A single mother with two young children comes into a doctor's office with a medical condition that can be treated in one of two ways. The first way requires a short hospital stay and a two week recovery. It is mostly covered by her insurance, but she has no one to take care of her children during the work week and cannot really afford to miss so much work. The second way is a relatively new out-patient method that has a three day recovery. She can even come in on Friday so that she misses minimal work. However, her insurance does not cover the procedure. She asks if the doctor can do this procedure but bill it to her insurance as the one involving the longer recovery. What would you recommend the doctor do? State which method you are using from the Making Ethical decision folder. Then apply it. While some of the articles mention the same methods; there are methods that are not in all of them One example is the newspaper test.

Question 1

Describe a Business Continuity Management System including its BIA Strategies, plans, and Tests and Exercises that would be appropriate for the Organization. Justify your chosen strategies and type of exercises.

Question 2.

A) Outline key/distinguishing characteristics and objectives of Emergency Management, Crisis Management, Disaster Recovery Planning and Business Continuity Management? Provide brief examples of relevant past real world incidents requiring initiation of each of these activities.

B) What is Business Continuity Management? List and explain in details the three Elements of BCM

C) What are the most common approaches to executing a BIA? Mention the four main elements of a BIA.

Question 3.

A) Distinguish between Recovery Time Objectives (RTOs) and Recovery Pont Objectives (RPOs).

B) What is an important consideration when identifying RTOs? Illustrate your answer with practical real world examples.

C) Describe in details What an Emergency Operations Center is and give differences between Cold, Warm and Hot Sites.

Provide reference for the answers

(3) (a) Show that every two-dimensional subspace of R3 is the kernel of some linear transformation T : R3 → R. [Hint: there are many possible ways to approach this problem. One is to use the following fact, typically introduced in multivariable calculus: for every plane P in R3, there are real numbers a, b, c, d such that a point (x,y,z) belongs to P if and only if it satisfies the equation ax+by+cz = d. You may use this fact without proof here, if you like; note that it considers all planes, not just those through the origin.] (b) Are there any other sets W such that W is the kernel of some linear transformation T : R3 → R? (If not, explain why not; if so, explain why the set or sets you mention can be kernels, and why there are no others.) (c) What possibilities are there for the image im(T) of a linear transformation T : R3 → R? (d) What possibilities are there for the kernel and image of a linear transformation S : R → R3?

Following complaints about the working conditions in some apparel factories both in the United States and abroad, a join government and industry commission recommended in 1998 that companies that monitor and enforce proper standards be allowed to display a “No Sweat” label on their products. Does the presence of these labels influence consumer behavior? A survey of U.S. residents aged 18 or older asked a series of questions about how likel they would be to purchase a gament under various conditions. For some conditions, it was stated that the garment had a “No Sweat” label; for others, there was no mention of such a label. On the basis of the responses, each person was classified as a “label use” or a “label nonuser” there were 296 women surveyed. Of these, 63 were label users. On the other hand, 27 of 251 men were classified as users.

(a) Give a 95% confidence interval for the difference in the proportions.

(b) You would like to compare the women with the men. Set up appropriate hypotheses, and find the test staitistic and the P-value. What do you conclude?

Although inequalities in income and education underlie many health disparities, the poor are sometimes held responsible for their health status. For instance, Dr. Ichiro Kawachi, a Harvard University professor and social epidemiologist, reports that the ability to avoid negative health behaviors like smoking and eating unhealthy foods depends on access to "income, education, and the social determinants of health." On the basis of your knowledge of the health of the poor, answer the following questions:

Should the poor be held responsible for their health disparities? Why or why not?

What are some common stereotypes of the poor? How do these stereotypes contribute to the poor being held responsible for their health status?

What conditions in your community promote or hinder healthy choices?

In addition to the above, consider the input that research on women has lagged behind research on men. Many health treatments that address health risks for women are based on research conducted on men. With reference to your understanding of the healthcare system, mention the factors that determine whether the health treatments based on research on men will be successful with women.

During this time of COVID-10 there are Instagram challenges (interventions) to get people active.

Intervention 1) Upload a video of your factor home exercise and tag friends to try to. When you complete your buddies workout or skill (on film) keep the momentum. Film a few move & tag people.

Intervention 2) Do 10 push ups, then tag as many friends as you'd like and challenge them to do the same. If you get tagged yourself, keep the thread going and.

Now, consider what you know about designing a health intervention. Identifying a target population is important because different people have different life situations and contexts.

Choose one of the "interventions" above to resign for the following regroups

- seniors (living independently, no health complications, low-moderate activity levels)

- parents of young children (under 12 years)

mention reasons why you think your redesign of the intervention will be more successful than the original.

• After your review and careful analysis of the above balance sheet items, you are required to answer the following questions:

2- mention the above balance sheet determinants? clarify with the explanation.

3- Discuss the ethical issue related to the way the above balance sheet was classified?

4- Make your opinion on the completeness and comprehensiveness of the above balance sheet.

As part of your summer job at the local community center, your supervisor asks you to lead a community discussion on the uses of embryonic stem cells. Your goal is to cut through the rhetoric and provide information to the diverse group of community members that will attend.

Write your notes for this event. (2pt each)

Include:

1) a definition of a stem cell including its to two main characteristics,

2) a brief description of the origin of human embryonic stem cells (where/what stage do they come from),

3) an example of at least one other general type of stem cell and a mention of its “potency”,

4) one problem with ESCs and one possible solution

5) your logical opinion of their use.

6) As you have a diverse audience, include your thoughts on when human identity/life begins and

7) two other logical points that others say are the beginning of human identity/life.

Write your notes as if you were presenting at the community center.

Background: Discuss a current event that has an impact on the economy. The economic impact can felt be local, country-wide, or world-wide. When discussing the economic impact, you should mention things such as (but not be limited to) any combination of the following: GDP, inflation, unemployment, monetary policy, fiscal policy, international trade. Include in your paper the source(s) and dates for where you got the story.
Economic impact: Describe the impact that this event has on the economy, positive or negative. For example, what is the impact of the event on GDP, unemployment, inflation, etc.?

Social impact: describe the social impact that this event has, positive or negative. For example, how does this event impact people's standard of living or quality of life, equity between different groups, employment opportunities?

Summary: Provide some final thoughts on the current event, including your own thoughts on this. Is this a good thing, bad thing, mixed bag? How does your learning from this class impact that way you view this current event, if at all?

Many of you are for a flat tax and others are against the flat tax. Selfishly, I am not a hater of the complicated tax code. As Scott mentioned, It provides job security for accountants. This should be a reason (for us) not to want a flat tax. Thousands of accountants would be out of their present job (not to mention majority of the IRS). Where would they go? The answer-to other accounting jobs (if they get so lucky). The flat tax would eliminate the need for accountants specializing in tax. Most of you are trying to be CPAs. Although you may not plan to do tax, many CPAs specialize in tax. In fact, tax work produces many accounting jobs. If there were a flat tax, a large percentage of these jobs would be gone. Those CPAs would need to branch into other areas of accounting. For job security, a little more complicated system is good for us. It will also hurt charities (which rely on donations by taxpayers trying to reduce taxes-would rather funds go to charity than government). What are your thoughts?