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Briefly discuss how you see the problems with integration affect the ability of emergency personnel to meet the challenges of this disaster.

Give at least one example of an issue involving vertical integration and one involving horizontal integration.

Competency
Synthesize appropriate and effective use of technology for managing accounting and financial information flows and presentation.
Scenario Information
BeGood Baking Supply is a small bakery supply company formed as a closely held corporation. The company supplies raw baking materials, paper goods, and equipment to restaurants and bakeries in 3 states in the upper mid-west. Most of its business however, is located in a large metropolitan area. BeGood wants to increase its presence in the region and serve 5 states. In fact, the owners of BeGood would like 75% of their business to come from throughout the region rather than the current metropolitan area. In order to do this the owners understand they must diversify offerings and lines of business.
Currently, BeGood has a phone center where customer orders are taken; these orders are then sent to shipping where the order is filled in its large warehouse and shipped within 4 days. Be Good outsources its shipping to a local trucking company. Once the order ships, all paperwork goes to the accounting department where it is entered into the accounting system. BeGood still uses the same accounting system it has used since the inception of the company. All aging of receivables and other analysis is done using Excel spreadsheets. Purchasing and tracking of inventory are done solely by the warehouse manager. Invoices for inventory purchasing are sent to the accounting department when goods are received.
The owners at Be Good are wondering how they can utilize an online presence and further automate its systems in order to facilitate its growth and diversify its business. The owners may also like to expand into the retail business.
You have been hired as a full-time staff accountant at BeGood Baking Supply and have been given the task of evaluating and recommending a viable accounting information system for the accounting and financial data of BeGoodin order to facilitate expansion and diversification. As you begin your research, you realize that many departments are involved in the information system, and communication is key.

Instructions
You are now ready to address the specifics of the new AIS at BeGood. As part of your research, document the following, which would become part of your final presentation to management, if you were carrying the project through to the end. Your documentation can be in the form of tables, SmartArt, PowerPoint, Word, or Excel. Use what best works for the documentation you are creating:
1. Identify the tables that you would need to create a working database for the company’s receivables, payables, and inventory.
2. Create relationships for your various tables and databases. For instance, how does the A/P database interface with the Inventory Database?
3. Document your work providing a databases diagram (schema).
4. Documenting an organization’s AIS would become part of a larger scale user manual for the accounting and information technology teams to use for reference and to assist the audit team with understanding how the organization’s systems work together. Write the appropriate policies and procedures that arise from the tasks above that would be included in this type of user manual. Your information should also address the security of the systems involved.
5. Grading Rubric
6.
A
4
Mastery
Fully identifies tables that would be needed to create a working database for the company’s receivables, payables, and inventory.
Full creation of relationships for tables and databases completed.
Complete documentation of work, providing a databases diagram (schema).
Full policy and procedure update drafted for the user manual, including security.

Marketing
What are the sources of competitive advantage for IKEA in the international market?

You should write a 3500 words report and evaluate what helps IKEA gain competitive advantages in international market and analysis on the case study-IKEA (I have attached it for you) Using the case study and other materials available on the web.

You can also compare and contrast IKEA with its competitors in different markets.

You can adopt the following mechanisms (but not limited to the following points) to elaborate your answer:

1.Environment scan [PEST analysis about the general environment to illustrate opportunities and threats]

2.Resource and competences analysis of IKEA

•Tangible and intangible resources of IKEA
•Unique resources and core competences of IKEA
•Dynamic Capabilities of IKEA to cope with the dynamic international environment
•How the strategic capabilities help the focal firm to gain competitive advantages

3.Value Chain analysis

•Identify what resource and competences IKEA is having in each activities
•Diagnose in which activities IKEA is making or losing value
•Form a strategy to deal with the resource gap

4.Porter’s generic strategy

•Identify which strategy IKEA is currently adopting
•Analysis the factors which enable IKEA to implement the selected strategy

Weight
Introduction, conclusion and referencing 15%
Environment scan 10%
Resource and competences analysis of IKEA 30%
Value Chain analysis 25%
Porter’s generic strategy 20%

85 – 100% In order to secure a mark in this range, a candidate must submit an outstanding answer with original thinking. Apart from showing an excellent level of understanding of the topic, the work must demonstrate critical/analytic skills and originality. For example, such an answer would include new and valuable insights into international business field which are from the student’s own critical thinking and contributes to the existing literature.

