Category: Essays

Your client, Shad Clothes, Inc., is now required to file XBRL data interactive financials with the SEC. Your firm has just begun to offer XBRL tagging and filing services and since you have most recently returned from an XBRL training seminar, you’ve been given the assignment! Complete the following two tasks in preparation for the project:

1) Write a short summary for your client about what XBRL is and the steps you will take to complete the mapping of their balance sheet and income statement. This should be less than three paragraphs.

2) Map the company’s balance sheet and income statement that appear in the attached spreadsheet. Use the link to the 2012 US GAAP Financial Reporting Taxonomy to view the taxonomy and retrieve the information you need to complete the mapping spreadsheet (you may cut and paste from the taxonomy to the spreadsheet). For this initial set of statements no extensions should be required.

Insert your response to #1 into your Excel workbook and upload the workbook (containing parts 1 & 2) to your Assignment Folder by the due date in the Course Calendar.

In a 4 minutes-long video, the discussion panel talks about Apple’s product pipeline and whether the company needs to create something new, rather than to update/upgrade existing products.

The video link is https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=glnTz5HD05U

Here are the two questions you need to answer in this assignment.

1. Please summarize the talk of the video.

2. Do you think that a new strategy is needed for Apple? Please describe your opinion based on what you have learned in this class.

Submission guidelines:

1) Font Size:12

2) Line Space: Double

3) Font Type: Times New Roman

4) Length: At least 2 page

Understanding Part 4

In Part 4, you are setting a goal for this project based on the outcome that you want to achieve. Knowing what you want the end result of this project to look like will help you to identify and implement the behaviors necessary to achieve that goal. Second, you are identifying a set of communication behaviors that will lead you to your goal. Be specific – what will you do or say that is different? This is what you need to include in 4E.

Reminder – It is not time to implement new behaviors yet – this week you are setting a goal and identifying the new communication behaviors that will help you to achieve that goal.

 

Be sure to submit all of the parts listed in the blue box below.

 

CCC Part 4: Goal Analysis

 

The interpersonal communication skill you selected earlier in this project is not yet stated in specific behavioral terms. For example, “I want to overcome shyness and meet new people,” gives you little direction. Some questions you might want to ask yourself are: What new people? Where will I meet them? When will I meet them? How many do I want to meet? How often? What will I say when I meet them? What do I typically do in these situations that I want to avoid?

 

4A. Copy your original goal from CCC Part 1E. Now look at your 4 Self Review goals that you wrote in Weeks 1 and 2. Read over your journal analysis of the CCC Part 2, and the positive models you want to emulate from Part 3 that you did in Weeks 2 and 3. Do you think your goal as written in Part 1E needs to be modified or changed?

 

4A1. Write down your original goal from CCC Part 1E.

 

4A2. Write down what you think your updated goal for this project should be now. It may be the same, slightly modified or totally different from Part 1E. For example:

 

“I want to be able to tell my family ‘no’ when I do not want to do something for them. I do not want to be taken advantage of and I want to stop feeling guilty when I do say ‘no.'”

 

4B. Jot down some communication behaviors that you associate with your goal. To arrive at this list, answer the following questions:

 

4B 1.What must a person be saying and/or doing for me to say that he/she has achieved the goal?

 

4B 2. Given a room full of people, what is the basis on which I will separate them into two classes: Those who have achieved the goal and those who have not?

 

4B 3. How will I recognize and measure goal achievement when I see it?

 

4C. Now, describe each behavior. Do this in a statement that identifies the manner (or extent) of the behavior that is required to achieve the goal. For example:

 

4C1, Behavior 1: “In order for me to achieve my goal of disciplining my daughter without becoming angry, I will wait until she has finished talking to ensure I hear her side of the story.”

 

4C2, Behavior 2: “In order for me to achieve my goal of disciplining my daughter without becoming angry, I will ask for clarification before I make a decision regarding discipline.”

 

Repeat this statement for each behavior on your list. This step helps you to establish the criteria by which you will measure your success in reaching the goal.

