...Asset Identification & Asset Classification 1. What is the purpose of identifying IT assets and inventory? i. To help identify areas of potential risks. 2. What is the purpose of an asset classification? ii. To evaluate the health of the company by examining how well each of the company’s assets are performing. 3. For the scenario you picked, give three (3) examples of customer privacy data elements. (HIPAA) iii. Names iv. Medical records v. Health plan beneficiary numbers 4. Why is your organization’s website classification minor nut its e-commerce server considered critical for your scenario? vi. Because it presents a smaller threat while the e-commerce server is more valuable to the organization. 5. Why would you classify customer privacy data and intellectual property assets as critical? vii. They are valuable assets to the organization and possess value to the organization. 6. What are some examples of security controls for recent compliance law requirements? viii. Sarbanes-Oxley Act – To certify the accuracy of financial information. ix. Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act – Information from children under the age of 13. 7. How can a Data Classification Standard help with asset classification? x. Classifying data helps prevent vulnerability to sensitive data. 8. How can you minimize leakage of customer privacy data through the public internet? xi. Gramm-Leach-Bliley...
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...Globalization Has Increased Poverty Although the concept of globalization is very recent, it has existed throughout the history. Globalization began to take greater height from the Industrial Revolution 200 years ago in England which was the most developed countries in the world. Technological and political changes have changed the meaning of globalization. Today, the term globalization is defined as “the process enabling financial and investment markets to operate internationally, largely as a result of deregulation and improved communications. It is the social, political and economic integration that comes with the increased flow of trade, people, capital, and ideas” (Steger). The purpose of this essay is to show how globalization has increased poverty and affected some countries and people’s lives. While many people argue that globalization has reduced poverty; others, has disagree because there are facts that show clearly how the rate of poverty has increased. According to Sachs, Professor of Health Policy and Management at Columbia University, poverty is the result of “low productivity per worker, which reflects poor health, lack of job-market skills, patchiness of infrastructure (roads, power plants, utility lines, shipping ports), and chronic malnutrition” (Sachs). In many countries, the economic situation is going from bad to worse. Poverty has been rising steadily “from 21% in 1984 to 40% in 2002” (Nissanke). Sachs said that every day more than 20 000 die of dire...
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...How to grow Without faster growth the rich world’s economies will be stuck. But what can be done to achieve it? Our economics team sets out the options Oct 7th 2010 WHAT will tomorrow’s historians see as the defining economic trend of the early 21st century? There are plenty of potential candidates, from the remaking of finance in the wake of the crash of 2008 to the explosion of sovereign debt. But the list will almost certainly be topped by the dramatic shift in global economic heft. Ten years ago rich countries dominated the world economy, contributing around two-thirds of global GDP after allowing for differences in purchasing power. Since then that share has fallen to just over half. In another decade it could be down to 40%. The bulk of global output will be produced in the emerging world. The pace of the shift testifies to these countries’ success. Thanks to globalisation and good policies, virtually all developing countries are catching up with their richer peers. In 2002-08 more than 85% of developing economies grew faster than America’s, compared with less than a third between 1960 and 2000, and virtually none in the century before that. This “rise of the rest” is a remarkable achievement, bringing with it unprecedented improvements in living standards for the majority of people on the planet. But there is another, less happy, explanation for the rapid shift in the global centre of economic gravity: the lack of growth in the big rich economies of America...
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...The problems faced by Developing Countries This is my essay on the problems faced by developing countries. A developing country is a poor country faced by many problems like Civil War, drought, famine and lots of diseases including Cholera and Typhoid. One of the problems is civil war. Civil war is a war between two areas of a country fighting for leadership. During a civil war many people are wounded or die. Children as young as 5 years old are made to fight in the war and some children are separated from their families. The government spend their money on weapons to help the country to fight. The money to pay for the weapons has to be borrowed from richer countries. This sometimes puts the government into debt, therefore they don’t have enough money to spend on building new schools and improving the health care in the communities. Drought and famine are another two problems for developing countries. Drought occurs when there is a shortage of rain water resulting in no clean drinking water. Famine is when there is not enough food for everyone. Famine is sometimes caused by drought because there is no water to help the crops grow, therefore there is a shortage of food. Unfortunately they do not have the resources to overcome the consequences of famine and drought which can result in dehydration, starvation and premature deaths. Cash crops are crops which farmers grow to sell to other countries to make money to buy food and clothing for their families. Some examples...
