...Traffic in the City of Kelsey Vernon Colbourne ACC 574 George Holbrook June 22, 2015 The City of Kelsey’s mayor has identified a need to increase funding for the city highways. The reason for this request is the traffic issues the city has seen in the past couple of years. Those traffic issues are road congestion and traffic accidents. This change ultimately affects the City of Kelsey current budget fiscal cycle. The mayor deemed it appropriate to get the city’s budget director involved. The focus of the fiscal budget should be on how additional funds can be added to the fiscal year budget. The most likely revenue source for additional funding will come from the increase in gas taxes. The budget director will have to focus their attention on how well the citizens will respond to the tax increase. The budget director needs to set goals for the budget. Once the goals are set, the city’s budget director meets with the City of Kelsey officials to discuss current and future city policies (Apollo Group, Inc, 2011). Gas Tax Increase The city’s gas tax is at a current rate of 5 cents per gallon (Apollo Group, Inc, 2011). If the proposed budget is approved, the current gas tax will increase to a staggering 20 cents. The budget director understands this will be a hard one for citizens to swallow. Therefore, other areas of the budget may be compromised as well. One option is requesting a lower tax increase because the...
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...already established that overcoming a critical event requries proper planning. For this portion of the assignment one will cover overcoming the budget cuts in the face of the media. A comparison of a simular crisis will be illustrated in order to demonstrate the expectations of the media handling the issue faced with the Kelsey Unified School District (KUSD). Likewise, the roles of public relations and questions concerning ethical concerns. Overall, the impact of the media during a crisis is exemplified. Projected Prospective Similar to the Kelsey Unified School District (KUSD), school districts throughout Texas are facing the same issues. Rumors of prospective budget cuts have been the topic throughout the state. The Arlington Independent School District (AISD) holds personal interest to one. A reduction in the budget within the AISD will directly impact one. The media has addressed the speculations by answering the typical questions surrounding budget cuts. A local television station, CBS 11 News, posted an article concerning the consideration of budget cuts. The article, “Arlington ISD Considering Deep Budget Cuts” shares details on the extent of the expected drop in state funding. Likewise, the amount of dollar bills needed to be eliminated from school spending. The article paints a vivid picture of the chaotic budget. Additionally, the article illustrates how Arlington Superintendent Jerry McCullough and the AISD school board are weighing all options prior to...
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...Chapter 16 1 Total Quality Management Teaching Notes for Cases 16-1: Precision Systems, Inc. This case illustrates that quality cost information can play an important role in alerting top management about the importance of quality improvement in a non-manufacturing department of a manufacturing firm. The case is based on the following article: Kalagnanam, S. S. and E. M. Matsumura, "Cost of Quality in an Order Entry Department," Journal of Cost Management (Fall 1995), pp. 68-74. The required questions are designed to acquaint students with some of the terminology of "cost of quality" and some aspects of conducting a cost of quality study. Quality costs, defined as those that arise because poor quality may exist or does exist, have been classified into the following four categories: • Prevention (prevention of poor quality, or quality assurance); • Appraisal (inspection and testing); • Internal Failure (costs, such as rework or scrappage, for nonconforming products identified before delivery to customers); • External Failure (costs, such as warranty expenses or freight charges, for nonconforming products delivered to customers). This case focuses on prevention activities (see question 6), as well as internal failure and external failure costs for the order entry department at Precision Systems, Inc. Internal and external failures are defined with respect to the order entry department. Additional readings on quality costs: ...
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...Integrating Theory and Research: Needs Assessment for the Patton - Fuller Community Hospital’s Compliance to Safe Medical Devices Act of 1990 (and its Amendments in 1992) Cliff Musimenta University of Phoenix Integrating Theory and Research: Needs Assessment for the Patton - Fuller Community Hospital’s Compliance to Safe Medical Devices Act of 1990 (and its Amendments in 1992) The Safe Medical Devices Act of 1990 (P.L. 101-629, Section 12, 104 Stat. 4523, 1990) was signed by President Bush on 28 November 1990. According to Samuel (1990), the law entailed seventeen timetabled sets of new regulations that can be grouped into the following four categories: premarket approval; post-market surveillance; penalties; and miscellaneous. According to Merrill (1994, p. 47), the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) “agency was given power to prescribe good manufacturing practices (GMP) requirements for devices, to ban worthless or dangerous products administratively, and to require notification, replacement, and/or refund by makers of defective products.” According to Swayze & Rich (2012) “a medical device is, simply defined, any item used to diagnose, treat, or prevent disease, injury, or any other condition that is not a drug, biologic, or food” (para. 1). In any health organizational set up, creating patient safety requires that the organization establishes a safe health environment that eliminates/minimizes all unintentional injury to ensure patient wellbeing. This set...
