...BGI COURSE SYLLABUS |Course Number and Title |MGT 553 Finance, Accounting, and the Triple Bottom Line I | | | | |Instructors |Kate Lancaster, PhD, CPA | | |kate.lancaster@bgi.edu | | |(W) 805.756.2922, (H-MB) 805.772.7452 | | |(H-BI) 206.780.1015, (C) 805.440.4618 | | |Toni Smith, PhD, CPA | | |toni.smith@bgi.edu | | |603.659.5108 | | |Brian Setzler, MBA, CPA | | ...
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...Navigate to the My Career Plan in Phoenix Career Services. Complete the Career Plan Building Activity: Work Culture Preferences. Note. Access to Career Plan Building Activity: Work Culture Preferences is only available after you complete the Career Plan Building Activity: Competencies. Write a paper of no more than 350 words discussing the results of your Career Plan Building Activity: Work Culture Preferences and Competencies. Reflect on your results. How can knowing your ideal work culture help you in developing strategic and operational plans to achieve organizational goals? Which competencies are essential to conducting a strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats (SWOT) analysis? How do your competencies relate to the essential competencies for conducting a SWOT analysis? Click the Assignment Files tab to submit your assignment. 3- You have decided to pursue an MBA degree either to further your career, start a new career, or achieve a personal goal. In this program, you will study the functional areas of business. Use the MBA Overview and Effective Research and Writing at University of Phoenix Modules you reviewed to complete this assignment. Write a paper that analyzes the role of a manager within the functional areas of business: Required elements: No more than1050 words Two articles, including at least one peer-reviewed article, from the University Library cited in your paper to support your...
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...Overview Features of the Web – Based Library System a. Identified users of the system i. Student of various universities ii. Library Staff * Library Administrator * Assistant Librarian Core features for library staff * Library Administrator * Adds articles * Updates articles * Deletes articles * Disables user * Verify user details * Set user restrictions * Address user complaints * Assistant Librarian * Cataloging articles * View reports of viewed articles from system * Update Article Status Core features for student * Create user account * Update user account * login * Search for an article on the system * Accept to conform to copyright law protecting article * Access article * Log complain or feedback * Unsubscribe b. System features * Database storage * User account details * Student details * Staff details * Information on articles – title, author, fees, source * Copyright laws of each country associated with an article * Search engine for searching for articles * Link to other university libraries * Reports on user activity * Stimulus and response activities * Require conformity to copyright law for each article searched * Assign privileges to various users per role * Check for account validity upon login Question 1 1.1. Prototyping Prototyping allows the systems developer access to a quick and promptly...
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...Assessment 1 Assessment Assessment scheme The assessment for this course consists of 1 set of discussion board exercises and 2 assignments. Description Discussion board activities Marketing audit Strategic marketing plan Marks out of 10 40.00 50.00 Wtg(%) Due date 10 40.00 50.00 Weeks 1–4 Week 5 – 12 December 2011 Week 11 – 23 January 2012 Submission details For this course students must submit assignments electronically via EASE. Instructions to assist students in this process are available under the assignment icon on their StudyDesk. No assignments will be accepted via email or hard copy. No exceptions. Assignment guidelines University academic regulations govern assignment handling, late submission penalties and academic misconduct. Assessment policies can be found on the USQ web site at http://policy.usq.edu.au/portal/custom/detail/assessment/. Academic misconduct policies can be found at http://www.usq.edu.au/glossary/acmisconduct. Return of assignments Assignments submitted by the due date will be marked and returned to you, together with appropriate feedback, normally within three weeks of those assignments being sent to a marker by the University. Late submission of assignments If you submit assignments after the due date without extenuating circumstances then a penalty of 5% of the assigned mark will apply for each working day late up to a maximum of ten working days at which time a mark of zero can be recorded for that assignment. Assignments will be...
