Assignment Details

Framing the Issue

It is important to know that there are at least two sides to every issue. Each side (opinion) should be based on facts that are supported with convincing, reasonable evidence that is credible and current. Before you form an opinion, consider the pros and cons of the issue. Doing this can strengthen your position on the issue—or it can result in a change of opinion on the issue.

For this week’s discussion, complete the following:

1. Choose 1 of the issues in the list below, or you can select any topic you like. If you choose your own topic, make sure the topic is appropriate for an argumentative essay and related to an issue that will hold your interest when you return to the essay in the coming weeks. A good source for this would be current events. Please e-mail your instructor for approval first, and remember academic research methods still apply.
2. Read 1 article on your topic from the list provided in the Topic Bibliography.
3. Express your opinion about the issue in 1 sentence.
4. Use the article you selected to write a paragraph to support your opinion, and be sure to cite it in your response.

Issues to Choose From

• Is TV a leftover media source from the past that will soon be outdated, or is TV keeping up with the times and attracting new viewers?
• How is social media affecting young adults, parents, or teens for better or worse?
• Should high school students be required to take a civics course as a graduation requirement?
• Should journalists try to be objective to regain the public’s confidence?
• Do charter schools hurt traditional public schools?
• Are drug courts the solution to addressing nonviolent drug offenders?
• Should forensic techniques require federal approval for use in court?
• Should the U.S. government provide universal health care?
• Do video games portray positive or negative gender stereotypes?

Kotler and Keller (2016) outline the 10 Deadly Sins of marketing. The items listed as part of the 10 include real marketing practices and processes that have been identified by Kotler and Keller as organization’s ineffectiveness or weaknesses in the development and implementation of organizational marketing strategy.

In a 5-7 page paper, select 5 out of the 10 Deadly Sins. The list of the 10 are included below. For the 5 Deadly Sins selected, address the potential solution for each. Include a thorough academic discussion on the solution for each of the 5 Deadliest Sins selected.

The Research Report will meet the APA 6^th edition format criteria, 5 - 7 pages, and follow the structure below and consider the following:

1. Title page
2. Reference page
3. Include at least three scholarly sources in addition to the course text
4. Utilize APA formatted in-text citations to include and support course and external content as part of the assignment response.
5. Structure the assignment response with APA formatted section headings
6. Please avoid writing the minimum. When the page requirement is listed as 5-7 pages, consider including content for at least 5-7 pages of content.

10 Deadly Sins of Marketing

Note: Select 5

1. Your company is not sufficiently market-focused and customer-driven.

2. Your company does not fully understand its target customers.

3. Your company needs to better define its competitors and monitor them.

4. Your company has not properly managed its relationships with stake holders.

5. Your company is not good at finding new opportunities.

6. Your company’s marketing plans and planning process are deficient.

7. Your company’s product and service policies need tightening.

8. Your company’s brand-building and communications skills are weak.

9. Your company is not well-organized to carry on effective and efficient marketing.

10. Your company has not made maximum use of technology.

Week 12 Discussion: Your Organization's Healthcare IT Governance Structure

Case Study p. 498

Imagine that you've been hired as the Chief Information Officer (CIO) of an academic health care system. The health care system consists of several large hospitals and several dozen outpatient clinics, all using the same EHR system. There is an affiliated but independent physician practice group as well as a School of Medicine with a strong research focus. The current health IT governance structure is as described in Figure 29.2, p. 496, except that the current committees function independently of one another, and as a result, health IT resources are being overwhelmed by requests coming from a variety of sources, each with its own priorities list.

As one of your first tasks on the job, you have been asked to lead the formulation and implementation of a new health IT governance structure. The effectiveness of the new governance structure will be critical to your success and the success of the institution as a whole.

1. How would you go about assessing the current state of health IT governance and your organization's health IT governance capabilities?

2. What issues would you need to consider in recommending improved Health IT governance at your institution?

3. How could the informatics governance at your institution be more centralized to allow an enterprise-wide approach to prioritizing informatics effort?

4. From your reading in chapter 28, outline the basic health policy competencies for health informatics leaders.

5. Describe the policy concerns regarding the use of health IT to improve healthcare quality in control costs as the American health-care system move from HITECH to MACRA.

