...MODULE 1 ASSIGNMENT Note: Before you begin the assignment for Module 1, please click the Module 1 assignment link in the online course navigation pane for instructions on how to complete and submit your responses for marking. Part A: Multiple-choice questions Note: For multiple-choice questions, select the best answer. Answer each item by giving the number of your choice. Incorrect answers will be marked as zero. Please include your answers to the Part A multiple-choice questions with your answer to Part B. Question 1 (20 minutes) a. Fine Fertilizers Limited (FFL) produces a line of lawn fertilizers that are manufactured under controlled conditions to ensure the ingredients are stored carefully and mixed in the correct quantities. FFL has many competitors in the industry ranging from small private companies to large public companies. Recent news articles in the fertilizer industry have highlighted the need for a focus in environmental concerns. The CEO has decided that FFL should consider the implementation of an environmental scorecard. Which of the following is the best reason to use an environmental scorecard? 1. 2. 3. 4. The scorecard promotes good corporate citizenship. FFL can compare its scorecard rating to its competitors. It is an effective measure in a bonus plan to increase net profit. It enables FFL to measure its efficiency in producing fertilizer. b. In order to make the financial statements of Genex Inc. more appealing to investors and to inflate the management...
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...Assignment 1 Name: (Your Name) For Dr. Larry Byrd HRM533 Date: (Today’s date) (Title) Advantages to a Total Rewards Approach There are several advantages to using a total rewards approach to compensating the workforce. The top five are described in the succeeding paragraphs. The first of the top five advantages is (Complete the paragraph.) The second of the top five advantages is (Complete the paragraph.) The third of the top five advantages is (Complete the paragraph.) The fourth of the top five advantages is (Complete the paragraph.) The fifth of the top five advantages is (Complete the paragraph.) Total Rewards Strategy Gone Astray There are many ways a total rewards strategy can go astray. Five of the common ways are described in the succeeding paragraphs. The first way the strategy can go astray is (Complete the paragraph.) The second way the strategy can go astray is (Complete the paragraph.) The third way the strategy can go astray is (Complete the paragraph.) The fourth way the strategy can go astray is (Complete the paragraph.) The fifth way the strategy can go astray is (Complete the paragraph.) Steps in Designing a Total Rewards Program In the succeeding paragraphs, the six steps in designing a total rewards program are described. The first step is (Complete this paragraph.) The second step is (Complete this paragraph.) The third step...
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...Leadership at its greatest Potential An important phil Dr.Woodard 07/21/2011 “Vision without execution is Hallucination” * Thomas Edison A leader is someone that has a vision, a well thought out vision. It is a person that actually took the time to plan out their work and make things happen. Leaders see a problem that needs to be fixed or a goal that needs to be achieved. It may be something that no one else sees or simply something that no one else wants to tackle. Whatever it is, it is the focus of the leaders attention and they handle with a single-minded hard work. I know you may ask, what is the difference between a leader and a entrepreneurial leader? Simple. First you have to know the definition of an entrepreneur. An entrepreneur is an individual who accepts financial risks and undertakes new financial ventures. There has been research on the question that leadership is a trait that someone is born with rather than something that is learned. Characteristics of an entrepreneur include spontaneous creativity, the ability and willingness to make decisions in the absence of solid data, and a generally risk-taking personality. An entrepreneur may be driven by a need to create something new or build something tangible. Rarely can entrepreneurs make a company succeed by themselves. This is much like the fact that the greatest athlete doesn't ensure that their team will win if the other players cannot perform. As such, entrepreneurs need to be able to identify staffing...
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...| Assignment 3 | Pricing Strategies for In elasticity Usually corporations use the price elasticity of demand for goods and services to decide or choose pricing policies. Cost elasticity point to the sensitivity of clientele to the fluctuation in pricing, this then affects the volume sold, revenues and earnings. The best pricing policies make the most of earnings by charging precisely what the marketplace will allow. Director will possibly modify their pricing plan depending on changes in the competitive surroundings and in customer demand. This would be shown on the demand curve, which is a two-dimensional graph of price on the vertical y-axis versus quantity on the horizontal x-axis. (Basu, 2011) For this microwavable food company I think pricing leadership should be used. The price for this product is inelastic and it is a leader in the low calorie meals arena. Finding the best price will maximize profits. If the price is too much, the company may discover a competitor is willing to lower their price just to try and steal consumers. On the other hand, if it is too low, it could possibly not cover the cost of production or associated costs of business. At any time a price is increased, it decreases consumer demand. Price is delicate task and under pricing in the hope cause the demand to go up can cause problems. These problems include: pricing too low below your competitor will cause a very low profit margins; secondly if you product is not well known and the...
