ethic accounting discussion questions 5 questions only

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1. There is an old industry joke that if you ask an accountant what is four plus four, she will tell you it’s whatever you want it to be. Explain what might be meant by this statement.

8. Comment on the statement that what a company’s income statement reveals is interesting, but what it conceals is vital.

12. Krispy Kreme was involved in an accounting fraud where the company reported false quarterly and annual earnings and falsely claimed that, as a result of those earnings, it had achieved what had become a prime benchmark of its historical performance; that is, reporting quarterly earnings per share that exceeded its previously announced EPS guidance by 1¢. One method used to report higher earnings was to ship two or three times more doughnuts to franchisees than ordered in order to meet monthly quotas. Would you characterize what Krispy Kreme did as earnings management? Explain.

16. The SEC’s new rules on posting financial information on social media sites such as Twitter means that companies can now tweet their earnings in 280 characters or less. What are the problems that may arise in using a social media platform to report key financial data, including the potential effects on shareholders and the company?

19. In the Enron case, the company eventually turned to “back-door” guaranteeing of the debt of Chewco, one of its SPEs, to satisfy equity investors. Assume that a $16 million loan agreement required that Enron stock should not fall below $40 per share. If the share price did decline below that trigger amount, either the loan would be called by the bank or the bank could choose to increase the guaranteed number of Enron shares based on the new price (assume $32). If the bank decides to increase the number of shares guaranteed, what would be (1) the original number of shares in the guarantee and (2) the new number of shares? Why would it be important from an accounting and ethical perspective for Enron to disclose information about the guarantee in its financial statements?

Mintz, Steven; Mintz, Steven. Ethical Obligations and Decision-Making in Accounting: Text and Cases (Page 441). McGraw-Hill Higher Education. Kindle Edition.

discussion question wrk110 strayer university the confidence advantage amp soc 105 strayer university society in the media 4

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Please respond to the following: The discussion questions given please produce 200 words about each numbered question. please place answers under each bullet point. In Addition a response must be given back (100 words) to the other student William Bender and Tiara Davis .

“Assessing Threats to the Freedom of the Press”

1. How serious are the current threats to the freedom of the press? Support your views with two or three reasons and/or examples. (Cite any sources you referenced.)

“Social Networks, Social Interactions, and Exchange of Ideas and Reflection”

2. From the Activity, take a position on this statement: People who resist using online social networks such as Facebook and Twitter are an unusual minority in this country. Support your position with one or two examples. Reflect: Discuss the value of seeing an issue from different, and often opposing, points of view and the skills and knowledge you gained from taking this course.

3. How have the strategies you’ve learned throughout this course helped you begin mastering your career confidence? Describe how you plan to use what you’ve learned to build, apply, maintain, and/or project your confidence in the workplace.

What advice would you give another student regarding their plan to harness the power of their confidence at work?

Sample Response & Peer Reply

Hi, class. Below are a sample response and reply to the discussion question. You may use the samples to model your discussion responses this week. However, please do not copy them and post as your own. Let me know if you want me to continue providing examples throughout the term.

Best, Dr. Mario

Sample Response

The strategies I learned in this course provided me with a clear path to building confidence in my personal and professional life. For instance, Queen Latifah’s Sixth Law: Learn from the Past, has helped me focus on my former experiences to learn how to use successes and failures to improve my confidence at work and school. Now, I see the past as a valuable learning tool I can use to study my confidence journey. I plan to continue applying what I learned in this course by using my confidence crew to help me push myself to set ambitious career goals so I can launch my own business.

My advice to another student seeking to improve their level of confidence at work would be to take this class! This class offers the best structure to help anyone understand the things that threaten confidence as well as strategies that create confidence. If they learn how to improve their mindset and stay positive, they will be able to apply what they learn to improve their confidence in the workplace.

I enjoyed taking this class and wish everyone success in their next course.

Ima Strong-Student

Sample Peer Reply

Hi, Ima. I enjoyed taking this class, as well. I highly recommend this course to other students because it helped me grow my confidence. To your response, I would add that students need to be able to take a close look at themselves. They must be willing to see how they think and behave through new eyes, so they can to take steps necessary for building their confidence. I took a good look at myself this term, and now I realize that I was blocking my confidence. Now, I know where my challenges lie, and I can continue addressing them so I can continue developing my level of confidence.

Good luck to you too next term!

Justin Thyme

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William Bender

How serious are the current threats to the freedom of the press? Support your views with two or three reasons and/or examples. (Cite any sources you referenced.)

Hello Professor and classmates,

For this week’s discussion to illustrate the level of threat which my internet research and source show that in 2018 the levels of threats in our country against journalist, and organizations that report on the news have increased. These attacks are not only verbal or written in which political figures are responding to but the reports and journalist themselves are being physically attacked.

