Author: chris

1) Summarize the main points or arguments of the author.

2) Analyze these points using your own persuasive skills.

3) Explain how the book can help us better understand US history.

Discuss the political implications of the relationship between the land and its people and how the physical and climate conditions influenced “the making of the despotic state” and “the collectivistic political culture” in China.

You are a manager in a firm in a very competitive industry. A competitor has made an important scientific discovery that could give it an advantage that would substantially reduce, but not eliminate, the profits of your company for approximately a year. A scientist who knows the details of the discovery applies for a job at your firm. There are no legal barriers to hiring the scientist.
The CEO knows that you studied ethics in your college program and so asks you to give her your advice.
Address and apply all 4 ethical norms:
-Right and Duties
-Justice
-Utilitarianism
-Caring

Based on the movie “One flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest”
1. How does the director illustrate the difference between group roles and task roles in the movie?
2. How does the leadership of the group change after McMurphy’s arrival? How or why does the leadership change during the movie?

• What roles have parent organizations, booster clubs, business supporters, and so forth, played at your school? What has been their impact?
•  In the school improvement plan in your school, do you see a weak link? If you were the administrator, how would you help to strengthen it?

You are to write an essay on Fire Safety and the effects that tampering with detection equipment can have on the community

write a response to “Who are you and What are you doing here?” by Peter Hessler with at least three direct quotations from the essay

1. An overview of the corporation.
   1. Provide general information regarding the type of business, products and/or services, location of headquarters, name of CEO, number of employees, and countries of operation, etc.

1. The latest financial statements
   1. Get the income statement, balance sheet, cash flow statement, and the statement of owners’ equity for the past fiscal year. Create Turnitin-friendly versions of the financial statements; do not just ‘cut and paste’ them in your report. Do not forget to cite the source under each statement.
   2. If you cannot cut and paste them, you may have to type in the information in a table in your report.

1. A summary of each financial statement
   1. Take each statement and state the key parts in words.  Tell a story from each of the financial statements.  For example, for the income statement, the story starts like, “Total Revenues in 2010 were $10 billion, while Cost of Goods Sold were $8 billion, leaving a gross profit margin of $2 billion, or 20 percent of total revenues….After taking out interest and taxes from EBIT, the net income was $0.5 billion, or 5 percent of total revenues.”

1. Ratio calculation (include 5 major types of ratios. Refer to chapter 3, Analysis of Financial Statements)
   1.  Organization of this section is based on the FIVE types of ratios listed in the text book.  Calculate the ratios from the financial statements in part c above using Excel or your calculator and present them in a table.
   2.  Find industry financial ratios online (eg. Yahoo.com) and compare your corporation’s ratios to these industry ratios.
   3. Present your results following the five types of ratios discussed in part d.
   4. A table with both corporation and industry ratios is required;
2. Discussion of key statistics provided by sources like Yahoo finance.
   1. There are many different other statistics available for your corporation. These include market value, beta, and diluted EPS, etc. Discuss some of the key statistics that you think can assist you to determine if this corporation is a good buy or sell.

1. For you to decide if a corporation’s stock is a good buy or sell, you must forecast several key variables, including the stock price.
   1. Use historical prices (5 years of monthly data recommended) and forecast the stock price for the next year. Use regression analysis, and/or moving average, etc. to create your forecast.
   2. Create a graph from the historical data and show your forecast on the same graph. You can add a trend line to the graph to help you with a forecast.  Include the graph in your report.
   3. You need to say specifically what the forecasted value of the stock price is.
   4. You must address the question, “Is this forecast reasonable?”  Must you amend your analysis to get a more reasonable forecast?

1. Other information pertinent to the corporation that could affect its future performance and stock price.
   1. This could include dividend policy, capital structure, bond ratings, expert opinions on TV, new projects, litigation, regulation, etc. Search for information on the web regarding this corporation. Look at company complaint blogs, etc.

1. Recommendation regarding the future of this corporation.
   1. Is the stock a good buy, average buy, or a poor buy (implying a good sell)?
   2. Include a justification of your recommendation based on your analysis and research.

Students will have:
•    Highlighted the advantages and the disadvantages of different types of probability sampling designs.
•    Identified the choice points in sampling design shown in Figure 11.3 in the textbook and provided in PowerPoint example in Chapter 10
•    Understood BASIC statistical concepts.
•    Analyzed data using any of the available PC software programs.
•    Explained how the frequency distribution becomes a tool for explaining sample characteristics.
•    Connected the application of descriptive statistics such as the means, standard deviations, and variance to the dependent and independent variables of interest to any study in order to get an idea of the central tendencies and to obtain a feel for the data.
•    Interpreted the results they obtain from data analysis

Student Preparation

1.    Frequency Distribution Assignment

2.    Central tendency Assignment

Reading: Sekaran and Bougie text: Chapters 10 and 11
Selected end of the chapter questions from Sekaran and Bougie

1) Instruct the reader on making a fairly complex recipe (but don’t just give the recipe; fill in on how you came to learn this, why it is special, when you serve it, and so on. Recipes alone are boring.)
2) Instruct the reader as to how you perform a specific task at work
3) Recall the preparations for a big specific event in your life, such as a wedding, reunion, holiday celebration, graduation, birthday party
4) Illustrate the job, military, or college application procedures
5) Teach a hobby, craft, or home improvement project that you’ve done, such as refinishing furniture, painting the house, making a garment or piece of jewelry, changing the oil in the car…
6) Describe a trip you took if it involved several stops or phases
7) Describe the stages of learning to drive or ride a horse
8) Serving on a jury (stages from getting the notice to the final verdict)
9) Describe the steps involving computers or putting something together