70-85% An essay in this range will demonstrate a excellent understanding of theories, concepts and issues relating to international business. There will be evidence of wide-ranging reading from a variety of valid sources (as described and presented in the marking criteria for 60-69%).

The assignment must be written in a clear, well-structured way with a coherent and seamless flow and show evidence of independent, critical thought. It must show extensive relevant reading on the subject and intelligent use of the material to present a well-balanced and well-argued assignment. For example, the student will have considered a range of relevant issues and be able to assess the strength and weaknesses of various approaches/arguments and put forward a confident and articulate view of their own.
60-69% An essay in this mark range will demonstrate a strong understanding of the requirements of the assignment and of theories, concepts and issues relating to the module. An assignment in this percentage range will include a balanced discussion of issues central to the question, how these are addressed by different authors or sources and some critical thinking into their relative merits or shortcomings.

The answer will be contain few errors and little, if any, irrelevant material. It will show evidence of reading from a variety of sources (i.e. more than 3 or 4) but not so many sources that the discussion loses focus and becomes unclear or irrelevant. All sources should be of some academic merit (e.g. books, journals, reports, media publications). Unreferenced material from non-credible internet sources MUST be avoided.

All sources must be included and properly referenced in the references. The assignment will be well-organised and clearly written/presented overall.

50-59% The answer will demonstrate some reasonable understanding of relevant theories, concepts and issues relating to the module but also some minor errors of fact or understanding.

The assignment will not be based on an extensive range of sources (for example few references are included), or much evidence that they have been read closely or well-understood. For example, the assignment will retell sources rather than analyse them.

The assignment may be quite general in part. Some errors may be present and some irrelevant material may be included.

The essay may not be particularly well-structured, and/or clearly presented and contain some spelling mistakes and grammatical errors. A few sentences may be unclear.

40-49% A mark within this percentage range will be given to an essay which:

shows some limited basic understanding of the subject but is incomplete. For example, if it answers one part of a question but not the rest.
makes only very general statements
includes some factual errors or misunderstandings e.g. confusion between different companies or misuse of certain key terms.
shows limited use of material with limited reading/research on the topic and includes only a very small number of references, not all of which are included mistakes and an incomplete reference list.
has a poor structure and does not flow e.g. if there is no conclusion or new facts are introduced in the conclusion rather than introduction or main discussion.
contains some fundamental errors.

https://www.texastribune.org/2014/06/19/states-leadership-instructs-dps-increase-patrols-b/
1. Introduction: An argument is “a form of discourse in which the writer or speaker tries to persuade an audience to accept, reject, or think a certain way about a problem that cannot be solved by scientific or mathematical reasoning alone” (White and Billings 3).
#1:Have you driven to Rio Grande City lately? If not, go west and you will notice the pervasive presence of both the United States Border Patrol and, most recently, the Department of Public Safety State Troopers parked in their black and white patrol units at every corner. The DPS presence is a response to what has been perceived as the most recent “crisis on the border” as immigrants cross in flight from conditions in their home countries in search of more livable conditions here.

The questions that you must address are:
1. Should the DPS be involved in border enforcement?
2. What is its role?
3. Is a DPS presence helpful or harmful? Read all the articles, decide where you stand on the issue, and then formulate your argument.

2. Evidence: Your argument must include credible evidence in support of your position. You must include 2-4 sources on the list. You must use at least two articles listed in the essay folder and also, if necessary, provide additional documentation that informs and supports your argument. Additional documentation is not mandatory.
3. Structure of the Argument: You must use the classical model of argument: thesis, evidence, the appeals (ethos, pathos, logos), counterargument and refutation, and conclusion.
4. More Specific Instructions:

• Your essay must be 4-6 pages in length;
• Type your essay in MLA format, double-spaced, Times New Roman, 12 point font.
• Document your sources using MLA format and include a Works Cited page

The Classical Model of Argument
(see Aristotle’s Rhetoric)

I. Introduction
A. Lead-in
B. Overview
C. Background

II. Position statement (thesis)

III. Appeals (ethos, pathos, logos) and evidence
A. Appeals to ethics, character, authority (ethos); to emotions (pathos); to reason (logos)
B. Evidence: citing of statistics, results, findings, examples, laws, relevant passages from authoritative texts

