Research major differences between public criminal investigations and private security investigations.

Write a 1,050- to 1,400-word paper identifying the major differences between public criminal investigations and investigators and their private security counterparts. Include the following in your comparison:

• The differences and similarities between sectors, including the methods of operation during criminal investigations and the chain of command.
• At least two situations where private and public investigators must interact.
  • Identify sources of information, both unique and common, to each sector.
  • Explain scientific methods used by both sectors to investigate crimes.
• Identify challenges or potential issues of investigations that cross jurisdictions.
• Provide an example of an actual case that highlights aspects of both security and criminal investigations based on your comparison.

Assignment 2: External Environmental Scan

In order to develop effective strategies, it is critical to understand the marketplace environment. In this assignment, you will explore the relationship between marketplace positioning based on environmental factors.

Throughout this course, you will work on a strategy audit for a selected organization. In Module 1, you selected an organization for your course project activities and completed a market position analysis for your organization.

In this module, you will conduct a comprehensive external environmental scan of your business unit, including a five forces analysis, to identify the relevant trends that pose opportunities or threats to your business. These will serve as inputs for a final strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats (SWOT) analysis that will be due in Module 4: Assignment 2.

There are many elements that can go into an environmental scan, and your analysis will depend on the nature of your business unit, product portfolio, target market, and other factors related to the scope of your business.

Your environmental scan should include some or all of the following elements:

• Economic factors and trends
• Political factors and trends
• Regulatory and legal factors and trends
• Societal factors and trends
• Technological factors and trends
• Geographic factors and trends
• Porter’s five forces that consists of the following aspects:
  • Threat of new competition
  • Threat of substitute products or services
  • Bargaining power of customers (buyers)
  • Bargaining power of suppliers
  • Intensity of competitive/industry rivalry

Although your analysis will be tailored to your specific business, be sure to cover the following:

• A thorough five forces analysis of your industry
• The key factors and trends in any other areas affecting your industry
• A preliminary classification of the external factors and trends as either opportunities or threats which will be the inputs for the final SWOT analysis

1.Half-Wave and Full-Wave Rectifier

Pre-Lab Information

Rectifiers are widely used in power supplies to provide the required dc voltage.

Materials and equipment Needed:

Materials:

• One 240/24 Vrms center-tapped transformer
• Two diodes 1N4001
• Two 2.2 kΩ resistors
• One 100 μF, 50 V electrolytic capacitor (any voltage rating is fine since is simulation only)
• One fuse (any rating is fine since is simulation only)

Equipment:

• Oscilloscope
• Function generator

Procedure:

In this experiment, use Multisim to connect a low-voltage (24 V ac) transformer to a 240V 50Hz ac line (use the function generator for simulation and consider whether the typical specification is peak or rms). Connect the half-wave rectifier shown in Figure 1. Notice the polarity of the diode. Be sure to set the tolerance of the resistor to 5%. Connect the oscilloscope so that channel 1 is across the transformer and channel 2 is across the load resistor. View the secondary voltage, V_SEC, and the load voltage, V_LOAD, for this circuit and observe their waveforms.

8. Measure the rms input voltage V_SEC to the diode (remember to convert the oscilloscope reading of V_SEC to rms) and the output peak voltage, V_LOAD. Tabulate all data gathered. Capture screenshots of your measurements.

Figure 1

• The output isn’t very useful as a dc source because of the variations in the output waveform. Connect a 100 μF capacitor (C₁) with a tolerance of 10% in parallel with the load resistor (R_L). (note the polarity of the capacitor). Measure the dc load voltage, V_LOAD, and the peak-to-peak ripple voltage, V_RIPPLE, in the output. Measure the ripple frequency. Capture screenshots. Tabulate all data gathered and compare the results with and without the filter capacitor.

3. Disconnect the power and change the circuit to the full-wave rectifier circuit shown in Figure 2. Notice that the ground for the circuit has changed. The oscillopscope ground needs to be connected as shown. Check your circuit carefully before applying power. Compute the expected peak output voltage. Then apply power and view the V_SEC and V_LOAD waveforms.

