Read the articles below and write an informative 2-page essay about the potential risks associated with spreadsheets.

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Accountant information sys.

Risks Inherent in Spreadsheets.

As part of your AOL assignment discuss the risks associated with spreadsheets.

Read the articles below and write an informative 2–page essay about the potential risks associated with spreadsheets:

1. Spreadsheet horror stories: https://handsontable.com/blog/articles/2020/10/spreadsheet–horror– stories

2. 5 of the most terrifying Excel spreadsheet horror stories we’ve ever heard:
https://www.caspio.com/blog/5–of–the–most–terrifying–excel–spreadsheet–horror–stories–weve–ever– heard/

3. Spreadsheet horror stories: https://www.qcommission.com/blog/spreadsheet–horror–stories.html

4. Spreadsheet blunders costing business billions: http://www.cnbc.com/id/100923538

5. Every spreadsheet has an error: 7 lessons motivated by Reinhart and Rogoff:
https://www.forbes.com/sites/billconerly/2013/04/25/every–spreadsheet–has–an–error–7–lessons–motivated–by–reinhart–and–rogoff/?sh=3110e9553f2b

6. Eight of the worst Excel blunders: https://www.cio.com/article/274673/enterprise–software–eight–of–the–worst–spreadsheet–blunders.html

Take one of the chapters that you found interesting and expand upon it through research from peerreviewed sites. Research at least 10 peer-reviewed papers and dive deeper into any section of a chapter.

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Social Engineering on Frame Transformation

Throughout this course we have talked about (and will continue to talk about) a great deal of social engineering techniques. Bottom line though, all of what we learned is the various ways we can achieve our end goal. Since we know there are various ways to reach our goals that leads us to our research paper’s focus.

Take one of the chapters that you found interesting and expand upon it through research from peerreviewed sites. For example if you liked Chapter #8 where we talked about Nonverbals then you to research more on the subject. See what experiments have been done on the social engineering topic you have chosen.

You are to research at least 10 peer-reviewed papers and dive deeper into any section of a chapter. Our book does a great job of sharing their research and the links so these would be a great place to use as a resource. Also make sure to visit our library to access a wealth of information and access to professional databases.

Auditing standards specifically require auditors to identify revenue recognition as a fraud risk in most audits. Based on your understanding of the company, what factors may increase the risk of fraudulent financial reporting in Souper Bowl’s 2016 revenues?

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Tableau Assignment

Company Background 

You were recently promoted to audit senior at your firm, Aoife & Josephine LLP, and one of your primary clients is Souper Bowl Inc. Souper Bowl (‘‘the company’’) is a privately held business headquartered in Maine, and has a fiscal year-end of December 31. The company has been in business for nine years and prides itself on offering creative soups at a reasonable price and that are made with locally sourced ingredients. The most popular soups include sweet potato corn chowder, curried root vegetable and lentil, and maple-roasted butternut squash. Souper Bowl typically experiences increased sales during winter months since soup hits the spot on a cold and snowy day. To further encourage sales on days when customers often avoid venturing outside, the company provides a delivery service and guarantees that soup can be delivered to anyone no matter what the weather. The company found this strategy to be particularly successful in 2015 when New England (including Maine) experienced record snowfall during February and March.

Souper Bowl sells their soup at several restaurant locations throughout Maine. The company employs three managers that direct the day-to-day operations for a group of stores that are organized by approximate geographic region: northern Maine (Store Type 1), mid-Maine (Store Type 2), and coastal Maine (Store Type 3). Appendix A provides a map of these store locations. Each manager knows their local market well and has the flexibility to advertise and offer promotions with the overall goal of increasing sales year over year. If total sales at the end of the year exceed total sales from the prior year for that manager’s set of locations (i.e., ‘‘Store Type’’), then the manager earns a monetary bonus from the company.

An audit of the company is required to comply with debt covenants related to a large bank loan that the company entered into when it began operations. Specifically, Souper Bowl must provide audited annual financial statements to the bank within 90 days of the fiscal year-end. The company must also provide unaudited quarterly financial statements to the bank within 45 days of the end of each quarter. The debt contract includes a financial covenant that requires pre-tax income in each quarter to be greater than zero. If not met, the bank has multiple remedies at its disposal, including calling the loan such that the entire balance is due immediately, seizing the company’s assets that are posted as collateral, or providing a waiver for the violation. Souper Bowl’s net income for the year ended December 31, 2016 is $468,810, while net income for the prior year ended December 31, 2015 was $825,229.

