Go to a public place and observe an interaction between people engaging in interpersonal communication. Be sure you can hear as well as see the interaction.

Take notes about what you observe during the interaction.

In your notes, specifically include these topics:

What diverse characteristics did you observe (gender, age, rules of behavior, language, family patterns, etc.)?

What are the verbal messages being exchanged (summarize them).

Using the vocabulary from Ch. 5, explain three of the nonverbal cues that are evident in the interaction. Describe the relationship level of the interaction based on what you observe of the verbal and nonverbal cues.

Describe the contradictions you see between the verbal and nonverbal cues.

Prepare an analysis to be presented in a PowerPoint format with at least one slide per heading. The tasks/headings to include for the observed interaction are:

Create intro slide indicating where you went, day of the week, time of day, and describe the nonverbal elements of the environment (noise level, decorations, music, dress/ characteristics of the patrons, etc.).

Describe the diversity present. How did the differences between the two individuals observed impact the interaction? Add additional detail, explanations, and the course concepts in the text reading in the notes section (presenter notes) to support your analysis.

Summarize the verbal messages. What did you find interesting about the verbal messages?

Describe a minimum of three of the nine types of nonverbal cues you observed (consider using visuals on the slide as well as word descriptions to support your points). (Kinesics, Haptics, Physical Appearance, Artifacts, Environmental Factors, Proxemics and Personal Space, Chronemics, Paralanguage and Silence). Add additional detail, explanations, and the course concepts in the text reading in the notes section (presenter notes) to support your analysis.

Explain at least one contradiction you observed between the verbal and nonverbal cues used in the interpersonal interaction. Why was your example a contradiction and which did you believe, the verbal or the nonverbal message? Add additional detail, explanations, and the course concepts in the text reading in the notes section (presenter notes) to support your analysis.

Summarize your experience. How do our.your cultural filters influence your understanding of the verbal and nonverbal communication cues used in the interaction? Which of your own biases or assumptions did you notice from your observation? How can/did your cultural, biases or assumptions filter your perception of the verbal and nonverbal cues used in the interaction?

Using your analysis of the interaction observed and the dynamics of cultural aspects and how they affect communication, describe one strategy from the course reading that you will use to communicate effectively in your future interactions to build relationships and avoid biased perceptions, which could negatively influence your communication choices.

How can monitoring your use of verbal and nonverbal communication benefit your organization? Your community?

Include references and in-text citations

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Foxy Investigative Services is an investigative services firm that is owned and operated by Shirley Vickers. On November 30, 2018, the end of the fiscal year, the accountant for Foxy Investigative Services prepared an end-of-period spreadsheet, a part of which follows: Foxy Investigative Services End-of-Period Spreadsheet For the Year Ended November 30, 2018 ~ Adjusted Trial Balance Account Title ~ Dr. Cr. ~ Cash ~ 27,500 Accounts Receivable ~ 71,800 Supplies ~ 3,550 Prepaid Insurance ~ 750 Building ~ 330,500 Accumulated Depreciation-Building ~ 184,100 Accounts Payable ~ 16,100 Salaries Payable ~ 6,600 Unearned Rent ~ 1,500 Common Stock ~ 40,000 Retained Earnings ~ 70,300 Dividends ~ 30,000 Service Fees ~ 675,500 Rent Revenue ~ 9,000 Salaries Expense ~ 435,000 Rent Expense ~ 55,000 Supplies Expense ~ 11,850 Depreciation Expense-Building ~ 10,000 Utilities Expense ~ 8,800 Repairs Expense ~ 4,250 Insurance Expense ~ 3,000 Miscellaneous Expense ~ 11,100 ~ 1,003,100 1,003,100 Required: 1. A. Prepare an income statement for the year ended November 30, 2018. If a net loss has been incurred, enter that amount as a negative number using a minus sign. Be sure to complete the statement heading. Use the list of Labels and Amount Descriptions for the correct wording of text items other than account names. You will not need to enter colons (:) on the income statement. Refer to the Chart of Accounts for exact wording of account titles. B. Prepare a retained earnings statement for the year ended November 30, 2018. If a net loss is incurred or dividends were paid, enter that amount as a negative number using a minus sign. Be sure to complete the statement heading. Refer to the Chart of Accounts for exact wording of account titles. Refer to the lists of Labels and Amount Descriptions for exact wording of the answer choices for text entries other than account names. C. Prepare a balance sheet as of November 30, 2018. Fixed assets must be entered in order according to account number. Be sure to complete the statement heading. You will not need to enter colons (:) or the word "Less" on the balance sheet; they will automatically insert where necessary. Refer to the Chart of Accounts for exact wording of account titles. Refer to the lists of Labels and Amount Descriptions for exact wording of the answer choices for text entries other than account names. For those boxes in which you must enter subtracted or negative numbers use a minus sign. 2. Based upon the end-of-period spreadsheet, journalize the closing entries. Refer to the Chart of Accounts for exact wording of account titles. 3. If Retained Earnings had instead decreased $46,000 after the closing entries were posted, and the dividends remained the same, what would have been the amount of net income or net loss? If required, use a minus sign to indicate a net loss. figure out the journal

