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Statement is intended to give an opportunity to submit a tailored narrative which will describe the following.
Your personal statement should describe your:
-Reasons for interest in public health
-Reasons for interest in program of study and/or concentration
-Reasons for interest in the school or program
-Career goals
Please incorporate the following attachment notes into the personal statement
Background
ToolsCorp Corporation is a fictitious company that does not exist anywhere. For the purpose of this course, it is located it in Tennessee. As members of the senior management team of ToolsCorp Corporation, your group has been asked to prepare a neat and organized report for the Strategic Officers Steering Committee (SOS-C) of ToolsCorp Corporation. The purpose of this paper is to obtain permission from them to go forward with the next step (developing a full-blown business plan) for ToolsCorp’s strategic initiative to break into the global marketplace.
Part to be completed
¥ The one-year, five-year, and ten-year strategic objectives of the strategic initiatives presented as one strategic proposal for each time frame (3 strategic proposals in all), complete with implementation plans, potential ramifications, and feedback mechanisms
¥ balance sheet
¥ a general ledger
Objective
The Objective of the Unit 5 Group Project Assignment will involve the following the course outcomes and grading criteria with their respective percentages for the grading rubric:
¥ Identify examples of good and bad business practices in the use of strategy design components (30%).
¥ Research and discuss some of the changes occurring in the way that organizations structure themselves and their work (30%).
¥ Develop plans to improve business operations (20%).
Use effective communication techniques (20%).
Please review the attached file. I am suppose to review a companies financial statement (they have to be attached to the paper, but I need 5 pages of content). The company I would like to evaluate is Amgen, unless there is something the writer feels more comfortable researching. I am comfortable with either, I just need to know. I am trying to get the best grade possible.
PME 604 Project Financing and Associated Financial Management
PROJECT- FINANCIAL STATEMENT ANALYSIS
Learning Objectives
Analyze a company’s financial statements in terms of liquidity, profitability and long-term solvency, and cash flows from operations.
Prepare in good form a written presentation of the results of the financial statement analysis.
Apply basic technology tools including the internet, word processing and spreadsheet software.
Requirements
(1) Select a company and copy/paste its financial statements
Select a public corporation (other than a financial institution or utility such a telephone, electric or gas company), and find its financial statements at http://moneycentral.msn.com. Avoid companies that show Net Losses in either of the last two years:
On the menu of topics at the top, click on “Investing”, “Stocks”. In the “Name or Symbol” box, type in the name or the stock symbol of the company you have selected. Under “Research” and “Financial Results” in the column on the left, select “Statements”. In the dropdown menu select each of the three financial statements and copy/paste them onto separate pages of a single Word document.
(2) Calculate selected ratios and obtain industry averages for comparison
For each of the financial statement ratios listed below calculate the ratio for the current year and for the prior year. (Note that in most textbooks, some of the ratios call for averaging the beginning and ending balances. However, for this project, use only the year’s ending balances.) After calculating the ratio, compare your calculations with the industry ratio as shown in Moneycentral’s “Key Ratios” under “Financial Results”. Note that there are six or seven groups of ratios in which these ratios might be contained:
a. Current Ratio
b. Inventory turnover
(not applicable to service companies)
c.
Debt to Equity ratio (Total liabilities divided by Total equity)
d.
Net Profit Margin (Net Income as a percentage of Sales)
e.
Return on Equity
f. Price earnings ratio (P/E Ratio) [Divide the current market price from a recent newspaper listing by the “basic” earnings-per-share shown on the most
recent year’s income statement.]
Note: The Price/Earnings Ratio (PE Ratio) changes daily with the stock price.
(3) Using Microsoft Word, write a paper (three to five typewritten pages, 1½ line spacing) containing the following:
(a)
A paragraph which describes the primary business activity of the company
(b) A table listing the financial statement ratios listed above in which you list ratio figures for the most recent full year, prior year and industry average.
(c) A paragraph for each of the ratios listed above in which you explain what the ratio means and how it should be interpreted, and comment on the trend from last year to this (favorable or unfavorable), and how your company’s current year compares with the average for its industry.
