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Assignment 2: Personality Disorders

Personality disorders are chronic and persistent behavioral and emotional disturbances that are often difficult to treat. Some professionals have argued that these disorders are not mental disorders at all, but personality styles—that these individuals are just odd or unusual. Review your textbook and a minimum of two peer-reviewed references and discuss the diagnostic and measurement challenges and issues related to personality disorders. What classification approach is currently used in the DSM? Explain this approach. Identify and discuss relevant research on the causation, diagnosis, and treatment of personality disorders.

Your assignment should be at least a 2–3-page paper in Word format. Apply APA standards to citation of sources and include a cover page and reference page. Use the following file naming convention: LastnameFirstInitial_M4_A2.doc.

By Wednesday, October 28, 2015, deliver your assignment to the M4: Assignment 2 Dropbox.

Assignment 2 Grading Criteria	Maximum Points
Discussed the diagnostic and measurement challenges related to personality disorders. Identified and explained the classification approach currently used in the DSM.	40
Discussed the causation, diagnosis, and treatment of personality disorders.	20
Supported statements with reasons and research information from your text and a minimum of two peer-reviewed references.	20
Wrote in a clear, concise, and organized manner; demonstrated ethical scholarship in accurate representation and attribution of sources; displayed accurate spelling,

Using the simplified OOD methodology:

1. Write down a detailed description of the problem.
2. Identify all the (relevant) nouns and verbs.
3. From the list of nouns, select the objects. Identify the data components of each object.
4. From the list of verbs, select the operations.

Write a short paper in response to the following prompt:

Your local police department wants to design new software to keep track of people, property, and criminal activity. List at least three classes you think should be in the design. For each class, identify some data members and methods.

Case 1

You have been hired as a consultant for Thomas Foods. Thomas Foods was incorporated in 1969. Thomas Foods sells produce purchased from farmers to neighborhood grocery stores throughout the country. Thomas Foods has asked you to implement a hedging strategy to mitigate the risks associated with any unexpected increase in price they would have to pay farmers for their harvested crops. Thomas Foods asks that you provide examples of how various hedging strategies could be implemented. The Controller of the company has no experience in this area and would need to understand the accounting treatment for whichever hedging strategy you select. Of significant importance to management is how any hedging strategy would impact operating income.
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Case 2

You have been hired as a consultant for XYZ Research Co. XYZ Research Co. incorporated in 2010. XYZ ‘s business centers on developing new technology for interplanetary exploration. The company has many patents and has historically expensed all of the costs associated with obtaining their patents. The owners of XYZ Labs are unsure whether or not if any or all of its patent costs can be capitalized. They also are unsure if any impairment testing should be done periodically on their patents. You have been asked by the owners to look into these issues and provide the appropriate accounting treatment for patents.
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Case 3

You have been hired as a consultant for ABC Investment Group. ABC incorporated in 1999 and manages investment portfolios for small to medium size companies. The Director of the company is not up to speed on how unrealized gains and losses as well as realized gains and losses on bonds should be accounted for. The Director has been told that under certain conditions unrealized gains and losses can be accounted for in the income statement and accounted for as part of other comprehensive income under other conditions. The Director is also unclear as to how to determine whether a security is impaired and how to determine the amount that is required to be written down. You have been asked to look into these issues and determine the proper accounting treatment for bonds.
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Case 4

You have been hired as a consultant to advise on how to present the tax differences between books and tax returns on the balance sheet of RFH company. There are a few questionable items which the current controller Mary Sims is confused as to proper presentation. The timing differences are
1) $1,5000,000 as a result of depreciation timing difference (books S-L versus MACRS tax return).
2) There also was a bad debt reserve increase from the prior year of $250,000.
RFH Company is a manufacturing company who accrued $300,000 in warranty liability at year-end and could not deduct it on the tax return for this year but warranty will be paid out in the following year. A lawsuit in the amount of $450,000 was accrued on the books at year-end awaiting the final legal court judgment. Prior court cases have ruled that this $500,000 can be paid evenly over 3 years. You have to write a memo to Mary Sims advising her how to classify these temporary tax differences on her books at year-end. In your memo give FASB sources for her that validates your balance sheet presentation.

Imagine that you are a supervisor in an organization. The human resources manager has been talking to the management team about developing staff through coaching. You are eager to use coaching methods as a tool to further develop your team.

Review performance coaching and conduct academic research on new methods. In a 2-3 page report, prepared in APA style with at least two references, do the following:

• Describe what is meant by “coaching employees.”
• Create a coaching plan for your team. Be sure to discuss what type of organization you chose and what your team does in that organization.
• Finish your report with an explanation of how you will evaluate whether or not the coaching plan was successful.

