you will review several scholarly, peer-reviewed, business-related research articles located in the library and select five for inclusion in the final assignment. (Reviewing does not necessarily require reading each article in the general topic area. The abstracts can be used to select the five most appropriate articles for inclusion in the assignment.)

Based on your review, for each of the five articles you selected, describe the type of study: quantitative, qualitative, or mixed methods. Then, elaborate on elements presented in each study. Evaluate the differences in methods. For instance, you might find quantitative methods in some studies and qualitative methods in other studies. Once the method is identified, explain how the author designed the study. This should be a discursive-style literature review.

For qualitative methods studies, include the following:

What were the questions asked?
Describe, analyze, and evaluate the type inquiry method. These might be interviews, observations, and essay questions for participants to write on.
Describe, analyze, and evaluate the aggregation method of narrowing answers to categories or subject topics.
Describe, analyze, and evaluate the results obtained by the researcher.
For quantitative methods studies, respond to the following questions:

Describe the theory the researchers explore. What are the constructs in the theory? How are they related? Identify which ones are cause, effect, mediating, or moderating constructs. How are the constructs operationalized?
Briefly describe the study, including the number of participants and research methods.
Briefly describe, analyze, and evaluate the statistical analyses used.
Briefly described the findings and how the researchers interpreted them and their contribution to theory.
Length: 5-7 pages not including title and reference pages

References: Minimum of 5 scholarly peer reviewed resources.

(Beyond the five scholarly resources – peer-reviewed journal articles – additional resource types from earlier assignments can be included for elaboration.)”

The goal of this assignment is to analyze how an organization can help employees gain the new skills required by and for the change effort. For this assignment, you will examine your expectations that the company you work for will provide you with ongoing knowledge and skills training. Base your answer on an organization you have worked for, or on one from the case studies in your textbook.

Directions:
Thoroughly answer the following:
1. What are your expectations of the Human Resources Department? Explain how and why your expectations are or are not being met since you were first hired.
2. Describe where or from whom you have acquired your knowledge concerning the performance of your work: team collaborations, supervisor, human resource department, colleagues, or work experience.
3. Explain what on‐the‐job training development you would recommend for new employees based on your personal work experience. Provide a rationale for your response.

Requirements:
Back up your facts, assumptions, ideas, and claims with at least six scholarly sources. You may not use the textbook for this requirement.
Your paper must be 4‐5 pages in length, not counting the title and references pages, which you must include.
Format your paper according to the CSU-Global Guide to Writing and APA.
Review the grading rubric to be sure you understand how you will be graded on this assignment.

Assume you are the partner in an accounting firm hired to perform the audit on a fortune 1000 company.  Assume also that the initial public offering (IPO) of the company was approximately five (5) years ago and the company is concerned that, in less than five (5) years after the IPO, a restatement may be necessary. During your initial evaluation of the client, you discover the following information:

• The client is currently undergoing a three (3) year income tax examination by the Internal Revenue Service (IRS). A significant issue involved in the IRS audit encompasses inventory write-downs on the tax returns that are not included in the financial statements. Because of the concealment of the transaction, the IRS is labeling the treatment of the write-down as fraud.
• The company has a share-based compensation plan for top-level executives consisting of stock options. The value of the options exercised during the year was not expensed or disclosed in the financial statements.
• The company has several operating and capital leases in place, and the CFO is considering leasing a substantial portion of the assets for future use. The current leases in place are arranged using special purpose entities (SPEs) and operating leases.
• The company seeks to acquire a global partner, which will require IFRS reporting.
• The company received correspondence from the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) requesting additional supplemental information regarding the financial statements submitted with the IPO.

 

Write an eight to ten (8-10) page paper in which you:

