Author: chris

Suggested Term Paper Topics (Choose Only One)
Internal Control:
• Describe and discuss the impact of the Sarbanes-Oxley act on management and auditors’ responsibilities to study and report on internal controls.
• How do SAS 55 and SAS 78 differ from earlier auditing standards concerning internal controls?
• How do auditors assess the control environment?
• Internal Control—Integrated Framework (COSO): What are the major components and issues?
• Review and summarize the major provisions in PCAOB Auditing Standard No. 5
• How can internal controls be strengthened in a small business where ideal separation of duties is not possible?
• Was it right for the regulators to exempt non-accelerated companies from the SOX 404 internal control audit?

Fraud, Errors and Illegal Acts:
• What are the auditors’ responsibilities to detect fraud, errors and illegal acts? How have these responsibilities changed as a result of SAS 99 and the Sarbanes-Oxley Act?
• What can management and the auditors do to help prevent fraud, errors and illegal acts?
• How can auditors become better trained to recognize complex financial crime?
• How does the IRS detect fraud?

Legal Liability:
• How has auditor’s exposure to litigation changed as a result of the passage of the Sarbanes Oxley Act?
• How vulnerable are auditors to lawsuits in connection with compilation and review engagements?
• What is the AICPA doing to help reduce auditors’ legal liability exposure?

Other Topics:
• How does the PCAOB differ from its predecessor, the Independence Standards Board (ISB)?
• Is it likely that the PCAOB will be able to fulfill the AICPA’s historical role as the issuer of auditing and ethical standards?
• Going concern opinions: How have the standards relating to auditors responsibility with respect to the issuance of the going concern opinions evolved over time.
• Mandatory Auditor Rotation: Should the PCAOB mandate auditor rotation?
• Provision of non-audit services and auditor independence.
• Internal control effectiveness and financial reporting quality.

Some Important Journals:
• The Journal of Accountancy
• The CPA Journal
• Current Issues in Auditing
• Accounting Horizons
• Auditing: A Journal of Practice and Theory
• Journal of Accounting, Auditing and Finance
• Journal of Accounting and Public Policy
• The Pennsylvania CPA Journal, published by the PICPA
• The Internal Auditor, published by the Institute of Internal Auditors
Grading Criteria

The paper will be graded on four dimensions: (1) Content, (2) Structure, Organization and Development, (3) Style, and (4) Grammar.

• Content (Addresses the topic; Provides sufficient textual evidence to support the argument)
• Structure, Organization and Development
o Introduction (Is present in the paper; Includes the author’s conclusions; Indicates how the paper is organized)
o Each Paragraph (Includes a topic sentence; Develops one main idea; Has a transition sentence (where necessary) linking it to the next paragraph)
o The conclusion (Recaps the thesis statement and the essay’s main points; Presents a closing statement of the writer’s position)
o The entire composition (Is logically organized; Has a solid argument with supporting evidence)
o Main points (Are relevant to the thesis statement; Are discussed without too much repetition)
• Style (Is concise and precise; Cites references correctly)
• Grammar (Is free of misspellings; Is free of grammatical mistakes; Lacks incomplete sentences; Uses correct punctuation; Is free of jargon and clichés)
Points will be taken off for the following:
1. Spelling mistakes (-2.5% for each spelling mistake). A spell-check will take care of many problems but remember that Word will not differentiate (for example) between “its” and “it’s”.
2. Single-spaced manuscript (-20%).
3. Insufficient margins (-2.5% for each margin that is less than 1″. There are twelve margins in a three-page paper).
4. Page limit exceeded (-1% per line exceeding the page limit).
5. Late submission without valid, documentable excuse (-10% if late by 1 hour, -20% if late by six hours, and -30% if late by a day). I will not accept papers if late by more than one day.
6. Small font size (-10%).
7. Pages not numbered (-5%).