Article 1 and supporting facts

https://www.rcfp.org/pressfreedoms2018/

  • 35 reported attacks which include physical assaults to pipe bombs being mailed
  • Leaked information from government source forced investigators to identify source of information included reports who were involved with relationships with government officials
  • Courts prohibit journalist and reports to publicize material or stories
  • Reports were denied access to events

Article 2 and supporting facts

https://time.com/5665392/10-most-urgent-press-freedom-september/

  • Journalist was killed when reporting in foreign country
  • Journalist continues to get public threats in Mexico
  • Journalist was detained in retaliation for reporting and falsely charged or evidence was planted
  • Reported went missing and presumed to be dead and officials in country never investigated
  • Journalists sent to Prison including life for reporting

Article 3 and supporting facts

https://rsf.org/en/news/media-freedom-us-under-threat-report-finds

  • President attacks media on regular basis including reporting on fake news
  • Ability to report are being undermined by various aspects like searches, attacks, border stops
  • Impacts with law enforcement including arrests and assaults and rights not being considered
  • A shut off information being provided

To summarize these resources that reports and journalist right to publish information comes at many risks depending on the story and the location. Journalist have often gone missing, were killed, attacked or imprisoned for simply investigating, asking questions and covering topics of sensitivity across the globe. Domestically they are put under scrutiny from public officials and their credibility is often challenged. Similar to foreign reporting those who don’t agree with the writes point of view or the facts to which have been presented have escalated to higher levels of threats and violence in public demonstrations, defamation of character and mailing or placing bombs to hopefully kill or inflict harm on another person.

Tiara Davis

From the Activity, take a position on this statement: People who resist using online social networks such as Facebook and Twitter are an unusual minority in this country. Support your position with one or two examples. Reflect: Discuss the value of seeing an issue from different, and often opposing, points of view and the skills and knowledge you gained from taking this course.

Hello Professor Mims and Class,

Very interesting discussion this week as it is the last one yet. To make a statement such as the one written above, would be close-minded. If I were a person that didn’t see or understand the purpose of having to post on social media everyday, or even have any social media accounts, that wouldn’t make me any less of this society than one who does feel the urge to spill it all out on social media. What about our ancestors who didn’t have social media to rely on? They still made up a great percentage of society as a whole. I don’t believe that makes me or anyone a part of the “minority.” Just like I don’t believe people who don’t resist to operate a Facebook or Twitter account make up the majority of this country. After having taken this course, I can tell that I’m not anything like this generation. I am one who doesn’t need to spend all day looking at my phone, or scrolling my timeline, or even updating my social media accounts daily. Instead, I have found myself and am investing in my time wisely. I teach my 6 year old son who just began Kindergarten due to a late birthday. I read to him and now he reads to his 7 week old brother. Reading is extremely fundamental, but I didn’t need this course to teach me that. I hope everyone succeeds and continues to strive for their degree. Thank you and good luck in your classes!

– Tiara D.

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Your original response to each essay question is to be between 500-700 words in length – excluding direct quotes. You are to provide at least three (3) scholarly reference to support each response. The reference is to be in proper APA format.

Corresponding citations should be included in your response to document/support the facts you provide.

Essay 1:

Briefly, discuss the findings in a study conducted by Donner, Fridell, and Jennings (2016) pertaining to the relationship between self-control and police misconduct. In doing so, discuss Gottfredson and Hirschi’s (1990) general theory of crime as it is relative to self-control theory and police misconduct.

Note: The essay response given should reflect upper-level undergraduate writing in accordance with current APA standards. The essay response is to include in-text citation(s) in proper APA format. In-text citations are to correspond to a source in proper APA format listed after the essay response.

Essay 2:

Briefly, discuss the effectiveness of consent degrees and Section 14141 of the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994. In doing so, describe the legal provision which allowed the Department of Justice DOJ to intervene in instances where allegations are made that constitutional policing is not followed as a matter of patterns and practices.

Note: The essay response given should reflect upper-level undergraduate writing in accordance with current APA standards. The essay response is to include in-text citation(s) in proper APA format. In-text citations are to correspond to a source in proper APA format listed after the essay response.

Reference

Alpert, G. P., McLean, K., & Wolfe, S. (2017). Consent decrees: An approach to police accountability and reform. Police Quarterly, 20(3), 239-249.

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Hi,

Please take a look at the instruction. It listed the points you should cover. I already did a powerpoint version of the paper, just simply make and edit the content in the powerpoint into essay form. Please do more research and add more information. Let me know if you have any questions.

write a 10 single page about a game rulebook

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write more skills and characters on the game rulebook, you can also create some stories.