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...In E-Commerce systems, like online shops, there is a need to present a variety of products to online customers. These products can be unrelated like food and books, or related in a hierarchical classification structure. The product information needs to be organized in a way that enables the customer to do searches, matches, and comparisons between different products based on some common product attributes. The common solution for this is to represent all products in a store in a catalog, either in a print format, or in case of online store, an electronic catalog. To simplify the catalog building process and customer browsing of a catalog, products are often classified into categories where similar products that share common attributes are in one broad category. An example would be footwear, where each product in this category shares some common attributes like size, material, color, gender (male, female, or children), and then can have more specialized sub-categories like sports footwear. Another example would be an appliances category where all have more specialized sub-categories like sports footwear. Products share common attributes as an operating voltage, color, energy consumption, dimensions (height, width and length), and further have some special sub-categories like refrigerators. An online store would be interested with categorizing its products to be able to add new products efficiently, as it would only need to add the new product to its sub-category...
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...A game of catch-up The shift in economic power from West to East is accelerating, says John O’Sullivan. The rich world will lose some of its privileges Sep 24th 2011 | from the print edition * * QUARRY BANK MILL is a handsome five-storey brick building set in the valley of the river Bollin at Styal, a small English village a few miles south of Manchester. It was built in 1784 by Samuel Greg, a merchant, who found profit in supplying cotton thread to Lancashire’s weavers. The raw cotton shipped from America’s slave plantations was processed on the latest machinery, Richard Arkwright’s water frame. Later Greg extended the factory and installed coal-fired steam engines to add to the water power from the Bollin. All this gave a huge boost to productivity. In 1700 a spinster with a pedal-driven spinning wheel might take 200 hours to produce a pound of yarn. By the 1820s it would take her around an hour. Greg’s mill was part of a revolution in industry that would profoundly alter the world’s pecking order. The new technologies—labour-saving inventions, factory production, engines powered by fossil fuels—spread to other parts of western Europe and later to America. The early industrialisers (along with a few late developers, such as Japan) were able to lock in and build on their lead in technology and living standards. The “great divergence” between the West and the rest lasted for two centuries. The mill at Styal, once one of the world’s largest, has become a museum...
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...Characteristics of LDCs Exports of Primary Goods: The primary and agricultural products are the main exports of these countries. The international trade. For example the main exports products of Pakistan are rice, cotton yarn, fish and garments etc. Capital Deficiency: The deficiency of capital in an important feature of developing countries. Therefore they are often called capital poor economies. The shortage of capital is reflected in the very low capital labour ratio in these countries. Over Dependence on Agriculture: 68% population in Pakistan is living in 46,894 villages, back-ward agriculture is the major occupation of the population. Agriculture sector is back ward due to old and traditional methods of cultivation. In-efficient farmers, tack of credit facilities, unorganized agriculture market etc. 66.7% population is directly or indirectly depending on agriculture sector in Pakistan. Natural Resources: Mostly there is shortage of natural resources in developing nations and this is also a cause of their economic backwardness. In various poor countries natural resources are available but they remain un- utilized under-utilized and miss- utilized due to capital shortage, less efficiency of labour, lack of skill and knowledge and limited home market. Out Flow of Best Brain: The brilliant and brightest students of developing countries go to developed countries for higher education. After completing their education, they do not want to come back in their own country due to...
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...The 20 factors indicating whether an individual is an employee or an independent contractor are: 1. Instructions. An employee must comply with instructions about when, where, and how to work. Even if no instructions are given, the control factor is present if the employer has the right to control how the work results are achieved. 2. Training. An employee may be trained to perform services in a particular manner. Independent contractors ordinarily use their own methods and receive no training from the purchasers of their services. 3. Integration. An employee's services are usually integrated into the business operations because the services are important to the success or continuation of the business. This shows that the employee is subject to direction and control. 4. Services rendered personally. An employee renders services personally. This shows that the employer is interested in the methods as well as the results. 5. Hiring assistants. An employee works for an employer who hires, supervises, and pays workers. An independent contractor can hire, supervise, and pay assistants under a contract that requires him or her to provide materials and labor and to be responsible only for the result. 6. Continuing relationship. An employee generally has a continuing relationship with an employer. A continuing relationship may exist even if work is performed at recurring although irregular intervals. 7. Set hours of work. An employee usually has set hours of work established by...
