Process Flowchart Drawing

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For this assignment, you will practice drawing a process flowchart. A process flowchart provides a visual representation of the steps in a process. Constructing a flowchart is often one of the first activities of a process improvement effort because it provides a clear understanding of the process and flow of resources, helps to identify non-value-added operations, and facilitates teamwork and communication (the flow of information and people).

To complete this assignment, refer to problem 3 in the “Problems and Activities” section at the end of Chapter 7 in your text. 

Specifically, be sure to address the following:

  • Draw a flowchart for a process of interest to you, such as a quick oil change service, a factory process you might have worked in, ordering a pizza, renting a car or truck, buying products on the internet, or applying for an automobile loan. You must include a legend to accompany your process flowchart. See the examples in Chapter 7 of your text for examples of flow charts.
  • Identify the points where something (people, information) waits for service or is held in work-in-process inventory, the estimated time to accomplish each activity in the process, and the total flow time. Remember that a decision symbol must have at least two direction arrows to accompany it.
  • Evaluate how well the process works and what might be done to improve it.

To successfully complete this assignment, view the Process Flowchart Drawing Assignment Rubric document.

Week 5 – Final Project

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Mini Equity Research Report [WLO: 4] [CLOs: 1, 2, 3, 4]

Many investment banks employ analysts to write equity research reports on public companies to advise their clients on their stock investments. In many cases, an initial equity research report is 20 to 50 pages long! For this class, you will focus on only three of the many important sections typically included in an equity research report. Thankfully, your Mini Equity Research Report will be much shorter than those published by investment banks!

In Week 1, you chose a publicly traded company to use throughout this class for the Mini Equity Research Report. In the first section of the Mini Equity Research Report, you evaluate the historical financial performance of the company (Week 1). In the second section of the Mini Equity Research Report, you evaluate the company’s performance using common financial ratios, and you compare the company to the competitor’s performance with the same financial ratios (Week 2). Finally, in Sections 3 and 4 of the report, you develop a value for the company’s stock and compare your value to the current market price of the stock (Weeks 3 and 4). Based on the analysis you present in these four sections, you will develop your recommendation to buy, hold, or sell the stock of this company.

It is very rare for one company to have only positive facts. Most companies have some good facts and some weak facts. In Sections 1 and 2 of the Mini Equity Research Report, you will analyze a variety of financial data for your selected company. As the equity analyst, it is your responsibility to combine the positive and negative facts into one recommendation (buy, hold, or sell). It is important to consider the importance of each fact and acknowledge that there is no perfect answer. Your recommendation should be based on the strength of the positive facts while recognizing the risks from the negative facts.

This week, you will write the introduction (including your stock recommendation) and the conclusion of the Mini Equity Research Report. In addition, you will revise the four sections from the first four weeks of class and combine them into this Mini Equity Research Report. Finally, you will submit your final Appendices A, B, C, and D with the Mini Equity Research Report.

Prepare:

Prior to beginning work on this final project,

  • Complete the Week 5 – Learning Activity: Understanding Cost of Capital.
  • Review the feedback you have received on your assignments throughout this course.
  • Locate and revise (if necessary) all of your assignments from Weeks 1 through 4.

Write:

In your Mini Equity Research Report,

  • Write an introduction. In your introduction, include the following:
    • State the name of the company and a brief description of what it does.
    • State the current market price per share and total market capitalization of the company.
    • State two key historical financial performance facts about your company (you can ascertain this information from your Week 1 – Assignment 3, Section 1: Financial Statement Analysis).
      • Categorize the overall financial performance as strong, neutral, or weak.
      • Justify your assessment based on the key facts.
    • Summarize (briefly) the ratio performance of the company.
      • Categorize the overall ratio performance as strong, neutral, or weak.
      • Justify your assessment based on the key facts.
    • Determine the valuation conclusion based on the constant growth formula in Week 4, using the required rate of return derived from the CAPM.
    • Determine your recommendation of buy, hold, or sell the stock of your chosen company.
  • Include your revised Week 1 – Assignment 3, Section 1: Financial Statement Analysis.
  • Include your revised Week 2 – Assignment 3, Section 2: Financial Ratio Analysis.
  • Include your revised Week 3 – Assignment, Section 3: Dividend Analysis and Preliminary Valuation, Part 1: Dividend Analysis only
  • Include your revised Week 4 – Assignment, Section 4: Valuation Conclusion.
  • Write a conclusion. In your conclusion, include the following:
    • Summarize the analysis that was completed for the Mini Equity Research Report.
    • State your recommendation of buy, hold, or sell the stock of your chosen company.
    • Summarize the key facts supporting your recommendation, including your concluded stock price.
  • Include Appendices A, B, C and D.

