The maintenance manager at a trucking company wants to build a regression model to forecast the time (in years) until the first engine overhaul based on four explanatory variables: (1) annual miles driven (in 1,000s of miles), (2) average load weight (in tons), (3) average driving speed (in mph), and (4) oil change interval (in 1,000s of miles). Based on driver logs and onboard computers, data have been obtained for a sample of 25 trucks. A portion of the data is shown in the accompanying table.

a. For each explanatory variable, discuss whether it is likely to have a positive or negative causal effect on time until the first engine overhaul.

The effect on time is either Positive or Negative! Fill them in below.

b. Estimate the regression model. (Negative values should be indicated by a minus sign. Round your answers to 4 decimal places.)

TimeˆTime^  = ________+_______ Miles +_______ Load + ________ Speed + _______ Oil

c. Based on part (a), are the signs of the regression coefficients logical?
The below signs will be filled with the word logical or not logical!

d. What is the predicted time before the first engine overhaul for a particular truck driven 57,000 miles per year with an average load of 18 tons, an average driving speed of 57 mph, and 18,000 miles between oil changes. (Round coefficient estimates to at least 4 decimal places and final answer to 2 decimal places.)

Excel data:

Don't care how you solve as long as answers are correct. I will like for it being correct!

The company the team chose is Alphabet formally Google, and competitor is Yahoo

You are a senior manager for the highly successful regional CPA firm of Fine, Dee, Evah, Dense, LLP (Fine). Since its inception nearly 30 years ago, Fine's audit practice has exclusively consisted of auditing private and not-for-profit organizations. Recently, the partners have been considering an opportunity to audit a publically-traded company for the company your team has selected.

The primary reason Fine has not heretofore ventured into auditing public-traded companies is because of the potential risk and legal liability associated with auditing public companies. However, Fine has been a bit stagnant, business-wise, for the past few years, and some of the older and more risk adverse partners are beginning to retire. Consequently, the lure of the often-lucrative and prestigious opportunity to audit a public company has become to hard to resist, so the partners have decided to pursue the chance to audit this company.

On a beautiful early-september morning you are called into the senior partner's office and told you and your team have been selected to lead the first-ever effort to audit a public-traded company for Fine. You are honored, but also know auditing a public company is a bit more tricky and complicated than auditing private and not-for-profit organizations. Fortunately, the senior partner had considerable experience early in his career with another firm in auditing public companies and told you he would be with you all the way. Relieved, you asked him what he wanted you to do. He tossed you the most recent Form 10-K of the company you selected and gave you the following assignments:

Review and discuss the Form 10-K for the company you have selected.
Create a report that will have 4 Sections.

Section 1. Initial Risk Assessment

Hint: The business and risk information is usually found in the first part of the risks, do not simply restate what is in the Form 10-K. Think like a senior manager at a CPA firm-what accounts (cash, A/R, Inventory,etc.) might be the most potentially risky and Why? For example an airline might not have the same inventory considerations found with a retail outlet like Wal-Mart.

Describe the following issues:
Ethics and legal Issues

1. The ETHICS and sophistication of top management and cultures where the company operates.

2. Have there been significant auditing or accounting issues raised in the recent past?

3. Did they have disputes with their previous audit firm?
4. IS this company or industry particularly susceptible to lawsuits or other legal proceedings?

Evaluate the regulatory and compliance and requirements of this company.
1. The compliance requirements of this company.

2. is it subject to a high-level of governmental regulation?

3. Are employees unionized? Are they generally compliant with Sarbanes-Oxley and other regulatory rules?

Section 2. Analytical Procedures

Based on Table 8-1 Examples of Planning Analytical Procedures and the sections on Analytical Procedures, select three ratios ( current, ratio, Inventory turnover, debt to equity, return on assets). calculate these ratios for the most recent year and compare the results.

Write a 350 to 525 word analysis of your findings

Section 3. Materiality and Risk

The senior partner wants to confirm your understanding of key concept.
Summarize each concept 90 to 175 words each.

materiality
misstatement
audit risk
audit risk model
inherent risk.
relationship of risk to audit evidence

Target Corporation is the second-largest discount store retailer in the United States, behind Walmart, and a component of the S&P 500 Index. Founded by George Dayton and headquartered in Minneapolis, Minnesota, the company was originally named Good fellow Dry Goods in June 1902 before being renamed the Dayton's Dry Goods Company in 1903 and later the Dayton Company in 1910. The first Target store opened in Roseville, Minnesota in 1962 while the parent company was renamed the Dayton Corporation in 1967. It became the Dayton-Hudson Corporation after merging with the J.L. Hudson Company in 1969 and held ownership of several department store chains including Dayton's, Hudson's, Marshall Field's, and Mervyn's.