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...My Career Plan in Phoenix Career Services. Complete the Career Plan Building Activity: Work Culture Preferences. Note. Access to Career Plan Building Activity: Work Culture Preferences is only available after you complete the Career Plan Building Activity: Competencies. Write a paper of no more than 350 words discussing the results of your Career Plan Building Activity: Work Culture Preferences and Competencies. Reflect on your results. How can knowing your ideal work culture help you in developing strategic and operational plans to achieve organizational goals? Which competencies are essential to conducting a strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats (SWOT) analysis? How do your competencies relate to the essential competencies for conducting a SWOT analysis? Click the Assignment Files tab to submit your assignment. 3- You have decided to pursue an MBA degree either to further your career, start a new career, or achieve a personal goal. In this program, you will study the functional areas of business. Use the MBA Overview and Effective Research and Writing at University of Phoenix Modules you reviewed to complete this assignment. Write a paper that analyzes the role of a manager within the functional areas of business: Required elements: No more than1050 words Two articles, including at least one peer-reviewed article, from the University Library cited in your paper to support your writing Format your paper consistent with...
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...economic and capabilities of an business or organization. The driven factor behind the overall performance in the organization’s technical system and the social system is the personnel that maintain and utilize the systems. Socio-technical systems major components include hardware, software, physical surrounding, people, procedures, laws and regulations, data and data structures. The personnel component of the socio-technical system is the major deciding factor that will determine the overall success of any social technical system. In Rizzio (2005) article, “Designing complex socio-technical systems”. His socio-technical approach to system analysis and design acknowledge the fact that social, technical and organizational aspects have to be understood in their mutual interaction. This particular approach identifies the mediated activity as the basic unit of analysis which links technology and cultural context as one. In Zia (2011) article she explains the social of the socio-technical systems as the habitual attitudes of...
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...What Do Faculty Need? Academic Library Resources and Services That Increase Research Productivity1 Ethelene Whitmire Abstract This paper describes a theoretical model of the relationship between faculty research productivity and academic library resources and services and a proposed empirical study that will reveal which academic library resources and services contribute to increased faculty research productivity. Introduction According to the latest available figures from the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) Academic Library Survey (ALS), during the fiscal year 1998 the 3,658 academic libraries in the United States spent a total of $4.6 billion dollars on operating expenditures, held a total of 878.9 million volumes in their collections, and had 175.4 million circulation transactions (U.S. Department of Education, 2001). What is the impact of these figures on faculty research productivity? Higher education institutions have to make decisions about the allocation of limited funds among a number of programs. Academic library administrators need to be able to make a case to Ethelene Whitmire is Assistant Professor at the School of Library and Information Studies, University of Wisconsin (Madison), email: ewhitmire@facstaff.wisc.edu. &'%$$"# !¥£¨©§¤¥¦£¤¡¢ institutional decision makers and education policy makers in order to determine appropriate levels of funding and be able to make more informed decisions about the distribution of the allocations...
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...In order to develop a good strategy it is essential that you know your strengths and weaknesses, i.e. what it is you are good at. An internal analysis is “a process of identifying and evaluating an organizations’ specific characteristics, including its resources, capabilities, and core competencies” (p. 106, Coulter 2005). Internal analysis is important in order to find out where improvements are needed and what you could exploit more in order to gain competitive advantage. Internal analysis takes an inside-out perspective compared to the outside-in perspective of the external analysis. The question here is what you can do yourself. Other relevant questions are if the resources and competencies you possess fit the opportunities in the environment, and if the company can exploit these resources and competencies in new ways. There are three perspectives on how to gain competitive advantage through internal strategic analysis. The resource based view (RBV), the competence based view (CBV), and the dynamic capabilities view. The resource based view There are several types of resources that a company possesses; physical resources, human resources, financial resources, intellectual capital, threshold resources, and unique resources. The RBV is based on the view that these resources are unique if they create sustained competitive advantage, and that a company’s strategy should be based on these resources. For a resource to be unique, it has to possess four attributes; it needs to...
