...ACC/280-Week 2 team assignment- Sandy’s portion (Amounts in millions) What were the company’s two largest current liabilities at the end of its 2 most recent annual reporting periods? Wal-Mart’s two largest current liabilities at the end of its two most recent annual reporting periods were: 2012-Accounts payable totaling $36,608 and Accrued liabilities totaling $18,154. 2011-Accounts payable totaling $33,676 and Accrued liabilities totaling $18,701. Accrued liabilities consisted of the following: Accrued wages and benefits, self-insurance and other. (1)Accrued wages and benefits include accrued wages, salaries, vacation, bonuses and other incentive plans. (2) Self-insurance consists of all insurance-related liabilities, such as workers’ compensation, general liability, vehicle liability, property and employee-related health care benefits. (3) Other accrued liabilities consists of various items such as accrued taxes, maintenance, utilities, advertising, interest, and severance liabilities. What were the company’s total liabilities at the end of its 2 most recent annual reporting periods? The company’s total liabilities at the end of fiscal year 2012 totaled: $62,300. For fiscal year 2011, Wal-Mart’s current liabilities totaled $58,603. Other liabilities that were included in this total were: Accrued income taxes, long-term debt due within one year, Obligations under capital leases due within one year and current liabilities of discontinued operations. ...
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...Week 2 Exercise One - Geometry Complete the following in your team meeting and be prepared to report your results and discussions to the class: Complete parts 1–5 from the Group Activity at the end of section 2.3 in Ch. 2 of the text. Discuss any concept that a team member is having a difficult time understanding. Examine the importance and applicability of this week’s concepts to each team member and to society in general. Plan and work on team assignments or projects. Give a brief update to the class in which you present your team’s solutions from this exercise. Be sure to describe how this exercise applied to the weekly concepts. Prepare to update your instructor on your team’s progress on Learning Team assignments. Exercise 1. Directions: Form a group of 2 to 4 people. Select someone to record the group’s responses for this activity. All members of the group should work cooperatively to answer the questions. If your instructor asks for your results, each member of the group should be prepared to respond. Exercises 1–5: In this set of exercises you are to use your mathematical problem-solving skills to find the thickness of a piece of aluminum foil without measuring it directly. Area of a Rectangle The area of a rectangle equals length times width. Find the area of a rectangle with length 12 centimeters and width 11 centimeters. Area of a Rectangle: A=LW L= 12 and W= 11 A= 12 * 11 A = 132 centimeters Volume of a Box The volume of a box equals...
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...“Describe three ways in which teamwork can be of benefit to organizations (give examples) and give two benefits that individuals might gain from working in teams” Cohen and Bailey (1997:241) defined team work as: - “ A team is a collection of individuals who are independent in their tasks, who share responsibility for outcomes, who see themselves and who are seen by others as an intact social entity embedded in one or more larger systems” (cited in King and Lawley 2013). Teamwork is a vital part of running an organization, which is why most of the companies encourage employees to attend team building trainings. The collaborative work is considered to be beneficial for both organizations and individuals, who participate. Firstly, companies benefit from a larger generation of innovative ideas by encouraging collaboration working between employees. Stella Cotrell (2013) identifies that by encouraging people to work together, the group will benefit from different points of view that build up from dissimilar experiences and backgrounds. Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak are one of the most wellknown examples of successful teamwork, where “the childlike inventor and the mercurial, product-crazy shark”(Strauss 2012) got together and built a revolutionary tech company, which is considered to be leading company amongst direct customer related businesses. Moreover, it is believed that encouragement of teamwork reduces labor turnover and at the end improved retention. Vroom...
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...Bangladesh The entire presentation is hyperlinked Brandwitz 1 Organizer: IBACC (IBA) Team Members Rounds 4 4 Prize Money BDT 1,50,000 Brandwitz 1 Organizer: IBACC (IBA) Round One Round Two Round Three Round Four Case Solving Product Branding Practical Marketing Idea Branding 1 Brandwitz Organizer: IBACC (IBA) TEAMS ROUND TEAMS ONE ROUND TWO 24 48 24 TEAMS ROUND TEAMS THREE GRAND 4 12 4 12 1 TEAMS TEAMS TEAMS PROCEED TO ROUND PROCEED TO ROUND PROCEED TO GRAND THREE FINALE TWO FINALE TEAM CHAMPION Socio Camp 2 Organizer: NSUSSC (NSU) Team Members Rounds 4 3 Prize Money BDT 75,000 Socio Camp 2 Organizer: NSUSSC (NSU) Round One Round Two Round Three Social Case Awareness Campaign Awareness Campaign Ad Maker 3 Organizer: NSU YES (NSU) Team Members Rounds 3 4 Prize Money BDT 1,00,000 Ad Maker 3 Organizer: NSU YES (NSU) Round One Round Two Round Three Round Four Online Submission TVC & Branding TVC & Branding TVC & Branding Masters of Ideation 4 Organizer: NSU YES (NSU) Team Members Rounds 4 4 Prize Money BDT 1,35,000 Masters of Ideation 4 Organizer: NSU YES (NSU) Round One Round Two Round Three Round Four Case Solving Case Solving Surprise Round Product ...
