Carefully examine an argument and assess the effectiveness of its use of ethos and pathos.

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“Should I Report the Biased Remarks of a Campus Cop?”

TASK: For this paper you will need to carefully examine an argument and assess the effectiveness of its use of ethos and pathos.

APPROACH: An effective argumentative essay has a clear point. However, it will also seek to establish grounds for credibility and to appeal to the emotions and values of the audience. To evaluate the effectiveness of an argument of your choice*, you will need to have a clear introduction, containing the following: 1) the author’s name, their credentials, and the title of the article 2) the author’s main point, implicit or explicit 3) a brief 3 sentence summary of their supporting points and 4) your own thesis statement (which is an evaluation of the effectiveness of the author’s ethos and pathos).

To organize the body of your essay, you will have to 1) evaluate the ethos of the argument (is the author knowledgeable about the issue? Are they fair? Do they build a bridge to their audience? Do they demonstrate professionalism? How? Why? Why not?). It may take multiple paragraphs to discuss ethos and 2) analyze the pathos of the essay (for example, do they resort to the use of concrete language? Use specific examples and illustrations? Use narratives? Use appropriate analogies, words and metaphors? Why? Why not? For what purpose?) For a good discussion of ethos and pathos, refer to the reading discuss in class, titled “Moving your Audience: Ethos, Pathos and Kairos.”

Remember that this is not a response paper; in other words, your job is not to agree and/or disagree with the author’s argument, points, opinions or claims but rather to assess the effectiveness of its ethos and pathos, based on the notions we have discussed in class.

As you analyze your article of choice, make sure to keep in mind our practice on effective summary, quoting, and paraphrasing to represent the author’s points accurately.

It is also important to keep in mind that an argument may not or cannot be effective in its entirety (in terms of ethos and pathos), so your thesis statement can (and/or should) express degrees of effectiveness as it assesses the appeal to credibility and emotions. For example, you might say that the author’s appeal to pathos/ethos is fairly effective, somewhat effective, somewhat ineffective, mostly ineffective, and so on.

What are the key similarities and differences in the business models of Signet, Tiffany, and Blue Nile? How are these factors reflected in their financial ratios? An Excel copy of the ratios is enclosed on Canvas in the spreadsheet “Signet Exhibits and Ratios.”

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Accounting Questions From Reading

  1. What are the key similarities and differences in the business models of Signet, Tiffany, and Blue Nile? How are these factors reflected in their financial ratios? An Excel copy of the ratios is enclosed on Canvas in the spreadsheet “Signet Exhibits and Ratios.”
  2. Which of the three companies is performing better? Why?
  3. How do you assess the performance of Signet’s in-house financing program?
  4. Do you think Signet should continue to offer an in-house financing program? What are the risks involved?
  5. Do you agree with Cohode’s critique of Signet’s bad debt expense policy?

 

Identify and explain the primary issue in the data set. Describe how you would reorganize the data to enable the calculation of accounts receivable.

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Professional Application Case: Fluffy

Fluffy is a fast-growing company in North Dakota that creates, and ships customized stuffed animals to all fifty U.S. states. There are several options for customization, from customers submitting their own designs to sending the company a rough design idea that Fluffy then develops and creates. While business is going well, the company’s information system is a disaster, and they are not able to do any analytics. The priority is to integrate their data into an analytical database. They hire your firm to help them.

PAC 5.1 Auditing: Identify Data Issues

You are given access to Fluffy’s vendors, purchases, and employees files. Samples of the three files appear here.

 

  • Using the data preparation patterns, review the sample data and identify at least three issues. Where applicable, specify which pattern you applied to detect and correct an issue.

PAC 5.2 Financial Accounting: Determine and Analyze Accounts Receivable

Fluffy allows their customers to pay in installments. In the current system, sales orders and payments are recorded in two separate files. The SalesOrders file records the amount the customer owes Fluffy and the payments that have been received. The CashReceipts file records all payments received. Samples of both files are shown here.

 

  • Identify and explain the primary issue in the data set.
  • Describe how you would reorganize the data to enable the calculation of accounts receivable.

PAC 5.4 Tax Accounting: Validate Sales Tax Amounts

Currently, Fluffy’s salespeople are responsible for creating and sending orders to customers. All salespeople have access to the Excel file that contains the sales tax rates for each state. They use that information to manually determine the sales tax of an order and enter it in the accounting system.

