...Name____________ Time Management Stage one: Knowledge Time management - the analysis of how working hours are spent and the prioritization of tasks in order to maximize personal efficiency in the workplace Procrastination The discipline of time management is an important skill that needs to be learned early on. One of the biggest obstacles to overcome is procrastination. Procrastination is the problem of putting things off. We all seem to procrastinate on certain levels by making up excuses not to do something. The bad thing is that procrastination can be displayed in an every day lifestyle, which can effect us in achieving our goals. Procrastination can be the reason behind our failures Proverbs 10: 4 - 5 “Lazy hands make a man poor, but diligent hands bring wealth. He who gathers crops in summer is a wise son, but he who sleeps during harvest is a disgraceful son.” This verse contrasts being lazy with hard work. We need to live our lives for God by not being lazy but by working hard to serve Him. An unproductive lifestyle comes from procrastination Procrastination can lead to a bad lifestyle. It can result in getting bad grades, not showing your best work, and being unproductive. It is important to avoid making excuses and as you head towards your goal, you should pray that God gives you the persistence to achieve it without getting lazy. Underlying problems can be revealed by procrastination If we continue putting things off it can mean we...
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...Young Adult Prelog I can’t believe I finally received my logging journal, this entry may be a few hours early but no one has to know. Tomorrow is the big day, the fifteenth commemorative day of my birth and the first day of my five year transition to adulthood. It’s been such a long time coming! Everyone says I’m going to miss being a minor and living with my family but I don’t think so, this is going to be fun! All week I’ve been running back and forth with my parents to the young adult center, and finally all of my arrangements are in place. I’ve been assigned to the VERY BEST young adult housing unit (unit 5, the one with a POOL), I was chosen to receive agricultural training, and I even had my first nutrient analysis! I was so tired of that generic slop they feed the minors, but not any more! They...
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...in the whole process of the application’s development. But since we are talking about Apple, a giant in its field, I really do not want to believe the company’s developing team would make mistakes like not testing the products before its release or not communicating with potential customers to find their real needs. Rather I think it is the market factors and the competition with its rivals that make Apple have to do this. Ted Schadler, Vice President and Principal Analyst at Forrester Research, said on his twitter that “Apple had to do maps. It had no choice, really. The reason is simple: maps are the place where mobile matters most.”([1] http://www.forbes.com/sites/forrester/2012/09/21/why-apple-had-to-do-maps-a-mobile-engagement-analysis/) He summarized that on map applications, more information than merely location is embedded, which makes these apps more valuable. Also Caterina Fake, founder of Findery.com, once made a point that “Without location, mobile apps have no ground. They lose their context.” According to these comments, it seems that in the long term, Apple has no ways continuing its cooperation with Google on map apps, which happens to be the competitor with the biggest threats. From information perspective, it is also unwise to give Google continuous access to Apple’s user data or any product plan and strategy. Also, Shel Israel mentioned that Apple does not want to “partner with another mapping company; otherwise, it will once again be caught by the shorthairs...
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...department, controllers department (Accounts Receivable, Accounts Payable, Fixed Assets, General Ledger, Management reporting, external reporting), Inventory or cost accounting department Internal Audit and Financial Planning and Analysis. Typically accountants compile data and record transactions through journal entries. They also analyze results and make recommendations on process improvements. There are many different kinds of accountants...some of the careers overlap and some don't. Your level of education/experience will determine how much money you make. FINANCIAL/MANAGERIAL ACCOUNTING Staff accountants are employed in a wide variety of industries and perform a wide variety of tasks. Every business is different and every company needs at least one accountant to keep the books in order. Specializations could include inventory, cash, receivables/payables, payroll, purchasing, credit approval/collections, and the list goes on. Financial accounting focuses on "financial statements" which are required by the SEC, and Managerial accounting focuses on measuring costs. TAX/GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTING More than just processing tax returns for individuals, tax accountants have extensive knowledge about other entities: corporations, partnerships, non-profits, and so on. Many CPAs are assumed to be tax accountants because many small CPA firms do just that for their clientelle, but a CPA can basically have their pick of any accounting career they want. Additionally, the government needs...
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...Minimum(L, haOpen, haClose) The heikin-ashi method {heikin means "average" or "balance" in Japanese, while ashi means "foot" or "bar") is a visual technique that eliminates irregularities from a normal chart, offering a better picture of trends and consolidations. Just by looking at a candlestick chart created with this method, you get a good idea of the market's status and its strength. Take a look at the candlestick chart of Canon ADR in Figure 1A versus the heikin-ashi modified chart in Figure 1B. Which chart would you prefer to use? CALCULATION The "open," "high," "low," and "close" referred to are of the current bar. The prefix ha- indicates the corresponding heikin-ashi modified values. I have used daily data throughout this article, so one bar represents one trading day. Depending on the trading time frame, you may employ other data, such as intraday, weekly, or monthly. The value haOpen is always set to the midpoint of the body of the previous bar, while...