7 maths statistics assignments in hawkes learning

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There are 7 Assignments to do I will give you my username and password to login in hawkes Learning. I have attached a picture of the Assignments below.

or this assessment you will use the attached patient and family centered care organizational self assessment tool to analyze how patient and family centered the healthcare setting is this form will guide you in evaluating this healthcare setting for

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See attachments. The PFCC tool is attached, use the selections to write the paper. The outlines is also attached to assist in answering all that is required. Please follow the rubric which is also attached. I also attach a sample paper to assist you.

strategic plan part 2 internal environmental analysis 25

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Environmental Analysis Grading Guide

I have attached the first part of this project, about the company American Greetings. Now you have to continue the project for the second part, following the instructions below.

DON’T COPY FROM THE PREVIOUS PAPER! IT’S JUST FOR ORIENTATION

Write a 1,050-word minimum internal environmental analysis in which you include the following:

  • Assess the organization’s internal environment.
  • Identify the most important strengths and weaknesses of your organization including an assessment of the organization’s resources.
  • Identify important internal environmental factors found in your analysis of the general, industry, and external environments.
  • Perform a competitor analysis.
  • Assess the structure of the organization and the influence this has on its performance.
  • Determine the organization’s competitive position and the possibilities this provides.

Format your paper according to APA guidelines.

Submit your assignment

Hello, I added the requirements up front in the post and I confirmed that moving forward all work needs to be done using the first company in the first paper “American Greetings”. Please, let me know if you can’t see what I attached.

creative project 7

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there are 6 option given. choose any writing option. this is for my english humour class

module 5 case implementation of change social media

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Module 5 – Case

Implementation of Change

Assignment Overview

As our focal technology for this module, we will consider the evolution of corporate wellness programs. The technologies associated with promotion of “corporate wellness” (in itself a concept that has many different definitions and varieties) are generally fairly broad in range and capable of being introduced into practice in many different ways. It is certainly desirable to have technologies that can be adapted effectively to particular organizational situations during their implementation; but if there are certain elements of the technology that will only be effective if they are implemented in a particular kind of way, then a flexible orientation can easily introduce enough error into the process that the positive effects of the technology are not realized.

It is extremely difficult to separate failures in implementation from failures in the technology itself. Moreover, since implementation problems tend to become fairly contentious issues in organizational politics, there are likely to be wider repercussions felt throughout the system. Organizational life is further complicated when one attempts to separate bad decisions from those made about negative things, or separate bad decisions from the good in a complex situation where a number of people in several places are making decisions simultaneously.

Our case here involves looking at corporate wellness interventions as examples of technologies where implementation is absolutely critical, and how you get to a new equilibrium is as important, if not more important, than the content of the equilibrium itself. We will consider these issues both from an implementation (bottom-up) perspective as well as from a strategic (top-down) perspective, and try to see how these two perspectives hopefully complement each, other but can easily wind up in conflict.

Case Assignment

Prepare a 5- to 7-page paper in accordance with the following Assignment Expectations on the topic:

“Strategy and implementation of corporate wellness programs”

You should begin your paper by reviewing the general idea of corporate wellness and the knowledge base underlying its popularity and value. You should then assess how companies make strategic decisions about putting such programs in the place, and how that strategy is then translated into an effective or ineffective implementation process. Discuss how, during implementation, programs are shaped in different kinds of ways, some better than others. You should include your paper with a couple of paragraphs outlining your own recommendations on how companies can more effectively integrate overall innovative strategies with local change management, under conditions of uncertainty and risk.

Assignment Expectations

Length: The written component of this assignment should be 5-7 pages long (double-spaced) without counting the cover page and reference page.

Organization: Subheadings should be used to organize your paper according to the questions.

Grammar and Spelling: While no points are deducted for minor errors, assignments are expected to adhere to standard guidelines of grammar, spelling, punctuation, and sentence syntax. Points may be deducted if grammar and spelling impact clarity. We encourage you to use tools such as grammarly.com and proofread your paper before submission.

When you write your paper make sure you do the following:

  • Answer the assignment questions directly.
  • Stay focused on the precise assignment questions. Do not go off on tangents or devote a lot of space to summarizing general background materials.
  • Use evidence from your readings to justify your conclusions.
  • Cite at least five credible resources.
  • Reference your sources of information with both a bibliography and in-text citations. See the Student Guide to Writing a High-Quality Academic Paper, including pages 11-14 on in-text citations. Another resource is the “Writing Style Guide,” which is found under “My Resources” in the TLC Portal.

Your assignment will be graded using the following criteria:

  • Assignment-driven Criteria: Student demonstrates mastery covering all key elements of the assignment.
  • Critical Thinking/Application to Professional Practice: Student demonstrates mastery conceptualizing the problem, and analyzing information. Conclusions are logically presented and applied to professional practice in an exceptional manner.
  • Business Writing and Quality of References: Student demonstrates mastery and proficiency in written communication and use of appropriate and relevant literature at the doctoral level.
  • Citing Sources: Student demonstrates mastery applying APA formatting standards to both in text citations and the reference list.
  • Professionalism and Timeliness: Assignments are submitted on time.