Category: Essays

This assignment was given to a tutor that backed out at the last minute, leaving me in a terrible bind. I reposted this assignment only to handshake with a tutor that never delivered and has failed to communicate. This paper is now past due even if perfect will result in a 20% deduction. Therefore it must be done well and “not plagiarized”. I do not accept plagiarized work. Please do not accept this assignment if you can not deliver.

Access the Tox Town website by doing the following:

Click National Library of Medicine
Click Environmental Health and Toxicology.
Click Tox Town under More to Explore.

http://toxtown.nlm.nih.gov/

This site will allow you to explore different places in society where health concerns and toxic chemicals reside.

Access the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR) website. This site can be used to review toxic substances.

http://www.atsdr.cdc.gov/

Access the Contaminant Pathways Diagram on the course site.

Write a 1,050 – to 1,400-word paper. Include the following in your paper:

Identify the environmental effects of contaminants.
Explain the difference between toxicokinetics and toxicodynamics.
What steps are involved in toxicokinetics?
Explain the primary routes of exposure for contaminants.
Explain the various pathways of distribution for contaminants.
Explain the four principal mechanisms in moving contaminants across the cell membrane, or uptake.
What is involved in Phases I and II of biotransformation?
What can occur as a result of biotransformation?

Create a 7- to 10-slide Microsoft® PowerPoint® presentation with detailed speaker notes that compares how behavioral theories and interventions can be used in both a community and corrections setting. Use complete sentences, with correct grammar and punctuation, to fully explain each slide as if you were giving an in-person presentation.

Include the following in your presentation:

At least two major theorists
At least two major theories
Your rationale explaining why each intervention can be used in both a community and correctional setting

Format your presentation consistent with APA guidelines. Include in-text citations and detailed speaker notes

You are part of a fact finding panel for your state court system. The court has a concern over the methods in which persons who are mentally ill violent offenders are handled. You are charged with selecting a modern court case (past 30 years) in which a sanity issue arose regarding a violent offender. The case may involve a Not Guilty by Reason of Insanity Plea, or it may involve a directive by the court for a sanity hearing. You may also select a case with a court consideration of idiot status was determined.

You must prepare a briefing report on the methods that were used to assess the defendant by the court in the case you selected. Discuss the outcome of the case and the mechanism that resulted in the defendant’s evaluation for sanity.

In a 3–5 page position paper, respond to the following:

Articulate the mental disorder(s) being considered by the court in the case that you selected, and why this disorder would make the defendant unfit for trial.
Explain the relationship between the actions and behavior that would cause the court to remand the defendant for a mental evaluation.
Evaluate the outcome of the case you selected in terms of the defendant, the victim, and the community.
Critique the court’s decision in the case you selected. Choose 1 of the following:
Support the court’s correct decision.
Challenge the court’s decision with your supported reasons.

It is critical that, when you make a statement of fact in your presentation, you cite the reference that you used to obtain the information from. Do this in the text of the paper, and then include the reference in your Reference

ToolsCorp Corporation is a fictitious company that does exist anywhere. For the purpose of this course, it is located it in Tennessee. As members of the senior management team of ToolsCorp Corporation, your group has been asked to prepare a neat and organized report for the Strategic Officers Steering Committee (SOS-C) of ToolsCorp Corporation. The purpose of this paper is to obtain permission from them to go forward with the next step (developing a full-blown business plan) for ToolsCorp’s strategic initiative to break into the global marketplace.

Your paper should discuss the following (at a minimum):

A complete strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats (SWOT) analysis (including at least 5 factors from each category and full explanations of why each factor is important and why it was placed in the category) of the environment that exists within ToolsCorp and the environment that ToolsCorp is proposing
An outline of the business plan to be developed for ToolsCorp’s strategic initiative
A full mission statement containing the nine components and presented in a well written paragraph
Key operating principles as you will apply them
A preliminary market analysis
The one-year, five-year, and ten-year strategic objectives of the strategic initiatives presented as one strategic proposal for each time frame (3 strategic proposals in all), complete with implementation plans, potential ramifications, and feedback mechanisms
The additional material that your group considers necessary to support the case for going forward with ToolsCorp’s global strategic initiative (This is not optional, you must input additional material.)