Complete the following questions. In addition to answering the items below, you must submit an analysis of the assignment. Analyze the specific outcomes and write an analysis directed toward the team at Coco Inc. describing what the numbers mean and how they relate to the business. Submit journal entries in an Excel file and written segments in an MS Word document. For written answers, please make sure your responses are well-written, formatted per CSU-Global Guide to Writing and APA and have proper citations, if applicable. Assume that the following facts pertain to a non-cancelable lease agreement between Coco Inc. and Bubs, Corp, a Lessee. Inception date January 1, 2017 Residual value of equipment at end of lease term, unguaranteed $50,000 Lease term 6 years Economic life of leased equipment 8 years Fair value of asset at January 1, 2017 $400,000 Lessor’s implicit rate 12% Lessee’s incremental borrowing rate 10% The lessee assumes responsibility for all executory costs, which are expected to amount to $2,000 per year. The asset will revert to the lessor at the end of the lease term. The lessee uses the straight-line depreciation method for all equipment. Using the spreadsheet, Lease Amort Schedule found in the link below, prepare an amortization schedule that would be suitable for the lessee for the lease term. Using the spreadsheet Journal Entries, prepare the journal entries for the lessee for 2017 and 2018 to record the lease agreement and all expenses related to the lease. Assume the Lessee’s annual accounting period ends on December 31 and that reversing entries are used when appropriate.

Templets:

On August 1, 2018, Brooke Kline established Western Realty. Brooke completed the following transactions during the month of August.

Complete the following problems: 1. For this problem, use the following randomly generated list of accounts, placing them in appropriate order to prepare an income statement. Accounts ($000,000) Depreciation 25 General and administrative expenses 22 Sales 345 Sales expenses 18 Cost of goods sold 255 Lease expense 4 Interest expense 3 The following randomly constructed table requires that as part of your Critical Thinking Assignment you arrange the accounts into a well-labeled income statement. Make sure you label and solve for gross profit, operating profit, and net profit before taxes. Using a 35% tax rate, calculate taxes paid and net profit after taxes. Assuming a dividend of $1.10 per share with 4.25 million shares outstanding, calculate EPS and additions to retained earnings. 2. Explain why the income statement can also be called a “profit-and-loss statement.” What exactly does the word balance mean in the title of the balance sheet? Why do we balance the two halves? 3. CS Industries, Inc. began 2016 with retained earnings of $25.32 million. During the year, it paid four quarterly dividends of $0.35 per share to 2.75 million common stockholders. Preferred stockholders, holding 500,000 shares, were paid two semiannual dividends of $0.75 per share. The firm had a net profit after taxes of $5.15 million. Prepare the statement of retained earnings for the year ended December 31, 2016. 4. Sky Metals, Inc. is a metal fabrication firm that manufactures prefabricated metal parts for customers in a variety of industries. The firm’s motto is “If you need it, we can make it.” The CEO of Sky Metals recently held a board meeting during which he extolled the virtues of the corporation. The company, he stated confidently, had the capability to build any product and could do so using a lean manufacturing model. The firm would soon be profitable, claimed the CEO, because the company used state-of-the-art technology to build a variety of products while keeping inventory levels low. As a business press reporter, you have calculated some ratios to analyze the financial health of the firm. Sky Metals' current ratios and quick ratios for the past 6 years are shown in the following table: 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2015 Current ratio 1.2 1.4 1.3 1.6 1.8 2.2 2.2 Quick ratio 1.1 1.3 1.2 0.8 0.6 0.4 0.4 What do you think of the CEO’s claim that the firm is lean and soon to be profitable? 5. If we know that a firm has a net profit margin of 4.5%, total asset turnover of 0.72, and a financial leverage multiplier of 1.43, what is its ROE? What is the advantage to using the DuPont system to calculate ROE over the direct calculation of earnings available for common stockholders divided by common stock equity?

