City Council Meeting

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You are to preparing for a challenging City Council Meeting. You need to be able to give the other council members and mayor an accurate “city of affairs” to make sure significant cuts can be made in the appropriate areas, and other critical areas

You are to preparing for a challenging City Council Meeting. You need to be able to give the other council members and mayor an accurate “city of affairs” to make sure significant cuts can be made in the appropriate areas, and other critical areas can continue to be funded. Using your local cities 2015-2016 budgets, analyze the financial plan to respond to the following questions in a two- to three-page paper:

  1. Based on the review of your city’s Financial Plan: What is the fastest-growing category of expenditures during the planning period? Justify the answer with examples.
  2. What percentage of your city’s revenue comes from the general property tax? How much is this tax growing in each year of the financial plan? Justify the answer with examples.
  3. Evaluate the existing capacity of refunding or reorganizing existing debt organizations.
  4. Analyze the various funding alternatives that can be used to support debt obligations.

Your assignment must follow these formatting requirements:

  • Include an abstract and conclusion that you will name (Budget Summary), and attach the budget summary as an Appendix.
  • Include the URL of the location of your city’s financial plan and any other documentation you used for your budget summary.
  • 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.
  • Be typed, double-spaced, using Times New Roman font (size 12), with one-inch margins on all sides; citations and references must follow APA. Check with your professor for any additional instructions.

The specific course learning outcomes associated with this assignment are:

  • Analyze the basic skills and tools needed for budgeting for public sector agencies and / or departments.
  • Recommend appropriate policy actions based on the evaluation.
  • Evaluate a budgeting system at any governmental level.
  • Analyze the scope and sequence of budgeting in terms of sources of revenues, purpose of government expenditures, budget cycles, budget preparation, and debt administration.
  • Analyze the steps required for budgeting, such as preparing a budget, making a financial plan, conducting a cost-benefit analysis, and making budget decisions.
  • Examine the key components for presenting and justifying the budget to decision makers.
  • Prepare a preliminary budgeting system for presentation before Congress, state / local government, or other organization.
  • Use technology and information resources to research issues in public budgeting and finance.
  • Write clearly and concisely about public budgeting and finance using proper writing mechanics.

Challenges In The Global Business Environment

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Challenges In The Global Business Environment

According to the textbook, ongoing challenges in the global business environment are mostly attributed to unethical business practices, failure to embrace technology advancements, and stiff competition among businesses. Imagine that you have been appointed as Apple’s Chief Compliance Officer and must prepare a video presentation for Apple’s suppliers regarding Apple’s Supplier Code of Conduct to deliver via a web meeting. To prepare for your presentation, review Apple’s Supplier Code of Conduct, located at https://www.apple.com/supplier-responsibility/.  submit a four to six (4-6) page paper  presentation to email to the suppliers after the meeting for future reference.

 Paper

Prepare to write a four to six (4-6) page paper in which you:

  1. List specific changes that Apple has made to its Code of Conduct in recent years. Provide at least one (1) example of each change.
  2. Explain the identified changes to the suppliers in such a way that they will understand the standards that Apple requires in order to maintain their relationship with the company.

If you choose the written paper, 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:

  • Evaluate the influences of changing economic, political, social, cultural, and technological forces on business and society.
  • Use technology and information resources to research issues in business and society.
  • Write clearly and concisely about business and society using proper writing mechanics.

Cash Method Versus Accrual Method

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Cash Method Versus Accrual Method

Businesses face a choice between two important methods of calculating taxable income for federal income taxes: the cash method and the accrual method.

Based on your readings for the module, respond to the following:

1. What factors determine a company’s choice between the cash method and the accrual method in accounting for income taxes?

2. Give an example of a particular transaction and describe how the two methods would account for that transaction differently.

Write your initial response in two to three paragraphs.

By the due date assigned, submit your response to the appropriate Discussion Area. Use the same Discussion Area to comment on your classmates’ submissions and continue the discussion until through the end of the module. Comment on how your classmates would address differing views.

Discussion Grading Table

Maximum Points

Quality of initial posting, including fulfillment of assignment 16

Quality of responses to classmates 12

Frequency of responses to classmates 4

Reference to supporting readings and other materials 4

Language and grammar 4

Total: 40

Investigating a Teaching Problem

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Investigating a Teaching Problem with CATs, Part 2

In this week’s Discussion, you will wrap up your time as a faculty member in a Speech Communication department. Last week, you discussed how to use classroom assessment to investigate your students’ apparent lack of motivation and ability to improve their speaking abilities. This week, you will begin to reflect on the results of your investigation and decide what to do about it.

