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University of Phoenix Material: Business Model and Strategic Planning Outline; Innovation Business Model, Vision, Mission, Values; Supply and Value Chain; SWOTT Analysis; Balanced Scorecard; Communication Plan

Write a 700- to 1,050-word section for your business model and strategic plan in which you add your strategies and tactics to implement and realize your objectives, measures, and targets.

Include marketing and information technology strategies and tactics.

Develop at least three methods to monitor and control your proposed strategic plan, being sure to analyze how the measures will advance organizational goals financially and operationally.

Explain the ethical issues faced by the organization, summarize the legal and regulatory issues faced by the organization, and then summarize the organization’s corporate social responsibility.

Develop a 350-word page executive summary defining the new division of existing business. Share your Vision, Mission, final business model, value proposition and list your key assumptions, risks, and change management issues. Quantify the growth and profit opportunity and planned impact on various stakeholders.

Note: Any investor should be eager to meet with you after reading your executive summary

Directions: Assuming that the growth pattern for each bacterial sample follows a geometric sequence, determine the following:

Determine the rate at which the culture grows in a hour. This rate will be the factor r by which the number of bacterial cultures has increased since the last recorded observation.

Write a formula that represents the growth of this bacteria based upon your observations. Your formula will be based upon the basic format for a geometric sequence:

Using the formula you’ve developed, determine the number of cultures you would expect to see in the Petri dish on the 8th, 10th, and 12th hour of your observations.

Compute the total number of bacterial cultures observed after 24 hours of growth assuming that the growth follows a geometric series.

Repeat steps 1–4 for all five bacterial samples.

In a Microsoft Word document, prepare a report that includes answers to the following:

Report the results of the calculations you performed above.

Which strain of E. coli exhibited the highest growth rate?

Which strain of E. coli exhibited the lowest growth rate?

Assuming that all five of the E. coli strains present a high toxicity danger to humans, which do you suppose would be the most manageable based upon growth? Why?

Consider how you’ve modeled the growth of the E. coli strains using the concept of geometric sequence. Is this a realistic approach to modeling bacterial growth?

What other factors do you think should be considered when modeling the growth of bacteria such as E. coli?

Conduct an Internet search for research on E. coli. Look for information related to growth rate, environmental conditions conducive to growth, methods of controlling growth, etc.

Assignment 1 Grading Criteria
Maximum Points
Determined the growth rate for each bacterial sample.
64
Wrote a geometric sequence formula modeling the growth of each bacterial sample.
64
Calculated the number of bacterial cultures after 8, 10, and 12 hours of observations for each sample.
84
Calculated the total number of bacterial cultures observed after 24 hours for each sample.
48
Determined which E. coli strain exhibited the highest growth rate.
8
Determined which E. coli strain exhibited the lowest growth rate.
8
Critically determined and explained, based upon information provided, which E. coli toxic strain would be the most manageable.
8
Identified other factors that should be considered when modeling the growth of a bacterial culture.
8
Investigated the growth rate, environmental conditions conducive to growth, and methods of controlling growth related to E. coli

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Week 6 Video Lecture – Multisim Series RL
Construct the series L/R and RC circuits from this week’s assignment in MultiSIM and perform Transient Analysis on each circuit to confirm your calculations. Use a 5% tolerance for all of the components. Capture a screenshot of the output of the analysis to confirm your calculations. Create a table to demonstrate your expected and measured values.
Include a discussion of the following:
Differences between the calculations and the simulations.
How would you go about designing a circuit with an applied voltage of 24V and a resistor of 1kohms such that the current in the circuit starts out at 0A and reaches 24mA in 2 seconds?
How would you go about designing a circuit with an applied voltage of 24V and a resistor of 1kohms such that voltage starts out at 0V and reaches 24V in 2 seconds?

The Impact of Sunk, Opportunity, and Accounting Costs

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A wise manager is one who keeps a check on costs and makes informed decisions based upon the understanding of these costs.

To prepare for this Discussion, “Shared Practice: The Impact of Sunk, Opportunity, and Accounting Costs,” refer to your Learning Resources for this week and your professional experience. Then, select one of the following types of costs: sunk costs, opportunity costs, or accounting costs, and think about a scenario where this type of cost was important for informing decision making. Think about another scenario where this type of cost was important for furthering stakeholder agendas.

Post by Day 3, the following:

Provide an explanation of a scenario of how the type of cost you have selected (sunk, opportunity, or accounting) has impacted an organizational decision.
Provide an explanation of a scenario of how the type of cost you have selected (sunk, opportunity, or

Zimmerman, J. L. (2014). Accounting for decision making and control (8th ed.). New York, NY: McGraw-Hill.