Domestic Surveillance Equals Security for All
Tiffany Butler
Introduction to Ethics and Social Responsibility: SOC120
Samantha Leyendecker-Estupinan
27 January 2016
Domestic Surveillance Equals Security for All
The National Security Agency (NSA) has been collecting ponderous amounts of data on citizens and permanent residents of the United States of America since the 9/11 terrorist attack (Sinha, G.A., 3013), although surveillance is believed to have been used before the horrific terrorist attack on September 11, 2001 it is not a public record. Domestic surveillance is predominantly used to prevent future terrorist attacks and provide security for everyone in the United States. Domestic surveillance is an act of utilitarianism; attempting to find a solution to keep everyone safe.

The mission of the Domestic Surveillance Directorate is simple: Collect, process, and store U.S. citizen data for the good of the Nation. We cope with the overload of information in our environment and turn that overload to our strategic advantage. We provide the ability for ubiquitous, secure collaboration both within our agency and through its interactions with various partners. We penetrate into the “hard” targets that threaten our nation wherever, whenever, or whomever they may be(nsa.gov1.info/).

Domestic surveillance was first revealed in the New York Times in 2005, accusing President Bush of collecting illegal information on US citizens, information included phone calls, emails and surveillance.
References:

Sinha, G. A. (2013). NSA SURVEILLANCE SINCE 9/11 AND THE HUMAN RIGHT TO PRIVACY. Loyola Law Review, 59(4), 861-946.
https://nsa.gov1.info/

Assignment: Why People Are Not Always Rational

Note: Next week, you will be will be studying the dynamics of group decision making. To prepare for the Week 8 assignments, you will complete this week’s assignment in groups. Your Instructor will assign you to one of six groups to complete this Assignment and the Discussion that follows. Remember, students taking this course come from different cultures around the world. It is important to be respectful of each other, regardless of how different your ways of thinking or interacting might be.

Psychological research shows the way people make decisions is often not rational. To prepare for this Assignment, read about the Allais Paradox and the Ellsberg Paradox in the Hastie and Dawes text. Also read Daniel Kahneman’s Nobel Prize lecture, “Maps of Bounded Rationality: A Perspective on Intuitive Judgment and Choice.”

For this Assignment, your Instructor will assign the following:

• Each student to one of six groups
• To each group, one of the following chapters from the Hastie and Dawes text: 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, or 9
• To each group, one of the videos listed under Media in this week’s resources.

Chapters 4 through 9 of the Hastie and Dawes text present a variety of ways in which people may succumb to inherent decision-making biases. For this Assignment, each student will read one of these chapters and work collaboratively with his or her group to write a 3- to 5-page group paper that explains the content of the assigned chapter and its connection to the decision problems from Week 1. In your Discussion this week, you will post your paper for your colleagues to read and discuss.

With your group, identify decision problems from the Week 1 Assignment that fall within the purview of the challenges or biases associated with rational decision making as discussed in your group’s assigned chapter and video.

With your group, collaboratively write a 3- to 5-page paper that explains your experiences with the Week 1 decision problems and how inherent decision-making biases may have influenced rational thought. In this paper, analyze whether you were affected by these biases as identified in your group resources. Explain how these biases affected your decision making.

 

text needed:

Hastie, R., & Dawes, R. M. (2010). Rational choice in an uncertain world (2nd ed.). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.

• Chapter 8, “Thinking Rationally About Uncertainty” (pp. 157–191)

I have added sample of other students work as well as decison test from week #1 with my answers i chose