After reading the texts and mini-lectures in this module write a paper that completes the tasks below.

Read the following excerpts as if these characters were clients that you work with.

Write an example of the skills as if you were therapist/counselor. You may copy the excerpts and format (below) and paste into your own Word document to complete and submit.

EXCERPT 1

I have no place to turn. I am always alone ..I mean I have a lot of friends but I’m not sure they are real friends. We get together every weekend but sometimes when they don’t call I get all paranoid and feel like.... I don’t know. I just wish that sometimes I could be a fly on the wall, but I can’t so it makes me.... uh um.... uncomfortable. I guess.

Provide responses to this excerpt that demonstrates the following active listening skills:

Encouraging:

Restating:

Clarifying:

Reflecting Consumer’s Feelings:

Validating:

Summarizing:

EXCERPT 2

I have this problem. My family is crazy. My parents are like two big kids. I feel like I always have to tell them what the right thing to do is..... and then they get mad at me. I know I can’t take care of them but it's like they mess around and are irresponsible and then they want to complain to me about how everyone else is messed up. I feel like when I call them there is always some issue they are not telling me about. Is it me? Am I the one who’s crazy here?

Provide responses to this excerpt that demonstrates the following active listening skills:

Encouraging:

Restating:

Clarifying:

Reflecting Consumer’s Feelings:

Validating:

Summarizing:

EXCERPT 3

We have been married for just under a year. It is a second marriage for both of us. I have no children and she does and they are grown. Since I have been married I feel like I have to cater to her children. I can respect that I realize she’s their mother but come on already. I don’t want her to fight with her kids but I just can see how they take advantage of her. Then I get dragged into it. It upsets me to watch her give so much and get very little in return.

Provide responses to this excerpt that demonstrates the following active listening skills:

Encouraging:

Restating:

Clarifying:

Reflecting Consumer’s Feelings:

Validating:

Summarizing:

EXCERPT 4

(From a child) I don’t want to go on the bus anymore. How come my parents can’t drive me? I don’t like school. I just want to stay home.

Provide responses to this excerpt that demonstrates the following active listening skills:

Encouraging:

Restating:

Clarifying:

Reflecting Consumer’s Feelings:

Validating:

Summarizing:

1. For this problem, use the following randomly generated list of accounts, placing them in appropriate order to prepare an income statement.

1. The following randomly constructed table requires that as part of your Critical Thinking Assignment you arrange the accounts into a well-labeled income statement. Make sure you label and solve for gross profit, operating profit, and net profit before taxes.
2. Using a 35% tax rate, calculate taxes paid and net profit after taxes.
3. Assuming a dividend of $1.10 per share with 4.25 million shares outstanding, calculate EPS and additions to retained earnings.

2. Explain why the income statement can also be called a “profit-and-loss statement.” What exactly does the word balance mean in the title of the balance sheet? Why do we balance the two halves?