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...Environmental and Consumer Influences Analysis Name PSY/322 University of Phoenix Consumer influences, and the environment for which they are subject play an enormous part in monetary expenditure. Society to a very large degree is a product of its environment, as we see much of our behavior subject to what is seen as the normality of its geographical population. Even so, our actions do not occur without having made a conscious decision. According to Morse (2009), “Ultimately, we are products of both our environment and our own actions - it's a question of which has more control.” This behavior is directly affected by a large number of elements, and it can be clearly seen from country to country, but also from state to state within a single country. Such elements include societies perceptions, and attitudes, but also an individual’s age, personality, family upbringing, and social class. What a society sees as value ultimately drives its behavior, and its possible to find these elements taking hold in the life of the individual in simple forms. What must society have, and what does society really need? Such questions placed into a survey would bring primary analysis to a marketing team that seeks to sell its product to the population. Only imaginable is the idea that whatever the product; every household should have at least one. Home entertainment, and its seemingly never-ending innovation in product development falls to such a marketing venture. Does...
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...backbone of financial decisions in business. The basics of their operation lie in interest calculations that can be used to determine the value of money five years ago, today and even well into the future. These calculations can be tricky and are weighed with outside challenges that can affect them positively and negatively and give a good framework of when, where and how money should be invested and capital allocated. Time Value of Money It is generally stated that money today is worth more than the money of tomorrow. This simple statement of finance is the basis for understanding the time value of money and how it relates to opportunity costs, sunk costs, present and future values and discount rates. (Wilson, 2010). There are many factors which affect money, but predominantly inflation, risk, and opportunity loss are the factors which affect the time value of money and are the influences which directly affect a manager’s ability to understand and use financial information relating to present and future values to make sound decisions. Future Value (Fv) and Present Value (Pv) In economics, the time value of money is a concept that illustrates the difference in the value of a certain dollar sum over time and how it varies both positively and negatively. In simpler terms, it helps us decide if being paid today or at a future time is more desirable based on present and future values of the money to be received. (Petryni, 2012). Future Value (Fv) and Present Value (Pv) are...
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...him worth over $100 million after cashing in his options. Today Mr. Johnson has turned his expertise into running and operating Johnson Angel Investments where the mission is to “create a portfolio of new age companies that represent technologies of tomorrow”. Johnson’s Angel Investments performs a thorough and extensive analysis on every perspective company and is focus on technology investment opportunities that fit the following criteria: Viable Product or Service It is important that any product or service be feasible and proven before we invest. A good idea and minimal risk and great upside with the capital requirements very high, Johnsons Angel Investors will be happy to invest with other investors. Sustainable Competitive Advantage The focus is on companies who are developing innovative products and services with demonstrable competitive advantages that are not easily duplicated by competitors and that provide an immediate tangible value to customers. Technology Focus Our focus is to invest in a new age technology of tomorrow with one of a kind idea. We are willing to invest in a wide variety of businesses, biomedical, high technology, internet ventures to scientific research however, the research must be proven. Management Team Companies should have experienced management team with their concept proven. We believe that a company with a great management team is very important to our success and so this criteria is one that is at the top of our criteria assessments...
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...value (Smith, 1937). Undeniably, money has taken a dominant place to gain access to being our basic necessity to provide a quality and way of life. It plays a special role in both our personal and social lives, exerting more power over human lives than any other single commodity (Furnham, 1998). So, it is not unusual for one to have a wrestle with the decision of whether to enjoy one’s money when one earns it or to save one’s money for sometime in the future. The statement ‘enjoy your money when you earn’ is an opinion of spending today, whereas the statement, ‘saving your money for sometime in the future’ is an opinion of saving for tomorrow. The overall statement only shows two possibilities of managing money, when in reality, there are other outcomes which include ones that lie somewhere between these two extremities. Therefore, the false dichotomy fallacy occurs. Money attitudes differ from one generation to another. For instance, our parents (generation X) were cautious and conservative in both spending and saving for future use and they influenced us to be the same. However, youth today, (Generation Y) think otherwise as they prefer to spend their money earned today. Generation X placed a higher emphasis on working to live whereas Generation Y emphasizes more on their lifestyles rather than on working (West Midland Family Centre, 2003). Maslow’s hierarchy of needs theory gives a clearer understanding of attitudes towards money (Williams, Lown,...
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...Anthropology and Your Future Consider issues that are current in our own society today. Where will the application of an anthropological perspective be most effective? Consider and describe how the study of anthropology and its unique perspectives on human cultural behavior will most benefit you in your life and future career. Please use concepts and terminology from the text. Your initial response should be 150-200 words in length. Please support your claims with examples from the text, recommended material, and/or scholarly articles. Considering society as it is today, I’d say that the place of anthropology is to provide clues about how we are developing into the societies of the future, while at the same time. providing a critical historical background supported on research from the anthropology of the past so as to have a more comprehensive understanding of how our societal evolution is taking place. The anthropologist has the important role of letting the society of today know how it was before their time, so they can see their place in history and experience their lives as the consequence of the unfolding of those historical tendencies. By doing this analysis guided by the knowledge of the anthropologist, the regular citizen will be able to see what is to come in the future and how he or she may affect that evolution now that the clues from the past will explain the consequences of our decisions (or the decisions of today’s politicians, for example). The anthropologist...
