Routine maintenance to a bridge occurs every year.

1. At the start of the year, the exchange rate was $1.285/€. At the end of the year, the exchange rate is $1.346/€. If U.S. inflation was 6% and European inflation was 3%, what has been the nominal and real change in the value of the Euro (versus the USD)?
2. what has happened to European export industry competitiveness over the year? (improved or worsened)

1. There are 700 students in a middle school. At the end of the year, there is a school-wide drawing for 3 identical new bicycles.

1. Is this a combination or a permutation? Why?

2. How many possible outcomes of the drawing are there?

Suppose that bicycles in the drawing are not identical: One bike is plated in gold and valued significantly higher than the other two, the silver and bronze bikes, with the bronze being the cheapest.

3. Does this change the number of possible outcomes of the drawing? Explain.

Scenario:

You and Sam have been in touch since the Palm Beach Business Development Luncheon, and he has expressed interest in your working on his business audit. The two of you make plans to meet for lunch, but this time at his deli in Boca.

Sam would like a proposal for the services you (T&M) can offer. If he likes the proposal, he is prepared to sign a follow-up engagement letter.

You go back to the office to start work on the proposal. You have learned the Sam’s Deli is a privately-owned company with annual sales of 1.2 million. The two locations combined have 40-50 employees at any given time. The company has an outstanding bank loan. The bank requires an audit.

Please answer the following questions and make a proposal memo based on the scenario:

1) Include T&M’s fee structure in your proposal. Sam will be billed hourly based on the type of work being done and the level of expertise of the auditor. As partners, both Seth and Anna bill at $250 per hour. Supervisor and manager rates are $170 per hour. Senior staff rates are $125 per hour, and junior staff rates are $80 per hour.

2) The proposal needs to identify what you (T&M) will do and layout the fees for the job at hand, the audit. You will have to estimate how many hours will be needed and who will be performing what type of work for the audit. Bookkeeping, payroll and write up work will be done by junior staff accountants and reviewed by a senior staff member. Tax services will be provided by senior staff and reviewed by Seth or Anna, and the final audit will be reviewed by Anna or Seth.

3) As you want this proposal to serve as a marketing tool as well, mention the advantage of using T&M’s other services, e.g., financial statement audits, corporate taxes, payroll and bookkeeping, the maintenance of Sam’s personal finances, the preparation of his personal financial statements, and his personal income taxes. This can be your last paragraph.

Please make a proposal memo.

Qualitative Research

Choose one of the four articles listed here and answer the following elements.

Peacock, J. C., Schmidt, C. E., & Barry, K. (2016). A Qualitative Analysis of Post-operative Nutritional Barriers and Useful Dietary Services Reported by Bariatric Surgical Patients.Obesity Surgery, 26(10), 2331-2339. doi:10.1007/s11695-016-2096-1

Coleman, S. K., Garretson, B. C., Wehbe-Alamah, H., McFarland, M., & Wood, M. (2016). RESPECT: Reducing 30-day Emergency Department Visits and Readmissions of Bariatric Surgical Patients Effectively Through Cultural Competency Training of Nurses. Online Journal Of Cultural Competence In Nursing & Healthcare, 6(1), 31-51. doi:10.9730/ojccnh.org/v6n1a3

Usher, K., Redman-MacLaren, M. L., Mills, J., West, C., Casella, E., Hapsari, E. D., & ... Yuli Zang, A. (2015). Strengthening and preparing: Enhancing nursing research for disaster management. Nurse Education In Practice, 15(1), 68-74. doi:10.1016/j.nepr.2014.03.006

Roney, L., & Kazer, M. W. (2015). Geriatric sexual experiences: The seniors tell all. Applied Nursing Research, 28(3), 254-256. doi:10.1016/j.apnr.2015.04.005

Critically appraise one qualitative research study by discussing the following required elements:

Identify the study question (note: it is OK to use a direct quote)

Identify the study design

Describe the study sample

Discuss whether the study sample composition reflects the study needs

Identify the sample size

Discuss the adequacy of the sample size being sure to mention whether saturation was achieved

Briefly describe how the data was analyzed

Briefly describe the findings

Discuss whether the quotes fit the findings they are intended to illustrate? Give specific examples to support your opinion.

Discuss whether the study findings adequately answered the study question.

