Author: chris

Governments collect most of their revenue to fund public budgets through taxation. Without taxation, government would not be able to provide most goods and services. It is, therefore, imperative to understand the main types of taxation levied in the United States and their advantages and disadvantages.

In a three to four-page APA style paper (not including the title and reference pages), discuss the three major tax structures: income, sales, and property taxes, and the advantages and disadvantages of each according to at least three of the criteria for evaluating revenue options: adequacy of revenue production, equity, economic effects, collectability, and transparency. In addition to the text, cite at least two outside resources in your paper and use APA style as outlined in the approved APA style guide to document all sources.

Read the following three situations.   Describe what you would do in each situation. Also, integrate two elements of reasoning and two intellectual standards into your writing for each situation to show a textbook understanding of the material behind your responses.  Your work should be a minimum of 500 words, and this word count would not include any wording that you might use directly from the three situations listed below.

Do not worry about your answers being right or wrong – you are going to be graded on your connection to the material – not the behavior you would engage in if it happened to you.

When you choose the 2 elements of reasoning and the 2 intellectual standards and describe them for each scenario (listed below), that would make six total elements of reasoning and six total intellectual standards.

The elements of reasoning are purpose, problem, information, concepts, points of view, inferences, assumptions, and implications/consequences.

The intellectual standards are clarity, depth, breadth, precision, fairness, logic, relevance, and accuracy.

Please be sure to label each element of reasoning and each intellectual standard that you discuss!

Situation A:  You are deployed in a country.  A raid went wrong, and your squad opened fire on several innocent people.  Your commander asks you and the rest of the squad to make it look like they opened fire up on you first.  How would you respond?

Situation B: As a police officer, you pull someone over.  After searching their vehicle, you confiscate several ounces of marijuana.  The computer system is down so you cannot chronicle this bust.  Your partner tells you that his wife is sick and he could really use that marijuana at home for medicinal purposes to help her with her pain.  How would you respond to your partner?

Situation C:  As a parent, your child has a first year teacher who gives ridiculously hard assignments.  Your kid has a four year scholarship waiting for him if he can pass this last course – even with a C.  The last assignment is an assignment that you did your graduate work on – so you know there’s no way a high schooler should be expected to do this assignment – but if your child fails this assignment, they would lose a four year scholarship.  Do you actively help them complete the assignment – or let them do it themselves – knowing they can’t do the assignment themselves and the assignment is likely to be poor because it was an inappropriately assigned paper.

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Case Study 2: Security Policy

Due Week 4

Review the Information Security Policies for The George Washington University and Harvard University:

• The George Washington University:

  http://my.gwu.edu/files/policies/InformationSecurityPolicyFINAL.pdf

• Harvard University:

  http://security.harvard.edu/enterprise-security-policy

Note: Include these two (2) Websites in your references section. These two (2) Websites do not count towards the required number of references.

Write a three to four (3-4) page paper in which you:

1. Explain the purpose of a university security policy and indicate the major reasons why they are necessary. Provide your opinion as to whether a university security policy is more or less important to have than a business security policy.
2. Critique the level of completeness of the George Washington University Security Policy.
3. Critique the level of completeness of the Harvard University Security Policy.
4. Suggest one (1) additional policy or procedure for each university’s policy. Provide a rationale for your response.
5. Use at least three (3) quality references in this assignment. Note: Wikipedia and similar Websites do not qualify as quality 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:

• Examine the challenges of computer security, including different threats and types of attacks.
• Use technology and information resources to research issues in Cryptography.
• Write clearly and concisely about Cryptography using proper writing mechanics and technical style conventions.

Being well-informed, at least knowing the right questions to ask, can save you from being taken advantage of. The purchase of a car involves so many variables that it is best to have some understanding before you attempt to purchase a car. There are even more variables to consider when you lease a car. For the purpose of this example, you will ignore such things as tax and dealer rebates. Research the difference between buying and leasing a car.

