Author: chris

Deborah enters your office, and you notice that she looks apprehensive. “Hi, Deborah. What’s up?” you ask, hoping that nothing is wrong.

“Well, your team is doing an excellent job researching, and you’ve been keeping me up-to-date on your findings. My concern is that we are approaching this from a narrow-minded approach.”

“How so?” You ask. You are puzzled. “Our team has been looking at every aspect of the company and considering both internal and external pros and cons.”

“Have you considered partnerships or an acquisition or other options for expanding our brand?” Deborah asks. “I didn’t see that as an option in any of your reports. I think you really need to cover our bases here. Please report back to me next week with more options.”

You decide that Deborah has brought up another good point that should have been discussed in the beginning of the project. You make a note to add this to a list of project management ideas to help make future projects go smoother.

Complete the following:

• What other strategies would be a good fit for your company profile?
• Provide a brief overview of these strategies.
• Why is it important to have more than one strategy in mind when pursuing global expansion?

The Topic:

 

The lessons we take from failure can be fundamental to later success. Recount an incident or time when you experienced failure. How did it affect you, and what did you learn from the experience?

Case Study 1: Walmart Manages Ethics and Compliance Challenges
Due Week 3 and worth 200 points
Read “Case Study 3: Walmart Manages Ethics and Compliance Challenges,” located on page 407 of the textbook. Then, read the article titled, “The Good, the Bad, and Wal-Mart”, located at http://www.workplacefairness.org/reports/good-bad-wal-mart/wal-mart.php.
Write a four(4) page paper in which you:
1. Examine the manner in which Walmart’s business philosophy has impacted its perception of being unethical towards supply and employee stakeholders. Provide one (1) example of Walmart in an unethical situation.
2. Determine the major effects that Walmart’s business philosophy has had on its human resource practices and policies.
3. Analyze two (2) of the legal mandates that workers and U.S. government has accused Walmart of violating. Provide an explanation as to why these legal mandates were violated, citing specific violations.
4. Evaluate the efficiency of the structure of the ethical decision making framework that Walmart has used in making its decisions. Provide a rationale for your response.
5. Recommend two (2) actions that Walmart’s Human Resources Department should take in order to improve the employees’ perspectives of Walmart’s human resources policies. Provide a rationale for your recommendations.
6. Use at least three (3) quality academic resources in this assignment. Note: Wikipedia and other similar 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:
• Describe the business ethics issues and definitions, theories, and frameworks important to organizational ethical decision making and the role of a human resource professional.
• Determine the role of stakeholder interests, the interrelationship of ethics and social responsibility, and the role of corporate governance in ethics.
• Examine ethical issues and dilemmas in business.
• Write clearly and concisely about issues in ethics and advocacy for HR professionals using correct grammar and mechanics.
• Use technology and information resources to research issues in business ethics and advocacy for HR professionals.
Grading for this assignment will be based on answer quality, logic / organization of the paper, and language and writing skill.

Question 1
“Cost Control”
• Use the Internet or Strayer Databases to research “cost escalation” within the health care segment. Next, determine one (1) key driver of health care cost escalation. Indicate one (1) strategy health care managers can implement to reduce costs in the future. Provide support for your rationale.
• Assume that you are a financial administrator of a hospital, and you are responsible for reducing costs (e.g., fixed, variable, semi-fixed, etc.) for the facility. Determine the most significant cost within the hospital, and recommend a strategy for reducing this cost 10% over the next year. Provide support for your strategy.

Question 2

Taking a Position that Works” Watch the video below and then respond to the questions that follow

Think about products you were enticed to purchase using social media (e.g., Twitter, Facebook, Tumblr, Vine, YouTube, etc.)
• Tell us your favorite product that you purchased using social media and what positioning statement the company used.
• Make sure you include the information from the fill-in-the-blank positioning statement.
• Also, state your opinion on how well social media clearly portrayed the positioning statement.
• Click here to view the grading rubric for this discussion.
Video Segment Reference:
Newell, G. (2011, December 29). Building customer loyalty through strong emotional marketing [Video file]. Retrieved from https://youtu.be/zXTakDJG-NM.

Video link
https://www.kaltura.com/index.php/extwidget/preview/partner_id/956951/uiconf_id/24290031/entry_id/1_hxkn3o7w/embed/iframe?&flashvars[streamerType]=auto

Part 2
Assignment
Textbook
Health Care Finance – 1 Year Option, 4th Edition
Judith J. Baker
• Assignment Exercises 6-1 and 6-2 on page 466
• Assignment Exercises 7-1 and 7-2 on pages 467 through 469
https://books.google.co.ke/books?id=yfuBAAAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&dq=Health+Care+Finance+-+1+Year+Option&hl=en&sa=X&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false
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ASSIGNMENT 08
SC160 Basic Biology
Directions: Be sure to save an electronic copy of your answer before submitting it to Ashworth College for grading. Unless otherwise stated, answer in complete sentences, and be sure to use correct English, spelling and grammar. Sources must be cited in APA format. Your response should be four (4) double-spaced pages; refer to the “Assignment Format” page located on the Course Home page for specific format requirements.