3. CS Industries, Inc. began 2016 with retained earnings of $25.32 million. During the year, it paid four quarterly dividends of $0.35 per share to 2.75 million common stockholders. Preferred stockholders, holding 500,000 shares, were paid two semiannual dividends of $0.75 per share. The firm had a net profit after taxes of $5.15 million. Prepare the statement of retained earnings for the year ended December 31, 2016.

4. Sky Metals, Inc. is a metal fabrication firm that manufactures prefabricated metal parts for customers in a variety of industries. The firm’s motto is “If you need it, we can make it.” The CEO of Sky Metals recently held a board meeting during which he extolled the virtues of the corporation. The company, he stated confidently, had the capability to build any product and could do so using a lean manufacturing model. The firm would soon be profitable, claimed the CEO, because the company used state-of-the-art technology to build a variety of products while keeping inventory levels low. As a business press reporter, you have calculated some ratios to analyze the financial health of the firm. Sky Metals' current ratios and quick ratios for the past 6 years are shown in the following table:

What do you think of the CEO’s claim that the firm is lean and soon to be profitable?

5. If we know that a firm has a net profit margin of 4.5%, total asset turnover of 0.72, and a financial leverage multiplier of 1.43, what is its ROE? What is the advantage to using the DuPont system to calculate ROE over the direct calculation of earnings available for common stockholders divided by common stock equity?

4. Given a linear programming optimization problem, with the choice of two products, we know in advance that a possible answer is to make only one product.

5. Cost minimization problems typically involve constraints which have the phrase “at least”.  

Please explain each answer in your own words

1. Please show what slack resources are graphically. You can draw a picture and scan it or take a picture and add it to the document.

2. Please given an example of a constraint for a cost minimization problem.

3. Give an example of an objective function not listed in the book.

4. Why is it important to have non-negative answers to linear programming problems?

5. What is meant by divisibility in linear programming? Explain in your own words and include an example.  

Note: You can use Excel and just paste the images of the output on to the Word document.

1. You are a hipster who has a workshop, which makes artisan cabinets out of Bocote wood. Specifically, you make chifforobes and pie safes. Each chifforobe you make earns $200 profit and each pie safe earns $150. Each chifforobes requires 150 board feet of bocote wood and 10 hours of labor. Each pie safe requires 100 board-feet of bocote wood and 15 hours of labor. Each month you have 3000 board-feet of bocote wood and 300 hours of labor.

a. How many chifforobes and pie safes should you make each month if you want to maximize your profits?

b. What if one month you run short on bocote wood and only have 1500 board-feet, how many chifforobes and pie safes should you make to maximize profits?

2. You have now tired of making artisan cabinets. You decide to use all the profits you made making cabinets to buy a farm and grow dragon carrots. Your dragon carrot farm requires an organic fertilizer mix that has at least 900 decigrams of nitrogen, 480 decigrams of phosphorus, and 15 decigrams of potassium. You have two choices of organic fertilizer: Blue Zippy and Harmonic Flash. Blue Zippy costs $20 a pound and each pound contains 50 decigrams of nitrogen, 50 decigrams of phosphorus, and 5 decigrams of potassium. Harmonic Flash $30 a pound and each pound contains 100 decigrams of nitrogen, 30 decigrams of phosphorus, and no potassium.

a. How much Blue Zippy and Harmonic Flash should you buy to meet your requirements, while minimizing cost?

b. If Harmonic Flash changed their mix to include 40 decigrams of phosphorus and 1 decigram of potassium, would you change your order? If so, how?

In 2011, two Brown University seniors, Walker Williams and Evan Stites-Clayton, were sad that their favorite bar in Providence, Rhode Island was closing. To commemorate the closing, the two friends decided to print T-shirts, but they were struck by the upfront costs, and the need to estimate how many of each size they would need to order. Williams built a website to take orders and measure demand, and also posted a link to the site on Facebook. By morning, hundreds of orders were received, along with a few e-mails requesting that he create similar websites for the T-shirt ideas of other people. The Aha Moment arrived for Williams, and he immediately knew that he had hit upon a commercially viable idea. The company Teespring soon followed.