Final Research Paper
Final Research Project
The Final Research Project will present research relating the responsibilities of a critical thinker to contemporary society. In this assignment, you will do the following:
• Research one aspect of a contemporary social problem. (Emotional and health effects of child obesity)
• Define the problem.
• Propose a possible solution for the problem.
• Create an argument that supports your thesis position. You should take on the perspective of a critically thinking researcher. The argument must present a thesis statement and evidence to support the thesis statement.
• Evaluate the ethical outcomes that result from the position you take on the issue and explain how those outcomes would influence society and culture.
• Interpret statistical data from at least two peer-reviewed scholarly sources.
• Evaluate evidence using the following standards: validity, reliability, and bias related to the chosen topic and accurately identify strengths and weaknesses.
Research and Define the Problem
You must take on the perspective of your major field of study and explain in your paper what that perspective is and how it informs your view of the topic. The topics listed above are far too broad to write about in 10–12 pages (3,300–3,900 words). Instead, you must choose a narrowly defined thesis and approach.
Your Argument
You must present a complete argument, including a major claim with at least five points of evidence, information, or data that will prove the claim.
• The thesis statement must be
o A clear, simple declarative sentence as the first or last sentence in the opening paragraph of the essay.
o Of such a nature that it can be substantiated, corroborated, verified, and proved through appeal to primary or secondary academic research source materials.
• The introductory paragraph must
o Present the thesis statement, an explanation for the importance of the topic, and its relation to the student’s field of study.
• Beliefs, opinions, and personal opinions must not be introduced at any point in the essay.
• All beliefs and opinions should be supported with academic evidence. Sweeping generalizations with no supporting academic evidence do not reflect adequate critical thinking skills.
• Do not include rhetorical questions in your essays. All the questions that are pertinent to your project need to be answered in your essay and your answers again need to be supported with evidence from peer-reviewed journal articles and academically published books.
Attributes of Good Critical Thinking in Papers
• Your paper should include academic sources that explain multiple sides of the issue.
• The evidence that you use should come from high-level researchers engaged in your field of study.
• Your interpretations of the evidence should be objective and state the conclusions and theses presented in the evidence clearly and fairly.
• Your paper should place the various forms of evidence in relation to one another and demonstrate why one form or perspective is stronger than the other positions that one could take on the issue.
• Your paper should point out the limitations of current evidence and attempt to indicate areas for future research.
Ethical Outcomes of the Position You Take
After you have defined the problem and created an argument about how one ought to respond to the issue, you need to explain the ethical outcomes of the position you have taken. This should again be in relation to the field of study in which you are working. There might be different ethical outcomes that result from your analysis. For example, going back to the example issue above, from an economic standpoint, illegal immigrants might contribute positively to the economy of Northern Illinois in a specific number of ways. Thus, an economist who believes that positive impact to the economy is the greatest good would say that one should promote the use of illegal immigrants. However, because these workers are often paid less than others and eliminate jobs that could be done by residents of Chicago, there could be other negative ethical outcomes that would outweigh the positive impacts to the economy. It is your goal to draw out the ethical implications of your thesis and explain the underlying rationale that is the foundation for your claim that one action is better than another.
• Critical thinkers are those who can outline the positive and negative ethical impacts of their positions. In addition, they are able to provide a rationale for why they believe a specific position is the right position, even when it leads to negative outcomes.
• Critical thinkers are also able to be honest and objective about the limitations and gray areas that pertain to their theses.
Final Research Project Requirements
The Final Research Project must be presented as a formal research paper (essay format), minimum of 10 – 12 pages in APA format (approximately 3,300 – 3,900 typewritten words, excluding title page and reference pages). Written essays must adhere to all APA formatting standards and requirements.
Quotations:
There must be no more than 15% quoted content in the body of your essay. All quoted material must bear quotation marks and a full quotation citation.
Source Documents:
• There must be 10 or more source documents used, cited, and referenced.
• Multimedia sources (such as videos) may be used, but no more than two such sources may be used. If multimedia sources are used, then they must be authored and distributed by credible sources, such as universities, law schools, medical schools, or professors, or found in the Ashford University Library.
• Where print documents are used for source materials, those must be peer-reviewed, scholarly journal articles, and academically published books. Popular media sources (e.g., newspapers, magazines, television and radio shows, etc.) may not be used. Materials from advocacy groups (e.g., Greenpeace, Human Rights Campaign, National Organization for Women, etc.) may not be used.
• Two of the peer-reviewed scholarly sources used must include statistical evidence, which must be accurately interpreted.
• Sites such as ProCon.org and Wikipedia should not be used.
• Religious texts are neither peer-reviewed nor scholarly and so may not be used in any way.
Summary Conclusion:
You must have a summary conclusion as the last paragraph(s) of the project, presenting the major point of the essay and the evidence supporting that point.
Word Count:
The content body of the project must be 3,300 words or more. The word count does not include anything in the title page, running header, or reference list. It is expected that you meet all logistical requirements of this paper.
Reference List:
• The list of references must include only those source documents that are cited within the body of the project.
• The project must fully comply with APA formatting standards and requirements: title page, running header with page numbers, font face and size, line spacing, citations, and reference page(s).
See Attachments for two other sources please.
Mendiratta, P. (2014). Child obesity and self esteem: A co-relational study. No. 78, 54-58. Retrieved from http://search.proquest.com/docview/1557087861?accountid=45049
Wendt, M. H. D. (2009). Economic, environmental, and endowment effects on childhood obesity and school performance (Order No. 3344234). Available from ABI/INFORM Complete. (304197251). Retrieved from http://search.proquest.com/docview/304197251?accountid=45049
doi:10.1186/1471-2458-12-267
Cite this article as: Gerards et al.: Lifestyle Triple P: a parenting intervention for childhood obesity. BMC Public Health 2012 12:267.

