Author: chris

My thesis is in the Aeneid, fury is a persistent theme, that often occurs with Fire characterizations. Juno, Dido, and Turnus posses a fury that makes them weak and aberrant and the sympathy he has for Aeneas increases as well as his eventual success. Although, Aeneas’ domination by fury at the end of the Aeneid impairs his moment celebration.

Times New Roman, double spaced. I would like to see an outline just to make sure its on the write track. A sample outline has bee n uploaded for reference. Paper should include a tittle, a grabber and thesis. 4 Topic sentences to make up for the body, then a conclusion.

discuss the main characters in the movie lying to be perfect. Discuss at least three themes.

Research Paper on Organizational Change: This assignment is a research paper that is due on November 24, 2015. Your paper will include at a minim of 5 sources, none of which can be Wikipedia. This paper will be a minimum of 8 pages not counting the cover page or reference page. This paper will be turned in on Blackboard using SafeAssign. Late submissions will be result in a 3 points per day penalty. The paper will include at a minimum:  Introduction  Background Discussion  Summary

Read the following books, and summarize the key revelations you’re able to identify from them: From Third World to First: The Story of Singapore from 1965 – 2000 by Lee Kwan Yew 10 pages (APA format) LS591

Final Project (Due Sunday, October 18th) All students will submit a final project no later than the last day of the term. The project should focus on a specific type of crime, such as: Urban gang violence; domestic violence; terrorism; heroin use; the manufacture of methamphetamines (i.e. “meth labs”); animal abuse; drunk driving; human trafficking; mortgage fraud. (If you have an idea for a different type of crime, write to your professor for approval before proceeding.) Proceed as follows: 1) Conduct a literature review to describe the nature and extent of your selected crime. 2) Analyze your selected crime from the vantage point of the following three paradigms: Classical, positivist, and critical. How would each perspective explain your crime, and how would they suggest addressing it? 3) Of the three paradigms, which do you think provides the best explanation of your crime? Explain your answer. 4) Finally, design a comprehensive plan for reducing crime from your selected paradigm. Be sure to apply specific theories and theoretical concepts in your design. For example, if you select the classical perspective, you might apply routine activities theory, situational crime prevention, and/or broken windows, and so on. Completed papers should be approximately 15-20 pages in length, not counting title page and reference list. All information must be drawn from government reports and/or academic/scholarly/professional books or journals, with a minimum of ten (10) high-quality sources required.

Description Students will write a report (APA format) describing a research study they design in their area of study. This report will include the introduction, participants/sampling method, procedures, data analysis (using one of the statistical tests covered in this class), and results/conclusions. This should be your own research study that you design. This is not an evaluation of published research. YOU CANNOT USE ONE OF THE STUDIES THAT YOU ALREADY PRESENTED IN THE WEEKS 5 – 7 FORUM. NOTE: You are NOT required to collect data or run the analysis. Based on your understanding of your research question, make-up numbers that would be appropriate for your study. These numbers should make sense in the context of your research, however. Requirements: Report – maximum of five pages, double-space. Be sure to include a cover page, abstract and reference list (these 3 pages do not count as three of the five pages). You must use APA for the report. For an example, see http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/560/18/ . I recommend that you have no more than two direct quotes in your paper. You must submit your project to Turnitin (see page 2). Components of the Report: Introduction: Description of the study including the purpose and importance of the research question being asked. What is your null hypothesis? What is your research or alternative hypothesis? Your introduction should include at least two resources. These resources MUST be from peer-reviewed journals. You must use other resources and correctly cite (such as our text) when describing statistical concepts. Participants/Sampling Method: Describe the sample collected for the study, as well as the sampling method. How were your participants selected? Who is your population of interest? If you did a survey, how many will you survey to ensure your target sample size? How did you come up with that number? What do you expect your response rate to be? What was your sample size? How representative is the sample of the population under study? Procedures: How were the data collected? Was a survey or questionnaire used to collect data? What are the independent and dependent variables? How are the variables defined and measured? Are the variables nominal, ordinal, interval, or ratio measurement scales? Are the data collected in a way that avoids bias? What is your selected alpha level? Data Analysis: What statistical test was used to analyze the data? Describe the statistical test. What are the requirements? Did you meet those requirements? Describe why your selected method was appropriate to answer your research question. Make up a test statistic value. Given that value, do you reject or fail to reject the null hypothesis? Is your p < .05 or p > .05 (assuming alpha = .05)? Results & Discussion: Did your analysis answer your research question? Explain. What are the practical implications of your results? References: All references should be included in APA format.