Submission Format:

You need submit a total of five documents to Waypoint:

  • Mini Equity Research Report
  • Appendix A
  • Appendix B
  • Appendix C
  • Appendix D

The Mini Equity Research Report,

An analysis of effective Marketing campaigns to promote Blended study in Canadian universities

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Need to write a Research proposal for 5 to 6 pages for above topic with references, need to cover below points precisely 

Introduction : Proposal introduction has five components –

– Establishing the problem leading to the study

– Reviewing the literature about the problem

– Identifying deficiencies in the literature about the problem

– Targeting an audience and noting the significance

– Identifying the purpose of the proposed study 

The Importance of Introductions :

– Sets the stage for the project

– Creates reader interest in the topic

– Establishes the problem leads to the study

– Places the study within the larger context of literature 

– Reaches out to a specific audience

• A research problem is the problem or issue that leads to the need for a study

• Potential sources

– Personal experience

– Debate in the literature

– Literature gaps that need to be addressed

– Policy debates (in government) 

– Research Problem ≠ Research Question

– Write one paragraph per element (about 1 or 2 pages)

– State the research problem

– Review studies that have addressed the problem

– Indicate deficiencies in the studies

– Advance the significance of the study for particular audiences

– State the purpose statement 

• Outline : Purpose of Statement, its Significance and Meaning, Mixed methods purpose statement (Qualitative purpose statement + Quantitative purpose statement )

• The purpose statement

– Indicates why you want to do the study

– Indicates what you intend to accomplish

– Is the central controlling idea in a study

– Is written in a sentence or several sentences

– Sets the objectives, the intent, or the major idea of a proposal or a study

A mixed methods purpose statement:

• Contains

– Information about both the quantitative and qualitative strands of the study

– A rationale for combining quantitative and qualitative strands

• Guidelines include

– Begin with words that signal intent: purpose, study aim, intent of

– Indicate the overall purpose of the study from a content perspective

– Indicate the type of mixed methods design (e.g. convergent, sequential)

– Reasons for combining both quantitative and qualitative data

Emerging Technologies Paper

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Emerging Technologies Paper

Write an essay of at least 500 words discussing how a blockchain implementation would improve data security in a military, education, or other context. 

Do not copy without providing proper attribution. This paper will be evaluated through SafeAssign. 

Write in essay format not in outline, bulleted, numbered or other list format.  Use the five paragraph format. Each paragraph must have at least five sentences. Include 3 quotes with quotation marks and cited in-line and in a list of references. Include an interesting meaninful title.Include at least one quote from each of 3 different articles. Use the Research Databases available from the Danforth Library, not Google.  

 Place the words you copied (do not alter or paraphrase the words) in quotation marks and cite in-line (as all work copied from another should be handled). The quotes should be full sentences (no more, less) and should be incorporated in your discussion (they do not replace your discussion) to illustrate or emphasize your ideas.Cite your sources in a clickable reference list at the end. Do not copy without providing proper attribution (quotation marks and in-line citations).It is important that you use your own words, that you cite your sources, that you comply with the instructions regarding length of your submission Do not use spinbot or other word replacement software. Proof read your work or have it edited. Find something interesting and/or relevant to your work to write about.  Please do not submit attachments unless requested.