6. Outline the process for developing and implementing informatics policy.

7. Describe four strategies for leaving policy activities through organizational work and leadership.

The previous problem demonstrates that removing individual differences can substantially reduce variance and lower the standard error. However, this benefit only occurs if the individual differences are consistent across treatment conditions. In problem 21, for example, the participants with the highest scores in the more-sleep condition also had the highest scores in the less-sleep condition. Similarly, participants with the lowest scores in the first condition also had the lowest scores in the second condition. To construct the following data, we started with the scores in problem 21 and scrambled the scores in treatment 1 to eliminate the consistency of the individual differences.

Number of Academic Problems

Student                  Above Average Sleep          Below Average Sleep

A                                             10                                            13

B                                              8                                              14

C                                              5                                              13

D                                             5                                              5

E                                              4                                              9

F                                              10                                            6

G                                             11                                            6

H                                             3                                              6

a. Treat the data as if the scores are from an independent-measures study using two separate samples, each with n = 8 participants. Compute the pooled variance, the estimated standard error for the mean difference, and the independent-measures t statistic. Using a two-tailed test with α = .05, is there a significant difference between the two sets of scores? Note: The scores in each treatment are the same as in Problem 21. Nothing has changed.

b. Now assume that the data are from a repeated measures study using the same sample of n = 8 participants in both treatment conditions. Compute the variance for the sample of difference scores, the estimated standard error for the mean difference and the repeated-measures t statistic. Using a two-tailed test with α = .05, is there a significant difference between the two sets of scores? (You should find that removing the individual differences with a repeated-measures t no longer reduces the variance because there are no consistent individual differences.)

5 part a) The business college computing center wants to determine the proportion of business students who have personal computers (PC's) at home. If the proportion exceeds 35%, then the lab will scale back a proposed enlargement of its facilities. Suppose 300 business students were randomly sampled and 85 have PC's at home. Find the rejection region for this test using α = 0.10.

A) Reject H0 if z > 1.645 or z < -1.645.

B) Reject H0 if z = 1.28.

C) Reject H0 if z < -1.28.

D) Reject H0 if z > 1.28.

part b) A random sample of 10 parking meters in a resort community showed the following incomes for a day. Assume the incomes are normally distributed. Find the 95% confidence interval for the true mean. $3.60 $4.50 $2.80 $6.30 $2.60 $5.20 $6.75 $4.25 $8.00 $3.00

A) ($1.35, $2.85)

B) ($3.39, $6.01) C)

($2.11, $5.34) D)

($4.81, $6.31)

part c) Health care issues are receiving much attention in both academic and political arenas. A sociologist recently conducted a survey of senior citizens whose net worth is too high to qualify for government health care but who have no private health insurance. The ages of 25 uninsured senior citizens were as follows:

71 76 69 79 89 77 64 92 68 93 72 95 79 65 84 66 71 84 73 76 63 90 78 67 85 Find Q1 of the data.

A) 68

B) 76.5

C) 69

D) 68.5

part d) If one card is drawn from a standard 52 card playing deck, determine the probability of getting a ten, a king or a diamond. Round to the nearest hundredth.

A) 0.37

B) 0.31

C) 0.29

D) 0.40

Assignment 2: Audit Planning and Control


It is common industry knowledge that an audit plan provides the specific guidelines auditors must follow when conducting an external audit. External public accounting firms conduct external audits to ensure outside stakeholders that the company’s financial statements are prepared in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP) or International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) standards.

Use the Internet to select a public company that appeals to you. Imagine that you are a senior partner in a public accounting firm hired to complete an audit for the chosen public company.

Write a four to six (4-6) page paper in which you:

1. Outline the critical steps inherent in planning an audit and designing an effective audit program. Based upon the type of company selected, provide specific details of the actions that the company should undertake during planning and designing the audit program.
2. Examine at least two (2) performance ratios that you would use in order to determine which analytical tests to perform. Identify the accounts that you would test, and select at least three (3) analytical procedures that you would use in your audit.
3. Analyze the balance sheet and income statement of the company that you have selected, and outline your method for evidence collection which should include, but not be limited to, the type of evidence to collect and the manner in which you would determine the sufficiency of the evidence.
4. Discuss the audit risk model, and ascertain which sampling or non-sampling techniques you would use in order to establish your preliminary judgment about materiality. Justify your response.
5. Assuming that the end result is an unqualified audit report, outline the primary responsibilities of the audit firm after it issues the report in question.
6. Use at least two (2) quality academic resources in this assignment.

