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Bonds and mortgages generally have 10-30 years until maturity. Marketable securities are short-term investments that can be converted to cash in a matter of minutes.

Required:

1. Prepare a classified balance sheet with a proper heading on a spreadsheet. For assets, use the classifications of current assets, plant and equipment, intangibles, and other assets. For liabilities, use the classifications of current liabilities and long-term liabilities.
2. Compute the total asset turnover rate assuming that total revenues in 2012 were $682,500. Round to the nearest hundredth, e.g. 3.33.
3. Assume that Alleg’s primary competitor has an asset turnover of 2.12. What does this tell you about Alleg’s asset management?

APA Requirements- Excel Spreadsheet

Over the course of this class, your Learning Team will develop a comprehensive Managing Change Paper. Each week, your team will add more elements to this paper. By the final week, you will have a cumulative paper that addresses the complete change cycle.

Select a team member’s work organization. Identify a specific change that your Learning Team feels should occur in the selected organization.

Prepare a 800 -word paper describing the cycle of change, and the specific change that needs to occur within the cycle of change. Be sure to:
Differentiate between the two types of change agents and how one or both can be used in this scenario.

Format your paper consistent with APA guidelines

Write a 1 1/2 page paper regarding your application to modify your nutrition lifestyle and the action plan to incorporate changes in your lifestyle. In other words, devise an action plan to make the above specific changes. And include an answer to: Why is obesity a combination of biological, psychological, and environmental factors?

II-

Answer the following questions:

1. Monitor your sodium intake for one day. Are you surprised? Go online or visit a fast-food restaurant and identify the sodium in one of the sandwiches. Is this what you expected?

2. Is it possible to have both deficiencies and excesses of major minerals & trace elements?

3. Select 4 major minerals & briefly state their functions.

4. Select 4 trace elements & briefly state their functions.

5. How can your eating habits help prevent hypertension (high blood pressure)?

III- Answer

1. What is your personal biggest concern(s) regarding food safety such as buying produce not grown in the USA, pre-washed vegetables, bottled water, food brought to a picnic on a 100 degree day, buffets, etc.

2. What types of foods are more likely to be involved in food-borne illnesses?

3. Do you think that reducing the consumption of food additives is worth the effort for health maintenance?

4. Please cite references for the above 2 questions

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“Perspectives: Improving Race Relations One Journalism Class at a Time” by Breea C. Willingham (pp. 572-574)

Once you have picked an essay to read from the list above, please complete the following:

Summarize the author’s essay and the author’s main argument.
What support does the author provide to defend his/her argument?
In your opinion, does the author present a strong argument? Please explain why or why not.

As with any writing assignment, you must provide strong responses to each question. One sentence does not constitute a strong response. Also, you should supply examples from the essay to help support your responses.

To support communications and collaboration, organizations make use of the IT architecture, which is defined by looking at different components. To afford communications, it is required that an IT infrastructure of people, hardware, software, and networks be in place. While there is a global culture of communications and collaboration, different countries have preferences how they attain communications and group cooperation. Similarly, groupware technology is more preferred in high performing companies than low performing ones.

Components of IT A

IT Architecture Components

Type of Architecture

Description

Business architecture

The processes the business uses to meet its goals.

Application architecture

How specific applications are designed and how they interact with each other.

Data architecture

How an enterprise’s data stores are organized and accessed.

Technical architecture

The hardware and software infrastructure that supports applications and their interactions.

Case Assignment

For Case 3, you will analyze the traffic gridlock case. Taking communication and collaboration into the next 20 years, Ford Motors has a vision to develop cars that rely on a network of communication systems. In the long term, Ford sees a radically different transportation landscape where pedestrians, bicycles, private cars, commercial and public transportation traffic will be woven into a single mobile network to save time, conserve resources, lower CO2 emissions, and improve safety.

Turban, E. (2013). Avoiding the future of crippling car congestion. (2015). Information Technology for Managers. Retrieved from http://babinkunjappa.blogspot.com/2015/07/avoiding-future-of-crippling-car.html

Ford, B. (2011). A future beyond traffic gridlock. TED

. Retrieved from https://www.ted.com/talks/bill_ford_a_future_beyond_traffic_gridlock?language=en

Waze. (2015). Guided Tour. Retrieved from https://www.waze.com/

Be sure to articulate your arguments and provide justification as you answer the following questions:

Explain the concept of connected cars.
Why does Bill Ford see a need for connected cars?
What does Ford mean by “global gridlock”?
Brainstorm a few other ways in which an IT network could help to reduce global gridlock. Do not limit yourself to current mobile network capabilities.
If no action is taken far in advance of the forecasted car congestion, what do you foresee will happen?

Assignment Expectations

The Case should be 4-5 pages for each case in total, excluding cover page and reference list.

