Assessment 1: Comparing Organisations (a 3000 project = 80% of final grade) Issue date: 9th October 2014 Submission date: 24th November 2014 (There will be a maximum of 2 opportunities for formative assessment and feedback on your work in progress. These will be at times set by your tutor‚ weeks beginning 20th October and 10th November.) This assessment will be based on the following Knowledge‚ understanding and learning outcomes: Knowledge and understanding outcomes: K1. Know the typical aims
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Respond to ONE of the following: Question A Tell us about yourself so you can meet and greet other fellow Grantham University students within your course. Include what you believe to be your current knowledge level of this course topic and what you hope to learn before the course is over. Question B Discuss which function of a business’s operations you think is the most important. Why? Tell us about yourself so you can meet and greet other fellow Grantham University students within your
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HSM/260: Fixed Costs‚ Variable Costs‚ and Break Fixed Costs‚ Variable Costs‚ and Break Exercise 10.1 During the sixth month of the fiscal year‚ the program director of the Westchester Home-Delivered Meals (WHDM) program decides to again recompute fixed costs‚ variable costs‚ and the BEP using the high–low method. Here are the number of meals served and the total costs of the program for each of the first six months: Month Meals Served Total Costs July 3‚500
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What is research and its purpose in academic writing? Research is the process of finding information through various mediums to increase an individual’s knowledge about a certain subject. Research is a lengthy procedure by reading up on the subject‚ differentiating between fact and fiction‚ and playing with ideas from different views. Research is not finding a few web sites and compiling some information. The purpose of research in academic writing is to form new ideas or thesis about a subject
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CALIFORNIA’S RACE BASED LOCKDOWN Learning Team B Overview History Reasons Pros & Cons Success? Failure? Repurcussions Discrimination? Conclusion References HISTORY A state appeals court up held a 2002 ruling for Pelican bay in Northern California HISTORY 2005 U.S. supreme court ruling. HISTORY In 2009 pelican bay started using race separation gain. REASONS REASONS REASONS PROS Helped for Corrections Officers to recognize prison issues rapidly. Maintained
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This pack of BUS 610 Week 5 Discussion Questions 2 includes: Virtual Organizations Describe the evolution of the virtual organization. What are the pros and cons associated with this design? Provide examples of three technological devices/concepts that have had the greatest impact on virtual organizations. Respond to at least two of your peers for this posting. Business - General Business Virtual Organizations. Describe the evolution of the virtual organization. What are the pros
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1. A generous university benefactor has agreed to donate a large amount of money for student scholarships. The money can be provided in one lump-sum of $10mln‚ or in parts‚ where $5.5mln can be provided in year 1‚ and another $5.5mln can be provided in year 2. a) Assuming the opportunity interest rate is 6%‚ what is the present value of the second alternative? According to Douglas‚ "a dollar received in the present period is worth more than a dollar received in a future period" (2010‚ ch. 1
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Week 2 DQs and Participation Questions Week 2 Discussion Question #1 What are the differences among valuation‚ depreciation‚ amortization‚ and depletion? Is it appropriate to calculate depreciation using two different methods? Why? Which depreciation method provides you the highest depreciation expense in the first year? Why? Valuation refers to the asset being recorded and disclosed at current market price regardless of whether that price is above or below cost. Depreciation is the allocation
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Case Study Review After being in a market for X amount of years and being successful‚ other people will try to get in to get a piece of the pie. We have seen this over the years with numerous different products / services. One that I can think of off the top of my head was the evolution of online media. I remember as a kid when AIM “AOL Instant Messenger” was the coolest way to communicate with your friends and family. A couple years after that MySpace was introduced to the public and that went
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Case 2-1 Cynthia Cooper and WorldCom Cynthia Cooper details her trials and tribulations about her experiences at WorldCom in the book Extraordinary Circumstances: The Journey of a Corporate Whistleblower. The following excerpts from the book describe the actions she took to uncover the fraud at WorldCom and reactions of key players in the accounting department‚ top management‚ the audit committee and the external auditors. Cooper was first alerted to the fact that there may have been a problem
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