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What was your personal reaction to the children’s responses to the questions involving gender roles, like cleaning the house and going to work, as well as their reasons?

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1.) What were three main points of the assigned article on modifying gender stereotypes?

2.) What is the meaning of androgyny? What are the advantages of raising a child to be androgynous?

3.) What is the meaning of the expression “rigid gender stereotyping?” What is the relationship between rigid gender stereotyping in childhood and subsequent adult behaviors?

4.) In your opinion, how might more flexible, non-stereotyped gender schemes affect the culture in the future?

5.) What was your personal reaction to the children’s responses to the questions involving gender roles, like cleaning the house and going to work, as well as their reasons?

6.) What was your reaction to the dramatization of William holding a baby doll? What does your reaction tell you about your view of stereotypical gender schemes? How would this affect the way you raise your own children?

Describe the problem that you will be solving for another company, describing the situation (1–3 paragraphs).

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Write a 2-4-page academic paper in which you describe a business situation, apply a critical thinking framework to the situation, and recommend evidence-based solutions to the situation. Explain how the concepts of VUCA (volatility, uncertainty, complexity, and ambiguity) could affect both the situation and the solution.

Introduction

Remember that you are writing a paper that will be evaluated by an instructor. Thus, you want to make it easy for the instructor to clearly see that you have demonstrated the outcomes of the assessment. Do not make your instructor search for information; guide them to it. How?

Read the following and think about how Panera used critical thinking and an understanding of VUCA to solve their mosh pit problem. Pay attention to Kallet’s critical thinking framework in particular.

Then, find another company with a problem they need to fix. You may use NASA, BP, or United Airlines, all of whom have had numerous high-profile problems to solve in recent years, if you wish. Or, you may choose a company that you know has an issue. If you are unsure who to use, try searching “Companies with customer service problems” online and you will get a lot of ideas, though your problem does not have to be about customer service.

In an APA-formatted paper:

  1. Summarize the problem you researched. Then, apply Kallet’s critical thinking framework to describe how the leadership of this company should think through the problem to create a solution. Finally, give at least one evidence-based solution—either that you came up with through your research or that you read the company is going to or did employ. Next, describe what VUCA considerations the leadership must keep in mind as they implement this solution.
  2. Work on being concise but thorough, keeping academically formatted paper to no more than four double-spaced pages.
  3. Be sure your paper includes, and is organized, as follows:
    • Introduction: Write an introduction that tells the reader what to expect of this paper (1 paragraph). It would be most effective to include a brief mention that leaders at Panera Bread effectively used an understanding of critical thinking and VUCA to solve their mosh pit problem, and that this paper applies a similar framework to solving whatever problem in the organization you chose. Choose an organization with a problem you can research.
  • Problem: Describe the problem that you will be solving for another company, describing the situation (1–3 paragraphs).
  • Thinking Critically: Apply the framework for critical thinking as outlined by Michael Kallet in the Think Smartere-book to the problem you identified to describe an evidence-based recommendation for this company to improve. You can create your own unique recommendation, or show how critical thinking applied to a solution that someone else came up with already or applied, which you read about in your research (1–3 paragraphs).
  • Applying VUCA: Explain how VUCA could affect both the situation and your recommendation, and any important considerations for management in implementing the recommended solution (1–2 paragraphs).

Write a conclusion that wraps up and summarizes your document (1 paragraph). The Capella Writing Center, linked in the MBA Program Resources under Writing Skills, has good information on how to write an effective conclusion.

Describe the major components of the monetary system, including organizations and financial institutions. Describe the currency exchange rates and any significant economic impacts on the exchange rates.

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Select a foreign country (Qatar is my choice) and analyze its monetary system. Research the country’s monetary system using at least five scholarly sources, including a minimum of three from the Library. Your analysis should be an eight to ten page paper formatted according to APA style guidelines
Address the following aspects in your paper:

Analyze the evolution of the country’s monetary system, including the impact of any fiscal monetary and trade policies.
Describe the major components of the monetary system, including organizations and financial institutions.
Describe the currency exchange rates and any significant economic impacts on the exchange rates.
Plot the currency exchange rate against the US Dollar:
Go to: Pacific Exchange Rate Service (Links to an external site.) website
Select US Dollar as the base currency
Select your countries currency as the target currency
Time horizon should equal one year
Select make chart. Include this chart in your analysis
Analyze the issues around economic exposure, transaction exposure, and translation exposure.
Recommend to investors whether they should buy or sell futures or options in that currency. Be sure to support your recommendation with calculations where necessary.

Who is your target audience? Who will benefit most from the information? What is the best way to reach the largest number of people who would benefit from the information?

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Topic: Implementing a Clinical Dashboard to Improve Quality Care and Maintain Patient Safety.

In this assignment, you will examine the various means for dissemination and determine which would most effectively convey the outcomes of your project. You will then create a plan of action for completing this final stage of your project.

