...RUNNING HEAD: HOW TO PLAN AN ENGAGEMENT PARTY 1 How To Plan An Engagement Party by Barbarito Capote May 27, 2012 ENGL106-1202B-243 RUNNING HEAD: HOW TO PLAN AN ENGAGEMENT PARTY 2 Abstract It’s a special moment to have an engagement party that you can share with important persons, family and friends. However, the actual planning takes tons of time and focus to get every detail dealt with. This paper will describe how to plan such an important event. RUNNING HEAD: HOW TO PLAN AN ENGAGEMENT PARTY 3 The process of planning an engagement party takes a lot of time and effort to get every single detail done. First off, you have to come to...
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...head: FAMILY ENGAGEMENT 1 THE IMPORTANCE OF FAMILY ENGAGEMENT ON THE EDUCATIONAL PROCESS OF YOUNG CHILDREN EDU 626 Instructor Dr. Rodriguez September 16, 2012 FAMILY ENGAGEMENT THE IMPORTANCE OF FAMILY ENGAGEMENT ON THE EDUCATIONAL PROCESS OF YOUNG CHILDREN Torri Gaines Ashford University 2 ABSTRACT Because of common barriers to engagement, many families do not actively participate in their child‟s education process. These barriers can be addressed and overcome by building strong school and family partnerships to promote and increase family engagement. These types of partnerships can be established and maintained by both teachers and families in a joint effort for the benefit of all involved. PURPOSE OF THE STUDY The purpose of my research study is to describe the impact that family engagement has on the educational process of children. Additionally the study describes the beliefs of teachers and families concerning family engagement, its benefits, and challenges. The specific research questions that will be addressed in this study are: 1. How does family engagement set the foundation for academic success in young children? 2. How does family engagement impact the family as a whole? 3. What are some barriers to engagement? A hypothesis I developed concerning this topic is that students whose families are not engaged in their educational process do worse in school (have lower selfesteem, perform worse academically and behaviorally) than those whose families are engaged...
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...April 11, 2015 (original) May 5, 2015 (revised) Independence Certified Public Accountants (CPA) perform many important services for individuals and companies, public or private. One essential assurance engagement a CPA performs is an audit of financial statements. Audits of financial statements play a vital role in the business industry. An auditor can reasonably assure investors, lenders, management, and stakeholders that the financial statements are free from material misstatement and accurately reflect the accounting of the entity for that period of time. However, an auditor cannot provide an absolute assurance due to the inherent limitations of an audit. Generally, an audit includes the following steps: overall audit planning, assess control risk, perform tests of controls, perform substantive tests of account balances, and finally complete the audit (Kerr, Elder and Arens). In the overall audit planning stage, the CPA has to obtain an understanding of the potential client’s business and establish if the CPA Firm and its associates are independent. These two steps must be done before the CPA Firm can decide to accept the audit engagement. There are many important factors, steps, issues, knowledge, just to name a few that go into an audit but this paper will focus on the issue of independence. One of the principles listed in the AICPA Professional Code of Conduct states that an auditor in public practice must be independent in appearance and fact (AICPA Standards)...
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...A++PAPER;http://www.homeworkproviders.com/shop/ece-214-week-5-assignment/ ECE 214 WEEK 5 ASSIGNMENT As a teacher, you have the opportunity to share the knowledge you have gained in this course with your colleagues to support a collaborative approach to shared health, nutrition, and safety goals. For your Final Project, you will create a presentation for other educators in your center that is focused on the development of a program valuing health, nutrition, and safety. For this presentation, imagine you are part of a team of teachers at an early childcare setting working toward accreditation through the National Association for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC). As part of this lengthy process, you have been tasked with the creation of a professional development training for teachers focused on enhancing effective health, nutrition, and safety practices at your center. Use the knowledge you have gained in this course, as well as practical application and research to support your presentation. You can be creative for this project, but you must include the following: Introduction that states the purpose of the presentation Summary of what will be covered in the presentation Health (five to six slides/pages) Explain what this component includes in the early childhood classroom. Describe two to three strategies to support health and wellness in the classroom. Identify and describe at least two resources that teachers can utilize in their planning and...