Target established itself as the highest-earning division of the Dayton-Hudson Corporation in the 1970s; it began expanding the store nationwide in the 1980s and introduced new store formats under the Target brand in the 1990s. The company has found success as a cheap-chic player in the industry. The parent company was renamed the Target Corporation in 2000 and divested itself of its last department store chains in 2004. It suffered from a massive and highly publicized security breach of customer credit card data and the failure of its short-lived Canadian subsidiary in the early 2010s but experienced revitalized success with its expansion in urban markets within the United States.

As of 2017, Target operates 1,834 stores throughout the United States. Their retail formats include the discount store Target, the hypermarket Super Target, and "flexible format" stores previously named City Target and Target Express before being consolidated under the Target branding. Target is often recognized for its emphasis on "the needs of its younger, image-conscious shoppers," whereas its rival Walmart more heavily relies on its strategy of "always low prices.

Target Corporation decide to start its discount store in Saudi Arabia. The Target management hired you as Marketing Manager for its Saudi Arabia operation. You have to establish marketing department starting from the Analysis of market, formulate overall marketing goals, objectives, strategies and tactics within the context of an organization's business, mission, and goals designing and planning the entire function.

To establish the marketing function of Target Corporation, Saudi Arabia, you have to formulate the followings:

Vision

Mission

Business objective.

Product and type of services.   

Develop a marketing Plan for Target Corporation, Saudi Arabia. Define the SWOT analysis for Target Corporation, Saudi Arabia.

Analyze the Micro and Macro environment of the Target Corporation, Saudi Arabia.

How Target Corporation, Saudi Arabia will establish, develop, and enhance mutually beneficial relationships with customers? Discuss all the activities to establish, develop, and maintain customer sales?

Identify the various consumer decision processes for the Target Corporation customer?

How will you establish the market research for making better decision to establish and enhance the marketing?   

How Target Corporation, KSA will evaluate market segments and choose the best ones to serve? How it will create value propositions to meet the requirements of target customers?

How Target Corporation, KSA will manage all of their products and services? What are the steps in the best development process for new products?

Assignment Workload:

The word count for this assignment must be between 2500 to 3000 words.

QUESTION 1

1. A multilingual individual with extensive atrophy is still able to perform within normal limits on most measures of cognitive ability. This is an example of

   		Brain reserve
   		Cognitive reserve
   		Inhibition Deficit
   		Transmission Deficit

2 points   

QUESTION 2

1. 80-year-old female presents with a brain 19% smaller than when she was 40 and a reduction in dendritic/synaptic spines. Is this an example of Healthy Aging?  

   Yes

   No

2 points   

QUESTION 3

1. Many of the linguistic changes associated with healthy aging can be attributed to a reduction in:

   		Episodic memory
   		Semantic memory
   		Working memory
   		Procedural Memory

2 points   

QUESTION 4

1. 120-year-old female presents with declining scores on sustained attention and recalling new information. Yet she walks 10 miles a day and is a lifelong vegetarian. Is this an example of healthy aging?

   Yes

   No

2 points   

QUESTION 5

1. 65-year-old female presents with a decline in coherence scores, as well as a reduction in syntactic complexity. Semantic memory did not demonstrate any decline. fMRI demonstrated a shift from utilizing episodic memory to using more semantic memory. On measures of working memory with distractors, the individual was able to remember 3 items. Is this an example of healthy aging?

   Yes

   No

2 points   

QUESTION 6

1. 90-year-old man presents with attention, memory, working memory, and executive function scores within normal limits. He also scores within normal limits on measures of receptive and expressive language. However, his discourse samples do show a small reduction in the number of vocabulary items produced. Is this an example of healthy aging?

   Yes

   No

2 points   

QUESTION 7

1. A 40-year-old man presents with a decline in divided/alternating attention and executive function. An MRI reveals his brain as shrunk by 5% within the last decade. Is this an example of healthy aging?

   Yes

   No

2 points   

QUESTION 8

1. A theory of aging where the main physiological mechanism focuses on the deterioration of the myelin sheath that covers neuronal axons?

   		Slowed Processing
   		Transmission Deficit
   		Inhibition Deficit
   		Region-Specific Hypothesis

2 points   

QUESTION 9

1. Chronological age is tied to biological age?

   True

   False

1 points   

QUESTION 10

1. A 60-year-old female presents with a decline in divided/alternating attention and executive function, especially inhibition. The individual also presents with no decline in language production, but there is a moderate decline in comprehension. Is this an example of healthy aging?