IV. Counterargument and Refutation (often presented simultaneously with evidence)

V. Conclusion
A. Highlights of key points presented
B. Recommendations
C. Illuminating restatement of thesis
DPS Goes International

byMelissa del Bosque Published on Wednesday, May 7, 2014, at 1:50 CST

www.txdps.state.tx.us
Steve McCraw
Ever since Steve McCraw, who was once an FBI agent, became director of the Texas Department of Public Safety in 2009, he’s striven to make the state’s largest law enforcement agency more like a wing of the Department of Homeland Security. McCraw has invested in armored gunboats, a surveillance plane and even a helicopter sniper program (since discontinued after two undocumented Guatemalan migrants were killed in 2012). Now the agency has become the federal government’s newest partner in fighting the global war on drugs.
In late March, McCraw signed an agreement with the U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs (INL) that allows DPS to send its troopers to other countries to train. DPS can also train foreign police officers in Texas under the new agreement.
The INL oversees a $1.7 billion annual budget, of which about half a billion is dedicated to “counternarcotic control strategies” such as law enforcement training, drug crop eradication and foreign programs that support the U.S drug war strategy. INL spokesperson Pooja Jhunjhunwala says the federal agency has one other partnership in Texas. Webb County Sheriff Martin Cuellar (whose brother is Democratic Congressman Henry Cuellar) signed an agreement with the agency in 2011. Last year, Martin Cuellar’s department hosted a three-week study tour in Laredo for eight narcotics officers from Ecuador.
After signing the agreement with DPS’ McCraw, Ambassador William Brownfield, assistant secretary for the INL, told Texas Public Radio that DPS has unique expertise in border security, especially in drug- and gang-related crimes. Brownfield cited Central American gangs as one area that DPS might focus on in the new collaboration. He said he hopes U.S. law enforcement will soon “address issues related to gangs down there that eventually operate up here.”
McCraw, in a written statement, said he was pleased to have DPS join the U.S. State Department’s global campaign in the war on drugs: “Crime today is alarmingly transitory, transnational, organized and covert, and it’s not enough for governments to focus solely on protecting public safety and disrupting crime within their borders—the efforts must be global.”

Using examples from your readings, explain the risks associated with the nursing role in palliative care. At what point does a patient need palliative care? What are some appropriate and inappropriate practices during palliative care? Answer the following:
• What is the BSN nurse’s role in palliative care and how does that role differ from the role of the AND or diploma-prepared nurse?
• What ethical concerns might a nurse face when a patient chooses palliative care over treatment?
Support your response with references from the professional nursing literature.

Business Model
Style: APA
Using today’s business model, how should security interact with the other key functional areas of the organization

