Memorandum

Write a brief Memorandum for the Food Research, Enterprise, and Sustainability Hub (FRESH) program team, responding to one of the prompts listed:

• How could/should FRESH invite stakeholders into the evaluation process? How will they identify those stakeholders?
• How could/should FRESH plan to disseminate their evaluation findings? What planning can they do now, to improve the utility of their findings?
• What could/should the FRESH team be considering in their work this year, if they want to be able to demonstrate their program's impact in year five?
• What should the FRESH team know about cultural competence? How could prioritizing cultural competence affect the program itself or its evaluation?

This memo should be written for an audience of program operations staff (not other evaluators) and is likely to include citations for sources you draw upon in your answer. Your memo doesn't need to be formal or formatted in a particular way - the key here is to speak directly to your audience

This week has focused on using several cost analysis tools to determine how well products contribute to a company’s profitability. However, all of these tools are internally used and not required to be published outside of an organization. Instead, external stakeholders rely on the three key financial statements reviewed in Unit 1:

• Income Statement
• Balance Sheet
• Statement of Cash Flows)

If a company’s CVP analyses showed it was not operating at break-even, where on the financial statements might one be able to see this impact (i.e., specific line items on the statements)?

As portfolio activities are to be self-reflective, please make sure to connect the portfolio assignment to:

• Your personal experiences
• Course readings and any external readings.
• Discussion forum posts or other course objectives that tie into your reflection.

The Portfolio Activity entry should be a minimum of 500 words and not more than 750 words. Use APA citations and references if you use ideas from the readings or other sources.

Using The role of introversion/extraversion on marital bliss locate at least five articles (from peer-reviewed journals) that pertain to your question that will be used to write the introduction section of your research proposal.

Submit these five citations in the form of an APA-style reference page. Under each citation, write one paragraph summarizing the main points of the article. As you read your articles, keep the following questions at hand; these will help you generate the information about each article.

What were the topic/research questions being investigated?

How was the study conducted (participants, materials, procedure, etc.)?

What did the results reveal?

How might these methodological considerations affect the research findings and the conclusions drawn from them?

How does this article fit in with your paper? How did it influence your own ideas about your paper? What do you expect to find?

Law 3207 – Assignment #2

Background:

You are entering into an Accounting Services Agreement with a client who has hired you to review its financials and prepare its annual tax return.

Questions:

a) Identify four (4) important clauses that should be expressly stated in the agreement to clearly set out the intentions of the parties.

b) For each clause, provide sample wording (ie. actually write out the clause) and explain its importance (ie. how does it protect you from liability, minimize risk).

c) In the event of a dispute regarding the interpretation of a clause, what are 3 rules of construction will the court apply?

d) Assuming this is a standard form agreement (see definition in textbook), what should the accountant do to ensure that the client understands the terms of the agreement?

Tips: Be as specific as possible in your answers. Refer to the textbook (chp 4 & 5) and feel free to consult and use external sources (with proper citations).

GOOD LUCK!!

The final four chapters of this course cover the 4 market structures: perfect competition, monopoly, monopolistic competition, and oligopoly.  

For this discussion, you are to choose a business and explain, in detail, in which market structure they belong.  Be sure to include the following:

• Is it easy or difficult to enter the market? Is it easy or difficult to exit the market? Why or why not?
• What type of product or service do they provide - unique? homogeneous? differentiated?
• Do they have competitors? If so, who? If not, why not?
• Are they price takers or price makers?
• Do they differentiate themselves from their competitors (if they have competition). How do they differentiate (for example, customer service, location, quality, etc.)

Your initial post should be at least 250 words. Be sure to include references and citations for any information you included. Opinions are welcomed, but make sure they are "educated" opinions with resources to back them up. Post directly into the text area (do not attach files unless they are supplementary material).

Select a company or organization whose fairness or ethics is currently being scrutinized in the news or in social media. Provide enough background information about your selected company to convey its size and prominence in society, and then explain in detail the alleged fairness and ethics violations. Conclude your paper by choosing to support the allegations or refute them, and explain your reasoning based on what you have learned. In your discussion, be sure to include the information below.

• Summarize the concept of fairness as it relates to decisions.
• Explain how personal and business ethics can be subconsciously overridden in decision-making. Does your selected business exemplify this?
• Describe how the company could improve its image regarding fairness and ethics in decision-making.

Your paper must be a minimum of three pages in length, and it should contain at least two academic references (one maybe the textbook). Please use APA formatting and citations.

Color Paint Shop, Inc. is an accrual basis taxpayer that paints automobiles. During 2018, the company painted Sam’s car and was to receive $1,000 payment from his insurance company. Sam was not satisfied with the work, however, and the insurance company refused to pay. In December 2018, Color and Sam agreed that Color would receive $800 for the work, subject to final approval by the insurance company. In the past, Color had come to terms with customers only to have the insurance company negotiate an even smaller amount. In May 2019, the insurance company reviewed the claim and paid the $800 to Color. An IRS agent thinks that Color should report $1,000 of income in 2018 and deduct a $200 loss in 2019.