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identify an international organization and analyze the financial viability of the organization in the current international financial environment. Discuss the effects of instability in the foreign currency markets on organizational elements such as the supply chain, manufacturing and production. Explain how the organization mitigates the inherent risks in international currency.

Submit your two to three page paper (not including title and reference pages) to your instructor. Your paper should be formatted according to APA style as outlined in Ashford Writing Center, and you should cite at least two scholarly sources in addition to the textbook.

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THIS IS THE ASSIGNMENT :

You are looking ahead to starting a business after graduation. A colleague recommended that the two of you begin developing a plan now to determine how funds will be obtained to launch the business and support operations. You both agree that the business will require at least $50,000 of start-up capital and one employee besides yourselves. Include the following information in your plan:

• Describe the type of banking and loan arrangements you would use to collect the funds to launch the business, and explain how these accounts would be monitored to ensure accuracy and sufficiency of funds. Show an example of how a loan might be constructed to obtain the start-up capital, including computations of payments and interest.
• Discuss the types of taxes you will need to consider collecting, paying, or remitting relative to your business, and explain how these are computed.
• Explain how you will use pricing, commissions, discounts, markups, or markdowns strategically to help generate interest in your business product or service offering.
  • Discuss how these will affect income and the cash available to the business.
• Assuming that inventory and computers are among the first asset purchases planned, explain how these will be acquired.
  • Show computations of how costs will be recovered.
• Discuss how technology and the Internet will be used for banking and financial aspects of the start-up and operation of your business.
• Discuss the issues and risks associated with processing financial transactions and records on the Internet, and explain how you plan to address them.

Submitting your assignment in APA format means, at a minimum, you will need the following:

• Title page: Remember the running header and your title should be in ALL CAPITALS.
• Body: The body of your paper begins on the page following the title page and abstract page and must be double-spaced (be careful not to triple- or quadruple-space between paragraphs). The type face should be 12-pt. Times New Roman or 12-pt. Courier in regular black. Do not use color, bold type, or italics except as required for APA-level headings and references. The deliverable length of the body of your paper for this assignment is 3–4 pages. In-body academic citations to support your decisions and analysis are required. A variety of academic sources is encouraged.
• Reference page: References that align with your in-body academic sources are listed on the final page of your paper. The references must be in APA format using appropriate spacing, hang indentions, italics, and upper- and lowercase usage as appropriate for the type of resource used. Remember, the Reference page is not a bibliography but a further listing of the abbreviated in-body citations used in the paper. Every referenced item must have a corresponding in-body citation.

Answer the following questions. Each answer should be sufficient enough

 

1.Discuss the differences between nonprofit, governmental, and commercial accounting  (10 pts)

2. Describe the use and application of the general fund and its differences as applied to the budgetary accounting practices we discussed in the course? (10 pts)
3. Explain both capital and debt service funds.  Describe the differences between the two funds? (10pts)
4. Explain the overall process used for financial reporting on government and non profit organizations?  What are the key elements within this process> (10pts)
5. Explain revenue and expenditure fund accounting and the similarities and differences between these two methods? (10pts)
6. Describe the  CAFR, the components of it, uses, and how it is created overall?(10 pts)

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 4 Explain how ancient people practiced religion.

In Week Two, you created a presentation on why linking assessments with report cards that reflect CCSS is imperative. In this discussion, you expand on your knowledge about CCSS and debate the idea of whether creating high-quality assessments is necessary. Note that some educators argue that it is not enough to just create a link between assessments and report cards, but that assessments need to be high level and should require students to synthesize their learning instead of only demonstrating mastery by rote memory. Alternatively, some educators argue that high-quality assessments cost more than lower quality assessments (Eisner, 2001; Matthews, 2006; Pulfrey, Buch, & Butera, 2011). One possible reason for this viewpoint is that higher-level assessments often include performance tasks and/or essays that require teacher scoring, and thus a great deal of time is spent on evaluating students’ work. Conversely, lower-level assessments measuring basic knowledge through multiple-choice and true/false responses; they can be measured using technology and take considerably less time and resources to measure.