Today Teespring is one of the top T-shirt vendors in the United States, and prints approximately 7 million shirts annually, with annual revenues estimated at $100 million. T-shirts have been shipped to more than eighty countries worldwide. The company has grown to over 300 employees. The business model is that individuals create Internet campaigns to sell custom T-shirts and related clothing on the Teespring website. Campaign creators are required to design and market the product themselves, but they are not required to invest money upfront, paying only when they have secured orders for their T-shirts.

Teespring’s role is to fulfill order for campaigns that have attained their sale goals, and then ships the T-shirts to the buyers. T-shirts are printed on demand, thereby avoiding the problem of inventory accumulation. Teespring does all the T-shirt manufacturing and shipping for the designer, whereas the designer creates the idea and helps market the T-shirt through social media and word-of-mouth. However, the company also contributes to advertising on Facebook.

Tools on the Teespring website enable the T-shirt designer to upload their ideas and slogans. The designers can select which quality and type of shirt (traditional hoodie, or tank top) they choose to print on, and many different fonts and icons are possible. The designer then chooses how many T-shirts he or she aspires to sell, and sets a sales goal. If a minimum of five T-shirts are preordered, Teespring produces the items and ships them directly to customers, charging the designed about $9 per T-shirt. The T-shirt designer sets the retail price per item.

The Teespring model has been so successful that the founders built a printing facility in Kentucky, where all the shirts can be produced and shipped efficiently. An example of a Teespring success story is restaurant manager Benny Hsu, who earned more than $120,000 in one year with a Tee-shirt bearing the slogan, “Keep calm and let the radiation therapist take care of it.”

What is your evaluation of the prospects of Teespring being sustainable in the sense of lasting a long time as a business?

imagine you are a business consultant to ExxonMobil and you have been asked to analyze, advise,and create recommendations on how the firm can ensure its future success in it's current market.
prepare a minimum of 1050 word analysis of economic data and business data to explain how the core economic principles impact the sustainability of the firm and what actions the firm can take to ensure success. address the following:
•identify the market structure of ExxonMobil operates in, analyze its market share, and identify the firms local and global competitors. Analyze the barriers to entry in this market to illustrate the potential for new competition and its impact on ExxonMobil future in the market.
•identify and explain trends in current macroeconomic indicators for last three years including:
1. current stage of business cycle
2. real gross domestic product
3. inflation as measured by the consumer price index
4. unemployment rate
5. federal funds rate
6. current rate for borrowing funds such as the so called prime rate.
7. evaluate trend in demand over last three years and explain their impacts on industry and the firm.include quarterly (last two quarters) and annual sales (last three years) figures for the product that ExxonMobil sells. create business strategies by analyzing information and data related to the demand for supply of ExxonMobil products to support your recommendation for the firms actions. include graphical representation of the data and information.
8. examine available current data and information such as pricing and the available of substitutes and explain how you can determine the price of elasticity of demand for ExxonMobil products. assess how the price of elasticity of demand impacts ExxonMobil pricing decisions and revenue growth.
9. apply the concepts of variable and fixed costs to ExxonMobil for informing its output decisions, for instance analyze how different kinds costs,( labor, research and development, raw materials) affect the firms level of output.
10. based on the data gathered and analysis performed for this report write a conclusion in which you:
• create business strategies includingprice and non price strategies based on your market structure to ensure the market share and potential market expansions and explore global opportunities for your business in dynamic business environment and provide reccomendations.
•develop a recommendation for how ExxonMobil can manage its future by synthesizing the macroeconomic and microeconomic data presented.
•propose how the firms position within the market and among its competitors will allow it to take your recommended action.
•reccomend strategies for ExxonMobil to sustain its success going forward by evaluating the findings from demand trends,price elasticity,current stage of business cycle, and government policies.

cited three peer reviewed references and a minimum of two government economic data sources/references