   Yes

   No

2 points   

QUESTION 11

1. A 65-year-old female presents with cognitive scores within normal limits for attention, memory, working memory, and executive function. She hasn't noticed a change in her language production or comprehension. She claims to read everyday. An MRI revealed several tiny infarcts across the cortex. Is this an example of healthy aging?

   Yes

   No

2 points   

QUESTION 12

1. 75-year-old female presents with declining scores in the recall of novel word lists but scores within normal limits on measures of semantic memory. Measures of attention and executive function show no decline. However, her working memory capacity is reduced to 1 item with distractors and 4 items without distractors. She is able to perform her activities of daily living independently.  

   Yes

   No

2 points   

QUESTION 13

1. Theory of aging that focuses on the atrophy of brain regions, especially the frontal cortex.

   		Slowed Processing
   		Transmission Deficit
   		Inhibition Deficit
   		Region-Specific Hypothesis

You will create this assignment following the Assignment Detail instructions below.

Review the tutorial titled How to Submit the Intellipath Submission Assignment.

Please submit your work to this week’s Intellipath Unit Submission lesson. Click the Upload button within the submission lesson to access the submission area. Click the Select File button to upload your document, and then click "OK" to finish.

Assignment Details

Throughout this class, you have been working with a product of your creation that dealt domestically. This week, you will switch gears and address a real company that does global business.

Note: Please refrain from using assignments from other classes that you have taken.

The Analysis

Select a global company of your choice in the service industry. Using your selected global company as the subject matter, research the principles of marketing that impact this organization, and prepare an APA paper with the following:

Describe the main line of business of the company.

Name 4 of the countries in which the company operates.

Explain in detail the implementation of the 4 P marketing mix concept by the company, including the following:

Competition

Target market

Product strategy

Distribution strategy

Communication strategy

Pricing strategy

Describe any differences observed in the implementation of this concept from one country to another.

This assignment will be assessed using additional criteria provided here.

Your report must include a reference list. All research should be cited in the body of the paper. In-text citations and corresponding references should be included in your paper. For more information on APA style, please visit the APA lab. The paper should be written in third person, which means that pronouns like “I,” “we,” and “you” are not appropriate. The use of direct quotes is strongly discouraged.

Your assignment should contain a cover page, an abstract page, and a reference page in addition to the body. The body of the paper should be 3–4 pages in length, starting with a brief 1-paragraph introduction and ending with a short conclusion. The entire submission will be 6–8 pages in length.

Please submit your assignment as a Word document in APA format using the attached template.

Submitting your assignment in APA format means that you will need a minimum of the following:

Title page: Remember to include the running head and the title in all capital letters.

Abstract: This should be a summary of your paper, not an introduction. Begin writing in third person voice.

Body: The body of your paper begins on the page following the title page and abstract page, and it must be double-spaced (be careful not to triple- or quadruple-space between paragraphs). The typeface should be 12-point Times New Roman or 12-point Courier in regular black type. Do not use color, bold type, or italics, except as required for APA headings and references. The deliverable length of the body of your paper for this assignment is 3–4 pages. In-body academic citations to support your decisions and analysis are required. A variety of academic sources is encouraged.

Reference page: References that align with your in-text academic sources are listed on the final page of your paper. The references must be in APA format, using appropriate spacing, hang indention, italics, and upper and lower case as appropriate for the type of resource used. Remember, the reference page is not a bibliography, but it is a further listing of the abbreviated in-text citations that are used in the paper. Every referenced item must have a corresponding in-text citation.

4. Create a new project AccountPolymorphism and copy and paste the code from the attached AccountPolymorphism.cpp file. Compile and run. You will see that it is not showing output for Base class pointer to base class object data, not showing derived class output completely(missing word "Saving" in the output) and not showing any output for Base class pointer to derived class object(Saving). Fix these issue and submit the output.