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...questionnaire indicates that Wall Street English is a highly competitive corporation and the team leaders in Wall Street English always have positive image on course counselors. Among these course counselors, their attitudes toward their teams and leaders are different. People who think their team is highly competitive with strict requirements on their performances occupy 40% and those who hold views that their teams are full of cooperation constitutes 36%. Then, Wall Street English are regarded as a flexible and individual risky company that no one among these 50 course counselors thinks their achievements are invariable. For leaders, almost every course counselor in the same team provides their respects to their leaders. (5-6) In Wall Street English, the communication within the same team are sufficient that more than half of course counselors think they have enough communications with their colleagues. This is because there is a meeting held every Monday in each team. In this meeting, the team leader will find out the difficulties in the process of selling their courses to customers through talking with course counselors so that they can improve their performance more efficiently. With such an excellent working condition, more than 80% of course counselors they do not have conflicts frequently and most of time, they can avoid conflicts. However, this situation only happens in the same team....
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...For the exclusive use of Y. Zou, 2016. UV1710 Rev. June 17, 2009 THE CRADDOCK CUP Jose Rivaldo shuffled through the papers on his desk and sighed. As the general manager of the Craddock Youth Soccer League (CYSL), Rivaldo was committed to providing highquality soccer activities to boys and girls in the area. In addition to managing regular CYSL operations, Rivaldo was heavily involved in putting on a regional soccer tournament, the Craddock Cup, which brought approximately 32 premier high school soccer teams from throughout the region each May. This year’s tournament, like its predecessors, had been considered a great success by players, their families, and the local community. The weather had been beautiful, the referees had been fair, and the local hotels and restaurants had profited from the influx of people. Nevertheless, Rivaldo knew that the Craddock Cup was in trouble. Tournament expenses continued to rise, while corporate sponsorships remained difficult to obtain. CYSL had founded the Craddock Cup, in part, to fund a field-acquisition program for the league, with the expectation that the tournament would generate at least $6,000 annually toward that goal. Unfortunately, with tournament profits averaging a loss of almost $4,000 a year, CYSL’s board of directors was beginning to express frustration with the lack of profits generated by the Craddock Cup. Rivaldo knew the Craddock Cup was in danger of being canceled, and that he risked losing his job...
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...learned about NPDA debate is the concept of the counter case and the role the two contending teams play in the debate. The debate has two rival teams who discuss their arguments and ideas about the resolution. The concept of the counter case is a central part in the NPDA debate where the proposition team affirms the motion presented to the debaters, and the opposition team, which opposes the resolution and/or the case, brought out by the proposition team. In other words,the NPDA debate is made up of two competing teams who represent two different sides of an issue. The proposing team defends the motion, presented to the debaters laying out the facts it has supporting the motion and providing an argument that validates the motion. Consequently, the opposing team can then make good use of the concept of the counter case. This is where the opposing team refutes or challenges the resolution while at the same time expressing their views that disagree with the proposition teams plan and idea (Rainbolt, & Dwyer, 2011). The opposing team debates on the issue differently and challenges the propositions suggestion. The opposition team responds to the proponent’s statements and puts into consideration the other side of the debate trying to sound more persuasive and reasonable. The counter argument presented by the opposing team thus provides reasonable doubt to the proposition team’s opinion. The proposition team on the other hand has to be ready to explain out how the resolution is true...