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...WPS05 Employee Engagement SIES College of Management Studies Working Paper Series The Working Paper Series would attempt to disseminate the findings of research in specific areas and also to facilitate discussions and sharing of perspectives and information about the identified areas. The papers carry the names of the authors and should be cited accordingly. The views, findings, and interpretations expressed in this paper are entirely those of the authors. They do not represent the views of SIESCOMS and its management. These working papers would be available online at www.siescoms.edu. No part of the paper can be reproduced in any form without the prior permission of the author. However, they can be quoted by citing the reference. 1 Working Paper 05/07 Employee Engagement Nitin Vazirani Dean in OB and HR SIES College of Management Studies Nerul nitin@siescoms.edu Abstract Employee engagement is the level of commitment and involvement an employee has towards their organization and its values. An engaged employee is aware of business context, and works with colleagues to improve performance within the job for the benefit of the organization. It is a positive attitude held by the employees towards the organization and its values. The paper focuses on how employee engagement is an antecedent of job involvement and what should company do to make the employees engaged. The paper also looks at the Gallup 12 point questionnaire, twelve-question survey that identifies...
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...My personal engagement project consisted of me working with the homeless community. I was a case manager at a family shelter in framingham, and we had a woman named Laurie Laba sponsor the shelter. I later began to help assist Laurie in her community work with the homeless. Laurie and I are both very civically engaged with the homeless community in many ways. Laurie’s husband, Neale, is a music producer. Her produces folk music and they hold concerts at their house in Sudbury, Ma. Typically three or two months prior to the concert Laurie and I type up a detailed flyer regarding information about the concert. On the left side of the flyer is a section that is named homeless community. Underneath that section we give a brief description about the family shelter is framingham and list what the needs are for the house. We don't just come up with a random list of what we think the shelter might need. Prior to making the flyer we call or sometimes show up in person and speak with the program supervisor about what are the most important things that the families living in the shelter and the shelter itself is in need for. Depending on the season, we would typically be told that the shelter is in need of winter, or summer clothes. We would get a lot of toiletries request, such as paper towels, toilet papers, and cleaning supplies. The children living in the shelter vary from newborn to 17 years old, so we often like to get a list of the children's sizes, and favorite colors, so we could...
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...Gap report brought out by the World Economic Forum on March 08, 2010. Work-life balance among women is now-a-days a crucial issue that many organizations are taking into consideration. When employees go back to their homes, they should not carry any organizational stress with them. A woman has two roles to play- personal and professional; each role having different set of demands. Such role demands are overlapping due to geographical issues. Women travelling 2-3 hours to reach workplace are having considerably high stress. This impact on performance pressure and losses for all concerned: the individual, the family and the organization. This leads to family–work conflict (FWC) and work–family conflict (WFC). FWC and WFC are more likely to exert negative influences in the family domain, resulting in lower life satisfaction and greater internal conflict within the family. This research intends to reveal significant results with respect to the facilities provided by the employers for the work-life balance of women and the conditions that hamper them to work due to geographical distances. A sentence that brings the idea of work...
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...Employee Engagement in Organizations Word Count: 3005 Contents 1.0 Introduction 4 2.0 Employee engagement 4 3.0 Significance of employee engagement 5 4.0 Steps taken to enhance employee engagement 8 5.0 Steps to enhance employee engagement 10 6.0 Conclusion 13 7.0 References 14 List of figures Figure 1: Employee Engagement Model 4 Figure 2: Composition of Employee Engagement 5 Figure 3: Organizational Results of employee engagement 6 Introduction This report has been undertaken in order to discuss and assess the significance of employee engagement through various employee engagement models and the steps that can be taken in order to improve the employee engagement process in an organization. Various recommendations have also been provided in order to enhance the employee engagement in organizations at the end of the report. Significant company examples following appropriate employee engagement policies and their impact on employee satisfaction in the organizations have also been mentioned in detail. Employee engagement According to Albrecht (2010), Employee engagement is defined as the level to which the employees are loyal and motivated towards their work within a particular organization they work for. The level of pride they show while being a part of that organization and the extent of efforts they are willing to exert to achieve the organizational goals. Saks (2006) adds that employee engagement is simply...
