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Due to varying business characteristics, the managerial accounting techniques applied in each business may differ.  For example, a business in the start-up phase may rely heavily upon budgeting and capital investment techniques; whereas, a business in the mature/maintaining phase may rely heavily upon cost management and quality control. Ultimately, the techniques used by management should assist the business in achieving its short-term and long-term goals through effective decision-making.

For your Final Paper, you will analyze the role of managerial accounting in two parts. Part I will provide a general overview of managerial accounting. Part II will provide examples of how managerial accounting theories and principles are applied in the business world.  You may find it helpful to reflect upon your own professional experiences for examples.

Part I (three to four double-spaced pages, excluding the title and reference pages)

Present the following:

• Define managerial accounting
• Describe the role of managerial accounting and the management accountant in a business or organization
• Describes ethical issues/concerns for the management accountant
• Describes at least three managerial accounting techniques available and their application within a business or organization

Part II (Four to six double-spaced pages, excluding the title and reference pages)

Select at least three of the five topics identified below:

• Cost Management Techniques
• Costing Methods
• Capital Investment Decision Techniques
• Budgeting
• Quality Control

For each topic selected, present real world examples of the application of managerial accounting techniques within a business or organization.  Examples may be gathered from your own professional experiences or from case studies obtained from credible sources (excluding textbook examples explored in previous weeks).  Presentation of each example should include how a managerial accounting technique was applied in the business or organization’s decision-making model.  Be sure to support your example with calculations when applicable.

For this Discussion, locate and select two scholarly articles—one article should discuss strategies for innovation in strategic planning and one article should discuss strategies for strategic planning in virtual environments. Consider how you might apply these strategies within an organization to effect positive social change.

Post a brief description of the two articles that you selected, including strategic planning strategies for innovation and virtual environments. Explain how you might apply these strategies to effect positiv

ocate and research at least three sources (excluding the Dowie’s article and your text) to discover additional information about the company and its ethical dilemma.  Use your text to create a foundation for the ethics theory.  This must be a concise evaluation of the case, so provide information on your understanding of the application of theory and personal values.

Develop your case analysis using the five following sections:

Section 1: Introduction and situational analysis: Describe the ethical dilemma, giving appropriate background information.  The term “dilemma” implies that there are pros and cons to various options, even if some are clearly more socially acceptable than others.  This is also where you do your situational analysis – identifying factors related to the individual(s) involved (consider the readings from this module), company and managerial practices and policies, external factors such as economic pressure, and any other aspects of the situation that you believe helped create the dilemma.

Section 2: Stakeholder analysis: Identify the key stakeholders and how they are potentially impacted by the various options inherent in the dilemma.

Section 3: Analysis based on ethical theories: Analyze the ethical dilemma from the perspective of cultural relativism (how it relates to cultural norms – what society would view as acceptable, as well as what is legal), teleology (looking at consequences and acting for the greater good), deontology (duties and principles), and virtue.

Note that the stakeholder analysis is particularly pertinent to the consequentialist approach, and that one of the challenges is estimating the positive and negative impacts on relevant stakeholders.  Do the best you can, looking at both good and bad consequences for each stakeholder group. Make sure you summarize the overall situation and come to a conclusion about the greater good.

Section 4: Conclusion and recommendations. Up to now, you have been analyzing and comparing options.  Here is where you pull together the different threads of your analysis and determine whether or not the company did the right thing.  Also, make recommendations about what the company should have done.  Make sure your justifications clearly flow from your analysis.  Make managerial and policy recommendations that would help avoid similar ethical dilemmas in the future and provide guidance to help those facing a similar dilemma.

Section 5: References.  List at least three sources (in addition to the Dowie’s article and your text) where you located additional information about the company and the associated ethical dilemma(s).

General guidance: Include a title page, and label the five sections. Your paper should be 2-3 pages in length, not including the title and reference pages. All citations should be in APA 6th Edition format. Double space your paper, use Times New Roman, 12-point font, with one inch margins. For more

This assignment provides you the opportunity to begin early construction of your website by building a foundation from which to continue development during the remaining weeks of this course and finalize in the Week Six Final Project. To prepare for this assignment, review the website creation options listed in the Recommended Resources for Week Two and the Week Two Instructor Guidance. Next, begin creation of your website using the content and written communication instructions below.

Note that for the two topics learned thus far; poverty and child protection, only pages with placeholders are created. Summarized information and artifacts pertaining to these topics will only be evaluated in the Week Six Final Project. However, at any point during the course, you may consult the Final Project requirements and add things at your own pace. 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, please contact the instructor using the Ask Your Instructor discussion.