1. Evaluate any damaging financial and ethical repercussions of failure to include the inventory write-downs in the financial statements. Prepare a recommendation to the CFO, evaluating the negative impact of a civil fraud penalty on the corporation as a result of the IRS audit. In the recommendation, include essential internal control procedures to prevent fraudulent financial reporting from occurring, as well as the major obligation of the CEO and CFO to ensure compliance.
2. Examine the negative results on stakeholders and the financial statements of an IRS audit which generates additional tax and penalties or subsequent audits. Assume that the subsequent audit and / or additional tax and penalties result from the taxpayer’s use of an inventory reserve account, applying a 10 percent reduction to inventory over three (3) years.
3. Discuss the applicable federal tax laws, regulations, rulings, and court cases related to the inventory write-downs, and explain the specific relevance of each to the write-down.
4. Research the current generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP) regarding stock option accounting. Evaluate the current treatment of the company’s share-based compensation plan based on GAAP reporting. Contrast the financial benefits and risks of the share-based compensation stock option plan with the financial benefits and risks of a share-based stock-appreciation rights plan (SARS). Recommend to the CFO which plan the company should use, and provide the correct accounting treatment for each.
5. Research the reporting requirements for lease reporting under GAAP and International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS). Based on your research, create a proposal for future lease transactions to the CFO. Within the proposal, discuss the use of off-the-balance sheet financing arrangements, capital leases, and operating leases, and indicate the related business and financial risks of each.
6. Create an argument for or against a single set of international accounting standards related to lease accounting based on the global market and cross border leases of assets. Examine the benefits and risks of your chosen position.
7. Examine the major implications of SAS 99 based on the factors you discovered during the initial evaluation of the company. Provide support for your rationale.
8. Analyze the potential for a material misstatement in the financial statements based on the issues identified in your initial evaluation. Make a recommendation to the CFO for the issuance of        restated financial statement restatement. Identify at least three (3) significant issues that can result from the failure to issue restated financial statements.
9. Examine the economic effect of restatement of the financial statements on investors, employees, customers, and creditors.
10. Use five (5) quality academic resources in this assignment. Note:Wikipedia and other Websites do not qualify as academic resources.

 

Your assignment must follow these formatting requirements:

• Be typed, double spaced, using Times New Roman font (size 12), with one-inch margins on all sides; citations and references must follow APA or school-specific format. Check with your professor for any additional instructions.
• Include a cover page containing the title of the assignment, the student’s name, the professor’s name, the course title, and the date. The cover page and the reference page are not included in the required assignment page length.

 

The specific course learning outcomes associated with this assignment are:

• Analyze accounting situations to apply the proper accounting rules and make recommendations to ensure compliance with generally accepted accounting principles.
• Analyze business situations to determine the appropriateness of decision making in terms of professional standards and ethics
• Analyze business situations and apply advanced federal taxation concepts.
• Use technology and information resources to research issues in accounting.
• Write clearly and concisely about accounting using proper writing mechanics.

 

Apply the six Daniel Goleman leadership styles (listed below) to real life leadership scenarios in your personal and/or professional life. Each of the six leadership styles should be profiled. For organizational purposes, each style should have a minimum of one paragraph of the paper.

Daniel Goleman’s Six Leadership Styles:

Pacesetting Leader

Authoritative Leader

Affiliative Leader

Coaching Leader

Coercive Leader

Democratic Leader.

Charts and figures may be included in support of the written content. Remember corporate websites are incredibly helpful to identify information about organizational management practices, but students will also want to rely on supportive articles and editorial opinion on the organization (or the business leader) when and how appropriate.

Application: Perception of Intelligence

Different cultures conceptualize and measure components of intelligence in various ways. Some cultures value a person’s ability to quickly process and respond to information. Other cultures may value one’s ability to consult with members of the same culture who have more life experience in order to solve problems. Still, other cultures value creativity, formal education, and literacy as a basis of intelligence. With so many variations in cultural beliefs, how do researchers ensure accurate measurements of intelligence among different cultures? For example, can standardized tests of intellectual ability from a Western culture adequately and appropriately measure the intelligence valued by Kpelle farmers in Liberia?

For this Assignment, consider how cultures interpret intelligence differently. Reflect on how various cultures measure intelligence. Use your Final Project culture of interest and, in addition, select another culture that defines intelligence differently. Consider how you might test different cognitive abilities (e.g., memory, organization, and visualization) in each of these two different cultures.

The Assignment (4–5 pages)

Describe the two cultures you selected and compare how each culture perceives intelligence.
Explain three cultural factors that might influence how intelligence is perceived in each culture you selected.
Explain how you might measure intelligence in each culture and why you selected this method.
Support your responses using the Learning Resources and the current literature.
RESOURCES:
Article: Furnham, A., & Fukumoto, S. (2008). Japanese parents’ estimates of their own and their children’s multiple intelligences: Cultural modesty and moderate differentiation. Japanese Psychological Research, 50(2), 63–76

Article: Smith, M. K. (2008). Howard Gardner and multiple intelligences. Retrieved from http://www.infed.org/thinkers/gardner.htm
Article: Sternberg, R. J., & Grigorenko, E. L. (2004). Why we need to explore development in its cultural context Merrill-Palmer Quarterly, 50(3), 369–386.
Article: Tsethlikai, M. (2011). An exploratory analysis of American Indian children’s cultural engagement, fluid cognitive skills, and standardized verbal IQ scores. Developmental Psychology, 47(1), 192–202.
Article: Uichol, K., & Young-Shin, P. (2006). Indigenous psychological analysis of academic achievement in Korea: The influence of self-efficacy, parents, and culture. International Journal of Psychology, 41(4), 287–292.

