Option 1 – the Reference Letter

Background

You need a reference letter from someone to accompany a resume and job application. When you ask the referee to write you a letter of reference, they state they would be happy to, but they are very busy. They ask you to draft a letter of reference that they will review, revise, and sign.

Your Assignment

Draft a 250-word (maximum) reference letter for yourself. Write it as if someone else is writing about you.  

Use proper business letter format with FULL BLOCK formatting. If you need to make up any details such as addresses, that is fine. You may address your letter to me if you wish.

Remember you will be writing about yourself. Think about the best qualities you have that would recommend you for a job in your chosen field. What would you like to have highlighted for a specific potential employer?

Please answer the following question in your own words in 450 word count. Please cite 5 academic/professional references published in last 5 yrs.

You work for a health care organization that frequently needs to share information with other providers. Your organization has a very important relationship with a diagnostics center in particular where you frequently need to share patient information such as lab results, X-rays, and other diagnostic information. You have been asked to review your company's protocols on sharing and receiving patient information for outside providers to ensure that your organization is in compliance with the latest standards and regulations.

Write an executive summary that examines the compliance procedures and practice guidelines that these organizations would need to establish to achieve optimum operational effectiveness while complying with federal, state, and local laws governing patient information security and records retention.

"Measuring Firm performance."

Then, each of you pick a firm, and do out the following:

Find and report its current P/E ratio.

Calculate and report on any two of its ratios: its ROE, CR, D/E ratio or TAT for two years. Ideally use 2016 and 2017, and if 2017 numbers are unavailable, use 2015 and 2016.

Write a brief (100 word) paragraph comparing its performance over the two years:2016 and 2017 (or 2015 and 2016).

Everyone please use a different firm, if a teammate has used it, you cannot. The firms are:

AMD

Apple

Bank of America

Berkshire Hathaway

CVS (Caremark)

Disney

Exxon-Mobil

Facebook

Ford

GM

Google

Home Depot

Intel

Lowes

Microsoft

New York Times (NYTCO)

Pfizer

Proctor & Gamble

Twitter

Viacom

Walmart

Yahoo

Everything we do on this planet leaves a mark. An ecological footprint is the degree of human impact on our ecosystems. Americans are at the top of the list for their detrimental footprints on our ever-increasing fragile planet. How does your personal footprint compare to others in America or others around the world? Do you personally do things which should help to lessen your footprint? Have you within recent years changed your habits or actions to help the planet? Do you think that global warming and destruction of our planet is severe, or do you think it is all public hype? Are the Earth's forests disappearing? Does it matter if they are? Is there any hope for our planet? What are your suggestions or concerns? List at least one source from your research. MUST BE IN YOUR OWN WORDS.

WORD COUNT 250

A client at a software design company wants assistance processing
their documents.  After interviewing the client you find that their
documents consist of a one sentence title, a date, and a series of
paragraphs.  Each paragraph is a simple list of sentences.  Paragraphs
are separated by new lines.  Each document also has an author (first
and last name) and a document access level (open, internal or
confidential).

 At a minimal level the client would like the software to be able to:
* Count the number of words in the document (with or without the
  title)
* Count the number of characters in the document
* Print out a document
* Print out the date of the document
* Print out the author of the document

Additional desirable features:
* Count the number of a particular type of word (noun, verb, proper
  noun or other) 
* Given a title, date, author and a string for the remaining document,
  create a document file
* Spell check the document 

QUESTION 2

1. Company ABC produces a single product. This year the company produced 20,000 units but only sold 15,000 units at the price of $40 each. Variable manufacturing costs (including direct materials, director labor, and variable manufacturing overhead) total $10 per unit. Variable selling and administrative cost is $5 per unit. Fixed manufacturing overhead cost is $100,000 each year. Fixed selling and administrative cost is $80,000 each year. There is no inventory at the beginning of this year.

Required: (Please note that you should answer the questions in Word offline and please do NOT answer in the Blackboard!!!)

1. What is the net operating income this year using the absorption costing method? Please prepare the absorption costing income statement.
2. What is the net operating income this year using the variable costing method? Please prepare the variable costing income statement.

Company Balanced Scorecard

Using the four perspectives, design a balanced scorecard for the organization you either work for or volunteer.e examples.)

1. Complete your strategy map and identify the relationships among the strategy objectives you determined.

All of your strategic objectives should begin with an action word (Improve, Reduce, Increase, Optimize, Maximize, Minimize are examples.) Complete your strategy map and identify the relationships among the strategy objectives you determined.

Reflect on the assigned readings for Week 4 and then type a two page paper regarding what you thought was the most important concept(s), method(s), term(s), and/or any other thing that you felt was worthy of your understanding. Define and describe what you thought was worthy of your understanding in half a page, and then explain why you felt it was important, how you will use it, and/or how important it is in managerial economics. After submitting your two page paper as an initial post in the "Reflection and Discussion Forum," then type at least two peer replies in response to your classmates posts (200 word minimum each).

Topics:

law of diminishing marginal return, constant return to sale, decreasing return to sale or diseconomies of scale, increasing return on scale or economics of sale, learning curve of the economics, economies and diseconomies of scope.

Scenario: Davis Skaros has recently been promoted to production manager. He has just started to receive various managerial reports, including the production cost report you prepared. It showed his department had 2,000 equivalent units in ending inventory. His department has had a history of not keeping enough inventory on hand to meet demand. He has come to you, very angry, and wants to know why you credited him with only 2,000 units when he knows he had at least twice that many on hand.

Prepare a maximum 700-word informal memo and explain to Mr. Skaros why his production cost report showed only 2,000 equivalent units in ending inventory. Using a professional tone, explain to him clearly why your report is accurate.