 

1. Choose a car that you wish to own, and find the price of this car. For this example, only consider new cars to purchase from a dealership. This will be your principle value, P.
2. Research available interest rates on this particular car. This will be the rate, r.
3. Decide how long you would like to take to pay off this car. Choose between 3–7 years. This will be the time, t.
4. The simple interest formula, can tell you how much interest will be added to the principle amount of this loan. Calculate the interest on your loan.
5. How much will you be repaying over the life of your loan?
6. How much are your monthly payments?
7. Assume that you have 5% to put as a down payment. How much will you be putting down?
8. With the down payment, what will the new monthly payments be?

 

Now, consider the option to lease this same car.

 

1. Most leases require a down payment. Assume that the dealership is requiring a 5% down payment. What is the new value of P on your lease?
2. The appeal to a lease is a lower interest rate. Reduce the interest rate that you received on your purchase by 2%, with a minimum rate of 0.5%.
3. The length of a lease is typically 2–5 years. Choose how long you wish to lease this car.
4. The monthly payment on a lease accounts for the depreciation of the car’s value. Assume at the end of your lease, the car has only retained 50% of its original value. What is your car’s value at the end of the loan? Use this for your new value of P.
5. How much interest will you be paying over the course of this lease?
6. What is your total cost, in other words principle plus interest?
7. What are the monthly payments?
8. At the end of the lease, you do not own the car. If you wish to purchase the car, you would still owe the value of P from step 12. At this point, you could turn in the keys and walk away, assuming the car is in perfect condition and ignoring mileage fees. What are the benefits and disadvantages to walking away from this car?
9. Instead of walking away, you could also purchase the car for what it is now worth. Using P from step 12, r from step 2 and t from step 3, calculate how much you would repay over the course of this new loan.
10. How much did you pay in total for this car?
11. Would you consider leasing a car? Discuss the advantages and disadvantages for buying versus leasing a car.

 

Be sure to show ALL of your work details.  Submit your answers in a Word document in the Unit 3 IP Submissions area.

Application: Addressing Challenges through Management Information Systems

The types of management information systems used across health care may vary by the setting, but they have in common the objective to streamline and enhance administrative processes and thereby support the institution’s ultimate goal of delivering optimal patient care.

In this Application Assignment, you will explore ways that technology might help address health care management problems with which you are already familiar from past coursework and/or professional experiences, such as issues in human resources, operations, organizational management, or financial management.

Prepare for this Application Assignment as follows:

• Identify a specific management challenge in health care that you have learned about through coursework or professional experience. This may be an issue you have researched for an assignment in a previous course, but it need not be.
• Conduct an online search to identify and learn more about one management information system (or application) that can improve performance in this area. Find out about challenges to adoption that this technology might pose.
• Keeping in mind Chapter 13, “IT Alignment and Strategic Planning,” from the course text Health Care Information Systems: A Practical Approach for Health Management consider the various steps an organization would need to take, and the various stakeholders who would be involved, in planning for this system. What would be some of the barriers in planning for this system?

Then write a 2- to 3-page paper that addresses the following:

• Briefly summarize the nature and purpose of the management information system you selected, and identify the specific health care setting in which it might be used.
• What challenge(s) would this system address? Describe how this system would lead to improvements in particular managerial functions. How would you expect this system to transform the organization?
• What are key organizational barriers to adopting this system?
• Discuss the ways in which this system might align with an organization’s strategic goals, the processes by which an organization would strategically plan for this system, and the primary stakeholders who would be involved.

 

Your written assignments must follow APA guidelines. Be sure to support your work with specific citations from this week’s Learning Resources and additional scholarly sources as appropriate. Refer to the Essential Guide to APA Style to ensure your in-text citations and reference list are correct.