// AccountPolymorphism.cpp : This file contains the 'main' function. Program execution begins and ends there.
//

#include <iostream>
#include <string>
#include <sstream>
using namespace std;

class Account
{
private:
int id;
double balance;
double annualInterestRate;

public:
Account()
{
id = 0;
balance = 0;
annualInterestRate = 0;
}

Account(int id, double balance, double annualInterestRate)
{
this->id = id;
this->balance = balance;
this->annualInterestRate = annualInterestRate;
}

  
double getMonthlyInterest() const
{
return balance * (annualInterestRate / 1200);
}

void withdraw(double amount)
{
balance -= amount;
}

void deposit(double amount)
{
balance += amount;
}

virtual string toString() const
{
stringstream ss;
ss << "Account id: " << id << " balance: " << balance;
return ss.str();
}
};

class Checkings : public Account
{
protected:
int overdraftLimit;

public:
Checkings(int id, double balance, double annualInterestRate) :Account(id, balance, annualInterestRate)
{
overdraftLimit = 5000;
}

string toString(Account Acct) const
{
stringstream ss;

cout << Acct.toString() << endl;
ss << "Account Type : " << "Checking" << endl;
return ss.str();
}
};

class Saving : public Account
{
protected:
int overdraftLimit;

public:

Saving(int id, double balance, double annualInterestRate) :Account(id, balance, annualInterestRate)
{
overdraftLimit = 5000;
}

string toString(Account Acct) const
{
stringstream ss;

cout << Acct.toString() << endl;
ss << "Account Type : " << "Saving" << endl;
return ss.str();
}
};

int main()
{
// Saving saving;
// Checkings checking;

cout << "Testing Account Class object " << endl << endl;
Account TestAccount{ 121,2000.00,0.5 };
cout << TestAccount.toString() << endl;
cout << "Depositing $1000 to Account object" << endl << endl;
TestAccount.deposit(1000.00);
cout << "Amount after depositing $1000 to Account object " << endl << endl;
cout << TestAccount.toString() << endl;
cout << "Withdrawing $2000 from the Account object " << endl << endl;
TestAccount.withdraw(2000.00);
cout << "Amount after witdrawing $2000 from the Account object " << endl << endl;
cout << TestAccount.toString() << endl << endl;

cout << "Creating Savings object " << endl << endl;
Saving saving{ 122, 44000, 0.5 };
cout << saving.toString(saving) << endl;

cout << "Creating Checking object " << endl << endl;
Checkings checking{ 444, 88000, 0.8 };
cout << checking.toString(checking) << endl << endl;

// Using Base Class pointer at Base Class object

const Account* AccountPtr{ &TestAccount };
cout << "Base Class pointer at Base Class object" << endl << endl;
AccountPtr->toString();
cout << endl << endl;

// Using Derived Class pointer at Derived Class object

const Saving* SavingPtr{ &saving };
cout << "Derived Class pointer at Derived Class object" << endl << endl;
SavingPtr->toString(saving);
cout << endl << endl;

// Using Base Class pointer at Derived Class object

cout << "Base Class pointer at Derived Class object" << endl << endl;
AccountPtr = &saving;
AccountPtr->toString();
cout << endl << endl;

cout << "" << endl;

system("pause");

return 0;
}

Company ARC Inc. is a medium sized civil engineering firm with 150 employees in offices in Ontario, Alberta, and British Columbia. The design of the payroll system calculates the hourly, bi-weekly, and monthly compensation wages for temporary, contract, and full-time engineering employees. The company wants to revamp its payroll system with consideration of multiple employee type groups mentioned above. You are assigned to create this payroll system that calculates the correct wages for each employee and report the total wage value before and after taxes. You must consider the following: • Temporary employees: hourly wage only, no benefits, income taxed at 15%. • Contract employees: bi-weekly wage only, no benefits, income taxed at 18%. • Fulltime employees: monthly wage only, benefits deducted at 10%, income taxed at 20%. Create a payroll system using Java with at least two classes: Payroll.java and Employee.java. You can add more classes if you think it is necessary. The application is executed by command line only. (No need for GUI or web application forms.) You must add comments to all the classes and methods. Employee.java technical details: Constructor’s parameters • Employee’s Name, Employee ID, Work Type (T, C, F), Wage Assignment 2 – OOP Payroll Part 1 INFO-6094 – Programming 2 Page: 2 Instant variables • String - Employee Name • int - Employee ID • char - Work Type • double - Wage Methods Use setter and getter methods to manipulate the values inputted. For methods, they should be verbs, mixed case with first letter lowercase, and the first letter of each internal word is capitalized (ie. getEmployeeName(String eName) ). Payroll.java technical details: • You can use a data structure such as an Array to store employee information. • The program should continue to execute unless the optional number value “0” is inputted as an answer. • The system must ask and validate the following for the command line values inputted: Option ‘1’: Which option would you like? ____ What is the employee name? ____ What is the employee ID? ____ What is the employee’s work type? ____ What is the employee’s wage? ____ Employee’s wage after tax: # ********************************************** Then the program will loop back and ask, ‘Which option to choose now?’ It will only exit the loop if input is not 1. Option ‘0’: When the user has inputted 0, the following is displayed: Employee name, employee ID, Work Type, Total Wage before tax, Total Wage after tax 1. William White, 234354, C, $4500.00, $3690.00 2. Christy Carpenter, 045644, F, $5500.00, $3850.00 Etc…. Total employees: # Work types: (#) Temporary, (#) Contract, (#) Full-time Assignment 2 – OOP Payroll Part 1 INFO-6094 – Programming 2 Page: 3 Total wages before tax: # Total wages after tax: # Exit program. If an option value that is NOT ‘0’ or ‘1’ is inputted, then the program exists completely. The user must start again. • To validate errors and report them in the command prompt, consider the following: o the hourly pay cannot exceed 90.00 but can be 0 o the bi-weekly pay cannot be below 1000.00 or more than 3500.00 o the monthly pay cannot be less than 3000.00 o employee name must have at least one space and cannot be less than 5 characters o employee ID must be a positive integer o pay must be a positive value