Discuss how you can apply the findings of the study in clinical practice

Discuss the role of qualitative research in evidence based practice

My introduction to taxation professor changed the grading scale without notifying us. The syllabus has not changed at all during or towards the end of the semester. We never knew that she changed the scale until our grades for the course were published. The syllabus states that an 87% to 89% is a B+ and that percentages that are .5% will be rounded up. My final percentage earned in the class was 86.74%, which qualifies for that round up. The professor said that yes, she did round up to an 87%, but she, "believes that an 80% to 89% is a B,"(Direct Quote) and gave me a B for my course grade. I attended every single one of her lectures and always participated. I would have remembered if she said there were changes made to the grading scale during our short, 5 week course. She did not mention changes were being made at all. I realize that there's not much a difference between a B and B+, but it affects one's GPA negatively if their average is high. What can I do? Do I talk to the department head or go to the dean with this issue? Is it still possible to get a B+? Also, is this an ethical thing for a professor to do? This has never happened in my entire educational career, and I have been a student for a long time. Please help. I am unsure what to do.

Also, please do not be biased and blame it on me for not achieving a better grade. I came here for help, not to be told I didn't try hard enough, which I did. I put in more work for that class than my other 2 summer classes combined Nobody received an A for the course out of 30 students. The professor was more than unwilling to answer questions the entire semester and was generally not available for assistance. Exams were full of mistakes, assignments and projects received zero feedback, unavailable during office hours, etc. I have about 16 other students who I've spoken with that can support my statements, who all say she was the worst professor at our university hands down.

You are provided with some commonly occurring materials like glass, wool, fur, Styrofoam, aluminum foil etc, in various shapes and sizes. You are also given the ‘Tribo-electric’ series that includes these materials, and an electroscope. This lab requires you to come up with five simple experiments using a variety of these materials, where you charge up two objects by conduction, and then test whether they are charged or not using conduction, induction or polarization. Make sure you include one case of electroscope use for testing charge on an object, and at least one of repulsion between two objects carrying like charges. The experiments that you come up with can be made effective using the tribo-electric series, since it gives an indication of which two materials will charge up well on contact with each other, and which one will be positive or negative. Your lab report should include the following: Objective: A short and to the point sentence providing the objective of the lab. This will be followed by a list of your experiments as: Experiment #: A short sentence or two describing your experiment. Observation: What you actually observed. Explanation: Explain briefly what you observe. Include one full explanation of each process: conduction, induction, polarization, and also one of the working of the electroscope. Refer to the tribo-electric series where required. If you have explained a process once, you do not have to repeat it for other experiments; just mention the name of the process. An experiment that is theoretically sound may sometimes not work well when performed. If that is the case, include in your lab report the factors that you think contributed to the failure of that particular experiment.

1)Induction experiment : rub balloon on shirt (becomes negatively charged, then bring close to an aluminium foil ball ) show diagram on the charges

2)Polarization experiment : rub balloon with hair , neutral paper will be attracted to balloon.

On top is the instructions provided i came up with 2 experiments one induction and the other polarization please show a diagram for the charges (what happens) and explain what should be observed and theoretical explanations of induction and polirization in these specific experimets I came up with! :)

In the following scenario, each of the four categories of Principles Underlying an Audit Conducted in Accordance with Generally Accepted Auditing Standards are violated. In the box below (1) identify the four categories (the “P – R – P – R”) [2 points each], (2) provide a brief description of each category [2 points each], and (3) indicate at least one way that the actions of the auditor in the scenario violates each of the four categories of principles

Joni Thompson, the CEO of a small privately held company, contacted Darrel Folkert, CPA, about conducting an audit of the company’s records. Joni told Darrel that she needed an audit performed in accordance with generally accepted auditing standards (GAAS) in time to submit two years of audited financial statements to a bank as part of a loan application. Darrel immediately accepted the engagement and agreed to provide an audit report within three weeks. Joni agreed to pay Darrel a fixed fee if the loan was granted.

Darrel hired two Portland State University accounting students to conduct the audit and spent a couple of hours telling them exactly what to do. Darrel told the students not to spend time reviewing internal controls because it is not a publicly traded company, but to concentrate on proving the mathematical accuracy of the ledger accounts and summarizing the data in the accounting records that support Joni’s financial statements. Given the lack of procedures performed by the two accounting students, they did not identify that Joni did not have an allowance for uncollectible accounts, even though more than 50% of the balance in the Accounts Receivable account is two or more years old. The students followed Darrel’s instructions and after two weeks gave Darrel a Balance Sheet, Income Statement, and a Statement of Cash Flows. Darrel received the three statements and immediately prepared an unqualified (clean) audit report. The report did not refer to generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP), and the two accounting students did not check the accounting principles applied in prior periods. There was also no mention as to the responsibility of management or the degree of responsibility that Darrel was taking in the audit report.