A 25-year-old young woman is brought to the emergency department by the police after being found walking in traffic at a busy city intersection. The police place her on an involuntary commitment after she states that she was instructed to kill herself by accusatory, commanding voices. On examination the patient appears disheveled, with an indifferent and flat affect, and disorganized thought processes. She answers most questions monosyllabically. When questioned about experiencing auditory hallucinations she answers in the affirmative, but she is unable to articulate coherently the details of her experience. Throughout the examinations she appears intermittently distracted by internal stimuli; when asked what her experience is in the moment, she states: "They are talking to me." The patient's family reports that she became increasingly withdrawn after she moved away from home to attend graduate studies at a local university. The family reports that her academic performance in college was above average, but since starting university she has struggled to complete her school work. Since moving, she has also become more isolative: she made no new friends, stopped talking to her college friends, and maintained only sporadic contact with her family. The family was unaware of the patient experiencing any hallucinatory experiences. She had no past history of drug misuse and her urine toxicology screen was negative, effectively ruling out a drug-induced psychosis.

QUESTIONS:

1. What could have possibly triggered this young woman's episode?

2a. What are two differential or possible diagnoses for her?

2b. Briefly explain each of these possible diagnoses.

3. What are the evidences which have informed each of the two possible diagnoses you listed in #2?

4. What is this young woman's actual diagnoses, and explain possible treatment options

In the world of working parents and time – poor managers searching for some form of lifestyle balance, the consumption of plastic packaging is increasing every year. Many consumers and organisations alike, however, are choosing more environmentally friendly packaging options. While some supermarkets and retail stores are beginning to charge for plastic bags at the checkout, any use of plastic bags contributes to the landfill problems of both today and the future. With aim of supplying packaging with low carbon footprint, Green Way strategy is to develop biodegradable packaging made from 100 percent natural resources including sugar cane.

But Green Way strategy is not just focussed on providing biodegradable packaging to the corporate world for distribution to the businesses and consumer markets. Unlike most organisations, Green Way had launched its biodegradables packaging product with the deliberate intention of educating the broader community on the benefits of a world less reliant on oil and fossil fuel. With the goal of changing the way Australians use packaging, Green Way has also focused its strategy on educating Australians of what and how to consume in a sustainable manner. Consumers are coached on reducing their carbon emissions by composing and recycling, for example, to build a better and more sustainable future. This is the Green Way’s future vison for competitive advantage.

Question 1

Describe Green Way current strategy?

Question 2

List and discuss four (4) Green Way’s sustainable competitive advantages?

Question 3

Conduct a SWOT analysis of Green Way and discuss its opportunities & threats how this may impact its business?

Question 4

Do you think the Green Way business model is sustainable?

References required: 6 Academic sources as a minimum including peer reviewed journals and prescribed textbook.

Chapter Name: Argumentation-Persuasion

Requirements For the Essay

Course Competencies

This module addresses the following course competencies:

• Analyze types of writing, audience, and purposes.
• Write unified essays whose central ideas are expressed by clear thesis statements and topic sentences.
• Provide support for thesis statements and topic sentences through the use of relevant details, examples, reasons, facts, data, and quotations.
• Employ techniques, such as observing, recording, summarizing, analyzing, classifying, interpreting, comparing, defining, arguing, and/or instructing for effective college-level writing.
• Evaluate writing through revising, editing, and proofreading effectively to achieve coherence and avoid grammatical errors.
• Demonstrate appropriate writing competencies in advancing, addressing, and expressing ideas within academic disciplines.
• Apply the rules of standard grammar and usage to writing.

Objectives

After completing this module, you should be able to:

1. Identify the basic components of Argumentation-Persuasion.
2. Identify the various purposes of Argumentation-Persuasion.
3. Employ appropriate strategies and tools for an Argumentation-Persuasion essay.
4. Write an Argumentation-Persuasion essay.
5. Apply the rules of standard grammar and usage.
6. Evaluate writing for improved grammar use and coherence.

Essay on

For your initial post, pick an issue that you might argue, and identify the target audience for such an argument. Then, indicate what kind of appeal strategy (rational, emotional, or both) you would use to influence your audience. Explain why your strategy will prove to be successful with that target audience.

Note: I have to submit this before 11 pm today so can you please send me like in spam of 6 hours and issue or essay whatever you call it can be under 250 to 300 words thankyou.  

please ask any further questions if you have but please complete this before 11 pm