Discuss the applications of each of following in biology today and include three examples of each with a brief description.

a. DNA in forensic science
b. Population evolution and microbial life
c. Biological diversity evolution
d. Plant and animal evolution
e. Population growth
f. Biomes and ecosystems

Grading Rubric

Please refer to the rubric on the next page for the grading criteria for this assignment.

 

Assignment 1: Financial Statement Restatement and Ethics

 

Due Week 3 and worth 200 points

 

Search the Internet or Strayer databases for a company that recently restated its earnings. Based on the company researched and identified:

 

Write a two to three (2-3) page paper in which you:

 

1. Assess the factors that contributed to the financial statement restatement, signifying the executive management team’s attitude toward the restatement. Suggest how the restatement may have been avoided during the initial reporting process.
2. Explain the impact to the company’s stock price when the restatement was released and to future earnings forecast, indicating whether or not you believe the impact to the stock price was justified.
3. Evaluate the restatement in terms of management’s ethical violations according to the requirements of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, providing recommendations to management on how to avoid these problems in the future. Provide support for your recommendations.
4. Use at least two (2) quality academic resources in this assignment. Note: Wikipedia and other Websites do not quality 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.

Week 1 Holocaust: Oral Histories Paper
What is this assignment?
After reviewing the “Holocaust Encyclopedia Oral Histories” resource, describe a fictitious event that could have occurred involving prejudice and discrimination when ‘you’ were a young adult in Nazi Germany between 1933 and 1945. The paper must be 2 to 3 pages in length. Remember you are writing this paper as if you were a Jewish person living in Nazi Germany. Integrate the various interactions between prejudice and discrimination ‘you’ may have faced using Merton’s typologies and explain the role of power and control in discrimination and prejudice within those interactions. You will need references in addition to the textbook and the Weekly Activities to complete this assignment.
How will writing the Week 1 Holocaust: Oral Histories Paper help me in my future career?
Writing the Week 1 Holocaust: Oral Histories Paper can help you see the world from the perspective of others. Chances are in your current or future career you will work with people from diverse backgrounds, ethnicities, cultures, and generations. See through another’s perspective may help you become more tolerant and accepting of your coworkers’ beliefs, attitudes, and motivations.
How will this assignment be evaluated?
Please review the corresponding rubric.
What should you pay attention to when completing this assignment?
• Your job is to place yourself in another person’s ‘shoes.’
• When writing this assignment make sure that you are writing as if you were a Jewish person living in Nazi Germany between 1933 and 1945.
• Ensure that you integrate the various interactions between prejudice and discrimination using Merton’s typologies.
• Explain the role of power and control in discrimination and prejudice within those interactions.
• You will need references in addition to the textbook and the Weekly Activities to complete this assignment.
• Organize this paper just like you would organize a good essay: introduction, body, and conclusion.
• Remember that well developed paragraphs should be between 3-5 sentences long. If you are unsure of how to write good paragraphs, consult and old English Composition textbook or make an appointment to see someone in the Student Success Center.
• All assignments should use APA style, be error-free (grammar and spelling count), have one-inch margins, and include a cover page and reference page. In text citations and a reference page are required when using outside sources.

Students, please view the “Submit a Clickable Rubric Assignment” in the Student Center.

Instructors, training on how to grade is within the Instructor Center.

Assignment 1: Essay

Due Week 4 and worth 100 points

Choose one (1) of the three (3) reading selections from the list of topic choices below. The focus is on brief but important primary source material written by major authors. Read the selections  as identified with each topic below. Write a three to four (3-4) paragraph essay (250 words minimum) which analyzes the “surprise ending” of the reading selection.

Topic Choices

• Reading selection from Descartes’ Discourse on the Method (Part IV). Descartes begins with a  proof of one basic conclusion and ends with a proof of something much grander. Remember to focus on the surprise and point of realization, not the details of the philosophical argument. Read Part IV of the Discourse on the Method located at http://www.earlymoderntexts.com/assets/pdfs/descartes1637.pdf (then scroll down to Part 4, pp. 14-18). This is only four or five (4 or 5) pages of the larger work.
• Reading selection of Swift’s A Modest Proposal. It is essential to recognize the genre of this work, as discussed in our class text, which you should consult and cite. Swift promotes a radical solution, but subtle options are mentioned. You are looking for surprise and a point of realization. Read and focus on A Modest Proposal located at http://www.victorianweb.org/previctorian/swift/modest.html.
• Two (2) reading selections from Voltaire’s Candide. Consider how these readings start and end in terms of the action and the beliefs. You are looking for surprise and a point of realization. These selections can be found on pp. 840-841 in the textbook. In addition, consult the class text at pp. 824-825.

For the reading selection you choose:

1. Clearly state in your own words the “surprise ending” in the reading you selected. Clearly identify the point in the reading when you realized that there were elements in the reading that surprised you. Not all of the surprises come at the end.
2. Evaluate how successful the author was in convincing you to accept the validity of the “surprise ending” that was different from what you expected.