Identify the various ways in which you can share the outcomes and lessons learned from the practicum project with your colleagues and with all of nursing.

Develop a plan for disseminating the results of your project beyond the primary stakeholders. Consider the following as you develop your plan:

  • The ideal format has a two-fold purpose: To effectively convey the project results and to reach the largest audience possible
  • Who is your target audience? Who will benefit most from the information? What is the best way to reach the largest number of people who would benefit from the information?

Summarize your dissemination plan. Address the following:

  • Who will be your target audience? Who will most benefit from the information?
  • How will you expand the reach and value of your practicum project?
  • What format will be the most effective to present your information?
  • What is your strategy for dissemination?
  • Would your project be better served with a formal or informal strategy?
  • Poster presentation (informal)
  • Published journal article, conference speech (formal)
  • Specific details, including when, where, and how you will disseminate

What are your thoughts about aging for your parents and/or yourself? Are the positive and negative aspects of aging-what are some of them. Share with the group an experience you have had with an older adult.

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Perceptions of Aging:

Discuss your perception of an older adult. Use the following questions as a tool to help you focus your discussion. What are some of the typical characteristics you would expect to observe? Where did these perceptions come from? What are your thoughts about aging for your parents and/or yourself? Are the positive and negative aspects of aging-what are some of them. Share with the group an experience you have had with an older adult. It can be positive, negative, challenging, or humors-no value attached. What did you learn from this experience?

Examine the manner in which your company’s Supplier Code of Conduct helps the organization operate as a socially responsible organization.

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Assignment 2: Challenges in the Business Environment.

As you have explored in this course, ongoing challenges in the global business environment are mostly attributed to unethical business practices, failure to embrace technology advancements, and stiff competition among businesses. Imagine that you have been appointed as the Chief Compliance Officer of a Fortune 500 company and must prepare a presentation for your suppliers regarding your Supplier Code of Conduct to deliver via email, webinar, etc.

For this assignment, you are to create a presentation using PowerPoint (or other equivalent software) and your research on the Fortune 500 company from Assignment 1. In your presentation, you are to summarize the important changes and explanations regarding the code of conduct that you would communicate via email, webinar, etc. The specific requirements are listed below.

Presentation Requirements:

Create a six (6) slide PowerPoint presentation in which you:

  1. Summarize your chosen company’s Supplier Responsibility information.
  2. In your own words, explain how each aspect of your Supplier Code of Conduct is committed to ethical business practices and society social responsibility.
  3. Discuss your company’s stance on each of the following areas:
    • Empowering Workers
    • Labor and Human Rights
    • Health and Safety
    • The Environment
    • Accountability
  2. Identify the key ways that your company’s Code of Conduct has changed since last year.
  3. Examine the manner in which your company’s Supplier Code of Conduct helps the organization operate as a socially responsible organization.
  4. Provide detailed speaker notes of what you would say if you were delivering the presentation.
  5. Submit a reference page with at least two (2) quality references, from within the last 2 years, that you used for this PowerPoint presentation. Note:Wikipedia and other Websites do not qualify as academic resources.

Your PowerPoint presentation must follow these formatting requirements:

  • Format the PowerPoint presentation with headings on each slide and three to four (3-4) relevant graphics (photographs, graphs, clip art, etc.), ensuring that the presentation is visually appealing and readable from 18 feet away. Check with your professor for any additional instructions.
  • Include a title slide containing the title of the assignment, the student’s name, the professor’s name, the course title, and the date. The title and reference slides are not included in the required slide length.

The specific course learning outcomes associated with this assignment are:

  • Evaluate the influences of changing economic, political, social, cultural, and technological forces on business and society.
  • Use technology and information resources to research issues in business and society.
  • Write clearly and concisely about business and society using proper writing mechanics.

Why was the smell of food important to Melinda? How might her sensitivity to food smells protect the developing fetus?

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1.) Based on any information you previously knew about prenatal development, what aspects of the video reaffirmed what you already knew about “making babies”? Be specific.

2.) What pieces of information about conception or development were a surprise to you and why were you surprised? When you consider that some couples have great difficulty “getting pregnant,” and, based on the description of the timing, travels of the sperm and the characteristics of the egg, what can you identify as some of the hindrances to a successful conception?

3.) How would you describe the rate of development in the fetus following implantation? What body systems are first to develop and which systems are last to fully form? Based on the terms used in the textbook, what technical terms would you use to describe the pattern of development (not to be confused with the stages of development)? At what point in development does the fetus begin to look like a human? What processes are necessary for the appropriate genitalia to form, i.e., the penis versus the vagina and uterus?

4.) Knowing what you have learned in the video and read in the chapter, give some examples of some of the more common teratogens and why the pregnant woman should avoid those teratogens?

5.) Why was the smell of food important to Melinda? How might her sensitivity to food smells protect the developing fetus?

6.) As the pregnancy nears the end, what are some of the concerns expressed by the soon-to-be mother and the father in the movie? How might prepared childbirth classes help the soon to be parents in the film? This assignment is worth up to twenty points for a well written answer.