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...Dysfunctional behaviours that provided learning opportunities. Question 3 0.2 out of 0.2 points High performing teams, according to Druskat and Wolff (2001), exhibit high levels of: [Three of the answers are correct.] b. Cooperation. c. Collaboration. d. Participation. Question 4 0.2 out of 0.2 points According to Borgatti (2004), what are some key things a facilitator should do to be successful? [Hint: Read Guide for Working in Teams by Borgatti (2004)] [Three of the answers are correct.] Selected Answers: a. Focus the team on the task. d. Notice when someone is upset. e. Defend individuals from personal attack. Question 5 0.2 out of 0.2 points Which of the following are key steps to working in teams? [Hint: Read Guide for Working in Teams by Borgatti (2004)] [Four of the answers are correct.] Selected Answers: a. Process. c. Getting to know one another. e. Vision. f. Structure. Question 6 0.034 out of 0.2 points Why, according to the Working Positively in Teams and Peer Evaluation Video, should peer evaluation be used? [Two of the answers are correct.] Selected Answers: a. Encourage fair workload distribution. c. Recognise contribution to team dynamics. Question 7 0.2 out of 0.2 points...
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...The National Football League (NFL) is a professional American football league composed of 32 teams divided equally between the National Football Conference (NFC) and the American Football Conference (AFC). The highest level of professional football in the world,[4] the NFL runs a 17-week regular season from the week after Labor Day to the week after Christmas, with each team playing sixteen games and having one bye week. Out of the league's 32 teams, six (four division winners and two wild-card teams) from each conference compete in the NFL playoffs, a single-elimination tournament culminating in the Super Bowl, played between the champions of the NFC and AFC. Most games are played on Sundays, with games regularly held on Mondays and Thursdays. The NFL was formed on August 20, 1920 as the American Professional Football Conference; the league changed its name to the American Professional Football Association (APFA) on September 17, 1920 and changed their name to the National Football League on June 24, 1922 after spending the 1920 and 1921 season as the APFA. In 1966, the NFL agreed to merge effective 1970 with the rival American Football League (AFL); the first Super Bowl was held at the end of that same season in January 1967. Today, the NFL has the highest average attendance (67,591) of any professional sports league in the world[5] and is the most popular sports league in the United States. The Super Bowl is among the biggest club sporting events in the world[6] and individual...
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...Team Collapse at Richard, Wood, Hulme, LLP EXECUTIVE SUMMARY SITUATION ANALYSIS Established in 1998 by Chris Richard, Gemma Wood and Lauren Hulme, Richard, Wood and Hulme LLP (“RWH”) is a financial services firm offering audit and taxation services to its clients with a mission of delivering excellent service and improving clients’ internal controls. Being a “team player” is an essential trait of a RHW employee because client audits are completed by teams. The client fee is flat, so the more efficiently and effectively the team members’ work, the higher the margins the firm realizes. The firm does not tolerate those with poor teamwork behaviors as evidenced by the fact that RWH has terminated only a handful of employees since the firm’s inception, and those terminations were mainly because those individuals were not able to work effectively in teams. The case is set in the Fall of 2008 at the height of the North American financial crisis and at a time when some of RWH’s clients are filing for bankruptcy and others are demanding reductions in audit fees. During this difficult economic time, RWH is opting to maintain existing staffing levels and as a result is losing money. However, RWH views an event scheduled to occur in 2011, the conversion of Canadian financial reporting standards from GAAP to IFRS, as an attractive business opportunity and wants to maintain its current staffing level to take advantage of this future opportunity. During the Fall of...
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...Knowledge Discovery for Characterizing Team Success or Failure in (A)RTS Games Pu Yang⇤ and David L. Roberts† Department of Computer Science North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina 27695–8206 Email: ⇤ pyang3@ncsu.edu, † robertsd@csc.ncsu.edu Abstract—When doing post-competition analysis in team games, it can be hard to figure out if a team members’ character attribute development has been successful directly from game logs. Additionally, it can also be hard to figure out how the performance of one team member affects the performance of another. In this paper, we present a data-driven method for automatically discovering patterns in successful team members’ character attribute development in team games. We first represent team members’ character attribute development using time series of informative attributes. We then find the thresholds to separate fast and slow attribute growth rates using clustering and linear regression. We create a set of categorical attribute growth rates by comparing against the thresholds. If the growth rate is greater than the threshold it is categorized as fast growth rate; if the growth rate is less than the threshold it is categorized as slow growth rate. After obtaining the set of categorical attribute growth rates, we build a decision tree on the set. Finally, we characterize the patterns of team success in terms of rules which describe team members’ character attribute growth rates. We present an evaluation...