In a single-page Word document, include a link to your website and the title of your website. Also include your definition of at risk. Submit your assignment to the course for evaluation.

Content Instructions

• Website Title – Homepage (1 point): A descriptive title for the website located on the homepage of the website.

• Definition of At Risk – Homepage (2 points): Your working definition of the term “at-risk” located on the homepage of the website crafted during Week One.

• Poverty Page (1 point): Create a page including section headings for an Overview of Poverty, Support, and Resources. Be sure to link the page to the homepage.

• Child Protection Services & Child Maltreatment Page (1 point): Create a page including section headings for an Overview of Child Protection Services and Maltreatment, Support, and Resources. Be sure to link the page to the homepage.

• Homelessness Page (1 point): Create a page including section headings for an Overview of Homelessness, Support, and Resources. Be sure to link this page to the homepage.

• Students at Risk Page (1 point): Create a page including the following section headings; Professional Presentation and Professional Application. Be sure to link this page from the homepage.

 

 

Second part: Separate but follows first assignment 

 

Creating a Web-Based Resource for a Population At Risk

 

Throughout this course, you have had the opportunity to examine various populations at risk and learn about strategies and resources to support these groups. You have reviewed many websites that offer services for a variety of populations at risk as well, which have hopefully served as models for your website that is finalized for this Final Project. In the Final Project, you will demonstrate mastery of the five course learning outcomes by completing the website resource you have been designing throughout the course that describes what you learned about children and families at risk as well as a specific population you selected as a focus during Week Five. Additionally, the website you create here may be an effective artifact to include in your MAED program eportfolio during your enrollment in the Capstone, EDU695, and will likely be useful to you as a resource for future professional work with your chosen population at risk from this project.

Create your Final Project to using the content and written communication instructions below. Use the Grading Rubric to review your Final Project before submission to ensure you have met the distinguished performance for each of the components described below. For additional assistance, review the Week Six Instructor Guidance page and, if needed, contact the instructor for further clarifications using the Ask Your Instructor discussion before the last day of the course when this Final Project is due.

Content Instructions

You must use the same website that you have been constructing throughout the course for this Final Project. Your website will have several “pages” or links including:

1. Homepage/General Information Page (2 points): Create a homepage or opening page that includes;
   • A title for the page.
   • Your working definition of at risk.
   • A professional mission statement, which is your statement about your current or anticipated professional role working with children and families at risk.
   • An Autobiography, which is a brief introduction about you including professional or volunteer experiences related to social, educational, or other related fields pertaining to groups at risk and your professional goals. In this autobiography, share how you intend to use what you know about groups at risk in your current or future professional role. If you lack experience in related fields, share your professional goals including the field and/or role you intend to pursue and how you intend to use what you know about groups at risk in that role. As an option, include a picture of yourself. Ensure the image is one you would want visible on the website, which may be viewed by potential employers.
   • A logically organized menu list that links to the pages in the website.
2. Page–Poverty (2 points): Summarize what you learned from the Week One Discussion; Evaluating the Impact of Poverty including; (a) an overview of the impact poverty has on children and families, (b) a description of at least one source of support such as a program, policy, or model, or approach, and (c) the additional resource previously located and shared during Week One. Consider the feedback provided during the discussion to enhance your original thinking and response. A distinguished response would also describe how this knowledge will serve you professionally when working with children or families at risk.
3. Page–Child Protection Services & Child Maltreatment (2 points): Include (a) an Overview that is one-to-two paragraphs and describes the role of child protection agencies and policies that protect children, (b) support your overview with an example of a parenting program that you reviewed in Week Two Discussion Two, and (c) resources, including at least one source to support the description and one from the Rubin (2012) text supporting the parental program. Add the Child Protection Agencies Infographic. The Child Maltreatment brochure from Week Three will already have been uploaded as an attachment or link during Week Three. A distinguished response would also describe how this knowledge will serve you professionally when working with children or families at risk.
4. Page–Homelessness (2 points): Use what was discussed in Week Three role-play discussion to inform this page. Include; (a) an Overview that is one-to-two paragraphs summarizing what you learned while comparing and contrasting issues of homelessness in New York and Chicago. A distinguished response will include enhancements to your original discussion response from Week Three based on the reciprocal feedback received during the discussion; (b) your perspective about the supports reviewed such as programs or policies and their overall effectiveness as well as either the recommendation you made for the cities or your ideas for potentially applying what you learned to another city; (c) at least three resources, including at least one resource from your own state or city of residence, and last, (d) the visual compare/contrast graphic created during Week Three.
5. Page—Students At-Risk (1 point): Include an introduction of the School-Based Efforts: A Plan to Support Youth At-Risk assignment completed during Week Four that describes changes or enhancements you made to the presentation following its evaluation and the feedback you received during Week Four. Also, describe how the information learned about students at risk will serve you professionally when working with children or families at risk. Include your presentation as an attachment or link on this page.
6. Specialization Pages Instructions: Create three additional pages in your website linked from the Homepage. Title the pages specifically for your selected group at risk as shown in Content Expectations below.
7. Page– Specialization Group: Overview (4 points): Create a page titled with the name of your Specialization Group (e.g.: Child Refugees: Overview). Include a two-to-three paragraph description of the chosen population at risk including risk indicators, statistical data, and associated short and long-term implications and at least one suitable graphic. A minimum of two references must be cited in-text.
8. Page–Specialization Group: Strategies (4 points): Create a page titled Strategies that is linked from the Homepage. Include on this page
   • resilience indicators that may target solutions.
   • a description of at least two strategies (i.e., frameworks, models, approaches, strategies, programs, or interventions) that can be used to effectively work with the chosen population at risk including at least one derived from the Rubin (2012) text.
   • explanation of the potential or intended outcomes of the two strategies.
   • supporting evidence from at least two additional scholarly sources to support the explanations
9. Page–Specialization Group: Resources (4 points): Create a page titled Resources that provides a minimum of five resources including the Rubin (2012) text, offering information and support for the chosen population at risk. Ensure this page includes resources appropriate for an audience of educational and/or community-based professionals serving the chosen population at risk as well as members of the population and that these resources are formatted in APA. Each resource must be annotated with a two-to-three sentence description saying what the resource is and how it might be used for supporting or for direct support to the chosen population at risk.
10. Text Version (3 points): Provide a text version of the website in a Microsoft Word document that includes a link to the website you created for this final project. The text version of your website or other multimedia creation will be eight-to-ten pages in length if you have created the content requested. The purpose of the text version is to provide a document to check the content of your site for originality through the TurnItIn software and to provide a place for your instructor to give you embedded feedback comments about the content of your website.