(d) Earnings Per Share trend is the principal benchmark for investors. Use Excel to present a bar graph showing Earnings Per Share for the last three to five years (EPS figures for several years are generally shown in the Annual Report).
(e) After commenting on each ratio individually, write a summary paragraph which presents your assessment of (1) the company’s liquidity and debt situation, and (2) its profitability.
(f) State your opinion about the company’s ability to generate a positive cash flow from operations. Refer to the trend in the Net Cash Provided by Operating Activities as shown in your company’s Statement of Cash Flows.
(g) Find a recent (less than 6 months old) news article about your company that been published either in print media or on some internet website other than the company’s own website, and write a paragraph in which you cite the article’s title, author, publication and date, and summarize what the article is about.
In addition to Moneycentral, the following websites might contain recent news articles for the company you selected:
http://quote.yahoo.com
(Enter the stock ticker symbol, or if not known, click on Symbol Lookup)
http://marketguide.com
Each of the above items should have a sub-heading in bold font.
(4) As an appendix to your report, attach a copy of the company’s balance sheet, income statement and statement of cash flows. Also, provide a list of References you made for this project.
GRADING
Grading will be based on content including responsiveness to the stated requirements, and on writing quality (clarity, conciseness, spelling, grammar), and on overall appearance and presentation.
Caution: Avoid referring to companies as “they”, and avoid abbreviations and contractions such as “it’s”. Students for whom English is their second language and who are not able to write acceptably in English must engage an English tutor;the International Student Affairs Office can furnish names of such tutors.
DUE DATES
Refer to the Weekly Assignments document for the due date of this Assignment.
The completed report is DUE ON THE . You are encouraged to submit a preliminary draft of the complete report to the instructor a week before the due date for comments by the instructor. Reports turned in late will be downgraded 10 percentage points. Reports will not be accepted after the Final Exam.
Developing a Policy
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Final Project Instructions
Directions:
Your assignment is to write a paper on how you would develop a policy (new or revised policy and specify which) to address an issue identified in a practice setting. This writing assignment should adhere to APA style and be between 3-5 pages NOT including the title page and reference list.
You are to delineate processes for getting the policy adopted and implemented within that practice setting. Using these “steps” as headings for your paper elaborated on the required items listed here.
a. Who are the people directly addressed in the policy? Includes internal and external people. Internal = within the organization. External = Those coming into the organization such as vendors.
b. What are the needs/wants of the identified people? How will you identify their needs/wants?
c. How will the policy respond to their needs/wants? What does the policy and/or procedure provide for these people?
d. What processes and/or procedures will be needed to produce results to meet the need for the identified people.
e. Who will be responsible for implementing this policy – What is your institution’s process for policy development and revision?
Consider and include, at a minimum, potential issues related to safety, culture, collaboration, finances, information management, and resource utilization, if applicable, when writing this assignment.
You must follow the steps identified above and support your narrative with evidence from the scholarly nursing literature. Use Headings in your paper to indicate section topics.
This assignment must be submitted via Turnitin on the Moodle home page no later than 11:55p.m. Monday of Week 7 and will be graded using the rubric posted on Moodle.
This project is worth 15% of your grade. Feedback can be expected 72 hrs after the due date & time
Policy Topic Submission
Topic
Marking the surgical site
Why
We have had patient come to the hospital having marked their own surgical site. There is nothing to cover this in our policy and the surgeons get upset when we insist they come mark the patient per our policy. We should consider revising the policy on who can mark the patient preoperatively.
Target area
Perioperative services staff, surgeons and surgical patients
Annotated Bibliography
The objective of this assignment is to create a record of readings for a course or for a writing
project. By creating such a record, you have a means to refer back to what you’ve read and
learned, as well as what is valuable (or maybe not so valuable) about a particular reading.
As you move through your graduate studies, it is highly useful to be able to refer to your
annotated bibliography as a reference source for future papers or projects. And, it can serve as an
aid for those works you want to revisit in the future either to read again or to consult for
particular purposes.