 

4D. Now, look at your behaviors again. Consider this: If someone else performed the behaviors you have outlined, would you be willing to say that person has achieved your goal? Can you answer “yes” to this question for each of the behaviors you listed above in Part 4C? If not, modify the descriptions of the behaviors until you can say, “YES.” The answer to Part 4D is YES or NO. Do this over until you can state YES as the answer for each of the behaviors you have listed in 4C above. Explain why these behaviors would exemplify the attainment of your goal.

 

4E. Conclude with a clearly identified statement of the communication behaviors you intend to implement to achieve your interpersonal communication goal. Be specific. What new people? Where will I meet them? When will I meet them? How many do I want to meet? How often? What will I say when I meet them? How will I say it? What do I typically do in these situations that I want to avoid?

 

Report for CCC Part 4:

In this section you are to work through four steps to arrive at a clear statement of the behavioral goals related to your interpersonal communication project. Use the process described in this week’s Course Project tab as a framework for this narrative, and include in Part 4 of your report the following items:

 

4A through 4D. Provide a detailed outline of your movement through these four steps.

 

4A. Restate your goal for this project:

 

4A 1. Write down your original goal from CCC Part 1E.

4A 2. Write down what you think your updated goal for this project should be now. It may be the same, slightly modified or totally different from Part 1E.

4A 3.Why is your goal the same as CCC Part 1E, or why did it need to be changed?

4B. Answer these questions:

 

4B 1.What must a person be saying and/or doing for me to say that he/she has achieved my goal?

4B 2. Given a room full of people, what is the basis on which I will separate them into two classes: Those who have achieved my goal and those who have not?

4B 3. How will I recognize and measure my goal achievement when I see it?

4C. State your goal in specific behavioral terms. What new people? Where will I meet them? When will I meet them? How many do I want to meet? How often? What will I say when I meet them? How will I say it? What do I typically do in these situations that I want to avoid?

 

4C 1.Behavior 1: “In order for me to achieve my goal of …, I will . . .

4C 2. Behavior 1: “In order for me to achieve my goal of …, I will . . .

4C 3. Behavior 1: “In order for me to achieve my goal of …, I will . . .

4D. YES or NO (Do this over until the answer is YES.) Explain why these behaviors would exemplify the attainment of your goal.

 

4E. Copy your goal from 4A2 and then add all your specific behaviors from 4C.Conclude with a clearly identified statement of the communication behaviors you intend to implement to achieve your interpersonal communication goal. Be specific.

Engineered Products Inc. (EPI) is a conglomerate with both manufacturing and service-based businesses. One of EPI’s larger manufacturing plants has been asked to increase its recycling efforts or face a major increase in its disposal fees. EPI prides itself on being a good corporate citizen and has committed to taking any and all feasible actions to reduce the volume and weight of material it sends to the local landfill. The local landfill plans to increase disposal fees by $5 per ton. It is offering to rebate $5 for each ton less than the current 12-month average that the plant sends to the landfill. The plant does not foresee any changes to the current levels of wasted generation due to volume or product changes.

Currently, the plant averages sending two containers per day to the landfill. The containers average 10 tons of waste when loaded. The landfill charges $40 per ton to receive the wasted. The waste hauler charges $80 per load (one container) to transport the waste. The three waste containers are rented for $5 per container per day.

Currently, cardboard, if collected and bundled for shipment, can be sold for $95 per ton. The plant estimates that it sends 2 tons of cardboard a day to the landfill. To collect the cardboard will require one janitorial associate for 3 hours per day at a cost of $18.50 per hour. The baling equipment will cost $22,000 installed, $45 per week to operate, $4,500 per year to maintain, and last 12 years. The equipment will have a salvage value of $5,000.

Currently, 25,000 wooden pallets per year are scrapped each year because they are damaged or because they are not of the standard size used by the plant. The plant has budgeted $12,000 for a pallet shredder to chip the pallets as they go into the waste containers to reduce their volume and allow the average weight per container to increase to 11 tons. The shredder has no salvage value at the end of its 6-year useful life. The operating and maintenance cost (not including the operator, a janitorial associate) is $3,000 per year. The pallets average 13 pounds each.