Based on your experience from prior audits, you know that Souper Bowl’s daily sales fluctuate with temperature and snow accumulation. To perform your revenue analytics, you request a file from the client that includes daily sales by store location for both 2016 (current year) and 2015 ( prior year). You also retrieve daily weather data from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA) website for the weather centers closest to Souper Bowl’s store locations. Total revenue for the current year ended December 31, 2016 is $18.8 million, while total revenue for the prior year ended December 31, 2015 was $19.1 million. The audit team’s workpapers include the following lead sheet for revenue testing, and the total balances for each year agree to the trial balance and the company’s draft financial statements for 2016.

Souper Bowl Inc. Revenue Lead Sheet

December 31, 2016

             PBC
  2016   2015   Change   % Change
Revenue, Store Type 1 $4,062,390.97   $4,032,383.16   $30,007.81   0.74%
Revenue, Store Type 2 9,331,175.81   9,558,584.07   (227,408.26)   -2.38%
Revenue, Store Type 3 5,425,421.53   5,546,767.89   (121,346.36)   -2.19%
Total Revenue $18,818,988.31   $19,137,735.12   $(318,746.81)   -1.67%

Your manager stated that Tableau is a popular data visualization tool that your firm recently adopted and she instructed that you learn how to use it to perform these sales analytics. Since she is busy overseeing the planning and testing of other audit areas, she wants you to take the first pass and then document your results in a memo for her review. The manager wants you to provide thoughtful analyses and a thorough exploration of the possible relationships in the data. You are eager to impress her with your work, especially following your recent promotion to senior.

 

Requirements

  1. Auditing standards specifically require auditors to identify revenue recognition as a fraud risk in most audits. Based on your understanding of the company, what factors may increase the risk of fraudulent financial reporting in Souper Bowl’s 2016 revenues?
  2. Use the daily sales by location as provided by the client (2016 and 2015) and the weather data from NOAA to perform disaggregated sales analytics in Tableau. Your goal is to develop visualizations that identify potential outliers in the 2016 daily sales data related to the significant risks identified by the partner and manager. Using the memo template below, document your analyses and conclusions as to the specific daily sales from certain locations that you recommend selecting for focused substantive testing.

Time to go for one last walk in this course. We know where you have been from the first written assignment, now, where would you like to go? What do you want to explore?

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“Humans and Nature

1.The Earth is a living planet; from the atmosphere above us to the soils and root systems under our feet, the Earth is teeming with life. But how much do we know about all this life? Our textbook author, and indeed environmentalists and conservationists across the globe, hope to change our perception of the Earth; to encourage us to sustain and preserve the life that sustains our lives. To start your final written assignment, what do you think of when you hear the word nature? What does that word mean to you now, and has your perception of and relationship to nature changed over this course?

2.As humans, we share much of our DNA with every other living plant and animal on this planet. But each species is special in its own way. So, for the second part of your final written assignment, I would like you to consider the following question: What makes us human? What makes humans special? Now that you have gotten to know about some of the other resident species of this planet, are we really so far apart from them in our behaviors, our traits, our characteristics? What do we share?

3.Time to go for one last walk in this course. We know where you have been from the first written assignment, now, where would you like to go? What do you want to explore?

4.Finally, who is “your greater self?” And if you were to write a note to that self, what would you tell them about this remarkable planet we live on and the many species we share it with?

Research DNS on Azure and other network services that Azure offers. Write a minimum 1-page, APA formatted paper that addresses the following: What are the benefits by hosting your services in their cloud, as opposed to on-premises?

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Cyber Security Question

Instructions

Part 1

Section 1: Azure Network Services

Research DNS on Azure and other network services that Azure offers. Write a minimum 1-page, APA formatted paper that addresses the following: What are the benefits by hosting your services in their cloud, as opposed to on-premises? Some items to search for are high-availability, redundancy, and fault tolerance.

Would you choose to host your network services in the cloud? Support your reasoning with research.

Section 2: Microsoft Operating Systems and Azure Synopsis

Based on the knowledge you have achieved so far in this class, compose a minimum 1-page synopsis compiling what you have learned about Microsoft operating systems and Azure. Describe how you will use this knowledge in any other class, your present or future career, or your personal life.

 

Part 2: Azure Network Services

Go to A Cloud Guru. Open the Playground tab, select Cloud Sandboxes, and select the Azure Sandbox. Log on to the cloud resource. You will need to click the “Create Resource” button. Select “Security”. Select “See all”. Select “VM-Series Next-Generation Firewall from Palo Alto Networks”. Select “Create”.

On the Basics page, fill in the username with FirstNameLastName of the student. Fill in your password. Take a screen capture of this page.