Module 3 Case (Please see attached)

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Module 3 – Case

GLOBAL, ENVIRONMENTAL, AND CULTURAL ASPECTS OF HEALTH

Assignment Overview

Global health is about worldwide improvement of health, reduction of disparities, and protection against global threats that disregard national borders. Regardless of where people live, their cultures and environments influence their health behaviors. In this assignment, you will explore concepts of Global, Environmental, and Cultural Aspects of Health as they relate to an outbreak among your specific target immigrant population.

Case Assignment

  • Construct a table in which you use the PEN-3 Model as your framework to identify cultural influences on health that you must consider in addressing prevention and management of the outbreak among your chosen population. 
  • Remember to include cultural factors that increase the occurrences of vaccine-preventable disease outbreaks among your population as well as cultural factors that influence vaccination adherence.
  • See the table example provided.
  • Note that in the column on the left you must add what the P, E, and N represent within each domain and clearly address each one. 

PEN-3 Domains

PEN-3 Domains

Positive

Negative 

Existential

Cultural Identity
P
E
N

Relationships
P
E
N

Cultural Empowerment
P
E
N

 Assignment Expectations

Length: 3 pages, excluding title page and references. You can single-space the table.

Assessment and Grading: Your paper will be assessed based on the performance assessment rubric. You can view it under Assessments at the top of the page. Review it before you begin working on the assignment. Your work should also follow these Assignment Expectations.

PUBLIC POLICY Stakeholder Analysis (5-page paper)

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PUBLIC POLICY Stakeholder Analysis (5-page paper)

 

Select two (2) editorials / essays / columns (by staff or freelance writers) on a current issue of public policy from two (2) different publications (large metropolitan or national newspaper such as Washington Post or the New York Times or national magazines such as Newsweek, Time, and The New Republic.)

1. Apply the procedures for argumentation analysis to display contending positions and underlying assumptions for the content of the 2 publications. 

2. Rate the assumptions and plot them according to their plausibility and importance. (Refer to Figure 3.16, “Distribution of warrant by plausibility and importance.”)

3. Determine which arguments are the most plausible. Provide a rationale for your views.

(Note: Refer to Demonstration Exercise 1 located at the end of Chapter 3 for criteria 4-6. Examine Box 3.0 – Conducting a Stakeholder Analysis. Choose one of the following policy issues in the U.S. gun control, illegal drugs, medical insurance fraud, and environmental protection of waterways, job creation, affordable health care, or Medicare.)

4. Generate a list of at least five to ten (5-10) stakeholders who affect or are affected by problems in the issue area chosen for analysis. 

5. After creating a cumulative frequency distribution from the list, discuss new ideas generated by each stakeholder. (Note: The ideas may be objectives, alternatives, outcomes causes, etc.; ideas should not be duplicates.)

6. Write an analysis of the results of the frequency distribution that answers the following questions: (a) Does the line graph flatten out? (b) If so, after how many stakeholders? (c) What conclusions can be drawn about the policy problems in the issue area? 

7. Include at least two (2) peer-reviewed references (no more than five [5] years old) from material outside the textbook to support your views.

(figure 3.16 attached)

Discussion for Carver’s “Cathedral”

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Discussion for Carver’s “Cathedral”

In the 1980s, Raymond Carver was the most influential short story writer since Ernest Hemingway. Carver developed and popularized the writing technique called “minimalism.” Like Hemingway, Carver wrote in a very sparse, highly controlled manner, in which every detail is important. However, while Hemingway tried to evoke the subtext he omitted through a variety of symbols and images, Carver’s stories generally lack such subtext. Carver’s characters are very flat; their lives are small and boring. Any event that grants his characters a new experience or new insight is itself very small, and the effect of such events upon the characters is usually minimal. Two men drawing a cathedral after watching a documentary is a typical Carver narrative climax.

“Cathedral” is the most famous of Carver’s works, and there are many ways to interpret the story. For our purposes, we will highlight the postmodern aspects of the story. “Cathedral” demonstrates how the power of media influences the way we approach and interact with other people. 

1. Even though the narrator is telling the story, how does the narrator reveal that he lacks the ability to communicate or the ability to receive communication? (two passages) 

2. In what ways do the narrator’s wife and Robert use media to facilitate communication? (one passage) How does media negatively affect the narrator’s attitude toward Robert? (one passage)

(Hints: think about the references to tape recordings and to the movies the narrator has seen.)