Glied, S., & Oellerich, D. (2014). Two-Generation Programs and Health. The Future of Children, 24(1), 79-97. doi:10.1353/foc.2014.0006

15 pages not including tittle and reference. 

Plagiarism software used by instructor. 

12 font and double space. 

 

The Portfolio Project requires that you conduct observations in a courtroom and compare these observations with library research on a related topic, compiling everything you learn in one final paper. There are several components to this project and four preliminary deliverables. Please read through them carefully.

Preliminary Components:

• Select online court coverage to analyze
• Observe your chosen court coverage for a minimum of 2 hours
• Present a formal outline of your research paper
• Submit a list of sources
• Submit a formal research paper, detailing your observations

Select Online Court Coverage

OJ Simpson’s murder trial

• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gA5sj_zTD9M
• http://ktla.com/2014/06/12/ktla-video-archives-o-j-simpson-murder-trial/

Observe Chosen Court

you should have spent a minimum of two hours observing criminal court proceedings that you will use to prepare your Court Report, . For the Court Report, prepare a well-written 2-3 page paper, about your court observation experience. Provide the details of the proceedings of the court you visited (court name, date, judge, type of proceedings) and the name(s) of cases(s) you observed. Describe the proceedings that took place, what you learned, and what (if anything) was surprising to you. In addition, pick one aspect of the court proceeding (such as arraignments, sentencing, role of court personnel, the attorneys’ ethical responsibilities, etc.) that you will study further for your final Portfolio Project.

Formal Outline

submit an outline of your final paper.

List of Sources

Submita list of sources to be used in your final paper.

No points will be assigned for these deliverables at the time of their delivery, but points will be deducted from your final grade on the Portfolio Project if you fail to submit these in the weeks required (see the Portfolio Project Rubric). Additionally, you will be expected to account for the instructor’s feedback on these deliverables as you will be revising them to be used in the final paper.

The Final Paper

In the final paper, synthesize observed data from your court experience with research gleaned from at least five reliable, academic sources on the area of criminal justice you selected earlier in the term (arraignments, jury trials, sentencing, etc.). Compare and contrast what you personally observed in court with one or more normative positions argued or implied in your library research regarding how that particular area of criminal justice should function.