What about other members of your family? (Ex: Siblings, etc.) Do they have a right to learn of any genetic problem you or your child may have which would indicate that they might have it as well? Why or why not?

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1.) Would you agree to have your infant’s genome included in the studies mentioned in the hypothetical situation above? Why or why not?
2.) What are two possible ethical concerns regarding genome testing?
3.) During the testing, what if the company discovered your child had a gene that might result in a health problem later in life, would you want to be informed? Would you also choose to be tested to determine if you had that genetic sequencing as well? Why or why not?
4.) As more is learned about genes, there is a risk that the information will be used to define certain members of society by their genetic makeup. Would you be comfortable with the information about your or your child’s DNA being made available to future employers and/or health insurance companies? Why or why not?
5.) What about other members of your family? (Ex: Siblings, etc.) Do they have a right to learn of any genetic problem you or your child may have which would indicate that they might have it as well? Why or why not?

Explain the key difference between the Taxes payable method and the Interperiod tax allocation method, and why NZ IAS 12 adopts the Interperiod tax allocation method.

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Explain what “temporary differences” are and why do they arise?

  • There are two methods to account for income tax expense: (i) the Taxes payable method, and (ii) the Interperiod tax allocation method.

Explain the key difference between the Taxes payable method and the Interperiod tax allocation method, and why NZ IAS 12 adopts the Interperiod tax allocation method.

  • Assume for the year ended 31 March 2020, Kindness Limited reports an accounting profit before tax of $1,000,000. This amount includes the following revenue and expense items in the Income Statement:
  • Accrued income
  • Insurance expense
  • Depreciation expense

You have also been provided the following information:

  • Accrued income: The amount of accrued income earned for the reporting period 31 March 2020 was $100,000. Accrued income is not taxable until cash is received.
  • Insurance expense: On 1 April 2019 the balance of prepaid insurance was $50,000. During the year, $150,000 was paid for insurance. As at 31 March 2020, the balance of prepaid insurance was $80,000. Insurance expense is tax deductible when it is paid.
  • Depreciation expense: Specialised machinery was acquired on 1 April 2017 at a cost of $400,000. The machinery has an economic life of 10 years with no residual value. For tax purposes, the machinery has an economic life of 5 years with no residual value. The straight-line method of depreciation is used to depreciate the machinery for both accounting and tax purposes.
  • Tax rate is 28%.

In accordance with NZ IAS 12, calculate the taxable profit and prepare journal entries to recognize the current tax payable for the year ended 31 March 2020. Show all workings.

  • Sunny Limited purchased equipment on 1 April 2018 for $500,000. For accounting purposes, the equipment is depreciated over 8 years on a straight line basis with no residual value. For tax purposes, the cost of the equipment is depreciated over 6 years using the straight line method. At the end of the financial year 31 March 2020, the equipment was revalued to $750,000. Sunny Limited intends to sell the equipment very soon. Any capital gain from sale is not subject to taxation in New Zealand. Assume the tax rate is 28 percent.

In accordance with NZ IAS 12, provide the journal entries for the deferred tax adjustment arising from the equipment for the 2020 financial year. Show all workings.

You are provided the information for the following asset/liability for the year ended 30 June 2019 for Decker Ltd. Assume the tax rate is 28 percent.

 

Government Bonds

On the balance sheet, there is an investment of $300,000 in Government bonds, which pays interest at 5% per annum. For tax purposes, the interest income from these Government bonds is never taxable.

 

Rent revenue received in advance

The opening balance of the rent revenue received in advance was $50,000. During the year, Decker Ltd has received $100,000 cash with respect to rent revenue during the year. In the Income Statement, an amount of $120,000 was recognized as rent revenue this year. For tax purposes, the Inland Revenue taxes all rent received on a cash basis.

  • In accordance with NZ IAS 12, calculate the temporary difference arising from each of the above asset/liability. Show all workings.

Explain whether there is a deferred tax asset or deferred tax liability arising from each of the above asset/liability. Also calculate the amount of deferred tax asset/liability.

Analyze ways in which different types of media content reflect and / or influence society’s attitudes and behaviors. Analyze various issues affecting the media business.

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Reflective Journal 2: Benefits and Dangers of Social Media Instructions.

Directions for Reflective Journals

The journals are to reflect your experiences and opinions.

Write a 1-page journal entry in which you:

 

Discuss two or three (2-3) benefits you or others have experienced with social media.

Discuss one or two (1-2) dangers you or others have experienced with social media.

Write with clarity, following mechanics and formatting requirements.

 

The specific course learning outcome(s) associated with this assignment are:

Apply critical thinking skills to the analysis of issues involving mass media and society.

Analyze ways in which different types of media content reflect and / or influence society’s attitudes and behaviors.

Analyze various issues affecting the media business.

Evaluate the effects of new forms of media (e.g., online services) on social interactions.