In your Speech Communication course, you decided to use “Reflective Learning Logs” to gather information about what students thought about class activities, about their work outside of class, and about public speaking in general. You asked students to hand in anonymous copies of their logs each week. In reading through the first few weeks’ worth of logs, you discover the following:

  • All but two of your students report that they are terribly afraid of speaking in public.
  • Four of your students (about one-fifth of the class) are non-native English speakers and feel very unsure of their ability to make a formal speech in English.
  • Half of the class reports spending less than 2 hours per week outside of class on this course.
  • About a third of your students felt that the expectations for the first assignment (a Powerpoint presentation, submitted electronically and not actually presented in class) were unclear. All of the assignments in your course require some form of slide presentation or visual aid, and you use the same rubric language for these parts of the assignments throughout the course.

By Day 3

Post a short summary of what you think these results mean. Then, suggest at least two ideas for how you could use these findings to help students overcome their difficulties.

International Business Ethics

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International Business Ethics

After reading Chapter 14 of the Ethics and the Conduct of Business (Boatright, 2012), go the virtual library and research the topic

What are the ethical implications in any of these cases for international business? What are the different “ethical outlooks” through which the situation that you chose can be interpreted? What are some ethical guidelines to conduct international business?

Provide a detailed response supported with at least TWO references from library

Boatright, J. R. (2012). Ethics and the conduct of business (7th Ed.). Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson.After reading Chapter 14 of the Ethics and the Conduct of Business (Boatright, 2012), go the virtual library and research the topic

*GM Bailout*

What are the ethical implications in any of these cases for international business? What are the different “ethical outlooks” through which the situation that you chose can be interpreted? What are some ethical guidelines to conduct international business?

Provide a detailed response supported with at least TWO references from library

Boatright, J. R. (2012). Ethics and the conduct of business (7th Ed.). Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson.

Report on Enterprise Resource Planning

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Short Report on Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) and the Applications

Purpose of the Assignment: This assignment has a two-fold purpose: 1. To keep you update of the current development of information technologies for management. 2. To build up your skills in searching, summarizing and presenting information in an effective manner. Requirements of the Assignment: Identify two related articles published RECENTLY that describe/discuss the topic of Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) and the Applications. One article should be ONLY published on the Internet, and the other article should be ORIGINALLY published off the Internet (but, it may also be available on the Internet). Write a short report in APA (American Psychology Association) style on the information technology discussed in the articles, which accounts 10% of your final grade. The report should be word-processed in Times New Roman 12 pt font, with no less than FIVE double-spaced and numbered pages (with 1” margins on all sides), excluding figures, tables, or illustrations. Fewer pages will result in points deduction. It should include the following parts: ▪ Your name and course information (in order to save paper, no cover page! Otherwise, some points will be taken off). ▪ Title of your report. ▪ Abstract of the report (single spaced and in between the title and the Introduction) ▪ Discussion on the main points and issues in the two articles via comparison and contrast. ▪ Your reasons of choosing the two articles, and your comments on them. ▪ References (correct citations in APA format for both articles, and other articles cited in the report, and not counted for the length requirement of the report). Note: • The articles should be technical articles written in layman language with few or no technical formulas and technical jargons. And, the articles should be as recent as possible. Grading Criteria: Grades will be based on: ✓ The relevance and nature of the articles to the course (20%). ✓ The organization/structure of your report (30%). ✓ The content, quality, and clarity of your report (50%).

The Financials

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The Financials

Before you get started on this exercise, watch the video below for some tips that will help you complete the discussion assignment.

For this exercise, you will consider your company’s financials, such as Income Statement, Cash Flow Projections, Balance Sheets.

1.Using your NAB Company Portfolio and the first year of your business plan for the company, complete the Income Statement, Cash Flow Projections, and Balance Sheet sections from the “Business Plan Financials” spreadsheet. (These files are found in the Student Center). Attach the completed Excel worksheet to the discussion thread. ◦Remember to include your marketing costs from the Marketing Plan you completed in Week 6.

◦Use the figures you arrived at in the operations and technology sections of your plan to help fill out your financial forms.

◦Go through the worksheets in order. The Excel worksheets will automatically enter the numbers into your Income Statement as you enter them.

2.Develop the following financial sections of your NAB company’s Business Plan. Attach the completed Word document to the discussion thread. ◦Sources and use of funds

◦Plan assumptions

◦Break-even analysis

3.Provide constructive feedback to at least one (1) other classmate’s post.

