Assignment: Application: Assessing Financial Condition

The regular evaluation of an organization’s finances goes a long way toward establishing trust with stakeholders, such as tax payers, board members, clients, patrons, and funding agencies. Just as financial planning and budgeting are integral parts of an organization’s success, financial audits and evaluations are vital parts of the functioning of an organization. Evaluating the financial condition of an organization involves determining whether it has the revenue from taxes, fees, and other sources to meet its needs as well as if its assets exceed its liabilities. Assessing the financial condition is really just an analysis of the city’s financial health.

In this Assignment, discuss the city in which you live and then evaluate its financial condition and opportunities for growth by addressing the bulleted statements below. Be sure to first review your readings and then research additional resources to assist in your evaluation. For example, it is helpful to examine available data and other public documents for that city. These resources are useful and should be incorporated into your paper, but remember that those resources do not count as scholarly (peer-reviewed, academic articles and texts).

To complete:

Write a 6- to 8-page paper (not including title page and reference page) that addresses the following:

• Describe your local city or county entity. Include descriptive information as population, trends, and other important demographical information. (1 page)
• Look at sales tax in the city, which is a main source of revenue. Is your entity’s revenue and expenditures balanced? Why or why not? In your assessment, consider the following three factors: amount of revenue that the entity is collecting, the percentage of total revenue contributed by sales tax, how much the city is spending. (2 pages)
• Consider these six important factors that impact city revenue: Deterioration of revenue base, internal procedures or policies that may adversely affect revenue yields, over-dependence on obsolete or external revenue sources, changes in tax burden, poor revenue estimating practices, and inefficiency in the collection and administration of revenues. Select two that apply to your city, and then evaluate how these impact your city. (1- 2 pages)
• You propose to increase city tax revenue, and you know from your course readings that price elasticity and demand are important considerations. Understanding the characteristics of your city, evaluate whether the following three tax increase options would be effective: 1) a .5% increase in sales tax, 2) a 3% increase in restaurant tax, and 3) a 5% increase in tourism tax. In your evaluation, consider price elasticity and positive and negative externalities for each type of tax.This is where knowing your city and its major sources of revenue are especially important. (1 – 1 1/2 pages)
• As part of your conclusion, provide one recommendation to improve the city’s financial health. Examples may include (but are not limited to) the need to shift public or customer service priorities or a need to shift policies because of a loss of competitive position. Be creative – one suggestion may be to research examples of other similar cities and determined what changes have worked for them. (1/2 – 1 page)

Use proper APA formatting and include the following:

• A title page and running head
• An introduction that states the purpose of the paper
• Level 1 headings to define each part (bullet) of the paper
• A conclusion to synthesize the entire paper
• A minimum of three additional scholarly sources to support your paper
• In-text citations as appropriate
• A reference list

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REQUIREMENTS

FOLLOW RUBRIC TO A TEE, IT IS MY FINAL

PAY ATTENTION TO THE LENGTH OF THE PAPER
no more than 7 paragrpahs, dont make any mini ones

MLA FORMAT AND ALL MUST ME CITED IN MLA FORM

Wes Moore’s memoir, titled The Other Wes Moore, chronicles two lives with remarkable parallels and startling differences. He tells his own story alongside that of another young man, from his neighborhood, with his same name. The author ended up a Rhodes Scholar, a graduate of Johns Hopkins University, a veteran, an accomplished businessman and author. The other Wes Moore is serving a life sentence without the possibility of parole for his alleged role in a robbery/murder. How do two men with comparable beginnings and early life experiences end up with such contrasting fates? That’s the question that led the author to embark on the book project, but he insists he doesn’t uncover any concrete answers. Ultimately, he suggests that the book is ultimately about “the decisive power of information and stories” to shape people’s lives (182).

Prompt Questions

SELECT ONE QUESTION TO RESPOND TO IN YOUR ESSAY

1. In the Afterword to The Other Wes Moore, the author notes that he intentionally avoided answering the question about what made the difference between his fate and that of the other Wes Moore. He goes on to say that, over time, readers have offered multiple interpretations of the key differences in the two boys’ lives, and that through those conversations, he realized that he “was thinking about the question the wrong way” (181). Moore concludes that the book is ultimately about “the decisive power of information and stories” to shape people’s lives (182). In what way(s) does Moore suggest that the “the decisive power of information and stories” shapes the lives of either or both men? Consider the presence as well as absence of “information and stories;” be specific in your response. Remember that since the author narrates and shapes the story, your argument should be author-focused, about what the author is suggesting or implying through the story.

2. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s TED Talk, “The Danger of a Single Story,” discusses what happens–and what we lose–when we view other people, cultures, or regions through the lens of the one dominant story that is most often told about them. Adichie shares that resisting the “single story” helped her understand complexity and nuance in the world, and helped her discover her own voice as a writer. In many ways, Moore’s work is also “the danger of a single story.” His memoir is his attempt to resist the one-dimensional narratives about the topics that intersected his life, and the life of his counterpart: blackness, poverty, masculinity, drugs, failure, educational reform, etc. Identify one key concept in Moore’s book, articulate what the “single story” is about that key concept, and make an argument about how Moore complicates, challenges, or expands on that single story. How does Moore ask his readers to think beyond the single story about the key concept you select? Again, be specific with your response. Your claims and analysis should be author-focused. Incorporate both Moore and Adichie’s work as textual evidence.

3. The story of the two Wes Moores connects directly to the theme of our course and raises the question: is the difference in their lives fundamentally a product of their individual choices, or of structural/environmental forces? While the author Wes Moore avoids making a clear argument about what made the difference between his fate and that of the other Wes Moore, plenty of readers have weighed in with their own arguments and opinions. The mysterious and fascinating thing about works of literature (and memoir) is that readers’ interpretations just as valid as anything the author intentionally includes. So I’m inviting you to make your own interpretation: does the author suggest that he and his counterpart end up where they are in their lives more as a result of their individual choices, or as a result of structural, environmental factors that are largely out of their control?Support your argument with details from the memoir. Remember that since the author narrates and shapes the story, your argument should be author-focused, about what the author is suggesting or implying through the story.

Important Details

• Your essay should make an original argument, include evidence from the text, and offer analysis of that evidence to support your argument.
• Essays must go beyond plot summary to make original arguments, interpretations and analysis. Essays that lack argument, consist of plot summary, or offer generalized discussion will not receive a passing grade.
• Essay should be approximately 3 pages long (700-1000 words), 12 point Times New Roman or 11 point Arial font,, 1” margins, and double spaced.
  • **Essays that do not meet the page and/or formatting requirements will receive grade deductions.
• Essays should use the 3D Thesis and SEAS body paragraph structure from class.
• Final drafts should demonstrate correct grammar and usage, appropriate for a transfer-level academic essay.
• Note that there are a number of articles about The Other Wes Moore. If you would like to incorporate outside evidence from reputable sources to support your arguments and interpretations, you may, but you are not required to do so. As with all essays, you are required to cite all sources.
• Use introductions to sources in the content of your writing, along with MLA in-text citations to reference sources, including the book itself. You do not need a Works Cited page for this assignment.
• Violations of academic integrity, including (but not limited to) plagiarism, use of uncited sources or unauthorized assistance, or submission of others’ work as your own, will result in a failing grade for the assignment and/or the course.
• Students who have not used the One Pass may do so for this assignment, but please note that the final extended deadline is Thursday at 10:00 pm, as that is the last day that the class is active in Canvas. The course closes after that date and time.

Purpose

This essay supports the course’s Student Learning Objectives by addressing the following skills:

• Comprehending a non-linear, highly symbolic, literary text
• Identifying and interpreting themes in a work of literature
• Developing an original argument, and supporting that argument with evidence from and close analysis of text
• Contextualizing and applying an historical text to the present day

1. Write a 3-5 page paper that uses at least 5 separate examples from class to discuss the meaning of “media literacy.”

NOTE:

a) The paper must be typed and emailed with your name on each page, page numbers and must be in a format i can read without needing to login or download. You may submit it as a Word attachment or as text within an email itself. But NO Google docs or other login-required formats.

b) Your examples must come from class and can include documentaries, lectures, etc. as long as it comes from class.

there are 5 examples you should used to discuss the meaning of “Media literacy”

Choose 5 examples of this 8 examples that we talked about in class and used as examples to write about ” Media literacy ”

look for the files to have more information about what we talked about “Media literacy ” in class and have more ideas

1-Ideas / Ideology

2- social control

3-public relations

4- power struggle

5- public opinion

6- the Corporation

7-Prapaganda

8-Psychological

Hi.. i will need a 2 pages minimum post (not including references page) Please include at least 3 references. Please use APA style. NO PLAGIARISM… Answer ALL of the following questions to complete the work.

National governments issue debt securities known as sovereign bonds, which can be denominated in either local currency or global reserve currencies, like the U.S. dollar or euro. (source (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site.). For this discussion question, first define what these bonds are. Why are these issued? Then discuss the issues that can arise when investors invest in these types of bonds. What are the advantages and disadvantages of these bonds? Are there unique issues that can arise only with this type of bond? Would you invest in sovereign bonds?

Word count: 350, no outside resources needed, all materials are post in attached file.

Drawing on the excerpt of Audra Simpson’s Mohawk Interruptus, answer the following questions:

1. According to Simpson, how is membership in the Iroquois Confederacy different to the concept of citizenship employed by settler states, such as that revealed by the border guards with whom she interacts? Give two to three differences with examples from the article. Use the definition of citizenship given in Guest p. 168.

2. Does the border between Canada and the U.S. and the difficulties members of the Iroquois Confederacy face in crossing it, deepen or undermine a sense of shared Mohawk ethnicity? Explain your response with examples from the text. Hint: also use the definition of ethnicity given on p. 154 of Guest.