At the end of each week, Fluffy’s accounting system generates a list of all orders called Sales Orders. As Fluffy’s accountant, you must collect sales taxes and remit them to applicable states. You must check whether the sales tax amounts are accurate. A sample with ten orders from the sales orders file is shown next.

 

It would help if you could combine the information in both tables to automatically calculate the sales tax per order and compare the tax information by state. Are there any data issues that would prevent this? List the patterns you used to identify the issues.

In a brief answer, What are the repo and the revers repo? What impact will this decision have on the state of the Saudi economy in general?In addition, what are the most prominent sectors affected?

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Q1. Differentiate with suitable examples the traditional costing systems and activity-based costing. Explain how ABC is used in manufacturing by providing a numerical example.

(3 Marks)

Note: Your answer must include suitable numerical examples. You are required to assume values of your own and they should not be copied from any sources.(Week 7, Chapter 7)

Answer:

Q2. Provide a numerical example of special order decisions and make or buy decisions and explain how these decisions are backed by quantitative and qualitative considerations.

(4 Marks)

Note: Your answer must include suitable numerical examples. You are required to assume values of your own and they should not be copied from any sources.

(Week 8, Chapter 4)

Answer:

 

PartB

Question:

The Saudi Central Bank decided to raise the repo rate by 25 basis points to 5.25 percent, and raise the reverse repo rate by 25 basis points to 4.75 percent.

In a brief answer, What are the repo and the revers repo? What impact will this decision have on the state of the Saudi economy in general?In addition, what are the most prominent sectors affected?

 

Explain how three of the following elements can affect estimate of loss reserve.

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Assignment Question(s):

Q1. Structures of insurance companies’ financial statements (income statement, balance sheet, cash flow statements) vary than structures the non- insurance organization due to the unique features of the insurance companies.  Give a sample of the structures for any selected Saudi insurance company’ financial statements and explain the rational for classifying balance sheet accounts. Write no less than 300 words (8 marks)

 

Q2. Explain how three of the following elements can affect estimate of loss reserve. Write no less than 300 words (7 marks)

  • The claims-handling process
  • Policy and exposure forms
  • Inflation
  • Legal trends
  • Environmental factors
  • Mix of claimants
  • Timeliness of claim reporting by claimants

 

 

Accounting for Securitization under SFAS No. 140 (2000) is a limited attempt to describe complex transactions that are structured to yield desired economic and accounting outcomes.

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Accounting assignment

Q.1 Accounting for Securitization under SFAS No. 140 (2000) is a limited attempt to describe complex transactions that are structured to yield desired economic and accounting outcomes. This accounting raises three issues for users of financial reports. State these three issues

 

Complete an outline of 1–2 pages that gives a structure for the research paper which will be completed near the end of this course.

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RESEARCH PAPER: OUTLINE ASSIGNMENT INSTRUCTIONS

OVERVIEW
For this assignment, you will complete an outline of 1–2 pages that gives a structure for the research paper which will be completed near the end of this course.

INSTRUCTIONS
• Submit a one–two-page outline.
• Well organized structure.
• Balance between sufficient detail and brevity.
• Use current APA formatting.

Identify at least three weaknesses in Eid Corporation’s revenue cycle activities. Describe the problem resulting from each weakness. Recommend control procedures that should be added to the system to correct the weakness.

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Assignment Question(s):   (Marks 15)

Question 1:   (03 Marks)

Under the expenditure cycle ordering materials, supplies and services are the first activity. Explain the following ordering threats with suitable example with each of these.

  1. a) Purchasing at inflated prices
  2. b) Unreliable Suppliers
  3. c) Kickbacks

Answer:

 

Question 2:     (03 Marks)

What are the advantages of the REA data model over the traditional AIS model?

Answer:

Question 3:   (04 Marks)

Under the payroll system of an organization we find several components such as HRM Department, Employees, Bank, Government Agencies, Insurance and other companies, Various other departments. Take an example of an organization and explain the relationship of these components with reference to Payroll System of that organization                                                                        

Answer:

Question 4:   (05 Marks)

Eid Corporation is a midsize, privately owned, industrial instrument manufacturer supplying precision equipment to manufacturers in the Midwest. The corporation is 10 years old and uses an integrated ERP system. The administrative offices are located in a downtown building and the production, shipping, and receiving departments are housed in a renovated warehouse a few blocks away.