It can also serve you in your future career. Much of what you read in this course can become part
of your personal library of resources to access again as needed. An annotated bibliography aids
in retrieving material that can be of use because it will remind you what a particular reading is
about and where you can find it again.
For this assignment, choose 10 readings done in conjunction with this course. At least six
readings should be assigned, required readings from our course. The remaining four can be other
articles or books read that relate to arts and cultural policy. They should be scholarly, researched
books and articles. From these readings, create an annotated bibliography. At minimum, each
annotation should include:
• Full citation of the work including title, author, and publication information.
• One-or-two paragraph analytically-oriented summary of the work. (Rather than just a
summary, provide information on the work’s usefulness for your research or for the
field.)
• In the summary, make sure to include the main claim or thesis, supporting evidence,
methods used, theoretical framework, logical structure of the argumentation, and
conclusions drawn.
• Note that with some books and articles, supporting evidence may be in the form of
examples rather than researched evidence. So, for these works, concentrate on the logical
structure of the argument.
• Conclude each annotation with a statement on how you might use the work in the future.
Important note: Many students approaching this assignment for the first time do not do a good
job. They assume that they are supposed to summarize the reading—as one might do in a book
report—and then make a brief statement about whether the reading is useful for research or not.
DO NOT DO THE ASSIGNMENT THIS WAY!
Instead, your approach is to analyze the reading for its merits. Here’s an analogy that might be
useful to think about how to approach this assignment and how you should write the document.
Pretend you are hired for a lawyer to interview potential witnesses for a trial. As a big, important
lawyer, she doesn’t have time to interview the witness herself. So, she is paying you a lot of
money to do this and to tell her whether the person you interview would be a good witness for
her client. Since she is paying you a lot of money, she expects you to do a good job and make a
recommendation she can count on.
She will want to know:
• What will the witness say?
• Is he reliable?
• Will he help my client?
• Are there gaps in his testimony that might cause a problem for the lawyer’s client?
• What examples can you give that illustrate the above to the lawyer’s satisfaction?
• And, no doubt, the answers to other questions, as well.
In a similar fashion, you are “interviewing” the things you’ve read. The scholarly term we use is
“interrogate.” You are interrogating the readings to discover why they are useful.
Using the guidelines for this assignment and the other materials provided on writing an annotated
bibliography, compile an analytical report of the things you’ve read. Articulate your findings in a
way that someone who has not read the same books and articles could still appreciate the
readings and their merits.
What, in particular—and specifically— is useful or not useful? Give examples from the readings
so someone reading your document can better appreciate what you are stating. Are there things
the author didn’t include that would have increased the book’s or article’s merits? What are those
things? Why should they be included? Does the author make assumptions that are unwarranted?
What are they? Is the reading useful for future research? If yes, in what way? If not, why not?
Answering these questions requires thought and analysis on your part. Remember in our analogy
above, you’re being paid a lot of money to provide an excellent assessment. (In the case of our
assignment, you will get a really high grade if you do well.) You are not voicing your opinion.
You are providing sound judgment based on your reasoned assessment of the material you read.
Grading for this assignment will be based on the above criteria.
The length of the assignment will depend on what you write. As a loose guideline, expect to
write between one-third of a page and one-half of a page for each entry.
Your document should be in Microsoft Word or similar word-processing software.
Upon completion of the assignment, upload it for grading.