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...For the exclusive use of X. Guo, 2016. 9-801-447 REV: JUNE 13, 2002 GUHAN SUBRAMANIAN Frasier (A) Just one day into his new job at the National Broadcasting Company (NBC), and Mark Graboff had a problem. Graboff was leading the team that was responsible for renegotiating the rights to Frasier, a popular television show that would play a critical role in NBC’s fall 2001 programming lineup. While Paramount, the owner of the show, seemed to be demanding $8 million per episode in the press, NBC had calculated that it would have to pay under $5 million in order to make a profit on the show. Multiplying by 24 episodes per season, and multiplying again by the three-year term that Paramount was insisting on, the gap seemed insurmountable. Making matters worse, the most likely other bidder for the show was the Columbia Broadcasting th System (CBS), a rival network to NBC and Graboff’s former employer. “On November 13 [2000], my last day at CBS, I was putting the finishing touches on CBS’s contract extension to Everybody Loves Raymond,” recalled Graboff. “And I was thinking, ‘Thank goodness this deal is almost done.’ The next day I began at NBC, and I was faced with an equally arduous negotiation.” Graboff watched the sun set over the Los Angeles skyline as he began familiarizing himself with the background documents on the negotiation. Industry Background Behind the glitz and the glamour, the stars and the scandals, Hollywood is, at its core, a business. Studios...
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...Zero-Tolerance Team Feasibility Study: Lowering Drug Violations On Campus Kelsey L. Jones Feasibility Study: Lowering Drug Violations on Campus Technical Communications Joyce Gorgan March 26, 2012 Table of Contents Executive Summary....................................................................................................................4 Introduction.................................................................................................................................5 Research Methods.......................................................................................................................6 Results.........................................................................................................................................8 Criminal Background Check Process..........................................................................................8 Cost.................................................................................................................8 Effectiveness...................................................................................................9 Legality...........................................................................................................9 Undercover Police Officers.........................................................................................................9 Cost...................................................................................................
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...Chapter 1 The World of Project Management This chapter introduces the topic of project management. Projects are defined as temporary endeavors undertaken to create a unique product or service. The chapter points out that recent interest in project management is based on a recognition that many organizational tasks do not fit neatly into business-as-usual. The significant differences between project management and general management are overviewed. The three interrelated objectives of budget, schedule, and specifications are also introduced. In addition, two alternative project life cycles are presented and the importance of understanding this distinction is discussed. Also included in the chapter is a discussion of project selection including both non-numeric and numeric selection methods. The chapter concludes with a discussion of the aggregate project plan and an overview of the organization of the remainder of the text. Cases and Readings Some cases appropriate to the subject of this chapter are: Harvard: 9-688-040 Boeing 767: From Concept to Production (A); 9-688-041 (B) 9-888-519 Videotape. This 19 page best-selling case shows how a massive corporation manages the evolution of an enormously complex and risky project from conception to manufacture. The 1-page B case is a supplement update about whether Boeing needs to change the way they manage such projects. The video shows the assembly process of an airplane, compressing 10 weeks of work into ten...
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...University of Tennessee, Knoxville Trace: Tennessee Research and Creative Exchange University of Tennessee Honors Thesis Projects University of Tennessee Honors Program 5-2011 Facebook and College Students: Is Marketing Effective Kelsey Craig University of Tennessee, kcraig4@utk.edu Follow this and additional works at: http://trace.tennessee.edu/utk_chanhonoproj Part of the E-Commerce Commons, Entrepreneurial and Small Business Operations Commons, and the Marketing Commons Recommended Citation Craig, Kelsey, "Facebook and College Students: Is Marketing Effective" (2011). University of Tennessee Honors Thesis Projects. http://trace.tennessee.edu/utk_chanhonoproj/1468 This Dissertation/Thesis is brought to you for free and open access by the University of Tennessee Honors Program at Trace: Tennessee Research and Creative Exchange. It has been accepted for inclusion in University of Tennessee Honors Thesis Projects by an authorized administrator of Trace: Tennessee Research and Creative Exchange. For more information, please contact trace@utk.edu. Facebook and College Students: Is Marketing Effective? By: Kelsey Craig Advisor: Mark Collins ABSTRACT: With the revolution of marketing from print to digital media, internet marketing and advertising continues to evolve. Social media marketing on social networking communities creates the ideal environment for marketers to target particular markets. Facebook provides many modes and resources for...