Chapter 2, “The Nature of Costs” (pp. 22–54, 78–79)
P2-41, “Happy Feet” (p. 78–79)

This chapter reviews costs and the decision making process as they relate to opportunity cost and other examples of cost including sunk costs. accounting) may be used to further stakeholder agendas

Internal Controls and Receivables” Please respond to the following:

• Use the Internet or the Strayer Library to research companies who have experienced misappropriation of assets or loss of customer information within the last five (5) years. Next, analyze the situation from the company you selected and the internal controls that may have been compromised to allow the problem to occur and the resulting financial impact to the business. Propose a plan to prevent this type of situation in the future.
• Assess the external and internal factors that influence credit policy and decision making  within a company that extends credit to its customer when providing a good or service on account. Indicate the factor of most significance in today’s business environment. Provide support for your rational

The rate of return on a 30-year investment is 4.35%. What is the present value of this investment if it pays $100,000 30 years later?

Question 2

1. You started an education fund for your child. You are expecting him/her to attend college 18 years from now. According to statistics, the expected amount you will need 18 years later should be $300,000. If the fund provides a rate of return of 10% per year, compounded annually, and no additional contribution is made to the fund, how much do you need to deposit today to meet your need 18 years later?

Question 3

1. You have $50,000 to start an education fund for your child. You are expecting him/her to attend college 18 years from now. According to statistics, the expected amount you will need 18 years later should be $300,000. What is the required rate of return of your fund in order to meet your need 18 years from now? (Write your answer in decimal format, for example, write 0.05 for 5%)

Question 4

1. The required rate of return of an investor is 8.5%. An investment provides the following cash flow:

Year

Cash Flow

1

$5000

2

$6400

3

$9000

2.

3. What is the present value of this investment?

4.

Question 5

1. You received a promotional mail from your banking advertising a new credit card with a stated rate of 15.99% per year. What is the effective annual interest rate of this credit card that compounds monthly?

1. Given $100, you are interested in how much money will you get 1 years later with different frequency of compounding. If the stated annual rate is 10%, complete the following table (Use decimal format for percentages. For example, 5% should be written as 0.05) . For dollar amounts, round your answers to 2 decimal places; for effective rates, round your answer to 4 decimal places.

Compounding

Period

Future Value

of $100

Effective

Annual Rate

1 year

110.00

0.10

Semi-annual

Quarterly

Monthly

Continuously

Question 7

1. Given the following yield curve, what is the two-year forward rate 3 years from now? Use decimal format in your answer. For example, 5% should be written as 0.05. Keep 4 decimal places for your answer.

Maturity

Annual Rate

1 yr

0.28%

3 yr

1.10%

5 yr

1.71%

2.

Question 8

1. An 20-year annuity pays $500 a year at year end. If the annuity’s first cash flow starts at the end of year 1 and the interest rate is 4%, what is the present value of this annuity?

Question 9

1. You just won a lottery of $1,000,000. The lottery payment is made in the form of an annuity due with the first payment made today. The lottery pays $10,000 every month for 100 months (8 years and 4 months). If the proper discount rate is 4%, what is the actual present value of your winning?

Question 10

1. You are purchasing a new house at $500,000 in Cincinnati.You’re making the purchase with an initial deposit of $200,000 and the rest with a 30-year fixed rate mortgage with an interest rate of 3.5% per year with payments made monthly. Excluding all fees, what is your monthly mortgage payment?

Question 11

1. Every month, your employer deposits $1200 into your 401-K account, with the first payment made 1 month from now. The average rate of return on 401-K account is 12%. How much will you have in your 401-K account after working for 5 years, assuming no additional contribution was made?

Question 12

1. Ms. Gao is thinking of investing in an annuity that pays her $10,000 in one year, and this payment keeps growing by 1% per year till the last payment that occurs 20 years from today. What is the fair value of this investment if the discount rate is 10%?

1. A project brings the following cash flow to the company. The company uses its WACC (weighted-average cost of capital) as discount rates at 12%.

Years

Start CF

Growth Rate

1-3

$100,000

2%

4-6

$200,000

8%

7- 10

$80,000

1%

2.

3. Omit “$” and “,” in your answer. Write ONLY numbers. Round to 2 decimal places in all answers submitted.

4. (1) What is the present value of cash flows from Year 1 to 3?

5. (2) What is the present value of cash flows from year 4 to 6? (Hint: Discount back to PRESENT, not year 4)

6. (3) What is the present value of cash flows from year 7 to 10?

