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Due: Tuesday, 01/26/2021 11:59 PM (EST) Instructions Part I This assignment is the first of a three-part process. Parts II and III will be completed in Units VII and VIII respectively. Using your favorite search engine, select a local government budget that has not filed a petition for bankruptcy. Evaluate the past three years of the selected government’s distribution of income. Develop an analysis including the following: Evaluate trends of revenue sources and balances (funds, surpluses, deficits) and how they impact the government’s budget. Evaluate ethical practices of financial policy on taxes, fees, and charges. Assess internal/external opportunities and challenges of revenue sources. Your report should consist of no less than two pages, and all sources utilized should be cited and referenced using APA style. Please ensure that you include a cover page and reference page. Remember that the cover page and reference page are not included in the page expectation. .

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This is a class term project please follow directions carefully. You will be using budget from Miami-Dade County. Please read the directions carefully and do the present budget. https://www.miamidade.gov/budget/ Public Sector Budgeting (PAD 6227) Budget Analysis Project Fall 2018 A. Assignment Each student will analyze the budget and budgetary trends for a local government (city or county government). The paper will be formatted as follows: 1. Overview and budget process and format 2. Expenditure and revenue trends 3. Conclusion and Recommendation Below are the due dates for the components of the project: 1. Selection of government: October 28 ( Canvas message notification to the instructor ) 2. Draft of the first section ( overview and budget process/format section ): November 4 3. Draft of the second section ( expenditure and revenue trends section ): November 18 4. Final paper: December 9 The primary source of data will be the budget of the government that you are analyzing. You may be able to get copies of these from the government. Many governments now also have budget documents posted on their Web site. You may also want to review Census data for socio-demographic information about the area. Finally, you might search newspaper indexes to find information on major recent budget issues. If you work with one or two partners, you may divide the project up in a number of different ways. Generally, all of you will receive the same grade for the project. However, it is possible that grades will vary if one member has not performed adequately, or if one student’s performance is exemplary. There is no “cookie-cutter” approach to this project. Each government is different, so the focus of the analyses will vary somewhat. The following sections are intended to provide guidelines for you to consider, but your paper may be quite different from this. You are expected to organize the report in the manner best suited to the entity you are studying. B. Overview and Budget Process/Format The paper should be written as if you were briefing a new budget director for this government. The new director is moving here from another part of the country, and knows very little about the area or the budget issues. This section should first include a brief overview of the state or locality, including factors/trends that may affect the budget (e.g., location, population, income levels, primary types of employment, etc.) This section should also address the budget process and the format of the budget. You may include the following, for example: 1. Is the budget annual or biannual? 2. What is the fiscal year? 3. Brief description of the process 4. Form of government (e.g., a city could be operated by a council-manager, mayor-council, or commission form) 5. Elected officials (number and term of legislators, executive) 6. Do citizens appear to play any role in the budget process? 7. What budget format is used? 8. Does the executive ...

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MBA 502 Final Project Part II Guidelines and Rubric Overview For this second part of the final project, you will produce a macroeconomic analysis paper related to the publicly traded company and its product or service that you chose for your microeconomic analysis. First, you will select three macroeconomic variables for the United States that directly impact the supply and demand of the company’s product or service you previously selected. Second, you will analyze the extent to which macroeconomic conditions in the United States have affected the financial performance of your chosen company over the last three years using macroeconomic and company performance data. Finally, you will evaluate how current monetary and/or fiscal policies in the United States are likely to impact your chosen company’s financial performance in the near future. This project addresses the following course outcomes:  Assess how macroeconomic variables and policies impact the supply and demand of a company’s products or services based on trends in economic data  Evaluate the effects of macroeconomic variables and policies on the financial performance of companies in the United States The project includes one milestone, which will be submitted in Module Eight to scaffold learning and ensure quality final submissions. The final macroeconomic analysis paper will be submitted in Module Ten. Part II Prompt Your macroeconomic analysis paper should respond to the following prompt: Analyze the extent to which the macroeconomic environment in the United States impacts the supply and demand of your chosen company’s product or service and assess the effects of macroeconomic conditions on your company’s financial performance. Specifically, the following critical elements must be addressed: I. Overview: Provide an overview consisting of a brief description of the chosen company, your chosen product or service, and annual sales. II. Macroeconomic Variables For this section, you will utilize macroeconomic variables such as GDP growth, inflation, unemployment, and so on to relate trends in data to the supply and demand of your product or service. Include all calculations in an Excel file. a) Select three macroeconomic variables in the United States that impact the supply and demand of your chosen product or service. Justify your selections. b) Interpret the trends of the three selected macroeconomic variables for the past three years. Be sure to include gathered data. Based on the trends of the three macroeconomic variables, assess how they will impact the supply and demand of your chosen product or service. III. Macroeconomic Policies a) Describe the current monetary and fiscal policies in the United States. Consider including how these policies affect your company and its products and services. b) Predict how possible changes in monetary and/or fiscal policy may impact the supply and demand of your product or service. .