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...Eng2601 In: English and Literature Eng2601 ENG2601 ASSIGNMENT 1 Extract 1 The Forest of Souls “The difficulty of literature is not to write, but to write what you mean.”- Robert Lewis Stevenson This quote sums up my experience in comparing and contrasting the extracts from The Forest of Souls by Carla Banks. In order to truly understand what the writer is trying to say, a combination of language features, language strategies and other components are put together to create a mind-boggling, attention-grabbing novel. A novel that consist of different contexts, different genres and different tone and writing styles combined, letting the reader experience exactly what the writer is trying to say. Extract 1 is an account of the first public hanging that took place in the city of Minsk, Soviet Union under the Nazi occupation. (Mullany, 2010) The men, Kiril Trus and a sixteen year old Volodia Shcerbatsevich were members of a partisan cell organizing anti-fascist resistance. The seventeen year old girl, Masha Bruskina was a nurse who had been caught aiding the partisans. She provided civilian clothes and papers for wounded Red Army soldiers under her care and smuggle them back to the resistance. It is an in depth description of the brutality of this event, with emphasis on the circumstances under which this event took place. Extract 2 is an account, sixty years after this event. A journalist Jake Denbigh is working on the experiences of war-time immigrants during the 2nd...
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...Running head: How Personal Can Ethics Get? How Personal Can Ethics Get? Leadership and Organizational Behavior How Personal Can Ethics Get? Discovering inappropriate behavior at work, forces an individual to make an ethical decision. Ethics are values and principles that help individuals distinguish right from wrong (Hellriegel & Slocum, 2011). There are many considerations before making a final decision. In this case we will address some of the items an individual needs to consider while making a decision by exploring the following questions: 1. How can personal differences and preferences impact organizational ethics? 2. How can organizational policies and procedures impact ethics? 3. What ethical dilemmas are Valerie facing? 4. What should Valerie do? Answering these questions will show it is not an easy decision and it begins with personal differences and preferences. How Can Personal Differences and Preferences Impact Organizational Ethics? An individual’s personal differences and preferences must first be understood before providing an impact on organizational ethics. Both moral intelligence and moral development influences personal differences. Since each individual experiences a unique upbringing, each individual’s differences can vary greatly (Hellriegel & Slocum, 2011). Moral intelligence consists of integrity, responsibility, compassion, and forgiveness (Hellriegel & Slocum, 2011). Pierce and Henry (2000), discuss how individuals...
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...Law, Ethics, and Corporate Governance AnnMarie Seidler Dr. Charity Lanier Legal 500 October 30, 2013 As the Chief Operating Officer (COO) of a midsize company that is preparing for an Initial Public Offering (IPO), I discover several personnel problems that require my immediate attention. It is my duty to be familiar with the Employee-at-will Doctrine and any exceptions if any that may apply to the employees and my employer. While preparing to deal with our personnel problems I discover that my company does not have a Whistle Blower Policy in place and I will address this issue with my CEO. As we present our company to the public, we need to consider Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR), and how we impact our employees, our environment, our customers, retailers, wholesalers, (possible shareholders), from the very top to the very bottom. In order to be successful we must consider more than just the bottom line, the dollar. As I address each employee issue, I considered not only state and federal laws but also what if any long-term impacts my decision may have upon the entire company and community at large. The Employee-at-will is a legal doctrine “which gives employers broad discretion to fire employees for a good reason, a bad reason, or no reason at all.” Halbert & Ingulli, (2012).There are three major exceptions to the rule to help prevent wrongful termination but only two of them apply in the state where I reside of WV. The Public-policy exception and Implied-contract...