3. Robert and the narrator finally seem “to connect” at the end of the story. How is this connection predicated on a change in media as a method of communication? Why does the narrator keep his eyes closed at the end of the story? Use two passages from the story to support your answer.  

(Hint: media here would be the television show and the pen and paper shared by the narrator and Robert.) 

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Due on Apr. 22, 11:59 pm.

You will submit your answers as a Microsoft Word document to the Turnitin database, which is in the Assignments section of Blackboard.

Please use the Answer Sandwich method to answer each question.  The passages you add to your answer should be around 2-4 sentences long. Please include a page reference. don’t forget you need 2 quotes for each question and the page numbers to support where your supporting quotes are from for your answer 

urgent, for tomorrow at 5 pm

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b. Debate -50 points/50% 

• The opposing positions debated are made clear. 

• Argue the issue from a Pro position crediting a supporting scholarly source.

 • Argue the issue from a Con position crediting a supporting scholarly source. 

• Present arguments in a clear and articulate manner. 

• Use appropriate ethical principle(s) to support each position. 

• Consider which, if any, ethical principles are in conflict with the opposing positions. 

• Use three (3) provisions of the ANA Code of Ethics that apply to the ethical dilemma. 

• Discuss possible outcomes of each position being argued. 

• Present a plan for resolving the issue (for patient, family and the nurse). 

c. Post-Debate Discussion – 15 points/15% 

• Elicit questions from the class after the debate. 

• Respond professionally and appropriately to questions from the class and faculty.

 • Include concluding remarks by moderator. 

d. PowerPoint – 20 points/20%

 • Title page • Brief description of the assigned case 

• Ethical dilemma the case presents • Ethical principles that relate to the case

 • Three (3) provisions from the ANA code of Ethics that apply to the case

 • Possible outcomes • Plan for resolving the dilemma

 • At least 2 sources used to support work • Reference page 

• 10-12 slides (Do not exceed 12 slides) e. APA Style and Organization – 10 points/10%

 • References are submitted with assignment. 

• Uses current APA format and is free of errors.

 • Grammar and mechanics are free of errors

. • At least three (3) scholarly, peer reviewed, primary sources from the last 5 years, excluding the textbook, are provided.

The Role of Unions in the Twenty-First Century

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What will be the role of labor unions in the twenty-first century? Some argue that the traditional role of the union in protecting the worker has been usurped by significant legislation protecting the worker against discrimination, unsafe work conditions, and unfair pay. Others point out that unions remain indispensable for several reasons; for example, because “at-will” employment is still the law of the land, meaning that most workers can be fired for any reason.

  • How does the role and purpose of the modern union need to be redefined to effectively serve its membership?
  • How does the presence of a union influence the job of the HR professional?

Reference 

Case

Analyze this case using the IRAC method in preparation for your assignment.

Labor Unions

These articles will give you background information on the types of union shops to help you analyze the case for your assignment.

Key Labor Laws

These laws and a web page outline the legal rights and obligations of employers and unions.

week 4 discussion assignment

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  write 400 to 600 words that respond to the following questions with your thoughts, ideas, and comments. 

As you reflect on your time at Phishy Pharmaceuticals, you decide it is time to move on with your career. You have always wanted to start you own restaurant business and be an entrepreneur. As an entrepreneur, you must decide whether the business should operate as one of the major forms of business organization, sole proprietorship, general partnership, limited partnership, limited liability partnership, limited liability company, or corporation, or under other available legal business forms.

Your selection depends on many factors, including the ease and cost of formation, the capital requirements of the business, the flexibility of management decisions, government restrictions, personal liability, tax considerations, and the like. You must choose one of the major forms of business that is best for your business. (For this assignment, you should not choose a sole proprietorship for your business entity.) In your initial Discussion Board post, you must address each of the following:

  1. The defining legal characteristics of your business entity
  2. The advantages and disadvantages of your legal business entity
  3. The operating agreement required by your entity
  4. Why that entity choice is the best for your business