Book Lists
1. Public Policy: Politics, Analysis, and Alternatives
Michael E. Kraft, Scott R. Furlong
CQ Press, Oct 20, 2014 – Political Science
2. What Art Is Like: In Constant Reference to the Alice Books
Miguel Tamen
Harvard University Press, Oct 30, 2012
3. Kulturmanagement konkret 2011
Gesa Birnkraut, Karin Wolf
BoD – Books on Demand, Mar 7, 2012
4. The Art of Social Media: Power Tips for Power Users
Guy Kawasaki, Peg Fitzpatrick
Penguin, Dec 4, 2014
5. The Arts and Public Policy in the United States
American Assembly January 1, 1984
The American Assembly
6. Cultural Policy and Cultural Diversity: Mapping the Policy Domain
Tony Bennett January 1, 2001
Council of Europe
Leadership and Quality, Safe Professional Nursing Care
OVERVIEW
Part of the assigned readings in your textbook this week concerns leadership. According to Finkel and Kenner (2016)), leadership is not grounded to a position of authority but rather is a relationship between a leader and followers that is collaborative and mutually advantageous. Essential II of the BSN Essentials (American Association of Colleges of Nursing, 2008), Basic Organizational and Systems Leadership for Quality Patient Care and Patient Safety, emphasizes that quality, safe professional nursing care is the direct result of effective leadership in all health care settings.
Directions:
Read the IOM Report on Leadership.
Describe the scope of leadership presented in the IOM report
Discuss the meaning of interprofessional leadership.
Describe one way nurses can impact leadership in health care into the future.
Address questions 1-3 above, in a 1-2 page essay in APA format. Be concise but specific in your responses. Your essay must show critical analysis of the topic. Support your responses with evidence from at least 2 recent, scholarly journals (preferably nursing journals.) Recent is less than five years old and your textbook is not a journal.
Your response to a classmate’s essay should include brief commentary on their essay regarding questions 1-3 above. Your review should also show critical analysis of the topic and, in addition, must be supported by evidence from at least 1 recent, scholarly, peer-reviewed journals (preferably nursing journals.) This reference must be different than the references in your paper. Remember that recent is less than five years old and your textbook is not a journal. You must complete your review by Thursday of Week 6 at 11:55pm cst.
This assignment is worth 5% of your grade. Feedback will be available within 72 hrs of the due date & time.
2-3 pages excluding the title page and resource
instruction on the disease model
case study 5
CASE 5:
Marcus Jones is a 15–year–old African American male who lives with his mother, grandmother and two siblings. His love of video games is now interfering with his school performance.
Demographics and Comorbidity
15–year–old African American male, attends high school, an intelligent “nerd” who prefers social isolation and selected cyber friends to community friends who might pick on him.
Sociocultural Factors
Lives with mother and grandmother and two younger siblings at home in a poor neighborhood, no family transportation, buses to school, mother works long hours outside home to provide for family, father absent and has history of drug addiction and arrest and incarceration due to his addictive behavior. Forced participation in local Baptist church with family.
Addiction History
Discovered Internet games when family obtained first computer capable of gaming when client was 12 years old. Mother sees client as her one child who can be successful in life and has encouraged his computer skills and competitive video gaming. Client has been gaming for longer hours over the last three years and enjoys the success from online gaming competition.
Treatment History
Despite being called a “gaming addict” by some peers and relatives, he has had no previous treatment history for addictive behavior.
Reason for Seeking Treatment
Academic performance has suffered significantly due to excessive Internet video gaming and staying up late playing online with limited sleep. High school guidance counselor intervened and recommended seeking help for video gaming addiction.
• The Disease Models
Resources
• The Disease Models Scoring Guide.
• Addiction Case Studies.
For this assignment, imagine you are a counselor working in a disease model treatment program. Select one of the case studies you were introduced to in the last unit. The person in your selected case study will represent the “client” who is seeking help from your program.
Assignment Instructions
Complete the following sections for this assignment:
• Introduction—In this section of the paper:
o Identify the client from the case study and briefly summarize the client’s demographic characteristics and addictive behavior history that are relevant to the disease models of addiction. This section sets the stage for the next sections.
• Applications of Disease Models—In this section:
o Apply your understanding of the disease models of addiction to your client. Do client demographics and history suggest that your client suffers from a disease of addiction? Based on your interpretation, what disease model treatment strategies might you recommend for this client?