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...experience? Introduction This paper examines how organisational values and stakeholder engagement can improve patient quality, experience and care. The author will do this by exploring what stakeholder engagement is and how it is being used in the healthcare arena to improve care quality and patient experience. The author’s critical analysis will discuss the relationship between organisational values, stakeholder engagement and the delivery of quality patient care, before relating this to his professional practice, prior to drawing and presenting conclusions. The author having worked in the NHS for a number of years as a Commissioning Manager in a non-clinical role has often found it difficult to see the impact that sound organisational values and robust stakeholder engagement can directly have on the delivery of patient quality, experience and care, working through Module 3 has been a truly eye opening experience for the author. Having completed Module 1 and 2 of the EGA course and now coming to the end of Module 3, there have been many opportunities for self-reflection and time to make sense of how and why organisational values, engagement and service delivery are all interlinked. Analysis Engaging Stakeholders to Improve Care & Quality “Stakeholder engagement is the process by which an organisation involves people who may be affected by the decisions it makes or can influence the implementation of its decisions.” The notion of engagement with patients in their care...
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...Opinion: A School Development Plan Sara Torres Grand Canyon University: EDA 577 August 4, 2014 Abstract One of the biggest challenge that schools are facing is how to increase the amount of parent involvement. Research has shown that parental involvement increases student achievement, however increasing parent involvement means building stronger parent teacher relationships. The major factors that might prevent parents from participating in their children’s school is their beliefs of the importance of getting involved and their perception of what they think the school and their child believes of them getting involved. This paper presents the development of goals and activities that Public School 153 designed to increase parent engagement within the school. School leaders in the twenty first century have an increased amount of responsibilities that they need to be able to do deal with on a daily basis to manage an effective school system. School leaders must be able to assume accountability and be able to effectively communicate continuous changes within the school system to all stakeholders. Leaders must take the lead in setting clear goals, establishing plans to achieve those goals, using data to monitor progress regularly and adjusting plans accordingly for the success of the school (Guskey, 2007). They need to be able to collaborate and empower stakeholders to support and assist in implementing the school’s vision. The purpose of this paper is to provide an outline of...
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...away during childbirth and his father continued his career in the military. His father was an African American father from New Orleans and his mother was a Mexican American from Texas. He was reunited with his father and new family during his high school years and his father encouraged him to pursue accounting. He took the advice from his dad and majored in accounting, graduating and starting his career in public accounting directly after college in order to continue his professional goal of becoming a controller or CFO of a financial institution. Bud started out as a staff accountant and progressed to audit senior with 2 years of working at the public accounting firm. By his fifth busy season, he had decided that he would soon leave his current position to pursue other opportunities. Just prior to leaving his current firm, Bud was notified by Alex Saunders, the managing partner at the practice that he was to be assigned to a new client in the banking and financial services industry. Bud was excited about this new client as this would provide him some much needed real world experience in just the field he was looking to pursue. After attending a three day seminar on bank auditing and spending several days reviewing the clients previous years’ work papers, Bud had his initial meeting with the new clients CEO, Jim Charles. Bud felt like the CEO seemed annoyed and the meeting was cut short, but dismissed it as a coincidence. A few days later, Saunders called Bud into his office...