please solve all question

Morrigan Department Stores (The Ethics of Forced Software Upgrading)Morrigan Department Stores is a chain of department stores in Australia, New Zealand,Canada, and the United States that sells clothing, shoes, and similar consumer items in aretail setting. The top managers and their staff members meet once a year at the nationalmeeting. This year’s meeting took place in Hawaii—a geographical midpoint for them—andseveral accounting managers participated in a round-table discussion that went as follows:Roberta Gardner (United States): One of our biggest problems in our Aukland office isthe high cost and seemingly constant need to upgrade our hardware and software. Everytime our government changes the tax laws, of course, we must acquire software that reflects those changes. But why do we need new hardware too? All this discussion of‘‘64-bit machines’’ is a mystery to me, but the IT department says the hardware in the oldmachines quickly become outdated.Donalda Shadbolt (New Zealand): I’ll say! If you ask me, all these upgrades are costly,time consuming, and even counter-productive. I do a lot of work on spreadsheets, forexample, and constantly ask myself: ‘‘Why do I have to spend hours relearning how toformat a simple column of numbers in the newest version of Excel?’’ It takes time andeffort, it’s frustrating, and in the end, I’ve spent hours relearning skills that I already knowhowtodointheolderversion.Linda Vivianne (Canada): I know what you mean, but the newer hardware is faster,cheaper, and more capable than the old machines. Hard drives have moving parts in them,for example, and they eventually wear out. The newer software runs under the neweroperating systems, which are also more competent and have more built in security such asantivirus software.Ed Ghymn (Australia): I agree with you, Linda, but I think a lot of these new capabilitiesare more hype than real. If the security software was competent, we wouldn’t need allthose patches and upgrades in the first place. And why must we upgrade so often, just toget newer capabilities that most of us don’t even need?Alex McLeod (Australia): I don’t think anyone can stop the march of progress. I think thereal problem is not the upgrades to new software, but the fact that our company expects usto learn it without proper training. Personally, I don’t buy my boss’s argument that ‘‘you’rea professional and should learn it on your own.’’Linda Vivianne (Canada): I’m also beginning to realize just what advantages there arein outsourcing some of our accounting applications to cloud service providers. Thatwon’t solve all our problems because we all still need word processing and spreadsheetcapabilities, but at least we can let cloud providers deal with the software upgrades for ouraccounting software. Given how dispersed we are, that might also make it easier for us toconsolidate our financial statements at year’s end too.

Questions:

1. Do you think that Roberta Gardner’s description of “64-bit machines is accurate? Why or why not?
2. Many software vendors such as Microsoft, Adobe and Apple ship software packages with both known and unknown defects in them. Do you feel that it is ethical for them to do so? Why or why not?
3. Do you agree or disagree with the argument made in this case that many hardware and software upgrade are unnecessary? Why?

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Which of the following is a grouping of characters into a word, a group of words, or a complete number?

Select one:

a. Table

b. Entity

c. Field

d. File

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The cost of changing from one product to a competing product is termed _______.

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a. switching cost

b. operating cost

c. lowest cost

d. returning cost

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All of the following are competitive forces in Porter's model EXCEPT _________.

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a. customers

b. external environment

c. suppliers

d. new market entrants

In Porter's competitive forces model, which of the following forces will try to develp their own brands and impose high switching costs on their customers?