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 Style format. Check with your professor for any additional instructions. (Note: Students can find APA style materials located in the Additional Resources section of their Student Center within their course shell for reference)
• 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.
• Use the source(s) identified above for the topic you choose, focusing on the main primary source of that author. You may use additional sources also if they are of good academic quality for college papers (Wikipedia and similar websites do not qualify). Use proper APA style in-text citing and also a matching APA style References list at the end.

The specific course learning outcomes associated with this assignment are:

• Explain how key social, cultural, and artistic contributions contribute to historical changes.
• Explain the importance of situating a society’s cultural and artistic expressions within a historical context.
• Examine the influences of intellectual, religious, political, and socio-economic forces on social, cultural, and artistic expressions.
• Identify major historical developments in world cultures from the Renaissance to the contemporary period.
• Use technology and information resources to research issues in the study of world cultures.
• Write clearly and concisely about world cultures using proper writing mechanics.

Grading for this assignment will be based on answer quality, logic/organization of the paper, and language and

For numbers less than one (1.0), please express as 0.76, not .76
Maintaining your intermediate calculations extend to three places to the right of the decimal point (for example, 0.458)
Show final answers as two-decimal-place numbers (for example, 1.24 or 0.53)
When rounding, round the number 5 up (for example, 2.485 = 2.49)

Complete the recipe cost sheet and calculate the Cost per Portion for the burger and the total recipe cost.

Recipe Name: RKR Burger Cost per Portion: ________________
Yield / Portions: 8
AP EP Total
Recipe As Purchased Edible Portion Ingredient
Ingredient Amount U/M Cost per Unit Yield Cost per Unit Cost
Beef, ground patties (2:1) 8 each 0.960 100.0% ___________ __________
Buns, hamburger 8 each 0.350 100.0% ___________ __________
Lettuce, iceberg, chopped 16 oz 0.042 73.1% ___________ __________
Tomatoes, 5×6 2 ea 0.747 100.0% ___________ __________
Onion, sweet, diced 12 oz 0.069 90.6% ___________ __________
Butter, melted 4 fl oz 0.151 100.0% ___________ __________

Total Recipe Cost: __________
Notes:
For beef, “2:1” means 2 patties per pound or each patty weighed 8 ounces.

What if we purchase beef patties by the pound?

Beef, ground patties (2:1) 8 each 1.92/# 100.0% ___________ __________
What if we purchase onions by the pound?

Onion, sweet, diced 12 oz $27.60/25# 90.6% ___________ __________
Each tomato produces 4 slices, so 2 tomatoes will yield 8 slices or one per plate.

If the above burger is served with a side of French fries ($0.49 per portion), a side of chipotle mayonnaise ($0.06 per portion), and a side of ketchup ($0.07 per portion), and the plate’s menu price is $6.95, what is the theoretical food cost for this plate when expressed as a percentage?

A restaurant purchases prime rib roasts with the following specification: Prime, certified Angus beef, boneless, lip on rib eye. With boneless, lip-on rib eye, no trimming is required prior to cooking. The average invoice weight is 11-14 pounds per roast at a cost of $9.59 per pound. Each rib is delivered in a Cry-o-Vac package (vacuum sealed, captures juice draining from the meat, but the juice is still weighed when the package is placed on a scale). You have the following information about the preparation of the roast and sale of the product:

Weight
Package and invoice weight (AP) 12#, 10 oz.
Rib weight following cleaning 12#, 8 oz.
Weight after cooking (salable weight or EP) 11#, 12 oz.
Non-usable trim at the end of the shift 8 oz.
Usable rib at the end of the shift 0 (None)

Sales from the point of sales system:
4 each King cuts (20 ounce portions) @ $22.95
4 each Knight cuts (16 ounce portions) @ $19.95
2 Squire cuts (12 ounce portions) @ $15.95

If we operate in a flawless fashion, we would still have weight loss during the cleaning and cooking process. However, we would cut every portion exactly at the stated menu portion weight. In an ideal world, we would have no unusable trim at the end of the shift.
A. What was the invoice price of this rib roast, in dollars and cents? ________

B. Total “shrinkage” is the loss of weight (juice) prior to and during the cooking process.

What is the shrinkage (loss of juice), expressed as a percentage, between invoice weight and salable weight? _________
C. What is the value of the rib roast after cooking (salable weight)?

Total Value_____________

Cost per Usable Ounce____________

D. What is the effective cost per ounce of rib based on the theoretical weight of the amount sold?

Theoretical Total Ounces Sold_____________

Effective Cost per Ounce Sold____________

E. The total weight of the product is not accounted for in the above list.
One possibility is that the cook over-portioned the rib.

How much product, in ounces, is unaccounted for? _____________

What is the effect on the overall food cost of the operation when over-portioning occurs?

What potential sales opportunity was missed assuming that over-portioning occurred?

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.