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...Library of Congress Relevance to School Libraries Donna Smith University of North Texas SLIS 5208 Library of Congress Relevance to School Libraries Introduction The Library of Congress (LOC) plays a momentous role in acquirement, distribution, and preservation of America’s historical and current documents like books, journals, political manuscripts (like the declaration of independence rough draft), government publications, map, films, sound recording, photographic images, and films. LOC was established in America in the first decade of the nineteenth century to act as a researching facility for inquiries made by Congress (Santella, 2006). However, after many years the facility has grown to become a leading institution that encourages reading and literacy among students and the general public. LOC is pertinent in encouraging research of critical information among students by improving information opportunities accessible to students so that they can utilize their potential present times. The twenty-first century is faced with intricate life and work setting and for this reasons, learning and innovation skills have emerged as the qualities that separate students who are prepared to face these challenges and those who are not. The role played by the LOC is evidenced by U.S integral and superb government structure that has existed for years and rated as the best in the world. LOC success can act as a model for...
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...Changes in work and the workplace o Building marketable proficiencies o Projecting professionalism ITT Technical Institute Career Services Resources o Targeting job descriptions o Transferable skills Crafting a Resume 10. Skills and Techniques of a Successful Student Strategies for independent learning Learning styles Note-taking strategies Test-taking techniques © ITT Educational Services, Inc. All Rights Reserved. [2] 10/29/2013 GS1145 Strategies for the Technical Professional Syllabus Critical thinking Problem solving Basic research skills o ITT Tech Virtual Library o Web searches o Citing sources Time management Working in teams COURSE LEARNING OBJECTIVES By the end of this course, you should be able to: 1. Gather relevant information using ITT Technical Institute resources, such as student email, ITT Tech Virtual Library, and ITT Tech Student Portal. 2. Perform self-analysis on the areas that impact success in academic and professional life. 3. Apply strategies that help achieve success in academic and professional life. 4. Use productivity software to create various types of documents. 5....
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...5/14/2016 Strategy Implementation Meaning and Steps in Implementing a Strategy Search MSG Home (index.html) / Library (allsubjects.htm) / Marketing (allsubjects.htm#marketing) / Strategic Management (strategicmanagementarticles.htm) / Strategy Implementation Meaning and Steps in Implementing a Strategy Strategy Implementation Meaning and Steps in Implementing a Strategy Strategy implementation is the translation of chosen strategy into organizational action so as to achieve strategic goals and objectives. Strategy implementation is also defined as the manner in which an organization should develop, utilize, and amalgamate organizational structure, control systems, and culture to follow strategies that lead to competitive advantage and a better performance. Organizational structure allocates special value developing tasks and roles to the employees and states how these tasks and roles can be correlated so as maximize efficiency, quality, and customer satisfactionthe pillars of competitive advantage. But, organizational structure is not sufficient in itself to motivate the employees. An organizational control system is also required. This control system equips managers with motivational incentives for employees as well as feedback on employees and organizational performance. Organizational culture refers to the specialized collection of values, attitudes, norms and beliefs shared by organizational members and groups. ...
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...Programme: MSc Hons International Hospitality Management Course Title: DEVELOPING AND MONITORING CORPORATE STRATEGY Course Code: Prerequisite/s: Co-requisite/s: MNGT 903 Nil Nil Scheduled for trimester: Credit hours: Nominal Contact Hours: Three 3 36 20 Hours Breakdown: Lectures, Tut/Sem 36 Self-Managed Learning, Project/s & Assignment/s 62 Total Course hours: 120 Lecturer/s: Dr. Ivan Ninov Lecturer’s email address Rationale: As a discipline and as a business practice strategic management is playing a vital role within the modern hospitality industry. Strategy is concerned with the long term direction and aspirations of the organization and is based upon solid market and business research and an understanding of the organizations capabilities and potential. Strategic planning is however of little organizational use without the effective management of the achievement of the strategic intent. This module provides managers with the skill sets to engage with the strategic planning process and then to manage and monitor the achievement of these goals. Directed Learning: Exam: 2 Tel Ext: 5149 ivan.ninov@emiratesacademy.edu Teaching Philosophy During this course my main goal as a teacher will be to stimulate students’ learning, thinking, and inquisitiveness. Students’ critical thinking, analytical and problem-solving skills will be further developed through challenging tasks and projects. Students will not only learn the knowledge and the theories behind strategic...