7. (4) What is the PV of this project

The 4MAT Review is a way of responding to readings, lectures, and life experiences that requires you, the learner, to interact with new ideas on several levels. You will write a review on the Entwistle textbook. In preparing your 4MAT Reviews, use each of the 4 sections listed below with corresponding Level One headings in current APA format:
1. Provide a title page including only your name, the paper title (referring to the book title), and the institutional affiliation (Liberty University). Keep in mind that current APA standards recommend the title length not exceed 12 words. All pages must include a running head and page number, and all pages are double spaced.
2. Summary: After introducing the name of the book and author, summarize the book in approximately 2 pages. Beappropriately concise but also be adequately complete in your ideas. Prove that you comprehend the main ideas by writing a clear and succinct summary. The summary is not a commentary or listing of topics but rather a discussion of the core ideas (main ideas) in the entire book. If you miss the main ideas, you lack an understanding of the complete message of the book. The summary provides the foundation for the rest of your 4MAT paper. Cite the book in-text at least once per paragraph and include page numbers for direct quotations.
3. Concrete Responses: Be vulnerable. In approximately 1 page, write about a personal life episode that this book triggered in your memory. Relate your story in first person, describing action and quoting exact words you remember hearing or saying. In the teaching style of Jesus, this is your own parable, case study, or personal connection to the main ideas of the book. Your comments in this section need to be clearly tied to main points from the book, not tangential ideas. Connect your comments to the main points for the reader.
4. Reflection: This section is a short critique or evaluation of the author’s main ideas; include positives/negatives and strengths/weaknesses. You should consider new questions that arose for you in response to what you have read and explore concerns, implications, etc. Provide this critique in approximately 1 page (sometimes additional length may be needed to provide an adequate critique).
5. Action: What are you going to do about it? Develop action steps based on the core points of the book. This section must be a description of how the main ideas will affect your counseling. What professional changes will you implement and share with others? Be precise in summarizing your action steps and clearly connect your action steps to main points from the book. This section must be 1 page or less.
6. You are also required to create a references page; on this page, you must provide the complete reference citation for the book in compliance with current APA standards.

Create and submit these assignments in a Microsoft Word document; these assignments must be written at the graduate-level and must be in current APA format.

Note: Use quotations strategically and sparingly; in a paper this size, do not use longer (block) quotations.

Health Information Confidentiality

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Health Information Confidentiality

The HIPAA is designed to protect the privacy of individuals’ health information. The Health Information and Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) Act was passed as part of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) of 2009, in part, to strengthen the HIPAA rule and notification requirements in the case of a breach.

But information collected by various health departments, like the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and World Health Organization (WHO) is typically “confidential,” not “anonymous.”

“Confidential” denotes identifiable information linking you to the subject matter, but which will not be disclosed.

“Anonymous” refers to the existing subject matter that cannot be linked back to you.

Using the South University Online Library or the Internet, research about HIPAA and the HITECH Act to find out how they protect health information of individuals. Based on your research and understanding, provide answers to the following questions:

What are some safeguards that you think could be put into place to reduce fear among individuals and groups who oppose identifiable health data collection?
Do the benefits of confidential health data collection outweigh the risks? Why or why not?
What, according to you, is the purpose of HITECH?
What are the new notification requirements? Do you feel these are sufficient? Why or why not?
What possible HIPAA violations could occur with portable PHI?
What strategies should be put into place to make sure these violations do not occur?
What are the requirements that a covered organization must take in order to be in compliance with HIPAA

Write, individually, a 350- to 700-word paper on a different situation, that could be considered crossing boundaries between client and caseworker and that could become an ethical violation.

Combine each team member’s paper into a single team paper.

Include an introduction and a conclusion or summary on your team’s paper on boundary issues, and have one team member submit the final assignment.

Format your paper consistent with APA guidelines.

Having read the “Transcending Net Neutrality: Ten Steps Toward an Open Internet” and “SOPA and PIPA What Went Wrong” papers, write the Net Neutrality paper.

Write a 4 page APA formatted paper that includes references to at least 3 external research sites.

Write a MAXIMUM of a FIVE page APA formatted paper that includes references to at least THREE external research sites.
The paper will consist of ONE TITLE PAGE, TWO TO THREE CONTENT PAGES,and ONE REFERENCE PAGE. Include graphs – full-page graphics will not count towards the number of pages. (NOTE: Any pages above the maximum allowed will not be graded or reviewed.
The paper is to reflect your opinions on the concepts and your experiences with content-based broadband throttling and your experiences with piracy protection (Yes, they are related.)
Include research that supports your experiences.
You all have experience with broadband speeds and piracy protection. Do you suspect your Internet speeds have been reduced at any time? Are you aware of any annoying piracy protections?
What are your opinions on each?