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· Assignment 2: You Are an Investment Analyst Due Week 10 and worth 320 points As the CFO of your corporation, you are in charge of preparing and analyzing financial statements that will be presented to potential investors and creditors. However, before you can present the financial statements to investors and creditors, you need to prepare the financial statements with supporting analysis. Select one (1) pair of the following companies to conduct your financial statement analysis. · Pepsi versus Coca Cola, or · Amazon versus eBay Write an eight to ten (8-10) page paper in which you: 1. Analyze each company’s history, product / services, major customers, major suppliers, and leadership, and provide a synopsis of each company. 1. Identify three (3) profitability ratios that creditors may be interested in. Calculate the ratio for each company, and prepare a report to summarize your findings on the financial health of each company. Also, recommend to management the manner in which they can improve each of the three (3) ratios identified. 1. Summarize at least two (2) news events (this may include mergers, acquisitions, or political issues) that occurred from 2012 to the present day, and analyze the impact that these events had on each company’s financial statements. Indicate the primary way in which the merger, acquisition or political issues influence potential investors’ and creditors’ perception of both companies. 1. Analyze each company’s income statement over the past two (2) years, and determine which company outperformed the other. Suggest a way in which the lagging company can improve its income. Support your suggestion with a specific analysis. 1. Analyze each company’s balance sheet. Prepare a vertical analysis for each company, interpret the results, and write a financial report. Also, suggest the manner in which the company that is not performing well can improve its balance sheet in order for it to be attractive to potential investors. 1. Use at least four (4) quality academic resources in this assignment. Note: Wikipedia and other Websites do not qualify as academic resources. Your assignment must follow these formatting requirements: . Be typed, double spaced, using Times New Roman font (size 12), with one-inch margins on all sides; citations and references must follow APA or school-specific format. Check with your professor for any additional instructions. . Include a cover page containing the title of the assignment, the student’s name, the professor’s name, the course title, and the date. The cover page and the reference page are not included in the required assignment page length. The specific course learning outcomes associated with this assignment are: . Prepare and analyze financial statements including the balance sheet, income statement, and statement of cash flow according to GAAP and IFRS. . Calculate financial ratios, interpret results, and draw conclusions. . Use technology and information resources to resear.

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Health Care Research Project By: Dr. Joseph Foy, CPA Dr. Frimette Kass, CPA Overview This project is designed to have many learning outcomes. Some of the learning outcomes include: · team building skills · leadership skills · accounting and auditing research · identifying and correcting weak/non-existent controls · perform financial statement analysis · imp[rove/develop report writing skills To accomplish this project you will be divided into teams of four or five. Each team will choose a publicly traded hospital corporation. You will then perform certain audit techniques on the team’s chosen corporation and write short papers about what you have discovered. Step by Step Description of the Project This project is broken into various steps. Each step will have its own due date. By dividing the project into steps it will be easier for you to accomplish the project over the course of a semester. Step One: Selection of Teams and corporations On, or about, February 4 (the last day to add a course) you will be randomly assigned to teams of three to five. You will be able to determine your team by searching in BB under the ‘Groups’ tab. Each team will then do research to find a publicly traded hospital corporation. The benefit of using publicly traded corporations is that their financial statements are publicly available online. Each team must choose a different corporation. Do some internet research. When you find a company post it on the discussion board area that is set up in BB for this purpose. The corporations will be assigned on a first come, first serve basis. For each Deliverable (assignment to be submitted via Blackboard), teams will choose a different leader from among the group. The job of the team leader is to breakdown the work for that deliverable, assign the work to team members, organize peer review of the assignment, and upload the assignment in a timely fashion. Step Two/Deliverable One: Finding and Analyzing F/SDeliverable One: Create Excel Spreadsheet, Financial Analysis In this first deliverable, you are going to work with excel spreadsheets to become familiar with the financial information published by your corporation.Deliverable One Objectives: 1. Demonstrate an understanding how to use various features of excel. 2. Understand financial analytical tools to help make business decisions. 3. Demonstrate an understanding of various types of accounts public companies utilize. 4. Demonstrate how to organize data.Deliverable One Requirements: 1. Collaborate with other students in groups. 2. Excel spreadsheet data set up. 3. Horizontal and vertical analysis. 4. Financial ratio analysis. 5. Chart results. 6. Upload the document via Blackboard. Requirement #1: Collaborate with Group Students will continue to collaborate within their assigned groups to complete this deliverable, but the work product will be graded individually. You are to elect a new group leader to centralize group communications ...