You will create a personnel plan for two new employee positions.

Your personnel plans should include a tentative work schedule and payroll cost worksheet. You will need to create work schedules that include the hours for these positions; this work schedule can be revised in later classes. If your place of business does not have a steady work schedule you will need to base the schedules on a busy time in order to estimate how many hours per year that person(s) will actually work. Use the Work Schedule Template for this.

In order to budget for two new employees, you will need to create a payroll cost worksheet to include the employees’ pay, payroll taxes, any benefits you would like to offer (medical benefits, 401K, etc.), and the total cost.  You may need to research average salaries for the positions you will fill. Use the Payroll Cost Sheet as an example, and click on the links below to access information on Michigan Taxes and other important resources for creating your Personnel Plan.

http://www.michigan.gov/taxes/0,1607,7-238-43531-155476–,00.html

www.irs.gov

Your next step will be to create a job description.

Your job descriptions should include:

• Job title
• FLSA Status
• Prepared date
• Job Summary
• Essential duties and responsibilities
• Supervisory responsibilities (if applicable)
• Qualifications which includes:
• • Education and/or experience
  • Language skills
  •  Mathematical skills
  • Reasoning ability
  • Certificates, licenses, registrations
• Physical demands
• Work environment
• How to apply for this job and how/where the information should be sent

Directions: Answer the following ten questions on a separate document. Explain how you reached the answer or show your work if a mathematical calculation is needed, or both.

 

QUESTION 1

Which of the following is generally NOT true and an advantage of going public?

1. Increases the liquidity of the firm’s stock.
2. Makes it easier to obtain new equity capital.
3. Establishes a market value for the firm.
4. Makes it easier for owner-managers to engage in profitable self-dealings.
5. Facilitates stockholder diversification.

 

QUESTION 2

Which of the following statements about listing on a stock exchange is most CORRECT?

1. Any firm can be listed on the NYSE as long as it pays the listing fee.
2. Listing provides a company with some “free” advertising, and it may enhance the firm’s prestige and help it do more business.
3. Listing reduces the reporting requirements for firms, because listed firms file reports with the exchange rather than with the SEC.
4. The OTC is the second largest market for listed stock, and it is exceeded only by the NYSE.
5. Listing is a decision of more significance to a firm than going public.

 

QUESTION 3

Which of the following statements is most CORRECT?

1. Private placements occur most frequently with stocks, but bonds can also be sold in a private placement.
2. Private placements are convenient for issuers, but the convenience is offset by higher flotation costs.
3. The SEC requires that all private placements be handled by a registered investment banker.
4. Private placements can generally bring in funds faster than is the case with public offerings.
5. In a private placement, securities are sold to private (individual) investors rather than to institutions

 

QUESTION 4

Which of the following statements is most CORRECT?

1. The key benefits associated with refunding debt are the reduction in the firm’s debt ratio and the creation of more reserve borrowing capacity.
2. The mechanics of finding the NPV of a refunding decision are fairly straightforward. However, the decision of when to refund is not always clear because it requires a forecast of future interest rates.
3. If a firm with a positive NPV refunding project delays refunding and interest rates rise, the firm can still obtain the entire NPV by locking in a low coupon rate when the rates are low, even though it actually refunds the debt after rates have risen.
4. Suppose a firm is considering refunding and interest rates rise during time when the analysis is being done. The rise in rates would tend to lower the expected price of the new bonds, which would make them cheaper to the firm and thus increase the expected interest savings.
5. If new debt is used to refund old debt, the correct discount rate to use in the refunding analysis is the before-tax cost of new debt.