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...The global risk of hurricane disaster is increasing due to human activity. Populations are concentrating along the world's coastlines, particularly in large urban areas. Improved forecasting and emergency response have lowered hurricane casualty rates, but as more people and infrastructure move into harm's way, storms are likely to become more destructive. The primary cause of hurricane-related fatalities over the past 30 years has not been storm surge or winds, but inland flooding. Most hurricanes produce rainfall of 6 to 12 inches (15 to 30 centimeters), and slow-moving storms can be particularly dangerous for inland residents. Hurricane Katrina of the 2005 Atlantic hurricane season was the costliest natural disaster, as well as one of the five deadliest hurricanes, in the history of the United States. Among recorded Atlantic hurricanes, it was the sixth strongest overall. At least 1,836 people died in the actual hurricane and in the subsequent floods, making it the deadliest U.S. hurricane since the 1928 Okeechobee hurricane and Hurricane Andrew in 1992. Hurricane Katrina formed over the Bahamas on August 23, 2005 and crossed southern Florida as a moderate Category 1 hurricane, causing some deaths and flooding there before strengthening rapidly in the Gulf of Mexico. The storm weakened before making its second landfall as a Category 3 storm on the morning of Monday, August 29 in southeast Louisiana. It caused severe destruction along the Gulf coast from central Florida to...
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...THE SATERA TEAM CASE NOTES PROBLEM STATEMENT The main problem in this case is the growing disagreement between two senior members of the team which is affecting the overall team performance and the working environment. Both the members are very skilled but have very different working styles, and hence most of the time they find it difficult to get to a common ground. Following are some problems which the Satera team project is facing right now • Relationship conflict between two senior mechanical engineers of the team. • This conflict is destroying team cohesion • Lack of communication among team members • Team as a whole is failing to meet the deadline. OB THEORIES Diversity, cohesion and productivity: The Satera team consists of people who are very skilled and have a different approach towards every situation. The issue in this team is the lack of cohesion among the team members. The two senior mechanical engineers of the team - Ira Lovas and David Bennett, have a very different style of working and hence rarely agree with each other. This lack of harmony among these two members is increasing and creating an unfavorable working environment for other team members. The productivity of the whole team is adversely affected and the team is failing to meet the deadlines. Both the senior engineers are equally required in this team for this project and hence it is important to keep them both in the team. Mr. Pinto who is leading the team seems to have an equal amount of trust...
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...The National Football League (NFL) is a professional American football league composed of 32 teams divided equally between the National Football Conference (NFC) and the American Football Conference (AFC). The highest level of professional football in the world,[4] the NFL runs a 17-week regular season from the week after Labor Day to the week after Christmas, with each team playing sixteen games and having one bye week. Out of the league's 32 teams, six (four division winners and two wild-card teams) from each conference compete in the NFL playoffs, a single-elimination tournament culminating in the Super Bowl, played between the champions of the NFC and AFC. Most games are played on Sunday afternoons; some games are also played on Mondays and Thursdays during the regular season. There are games on Saturdays during the last few weeks of the regular season and the first two playoff weekends. The NFL was formed on August 20, 1920, as the American Professional Football Conference; the league changed its name to the American Professional Football Association (APFA) on September 17, 1920, and changed its name to the National Football League on June 24, 1922, after spending the 1920 and 1921 seasons as the APFA. In 1966, the NFL agreed to merge with the rival American Football League (AFL), effective 1970; the first Super Bowl was held at the end of that same season in January 1967. Today, the NFL has the highest average attendance (67,591) of any professional sports league in...
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...his team, Dave has fifteen members, nine of whom have been in the company for more than two years. In order to meet a Monday deadline, Dave’s team takes the computers from the finance department over to their department on the weekend, and fails to return them before the finance department realizes the computers were missing. On Monday, when Alex was notified and had investigated what had happened to the computers, he called Dave into his office. When Dave explained to Alex what the motives for his team’s actions were, Alex understood, yet was concerned of the team’s behavior. Therefore, he decided to have a meeting with Dave regarding the events. While in the meeting, Alex confirmed that Dave’s team was having some internal issues that were affecting their performance. Consequently, Alex has to make a decision on how this issues could be solved. Framing the Decision Statement Alex makes use of his critical thinking skills for analyzing Dave and his team’s behavior with the purpose of finding the root cause of the issues they are facing. Seeking more information about how Dave and his team function, Alex takes Dave to dinner where he was able to analyze Dave’s behavior and gather more information about his team. He recognized that it was important for Dave to do well at his job, and that his team had some communication difficulties. Alex instructed Dave to do an activity with his team outside of the work environment where old members would have to team up...
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