First, choose a side from the two opposing viewpoints described above and discuss one of these two points:

1. Can the American education system afford assessments for deeper learning?
2. Can the American education system afford not to have such high-quality assessments?

 

Discussions 2

Creativity and Innovation

Educators strive to create a classroom that instills creativity and innovation. In this discussion, you will think about the creative and innovative instructional approach known as the the flipped classroom while making direct connections to the Common Core State Standards and teacher decision making based on student assessments. Reflecting on your previous discussion on CCSS in Week Two as well as your previous discussions from EDU671: Fundamentals of Educational Research about the flipped classroom, you will complete the three parts of this discussion’s initial post.

There are three parts to this discussion, which are described below.

Part 1

o    Discuss how the flipped classroom idea can be used in conjunction with CCSS (Math or English Language Arts)

o    Describe ways you could incorporate technology used in the flipped classroom idea to support the Framework for 21st century learning in the classroom as it relates to decision making based on student assessments.

Part 2

Now, think about assessments you have created or used in the past to address the following:

o    Discuss if a school or teacher should use a multimedia resource that is absolutely amazing in delivering both content and assessment, but is not accessible.

o    Evaluate whether the resource must be excluded from a course if there are no reasonably equivalent accessible alternatives.

Part 3

o    Attach a link to your electronic portfolio.

o    In one paragraph, reflect on your experience with the redesign in terms of challenges you encountered during the Week Two Assignment and how you overcame those challenges including any difficulties experienced in revising to meet the components of one ISTE-S standard and the CCSS (Math or English Language Arts) which are aligned with a minimum of one Core Subject and 21st Century Themes and a minimum of one  Learning and Innovation Skill, one  Information, Media, & Technology Skill, and evidence of at least one Life and Career Skill.

 

Assignment

1. Learning and Innovation Skills and Student Assessment

   This assignment requires you to make connections between high-quality assessment and learning and innovation skills. Additionally, using the Framework for 21st century learning as a resource, you will redesign or modify a prior activity from one of your courses in the MAED program representing program learning outcome 3, 4, 5, and 7. There are several approaches you could take with this assignment. For example, you may redesign an instructional plan with assessment plans embedded throughout or a full assessment plan including a summative assessment you may have constructed. These are just two ideas out of numerous possibilities. If you do not have previous assignments to use in this assignment, please contact your instructor for guidelines on how to proceed. Refer to the MAED program learning outcomes (PLOs) list as needed. Upload your assignment to the course for evaluation and to your ePortfolio (Pathbrite).

   Create your assignment to meet the content and written communication expectations below.

   Content Expectations

   The Redesign expectations explain what you are required to do with the prior coursework you choose to redesign. The Summary expectations are for the separate written portion of this assignment.

• Redesign – Alignment and Mastery (1 Point): Redesign an instructional plan with assessment plans embedded throughout, or a full assessment plan as noted above including a summative assessment that could be selected to include alignment between specific skills, CCSS, and objectives and includes criteria for mastery.

 

• Redesign – Learning and Innovation Skills (1 Point): Redesign an instructional plan with assessment plans embedded throughout, or a full assessment plan as noted above including a summative assessment that could be selected to include specific learning and innovation skills from either/each of; creativity and innovation, critical thinking and problem solving, and/or communication and collaboration.

 

• Summary – Introduction/Conclusion (1 Point): A one paragraph introduction to a summary that concisely presents the scope and organization of the summary writing, as well as a one paragraph conclusion that recaps your summary’s key points.

 

• Summary – Modification (1 Point): In one paragraph summarize the changes you made to your activity to meet the redesign expectations for this assignment. Explicitly state how your redesign assignment provides evidence of mastery of PLO’s 3, 5, and 7.

 

• Summary – Evaluation (1 Point): In one paragraph, evaluate how your assessment promotes Learning & Innovation Skills, assess how it could be used as a tool for ongoing evaluation of student progress, and evaluate how it could be used as a guide for teacher and student decision making.