MBA 665 Final Project Milestone One Guidelines and Rubric
Overview: The final project for this course is the creation of an impact of governmental action on a business paper. For Milestone One, you will submit a topic
selection short paper. Key to your success is providing the background to thoroughly address each of the critical elements. The business topic will be the same
one that you created in your MBA 560: Marketing and Strategy course. If the idea has not yet faced some significant government impact, you will need to identify
one or more government impacts that the business idea would be likely to face. See examples in the prompt.
Governments at all levels—federal, state, and municipal—exert a significant influence on business. The impacts of these influences may be negative, such as the
imposition of costly regulations, or they may be positive, such as the provision of financial incentives for the creation of new jobs. Both negative and positive
governmental actions present challenges for businesses: the impact of the action on the business’s “bottom line,” how public opinion will be influenced by the
business’s response to a particular action, and the ethical issues associated with each response, for example.
Prompt: Your short paper should identify and briefly describe the business that you propose to study and describe the government impact that it has faced or
would be likely to confront. Make your case for why the business and government impact you select are appropriate subjects for the final project. If your
instructor believes that your choice will not provide sufficient material for you to achieve success with the final project, you may have to select a different
business and/or government impact.
Your macroeconomic evaluation should answer the following prompt: Select a business that has faced, or is facing, governmental action, and analyze the impact
of this action on the business. Ideally, the business that you select will be the same one discussed in the business plan you created for MBA 560: Marketing and
Strategy. If that company does not yet exist, you should choose one in the same area of focus that is facing a governmental action, regulatory issue, or political
challenge, with instructor consultation and approval. This is important because the analysis you complete now should help inform your knowledge of potential
situations or challenges facing your business product, service, or other idea from your business plan. While your area of focus may be different from the possible
topics and situations listed here, these should still give you an idea of the type of situation for which to look.
Topic examples:
 The decision of LG Corporation to construct a new corporate headquarters on the Hudson River in New Jersey, in the face of environmental concerns
 The decision of Tesla Motors, Inc. to choose among competing incentive packages from local governments for the construction of the company’s new
Gigafactory
 The threat of Amazon.com to move its drone research development activities out of the United States unless the Federal Aviation Administration adopts
a more favorable regulatory stance
 The federal Occupational Safety and Health Administration’s decision to issue numerous citations to Ashley Furniture
 McDonald’s Corporation and the decision by Seattle, Washington to increase the minimum wage in that city
Specifically, the following critical elements must be addressed:
I. Topic Selection:
A. Business Profile: Provide a brief profile of the business and the industry it occupies, including the business’s market share and competitors, as
well as opportunities and threats facing the business and industry outside of the particular governmental action now facing the business.
B. Governmental Action: Analyze the potential governmental action or political challenge that will affect the business in this particular situation.
Rubric
Guidelines for Submission: Your paper must be submitted as an 2-3 page Microsoft Word document with double spacing, 12-point Times New Roman font, oneinch margins, and sources cited in APA format.
Instructor Feedback: This activity uses an integrated rubric in Blackboard. Students can view instructor feedback in the Grade Center. For more information,
review these instructions.

Critical Elements	Proficient (100%)	Needs Improvement (70%)	Not Evident (0%)	Value
Topic Selection: Business Profile	Briefly profiles selected business and industry it occupies, including market share, competitors, opportunities, and threats	Profiles selected business and industry it occupies, including market share, competitors, opportunities, and threats, but response is wordy or vague	Does not profile selected business and industry it occupies	45
Topic Selection: Governmental Action	Accurately analyzes potential governmental action or political challenge that will affect business	Analyzes potential governmental action or political challenge that will affect business, but with gaps in accuracy or detail	Does not analyze potential governmental action or political challenge that will affect business	45
Articulation of Response	Submission has no major errors related to citations, grammar, spelling, syntax, or organization	Submission has major errors related to citations, grammar, spelling, syntax, or organization that negatively impact readability and articulation of main ideas	Submission has critical errors related to citations, grammar, spelling, syntax, or organization that prevent understanding of ideas	10
Total	100%

 

Case Assignment
Short Answer Questions. Please address the following questions. Your total page requirement is 3- to 5-pages.
1. Suppose a consumer has $1000:
a. If the marginal propensity to save (MPS) is .2, how much will the consumer spend?
b. If the consumer deposits the entire $1000 into a bank and, assuming the reserve requirement rate is 10%, what will be the eventual increase in checking account balances?
2. What are supply shocks? Explain what effect adverse and favorable supply shocks have on the supply curve. Give an example of a supply shock that has affected the U.S. economy on more than one occasion.
3. True/False Statements. Indicate if the statement below is True or False. You must support your answer with a few sentences for each statement.
a. When considering the aggregate demand curve, the wealth effect, interest rate effect, and effects from international trade reinforce each other.
b. When federal government spending amounts to less than tax revenues, the federal government runs a budget deficit.
c. Credits cards are NOT a part of the M1 or M2 money supply.
d. Money is a perfect store of value.
4. Suppose the current real GDP is less than the potential GDP. Explain the ways fiscal and monetary policy can increase real GDP. Be sure to focus on the specific tools, and use the concepts of aggregate demand (fiscal policy) and money supply (monetary policy).
Assignment Expectations
Use concepts from the modular background readings, as well as any good-quality resources you find. Please be sure to cite all sources within the text and provide a reference list at the end of the paper.
Length: 3–5 pages, double-spaced and typed.
The following items will be assessed:
• Your ability to apply the basic economic concepts to the questions.
• Some in-text references to the modular background readings (APA formatting not required).
• The assignment should address each question for full credit. Remember to support your answers with solid references, including the case readings.