 

QUESTION 5

Which of the following factors would increase the likelihood that a company would call its outstanding bonds at this time?

1. A provision in the bond indenture lowers the call price on specific dates, and yesterday was one of those dates.
2. The flotation costs associated with issuing new bonds rise.
3. The firm’s CFO believes that interest rates are likely to decline in the future.
4. The firm’s CFO believes that corporate tax rates are likely to be increased in the future.
5. The yield to maturity on the company’s outstanding bonds increases due to a weakening of the firm’s financial situation.

 

 

QUESTION 6

Operating leases often have terms that include

1. full amortization over the life of the lease.
2. very high penalties if the lease is canceled.
3. restrictions on how much the leased property can be used.
4. much longer lease periods than for most financial leases.
5. maintenance of the equipment by the lessor.

 

QUESTION 7

Which of the following statements is most CORRECT?

1. Capitalizing a lease means that the firm issues equity capital in proportion to its current

capital structure, in an amount sufficient to support the lease payment obligation.

1. The fixed charges associated with a lease can be as high as, but never greater than, the

fixed payments associated with a loan.

1. Capital, or financial, leases generally provide for maintenance by the lessor.
2. A key difference between a capital lease and an operating lease is that with a capital lease, the lease payments provide the lessor with a return of the funds invested in the asset plus a return on the invested funds, whereas with an operating lease the lessor depends on the residual value to realize a full return of and on the investment.
3. Firms that use “off balance sheet” financing, such as leasing, would show lower debt ratios if the effects of their leases were reflected in their financial statements.

 

QUESTION 8

Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) Statement #13 requires that for an unqualified

audit report, financial (or capital) leases must be included in the balance sheet by reporting the

1. residual value as a liability.
2. present value of future lease payments as an asset and also showing this same amount as an offsetting liability.
3. undiscounted sum of future lease payments as an asset and as an offsetting liability.
4. undiscounted sum of future lease payments, less the residual value, as an asset and as an offsetting liability.
5. residual value as a fixed asset.

 

QUESTION 9

Heavy use of off-balance sheet lease financing will tend to

1. make a company appear less risky than it actually is because its stated debt ratio will appear lower.
2. affect a company’s cash flows but not its degree of risk.
3. have no effect on either cash flows or risk because the cash flows are already reflected in the income statement.
4. affect the lessee’s cash flows but only due to tax effects.
5. make a company appear more risky than it actually is because its stated debt ratio will be

increased.

 

QUESTION 10

In the lease versus buy decision, leasing is often preferable

1. because, generally, no down payment is required, and there are no indirect interest costs.
2. because lease obligations do not affect the firm’s risk as seen by investors.
3. because the lessee owns the property at the end of the least term.
4. because the lessee may have greater flexibility in abandoning the project in which the leased property is used than if the lessee bought and owned the asset.
5. because it has no effect on the firm’s ability to borrow to make other investments

 

 

Read case study, “VF Brands: Global Supply Chain Strategy,” on page 437 of your textbook. Once you have read and reviewed the case scenario, respond to the following questions with thorough explanations and well supported rationale.

 

1. Contrast the advantages of utilizing company-owned plants to using a large network of suppliers.

 

2. The development of strategic supplier relationships was discussed in the case. Why is this important to both the company as well as to the suppliers?

 

3. Analyze the strategic growth plan of VF Brands with respect to their acquisitions. Their mission in these acquisitions was to preserve the organizational culture and unique brand identities of these acquisitions. Why was VF Brands concerned about this?

 

4. Analyze whether VF Brands should expand the “Third Way” sourcing strategy, expand internal manufacturing, or do more traditional sourcing, include your rationale.

 

Your response should be a minimum of three pages in length double spaced. References should include your textbook plus a minimum of one additional credible reference.

 

Dessler, G. (2015). Human resource management (14th ed.). Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson Education.