 

• Summary – Reflection (1 Point): Summarize, in one paragraph, your experience with the redesign in terms of challenges you encountered and how you overcame those challenges.

Written Communication Expectations

• Page Requirement (.5 points): Two to four pages, not including title and references pages.
• APA Formatting (.5 points): Use APA formatting consistently throughout the assignment.
• Syntax and Mechanics (.5 points): Display meticulous comprehension and organization of syntax and mechanics such as spelling and grammar.
• Source Requirement (.5 points): References three scholarly sources in addition to the course textbook. All sources on the references page need to be used and cited correctly within the body of the assignment.

Required Resources

Required Text

1. Burnaford, G., & Brown, T. (2014). Teaching and learning in 21st century learning environments: A reader. San Diego, CA: Bridgepoint Education, Inc.
   1. 1. Chapter 5: Dynamic Curriculum and Instruction in the 21st Century

Articles

1. Eisner, E. W. (2001, January). What does it mean to say a school is doing well? Phi Delta Kappan 82(5), 367-372. Retrieved from the EBSCOhost database.
   • • Eisner notes how when we look at our concepts of education that stress accountability, we lose track of the needs of the school and how it is doing as a whole.
2. Mathews, J. (2006, November 14). Just whose idea was all this testing? The Washington Post. Retrieved from http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/11/13/AR2006111301007.html
   • • Matthews looks at the historical trends of testing and how as a nation we have become obsessed with accountability.
3. Prensky, M. (2001). Digital natives, Digital immigrants Part 1. On The Horizon, 9(5), 1. doi:10.1108/10748120110424816
   • • Prensky discusses the difference between digital immigrants (those who acquired knowledge about technology) and digital natives (those who grew up with technology).
4. Pulfrey, C., Buchs, C., & Butera, F. (2011). Why grades engender performance-avoidance goals: The mediating role of autonomous motivation. Journal of Educational Psychology, 103(3), 683-700. doi:10.1037/a0023911
   • • Pulfrey, Buchs, and Butera discuss how grading students only on assessments is hindering a student’s ability to really demonstrate what they learn.
5. Read the standards. (n.d.). Retrieved from http://www.corestandards.org/the-standards
   • • This website from the U.S. Department of Education provides a definition of the Common Core State Standards and what is expected of students at each grade level. The focus of CCSS is on core conceptual understandings and procedures starting in the early grades, providing teachers a timeline needed to teach core concepts and allowing each student the time needed to master the concepts.
6. The flipped classroom. (n.d.). Retrieved from http://www.knewton.com/flipped-classroom/
   • This web page provides information related to the use of technology in the classroom as well as how the flipped classroom approach takes learning outside of the classroom for students to experience independently, moving homework help back into the classroom

Website

1. Framework for 21st century learning. (n.d.). Retrieved from http://www.p21.org/our-work/p21-framework
   • This website provides a comprehensive view of 21st-century teaching and learning and combines a focus on student outcomes with support systems that help students’ master skills they will need in the 21st century and beyond.

 

Recommended Resources

Articles

1. Defining critical thinking. (n.d.). Retrieved from http://www.criticalthinking.org/aboutCT/define_critical_thinking.cfm
   • • On this web page, critical thinking is defined with specific examples
2. Gray, A. (2013). Week four, discussion 1: Data analysis practice scenario. College of Education, Ashford University, San Diego, CA.
   • • This document was used to inform your Week Four Discussion response in EDU 671 when practicing data analysis and serves as a reminder to help inform your response to Discussion Two in Week Three of this course.
3. Nelson, M. E., (2012). Review of Deconstructing digital natives [Review of the book, Deconstructing digital natives: Young people, technology, and the new literacies by M. Thomas (Ed.)]. Language, Learning, & Technology, 16(3), 35-39. Retrieved from http://llt.msu.edu/issues/october2012/review1.pdf
   • Nelson discusses the ideas behind Prensky (2001) and the flipped classroom. The review discusses the myth, perspectives and beyond digital natives examining the varied interpretations and significance of Prensky‘s ideas. Nelson reports research that grounds and tests the digital natives/digital immigrants formulation.