Green computing

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Green computing

Part 1: Project Integration Management You work for We Are Big, Inc., an international firm with more than 100,000 employees in several countries. A strategic goal is to help improve the environment while increasing revenues and reducing costs. The Environmental Technologies Program just started, and the VP of Operations, Natalie, is the program sponsor. Ito is the program manager, and there is a steering committee made up of 10 senior executives, including Natalie, who oversees the program. Several projects operate within this program, including the Green Computing Research Project. The CIO and project sponsor, Ben, has given this project high priority and plans to hold special interviews to hand-pick the project manager and team. Ben is also a member of the program steering committee. Before coming to We Are Big, Ben sponsored a project at a large computer firm to improve data center efficiency. This project, however, is much broader. The main purpose of the Green Computing Research Project is to research possible applications of green computing, including the following:

 Data center and overall energy efficiency

 Disposal of electronic waste and recycling

 Telecommuting

 Virtualization of server resources

 Thin client solutions

 Use of open source software

 Development of new software to address green computing for internal use and potential sale to other organizations

The budget for the project is $500,000, and the goal is to provide an extensive report, including detailed financial analysis and recommendations for which green computing technologies to implement. Official project request forms for the recommended solutions will also be created as part of the project. Ben decided to have five people working full-time on this six-month project and to call on people in other areas as needed. He wanted to be personally involved in selecting the project manager and to have that person help him select the rest of the project team. Ben wanted to find people already working inside the company, but he was also open to reviewing applications for potential new employees to work specifically on his project as long as they could start quickly. Because many good people were located in different parts of the world, Ben thought it made sense to select the best people he could find and allow them to work virtually on the project. Ben also wanted the project manager to do more than just manage the project. The project manager would also do some of the research, writing, and editing required to produce the desired results. Ben was also open to paying expert consultants for their advice and to purchasing books and related articles as needed.

The rest of the project is in the pdf down below. Task 1-5 need to be completed. Final submission should include an APA formatted cover page and references page. Thank you for your help in advanced.

Calculating Tax Cost

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Calculating Tax Cost

Microtech Software Corporation (MSC) was founded in 2001. The founder, Chan Li, studied at MIT and worked for a large software corporation before returning to his hometown, Centervale, to set up his own company.

The corporate tax rate structure applicable in Centervale is as follows:

  Taxable Income                                          Tax Rate

Up to $50,000                                               15 percent

From $50,001 through $150,000     22 percent

Income in excess of $150,000             30 percent

 

MSC has an opportunity to invest in a project that is expected to generate an additional $55,000 of taxable income.

Compute the tax cost of this additional income for the following three scenarios:

  • MSC’s taxable income before the additional income is $45,000.
  • MSC’s taxable income before the additional income is $300,000.
  • MSC has a loss of $5,000 before considering the additional income.

Show all the steps of the calculation and the final answer for each scenario. Compare the results for the three scenarios and comment on any differences.

Write a one- to two-page paper in MS Word format. Apply APA standards for writing style to your work.

Use the following file naming convention: LastnameFirstInitial_M1_A3.doc.

By the due date assigned, deliver your assignment to the Submissions Area.

 

Assignment 3 Grading Criteria                              Maximum Points

Steps of the calculation demonstrated correct reasoning and quantities were accurately calculated.  40

Tax implications of the three scenarios were adequately analyzed and valid conclusions were drawn.  50

Wrote in a clear, concise, and organized manner; demonstrated ethical scholarship in accurate representation and attribution of sources; displayed accurate spelling, grammar, and punctuation.  10

Total:  100

Enacting New Taxes

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Enacting New Taxes

Decisions related to taxes have a far-reaching impact on all U.S. citizens. Therefore, it is important to weigh the pros and cons of such decisions and ensure that they will be beneficial to the majority of citizens.

Based on your readings for the module, respond to the following:

* When the government considers enacting a new tax, what issues need to be considered to ensure that the tax will be fair to all taxpayers? Give reasons and examples to support your answer.

* Consider the idea of replacing the federal income tax with a national sales tax or value-added tax. Do you think this would make the system more fair or less fair?

Give reasons and examples to support your answer.

Write your initial response in one to two paragraphs.

By the due date assigned submit your response to the appropriate Discussion Area. Use the same Discussion Area to comment on your classmates’ submissions and continue the discussion until through the end of the module. Comment on how your classmates would address differing views.