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Choose a household appliance in which you have some familiarity (e.g. vacuum, toaster, hair dryer).

Rewrite your earlier mechanism report (Assignment 4), making the necessary adjustments for format and content. If necessary, tighten up (condense) or expand on the appliance information. Review the clarity and brevity of content and correct editorial issues. Read the mechanism report example in the textbook if you have not done so already. The document must include:

Headings
Graphics
A logical spatial order
A citation of any graphic(s) if taken from a source

In your document, you should:

Ensure the document is clear and brief.
Exercise logic in design, including placement of headers and graphics.
Use appropriate language for the audience and purpose.
Follow the steps identified in the textbook.
Cite source(s), including any graphics.

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; references must follow APA or school-specific 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 page length.

The specific course learning outcomes associated with this assignment are:

Revise draft documents to improve audience comprehension.
Explain ideas in proper format using accurate details and relevant examples.
Design effective graphics for visual presentations.
Use syntax, tone, and word choice appropriate to technical communications.
Prepare reports, project requirements, and other various technical writing genres
Use technology and information resources to research issues in technical writing.
Write clearly and concisely about technical writing using proper writing mechanics.

Grading for this assignment will be based on answer quality, logic / organization of the paper, and language and writing skills, using the following rubric

Due Week 7 and worth 200 points

Using feedback from your professor and classmates, revise Part 1 and develop the solution and identify the advantages of the solution. Note: The disadvantages or challenges with your answers will be in Part 3.

Write a six to eight (6-8) page paper in which you:

Provide Part I: Revision of A Problem Exists (3-4 pages)

1. Revise, using feedback from the professor and classmates, your Persuasive Paper Part I: A Problem Exists.

Develop Part 2: Solution to Problem and Advantages (3-4 pages for 6-8 pages total)

2. Include a defensible, relevant thesis statement clearly in the first paragraph. (The thesis statement may need to be modified to reflect added information and purpose of this part.)

3. Explain a detailed, viable solution that supports your thesis. This should be one or two (1-2) paragraphs.

4. State, explain, and support the first advantage (economic, social, political, environmental, social, equitable, ethical/moral, etc.) to your solution. This should be one or two (1-2) paragraphs.

5. State, explain, and support the second advantage (economic, social, political, environmental, social, equitable, ethical/moral, etc.) to your solution. This should be one or two (1-2) paragraphs.

6. State, explain, and support the third (and fourth if desired) advantage (economic, social, political, environmental, social, equitable, ethical/moral, etc.) to your solution. This should be one or two (1-2) paragraphs.

7. Use effective transitional words, phrases, and sentences.

8. Provide a concluding paragraph / transitional paragraph that summarizes the proposed solution and its advantages.

9. Develop a coherently structured paper with an introduction, body, and conclusion.

10. Use one (1) or more rhetorical strategies (ethos, logos, pathos) to explain advantages.

11. Support advantage claims with at least three (3) additional quality relevant references. Use at least six (6) total for Parts 1 and 2. Note: Wikipedia and other Websites do not qualify as academic resources.

Your assignment must follow these formatting guidelines:

Be typed, double spaced, using Times New Roman font (size 12), with one-inch margins on all sides; citations and references must follow APA or school-specific 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.

Note: Submit your assignment to the designated plagiarism program so that you can make revisions before submitting your paper to your professor.

The specific course learning outcomes associated with this assignment are:

Recognize the elements and correct use of a thesis statement.
Recognize the use of summary, paraphrasing, and quotation to communicate the main points of a text.
Analyze the rhetorical strategies of ethos, pathos, logos in writing samples and for incorporation into essays or presentations.
Correct grammatical and stylistic errors consistent with Standard Written English.
Prepare a research project that supports an argument with structure and format appropriate to the genre.
Revise drafts to improve clarity, support, and organization. Recognize how to organize ideas with transitional words, phrases, and sentences.
Incorporate relevant, properly documented sources to substantiate ideas.
Write clearly and concisely about selected topics using proper writing mechanics.
Use technology and information resources to research selected issues for this course

Provide a detailed description of the HRIS application(s) chosen for the business. What type of HRIS might create a more efficient process for the HR function chosen? This is not a copy/paste of information from a vendor website, but an analysis and business plan to share with your customer. As the owner of your own HR consulting firm, write a 2–4-page paper that includes the following paper headings, which are denoted in all caps.