This week’s paper is required to be approximately 4 -6 pages in length, not including the title page and the reference page. No paper should be fewer than 1400 words.  Double space your work, cite your work, limit quotes, and edit your work well for spelling, grammar, and punctuation errors. If you have quotes included in your paper, you should have more than 1400 words to compensate. Your work will be automatically reviewed by Turnitin upon submission.   Please make sure you have cited your work properly.

 

After reading chapters 9 & 10 from week 6 and reading chapters 11 & 12 from week 7 you should have an understanding of the  types of strategic control, the need for balance between rewards, culture, and boundaries, the pros and cons of different organizational structures, the elements of effective leadership, ethics programs, the types of risk a company may take.   After reading the attached articles below, you then can incorporate all of these strategies with the managerial economic impact certain decisions will have on a company.

 

Read the two articles attached about managerial economics.

 

C:\Users\bop46919\Documents\Managerial Economics _2_.pdf

 

C:\Users\bop46919\Documents\Updating Managerial Economics.pdf

 

Research this company using at least (2) outside scholarly articles. Do not use a website as a reference. Your reference source must have an author.Discuss these six topics in relation to your company and also incorporate the issue of managerial economics within your company and how the economic situation of today influences the strategic decisions your company is making. Each of the six topics discussed should be in bold print. For example, one topic you may choose may be how your company attains balance between culture, rewards, and boundaries.  Another topic may be your company’s organizational structure and why they have the structure they have.

 

Give examples using the terms and concepts in your textbook and your research articles.

 

B. What is the importance of each of the six topics within your company?

 

C. What is the usefulness of understanding this topic in today’s corporate structure?

 

D. How does managerial economics fit into your topic?

 

 

 

HERE ARE THE CASES TO CHOOSE FROM:

 

CASE 1     Robin Hood

 

CASE 2     Edward Marshall Boehm, Inc.

 

CASE 3    American International Groups and the Bonus Fiasco

 

CASE 4     Pixar

 

CASE 5     The Casino Industry

 

CASE 6     Apple Inc.: Still Taking a Bite Out of the Competition?

 

CASE 7     Weight Watchers International Inc.

 

CASE 8     Jamba Juice

 

CASE 9     Ann Taylor: Survival in Specialty Retail

 

CASE 10   Heineken

 

CASE 11   QVC

 

CASE 12   World Wrestling Entertainment

 

CASE 13   eBay: Expanding into China

 

CASE 14   Microfinance: Going Global and Going Public?

 

CASE 15   McDonald’s

 

CASE 16   The Movie Exhibition Industry 2013

 

CASE 17   Is Dippin’ Dots Frozen Out?

 

CASE 18   Johnson & Johnson

 

CASE 19   Zynga

 

CASE 20   The Boston Beer Company

 

CASE 21   Southwest Airlines: Is LUV Soaring or Sour?

 

CASE 22   JetBlue Airlines: Getting Over the “Blues”?

 

CASE 23   Beiersdorf AG: Expanding Nivea’s Global Reach

 

CASE 24   Louis Vuitton

 

CASE 25   Nintendo’s Wii U

 

CASE 26   Backers Beware: Kickstarter Is Not a Store

 

CASE 27   Samsung Electronics

 

CASE 28   Procter & Gamble

 

CASE 29   FreshDirect: Is It Really Fresh?

 

CASE 30   General Motors

 

CASE 31   Is One Ford Really Working?

 

CASE 32   Campbell: Is the Soup Still Simmering?

 

CASE 33   United Way Worldwide

 

CASE 34   Keurig: Convenience, Choice, and Competitive Brands

 

CASE 35   Yahoo!

 

https://bookshelf.vitalsource.com/#/books/1259742318/cfi/6/108[;vnd.vst.idref=Case28]

write 500–700 words that respond to the following questions with your thoughts, ideas, and comments. This will be the foundation for future discussions by your classmates. Be substantive and clear, and use examples to reinforce your ideas.

 

Discuss a population group that is facing greater challenges and barriers to accessing care in the United States. Include the following in your discussion:

 

Why does that segment of the U.S. population face greater challenges and barriers to accessing care?

