York bonds totaled $4,000.
Product warranties were estimated to be $50,000 in 2014. Actual repair and labor costs related to the warranties in 2014 were $10,000. The remainder is estimated to be paid evenly in 2015 and 2016.
Gross profit on an accrual basis was $100,000. For tax purposes, $75,000 was recorded on the installment-sales method.
Fines incurred for pollution violations were $4,200.
Pretax financial income was $750,000. The tax rate is 30%.
Instructions
(a) Prepare a schedule starting with pretax financial income in 2014 and ending with taxable income in 2014.
(b)
Prepare the journal entry for 2014 to record income taxes payable, income tax expense, and deferred income taxes

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Determining Compensation

 

Remember that you are the Human Resources Manager for Epic Health Solutions. It is now important to pay the new Claims Supervisor position competitively, provide fair benefits, and state (according to labor relations laws) whether or not the position would be in a labor union.

In a 2-3 page report, prepared in APA format with at least two references, do the following:

Explain what job evaluation method you are going to use to determine the worth of this position.
Describe what your recommend salary and benefits package is going to be and if you recommend any incentives or bonus plans.
Finish your report by stating if this job is eligible to be in the union. Explain why or why not.

Making Discipline Progressive

 

You are the employee relations specialist in the human resources department. A manager has come to you about an employee issue. The employee has been making patient accounts errors in her job as a hospital business office cashier. Research the progressive discipline process.

In a 2-3 page report, prepared in APA style with at least two references, do the following:

Provide your recommendations to the manager on how to start the counseling process with the employee.
Describe some possible solutions the manager might suggest to the employee or the employee might suggest to solve these errors.
Explain how the manager will document this situation to protect the employer and to be fair to the employee

Write 4-5 slides about the highlighted part with speaker notes. You can use last week outline as guide.

Perform an analysis of Climate Change and Global Warming

Prepare a 10- to 15-slide Microsoft® PowerPoint® presentation with detailed speaker notes. Include the following:

Select an environmental issue from any issues discussed in this class.
Describe the issue.
Identify the relative local, regional, national, or global policies addressing your issue.
Describe how the policies intend to address the issue.
Discuss the effectiveness, positive and negative, of any policies concerning the issue to include the following:
Challenges to policy implementation
Public opinion
Effects on individuals

Include no less than one outside resource per team member.

Format your presentation consistent with APA guidelines

Your manager has heard the term network risk management. He is not sure what it entails. Before you tell him what it is, you want to be certainly that you have all of the factors. Research network management and answer the following questions for your manager:

Explain to your manager what it is.
Explain how network risk can be mitigated.
Why do you think it is important

You have been asked to create an action plan and facility design that will integrate spiritual, religious, therapeutic, and healthcare functions into a new, culturally diverse assisted-living/long-term care facility for elderly people. The building is planned to house 150 people. There will be 75 assisted-living apartments and 50 rooms for residents in long-term care; of these rooms, 25 will be single-occupancy, and the other 25 will be double occupancy.

Action Plan Components

Your action plan you must:

1. Create a Spiritual Assessment Questionnaire that includes a minimum of 10 questions.

a. Discussion each question detailing why the question is important, and what information will be gleaned from the client’s answer.

b. Explain how the answer will apply to a spiritual intervention and/or therapy plan.

2. Identity Needs of Individuals: The action plan should identify how to integrate spiritual and religious practices, therapeutic activities, and health care to address the needs of the following:

a. Residents who share a double-occupancy room

b. Residents who are culturally diverse

c. Residents who lack a specific spiritual identity

d. Residents who are grieving for another resident who passed away

e. Privacy concerns for all residents

f. Employees, who are equally a part of the environment

3. Facility Plans: Design plans for the facility need to include spiritual elements and sacred spaces throughout the common areas from a variety of religious/spiritual perspectives, and will address:

a. Dining room(s)

b. Social hall where all the residents can assemble at one time

c. Small zones where residents can meet with their families and friends

d. A place where residents can gather for private or small-group spiritual rituals

e. A private office where a spiritual assessment can be administered

f. Offices and other public workspaces of employees

Your eight to ten page (not including title and reference pages) action plan and facility design should demonstrate an understanding of the concepts learned throughout the course and must include a minimum of six scholarly sources (including the textbook). Utilize scholarly journal articles..Your paper and citations must be in proper APA format . ( Please include Reference at end of assignment)