INTRODUCTION: provides sufficient background on the topic and previews major points.
HRIS TYPE: Now that you’ve conducted some research in the previous assignment, you should have a good foundation to take the next step in your business plan. You should have a good review of the scenario and have conducted some research on HRIS systems, and now your next step is to choose a type of HRIS. Share the type of system you plan to implement to help your customer. This must be substantiated in this paper to your customer from a theoretical perspective.
HRIS VENDOR CHOICE: Now that you have an HRIS type chosen, you need to conduct research to find an HRIS vendor. You want to do a compare and contrast in this section of at least two vendors. Then, choose a vendor. Explain why you chose this vendor over another/others. Include the Web address and proper citations for the vendor applications compared. You must have theory to support your decision.
CONCLUSION: The conclusion is logical, flows from the body of the paper, and reviews the major points

Write a five-to seven-page financial statement analysis of a public company, formatted according to APA style as outlined in the Ashford Writing Center. In this analysis you will discuss the financial health of this company with the ultimate goal of making a recommendation to other investors. Your paper should consist of the following sections: introduction, company overview, horizontal analysis, ratio analysis, final recommendation, and conclusions. Your paper needs to include a minimum of two scholarly resources in addition to the textbook as references

You work for Centervale Apparel, a large clothing manufacturing firm. Centervale Apparel has budgeted $9.7 million for new technology initiatives in the coming year but the project requests currently in the queue for next year total about $15 million. Your boss, the executive director of operations, has asked you to put together a proposal for this project to replace legacy order fulfillment technologies by implementing a supply chain management (SCM) system. Your boss wants to ensure this project will be prioritized over other projects on the list and will be implemented in the coming year. Use the following data to prepare a proposal using a balanced scorecard approach to demonstrate the project’s value to Centervale Apparel.

Here is your brief:

Business Problem: The order fulfillment team has been using several legacy technology systems to manage inventory and distribution. The current systems do not work together, requiring redundant information input and processing. Because of the redundant processes, work is duplicated requiring multiple data entry points and sometimes results in inaccurate and irreconcilable data. There is a constant overage or shortage of supply due to the time it takes for data to get from one point to another. This causes unhappy customers and inventory carrying costs that could be avoided.

Project Description: Replace legacy order fulfillment technologies by implementing a SCM system.

Project Cost: The project will cost approximately $1.2 million including infrastructure and resources to complete the implementation and $250,000 annually to support and maintain the new system with a ten-year lifecycle for the system.

Project Benefit: It is estimated that the implementation of a supply chain management system will improve the order fulfillment processing time and reduce inventory-carrying costs. Implementing the SCM system will also enable the retirement of several legacy systems. Estimated annual cost savings are:

· Data entry staff reduced from 10 FTE to 8 FTE = $100,000/yr savings

· Reduction in inventory carrying costs = $300,000/yr savings

· Improved order fulfillment = 10–20% decrease in order to delivery time. This will improve customer satisfaction and retention

· Improved data accuracy

· Legacy system maintenance retirement savings = $100,000/yr

Using the information that details the primary business goals for the coming year, you will need to demonstrate how implementing the SCM system will help achieve the business objectives.

Note: Customers are retail companies who order from this clothing manufacturer. Assume a ten-year lifecycle for the SCM system.

Using the module readings and the University online library resources, research methods of developing proposals by applying the balanced scorecard approach. Select two scholarly resources for use in this assignment. You will use these resources to justify your recommendations.

The proposal should include the following:

Describe the measureable value. This should include a cost-benefit analysis, such as payback period or ROI that relies on tangible measures of organizational value through cost savings, revenue enhancements, or improvements in the speed, quality, or efficiency of key processes that help achieve competitive advantage (note the difference between tangible and intangible measures in this proposal).
Evaluate and choose alternatives. Make sure to identify any alternatives to the project implementation and provide a justification for each.
Complete a risk assessment of all risks associated with implementing the project using an enterprise risk management (ERM) model.
Describe total cost of ownership and include descriptions of implementation project and ongoing maintenance costs.
Explain the benefits of the project, which include tangible and intangible benefits.
Fully justify a recommendation with a compelling proposal that aligns to the business goals.

Write a 6–8-page paper in Word format. Apply APA standards to citation of sources. Use the following file naming convention:

This assignment consists of two (2) sections: a marketing plan and sales strategy, and a marketing budget. Note: You must submit both sections as separate files for the completion of this assignment.

For the first six (6) months your company is in business—to give you time to perfect your product and to learn from actual customers—you will start marketing and selling in your own community, a radius of twenty-five (25) miles from where you live.