What programs (local, state, or federal), if any, exist today to attempt to provide access to the vulnerable population you are discussing?

 

Note: Use APA style and at least 2 scholarly references.

1. The following transactions occurred in a given year. Firm A manufactures leather using a
factory valued at $20,000. Suppose Firm A produced $2,000 worth of leather and incurred
the following costs: $1,000 for the salaries of workers, $100 for interest payments on a
bank loan, and taxes of $200. Firm A sold all of its leather to Firm B, which is a
manufacturer of luxury bags. Suppose Firm B produced four bags at a cost of $800 each.
The cost of each bag consisted of paying for $500 worth of raw materials, paying for the
salaries of workers for $200, and $100 in taxes. Firm B has a factory valued at $30,000.
Firm B sold to the public three of its four bags for $1,000 each. Calculate the contribution
to GDP using the following:
1) Production approach.
2) Income approach.
3) Expenditure approach

2 . Consider a two-good (A and B), two-period (year 1 and year 2) economy. In year 1, the
economy produced 10 units of A at a per unit price of $1 and 5 units of B at a per unit price
of $2. In year 2, the economy produced 15 units of A at a per unit price of $1 and 5 units
of B at a per unit price of $3. Calculate real GDP for years 1 and 2 using the following
methods:
1) Laspeyres.
2) Paasche.
3) Fisher.
4) Calculate and compare the growth rate of real GDP using the three approaches.

3. Mankiw, page 42, question 2. A farmer grows a bushel of wheat and sells it to a miller for
$1. The miller turns the wheat into flour and then sells the flour to a baker for $3. The
baker uses the flour to make bread and sells the bread to an engineer for $6. The engineer
eats the bread.
1) What is the value added by each person?
2) What is the bread’s contribution to GDP?

4. Mankiw, page 42, question 3. Suppose a woman marries her butler. After they are married,
her husband continues to wait on her as before, and she continues to support him as before
(but as a husband rather than an employee).

1) How does the marriage affect GDP? (Note: That is, the butler is treated as a husband,
not as an employee)
2) How should it affect GDP? (Note: That is, the butler is treated as an employee, not as
a husband)

• Explain how sex offender legislation might influence recidivism and/or reintegration into the community.
• Describe at least two alternatives to current sex offender legislation for managing sex offenders and explain why each might be effective in managing sex offenders.
• Provide a conclusion you drew about the effectiveness of sex offender legislation as it relates to sex offender management.

Support your Application Assignment with specific references to all resources used in its preparation.

Recognizing Arguments

In this assignment, you will apply key concepts covered in the module readings. You will identify the component parts of arguments and differentiate between various types of arguments such as inductive and deductive. You will then construct specific, original arguments.

There are two parts to the assignment. Complete both parts.

Part 1

1a: Identify Components of Arguments

Identify the component parts of the argument, premises and conclusion, for the following passages. Where applicable, highlight key words or phrases that identify a claim as a premise or a conclusion.

 

Refer to the following example:

“All men are mortal. Socrates is a man. Therefore, Socrates is mortal.”

 

All men are mortal.                                      Premise

Socrates is a man.                                      Premise

Therefore, Socrates is mortal.                     Conclusion

“Therefore” is a key word indicating the claim is the conclusion.

 

1. Sue is pregnant and will give birth to one child. We know already this child has no genetic anomalies. If Sue’s baby is a boy, he will be named Mark. If Sue’s baby is a girl, she will be named Margaret. Sue will have either a boy or a girl. So we know Sue’s baby will be named Mark or Margaret.

 

 

1. If the library has The Lord of the Rings,you won’t find it on the first floor. This is because all fantasy novels are fiction and all works of fiction are housed on the second floor of the library. Of course, I am assuming that all the books are properly shelved at this time.