Select one:

a. Low-cost leadership

b. Product differentiation

c. Customers intimacy

d. Traditional competitors

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Which of the following industries poses the highest barriers to entry?

Select one:

a. Logistic industry

b. Aeroplane manufacturing industry

c. Supermarkets

d. Bookstores

________ is a competitive strategy for creating brand loyalty by developing new and unique products and services that are not easily duplicated by competitors.

Select one:

a. Low-cost leadership

b. Product differentiation

c. Focusing on market niche

d. Strengthening customer intimacy

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Using information systems to help in bringing down the operating costs to a minimum could lead to low-cost leadership.

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a. True

b. False

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The increasing usage of instant messaging like WeChat and WhatsApp, replacing the traditional telephone service, is an example of ______.

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a. low-cost leadership

b. substitute products and services

c. focus on market niche

d. new market entrants

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Information systems could help to identify the behavior of a particular group of valuable customers. This is an example of _______.

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a. product differentiation

b. customers' bargaining power

c. focus on market niche

d. low-cost leadership

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The more substitute products and services in the industry, the more one can control pricing.

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a. True

b. False

A supermarket with an efficient self-service machine at the checkout points collecting payments of the customers and saving lots of manpower is an example of _______.

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a. low-cost leadership

b. focus on market niche

c. strengthen supplier intimacy

d. new market entrants

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Customers are one of the competitive forces that affect an organization's ability to compete with competitors.

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Younger workers with less experience will typically be found in companies which are _______.

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a. traditional competitors

b. new market entrants

c. traditional suppliers

d. low-cost leaders

Considering the job description and job specification, what would you pay the incumbent of this position? What information would you consider to determine pay for this position?

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The company is a medium accounting firm with 50 employees, located in Kamloops British Columbia

Daley & Company Chartered Professional Accountants is looking for an experienced Human Resources Manager to join our Kamloops office. The ideal candidate will have a proven track record of providing sound HR advice to employees and partners on day to day HR matters and have the ability to influence and drive HR strategy.

Main Responsibilities:

The Human Resources Manager will act as a trusted advisor to our employees and partners. Working closely with our Partners, you will be responsible for managing all aspects of the HR function to support the achievement of our business goals, including full-cycle recruitment, performance management, policy development, compensation, benefits, employee relations, coaching and training.

·        Act as the main point of contact for all HR support and manage the day to day HR operations for the firm;

·        Coach and counsel employees and partners on a broad range of matters and ensure consistent application in accordance with firm policies and procedures including: HR queries, legal issues, leadership, performance management issues, conflict management and disciplinary issues as required;

·        Responsible for full cycle recruitment, including development of job postings, advertising vacancies, screening resumes, coordinating and conducting interviews, reference checks and job offers;

·        Assist in the recruitment of CPA students, including liaising with colleges and universities, hosting information sessions or events, coordinating office tours, networking at various events, screening and interviewing candidates;

·        Develop a HR presence on social media and leverage social media in the recruitment process;

·        Conduct, and continue to develop our new hire orientation program;

·        Prepare HR correspondence including offer letters, new hire packages, letters of employment and salary letters;

·        Assist with staff requests regarding HR queries, issues, rules and regulations in accordance with firm policies and procedures;

·        Ensure that all HR forms, employee files, policies, manuals etc. are up-to-date;

·        Process documentation and prepare reports relating to personnel activities (staffing, recruitment, training, evaluations, professional and student development etc.);

·        Assist in organizing employee events;

·        Identify employment issues and recommend improvements, efficiencies and training opportunities;

·        Research, coordinate and manage training programs, HR projects and HR strategic initiatives as needed.

Qualifications, Skills & Personal Attributes

·        Previous HR experience in a Management or Generalist role;

·        Minimum 5 years of related HR work experience, preferably in a professional services firm;

·        CPHR designation an asset;

·        Maintains a high level of expertise on BC employment standards, common law decisions affecting employment and Human Rights and other areas of the law pertaining to employment;

·        Proven ability to influence and provide guidance on a broad range of employment matters at all levels in an organization;

·        Ability to handle confidential and sensitive information with tact and discretion;

·        Professional and personable manner with the ability to speak and present information to groups;

·        High degree of initiative with a proactive approach to work;

·        Strong organizational, multi-tasking skills and follow-through on commitments and deadlines;

·        Ability to work under pressure, adapt and respond to changing situations;

·        Excellent communication skills both written and verbal;

·        Excellent computer skills including MS Word, Excel, Outlook and various social media platforms with the ability to grasp new technological tools.