Text

1. Bergmann, J., & Sams, A. (2012). Flip your classroom: Reach every student in every class every day. International Society for Technology in Education. Pearson, NY.
   • Bergmann and Sams discuss how students need their teachers present to answer questions or to provide help if they get stuck on an assignment; they don’t need their teachers present to listen to a lecture or review

his assignment contains two (2) sections: Written Report and PowerPoint Presentation. You must submit both sections as separate files for the completion of this assignment. Label each file name according to the section of the assignment it is written for. Additionally, you may create and / or assume all necessary assumptions needed for the completion of this assignment.

According to a TechRepublic survey performed in 2013, (located at http://www.techrepublic.com/blog/data-center/research-desktop-virtualization-growing-in-popularity/#) desktop virtualization is growing in popularity. Use the Internet and Strayer Library to research this technique. Research the top three (3) selling brands of virtualization software.

 

Imagine that the Chief Technology Officer (CTO) of your organization, or of an organization in which you are familiar, has tasked you with researching the potential for using virtualization in the organization. You must write a report that the CTO and many others within the organization will read. You must also summarize the paper and share your key ideas, via a PowerPoint presentation, with the CTO and steering committee of the organization.

This paper and presentation should enlighten the organization as to whether or not virtualization is a worthwhile investment that could yield eventual savings to the organization.

 

Section 1: Written Report

1. Write an six to eight (6-8) page paper in which you:

1. Compare and contrast the top three (3) brands of virtualization software available. Focus your efforts on components such as standard configuration, hardware requirements price, and associated costs.
2. Examine the major pros and major cons of each of the top three (3) software packages available. Recommend the virtualization software that you feel is most appropriate for the organization. Provide a rationale for your recommendation.
3. Explore the major advantages and major disadvantages that your chosen organization may experience when using virtualization software. Give your opinion on whether or not you believe virtualization software is the right fit for your chosen company. Provide a rationale for your response.
4. Create a Microsoft Word table that identifies the advantages, disadvantages, computer requirements, initial costs, and future savings for an organization considering an engagement in virtualization.
5. Use at least six (6) 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.

 

Section 2: PowerPoint Presentation

1. Create a twelve (12) to sixteen (16) slide PowerPoint in which you:
   1. Illustrate the concepts from your written report in Section 1 of this assignment.
   2. Create bulleted speaking notes for your presentation to the CTO and steering committee in the Notes section of the PowerPoint. Note: You may create or assume any fictitious names, data, or scenarios that have not been established throughout this assignment for a realistic flow of communication.
   3. Use a professional, technically written style to graphically convey the information.

magine that a company has recently hired you as a senior business consultant. The company is seeking to gain better traction with regard to customer satisfaction and loyalty. The company hired you because of your expertise with mobile apps, social media, and cloud technology. The management of the company feels that yearly revenues could top $20 million per year with the infusion of current technology. Currently the company has revenue of $5 million per year.

 

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

 

Write an eight to ten (8-10) page paper in which you:

1. Write an introductory statement of the company including but not limited to the type of the company, the location, the industry in which it competes, and the organizational vision and mission that encompasses the nature of the company.
2. Specify the current situation of the company with regard to its technology and security aspects.
3. Determine at least five (5) information technology personnel / roles that would be in place in order to start the business venture of gaining better traction of customer satisfaction and loyalty. Justify your response.
4. Conduct a strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats (SWOT) analysis for the business venture in question for the company. Justify your response.
5. Develop at least five (5) major goals for the information technology strategic plan. Justify your response.
6. Speculate on three (3) positive organizational impacts of implementing the strategic plan. Justify your response.
7. Use at least three (3) quality references. 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.

Skills Acquired Through General Education

Based on what you have learned as a university student, including information and ideas gathered from the Week One and Week Three readings and discussions about general education, write a brief journal entry (350- 500 words) in which you will

• Explain newly-developed skills as well as other learning opportunities acquired through your university experience.
• Describe where and how you acquired the necessary skills that helped you excel through the progression of your education. Be sure to include examples.
• Develop a plan illustrating how you plan to transfer those skills into everyday life.
• Demonstrate critical thinking skills by effectively communicating ideas or points clearly, thoroughly, and accurately.