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...In 1987, IRS determined to issue the new rule related between employer and employee relationship. The rule was named Revenue Ruling 87 – 41 by IRS. Here are the 20 factors which guides to use to assess the likelihood as to whether an individual is an employee or an independent contractor. (1) Instructions. An employee must comply with instructions about when, where and how to work. The control factor is present if the employer has the right to require compliance with the instructions. (2) Training. An employee receives on-going training from, or at the direction of, the employer. Independent contractors use their own methods and receive no training from the purchasers of their services. (3) Integration. An employee’s services are integrated into the business operations because the services are important to the business. This shows that the worker is subject to direction and control of the employer. (4) Services rendered personally. If the services must be rendered personally, presumably the employer is interested in the methods used to accomplish the work as well as the end results. An employee often does not have the ability to assign their work to other employees, an independent contractor may assign the work to others. (5) Hiring, supervising and paying assistants. If an employer hires, supervises and pays assistants, the worker is generally categorized as an employee. An independent contractor hires, supervises and pays assistants under a contract that...
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...Base price: $8,674 Options: $987 Destination charge: $190 Sticker price: $9,852 Profit margin: 15% Dealer cost: __________ $8,374.20 $1,477.80 $11,329.80 2. Base price: $15,555 Options: 425 Destination charges: $250 Sticker price: $16,230 Profit margin: __________ Dealer profit: $1,275 0.079% 12.7% 7.86% 3. A car has a sticker price of $8,775 and the dealer's profit margin is 15%. What is the dealer's profit on the car? Would the dealer be likely to accept an offer of $7,000? Profit: $585; would not accept $7,000 Profit: $1,316.25; would not accept $7,000 Profit: $1,316.25; would accept $7,000 4. Wes offered to pay $400 over the dealer's cost on a Knockout SX, which had a sticker price of $7,850. The dealer's profit margin is 10%. How much less would the dealer's profit be if she accepted Wes' offer? $321.50 $385 $785 5. A car dealer sells Wilsons, which have a sticker price of $9,779. Her usual profit margin on this model is 12%. She wants to increase her profit by $391.16. What would her new profit margin be? 15.4% 19.6% 16.3% 6. Model: Compact Cash price: $6,500 Down payment: 20% Number of payments: 24 Monthly payment: $234 Finance charge: __________ $416 $450.07 $6,916 7. Model: Subcompact Cash price: $4,990 Down payment: $1,500 Number of payments: 36 Monthly payment: $109.94 Finance charge: __________ $3,957.84 $467.84 $1,032.16 8. Model: Mid-size Cash price: $7,590 Down payment:...
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...Magic Hands Car Wash is a prominent hand car wash that will be serving all the southern rural area. Magic Hands will be run by Dewayne Russell who decided to have his very own self business. The Russell family has been serving the southern area with car repair business and property development /management for over 20 years. Dewayne will be leveraging the incredible good will and brand recognition of the Russell family name to quickly gain market penetration. Magic Hands will be providing customers with three services: exterior car washing, interior cleaning, and detailing. Magic Hands has no true competitors that are trying to offer a high quality service for a reasonable rate. Most are trying to compete on price alone. Magic Hands ability to provide a high quality service, both in regards to the actual washing as well as customer service is all based on their ability to find the best employees. Hiring the best employees is cost effective because it decreases HR costs associated with turnover and other employee costs. Hiring the best employees and making sure that they are well taken care of ensures that they in turn take care of the customers. Study after study proves that a happy employee is far more likely to provide the highest level of customer service compared to an employee who is not happy and feels that they are being taken advantage. Magic Hands will target three main groups of customers: individual car owner and leasers, car dealerships, and local businesses...