For most non-alcoholic beverages, marketing (as opposed to the actual product itself) is key to success. Cola drinks, for example, are fairly undifferentiated, as are many energy drinks, juices, bottled water, and the like. Companies producing these types of beverages differentiate themselves and attract market share through marketing and brand awareness—both of which are critical to success.

Section 1: Marketing Plan & Sales Strategy (MS Word or equivalent)

Write the three to five (3-5) page Marketing Plan & Sales Strategy section of your business plan, in which you:

Define your company’s target market.
Analyze the types of consumers who will be drinking your beverage in demographic terms (i.e., age, education level, income, gender, ethnic group, etc.). Support your analysis with actual data on the size of the demographic groups in your local community (nearby zip codes).
Outline the demographic information for your company specified on the worksheet in the course text (p. 107 | Demographic Description). Click here for help accessing a specific page number in your eBook.
Hints: At American FactFinder (http://census.gov), you will find demographic information on potential consumers in your area. If you are selling through other businesses (such as grocery stores), indicate the number of those businesses in your local area. You will find information about such businesses in your local area at County Business Patterns (http://www.census.gov/econ/cbp/). Check Chapter 2 of Successful Business Plan for more research sources.
Assess your company’s market competition.
Use the factors listed in the course text graphic (p. 123 | Assess the Competition) to assess your company’s market competition.
Defend your strategy to successfully compete against market leaders in your segment.
Hints: For example, in the soft drink market, it is intimidating to try to compete against Coke and Pepsi. Newcomers in mature markets typically must pursue niche markets or even create new market categories, as Red Bull did with energy drinks.
Defend your plan to differentiate yourself from the competition using the information detailed on the worksheet in the text (p. 131 | Market Share Distribution).
Hints: Every business faces competition and the non-alcoholic beverage market is an especially crowded market.

Clarify your company’s message using the information provided on the worksheet in the text (p. 160 | The Five F’s).
Hints: Before you choose your marketing vehicles, you must determine the message you want to convey through those vehicles.
Identify the marketing vehicles you plan to use to build your company’s brand. Justify the key reasons why they will be effective. Provide examples of other non-alcoholic beverage companies that use these tactics effectively.
Hints: If you plan to use online marketing tactics, refer to the worksheet in the text (p.171 | Online Marketing Tactics) to aid your response. Remember that even if you’re selling through grocery stores you need to build your brand and social media is a major part of that in regard to beverages. Some of the marketing tactics that beverage companies use include: sampling in grocery stores, building a following on social media, sponsoring events, exhibiting at trade shows attended by retailers, and so on. You will use a combination of these tactics. For example, if you decide to give out samples in grocery stores, promote your sampling on your social media networks and those of the grocery store.
Hints: If you are planning to distribute through resellers, describe how you plan to reach them, for example, through industry trade shows or by establishing your own sales force. For information on trade shows, visit the Trade Show News Network (http://www.tsnn.com). You can exhibit or network at these shows.

Format your assignment according to these formatting requirements:

Cite the resources you have used to complete the exercise. Note: There is no minimum requirement for the number of resources used in the exercise.
Be typed, double spaced, using Times New Roman font (size 12), with one-inch margins on all sides; references must follow APA or school-specific 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 page length.

Section 2: Marketing Budget (MS Excel worksheets template)

Section 2 uses the “Business Plan Financials” MS Excel template (see: Course Required Files in Week 1). Use the “Business Plan Financials Guide” (see: Course Required Files in Week 1) to support your development of the Marketing Budget.

Complete the Marketing Budget worksheet for your company.
Hints: The goal of the marketing budget is to help you determine how much it will cost you to reach your market and achieve your sales goals.
Hints: When filling out the “Marketing Budget” worksheet in the Excel spreadsheet:
Begin in the current year and complete a marketing budget for the first year of your business. The information you enter in the marketing budget spreadsheet will flow through to your “Income Statement” in the Business Plan Financials.
Leave the number at zero (0) for any marketing vehicles you do not intend to use.
Remember that all marketing activities involve costs. If social media represents a significant portion of your marketing, assume you will have cost of advertising and that should be reflected on your budget. Even if a social media site charges nothing to use it, you will need to use company resources to manage the site, pay someone to execute your social media marketing campaigns, and will most likely pay for ads on that site.
Do NOT leave the “Marketing Budget” blank, assuming you will not have any marketing costs.

need two pages worth information about Steve Jobs with two assignments one for me and the other for my friend, double spacing MLA format with five citations, due by 11/18/2015 at 13.00. The following are the requirements.