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...management (14th ed.). Mason, OH: South-Western Cengage Learning. (Note: This is a textbook uniquely created for Strayer and can only be purchased through the Strayer Bookstore. The contents of the book differ from the national title.) Tabbush, V. C., Trueman, B., Levine, D. Opler, T., Brandwein, A. C., Hanna, M. D., & Baran, R. J. (2011). MBA primer: Finance 3.0 instructor-led printed access card (3rd ed.). Mason, OH: Cengage Learning. Supplemental Resources CNN Money. (2013). General format. Retrieved from http://money.cnn.com/ Criniti, A. (2013). The necessity of finance. Philadelphia, PA: Criniti Publishing Company. Fidelity Investments, Inc. SWOT analysis. (2013). Fidelity Investments, Inc. SWOT Analysis, 1-8. Hasseltoft, H. (2012). Stocks, bonds, and long-run consumption risks. Journal of Financial & Quantitative Analysis, 47(2), 309-332. doi: 10.1017/S0022109012000075 Kumar, A. (2009). Who gambles in the stock market? Journal of Finance, 64(4), 1889-1933. Learn About Finance. (2013). General format. Retrieved from http://learn-about-finance.com/ Why Learn Finance. (2013). General format. Retrieved from https://twitter.com/WhyLearnFinance/financelist © 2013 Strayer University. All Rights...
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...Cover Sheet Title The Effectiveness of Parental Involvement for Improving the Academic Performance of Elementary School Children Reviewers Chad Nye, PhD Jamie Schwartz, PhD Herb Turner, PhD Contact reviewer Chad Nye UCF Center for Autism & Related Disabilities 12001 Science Drive, Suite 145 Orlando, FL 32826 Phone : 407-737-2566 FAX : 407-737-2571 email : cnye@mail.ucf.edu 1 1.0 BACKGROUND The role of parents has long been thought to be centrally important to the academic achievement of their children. However, this role had neither been analyzed nor systematically studied using an experimental design until the 1960’s. The evaluation of the Head Start Program in the United States (Coleman, Campbell, Hobson, McPartland, Mod, Weinfeld, & York, 1966) fostered a national focus on outcomes related to parental involvement by suggesting a substantial relationship between parental involvement in their child’s education and their child’s success in academic domains. Subsequent studies have been presented which support the findings from Coleman, et al. (Duff & Adams, 1981; Henderson, 1987; 1988). Even so, other studies have reported either mixed or no significant differences between experimental and control groups when measuring the effect of parental involvement on student achievement (Griffith, 1996; Heller, & Fantuzzo, 1993; Henry, 1974; Keith, Reimers, Ferman, Pottenbaum, & Aubrey ,1986; Ryan, 1964; Searles, Lewis & Morrow, 1982). Some of the discrepancy across studies...
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...ETT4/5 - Effective Teaching Practices: Instructional Presentation and Follow-Up Course of Study Your competence for this course of study will be assessed as you complete the 10 tasks that make up the ETT4/5 performance assessment and the EIO4/5 objective assessment. Introduction Welcome to Effective Teaching Practices. Effective teaching depends on effective planning. Teachers need to devote systematic thought to what they want students to learn and to how students will best acquire knowledge and skills. You will learn how to select, develop, and evaluate instructional materials as well as strategies to use to accomplish specific learning goals. You will plan for effective instruction, and then implement those plans. Interactive teaching includes appropriately responding to all of the details that emerge during the presentation of lessons. Teaching is a process. Teachers plan lessons and then present them. They use information about the lesson presentation to make appropriate changes to improve both student achievement and lesson presentation. Outcomes and Evaluations There are 10 competencies covered by this course of study; they are listed in the "Competencies for Effective Teaching Practices: Instructional Presentation and Follow-Up (ETT4/5)" page. The list of competencies is a good overview of precisely what you will know and be able to do at the conclusion of this course of study and demonstrate through assessment. Teaching Dispositions Statement Please review the...
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