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...Budgetary Research Review Vol. 4 (1) www.buget-finante.ro Goods and Services Tax (GST) in India: prospect for states by Mohd. Azam Khan1 and Nagma Shadab2 Department of Economics, Aligarh Muslim University, India Abstract: Goods and services tax (GST) is a broad based and a single comprehensive tax levied at every stage of the production and distribution chain with applicable set-off in respect of the tax remitted at previous stages. It is basically a tax on final consumption integrates the union excise duties, custom duties, services tax and state VAT. Presently around 140 countries have adopted the GST pattern, including India. The GST would be beneficial for the consumers as it reduces the final burden of taxation. For Government it leads the reduction of tax compliance efforts and administrative costs and for business units it leads transparency, complete set-off and removal of cascading effect of taxation. It is in this background that the present paper tries to explain the significance of GST in India and its prospects for states to generate revenue and ensure transparency in tax structure. This paper is organized into seven sections. Section two presents justification for dual structure of GST in India. The third part presents the rate structure under GST work in India. The fourth segment is concerned with the working of GST in India. The fifth part shows the international experiences of GST at state level in India. The seventh and final part is related to conclusion...
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...there -- and they face little tax anywhere else. Forest cut its U.S. tax bill by more than a third last year with a technique known as transfer pricing, a method that carves an estimated $60 billion a year from the U.S. Treasury as it combines tax planning and alchemy. (See an interactive graphic on Forest’s tax strategy here.) Transfer pricing lets companies such as Forest, Oracle Corp., Eli Lilly & Co. and Pfizer Inc., legally avoid some income taxes by converting sales in one country to profits in another -- on paper only, and often in places where they have few employees or actual sales. After an economic bailout in which the U.S. government lent, spent or guaranteed as much as $12.8 trillion, the Obama administration faces a projected budget deficit of $1.5 trillion this year. In February, the administration said it would target some of the techniques companies use to shift profits offshore -- part of a package intended to raise $12 billion a year over the coming decade. That’s only about a fifth of the $60 billion in annual U.S. tax revenue lost to...
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...Green Update for Revised Edition: Hungry for Choices Part III: My Pants: Made in Cambodia Chapter 12: Labor Day Chapter 13: Year Zero Chapter 14: Those Who Wear Levi’s Chapter 15: Those Who Make Levi’s Chapter 16: Blue Jean Machine Chapter 17: Progress Chapter 18: Treasure and Trash Update for Revised Edition: The Faces of Crisis Part IV: My Flip-Flops: Made in China Chapter 19: PO’ed VP Chapter 20: Life at the Bottom Chapter 21: Growing Pains Chapter 22: The Real China Chapter 23: On a Budget Chapter 24: An All-American Chinese Walmart Chapter 25: The Chinese Fantasy Update for Revised Edition: Migration Part V: Made in America Chapter 26: For Richer, for Poorer Update for Revised Edition: Restarting, Again Chapter 27: Return to Fantasy Island Chapter 28: Amilcar’s Journey Chapter 29: An American Dream Chapter 30: Touron Goes Glocal Appendix A: Discussion Questions Appendix B: Note to Freshman Me Appendix C: Where Are You Teaching? Acknowledgments Copyright © 2012 by Kelsey Timmerman. All rights reserved. Published by John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, New Jersey. Published simultaneously in Canada. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, scanning, or otherwise, except as permitted under Section 107 or 108 of the 1976 United States...