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...Merger Acquisition BUS 508 Name Date Instructor Life Technologies and Thermo Fisher Scientific Introduction There are a lot of examples of Merger in present business world. If we search the world economic journals and magazines, then we will see that almost every year a lot of mergers and acquisitions are taking place in the modern corporate world. In the year 2013, some vital merger and acquisitions took place. In this paper a very important merger process will be described. The merger which will be described is not only important for the companies, but also important for the customers and the consumers of those companies. After reading through this paper, the reader will be able to know the reason, circumstances, effects and conclusions of the merger process. Then they will be able to judge whether the merger process brought any good for the companies or the people who are related to the companies or not. Before goring in through discussion, let’s see what is actually a merger? (Sherman & Hart, 2006) Merger is a process which adds two or more similar corporate companies or organizations together. This can happen in quite a few ways. First of all, two companies with similar expansion may come to an agreement and start a whole new combined company. This kind of merger is not seen a lot in the recent times. There is another kind of merger. That is, a bigger company can simply buy a similar smaller company. This is mainly a common type of merger. Most of the...
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...Concepts | Definition | Example (Providing MY OWN Psychology related examples) | Epistemology | According to sources, Epistemology is defined as being that which studies the origin, nature, methods, and limits of human knowledge. Epistemology is the study of knowing. It deals with the nature of knowledge, how do we know things, what do we know, why we know, is what we know true, and what are the limits of knowledge. Epistemology is a complicated “term” (for me) because it questions what often cannot be measured or accounted for. | Example:If I was asked to discuss a “Tsunami”. I would say that I “know” that a Tsunami is an under-water earthquake. That would not be an opinion as much as it would be fact based on research and findings that explain the process shifting tectonic plates that cause Tsunamis. So my knowledge about this grounded in my acceptance of the claims from trustable authorities and therefore my “knowing is shaped by what I accept to believe as true.Epistemology questions “frames of reference” and basically asks the question…”what informs this?” Often our Religious beliefs and our claim to “know” is challenged by “modern thinkers” who question – is it true because “someone” says it is…? | | | | Theory | Theory is a supposition or a system of ideas intended to explain something, especially one based on general principles that can be used to investigate other/ different phenomenon in society. Theories exist because of documented experiences and research...
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...• Case 1-4 Generally Accepted Accounting Principles At the completion of the Darby Department Store audit, the president asks about the meaning of the phrase “in conformity with generally accepted accounting principles,” which appears in your audit report on the management’s financial statements. He observes that the meaning of the phrase must include more than what he thinks of as “principles.” Required: a. Explain the meaning of the term accounting principles as used in the audit report. (Do not in this part discuss the significance of “generally accepted.”) "Generally accepted accounting principles" is a guideline of accounting practices and processes which define how accounting professionals are to report the daily activity of the business performance relating to the revenue and expenses, in/outflows of cash and any other material activity relating to the value of the business. b. The president wants to know how you determine whether or not an accounting principle is generally accepted. Discuss the sources of evidence for determining whether an accounting principle has substantial authoritative support. Accounting guidelines are just that, guidelines. The entity is obligated to choose a guideline that is appropriate handling for the transactions. The accounting principle must be consistent and pronounced in FASB, AICPA and their respective Technical Bulletins and Accounting Guidelines and Statements of Position. If the accounting treatment for a transaction or event is...
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...Assignment 1 Generally Accepted Auditing Standards Generally Accepted Auditing Standards | Action by Jones Resulting in Failure to Comply with Generally Accepted Auditing Standards | The auditor must have adequate technical training and proficiency to perform the audit. | Jones, CPA hired to students that did not have any experience. | The auditor must maintain independence in mental attitude in all matters relating to the audit. | Arthur Jones, CPA, accepted the offer of receiving a bonus if bank approves the loan. | The auditor must exercise due professional care in the performance of the audit and the preparation of the report. | Jones, CPA did not exercise “professional care in performance of the audit and preparation of the report” because he failed to follow the GAAP guidelines. There were no notes included within the report, students conducted the report without guidance etc. | The auditor must adequately plan the work and must properly supervise any assistants. | Jones did properly supervise the students. He only told them what to. He should have reviewed the information that the students prepared and ensured that Generally Accepted Auditing Standards were followed. | The auditor must obtain a sufficient understanding of the entity and its environment, including its internal control, to assess the risk of material misstatement of the financial statements whether due to error or fraud, and...
