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Explain to her the similarities and differences between financial and managerial accounting.

You have recently hired a new assistant, Susan Thompson, who previously worked in a financial accounting office preparing journal entries, which provide you with a recording

of the day-to-day activities of the company and financial statements (income statement, statement of owners’ equity balance sheet, and cash flow statement). Although your

new assistant has experience with and fully understands financial accounting, she has no experience with managerial accounting.

Part 1

In a memo to your new assistant, Susan Thompson, complete the following:

Explain to her the similarities and differences between financial and managerial accounting.

Provide examples of managerial accounting reports that she could expect to see within EEC, and explain how management might use the information to make

decisions.

Keep in mind that although the income statement, the statement of owners’ equity balance sheet, and the cash flow statement are generated in financial

accounting, they are used to develop all of your managerial accounting reports.

Examples of a few of those reports are the horizontal analyzes, vertical analyzes, and ratios.

Part 2

In a memo to the board of directors, discuss the information found in each of the following financial statements, and describe how accounting information is used by

managers for planning and control:

Balance sheet

Income statement

Statement of cash flows

Statement of stockholders’ equity

What are the main challenges of keeping up performance and sustainable growth while managing a very diverse workforce when a company expands its operations to different markets, especially to emerging economies?

Assignment 1: Sustainable Growth Challenges

Using the University online library resources and the Internet, research how companies can keep a pattern of sustainable growth.

Respond to the following:

  • What are the main challenges of keeping up performance and sustainable growth while managing a very diverse workforce when a company expands its operations to different markets, especially to emerging economies?
  • Determine what you feel to be the main challenges. Define them.
  • List the components or elements that should be addressed, why, and how.

Provide examples of how organizations have succeeded with or failed at overcoming those challenges.

Give reasons in support of your responses. Be sure to cite any relevant resources.

Write your initial response in 500 words. Your response should be thorough and address all components of the discussion question in detail; include citations of all sources, where needed, according to the APA style; and demonstrate accurate spelling, grammar, and punctuation.

By Saturday, October 3, 2015, post your response to the below Discussion Area.

Assignment 2: Entry Modes

The modes of entry into a foreign market traditionally have focused on establishing a physical presence in a foreign country. However, in the Internet age, virtual companies have discovered that it is also possible to establish a global reach without necessarily having a global physical presence. The number and importance of such companies to the global marketplace has increased in the twenty-first century. One good example is Google, which has a unique domain name for each of the 160 countries for which its search engine is localized. Google offers a full range of different services, such as the web browser Chrome, Google Earth, Google Maps, and Gmail (to name just a few), in different languages and local versions to nationals worldwide. While the products are free, Google generates tremendous revenue from advertising associated with user traffic.

Directions

Using the University online library resources and the Internet for research, select at least three (3) peer-reviewed, academic resources (beyond the assigned readings) for use in this assignment.

In a paper, respond to the following:

  • Determine the advantages of the virtual approach used by Google and other virtual companies that enter new international markets.
  • Identify potential disadvantages.
  • Identify the different factors that a virtual company needs to consider, compared to a physical company, when entering foreign markets. Justify your reasoning.

Your paper should be written in a clear, concise, and organized manner; demonstrate ethical scholarship in accurate representation and attribution of sources; and display accurate spelling, grammar, punctuation, and APA format.

Write a 3 pages paper in Word format using the APA Paper Guide. Be sure to reference at least at least three (3) academic sources beyond the assigned readings. Use the following file naming convention: LastnameFirstInitial_M6_A2.doc.

Discuss the advantages of having well-trained employees.

In the online lectures in Module 3 and your textbook readings (“Training and Development”, Leadership”, and “Motivation, Job Satisfaction, and Job Involvement”) you learned about the importance of training your employees.  However, training is only effective when employees can retain the information and incorporate what they learn to improve their job performance.

You have just learned that your company is looking for ways to cut back expenses.  One of the cost cutting measures being considered is to terminate the training department, as the company considers this an expense and they do not believe training is contributing to the profitability of the company.  As the head of the training department it is your job to defend the value of the department.  You realize that well trained employees perform their jobs more efficiently and consequently can contribute to higher productivity and profits for the company. One way to show the value of training is to have tools that will allow a manager to track the performance of an employee both before and after they have received training.

    1. Report

      Write a report that will be shared with senior management on why training is a very important part of the company’s overall financial success.  Discuss the advantages of having well-trained employees.

 

  1. Evaluation Tool

    Using what you have learned about transfer training and the evaluation of training programs create an evaluation tool which can be used to evaluate how effective any given employee training program is in terms of:

    • Increasing the level of transfer of knowledge (knowledge retention)
    • Monitoring the effectiveness of the skill performance in the job performance improvement
    • Include common attributes in your evaluation tool which could be applicable to most employees at the organization such as: employees showing concern for saving the company money or consistently turning in error free work.  Your training tool should contain a minimum of 10 evaluation criteria.

Your training evaluation tool must be included with your report defending the value of the training department.  You know that your report will be shared with senior level managers and eventually to the board of directors.  However, you are uncertain whether or not you will be allowed to present your work at a later time or in a different manner.  Therefore it is important that your report is well written and professional.

Report Details

The report should be 5-7 pages in length and include:

  • Executive Summary highlighting all the factors in the scenario.
  • Justification of the importance of retaining the training department in the company and explanation of how the training department is important to the overall success of the company.
  • Training Evaluation Tool to evaluate knowledge retention and job performance improvement (10 criteria minimum).
  • Explanation of how the evaluation tool will be implemented.
  • Describe how the evaluation tool will help evaluate the level of transfer of knowledge and skill performance for current training programs as well as, monitor and improve planning for future training effectiveness.
  • Summary and conclusion of tool’s effectiveness.

Analyze the influence of popular culture on social norms and morals.

MLA Stayle two page for each quasetion

 

 

Essay 1: 

 

 

Essay Question:

Describe the competing cultural trends in the 1920s, including nativism, modernism, fundamentalism, black nationalism, and racism. Identify the reasons for the reemergence of the Ku Klux Klan, the origins of the black cultural renaissance, and the religious and social debates that led to the Scopes trial in Tennessee.

Analyze the influence of popular culture on social norms and morals. State the innovations that allowed for the spread of mass culture and explain their impact.

 

Documents to include:

  • 21.2
  • 21.3
  • 21.9

 

Considerations:

  • Challenges in social change
  • Harlem Renaissance
  • KKK, Nativism, Marcus Garvey and Fundamentalists
  • Racial Violence
  • Cultural wars

 

 

 

Considerations:

  • broad areas of progressive reform: social justice, government efficiency and activism, inclusive democracy, regulation of big business
  • the influence of middle-class values and assumptions in progressive thought
  • tensions and contradictions within progressivism
  • the goal of exporting American conceptions of democracy and freedom to the world
  • Jim Crow and the nature of racist segregation

Essay 2:  Essay Question:

What assumptions and goals characterized progressivism as a philosophy, and how did it influence American society and politics domestically and internationally? How did progressive reformers confront the social, political, economic, and moral problems of their age, and to what extent were they successful?

Define the concepts of social justice and social control, and explain how both trends functioned in the Progressive Era. Identify the core issues within these trends, including the settlement house movement, women’s suffrage, support for immigrants and labor, prohibition, segregation and desegregation, education reform, and antivice activism.