Your assignments will be graded following these expectations:

Precision: The questions asked are answered.
Clarity: Your responses are clear and show your good understanding of the topic.
Breadth and depth: The scope covered in your paper is directly related to the questions of the assignment and the learning objectives of the module.
Critical Thinking: It is important to read the “required readings” posted in the background material plus others you find relevant. Your paper should include relevant concepts from these readings and incorporate your reactions and examples that illustrate your reflective judgment and good understanding of the concepts.
Your paper meets the page requirements not counting the cover page or the references pages

All land within the municipality of Springfield is zoned for either agricultural, residential or commercial use. You have just purchased a parcel of agricultural land for $20,000 in the expectation that it will be rezoned next year. But the rezoning is controversial, and will be decided by the full City Council rather than just the Zoning Commission.

According to your inside sources, there’s a 30% chance the land will be rezoned for commercial use; in that event, you’ll be able to sell the land for $50,000. But the populists on the Council are pushing for more affordable housing; if they win the vote, which your sources think has a likelihood of 50%, then the land will be rezoned for residential use, and you’ll only be able to sell it for $30,000. Of course, the Greens may win, and the land won’t be rezoned at all. In that event, it will still be worth what you paid for it, but no more than that.

You’ve just been approached by Mr. Hi Roller. He’s a land speculator like yourself, but he doesn’t have your inside sources. He thinks the land will be rezoned next year, and has offered you $30,000 cash for it, right now.

Which alternative should you choose? Explain your decision process in detail.

Please read and heed the hints given in Case 1. The same general advice is applicable in this Case, in particular:

Read the source materials before beginning.
The Case is about decision trees, not flipping real estate.
Follow standard format. A cover page, a short discussion, references and citations are all required.

Assignment Expectations

Provide a table summarizing the factual data.
Explain the computations used to obtain the numbers in the table.
Present a decision tree. (This may be hand-drawn, but it must be completely legible.)
Explain the results of your computations, and how they support your answer.
Follow the instructions in the BSBA Writing Style Guide (July 2014 edition), available online at https://mytlc.trident.edu/files/Writing-Guide_Trident_2014.pdf.
There are no guidelines concerning length. Write what you need to write – neither more, nor less.
Clearly demonstrate your understanding of both the theory covered in the Module, and the particulars of the Case.
Provide references and citations. At a minimum, you should reference the course materials. These are referenced in APA format on the Background Info page

Intellectual Standards

From the article on Universal Intellectual Standards, select one standard. Describes how using that standard has helped you in your:

Work life
School life
Personal life

Write three paragraphs, one each for your work life, school life and personal life. Each paragraph should contain at least one example.

Grading Criteria Assignments Maximum Points
Meets or exceeds established assignment criteria 40
Demonstrates an understanding of lesson concepts 20
Clearly present well-reasoned ideas and concepts 30
Mechanics, punctuation, sentence structure, spelling that affects clarity, and citation of sources as needed

Select one of the following questions and answer it in 75 to 100 words using the principles of critical thinking you learned in this course:

How can we reduce poverty in the United States?
Will receiving a college degree improve your career opportunities?
Has the United States peaked as a world power?

Reflect in 75 to 100 words on the process of critical thinking you used in forming your response. Include the following in your reflection:

How does the process of critical thinking you used relate to or differ from the process you used to find content for your answer?
How can you use critical thinking in other areas?
What steps can you take to ensure that you continue to use critical thinking in the future?

Submit your assignment to the Assignment Files tab

Read the Netflix Case Study in Case Study section of the text.
Write a summary of the case study. Be sure to define entrepreneurs and the entrepreneurial mind-set and define strategic entrepreneurship and corporate entrepreneurship as it relates to the Netflix case study.

Your summary should be a minimum of 2-3 double-spaced pages and must be in your own words. Use APA style. You must include 3-5 references. Only one reference may be from the internet (not Wikipedia). The other references must be located within the Grantham University online library. Only the body of the paper will count towards the page requirement. Please see the rubric below

As you have been learning, your knowledge about the nutritional and fitness needs of children will have the greatest impact when you can share this knowledge in order to help children and their families grow in awareness of and commitment to healthy behaviors and lifestyles. For your blog section this week, prepare a 2-page fact sheet to inform both early childhood professionals and families about the essential aspects of physical fitness for preschool-age children. Use the following guidelines:

Write an introductory paragraph or at least five bullet points that explain why physical fitness is so important for young children. Include at least three developmental skills that children are learning at this age, and describe how physical activities can help children toward mastery of these skills. Be sure to cite evidence from the learning resources or, if desired, use other resources to support your claims.

Explain what can happen when children do not engage in healthy fitness activities. Be sure to consider the impact on children of being overweight or obese, including implications for health and self-esteem.
Indicate how adults can help children develop good fitness habits. Describe at least two activities, such as specific games or movements, which are appropriate and enjoyable for children of this age. At least one of the activities should involve gross-motor (locomotor) skills, and another should involve fine-motor (manipulative) skills. Remember, the activities you recommend should be developmentally appropriate, which includes noncompetitive.
Based on your readings, include at least one inspirational, thought-provoking quote that captures your attitude and/or philosophy about fostering children’s healthy growth and development.
For your fact sheet, draw on the information in the fitness articles from this week’s Required Resources and your own research to provide evidence about the positive impact that physical activity has on children’s health, both now and in the future. Be sure to cite your sources