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...satisfy customers. By using strategic management to implement better products at GM, the company can rein, once again, as a top competitor in the highly competitive automobile industry. Primary Issue 2 The primary issue is whether GM is capability of increasing its value to be financially solvent in the automobile industry. Langlois and Goldstein (2012) reflect on an announcement by auditors from Deloitte & Touche, “that GM's recurring losses from operations, stockholders' deficit and inability to generate sufficient cash flow to meet its obligations and sustain its operations raise substantial doubt about its ability to continue” (para. 7). If GM does not address its financial position it may cease to exist in the automobile industry. Analysis of GM Including Financials Despite changing times, for more than 70 years, GM was the leader of the automobile industry. Columnist Costantini (2012) depicts GM as follows. The world’s largest car maker from 1931 to 2008, when it was surpassed by Toyota. By the time it lost that distinction, such figures were the least of its worries — in the fall of 2008, despite two years of steep cutbacks, G.M. found itself on the brink, reduced to begging the federal government for the cash it needed to stay afloat. That December, it received $9 billion in federal aid at the order of President George W. Bush. In March 2009, President Obama forced out...
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...The speech “Are We Ready for Tomorrow, Today?” was delivered by Muhtar Kent, the president and CEO of the Coca-Cola Co, at the 2009 Investor & Analyst Event held in the world global conference in Atlanta. As this speech is specifically structured to present a business plan for upcoming year of 2020, Kent uses the majority of ethos and logos artistic appeals as means of an effective persuasion. The argument surrounds a careful and logical analysis of past failures and successes backed up with statistical and visual references designed to “inform, provoke, challenge and inspire” the audience (Kent 2009), followed by an orderly presentation of numerous strategies on how they will shape the future as the leading “business of non-alcoholic ready-to-drink beverages.” (119) The appropriate artistic and inartistic appeals applied in the speech not only polish the essence of an effective argument, but also increases credibility as an influential speaker. It is evident that Kent tries to avoid using pathos, an appeal of emotion, as a form of appeal to prevent logical scrutiny from the audience. Instead, the speech follows a strict pattern of stating logical reasoning after presenting each inartistic proof and thus, succeeds in gaining compliance as a credible speaker. Apart from impressive statistical numbers on its company’s accomplishments, the content of the speech relies heavily on ethos, served as appeals to values and speaker’s credibility, exerting a strong and dependable...
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...computer is ever bored! By starting early in their lives, children feel totally at ease around computers; they are also able to take advantage of the wide range of services computers provide. From an academic viewpoint, children have no choice but to master this technological invention. For instance, when I was in university, students brought their laptops to class to take notes, do research and exchange information. They wrote assignments, created presentations and developed databases. Children who build early confidence and experience in these abilities are at a distinct advantage over those who have not. From a professional perspective, the computer has found a permanent place in the workplace. Today, employers still pay to provide computer training to their employees. Tomorrow, corporations will expect prospective job applicants to already possess these critical job skills. Consequently, parents who encourage their child to use the computer for a...
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...Product/Service 2. Mission Statement 3. Company Structure 4. Target Market(s) 5. Current Opportunity 6. Projection of Business Future 7. Financial Summary II. Market Analysis 8. Industry, Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow 9. Competitive Analysis (Appendix B) 10. Demographics & Target Market 11. Entry Barriers III. Marketing Strategy 12. Product/Service 13. Sales Strategy 14. Promotion 15. Pricing Strategy 16. Web Strategy 17. Differentiation (Competitive Advantage) IV. Operations Plan 18. Location 19. Operation 20. Organization Structure 21. Employees 22. Space 23. Capacity: 24. Critical Suppliers 25. Financial system 26. Computer system. 27. Equipment 28. Permits and Licenses 29. Insurance 30. Contracts 31. Patents and Copyrights 32. Credit Policy V. Financial Plan 33. Product and Service Pricing 34. Funding Source(s) 35. Cash Flow Projection (Appendix A) VI. Appendix A: Cash Flow Statement VII. Appendix B: Competitive Analysis VIII. Appendix C: Resume Executive Summary Overview of the business explaining the fundamentals. 1. Business Owner(s) & Product/Service i. Who are you and what qualifies you to operate...
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...Kudler Foods Marketing Strategy Corey Johnson University of Phoenix June 14, 2012 Torrey Cloud Kudler Foods has a high-quality marketing strategy it uses the technology of tomorrow and blends it with the marketing principles of today. The company is forward thinking with its differentiation and positioning of products and services. Kudler Foods have contemplated and analyzed its impact of the product life cycle on marketing. Kudler Foods pricing strategy keeps them competitive. Kudler Foods has a high-quality marketing strategy it uses the technology of tomorrow and blends it with the marketing principles of today. The company is forward thinking with its differentiation and positioning of products and services. The founder Kathy Kudler came from a marketing background and uses her marketing strategies that she has learned and had success with. Kudler implemented her vision for a gourmet fresh foods store with an 8000 square foot retail space, in an upscale fashion shopping center, Kudler offers the freshest and finest foods in every budget. Kudler has over 250 varieties of cheeses and 350 fruits from every part of the world. Kudler has developed an online...
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