A pallet recycler has offered to purchase pallets, which are of certain sizes and in good condition. The pallets that are in these sizes and in acceptable condition amount to half the scrapped pallets. The pallet recycler is offering to pay $1.00 per pallet. To sort the acceptable sizes from the scrap pallets will require three hours of labor per day. This job can also be done by a janitorial associate.

Purchasing has identified a company that will pick up the damaged and unusable pallets and process them into wood chips, which the company then sells. The cost of this service is $1.25 per pallet.

The plant works 5 days a week, 50 weeks a year. The minimum attractive rate of return is 15%.

What do you recommend the plant do?

Provide a report outlining your decision making process. Include all calculations for the decision making process. All calculations shall be done neatly on green engineering paper and should have a logical process to follow.

The report shall have the following outline

Problem statement (in your own words, not a repeat of the assignment)

Decision process

Include assumptions

Include a description of the different scenarios that you will be analyzing (There could be more scenario’s than what is listed below.)

Existing

Do Nothing

Cardboard scenario’s

Pallet scenario’s

Recommendations

Attachment of Calculation

Define a base class to use for the entire program.

•The class holds the function calls and the variables related to the overtime pay calculations.

•Define one object per employee. Remember that there will be three employees.

•Your program must take the objects created and implement calculations based on the total salaries, total hours, and total number of overtime hours. See the Employee Summary Data section of the sample output.

Logic steps to complete your program:

•Define your base class.

•Define your objects from your base class.

•Prompt for user input, updating your object classes for all three users.

•Implement your overtime pay calculations.

•Display overtime or regular time pay calculations. See the sample output.

•Implement object calculations by summarizing your employee objects and display the summary information in the example.

Sample output

The list below includes provocative discussions related to the events in the unit’s reading. You will choose one and write a 500 word minimum essay in which you will take a first-person perspective of the situation, describe the debate in your own words, and provide a justified and academically defended argument for one side or the other. The essay will need to reflect your understanding of the time to avoid being anachronistic, and to demonstrate that your argument is appropriate for that time.  As a woman in the 1950s, how would you feel about the stereotype of the wife and mother on popular television shows?  Having been a multi-season Brooklyn Dodgers ticket holder in 1947, would you actively cheer for Jackie Robinson?  As a parent to male teenagers, what is your perspective of the Korean conflict?  As a World War II veteran, what are your thoughts about either the Truman Doctrine or Containment?  As a high level politician in the know, do you feel the American public deserves to be told about NSC 68? As this is a point of view essay, a modern perspective will not accurately address what the question is asking for. It is strongly suggested that at least one selection from the provided source book is used as research of the event and views of the time. All sources and their use must be appropriately identified per 6th edition APA forma

Assignment 1: LASA # 2: PowerPoint Presentation

Utilizing the information you compiled for your literature review paper, and the feedback you received from your instructor about the literature review, prepare a 10-15 minute Power Point presentation on your topic, summarizing the key points and conclusions. Be sure to direct this presentation to an audience in the community. For example, if your paper pertained to a topic in developmental psychology, direct your presentation toward parents, or a parenting center. If your topic pertained to substance abuse, direct it toward a community service agency which may use this information for educating teens or parents about preventing drug use, or current clients about treatments and facilities available. Please state in your presentation the specific audience toward whom your presentation is aimed. Include a reference page in APA format, as well as speaker notes and an audio file with your presentation.