This assignment is a research paper. This means you will choose from the list of four topics below, identify your research sources, identify and apply a research method to your paper, and draft a paper that defends your main point/thesis.
Topic:  You can choose one of the three following topics of study around which you will develop a concise and pointed conclusion/premise that will form the thesis of your paper:
CIA and the Vietnam War, – on the Phoenix programs during the war
Thesis: Your paper must have a solid, pointed premise. A solid main point is a conclusion of analysis, based on your research, that is reasoned and pointed. You cannot choose a main point which is obvious or self-evident. You must research and draw a conclusion about what you research. Your paper’s premise must be stated as a declarative sentence in your introduction. That declarative statement is your premise or hypothesis. You must be specific, not vague or general.
Content: You should be sure to have a thesis that addresses the topic you are focusing on and that this thesis is CLEAR and UNAMBIGUOUS. If you have any questions about your thesis you should ask them on the open discussion board for the class. It is OK to share your ideas and ask for feedback. Also, if necessary, you can ask me for input (though you are now expected to be able to develop your own theses and know that what your developing is a good thesis. Your thesis must be in the first paragraph or section of your paper.
You should also be sure to have section headings, a title page, incorporate references using the Turabian author-date format, have a corresponding “References” page, and incorporate page numbers and all the other elements of a professional paper.
Deliverable: Your paper should be 15-18 pages in length, double spaced, times new roman 12 point font, 1 inch margins on all 4 sides. You are welcome to use graphs and charts and maps, etc., provided they add new information and support your paper.  You should have a title page and a references list (neither of which count towards the assignments total page count).

Please respond to the 4 discussion post. APA format. Each post needs at least three scholarly reference. 100% original work. References must be current within 2013-2018

1. The goal of population-based nursing is to provide evidenced based care to targeted groups of people with similar needs in order to improve outcomes (Curley & Vitale, 2016).  This approach targets not just an individual, but all the people that populate a specific area having a tremendous impact on future generations.  Individual focused interventions are targeted on the specific individuals challenge and independent situation.   A holistic/biopsychosociospiritual (BPSS) intervention examines the five scales(impaired functional status, physical, psychological, social, and spiritual symptoms) necessary to view the full perspective of all the contributing variables that impact a persons life.  Applying this perspective to an individual regarding their hypertension would allow a health professional  to empower the individual to a new and different lifestyle.

 

2. Florida has conducted a comprehensive state health assessment utilizing Florida’s State Health Improvement Plan (SHIP) is a statewide plan for public health partners and stakeholders to improve the health of Floridians (Florida Health, 2018).

According to the Florida Health (2018),  Cancer is one of the two leading cause   of death, with more than 42,000 deaths each year and Florida ranks second in     the nation in the number of newly diagnosed cancer cases.   In 2014, nearly 7      out of 10 deaths were attributed to Chronic Diseases in Florida, this includes           heart disease, asthma, diabetes, and arthritis. Behavioral health disorders are             also on the rise, specifically substance abuse. In 2016, there was a rate of 14.4   deaths per 100,000 opioid-related overdose in Florida as compared to the          national rate of 13.3 deaths per 100,000 persons. In the past several years,        Florida has shown a dramatic increase in the number of deaths, particularly among those related to synthetic opioids (National Institute of Drug Abuse             (NIDA), 2018). In Florida, there were 4,940 cases of Human Immunodeficiency    Virus (HIV) diagnosed in 2016.  As much as 127, 900 people may be living with           HIV through 2015 (Florida Health, 2018).

3. Nursing informatics involves nursing science, information science, and computer science all designed to facilitate the management and process of nursing data, information, and knowledge with the primary aim to inform and support decision making as well as maintain delivery of care (Moen & Kundsen, 2013; Chamberlain University, 2018). Information is a structured data formulated in different frameworks or situations. Knowledge is a data synthesized by formulas or delineated relationship while data are raw facts seen as the essential elements or building blocks used to compose knowledge or information. The interrelation between the components of data, knowledge, and information signifies the vital attribution to nursing evidence (McGonigle & Mastrian, 2015).