Module 4 – Background
FISCAL AND MONETARY POLICY
This module explores the business cycle and economic fluctuations. You will also learn how to use aggregate demand and aggregate supply to understand what is happening in the economy. The special role of taxation, government spending, and import/export activities is also discussed.
We will also examine the role of money in the economy. It is important to understand how money is defined. We will also analyze banks and other financial intermediaries that impact the creation of money. The Federal Reserve (the central bank) and how it controls the money supply is also explored. Changes in the money supply have major impacts on inflation, output, and employment. Please review the following background materials:
Required Reading
Aggregate Demand, Supply, and Fiscal Policy, Interactive Tutorial.http://www.pearsoncustom.com/mct-comprehensive/asset.php?isbn=1269879944&id=11387
Money and the Banking System, Interactive Tutorial. http://www.pearsoncustom.com/mct-comprehensive/asset.php?isbn=1269879944&id=12277
Discussion Video
Khan Academy Video: https://www.khanacademy.org/economics-finance-domain/macroeconomics/aggregate-supply-demand-topic/keynesian-thinking/v/keynesian-economics

 

Research on Sleep and Sleep Disorders

There’s a dangerous new epidemic sweeping this country: excessive daytime sleepiness. According to a new National Sleep Foundation survey, an alarming one-third of American adults scored at levels of sleepiness known to be hazardous. Six percent scored at severe levels of sleepiness. Consider the implications of these findings: Although we trivialize sleep problems, sleep-related accidents result in thousands of deaths each year and billions of dollars in medical costs and lost productivity. The Exxon Valdez tanker disaster and the Three Mile Island nuclear power plant accident were both caused by operator fatigue. This exercise explores the causes of chronic sleep loss and examines exciting new discoveries in the field of sleep research.

http://www.stanford.edu/~dement/ (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site.

http://www.sleepfoundation.org (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site.

http://www.stanford.edu/~dement/epworth.html (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site.

http://www.sleepnet.com/ (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site.

1. In the past century, we have reduced our average sleep time by 20 percent. Going back 20 years, identify societal changes and changes in individual lifestyles that encourage wakefulness and discourage sleep.

2. Many more women than men suffer from chronic sleep loss. What social, psychological, and physiological factors might account for this gender difference?

3. Ninety-five percent of individuals that suffer from sleep disorders are never diagnosed or treated for their disorder. What factors might explain why sleep disorders often go untreated and undiagnosed?

4. Read through the information on the sleep Web sites (use links provided at the bottom of the page at http://www.stanford.edu/~dement/ (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site.), and select 10 to 15 of the facts about sleep that you consider most valuable. This information should be common knowledge; in fact, if it were made public, it might reduce our culture’s sleep crisis. Title your list “Facts Everyone Should Know About Sleep and Sleep Disorders.”

CRITERIA:
1. Societal changes are discussed accurately
2. Gender is discussed accurately
3. Misdiagnsosis is discussed accurately
4. 10-15 facts about sleep is discussed accurately
5. Grammar and spelling
6. Flow

 

 

 

Feminism International Relation Theory
Talk about:
Liberal Feminist IR theory
Constructivist feminist IR theory
Post-Mordern Feminism IR theory.

Just make it a paerfect writting and include your findings too.

Required:
J. A. Tickner, L. Sjoberg, Feminism in T. Dune, M. Kurki, S. Smith (eds.), International Relations Theories: Discipline and Diversity, 3rd ed.,

Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013.

Highly recommended:
J. Ann Tickner, You Just Don’t Understand’: Troubled Engagements between Feminist and
IR Theorists, “International Studies Quarterly “ 1997, vol. 41, no. 4.
L. J. Shepherd, Sex or Gender? Bodies in World Politics and Why Gender Matters in L. J. Shepherd (ed.), Gender Matters in Global Politic:. A

feminist introduction to International Relations, London: Routledge, 2009.

Sources you will need to use:

https://books.google.com/books?hl=en&lr=&id=0fb_U9xlW2YC&oi=fnd&pg=PP2&dq=S.+Smith+(eds.),+International+Relations+Theories:+Discipline+and

+Diversity,+3rd+ed.,+Oxford:+Oxford+University+Press,+2013.&ots=Dhh1WDqgl5&sig=sEp4Xhw5-RhSxqZnYXg06C8WnEg#v=onepage&q&f=false