• Sociocultural Factors and the Disease Models—Finally, in the last section:
o Describe how sociocultural factors (“medicalization” of addictions through diagnoses, medical treatment, pharmacotherapy, genetic influences, brain scans, and media portrayal of addictions) may affect the client’s perception of the problem and the addictive behavior.
o Describe factors that may contribute to the addictive behavior as well as factors that may be helpful in overcoming the addiction from the perspective of the disease models of addiction.
Assignment Requirements
• Length: The paper should be 2–3 pages, excluding the title page and resources page.
• References: Throughout your paper, apply relevant research findings from scholarly literature using in-text citations to support your reasoning. Include references for each of your citations in a separate reference page at the end of your paper,
Write an essay describing your thoughts on the Exclusionary Rule. For instance, is excluding evidence from trial necessary? Can you think of any other viable alternatives as a way to deter police misconduct? Be specific. Make sure to write a well-reasoned analysis supporting your opinion
NSG3036 W4A2
Research Template
Use complete sentences as well as citations and references.
Please use APA Style Writing 6th Edition.
Week 4 Template Quantitative Article Qualitative Article
Describe the sample
Describe the sample’s characteristics and demographics
Discuss the data collection process
Identify the sampling design
Described the instrument, tool, or survey
Summarize the discussion about the validity and reliability of the instrument
Identify the consent form and IRB
Assignment 2: Dropbox Assignment
Identifying Research Components
Week 4 Tasks
Use the Week 4 research template to complete the following assignment tasks. ( PLEASE SEE UPLOADED FILE FOR THE TEMPLATE )
• Choose the assigned research articles SEE UPLOADED FILE. Describe the sample, demographics, data collection process, setting, and the instrument, tool, or survey used in the articles.
• Discuss the authors’ summary about the validity and reliability of the instrument.
Cite all sources in APA format.
PLEASE SEE THE GRADING RUBRIC BELOW FOR THIS ASSIGNMENT
Assignment 2 Grading Criteria Maximum Points
Described the sample in the studies chosen ( ARTICLES) 24
Described the sample characteristics (demographics) in the study. 16
Discussed the data collection process used in the studies. 16
Identified the sampling design. 16
Described the instrument or tool or survey used in the articles. 12
Summarized the discussion regarding the validity and reliability of the instrument in each article. 20
Discussed the legal and ethical concerns as well as the IRB approval. 16
Written components. 20
Total: 140
Social media has swallowed the news – threatening the funding of public-interest reporting and ushering in an era when everyone has their own facts. But the consequences go far beyond journalism. Critically evaluate this argument and the evidence with reference to media monopolisation, social media, the future of journalism and the public sphere. ( article that question is based on is attached).
Please use the attached references from my subject unit and any extra references are to be Australian ones if possible.
Essay instructions:
Katharine Viner (The Guardian, 12 July 2016) argues that: Social media has swallowed the news – threatening the funding of public-interest reporting and ushering in an era when everyone has their own facts. But the consequences go far beyond journalism
Critically evaluate this argument and the evidence with reference to media monopolisation, social media, the future of journalism and the public sphere.
Please add this question to your paper when you submit it. Also follow the normal parameters applicable to essay writing in the Arts Faculty and in ASC346. Make sure you have 6-8 references from the unit. I have attached the article from Viner to assist your analysis.
-References to use( if relevant ) – please find these online.
-The Eavesdropper: in the field with Sherry Turkle as she fights to save the dying art of conversation by Garber, Megan 2014
-The sociology of habit: The perspective of Pierre Bourdieu – Swartz, David L Winter 2002
-Media/society: industries, images, and audiences – David Croteau, William Hoynes 2014
Book Please read pp 16-26 & 187-222
-Journalism studies beyond media: On ideology and identity – Mark Deuze 2004
Article Read pp. 275-293.
Media/society: industries, images, and audiences – David Croteau, William Hoynes 2014
Book Further Reading Please read pp 123-137 & 226-235.
The media we deserve: underachievement in the fourth estate – David Salter 2007
Book Read pages 17-42
News and the social life of words – Matheson, D. 2005
Chapter Prescribed Read pages 15-34
The framing of the mind – Manuel Castells 2013
Chapter