On the VM-Series Configuration page, the DNS name should be lastname-in203. The VM name of VM-Series should be lastnamein203. Take a screen capture of this page.

Take a screen capture after you have created the VM.

Write a minimum 1-paragraph paper on what you learned in the assignment, as well as any additional questions you have.

Create a Python program that populates an array variable (containing at least five elements) within a loop using input supplied by the user.

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Week7 discussion

Create a Python program that populates an array variable (containing at least five elements) within a loop using input supplied by the user. It should then perform some modification to each element of the array using a second loop, and then display the modified array in a third loop. Note that there should be only one array, but three loops.Post your code as an attachment (.py file) and post a screenshot of executing your program on at least one test case. Be sure to choose a program different from any of the programs already posted by your classmates.

Reply to another student’s post. Modify that student’s program by adding another modification to each element of the array. Display the modified array. Document the code of your change (what and who). Post your modified code as text as an attachment (.txt or .py file) and post a screenshot of executing your program on at least one test case.

Explain how your selected firm could develop a competitive advantage by adopting the supply chain strategies in the article “Is It Time to Rethink Globalized Supply Chains?”

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Case Study 3: Global Supply Chain Trends

 

Assignment:
This assignment’s articles discuss several types of influence on global supply chains. Select one of the following companies to complete this assignment:

  • ADM, Link: https://www.adm.com/en–us/about–adm/our–company/
  • Kraft Heinz, Link: https://www.kraftheinzcompany.com/

Describe the strengths and weaknesses of the firm you selected for this assignment.
Provide a summary of supply chain challenges for the firm you selected for this assignment.
Explain how your selected firm could develop a competitive advantage by adopting the supply chain strategies in the article “Is It Time to Rethink Globalized Supply Chains?“ (Article 2 above).
Discuss supplier diversity and sustainability that can be used to manage global supply chain risks in the future for the firm you selected for this assignment.

Examine your personalized results and begin to develop a behavior contract related to increase your level of physical activity.

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Discussion ENS 330

Take the Barriers to Exercise quiz from the Harvard Health Letter [Harvard Medical School] by clicking on the attachment below — Harvard Health Letter: Barriers to Physical Activity Quiz. Once you have completed the quiz, you can get a better assessment of your preferences, habits, and possible areas for activity improvement. The quiz requires that you take your results for the first 3 “numbered” questions [X + X + XX] and sum them; THEN, take the next 3 questions and sum them — there are 7 areas identified in this quiz that affords you a brief ‘scoring’ of your responses and where you are relative to physical activity. Below this section are various suggestions for overcoming physical inactivity — similar to those presented in your textbook.

FROM THIS …. examine your personalized results and begin to develop a behavior contract related to increase your level of physical activity (see an example on pg 75, figure 4.4).

Attachments

After taking the quiz from Harvard Health Letter (from the above activity) and “scoring” your results from the quiz, examine your results and begin to develop a behavior contract related to increasing your level of physical activity (see an example on pg 75, figure 4.4).

Please submit a one-page summary of your own behavior contract to improve/increase your level of physical activity…identifying what your current level of behavioral engagement is for physical activity and ‘where’ you will begin to make changes and ‘contract’ with yourself to improve your exercise/physical activity.

Define and explain them in detail: how do these ideas work, why are they important to Asian American Studies and Ethnic Studies, etc. Provide 1–2 examples of each concept, and demonstrate how or why the themes/topics are useful for understanding your examples.

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Asian Studies Question

For this assignment, you will write a 5-page essay (12 pt, Times New Roman, double spaced, 1″ margins) that reflects on the course themes.

Within your response, do the following:

  1. Pick 2 theories, themes, or topics we’ve covered in this course that were most meaningful or interesting to you and for each:
    1. Define and explain them in detail: how do these ideas work, why are they important to Asian American Studies and Ethnic Studies, etc.
    2. Provide 1–2 examples of each concept, and demonstrate how or why the themes/topics are useful for understanding your examples.
  2. Then address the following:
    1. The one or two things that you think will stick with you the most
    2. Specific readings/texts you did or didn’t enjoy
    3. How you might use what you’ve learned in whatever future paths your life’s journey takes you?

Use the concepts you’ve learned throughout this course to write a 2-3 page proposal for a new system.

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Data Analytics Question

Use the concepts you’ve learned throughout this course to write a 2-3 page proposal for a new system. You are allowed to use Chat GPT.

Description as Stated in Course Catalog: The course presents concepts, procedures, and tools needed to build computer–based information systems. The objective is to develop project management, data collection, analysis, design, testing and documentation skills.