Customers place orders on the company’s website, by fax, or by telephone. All sales are on credit, FOB destination. During the past year sales have increased dramatically, but 15% of credit sales have had to written off as uncollectible, including several large online orders to first-time customers who denied ordering or receiving the merchandise.

Customer orders are picked and sent to the warehouse, where they are placed near the loading dock in alphabetical sequence by customer name. The loading dock is used both for outgoing shipments to customers and to receive incoming deliveries. There are ten to twenty incoming deliveries every day, from a variety of sources.

The increased volume of sales has resulted in a number of errors in which customers were sent the wrong items. There have also been some delays in shipping because items that supposedly were in stock could not be found in the warehouse. Although a perpetual inventory is maintained, there has not been a physical count of inventory for two years. When an item is missing, the warehouse staff writes the information down in log book. Once a week, the warehouse staff uses the log book to update the inventory records.

The system is configured to prepare the sales invoice only after shipping employees enter the actual quantities sent to a customer, thereby ensuring that customers are billed only for items actually sent and not for anything on back order.

Questions:

  1. Identify at least three weaknesses in Eid Corporation’s revenue cycle activities.
  2. Describe the problem resulting from each weakness.
  3. Recommend control procedures that should be added to the system to correct the weakness.

Answer:

 

 

Identify at least three weaknesses in Eid Corporation’s revenue cycle activities. Describe the problem resulting from each weakness. Recommend control procedures that should be added to the system to correct the weakness.

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Assignment Question(s):

Question 1:

Under the expenditure cycle ordering materials, supplies and services are the first activity. Explain the following ordering threats with suitable example with each of these.

  1. a) Purchasing at inflated prices
  2. b) Unreliable Suppliers
  3. c) Kickbacks

Answer:

 

Question 2:

What are the advantages of the REA data model over the traditional AIS model?

Answer:

Question 3:

Under the payroll system of an organization we find several components such as HRM Department, Employees, Bank, Government Agencies, Insurance and other companies, Various other departments. Take an example of an organization and explain the relationship of these components with reference to Payroll System of that organization

Answer:

Question 4:

Eid Corporation is a midsize, privately owned, industrial instrument manufacturer supplying precision equipment to manufacturers in the Midwest. The corporation is 10 years old and uses an integrated ERP system. The administrative offices are located in a downtown building and the production, shipping, and receiving departments are housed in a renovated warehouse a few blocks away.

Customers place orders on the company’s website, by fax, or by telephone. All sales are on credit, FOB destination. During the past year sales have increased dramatically, but 15% of credit sales have had to written off as uncollectible, including several large online orders to first-time customers who denied ordering or receiving the merchandise.

Customer orders are picked and sent to the warehouse, where they are placed near the loading dock in alphabetical sequence by customer name. The loading dock is used both for outgoing shipments to customers and to receive incoming deliveries. There are ten to twenty incoming deliveries every day, from a variety of sources.

The increased volume of sales has resulted in a number of errors in which customers were sent the wrong items. There have also been some delays in shipping because items that supposedly were in stock could not be found in the warehouse. Although a perpetual inventory is maintained, there has not been a physical count of inventory for two years. When an item is missing, the warehouse staff writes the information down in log book. Once a week, the warehouse staff uses the log book to update the inventory records.

The system is configured to prepare the sales invoice only after shipping employees enter the actual quantities sent to a customer, thereby ensuring that customers are billed only for items actually sent and not for anything on back order.

Questions:

  1. Identify at least three weaknesses in Eid Corporation’s revenue cycle activities.
  2. Describe the problem resulting from each weakness.
  3. Recommend control procedures that should be added to the system to correct the weakness.

Answer:

 

What is cost-volume-profit (CVP) analysis, and how is it used for decision making? How are CVP calculations performed for a single product? How are CVP calculations performed for multiple products?

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Cost-Volume-Profit Analysis

  • Q1.What is cost-volume-profit (CVP) analysis, and how is it used for decision making?
  • Q2: How are CVP calculations performed for a single product?
  • Q3: How are CVP calculations performed for multiple products?
  • Q4: What assumptions and limitations should managers consider when using CVP analysis?
  • Q5: How are the margin of safety and operating leverage used to assess operational risk?