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The paper should focus on the selection of one of the topics below to integrate readings and class discussions into work and life experiences. It should include explanation and examples from previous experiences as well as implications for future applications. Choose one of the following topics for your paper: 1. Your role is as a public official elected at the local city level (50,000 to 250,000 population). Prepare an 8 page paper, plus references, on the following topic: You have a $10 million dollar budget allocated to you by the city manager and can get up to 100 % matching federal funds if you meet the federal standards. You have been asked by the mayor to determine how to allocate the budget to best support the needs of the city. These could include, but are not limited to supporting capital requirements, operational requirements, and subsidizing non-profit organizations or economic incentives to bring new private concerns into the city. Prepare a report for the mayor and city council on your proposed expenditure plan reflecting on the key course objectives. In this report, you should accomplish the following tasks: Examine the differences between the public and private sector accounting principles. Integrate fund accounting and financial controls. Assess the approaches of control and management of public expenditures with a recommendation of the best approach. Explain government financial reporting requirements Analyze financial statements and budgets to make appropriate administrative decisions, and apply the budgets as a disciplinary process. 2. Your role is as a consultant with ten years experience in the public financial management industry. Prepare an 8 page paper, plus references, on the following topic: You are in the role of a consultant in the public financial management industry. A group of 20 civic leaders are considering forming a new task force and have asked you to prepare a report on whether they should build a facility in an area within 30 miles of the downtown center of your 500,000 population city. The project has a budget of $100 million for you to base your report on. Prepare a report for the mayor and city council on your proposed expenditure plan reflecting on the key course objectives. In this report, you should accomplish the following tasks: Examine the differences between the public and private sector accounting principles. Integrate fund accounting and financial controls. Assess the approaches of control and management of public expenditures with a recommendation of the best approach. Explain government financial reporting requirements Analyze financial statements and budgets to make appropriate administrative decisions, and apply the budgets as a disciplinary process. 3. Your role is as the chief operating officer of a large non-profit hospital. Prepare an 8 to 10 page paper, plus references, on the following topic: You are in the role of a chief operating officer. The board of directors has requested .

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Research and compare international and U.S. accounting standards. This will enable you to see how the different reporting methods affect business and how product costs are affected by international business. The learning objectives of this report are as follows: Compare and contrast basic U.S. and international financial accounting standards. Explain how key international factors affect business reporting. Identify key compliance and regulatory requirements. Using the attachment to help format the paper. prepare a four pages written report with at least three scholarly sources covering the items listed below. Introduction Part 1 : Select financial statements for two related (e.g., computer manufactures, pharmaceutical companies, cell phone companies, etc.) businesses; one that uses U.S. accounting reporting and the other that uses international accounting reporting. Identify the following items: Provide the name, location, and accounting standards used for each business. Compare and contrast three major differences you see in the way the financial data is presented on the financial statements. Identify which set of financial statements you think is the easiest to understand and provides you with most accurate cost data as a manager. (Do not forget to look at the notes to the financial statements also.) Part 2 : Analyze and discuss three international factors you think would affect the cost of the products made at the companies you selected and why. Part 3 : Discuss any compliance and/or regulatory issues you think would be involved in the companies you have selected as they relate to the cost of the products made. For example, are there strict regulations on product pricing, tariffs imposed on raw materials needed to make the products, or strict regulations on the wages paid to workers? Conclusion and Recommendations Be sure to use APA formatting .

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During Week Two the focus is on strategic leadership and managing the strategy process. Use the concepts from Chapter 2 to respond to the discussion question below. 1) Post your initial respond to the discussion question by January 27, 2021. Discussion question: Read the Facebook scenario (ChapterCase 2) at the end of Chapter 2. Discuss whether the CEO and COO of Facebook are effective strategic leaders. Why or why not? What implications might this have on stakeholders? Your response to the discussion question should be at least 250 words in length and contain at least one citation (not Wikipedia or dictionaries) from the course textbook, supplemental reading or video sources, or peer reviewed sources using the ADP library or Google (ADP Library, Google Scholar). Citations of 40 or more words are not acceptable as they represent a significant amount of an author's thoughts and/or perspectives rather than your own originality. .