Measure the V_SEC rms and peak output voltage V_LOAD without a filter capacitor. Capture screenshots of the waveforms.

Tabulate all data gathered.

Figure 2

4. Connect the 100 μF capacitor in parallel with the load resistor. Measure V_LOAD, the peak-to-peak ripple voltage, and the ripple frequency as before. Capture screenshots. Tabulate all gathered data and compare the results with and without the filter capacitor.
5. Investigate the effect of the load resistor on the ripple voltage by connecting a second 2.2 kΩ, 5% tolerance, load resistor in parallel with R_Land C₁ in the full-wave circuit of Figure 3. Measure the ripple voltage. Captures a screenshot.
6. Conclusion: Write a detailed conclusion about this lab experiment. The conclusions should explain in detail and in words why the results were different at different stages in the lab and what the implications are of the different results. You should make sure that you include the following:
7. the effect of capacitor on the output voltage
8. and the effect of additional load on the ripple voltage

Please note, however, that addressing only a and b will not result in full points.

7. Evaluation and Review Question:

What advantage does a full-wave rectifier circuit have over a half-wave rectifier circuit?

Write your lab report as a professional document. Make sure your tables presenting data are clear with units and headings. Save the document as Lab2YourGID.docx (ex: Lab2G00050331.docx), or in another relevant document format.

Complete an APA-formatted two-page paper (not including the title and reference pages)

answering the following questions.

1. Organizations that decide to issue bonds generally go through a series of steps. Discuss the six steps.
2. An alternative to traditional equity and debt financing is leasing. Leasing is undertaken primarily for what purposes?
3. Discuss the two major types of leases.
4. Discuss the terms short-term borrowing and long-term financing.
5. What are the primary sources of equity financing for not-for-profit healthcare organizations?
6. The capital budgeting process occurs in several stages, but generally includes what?
7. Discuss and list the three discounted cash flow methods.

How does Aristotle’s list of virtues and vices differ from our modern conceptions of vice and virtue?

How might we determine  which is  better: Aristotle’s system or our own?

Come up with a new product brand for a bike powered charger or other valuable sources for natural kinetic energy that can charge mobile devices. Like using the kinectic energy exerted when pedaling. Identify the industry and do a competitive analysis, complete these in 2-3 pages. The strategy should be 3-4 pages including

• Brand strategic plan (vision/objectives/strategies/tactics)
• Target customer segmentation analysis
• Customer insight (Primary research is required in this case because the brand is fictitious.)
• Brand essence/equity elements

Your assignment should contain a cover page, an abstract page, and a reference page in addition to the body. The body of the paper should be 6–7 pages in length, starting with a brief 1-paragraph introduction and ending with a short conclusion. The entire submission will be 9–12 pages in length, attacthed is a template for this assignment

Write an essay in response to ONE of the following three questions:

1. As citizens of the democratic city-state of Athens, why did Cleon and Diodotus disagree about the value and role of public debate and democracy, especially for deciding issues of foreign policy?

2. Using evidence from Suetonius’ Life of Julius Caesar, explain how a Roman citizen became politically influential during the period of the Late Republic (the first century BCE).

3. Using evidence from Josephus’ account of the the situation in Judea in the decades before the outbreak of the Jewish War in 67 AD, explain why segments of the Jewish population rebelled against Roman rule? (Keep in mind that Josephus’ account covers over half a century. Don’t focus excessively on events from a single year, especially if the events took place forty years before the rebellion.)

Essay requirements and grading criteria

1. It should be between 1000 and 1200 words in length.

2. The introduction paragraph must contain an analytical statement (thesis) that answers the topic question and states the argument you are making in the essay.

3. Any subsequent paragraphs (body paragraphs) should begin with an analytical topic sentence.

4. It must not quote more than 75 words.

5. It should make at least seven references to the text. You must provide page citations for these references.  You may use parenthetical references for these citations.  For example, cite in the following manner, (Josephus, 54).