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...Kelsey Bradbury/COMM 427 THE GROWING ROLE OF SOCIAL MEDIA IN TOURISM MARKETING In early November, marketing and public relations professionals from tourism industry offices across the United States attended the Second Annual Symposium on the Use of Social Media in the Tourism Industry (“Social Media Tourism Symposium,” 2011). The topic of the conference speaks to a growing trend in tourism promotion. Attendees focused on best practices for interacting with consumers via social media channels—an important skill, as social media is fast becoming one of the most vital, cost-efficient tools in tourism marketing. Effective use of social media has been proven to boost the number and length of visits, as well as visitor satisfaction and number of return visits. Destination Marketing Organizations and Tourism Marketing Strategy The tourism industry as a whole encompasses a variety of different service and consumer product industries. One type of tourism office is a destination marketing organization, or DMO. The goal of DMOs is to increase tourism to a particular city, state, or region. DMOs seek to achieve their goals by branding the area as a whole and advertising that brand; promoting specific institutions, restaurants, accommodations, attractions, activities, and events that take place in the area; and offering information and assistance to visitors. The Growth of Social Media Social media, which Merriam-Webster defines as “forms of electronic communication (as Web sites...
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...Surveillance Surveillance in Schools: Safety vs. Personal Privacy A project created by Kathy Davis, John Kelsey, Dia Langellier, Misty Mapes, and Jeff Rosendahl Project Home Security Cameras Metal Detectors Locker Searches Internet Tracking “Surveillance…n. close observation, esp. of a suspected person” [emphasis added] --Reader’s Digest Oxford Complete Wordfinder, 1996 In 1995, “The total number of crimes committed per year in or near the 85,000 U.S. public schools has been estimated at around 3 million” (Volokh & Snell, 1998). Our educational system is evolving all the time, and one factor that is constantly changing is the aggressiveness within our schools. In 1940, a survey of teachers revealed that the biggest behavioral problems they had from students were “talking out of turn, chewing gum, making noise, running in the halls, cutting in line, [violating] the dress code, [and] littering” (Volokh & Snell, 1998). In 1990, the toprated problems were “drug abuse, alcohol abuse, pregnancy, suicide, rape, robbery, [and] assault” (Volokh & Snell, 1998). In 1940, we had little need for surveillance beyond a teacher’s observation and intervention. Today, however, we live in a much more diverse society with troubled youth and adults who have easy access to weapons, drugs, pornography, etc., which have enabled students and staff to bring their violent and/or inappropriate tendencies into the naïve schools. What worked in 1940 (teacher-student confrontation) is not as realistic...
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...Cyprus perceptions and concerns about UAVs utilization in National Guard Stelios Nikolaou Communication Department Cyprus, Nicosia steliosloukanikolaou@gmail.com Abstract- In today's age of modern technology, the trend for even larger and broader use of unmanned air vehicles is evident, especially in the military sector. These modern designed aircrafts, autonomously or remote controlled, have already shown that they will play an important role in the future global environment. The research process which is used for describing methodology was grounded theory, with structure elicitation technique. Qualitative data were collected by a questionnaire, which referred to a number of 16 people who have Cypriot citizenship. This research, answered in questions such as: should Cyprus participate with drone procurement? Furthermore, what will be the reactions and concerns of civilians when they inform about the existence of this advanced program in National Guard and that can be used as a weapon? The existing army equipment is modern or obsolete? Must National Guard upgrade the existing weapons and communication equipment? Evaluating the results of the questionnaire it can be said that the majority of the participants believe that the current military equipment is not appropriate or high advanced and it needs to be upgraded with weapons and communication systems. Most of the participants supported the idea of introducing UAVs in the Cyprus army. Additionally...
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...A REPORT ON MOBILE MARKETING Submitted by Aatish Khemka INTRODUCTION Mobile marketing is marketing on or with a mobile device, such as a cell phone. One definition comes from marketing professor Andreas Kaplan who defines mobile marketing as "any marketing activity conducted through a ubiquitous network to which consumers are constantly connected using a personal mobile device". Within this definition, Kaplan uses two variables, i.e. the degree of consumer knowledge and the trigger of communication, to differentiate between four types of mobile marketing applications: Strangers, Victims, Groupies, and Patrons. Mobile marketing can also be defined as “the use of the mobile medium as a means of marketing communication”, the “distribution of any kind of promotional or advertising messages to customer through wireless networks”. More specific definition is the following: “using interactive wireless media to provide customers with time and location sensitive, personalized information that promotes goods, services and ideas, thereby generating value for all stakeholders". Mobile marketing is commonly known as wireless marketing, although viewing advertising on a computer connected to a home local area network is not considered to be mobile marketing. Mobile Marketing involves communicating with the consumer via cellular (or mobile) device, either to send a simple marketing message, to introduce them to...
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