Written Communication Instructions 

Use these instructions to guide your creation of the content components of the final project.

1. APA Formatting (0.5 point): Use APA formatting consistently throughout the assignment, such as for the title page, references page, headings for page content, and citations in the content on the website.
2. Syntax and Mechanics (0.75 point): Display meticulous comprehension and organization of syntax and mechanics, such as spelling and grammar. Written work contains no errors and is very easy to

Due to varying business characteristics, the managerial accounting techniques applied in each business may differ.  For example, a business in the start-up phase may rely heavily upon budgeting and capital investment techniques; whereas, a business in the mature/maintaining phase may rely heavily upon cost management and quality control. Ultimately, the techniques used by management should assist the business in achieving its short-term and long-term goals through effective decision-making.

For your Final Paper, you will analyze the role of managerial accounting in two parts. Part I will provide a general overview of managerial accounting. Part II will provide examples of how managerial accounting theories and principles are applied in the business world.  You may find it helpful to reflect upon your own professional experiences for examples.

Part I (three to four double-spaced pages, excluding the title and reference pages)

Present the following:

• Define managerial accounting
• Describe the role of managerial accounting and the management accountant in a business or organization
• Describes ethical issues/concerns for the management accountant
• Describes at least three managerial accounting techniques available and their application within a business or organization

Part II (Four to six double-spaced pages, excluding the title and reference pages)

Select at least three of the five topics identified below:

• Cost Management Techniques
• Costing Methods
• Capital Investment Decision Techniques
• Budgeting
• Quality Control

For each topic selected, present real world examples of the application of managerial accounting techniques within a business or organization.  Examples may be gathered from your own professional experiences or from case studies obtained from credible sources (excluding textbook examples explored in previous weeks).  Presentation of each example should include how a managerial accounting technique was applied in the business or organization’s decision-making model.  Be sure to support your example with calculations when applicable.

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As a chief security officer (CSO) for a large hospital, you are charged with securing medical health care records. More recently, senior hospital administrators are seeking to provide a complete online portal for all its doctors and   patients. Based on the recent changes brought about by the Affordable Care Act, you are seeking to develop a scenario that affords a secure environment. Patients need to be able to access test results and interact with their doctors that conform to HIPAA regulations. Doctors need to share records, images     (X-rays), test results, and the like with other doctors or medical facilities for consults.