Specifically, your final paper should include:

• Your revised Court Report
• An analysis of the area of criminal justice you observed and researched. First, describe the area of criminal justice. Then, analyze the components of that area of criminal justice, including relevant laws and policies, ethical obligations of involved legal professionals, and the ways in which societal variables such as race, class, gender, and level of educational attainment affect proceedings in that area of criminal justice. Use your research to corroborate your discussion.
• A comparison and contrast between the realities of what you observed and what your library research taught you. Describe what the law and ethics dictate should take place in this area of criminal justice (such as an explanation of charges during an arraignment), and discuss how what you observed did and/or did not conform to these expectations.
• An evaluation of the conformities and the nonconformities you described in number 2 to arrive at a conclusion about what you observed versus the ideal in our criminal justice system, including suggestions for how the system could improve or, at least, better mirror the considerations of the law and of ethics.

Present your response in an analytical research paper of 15 well-written pages.

Assignment 1: Part A: Your Marketing Plan

Due Week 4 and worth 200 points

At the end of this course, you will have created a marketing plan for a hypothetical product-based company. Each assignment focuses on a different section of the overall marketing plan. For Assignment 1, you will compile information on the company’s background information, an environmental analysis, your company’s short and long-term goals, and a SWOT analysis.

For information on Website analytics, visit Google Analytics at http://www.google.com/analytics/why/.

Note: You may create and / or make all necessary assumptions needed for the completion of this assignment.

Write a five to six (5-6) page paper in which you:

1. Write an introduction to your company. Describe your company, its location, and the product it makes or the service it provides.
2. Develop an environmental analysis that includes competitive, economic, political, legal, technological, and sociocultural forces.
3. Determine the primary and secondary target markets for your company. Next, analyze the primary and secondary target markets that you identified for your company. Be sure to cover the 4Ps, 5Cs and STP.
4. Decide the main goals that you would like to achieve within the next year (short term) and the mains goals that you would like to achieve within the next five (5) years (long term). Determine the most appropriate ways to measure both short- and long-term goals. Note: Consider the following metrics: tracking downloads of Website content, Website visitors, increases in market share, customer value, new product adoption rates, retention, rate of growth compared to competition and the market, margin, and customer engagement.
5. Develop both a SWOT analysis and needs analysis for your product. Each analysis should examine four (4) strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats for your company.
6. Use at least four (4) academic resources as quantitative marketing research to determine the feasibility of your product / service. These resources should be industry specific and relate to your chosen product / service. 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 the marketing framework including the concepts of the 5Cs, STP, and 4Ps.
• Develop strategies to assess performance and achieve marketing goals.
• Examine the marketing science of customer behavior and products in the marketing exchange process and create dynamic strategies for competing.
• Evaluate target customer segments and positioning products within these segments.
• Use technology and information resources to research issues in marketing management.
• Write clearly and concisely about marketing management using proper writing mechanics
• Below is the apa paper format that is to be used for this paper.

The organization you selected in Week 1 is designing training for all the managers at all levels. It wants to base the training on one leadership theory.

Tasks:

Write a paper recommending a leadership theory. Address the following:

• Why do you believe this particular theory is the best for your organization? What is your rationale? What research can you cite to support your choice? What are the factors in your organization that make your selected leadership theory the best choice?
• How will using this theory positively impact the following variables?
  • Managers’ behavior toward subordinates and its effect on subordinates
  • Communication
  • Motivation of subordinates
  • Group and team behavior
  • Decision making
  • Culture

Be sure that you conduct the research necessary to support your conclusions and cite your sources appropriately.

Submission Details:

• Present a 7- to 10-page paper in a Microsoft Word document formatted in APA style.
• On a separate page, cite at least three sources using APA format.

School-Based Efforts: A Plan to Support At-Risk Youth

This assignment is an opportunity for you to apply what you learned from this week’s discussions in a relevant way based on your own preferred area of focus. In this assignment, you will look through the lens of a particular professional role that you either have related experience in or intend to take in an anticipated professional practice. The roles to select from relate to one or more professions that are integral to assisting children and families at risk. Assuming the role of the professional you have identified, your task in this assignment is to prepare a professional presentation for a diverse group of professionals, such as school principals or district administrators, social service providers or community outreach providers, medical professionals, and other related service providers.