1. Two pages and third page 5 citations, MLA format, double spacing. Two assignments which don’t match each other and NO PLAGIARISM. One two pages assignment for me and one for my friend and information should not match for both papers.

2. Should contain Strengths/ weakness, shortcomings.

3. Why was he a leader?

4.What you learned about ethics and social responsibility.

5. What you gained from this leader?

The information is simple but mentioned more clearly. I am attaching the file and please follow the QUESTIONS Section for clarity. I am willing to pay $20 for both the assignments.

magine that you are an executive with a multinational corporation that wants to open a manufacturing facility in Kenya. You have been assigned the responsibility of preparing a report on the suitability of Kenya for investment. Your company is concerned with the investment climate in this country, but is equally interested in the country’s political stability and its social and cultural environment since it will be making a substantial financial commitment. Your corporation views this as not only an opportunity to make a profit, but also as a humanitarian effort to help improve the standard of living in Kenya.

Study this country in depth, applying important concepts. Prepare a detailed report for your Board of Directors that includes the following information:

General information:

Population of Kenya (see 1 below for more information)
Important ethnic or racial groups and divisions
Per capita gross domestic product (see 2 below for more information)
UN Human Development Index rankings (see 2 below for more information)
Freedom House scores for political rights and civil liberties (see 3 below for more information)
The economic position of Kenya compared to other countries (wealthy, poor, middle income).

Classification and structure of government

Liberal democracy, illiberal democracy, authoritarian regime?
Philosophers or thinkers who have influenced the political history and development of the system of government
Presidential, parliamentary or other system?
Who is the head of government?
Electoral system: how are legislators selected? How is the executive elected or chosen? How is the bureaucracy staffed?
What is the highest level of the judiciary? Does judicial review exist?
Is Kenya a federal or unitary system? How are policies administered in Kenya?
Is there a written constitution? How old is it? Is it considered to be effective? Does it have the support of the people?
How much control does government exercise over the economy?

Competition, stability and civil society

Number and strength of political parties
Major conflicts between parties (liberal, conservative, left-right, ethnicity, etc.)
Voting behavior – If democratic, what is the turnout for elections? Is voting compulsory? (See 4 below for more information.)
What are the results of the most recent election? When is the next national election?
Are there any recent political changes?
Major social movements?

Economic environment

Suitability of the Kenya for foreign investment
Government policy toward foreign investment
Challenges and potential obstacles
Advantages to foreign investment in Kenya

Government and Not-For-Profit Accounting

Provide specific answers to questions the following questions.

P. 2-6: The nature of a transaction gives a clue as to the type of fund in which it should be recorded.

Scenario 1:

Kendal County engaged in the following transactions:

It levied and collected $1million in taxes dedicated to the repayment of outstanding general obligation bonds.
It billed sponsors of a charity bicycle ride $5,000 for providing police patrols during the ride.
It recognized $60,000 of cash dividends on investments dedicated to the support of a county arts center.
It recognized $70,000 of cash dividends on investments dedicated to scholarships for needy county residents.
It incurred $6 million in construction costs to complete a new county jail. The new jail was funded entirely with the proceeds of long-term bonds.
It transferred $400,000 of unrestricted funds to an appropriate fund to be invested and eventually used to repay the principal on the long-term jail bonds (entries in two funds required).
It recognized depreciation of $100,000 on equipment in a vehicle repair center that services all county departments that have motor vehicles.
It collected $30,000 in parking fees at the county-owned garage.
It issued $8 million in bonds to improve the city-owned electric utility.
It distributed $3 million in taxes collected on behalf of school districts located within the country.

Instructions:

Prepare appropriate journal entries.
Indicate the type of funds in which these transactions would most likely be recorded.

P. 5-4: Generally accepted modified accrual accounting practices pertaining to inventories may not fulfill the objectives of financial reporting.

Scenario 2:

The following is an excerpt from a note to the financial statements of the city of Dallas (dates changed):

The city prepares its annual appropriated general fund, debt service fund, and proprietary operating funds budgets on a basis (budget basis) which differs from generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP basis). The major differences between the budget and GAAP bases are that encumbrances are recorded as the equivalent of expenditures (budget) rather than a commitment of fund balance (GAAP) in the governmental funds.