Write a three to five (3-5) page paper in which you:

1. Describe the Web-based information technologies (protocols, policies, tools) behind electronic health care medical records.
2. Analyze the security requirements needed to protect the Web-based medical records, especially the requirement to be able to share them with other medical facilities for consults and emergency services.
3. Identify the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) requirements that affect the electronic health care medical records, detailing the technical requirements.
4. Include a Visio or Dia diagram that describes your design. Note: The graphically depicted solution is not included in the required page length.
5. Use at least four (4) quality resources 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.
• Include charts or diagrams created in Visio or Dia. The completed diagrams / charts must be imported into the Word document before the paper is submitted.

The specific course learning outcomes associated with this assignment are:

• Analyze common Website attacks, weaknesses, and security best practices.
• Compare and contrast Web-based risks.
• Use technology and information resources to research issues in securing Web-based applications.
• Write clearly and concisely about Web application security topics using prope

The Research Paper will be a comprehensive research review of the significant principles of management communications used to successfully achieve organizational objectives. For this assignment of a minimum of eight pages, you need to integrate material from the readings, multimedia, and class discussion boards, and also reflect on professional experience where possible. It is mandatory to include research from the classroom text as well as from six scholarly sources to support your views. Consider the validity of your resources carefully before using them in academic papers. Use at least one professional example to address the topics below.

The following components must be included in order for the paper to be complete:

• Explain effective communication norms in a business setting.
• Describe the role of interpersonal communication both as a manager and as an employee. What specific techniques have you used to overcome barriers to communication? Be sure to specify your role in the communication.
• Explore the role of international and intercultural interpersonal communications in today’s global businesses.
• Describe both verbal and nonverbal management communication.
• Explain approaches for effective written management communication.
• Analyze various approaches for engaging an audience during a presentation and encouraging active listening.
  • Describe effective methods of conflict resolution.
  • Analyze techniques for leading teams and group meetings.

Writing the Research Paper

The Research Paper:

• Must be eight to ten double-spaced pages in length (not including the title and reference pages), and formatted according to APA style as outlined in the Ashford Writing Center.
• Must include a title page with the following:
  • Title of paper
  • Student’s name
  • Course name and number
  • Instructor’s name
  • Date submitted
• Must begin with an introductory paragraph that has a succinct thesis statement.
• Must address the topic of the paper with critical thought.
• Must end with a conclusion that reaffirms your thesis.
• Must use at least six scholarly resources, including a minimum of three from the Ashford Online Library.
• Must document all sources in APA style, as outlined in the Ashford Writing Center.

Must include a separate reference page, formatted according to APA style as outlined in the

As a chief security officer (CSO) for a large hospital, you are charged with securing medical health care records. More recently, senior hospital administrators are seeking to provide a complete online portal for all its doctors and   patients. Based on the recent changes brought about by the Affordable Care Act, you are seeking to develop a scenario that affords a secure environment. Patients need to be able to access test results and interact with their doctors that conform to HIPAA regulations. Doctors need to share records, images     (X-rays), test results, and the like with other doctors or medical facilities for consults.

Write a three to five (3-5) page paper in which you:

1. Describe the Web-based information technologies (protocols, policies, tools) behind electronic health care medical records.
2. Analyze the security requirements needed to protect the Web-based medical records, especially the requirement to be able to share them with other medical facilities for consults and emergency services.
3. Identify the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) requirements that affect the electronic health care medical records, detailing the technical requirements.
4. Include a Visio or Dia diagram that describes your design. Note: The graphically depicted solution is not included in the required page length.
5. Use at least four (4) quality resources 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.
• Include charts or diagrams created in Visio or Dia. The completed diagrams / charts must be imported into the Word document before the paper is submitted.

The specific course learning outcomes associated with this assignment are:

• Analyze common Website attacks, weaknesses, and security best practices.
• Compare and contrast Web-based risks.
• Use technology and information resources to research issues in securing Web-based applications.
• Write clearly and concisely about Web application security topics using prope

In this module, you learned about different forms of influence that might affect policy situations. In this assignment, you will explore different forms of influence in devising policy solutions.

Tasks:

In a minimum of 300 words, post your responses to the following:

• Explain the role of influence in policy advocacy. Toward whom are influence efforts directed? When does the influence begin, and when does it end?
• Discuss at least three different forms of influence that policy advocates may exercise. What factors should be considered when determining which influence technique to use? Create three examples of the three influence techniques you discuss targeting a specific issue (i.e., at least one example per technique) and explain why it is most appropriate for the situation.

Submission Details:

• By Saturday, February 13, 2016, post your responses to this Discussion Area.
• Through Wednesday, February 17, 2016, respond to at least two of your classmates’ posts. While responding, comment on the types of influences selected by other students. You should focus on why you believe these might or might not be effective. You should also provide a