Using the information gleaned from the two discussions this week and the National Center for School Engagement website, as well as the three articles listed under Required Resources as supporting research, you will prepare a professional presentation with the purpose of informing participants of facts pertaining to youth at risk as it relates to student academic success. Additionally, your goal is to not only bring awareness to the forefront regarding truancy, parental involvement, special education and more, but to show the relationship each group of professionals has to the subject of academic success for students at risk—the role they play in contributing to that success. Moreover, the presentation offers an opportunity for the various professionals to collaborate in an effort to problem-solve or devise potential solutions to any of the specific areas identified as being problematic. Your presentation will be included in the Week Six Final Project and should include enhancements based on the feedback gained from its evaluation during Week Four.

Create your assignment using the content and written communication instructions below. Use the Grading Rubric to review your assignment before submission to ensure you have met the distinguished performance for each of the components described below. For additional assistance, review the Week Four Instructor Guidance page and, if needed, contact the instructor for further clarifications using the Ask Your Instructor discussion. Additionally, this assignment will be added to your website.

Content Instructions

Use the presentation software of your choice or consider one of the recommendations in the Recommended Resources for Week Four. Submit your presentation for evaluation to the Week Four Assignment location and upload it as an attachment or link to your Students at Risk page in your website.

• Introduction (1 points): Create an introduction that states the role you have assumed, the audience your presentation is for, and the purpose of the presentation.
• Youth At Risk (3 points): Present at least eight indicators (examples) of youth at risk, such as those shared by SchoolEngagement.org,LDonline.org, those listed as Recommended Resources, or others discussed during Weeks One thru Four of this course, citing the National Center for School Engagement website and at least one additional scholarly source. Students with learning disabilities must be included as one of the eight indicators.
• Effects and Implications (2 point): Present seven-to-eight behaviors associated with being at-risk and three potential short- and long-term implications of these behaviors on a student’s ability to achieve academic success. Cite the National Center for School Engagement website and at least one additional scholarly source.

• Solutions – Create a Framework (2 points): Present three points related to the school’s role in establishing youth development philosophies, such as approaches for creating a positive school climate that encouraging positive relationships between adults and youth and professional to professional. Cite the National Center for School Engagement website and at least one additional scholarly source.

• Solutions: Integrating a Framework (2 points): Present what schools can do specifically to integrate the framework with staff, community, and parental support/involvement. Include a successful program, model, strategy, or approach to serve as an example of a potential solution. Cite theNational Center for School Engagement website, the source of your example, and at least one additional scholarly source.

• Participant Activity (2 points): Construct an engaging activity that encourages the audience for the presentation to provide feedback regarding their own respective, potential role in supporting a school’s efforts to create and integrate a framework for students at risk, that encourages ideas for potential solutions, and states how participants will interact, collaborate, and share ideas to all in attendance.

• Slide Design (1 points): Seven-to-ten slides that use relevant graphics, sound, and/or animation that assist in presenting the overall main point. Slides have a consistent theme, format, and font that augment the readability of the presentation.

Follow these instructions for completing and submitting your assignment:

Place all answers, both numerical and written, in a single excel spreadsheet.

Place each problem into a separate tab or sheet in an Excel file.

Place labels on spreadsheet inputs and outputs, and use the yellow highlighter on the top menu bar to highlight your final answer.

If the question incorporates graphs, you must replicate the graph on your spreadsheet file.

Do not submit Word files or multiple files for a single assignment.