Background Information

ToolsCorp Corporation is a fictitious company that does exist anywhere. For the purpose of this course, it is located it in Tennessee. It builds power tools, lawn mowers, lawn furniture, microwaves, and ranges. All products are manufactured locally and sold through large retailers. They have sale papers inserted in every Wednesday and Sunday paper. Although they have a thriving business in the United States and Canada, ToolsCorp is trying to break into the global marketplace.

Deliverable Length

The deliverable length is at least 15 pages (cover page and reference page not included). As graduate business students, you are required to provide a well-researched and analyzed comprehensive response to every assignment question. Brief, vague, generic, or nondefinitive responses will not earn good grades.

This project requires a minimum of 15 scholarly sources, a minimum of 1 per page. You are welcome and encouraged to use the David textbook and the course materials for this course.

For references, use the APA guide that is available as shown in the Virtual Campus under “Interactive Learning.”

Remember that any paper longer than 10 pages requires the submission of an abstract.

Submit your group’s Word document to your instructor via the Small Group Submitted Assignment area in APA format.

Objective

The Objective of the Unit 5 Project Assignment will involve the following the course outcomes and grading criteria with their respective percentages for the grading rubric:

Identify examples of good and bad business practices in the use of strategy design components (30%).
Research and discuss some of the changes occurring in the way that organizations structure themselves and their work (30%).
Develop plans to improve business operations (20%).
Use effective communication techniques (20%)

STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT IP5

ToolsCorp Corporation is a fictitious company that does exist anywhere. For the purpose of this course, it is located it in Tennessee. As members of the senior management team of ToolsCorp Corporation, your group has been asked to prepare a neat and organized report for the Strategic Officers Steering Committee (SOS-C) of ToolsCorp Corporation. The purpose of this paper is to obtain permission from them to go forward with the next step (developing a full-blown business plan) for ToolsCorp’s strategic initiative to break into the global marketplace.

Your paper should discuss the following (at a minimum):

A complete strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats (SWOT) analysis (including at least 5 factors from each category and full explanations of why each factor is important and why it was placed in the category) of the environment that exists within ToolsCorp and the environment that ToolsCorp is proposing
An outline of the business plan to be developed for ToolsCorp’s strategic initiative
A full mission statement containing the nine components and presented in a well written paragraph
Key operating principles as you will apply them
A preliminary market analysis
The one-year, five-year, and ten-year strategic objectives of the strategic initiatives presented as one strategic proposal for each time frame (3 strategic proposals in all), complete with implementation plans, potential ramifications, and feedback mechanisms
The additional material that your group considers necessary to support the case for going forward with ToolsCorp’s global strategic initiative (This is not optional, you must input additional material.)

Background Information

ToolsCorp Corporation is a fictitious company that does exist anywhere. For the purpose of this course, it is located it in Tennessee. It builds power tools, lawn mowers, lawn furniture, microwaves, and ranges. All products are manufactured locally and sold through large retailers. They have sale papers inserted in every Wednesday and Sunday paper. Although they have a thriving business in the United States and Canada, ToolsCorp is trying to break into the global marketplace.

Deliverable Length

The deliverable length is at least 15 pages (cover page and reference page not included). As graduate business students, you are required to provide a well-researched and analyzed comprehensive response to every assignment question. Brief, vague, generic, or nondefinitive responses will not earn good grades.

This project requires a minimum of 15 scholarly sources, a minimum of 1 per page. You are welcome and encouraged to use the David textbook and the course materials for this course.

For references, use the APA guide that is available as shown in the Virtual Campus under “Interactive Learning.”

Remember that any paper longer than 10 pages requires the submission of an abstract.

Submit your group’s Word document to your instructor via the Small Group Submitted Assignment area in APA format.

Objective

The Objective of the Unit 5 Project Assignment will involve the following the course outcomes and grading criteria with their respective percentages for the grading rubric:

Identify examples of good and bad business practices in the use of strategy design components (30%).
Research and discuss some of the changes occurring in the way that organizations structure themselves and their work (30%).
Develop plans to improve business operations (20%).
Use effective communication techniques (20%).