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...Research and read an article on recent recipients of the project management institute’s project of the year award (2013 PMI winners – Adelaide Desalination Project). Summarize how the project manager or team exhibited exceptional and ethical project management practices. Discuss the role of the project manager or team, the organizational setting, the recipient’s approach to project integration management, and obstacles that had the potential of adversely impacting the triple constraints Ugbe Maurice Ugbe Stratford University (Falls Church, Virginia) Abstract The Adelaide Desalination Project involves the construction of a 100 GL per annum desalination plant, including the seawater intake and outfall tunnels and structures, and associated infrastructure including the transfer pipeline, power supply works and interconnection and upgrade works at Happy Valley Water Treatment Plant. Research and read an article on recent recipients of the project management institute’s project of the year award (2013 PMI winners – Adelaide Desalination Project). Summarize how the project manager or team exhibited exceptional and ethical project management practices. Discuss the role of the project manager or team, the organizational setting, the recipient’s approach to project integration management, and obstacles that had the potential of adversely impacting the triple constraints. Introduction Traditionally, South Australia has always relied on the River Murray...
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... There are no right and wrong answers. Yes No 1. I encourage overtime work 2. I allow staff complete freedom in their work 3. I encourage the use of standard procedures 4. I allow staff to use their own judgement in solving problems 5. I stress being better than other firms 6. I urge staff to greater effort 7. I try out my ideas with others in the firm 8. I let my staff work in the way they think best 9. I keep work moving at a rapid pace 10. I turn staff loose on a job and let them get on with it 11. I settle conflicts when they happen 12. I get swamped by detail 13. I always represent the ‘firm view’ at meetings with outsiders 14. I am reluctant to allow staff freedom of action 15. I decide what should be done and who should do it 16. I push for improved quality 17. I let some staff have authority I could keep 18. Things usually turn out as I predict 19. I allow staff a high degree of initiative 20. I assign staff to particular tasks 21. I am willing to make changes 22. I ask staff to work harder 23. I trust staff to exercise good judgement 24. I schedule the work to be done 25. I refuse to explain my actions 26. I persuade others that my ideas are to their advantage 27. I permit the staff to set their own pace for change 28. I urge staff to beat previous targets 29. I act without consulting staff 30. I ask staff follow standard rules and procedures SCORING Instructions: To obtain your leadership orientation rating, score 1 point for the appropriate response under the each...
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...JO STARNES, NT2580, UNIT 2 CALCULATING THE WINDOW OF VULNERABILITY The window of vulnerability is the amount of time the systems defense measures are compromised, minimized, or eliminated. This is when the system is most likely to be at risk, and can be affected by malicious attacks. It is not stated as what day the server software detected the attack on the SMB server. It only states that it was detected the day before. So from day one, these are the steps we will need to take to get the SMB server back up and running properly and safely, as well as the amount of time it will take for us to solve the issue: Day 1 - The software company will release a patch for this attack in three days. Day 4 – We will receive the patch, and we need to install and test the patch, this will take at least five days. Day 9 – After installation and testing is completed; we will send the update to the entire company’s network devices. As soon as all the updates are sent out to all the devices, they will need to be rebooted in order for the patch to take effect. We can send out a message to all devices to insure this happens. This could take a day or two to complete. This could all be completed as early as 10 days if there are no issues during the process, however problems may arise and it could possibly take a day or two more. I hope that this is helpful and we will start immediately on the problem. It is of upmost importance that you have team members monitoring the server at all times during...
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...1 www.oldwitchcraft.com 2 www.oldwitchcraft.com 3 INTRODUCTION The science of numerology can be traced back thousands of years. The Chinese, Japanese, Greek, Hebrews, Egyptians, Phoenicians, early Christians, Mayans, and Incas all used some form of numerology to gain a deeper understanding of themselves and the universe. Numerology is perhaps the easiest of the occult arts to understand and use. All you need is the birth date and the complete name of an individual to unlock all of the secrets that the numbers hold. (Most authorities agree that the full birth name as recorded on your birth certificate is the name that must be used for all calculations involving name.) There are eleven numbers used in constructing Numerology charts. These numbers are 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 11, and 22. Larger numbers that occur from adding the numbers in the complete birth date or from the values assigned to each name are reduced by adding the digits together until the sum achieved is one of the core numbers. Merely add the components of the larger number together (repeatedly, if necessary) until a single digit (or the "master" numbers 11 or 22) results. Each of these numbers represents different characteristics and expressions. Master numbers are the only exception to rule of reducing to the single digit. The master numbers 11 and 22 are intensified versions of the single digit number they replace (2 and 4). These numbers suggest a potential for a high degree of learning and/or achievement...
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