Select a Comprehensive Annual Financial Report (CAFR) from your favorite state or local governmental agency which MARYLAND . Be sure to state which state or local governmental agency you are analyzing. Analyze the CAFR that you selected. Prepare a report in your own words analyzing and explaining the following:

1. Discuss what the main sections of the report are.

2. Discuss the introductory section of the CAFR: a. Explain whether or not the CAFR has a certificate of achievement of excellent in financial reporting b. Explain the key issues addressed in the letter of transmittal.

3. Discuss the budget-to-actual comparisons of the major funds. a. Explain the accounting basis used to prepare its annual operating budget. b. Explain whether the actual amounts are on a GAAP or a budgetary basis.

Yes, it needs to be written in essay format. During the final week of the course, you will submit a paper that will be written as if you were making recommendations to a member of Congress. Imagine that the United States Congress was considering sweeping legislation that would provide intensive regulation of nonprofit fundraising, including the imposition of more filing requirements to the Internal Revenue Service for nonprofits, as well as more active obligations on the part of nonprofit leaders to explain in detail their fundraising strategies, marketing, and fundraising efforts. Imagine also that such legislation would provide greater public oversight of the nonprofit fundraising process, but would also burden nonprofits with significant paperwork and accountability requirements. In your paper, discuss your views on whether or not the federal government should play a much larger role in regulating nonprofits and especially how nonprofits identify donors, collect funds, and spend fundraising dollars. Remember that there are only forty states that have state regulations while ten states have no state regulations at all. For example, there was a significant controversy after 9/11 regarding the American Red Cross because they collected fundraising monies and did not use those funds for the victims of 9/11 -- they instead diverted those funds to other projects of the Red Cross. Here are four questions to help frame your discussion. • Do you believe that government has a strong role to play in the regulation of nonprofit fundraising? • Do you think that states should play a role in regulating nonprofit fundraising? • Should there be a Sarbanes-Oxley-type legislation regarding nonprofit fundraising? • If so, what values should guide politicians as they attempt to set up regulatory systems to ensure that nonprofit fundraising is done in an ethical fashion? Would stronger regulation of nonprofits have a chilling effect by decreasing contributions to nonprofits and diminishing the willingness of individuals to create nonprofits to address serious public crises and controversies? It needs to be in essay-type format.

1. The proton-neutron differential scattering cross section is symmetric about 90 degrees axis in center of mass frame of reference. Why is this important?

2. What is the experimental evidence for partons?

3. What is the relation between strong interaction responsible for binding of nucleons and one that binds quarks. Briefly state most important similarities and differences.

4. Explain why scientists do not expect to observe free quarks.

5. In what ways are electromagnetic and color charges similar and different?

What are the four most important steps in completing a foreign policy analysis. Explain in detail why you feel these four activities are so critical to the task of informing your client about a foreign policy problem.

Introduction to the Problem

Design an Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC):

"Scenario: You have a small business with a website that is hosted on an Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instance. You have customer data that is stored on a backend database that you want to keep private. You want to use Amazon VPC to set up a VPC that meets the following requirements:

•          Your web server and database server must be in separate subnets.

•          The first address of your network must be 10.0.0.0. Each subnet must have 256 total IPv4 addresses.

•          Your customers must always be able to access your web server.

•          Your database server must be able to access the internet to make patch updates.

•          Your architecture must be highly available and use at least one custom firewall layer."

For the Program Level Assessment, short summary report using the following criteria:

Define the Problem

re-state the problem you are asked to solve and detail all relevant findings and recommendations.

Identify Strategies

Explain how your VPC design meets requirements in scenario.

Propose Solutions

How you can improve or change your design using additional services learned in class.

Evaluate Outcomes

Briefly explain how your design and propose solutions meets at least two of the pillars of AWS Well-Architected Framework.

Submit a Word Document

Using the section headers above, provide responses for each and summary report.

Your answer to Section A should be about 250 words.

Please use APA style for all aspects of this Question. You must cite all course materials in-text; improper or missing citations will receive a zero grade and/or a formal investigation of academic misconduct. You are not allowed to use internet materials, quotations from outside readings or any “cut and paste” learning materials in any of your written answers. Write in your words only and draw on required course materials only

1. In the Introduction to the Course, we discussed three processes of globalization in the world economy: internationalization, liberalization, and the information and communications technological revolution(s). Explain the meaning of these terms, how they differ, and how they are important. Use specific empirical examples to clarify the abstract terms and illustrate the conceptual differences.

Explain why the statement of cash flows is necessary. Without going into detail on individual increases or decreases, explain generally how the other financial statements are used in determining the amounts to report in each section.

A bond’s price determined by the present value of its cash flows. Describe the cash flows used in the bond’s price calculation including what type of cash flow each is.

Use SPSS to determine if academic program is related to feelings about PSYC 3002 by computing the appropriate chi square test.

1. Recall the four scales of measurement you learned about in Week 1 (i.e., nominal, ordinal, interval, ratio). Explain what scale of measurement is used to measure academic program in this example. How do you know?

2. Explain what scale of measurement is used to measure feeling about PSYC 3002. Explain how you know.

3. State whether this scenario requires a goodness of fit test or a test of independence. Explain your answer.

4. Before computing the chi square, state the null hypothesis and alternative hypothesis in words (not formulas).

5. Identify the obtained χ2 using SPSS and report it in your answer document.

6. State the degrees of freedom and explain how you calculated it by hand.

7. Identify the p value using SPSS and report it in your answer document.

8. Explain whether you should retain or reject the null hypothesis and why.

9. Are the results statistically significant? How do you know?

10. Explain what you can determine about the relationship between academic program and feelings about PSYC 3002.

DATA SET:

"Normal" (normalcy) is a term loosely tossed around in our culture.

Chapter 12 talks about possible criteria to indicate what is "abnormal". (Essentials of Psychology 6e By Douglas Bernstein)

List and discuss these criteria. Explain in detail, in at least 150 words, use examples, and references.

The stockholders' equity section of the balance sheet typically includes the line items of retained earnings, common stock, treasury stock, and other comprehensive income.

Select two of these line items (common stock and Treasury stock) and explain what their balances might indicate about how Ford Motor Company is utilizing the investment by its stockholders.

In your response, address whether you would want to purchase stock in the company based on your analysis.

Please use a scholarly article for reference.