Consolidation with a Non-controlling Interest

Select a publicly traded company involved in a merger or acquisition transaction that occurred in the last five years that publishes consolidated financial statements. Consolidated financial statements present information on a Parent corporation and all wholly owned subsidiaries. Submit the selection to the instructor for approval – each student must research a different company. Once the instructor has approved the company selection, obtain the Annual Report (Form 10K) and Proxy Statement (Form DEF 14A) of the company for the immediate three prior years using the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) EDGAR System (http://sec.gov/edgar/searchedgar/companysearch.html). Review these documents in addition to Earnings Releases and other financial information available on the company’s Investor Relations Web site to evaluate the following items.

Business Combination

Identify entities involved in the merger or acquisition.
Identify key factors involved in the determination of the transaction price and payment terms.
Explain the method used to account for the business combination for financial statement purposes.
Evaluate the valuation of assets, including goodwill, and liabilities acquired in the business combination.
Discuss the calculation of the investment in the subsidiary on the parent company’s books at the date of acquisition.

Inter-company Transactions

Discuss methods used to account for investments in a consolidated financial statement. Explain journal entries on the parent’s books to account for an investment using the cost method, the partial equity method, and the complete equity method.
Explain the financial reporting objectives for inter-company sales of inventory and determine the amount of inter-company profit, if any, eliminated from the consolidated statements.

Prepare a 10-12 page research paper (excluding title page, abstract, references page, and appendices containing financial analysis) in APA format that presents the findings of your analysis of the company’s SEC filings. Your paper should also discuss the following:

Accounting theory governing business combinations in US GAAP and IFRS.
Strategic objectives achieved as a result of the business combination.
Purpose of due diligence in mergers and acquisitions.
Role of the public accountant in supporting business combinations.
Use of computer assisted auditing techniques.
GAAS, GAAP, PCAOB, and COSO requirements for audits of consolidated financial statements of publicly traded companies.

In addition to the SEC Forms, a minimum of five (5) peer-reviewed academic or professional references must be used in the paper.

This assignment will be assessed using additional criteria provided here.

Please submit your assignment.
Grading Criteria

Students should complete the following items for this assignment:
Identify entities involved in the merger or acquisition.

5%
Identify key factors involved in the determination of the transaction price and payment terms.

5%
Explain the method used to account for the business combination for financial statement purposes.

5%
Evaluate the valuation of assets, including goodwill and liabilities acquired in the business combination.

5%
Discuss the calculation of the investment in the subsidiary on the parent company’s books. 5%
Discuss methods used to account for investments in a consolidated financial statement. 5%
Explain the financial reporting objectives for intercompany sales of inventory. 5%
Accounting theory governing business combinations in US GAAP and IFRS. 5%
Strategic objectives achieved as a result of the business combination. 10%
Purpose of due diligence in mergers and acquisitions. 10%
Role of the public accountant in supporting business combinations. 10%
Use of computer assisted auditing techniques. 10%
GAAS, GAAP, PCAOB, and COSO requirements for audits of consolidated financial statements

Click here to visit Faces of Abnormal Psychology.

http://www.mhhe.com/socscience/psychology/faces/

Select High Resolution or Low Resolution, depending on your computer specifications.
Choose from the Select a Disorder menu, and then click View Disorder.

When the new window opens, select the Diagnostic, Case History, Interview, and Treatment tabs to watch the respective videos. As you watch the interviews, note the identifiable diagnostic criteria.

For this week you will be reviewing the following disorders:

Obsessive-compulsive disorder
Borderline personality disorder

For each disorder:

First review the diagnosis and case history of the disorder.
Go to the interview section and choose at least 3 themes, asking at least one question for each.
Make sure to keep notes on the questions and the answers that were given.
Prepare a case summary covering the following points.
Describe the diagnostic criteria for each disorder.
List the interview questions that you used. Explain why you chose those questions. Summarize the responses given to your questions.
Describe the treatments for each disorder.

must include reference

apa forma

In the first two written assignments, you selected one vulnerable population in need of a new program or service in your community. In this project, you will finalize the research that allows you to understand elements that go into designing and launching a community service. The Final Project will be written using a persuasive tone, such that you would be able to present it in order to gain community and organizational support for your program. The Final Project must demonstrate an understanding of the reading assignments, class discussions, as well as your research and application of new knowledge. Your project must contain the following elements:

A description of the vulnerable population and why they need assistance in your community.
A description of the health service needs of the vulnerable population you have chosen to serve with your program.
In order to support the need for the service you propose, cite statistical data obtained from your county health department, state health department, and organizations or agencies who serve the vulnerable population.
A description of your proposed community service or program; include the specific service(s) provided and one continuum of care level (prevention, treatment, or long-term care). Explain how the selected service(s) and the continuum of care will impact the chosen population.
Discuss the social and cultural norms of your vulnerable population and how these play a role in the need for the services offered by your program. Describe how the vulnerable population experiences the health care system. Analyze methods your program can use to overcome social and cultural differences.
Identify two or more community organizations or agencies with which you can partner in order to implement your program. Explain how these organizations can help you implement the services you offer and the continuum of care offered by the potential partnering agencies. Explain which services these organizations will provide to your clientele that are not covered by your program.
Analyze at least four potential funding sources for your program, one of which must be from a state funded agency, one of which must be from a federally funded agency and the remaining two can be not-for-profit or for-profit business sources. Explain what factors must be met in order to receive funding from your sources.

Your final project will demonstrate quantitative literacy, which shows your ability to identify and solve problems. Additionally, you must demonstrate integrative learning, which means you combine your earlier learning from this and other courses, analyze data from multiple perspectives, explore issues to their full extent as is required in the assignment, as well as incorporate your own personal and professional experiences.

Be detailed and convincing in describing the above elements. For your presentation, you may choose between the following formats:

An APA formatted Final Paper
A PowerPoint Presentation

The Final Paper:

Must be eight to ten double-spaced pages in length (not including title and references pages) and formatted according to APA style as outlined in the Ashford Writing Center.
Must include a separate title page with the following:
Title of paper
Student’s name
Course name and number
Instructor’s name
Date submitted
Must begin with an introductory paragraph that has a succinct thesis statement.
Must address the topic of the paper with critical thought.
Must end with a conclusion that reaffirms your thesis.
Must use at least six scholarly sources, not including the textbook.
Must document all sources in APA style, as outlined in the Ashford Writing Center.
Must include a separate reference page, formatted according to APA style as outlined in the Ashford Writing Center.

The PowerPoint Presentation:

Must be at least 18 slides in length (not including title and reference slides).
Must include a title slide with the following:
Title of presentation
Student’s name
Course name and number
Instructor’s name
Date submitted
Must use at least six scholarly sources, not including the textbook.
Must document all sources in APA style, as outlined in the Ashford Writing Center.
Must include a separate reference slide, formatted according to APA style as outlined in the Ashford Writing Center.
Must include detailed speaker notes for each slide.
Must be creative, using images and charts. Remember to cite all images taken from an online resource. Creative Commons and Flickr are great websites for open source images.

For tips on creating an excellent presentation, read the following overview

Write a paper evaluating agrarianism as a spiritual response to the environmental crisis.

First, analyze agrarianism’s diagnosis of the root cause of human alienation from nature and its proposed solution. Examine how the agrarian solution differs from the solutions to the environmental crisis proposed by other environmental movements such as deep ecology.
Finally, evaluate the strengths and weaknesses of these movements, determining which movement you find to be the most adequate in response to the current environmental situation. (If you find none of the responses we studied adequate, defend your own ideas of the best response while also critiquing the movements we studied.)
At each step, support all your interpretations with evidence from the assigned texts and media. (Remember, there is more than one good way to answer these questions.)

Your paper must be four to five pages in length (excluding title and reference pages), double spaced, and formatted according to APA style as outlined in the Ashford Writing Center. Defend your claims with references to specific passages from at least three of the required and recommended readings. For information regarding APA samples and tutorials, visit the Ashford Writing Center, located within the Learning Resources tab on the left navigation menu.