 

3. The demand curve is given by

QD = 500 − 5PX + 0.5I + 10PY − 2PZ

where

QD = quantity demanded of good X

PX = price of good X

I = consumer income, in thousands

PY = price of good Y

PZ = price of good Z

1. Based on the demand curve above, is X a normal or an inferior good?
2. Based on the demand curve above, what is the relationship between good X and good Y?
3. Based on the demand curve above, what is the relationship between good X and good Z?
4. What is the equation of the demand curve if consumer incomes are $30,000, the price of

good Y is $10, and the price of good Z is $20?

1. Graph the demand curve that you found in (d), showing intercepts and slope.
2. If the price of good X is $15, what is the quantity demanded? Show this point on your demand

curve.

5. Suppose the demand and supply curves for a product

are given by

QD = 500 − 2P

QS = −100 + 3P

1. Graph the supply and demand curves.
2. Find the equilibrium price and quantity.
3. If the current price of the product is $100, what is the quantity supplied and the quantity

demanded? How would you describe this situation, and what would you expect to happen in

this market?

1. If the current price of the product is $150, what is the quantity supplied and the quantity

demanded? How would you describe this situation, and what would you expect to happen in

this market?

1. Suppose that demand changes to QD = 600 – 2P.

Find the new equilibrium price and quantity,

and show this on your graph.

 

1. For each of the following cases, calculate the arc price elasticity of demand, and state whether demand is elastic, inelastic, or unit elastic.
2. When the price of milk increases from $2.25 to $2.50 per gallon, the quantity demanded falls

from 100 gallons to 90 gallons.

7. When the price of paperback books falls from $7.00 to $6.50, the quantity demanded rises

from 100 to 150.

950. When the rent on apartments rises from $500 to $550, the quantity demanded decreases from 1,000 to 950.
951. For each of the following cases, what is the expected impact on the total revenue of the firm?

Explain your reasoning.

1. Price elasticity of demand is known to be –0.5, and the firm raises price by 10 percent.
2. Price elasticity of demand is known to be –2.5, and the firm lowers price by 5 percent.
3. Price elasticity of demand is known to be –1.0, and the firm raises price by 1 percent.

 

1. Price elasticity of demand is known to be 0, and the firm raises price by 50 percent.

Final Paper

Focus of the Final Paper

This paper will be an application of the leadership practice concepts learned throughout your degree program to a real-world situation. In an eight- to ten-page paper, discuss one significant organizational challenge, within your organization or an organization you have researched. How did the leadership of the organization address the challenge? Could it have been done more effectively? How would you recommend future leaders strategically plan to avoid encountering a similar challenge within their own organizations? Provide suggestions for overcoming the challenge based on your own research and concepts presented in your degree program and grounded in leadership theory. Some challenges to consider would be (but are not limited to): an ethical challenge, a challenge occurring because of changes in the economy, a globalization challenge, or a challenge of organizational culture. Please request instructor approval of the challenge you would like to use as your focus before beginning your paper.

The Final Paper should, at minimum, include:

1. A description of the organization and its primary stakeholders. Include the vision and mission statement if they are available to the public, and the code of ethics if the company has one (if it is long, an excerpt or description is an acceptable alternative).

2. A detailed analysis of one challenge facing the leadership of the organization.

3. A strategy for overcoming the challenge based on outside research, the textbook, and concepts discussed during your degree studies.

Writing the Final Paper

The Final Paper:

1. Must be eight to ten double-spaced pages in length and formatted according to APA style, as outlined in your approved style guide.

2. Must include a cover page with:

o Title of Paper

o Student’s name

o Course name and number

o Name of paper

o Instructor’s name

o Date submitted

3. Must include an introductory paragraph with a succinct thesis statement.

4. Must address the topic of the paper with critical thought.

5. Must conclude with a restatement of the thesis and a conclusion paragraph.

6. Must use at least four scholarly sources to support your analysis and recommendations.

7. Must use APA style as outlined in your approved style guide to document all sources.

8. Must include, on the final page, a reference list that is completed according to APA style, as outlined in your approved style guide.