Nursing information systems are supportive tools that enhance nursing operations including clinical, administrative and managerial activities (Farzandipour, Meidani, Riazi & Jabali, 2016). It is a tool designed to reduce errors, minimize costs and enhance delivery of high quality care for the patients and their families, in addition it enables the DNP-prepared nurse to use date efficiently and effectively in their daily nursing practice and in so doing develop and improve their knowledge to provide and improve patient care (Moghaddasi,  Rabiei, Asadi & Ostvan, 2017

Due to varying business characteristics, the managerial accounting techniques applied in each business may differ.  For example, a business in the start-up phase may rely heavily upon budgeting and capital investment techniques; whereas, a business in the mature/maintaining phase may rely heavily upon cost management and quality control. Ultimately, the techniques used by management should assist the business in achieving its short-term and long-term goals through effective decision-making.

You will analyze the role of managerial accounting in two parts. Part I will provide a general overview of managerial accounting. Part II will provide examples of how managerial accounting theories and principles are applied in the business world.  You may find it helpful to reflect upon your own professional experiences for examples.

Part I
Present the following:

• Define managerial accounting
• Describe the role of managerial accounting and the management accountant in a business or organization
• Describes ethical issues/concerns for the management accountant
• Describes at least three managerial accounting techniques available and their application within a business or organization

Part II
Select at least three of the five topics identified below:

• Cost Management Techniques
• Costing Methods
• Capital Investment Decision Techniques
• Budgeting
• Quality Control

For each topic selected, present real world examples of the application of managerial accounting techniques within a business or organization. Examples may be gathered from your own professional experiences or from case studies obtained from credible sources. Presentation of each example should include how a managerial accounting technique was applied in the business or organization’s decision-making model. Be sure to support your example with calculations when applicable.

Writing the Final Paper
The Final Paper:

• Must be eight to ten double-spaced pages in length, and formatted according to APA style as outlined in the Ashford Writing Center.
• Must include a title page with the following:
  • Title of paper
  • Student’s name
  • Course name and number
  • Instructor’s name
  • Date submitted
• Must begin with an introductory paragraph that has a succinct thesis statement.
• Must address the topic of the paper with critical thought.
• Must end with a conclusion that reaffirms your thesis.
• Must use at least five scholarly sources.
• Must document all sources in APA style,

 

1. Please research which types of electric cars is the best for potential buyers.
2. Write a thesis statement (short multi-sentence paragraph) that proposes the use of the best type electric cars for its intended application based on its functional and technical advantages from ENGINEERING PERSPECTIVE (the technical level of understanding)
3. Determine what is important for the audience. Rewrite engineering-based thesis statement (short multi-sentence paragraph) to address the needs and level of understanding of chosen USER’S PERSPECTIVE
4. In the first page of paper, include the following items: Product, Application, End user or intended audience, Main objective of end user; More is explained later in number 5.
5. Products: Battery Electric Vehicles (BEV), Plug-in Hybrid Electric Vehicles (PHEV), Battery Electric Vehicles (BEV). The best type of electric cars should be between one of the aforementioned. Please do more research to answer the application, end user of intended audience, and the main objective.
6. List all sources.
7. No in-text citations required.
8. Use quantitative data (numbers) when possible
9. Create a clear association between the chosen attributes, features, condition of product and the proposed solution
10. End thesis statement with the proposed focus or idea.
11. A sample paper is uploaded under the additional materials. Please note that there is a slight difference in the first page, what I want is mentioned previously in number 4. Please use the sample only for reference.
12. Avoid using “it is…” or “there is…” in the sentences.

Write a memo discussing/analyzing the following points:
1) Identify what went wrong
2) Discuss your views as to why smart and experienced personnel committed fraud
3) Indicate what you would advise Middendorf and separately Sweet if they consulted you about this ethical dilemma
4) Indicate appropriate punishment

Memo Format:
– Overview: you have asked me to analyze the following…
– What went wrong at KPMG?
– Why did intelligent, experienced and trained personnel commit fraud?
– Advice to Middendorf and Sweet Re: Ethical Dilemma
– Recommended Punishment

Case info:
United States of America vs David Middendorf et. al.
18 CRIM 036
United States District Court
Southern District of New York
(sealed indictment)

Case link: http://online.wsj.com/public/resources/documents/middendorfetal.pdf