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...Frederick W. Smith. Please respond to the following: Discuss the process of identifying market needs. Frederick Smith quickly identified market needs when he noticed that companies were becoming more technical with the use of computers. He formulated that if companies would use his overnight aircraft delivery service it would cut down cost on warehouse storage and get their products to their destinations in a timely manner. His idea came to past again when he took interest in how hard it was to get parts to a Little Rock, Arkansas, aircraft modification and overhaul shop. What makes new venture creation difficult? In the situation of Fredrick Smith with his new venture creation difficulties, first began with OPEC causing a massive inflation of fuel costs at the beginning of his new venture, which he did not anticipate. New venture creations can stop you dead in your tracks just as with Mr. Smith, just when his company’s volume of package shipping increased, he then was faced with intolerable airline regulations restricting the company to only fly tiny Falcon jets. Mr. Smith also encountered financial failure where his investors were not willing to keep the business afloat and family members were suing him for the mismanagement of the family fortune. By 1973, Smith was so desperate for cash that he flew to Las Vegas to play the blackjack tables. He wired the $27,000 he won back to FedEx. (Foust, 2004) After all of the highs and lows Mr. Smith never...
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...You Decide Date: 01/10/2012 1. Do you feel that Karen is an independent contractor or an employee? What is your rationale for this decision? Karen is a self-regulating contractor as she has never been hired on to ABC Utility as a permanent employee. Karen was brought on as a human resources consultant. My grounds for this decision is based on the fact that Karen has been working for the company for a period of five years and began her career with ABC as an independent employee where the human resource manager became very happy with her work. Karen never had a need for benefits prior to her husband's death and due to his death, she finds herself suddenly needing to have benefits. 2. What factors do you feel help contribute to Karen being an employee? The factors that help contribute to Karen being an employee is the fact that she has been working for the company for a length of five years now where other employees have developed a rapport with her and see her as one of the regular employees. Perhaps portraying to have a solid working relationship with the human resource manager may also be leading to others seeing Karen as a permanent employee of ABC. Being paid a base salary of $10,000 a month also helps to portray that Karen is an employee of ABC. 3. What factors favor her being a contractor? The factors that favor her being a contractor is the fact that she also works for other clients that keep her on a retainer along with those who she's worked with throughout...
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...Classification Systems Catrina Lemus American International University April 3, 2011 Abstract The following paper will be discussing the 4 main steps to ensure that the ICD codes are accurate. This paper will also be discussing the four steps that are necessary to establish the proper ICD-9-CM code. There are many ways that this paper will explain what is right to do and gives you a good source through a book that you can just gather all your information from. Step-by Step Medical Code Book by Buck is such an incredible book to get your sources from. ICD-9-CM code means International Classification of Disease, 9th edition. This is a standardized classification of disease, injuries and causes of death, by etiology and anatomic localization and anatomic localization and codified into a 6 digit number. When given any of these symptom assigned number’s this allows many clinicians and many involved people that have the same common language with in the medical field. The ICD-9-CM has been used in this country since 1973 for morbidity applications. This will help continue the hospital or anyone dealing with medical to be organized and just improve more and more. There are 8 steps to follow to have an accurate coding system. We are going to discuss the top 4 that are important. First one is to identify the main term in the diagnostic statements meaning you would to make sure that you have the correct code. Always do a double check when finding the correct code. The second...
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...The Chaco Road is a system of several that go from the main sites in the Chaco Canyon, to the smaller sites in different areas of the canyon. Together, the roads are about 180 miles and were created by the Anasazis. The most famous of these roads is the Great North Road, which was the longest of the Chaco Roads and went even beyond the canyon limits. The road is very long but has barely any communities surrounding it, and seems to go nowhere. However, Archaeologists have different beliefs of the uses and importance of the great road. According to Marshall and Sofaer, the Great North Road is one of the most mysterious aspects of the Anasazi culture because the purposes for its use by the Anasazi people, does not explain many of the construction features of the road. The roads are thought to have been used by the Anasazi people for trade, transportation, and movement of people. It has also been thought that the Anasazi people were very religious and used the roads for the means of religious ceremonies as well. What makes the roads stand out so much is the width and length of the roads because it shows how well engineered the roads are. The roads were also leveled so well when being engineered, and some areas even have masonary construction where bricks are used. The road has ramps and staircases carved on to cliffs, and also gaps where the roads divide into four different roads. The purpose is a mystery because the extensive construction done to make the roads so long and wide...
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