Your slides should provide answers to the following questions:

• What was your topic?
• What question did you hope to answer by completing this literature review paper? Explain the practical implications of the conclusions of the literature review and the audience to which they are directed.
• Given the results of your literature review, what is/are the prevailing argument(s)? In other words, which of those is supported by the existing evidence? Be sure to include full coverage of the arguments, including strengths and weaknesses of each of them, supported by your findings from reviewing the relevant articles.
• Did the researchers consider multicultural factors in their studies? If not, what factors may be involved? What multicultural factors should future studies include?
• What ethical issues are related to your topic and/or discussed in the studies you reviewed?
• How do the conclusions of your literature review relate to the various specialization areas in psychology? Tie them to as many as apply from the following areas: biological, cognitive, developmental, social, personality theory, psychopathology, and applied psychology.
• How can the conclusions of your literature review inform the population towards whom your presentation is directed? How can they apply this information to their daily lives? What advice or ‘take home message’ can you provide to your audience based on the research you reviewed?
• What research question could you ask in order to further develop this area of study?
• Why is your research question important and relevant to the current work being done on your topic?

Your presentation should also follow these guidelines:

• It should be approximately 10-15 minutes in length.
• It should be clear, concise, and professional.  Writing should be free of spelling and grammatical errors; it should conform to current APA style (including any in-text citations).
• It should include graphs, tables, figures, or images illustrating your ideas.
• There should be a final slide listing references in current APA style.
• The bulk of the text should be placed in the Notes pages of each slide. Keep the amount of text on the slide, itself, to a minimum.
• You should record an audio file of your oral presentation. You should also type the text of the speech you would give while showing these slides to an audience should be typed into the Notes area.  If you are unable to use the audio feature, the Notes text will suffice.
• You can refer to the Power Point tips document provided in the Doc Sharing section of the course.

Recall that Rowan Williams told us that many people start believing in God because other people show them that God is trustworthy. With that in mind, write a paragraph that explains the importance of Victorinus and Ponticianus for Augustine’s eventual conversion. Try to explain what it is specifically about each of those men that is so important for Augustine.

2. Look through the chapter for the times that Augustine mentions his friend Alypius. Write a brief paragraph here about Alypius’ role in the chapter.

3. What finally pushes Augustine to fully convert to Christianity? How does Antony factor in to that final decisio

What is callable preferred stock? Why do corporations issue such stock? Given the different features that are associated with stock (callable, cumulative, preferred, etc.), what type of stock would you want to buy personally and why?

Review the roles of management accounting within a company. What is the most important role of management accounting? How is that different than financial accounting?

Week 3

Describe three issues/problems that a company could encounter when trying to determine the actual cost of a good or service to be used in the cost of goods sold. For each of your issues, provide an example of a company or industry where these issues could be present.

We’ve all experienced (or heard about) the challenges that the airlines have been facing. Read the Zacks Investment Research article, “Airline Industry Stock Outlook – August 2012.” Identify three factors that are affecting airline company’s ability to break even. For each of your factors, discuss how these have an impact on the breakeven (contribution margin, fixed costs, variable costs, a combination, etc.), and what happens if these factors increase or decrease.

Week 4

Review the Standard costs: wake up and smell the coffee.article. When evaluating performance, many organizations compare current results with the actual results of previous accounting periods. Is an organization that follows this approach likely to encounter any problems? Explain.

Flexible budgets provide different information than static budgets. Discuss some of these differences. Is a flexible budget always better? Are there times when you’d recommend using a static budget over a flexible budget?

Week 5

List a few of the issues and considerations businesses should have when it comes to the selection of long-term investments and how those issues impact the various financial statements.

Review the “Rights & Responsibilities of a Certified Management Accountant” article. What are some of the ethical responsibilities and obligations that management accountants have within an organization? Provide some examples. Are these responsibilities different than the obligations for financial accountants?

Remember that this chapter 8 is in the same pdf that you looked at last class to read chapter 2.

1. Recall that Rowan Williams told us that many people start believing in God because other people show them that God is trustworthy. With that in mind, write a paragraph that explains the importance of Victorinus and Ponticianus for Augustine’s eventual conversion. Try to explain what it is specifically about each of those men that is so important for Augustine.

2. Look through the chapter for the times that Augustine mentions his friend Alypius. Write a brief paragraph here about Alypius’ role in the chapter.

3. What finally