Geert Hofstede has argued that differences among cultures can be explained according to four dimensions of culture: individualism, power distance, uncertainty avoidance, time orientation, and masculinity. In comparison with the U.S., determine where your selected country (CHINA)  is positioned on each of these points and identify specific changes that an American business will need to make when doing business in your country?

The Final Paper should demonstrate understanding of the reading assignments as well as the discussion points. The purpose of this assignment is to integrate the concepts studied in this course into a cohesive and comprehensive paper.

The Final Paper will be titled “An Integrated Marketing Strategy for _Chanel___.” You will fill in the blank with an existing or a new brand name of your choice. The goal of the paper is to integrate theories and concepts from the textbook and readings into your own ideas to create specific marketing ideas to promote the brand (good or service) with a particular target market. Refer to the previous assignments completed in this course for insight on how to develop your Final Paper. You must

1. Provide an Overview/Executive Summary of the marketing strategy.
2. Describe the good or service and desired brand image.
3. Describe the target market, including buyer motivations, demographics, and psychographics.
4. Describe the overall marketing strategy, including positioning strategy versus competitors.
5. Describe a promotions and advertising campaign that includes a description of one advertisement.
6. Recommend and describe a Public Relations campaign.
7. Describe the use of an Internet marketing campaign, including web site and use of email.
8. Describe a direct marketing campaign, including Customer Relationship Management.

The paper

• Must be 6 to 8 double-spaced pages in length (not including title and references pages) and formatted according to APA style as outlined in the Ashford Writing Center.
• 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 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 four scholarly sources in addition to the course text, including a minimum of two from the Ashford University library.
• Must document all sources in APA style as outlined in the Ashford Writing Center.
• Must include a separate references page that is formatted according to APA style as outlined in the Ashford Writing Center.

Carefully review the Grading Rubric for the criteria that will be used to evaluate your assignment.

Project Summarization

submit a completed final project, in the form of a scholarly paper,

 

• Discuss the principles of holistic care and the four principles of the holistic caring process
• Discuss the differences in patient needs when developing a holistic plan of care
• Discuss the similarities and differences between complementary and alternative medicine and western medicine
• Describe the role of nutrition, exercise, humor and music therapy in complementary and alternative medicine
• Discuss three main barriers to changing our current healthcare system to a more integrative system of care
• Create a short summary of the case file (age, sex, diagnosis)
• Complete a comprehensive, review of needs or problems discovered, and provide rationales and interventions to address the needs
• Discuss implementation and evaluation of complementary and alternative modalities within the plan of care
• Write a short summary in 2–3 paragraphs about the highlights of what this course added to your professional practice and the way you will practice nursing in the future

At least 300 words, paying no more than $10.  Thanks!

 

The Reading & Study material for this module/week has covered much of what was happening socially, politically, and culturally in Antebellum America. There were many factors involved in increasing sectional tensions in the United States during this period. What, other than the debates concerning slavery, struck you from the material? Is there any information that you might not have thought about previous to taking this course?

 

My Part is to make 4-5 slides with speaker notes of the highlighted part. The company is going to be Target Corporation.

 

Scenario: The board of directors of Target has asked your team to create a strategic plan for the organization.

 

Create a 2,500- to 3,500-word strategic plan for the selected organization starting from what you learned in Week One and using a similar strategic management process as Concepts in Strategic Management and Business Policy. You may also use information from the team project you completed in Week Four to create the strategic plan.

 

Cover thoroughly the areas of environmental scanning, strategy formulation, strategy implementation, and evaluation and control.

 

Address the following questions in your strategic plan:

 

• Why does your organization need a strategic plan?
• What role should ethical and social responsibility considerations have in your organization’s strategic management plan?
• What competitive advantages does  have, and which competitive strategies should your organization utilize to improve innovation and sustainability in both domestic and international applications?
• What measurement guidelines should be used to verify strategy effectiveness?
• What internal dynamics along with cultural and structural leadership considerations should be used in implementing business strategy for your organization?
• How do they influence business continuity?
• What assessment and feedback controls should be used to determine the direction to take your organization? If the strategy of your organization does not go according to plan, at what point would you consider altering the strategic plan you have suggested?

 

Explain and justify all of the decisions you have made for your strategic plan, using research and understanding learned from the reading material.

 

Format your paper consistent with APA guidelines.

 

Present a completed strategic plan to the board of directors for the selected organization.

 

Outline your strategic plan for the sected organization in a 20- to 30-slide presentation using Microsoft® PowerPoint®.

 

Describe why the selected organization needs a plan, and walk the audience through every step in the strategic management process.

 

Include ethical considerations, environmental scanning for competitive advantages, innovation and sustainability considerations, measurement guidelines, internal dynamic and resource considerations for strategy implementation, and what feedback considerations your organization should put into place to ensure the success of the company.