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During Week 2, much focus is placed on various strategic thinking models and the impact upon the overall organizational strategic process. Now that you have a broad knowledge of your chosen organization, it is time to dig a bit deeper into the structure and the process by which decisions are made within the company. Define the specific organizational design and the governance structure of the chosen company. Support your choices with specific examples and research. During Week 1, you researched and identified a specific problem or challenge the organization is experiencing. Describe the challenge and explain why it is a problem for the organization. Include how the problem is or has the potential to affect the strategies of the company. Be specific and support your findings. Section 2 of the paper must have at a minimum two full pages of content (excluding the cover and reference pages). You must include at a minimum two scholarly resources (in addition to the text) that support specific strategies used to prepare the paper. Wikipedia is not a qualified resource. \ document for additional guidance. Include the text as a scholarly resource to support theory and concepts related to strategy. During the construction of Section 2, be specific and refrain from assumption. .

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During this time when the Internet provides essential communication between literally billions of people and is used as a tool for commerce, social interaction, and the exchange of an increasing amount of personal information, security has become a tremendously important issue for every user to deal with. There are many aspects to security and many applications, ranging from secure commerce and payments to private communications and protecting health care information. One essential aspect for secure communications is that of cryptography. But it is important to note that while cryptography is necessary for secure communications, it is not by itself sufficient. please describe the hashing security mechanism and its relationship to the encryption mechanism. Kindly write 350 words and add references at the end. .

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During this second week, you explored the knowledge base and history of social work. We have examined specific social work professions as well as the great strides social workers have made in the U.S. with helping individuals, thus making a difference nationally. For your assignment this week, identify three influential figures in social work – one person of color, one female, and one of your choice. Briefly, describe their accomplishments and their contributions to the social work knowledge base. Next, select one of the three and discuss how this individual might approach the social issue/problem you identified in Week 1. If possible or appropriate, include an example that illustrates how this individual might address the problem. Support your assignment with at least three scholarly resources. In addition to these specified resources, other appropriate scholarly resources, including seminal articles, may be included. Length: 2-3 pages, not including title and reference pages .

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During the previous 30 years, the airline industry has experienced many mergers and bankruptcies. For this discussion, provide at least one specific example of an operational change that occurred as the result on an airline merger or acquisition. Possible sources include Securities and Exchange Commission (Links to an external site.) filings, airline websites, biographies, NTSB reports, etc. APA format applies to references and citations (Approximately 250 words) .

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During the semester you should record environmental events: weather events (heavy rain, drought, winds, freezes), earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, floods and coastal inundation, tsunami events (seismic waves), biodiversity issues and species extinctions, landslides, record icebergs, Antarctic ice-shelf disintegration, stratospheric ozone updates, air pollution occurrences, or other significant events related to the physical elements of the environment. Your event log must include at least twelve events. Your log must include the date the event happened, the source from which you found the information, the type of event it is, and a brief paragraph about the event. Your list of events must be typed and put in chronological order. You can use print media (newspapers, magazines, newsletters) or the internet as a source of information for learning about the latest occurrences. If you choose to use internet sources they must be legitimate news sources, not somebody’s blog. The purpose of this exercise to show you how much of physical geography is actually occurring out there in the “real world”. Only record events that occurred this year – do not record events that happened in prior years. Example Date: September 24th Source: Los Angeles Times Event: Air Pollution San Pedro is one of the busiest ports in the United States. Environmental justice activists are gaining influence, taking on the San Pedro Bay ports over contamination of the neighborhoods along transportation corridors. Soot and nitrogen oxides from ships, trains, and trucks are linked to asthma, cancer, and heart disease. Last year, 5,339 ships docked at the two ports. The new rules are forcing ships to switch to low-sulfur fuel within 24 miles of the coast and to plug into electrical outlets while they are docked. The ports pledge to cut pollution by 45% by 2012. .

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During the period 1350 to 1607, numerous changes in thought were occurring across Europe. Your context should describe the philosophies that were most popular in Europe prior to 1350. ● Your thesis statement should provide a list of three new ways of thinking that developed between 1350 to 1607. ● The skill you are using is still causation , so you will be explaining how the new way of thinking caused a change in Europe (or in places where Europeans were living and interacting). ● The end result of your essay will still be a five-paragraph essay. ● The final paragraph will still describe the effect that these new ways of thinking had on Europe. .

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During the mid 18th Century, English colonists appealed to the metropole for redress of various grievances. In this essay, I want you to consider the ethics and civics of those seeking change (later known to us as the Patriots). Who were these Patriots? What methods did they use to further their goals through civic engagement? What ethical considerations did they take into account in seeking redress of their grievances? Did the new United States (under either the Articles or Constitution) address their grievances? .

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During the 1930s, much of the world seemed to give up on their hope for a democratic solution to their problems and instead turned to totalitarianism, both in Europe and in select and address one of the following: Address one of the following USSR/Stalin Japan/Tojo Address the following questions for your selection: What effects did the history, politics, and economies of those areas play in their decisions to turn to totalitarianism? What role did the Great Depression in the United States play in their plight? include in-text citation and apa format .

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