 

 

3.   “After a year, brain scans showed that among the walkers, the hippocampus had increased in volume by about 2 percent on average; in the others, it had declined by about 1.4 percent. Since such a decline is normal in older adults, ’a 2 percent increase is fairly significant,’ said the lead author, Kirk Erickson, a psychologist at the University of Pittsburgh. Both groups also improved on a test of spatial memory, but the walkers improved more. While it is hard to generalize from this study to other populations, the researchers were delighted to learn that the hippocampus might expand with exercise” (Span, 2011).

 

 

Reference

Span, P. (2011, February 7). Fitness: A walk to remember? Study says yes. The New York Times, p. D.6. Retrieved from http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/08/health/research/08fitness.html?src=me&ref=general

 

1b: Identify Arguments as Inductive or Deductive

Identify the arguments as inductive or deductive for the following passages below. Offer a brief explanation why each argument is either inductive or deductive. (Remember that in this exercise you are not concerned with whether the arguments are strong or weak, valid or invalid. You are only concerned with the form of the arguments—that is, whether they are deductive or inductive.)

 

1. Because Una has circles under her eyes, is yawning, and looks tired, I’m certain she didn’t get much sleep last night.

 

 

 

 

 

1. Grace concluded that psychotherapists caused indigestion, because every time she had a session, she left with a horrible stomachache.

 

 

 

 

 

1. If a bug is a spider, it must have eight legs. A daddy-longlegs has six legs, consequently, a daddy-longlegs is not a spider.

 

 

 

 

 

Part 2

 

2a: Argument Identification and Anaylsis

In the following longer text passages, identify the key components of each argument. For each argument, list the main conclusion and the reasons (or premises) that support the conclusion.

Issue

 

1. “You say many women at the most elite colleges intend to ‘put aside their careers in favor of raising children.’ But why shouldn’t the raising of children be considered a career as well? Few would deny that being a stay-at-home parent is a terrifically demanding job, requiring unlimited ‘people skills’ and a total commitment to a workweek that recognizes no concept of overtime, not to mention a paycheck. The term ‘working mother’ is a redundancy. No woman need feel any guilt for opting to fill her days with whichever activities give her the greatest joy and fulfillment” (English, 2005).

 

 

The author concludes that: __________________________________

The reasons for making the argument are: _____________________

 

 

     

 

 

 

1. “The attorney general does not merely head up the Justice Department. He is responsible for ensuring that America is a nation in which justice prevails. Mr. Gonzales’s record makes him unqualified to take on this role or to represent the American justice system to the rest of the world. The Senate should reject his nomination” (The New York Times, Editorial, 2005).

 

The author concludes that: __________________________________

The reasons for making the argument are: _____________________

 

 

 

 

 

References

Editorial: The wrong Attorney General [Editorial]. (2005, January 26). The New York Times. http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=F20716FF3D5F0C758EDDA80894DD404482&smid=pl-share

English, D. (2005, September 20). A revived debate: Babies, careers, ‘Having it all.’ [Letter to the editor]. The New York Times. Retrieved from http://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/22/opinion/l22women.html?pagewanted=print

 

 

2b: Constructing Original Arguments

Complete the following:

Construct one original inductive argument and address the following:

• Identify the conclusion and the supporting reasons within the argument.
• Using 75–100 words, offer an explanation or justification for why the argument is an inductive argument.

 

 

 

 

 

Construct one original deductive argument and address the following:

• Identify the conclusion and the supporting reasons within the argument.
• Using 75–100 words, offer an explanation or justification for why the argument is a deductive argument.

 

 

 

 

 

 

2c: Finding Alternative Argument Examples or Finding Inductive or Deductive Argument Examples

Find one example of either an inductive or a deductive argument from contemporary media. Complete all the following tasks:

• Identify the type of argument (inductive or deductive).
• Include/reproduce the original passage of the argument and provide a complete citation for the source.
• Identify/paraphrase the conclusion(s).
• Using 75–100 words, identify/explain how you know or why you think the argument is an inductive/deductive one.