The city accounts for inventories on the purchases basis. One of the city’s departments, which is accounted for in the general fund, budgeted $195,000 in supplies expenditures for fiscal 2015. It began the 2015 fiscal year with $30,000 of supplies on hand. It also had $12,000 of supplies on order. During the year it ordered an additional $180,000 of supplies, received (and paid for in cash) $185,000 of supplies, and consumed $178,000 of supplies.

Instructions:

Prepare all journal entries, consistent with GAAP, including budgetary and encumbrance entries that the department should make in 2015.
Indicate the accounts and amounts related to supplies that the city would report on its year-end statement of revenues, expenditures, and changes in fund balance and balance sheet.
By how much did the department over- or under-spend its supplies budget (on a budget basis)?
Comment on the extent to which the city’s statement provides a basis to:
Assess the ‘‘true’’ economic costs associated with supplies
Determine whether the city adhered to budgetary spending mandates
Suppose that in the last quarter of the year, department officials realized that the department was about to overspend its supplies budget. They therefore ceased placing new orders for supplies. However, they imposed no restrictions on the use of supplies and thereby allowed the supplies inventory to decline to near zero.
What impact would these cost-cutting measures have on supplies expenditures as reported in an actual-to budget comparison (on a budget basis)?
What impact would the year-end measures have on reported supplies expenditures (per GAAP)? Would your response be different if the city accounted for supplies on the consumption basis?

EX. 10-4: Investment gains and losses may have to be accounted for differently in nonexpendable than in expendable funds.

Scenario 3:

The McCracken County Humane Society (MCHS), which is part of a county’s reporting entity, established a permanent fund to provide support for its pet neutering program. As of the start of the year, the fund had a balance of $600,000, composed of both cash and marketable securities.

The program itself, which is accounted for in a special revenue fund, is funded by both direct contributions and the income from the permanent fund. At the start of the year, the special revenue fund had assets (all investments) of $26,000.

The following transactions and events occurred in a recent year.

The MCHS conducted a Walk Your Pet Day fundraising drive. The event raised $120,000, of which $20,000 was in pledges expected to be collected shortly after year-end.
The society acquired food and medicine at a cost of $60,000 (cash). During the year, it used $30,000 of these supplies. The society accounts for supplies on a consumption basis. It incurred other operating costs (all paid in cash) of $85,000.
The society earned interest of $45,000 on investments accounted for in the permanent fund.
During the year, the market value of the investments held by the permanent fund increased by $30,000. Per the terms of the agreement establishing the endowment, all capital gains, both realized and unrealized, must be added to principal.
During the year, the value of investments held by the special revenue fund increased by $3,000.
The society transferred cash to the special revenue fund in the amount of the earnings of the permanent fund.

Instructions:

Prepare journal entries to record the events and transactions. Be sure you indicate the fund in which they would be recorded.
In your opinion, should the unrealized gains on the investments held in the special revenue fund be considered expendable or nonexpendable? Explain.
How would the transfer from the permanent fund to the special revenue fund be reported in the government-wide statements?

Requirements:

Include a cover page
Format paper and use APA citations where appropriate, and include an APA- formatted reference page at the end.

programing homework

You customer needs and application that will allow them to perform the following functions:

Add or search records for employees in a master employee file. The program will allow adding records until the employee name is equal to 0 (the number 0). This will exit the program.

Search the master employee file for an employee record using the last name or employee id, and display the record. When a record is found, the program will allow the option to edit or delete the record.

Prepare a report that lists all the records for the employees to include ID, first name, middle initial, last name, department. The report is to be sorted by department. (use an array to sort the data)

Each of the above functions is to be selected from a main menu. When the function is complete, the program should return to the main menu.

The master employee file includes the following fields:

Employee ID

Employee first name Employee middle initial Employee last name Employee department Employee classification Employee salary Employee manager ID

num 12 string 30 string 1 string 30 string 8 num 4 num 7 num 12

This is a small company and the employee master file will contain no more than 25 records.

Your project deliverables consist of the following documents:

– The flow chart that shows all the processes previously described

– The pseudocode for your program.

– A hierarchy chart to show the relationship between modules.

– An IPO chart for your methods.

– Include an MLA heading to identify your project pages.

– Include page numbers.

– The project must be legible and free of spelling/grammatical errors.

COP 1000 project

– You may use any application you feel more adept at using (Power Point, Visio, Word, etc.). You will submit your source files to the drop box. However, you MUST submit the each document in .PDF format for grading. You MUST include the source file AND the .PDF file to receive a grade for each document