6. It should be free of spelling or grammatical mistakes.

1. (TCO B) The following is a portion of a qualified audit report issued for a private company.

To the shareholders of Tamarak Corporation,

We have audited the accompanying balance sheet of Tamarak Corporation as of October 31, 2009, and the related statements of income, retained earnings, and cash flows for the past year. These financial statements are the responsibility of the company’s management. Our responsibility is to express an opinion on these financial statements based on our audit.

We conducted our audit in accordance with auditing standards generally accepted in the United States of America. Those standards require that we plan and perform the audit to obtain reasonable assurance about whether the financial statements are free of material misstatement. An audit includes examining, on a test basis, evidence supporting the amounts and disclosures in the financial statements. An audit also includes assessing the accounting principles used and significant estimates made by management, as well as evaluating the overall financial statement presentation. We believe that our audit provides a reasonable basis for our opinion.

The company has included in property and debt in the accompanying balance sheet certain lease obligations that, in our opinion, should be expensed in order to conform with generally accepted accounting principles. If these lease obligations were capitalized, property would be decreased by $4,000,000, long-term debt by $2,000,000, and retained earnings by $180,000 as of October 31, 2009, and net income and earnings per share would be decreased by $180,000 and $0.62, respectively, for the past year.

Required: Complete the above qualified audit report by preparing the opinion paragraph. Do not date or sign the report.

2. (TCO C) The following situation involves a possible violation of the AICPA’s code of professional conduct. For this situation, (1) determine the applicable rule number from the code, (2) decide whether or not the code has been violated, and (3) briefly explain how the situation violates (or does not violate) the code. Your answer should be set up something like this:

Rule # _____ Violation? Yes or No.

Provide a one- or two-line explanation.

Sarah Marin, CPA, is a senior auditor in the San Francisco office of Coopers & Snoopers, CPAs. Sarah’s father is employed as the controller of Line Electronics, a large, publicly held company in Michigan. Line Electronics is one of Coopers & Snoopers audit clients. Neither Sarah nor the San Francisco office of Coopers & Snoopers is involved in the audit of Line Electronics.

3. (TCO C) The following situation involves a possible violation of the AICPA’s code of professional conduct. For this situation, (1) determine the applicable rule number from the code, (2) decide whether or not the code has been violated, and (3) briefly explain how the situation violates (or does not violate) the code. Your answer should be set up something like this:

Rule # _____ Violation? Yes or No.

Provide a one- or two-line explanation.

Brad Heist, CPA, was traveling from Dallas to Houston, TX, when he was pulled over by a police officer on suspicion of driving under the influence. The Breathalyzer and a subsequent blood test revealed that Brad was definitely impaired. He was convicted in court of driving while under the influence of alcohol (DUI). This was Brad’s fourth conviction of DUI in less than a year, a felony under current Texas law. Accordingly, Brad was sentenced to 18 months in prison.

4. (TCO C) Under the provisions of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 (SOX), the audit committee of a public company has specific guidelines to which employees must adhere. Discuss some of the mandated features of the audit committee of a public company under SOX.

5. (TCO D) Discuss some of the steps the AICPA and the accounting profession as a whole can and are taking to reduce practitioners’ exposure to lawsuits. You answer should provide at least five steps.

6. (TCO G) Discuss the four primary purposes of analytical procedures performed during the planning phase of an audit.

This not a paper to be answer with less then 300 word each.

1.Visit Ben & Jerry’s Homemade Ice Cream website. After studying the information contained within this website, assess Ben & Jerry’s record on meeting social responsibility goals? How does this company meet its discretionary responsibilities? Give examples of social responsibility actions taken by Ben & Jerry’s, and outline them in a brief synopsis. Do you think that more businesses should adopt their strategy? Why, or why not?

2. Briefly discuss why factors of production move internationally. Do you think it is wise for factors of production to move? Do you think with the movement of these factors it will increase or decrease exports and imports? Why, or why not?