The journal entry should meet APA standards and requirements as outlined in the Ashford Writing Center.

 

 

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Final Research Project Preparation – Annotated Bibliography

Review the Final Research Project instructions located in Week Five. To help with the preparation of the paper, complete the following items and submit them to your instructor as a single document.

• Introduction to Topic: Refer to the Final Research Project guidelines for your topic selection. For your introduction, you should write a 150-word paragraph which clearly explains the topic, the importance of further research, ethical implications, and how the topic relates to one’s academic and professional pursuits. Make sure you effectively inform the reader of the rationale behind your topic.
• Thesis statement: Write a direct and concise thesis statement, which will become the point or perspective you will argue or prove in the Final Research Project. A thesis statement should be a single declarative sentence that makes one point in 25 words or less. The thesis statement must appear within the introduction paragraph.
• Annotated Bibliography: To help prepare for your Final Research Project, write an annotated bibliography to indicate the quality of the sources you have read. The bibliography must include no less than five scholarly sources that will be used to support the major points of the Final Research Project. Critical thinking skills need to be demonstrated by accurately interpreting evidence used to support various positions of the topic. Please make sure to provide full reference information in accordance with APA style. Write a brief paragraph (around 150 words) summarizing the source and explaining how it is pertinent and relevant to the topic of the project and how each source will support your thesis statement. See the Sample Annotated Bibliography in the Ashford

The Final Research Project Preparation

• Must be 1,000 – 1,250 words in length (excluding the title and reference pages) and formatted according to APA style
• Must include a separate title page with the following:
  • Title of paper
  • Student’s name
  • Course name and number
  • Instructor’s name
  • Date submitted
• Must use at least five scholarly sources.
• Must document all sources in APA style as outlined in the Ashford Writing Cent

Overview: Choose a topic (current, social, historical) or theme ( including subject matter, media) that interests you. Research to discover 3 artists who have addressed that topic or theme in their artwork. These three artists should be working in different time periods, or cultures, art styles, or with different media. You are looking to show and discuss how a specific topic or theme can be interpreted artistically in a variety of ways.
1. Choose a topic or theme: select one that interests you. Possibilities include, but are not limited to: political, environment/recycling, social realism (including economic disparities), portrait, landscape, still life, technology, popular or consumer based work, media (including alternative media), etc.
2. Written paper (approx. 3 pages, 1.5 spaced + images)
1. Discuss your theme or topic that you chose. What is it? Why did you choose it? How did you go about finding your artists and artworks?

2. For each of the three artists discuss their work in an analytical way

1. DESCRIPTION: Artist, title, media, date, and description of the art elements evident in the work: line, color, shape, value, space(depth), texture, volume or mass, time/motion. When discussing any of these terms that are appropriate – use the specific vocabulary that we have been working with and learning all semester.
2. ANALYSIS: Discuss the composition and the principles of design used that are evident in the work. Principles of Design: unity, repetition, variety, emphasis/subordination, contrast, rhythm and/ or pattern, balance, scale and/or proportion. Does the work have a “literal” quality- focusing on a realistic interpretation, a “formal” quality- placing emphasis on arrangement of the elements and principles, or an “expressive” quality- evoking a response of feelings, moods, or emotions in the viewer?
3. INTERPRETATION: Discuss the content, concept, and meaning in the work. This is your opinion based on your observation of the piece- guessing what the artist is trying to convey in the piece. What do you think is most successful in the piece? What part, if any, detracts from the piece?
3. Images- make sure you include images for your artworks.
Resources: The elements and principles definitions lists with specific terms is found on
http://www.artcyclopedia.com/ (searchable by artist, subject, media)
http://www.moma.org/ (museum collection)
http://www.theartstory.org/ (searchable by artist, art movement)
http://metmuseum.org/toah/ (timeline of art history)