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...could be not setting aside enough time to adequately plan the audit, not involving the client or failing to put together appropriate team members, etc. How can auditors to more effectively detect financial statement fraud? One of the best ways is to “profit” from the mistakes of others. The following is a list of lessons to be learned from the cases that we examined in class and AICPA codes that are applied to each case. Independence (ET section 101) Rule 101–Independence. A member in public practice shall be independent in the performance of professional services as required by standards promulgated by bodies designated by Council. The impairment of independence can happen due to many reasons such as the close financial relationship between a covered member and a client, a covered member’s close relative’s position in the client’s company, etc. In the case of Leslie Fay, BDO Seidman’s independence was impaired, the auditing firm of Leslie Fay since mid-1970s, because the on-going litigation brought up by Leslie Fay’s stockholders. This is supported by the paragraph 8 of ET section 101, which states, “In some circumstances, independence may be considered to be impaired as a result of litigation or the expressed intention to commence litigation.” Another example of independence impairment could come from the case Livent. In this case, Maria Messina and Christopher Craib were two former members on Livent’s audit engagement team. Maria Messina became the CFO of Livent after...
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...Abstract The purpose of this paper is to determine how innovations in employee benefits can improve the overall competitive compensation strategy of the organization. Then, it explains how innovative benefits could be tied to specific jobs. After that, it critiques the effectiveness of equity-based rewards systems versus those with more creative approaches and discusses the key elements of integrating innovation into a traditional total rewards program. And last, it recommends a process that optimizes an employee-based suggestion program to continually refresh the total rewards of the organization. 1. Determine how innovations in employee benefits can improve the overall competitive compensation strategy of the organization. In this century, every dimension of life changes so fast. In unison, the way of companies doing business, personal lives of employees and employers, and working environments change, too. To stay in the business, companies need to comply with these changes. Employees have changeable needs and companies need to make employees keep working with their comprehensive benefits. They must find innovative ways of engaging employees that encourage and support their commitment and improve their performance. Otherwise they will be out of the race. Also, in this century, in workplaces the diversity of workforce increases. Companies must understand and address the diverse needs of their workforce to survive, thrive, and stay competitive. For example...
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...How to Plan a Wedding Josh Odle Terry Mathias English 121 – Spring Semester 02 March 2013 How to Plan a Wedding Thesis Statement: Planning a wedding can be stressful and overwhelming. I. “Where do I start? What comes next? Am I doing this right?” are all said by a bride or groom at one time during their engagement. A. This is supposed to be the happiest day of your life and with a little bit of help, it can also be enjoyable. B. The dress, the venue, and the honeymoon, are just icing on the cake compared to the many details involved in planning this process. C. Planning a wedding can be stressful and overwhelming. II. After the excitement of the engagement dies down, the planning begins. A. Money is one of the most stressful topics when it comes to planning a wedding. 1. Sit down with the families and discuss your options. 2. Is there a savings account somewhere? 3. Whether the wedding is big or small, it’s all based on your budget. B. Whether you have a savings account or paying as you go, there’s a lot to buy. 1. Invitations, a cake, a photographer/videographer, florist, caterer, DJ or musicians, and the officiant, are just the start of things to consider. 2. After setting a date, finding the venue, booking a honeymoon, shopping for shoes, dresses, tuxedos, transportation, maybe, just maybe you’ll remember to ask those you love to join you on your special day. 3. Wedding insurance is always encouraged to protect the unexpected. III. Grab yourself a binder with paper...
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...very diverse group of individuals. This paper studies and looks at ways to improve the collaboration between teacher and family of the child with disabilities and the engagement of said family and student within the school and community. Teachers and parents share a common goal: helping the child to succeed in school. Research establishes a strong correlation between parent involvement and a child’s academic success. To help ensure the success of partnerships between schools and parents, teachers and other school personnel should: recognize that all families are different, understand that the emotions exhibited by the parents of children with disabilities regarding their children are complex and varied, and acknowledge that the parents of children with disabilities have additional roles and stressors. All students and parents should feel welcome in the school and should feel respected. Schools should think of parents as equal partners to ensure that students are successful in school. Lastly, because parents’ demands are high, we should value parents’ participation of at any level. Keywords: engagement, student with disabilities, partners, successful Introduction “You take your students and I will take my students.” Too long there has been delineation between general education students and students with a disability. Special education teachers have been the primary communicator with the parents and family. While it is important for special education...
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