Questions 1 to 25: Select the best answer to each question. Note that a question and its answers may be split across a page break, so be sure that you have seen the entire question and all the answers before choosing an answer. 1. Crestwood Paint Supply had a beginning inventory of 10 cans of paint at $25.00 per can. They purchased 20 cans during the month at $30.00 per can. They had an ending inventory valued at $500. How much paint in dollars was used for the month? A. $250 B. $350 C. $1,350 D. $850 2. Matt Miller, age 28, takes out $50,000 of straight-life insurance. His annual premium is $418.20. Using the tables in the Business Math Handbook that accompanies the course textbook, determine the cash value of his policy at the end of 20 years. A. $26,000 B. $26,500 C. $13,250 D. $30,000 3. Assume the mean useful life of a particular light bulb is 2,000 hours, which is normally distributed with a standard deviation of 300 hours. What is the range of the useful life of light bulbs within two standard deviations of the mean. A. Between 1,700 and 2,300 hours B. Longer than 1,700 hours C. Between 1,400 and 2,600 hours D. Longer than 2,300 hours 4. Which one of the following statements is true of specific identification? A. The specific purchase invoice prices aren’t used. B. Low-cost items aren’t used in this method. C. Ending inventory isn’t associated with specific purchase prices. D. Flow of goods and flow of cost are the same. 5. The weighted-average method is best used A. only for grains. B. for heterogeneous products. C. only for fuels. D. for homogeneous products. 6. A bond quote of 82.25 in dollars is equal to A. $8,025.50. B. $8.25. C. $82.25. D. $822.50. 7. The range of 35, 22, 43, 18, 22, 27, 48, 39, 31, and 16 is A. 29. B. 30. C. 22. D. 32. 8. What are overhead expenses? A. They’re directly related to a specific product. B. They contribute directly to the running of a business. C. They contribute indirectly to the running of a business. D. They’re directly related to a specific department. 9. Calculate the optional bodily injury cost for the following: Class: 10 Optional Bodily Injury: 100/300/50 A. $108 B. $94 C. $187 D. $144 10. The tax rate of $.0984 in decimal can be expressed as how many mills? A. 90.84 B. 98.4 C. 9.84 D. 9,840 11. To avoid distortion of extreme values, a good indicator would be the A. weighted-mean. B. median. C. mode. D. mean. 12. The municipality of Waterloo needs $915,000 from property tax to meet its budget. The total value of assessed property in Waterloo is $14,000,000. What is the tax rate per dollar? (Round your answer to the nearest thousandth.) A. $.071 B. $.065 C. $.07 D. $.0655 13. Jangles Co. earned $1.80 per share. Assuming a closing price of $40, what is the PE ratio? (Round your answer to the nearest whole number.) A. 22 B. 7 C. 72 D. 20 14. Which one of the following statements is true about reduced paid-up insurance? A. It buys protection with paying new premiums. B. It continues for 20 years. C. It means the original face amount is continued for a certain number of years. D. It results in a face amount less than the original amount . 15. Stocks are always quoted in A. quarter lots. B. decimals. C. quarters of a dollar. D. percents. 16. An auto insurance premium may be partially based on the A. attitude of the driver. B. expected life of the car. C. make of the car. D. number of years one expects to drive a car. 17. Jay Miller insured his pizza shop for $200,000 for fire insurance at an annual rate per $100 of $.49. At the end of 10 months, Jay canceled the policy since his pizza shop went out of business. Using the tables in the Business Math Handbook that accompanies the course textbook, determine the refund to Jay. A. $127.40 B. $980 C. $186.20 D. $852.60 18. Calculate the median from the following numbers: 16 + 9 + 10 + 5 + 4. A. 9 B. 5 C. 4 D. 10 19. Personal property items do not include A. furniture. B. jewelry. C. land. D. autos. 20. What is the retail method? A. It doesn’t require a cost ratio. B. It’s not an estimate. C. It aids a company in not having to calculate an inventory cost for each individual item. D. It eliminates the need to take a physical inventory. 21. Find the mean for the following numbers and do not round your answer to the nearest whole number: 38 + 18.05 + 25 + 26 + 46 A. 21.45 B. 23.74 C. 30.61 D. 32.14 End of exam 22. Suppose Department A is 8,000 square feet, Department B is 5,000 square feet, and Department C is 6,000 square feet. What is the percent of overhead expense applied to Department C? (Round your answer to the nearest whole percent.) A. 26% B. 42% C. 68% D. 32% 23. The tax rate of $.6943 in decimal can be expressed per $100 as A. $6.943. B. $69.43. C. $690.3. D. $69.43 mills. 24. With net sales of $40,000, beginning inventory at retail of $14,000, ending inventory at retail of $20,000, and cost of goods sold of $19,500, what is the inventory turnover at retail rounded to the nearest hundredth? A. 2.35 B. 3.25 C. 5.23 D. 5.15 25. Which one of the following items is subject to sales tax in the District of Columbia? A. Tomatoes B. Roast beef C. Shampoo D. Mil