Dear Prof,

 

Please read very carefully the instructions, and proceed if you are able to deliver a free plagiarism high quality answers.

 

Assignment 1 ( see attachament )

 

Assigment 2

 

Write a 350- to 700-word paper (not including title and reference page) about a possible issue relating to  Ethics & Credibility in Business communications  according to the following criteria:

 

• Explain the situation of the event.
• Describe the company’s ethical obligation in their communications to the public.
• Answer the following questions:
  • Did you find any evidence of communications to the general public?
  • How effective was the communication in terms of establishing credibility?
  • If not, what approach would you suggest the company take to communicate to the public to gain credibility?
• Cite and reference at least two sources.

Format your paper consistent with APA guidelines.

 

 

Complete this essay in a Microsoft Word document, Answer each of the 2 essay questions below with a response that is at least 500 words in length. The total submission for this week should be 1000 words in length.APA formatted and 5% similarity.Make sure you use adequate, credible and reliable APA source 2 citations to support your work.

 

1. Contrast the liquidity premium theory to the market segmentation theory of the term structure of interest rates.

2. Former Congressman Jack Kemp reportedly once said that he wanted to become the most powerful man in Washington, D.C. the chairman of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System. What does Representative Kemp’s comment imply about the power of the chairman of the Federal Reserve? Do you think he may have been exaggerating? Explain.

2 part assignment

 

Budgets and Employee Morale ( journal assignment 1 page)

 

Budgets play a critical role in management activities such as planning, controlling and motivating employees. Used effectively, budgets can help a company achieve its goals and create a productive work environment.  In contrast, budgets can also create a hostile work environment.  Watch this video about budgets and employee morale and then reflect upon your own work experiences.  Explain how budgeting was incorporated to achieve the company’s overall goals and objectives.  Reflect on whether or not the budgets were effectively applied and whether your experience was positive or negative.

 

 

 

Chester & Wayne (Essay Question)

 

Complete: Case 6B (Chester & Wayne).

In this case, you have been provided financial information about the company in order to create a cash budget.  Management is seeking advice or clarification on three main assumptions the company has been operating.  Address Questions 1 and 2 at the end of the case.  Based on the case questions, you are required to provide a two to four double-spaced written report providing the necessary advice and explanations to management.  The written report should be properly formatted according to APA guidelines and demonstrate research and critical thinking skills.  Conclusions and recommendations should be supported by at least 2 scholarly sources from the Ashford Library or other external sources, excluding the textbook.

Address Question 1 by using a spreadsheet to prepare the case budget for the fourth quarter.  The cash budget should be included as an appendix to the written report and should be referenced in the written report.

Address Question 2 in a fully developed explanation of two to four double spaced pages to present the findings and explain or validate the assumptions stated in item (a) through (c).  In addressing Question 2, be sure to use the cash budget prepared in Question 1 as support for your explanation.  The written analysis should be supported by at least two scholarly sources, excluding the textbook.

Week 4 Written Assignment should:

• Demonstrate graduate level work including appropriate research and critical thinking skills.
• Be presented as a written analysis (not a question/answer format).
• Incorporate case questions into the overall analysis.
• Follow APA formatting guidelines including title page, reference page and in-text citations.

Consists of two to four double-spaced pages of content.

Answers the following questions using memorandum format

What type of structure is used?

*Identify the departments (using an organization chart).

On the political side, what is the head of council called?

*Is this post elected at large? How are the council members elected?   How many councilors are there?

Identify one current political issue that is on the political agenda.

*Identify a few key stakeholders that have a position in that issue. 

*Identify and discuss the 21st century factors impacting the leaders in your local government structure.

 

Heading

o The heading of memorandums is designed to allow a reader to understand what he or she is looking at, and decide quickly whether he or she should read it. The heading has four or five parts, appearing in this order.

The “subject line” should be brief, but clear.  

To:

From: 

Subject: 

Date: 

cc: 

Purpose

o  A very direct opening like “The purpose of this memo is to …” is perfectly acceptable.  

Summary

o The summary is a brief recounting of the entire memo, including discussion/background, conclusions, and recommendation. Its placement as the second section allows a reader who does not need to know the details to stop reading.  

Background/Discussion

o The discussion/background describes the method by which the conclusion was reached. This section provides details of the subject and the justification for the conclusion.  It is directed to those who need to know details.  Conclusion

o This makes some sort of conclusion from the issues and problems described in the “Background/Discussion” section. It also describes where you intend to go from here 

 

Reference Page  and citation in APA Format

minimum of three (3) pages and maximum of five (5) pages

 

 

To prepare:

 

•Review Chapter 26 and Chapter 27 of the Arcangelo and Peterson text.

 

•Select and research one of the following respiratory disorders: the common cold, pneumonia, or a chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) such as emphysema or chronic bronchitis. Consider types of drugs that would be prescribed to patients to treat symptoms associated with this disorder.

 

•Select one of the following factors: genetics, gender, ethnicity, age, or behavior. Reflect on how this factor might impact effects of prescribed drugs, as well as any measures you might take to help reduce negative side effects.

 

 

 

Post  1  TO 2 PAGE PAPER ON :A description of the respiratory disorder you selected including types of drugs that would be prescribed to patients to treat associated symptoms. Then, explain how the factor you selected might impact effects of prescribed drugs, as well as any measures you might take to help reduce negative side effects.

 

 

 

REFERENCES

 

•Arcangelo, V. P., & Peterson, A. M. (Eds.). (2013). Pharmacotherapeutics for advanced practice: A practical approach (3rd ed.). Ambler, PA: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins.

 

◦Chapter 26, “Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease” (pp. 366–374)

 

◦Chapter 27, “Bronchitis and Pneumonia” (pp. 375–390)

 

•Drugs.com. (2012). Retrieved from http://www.drugs.com/

 

 

 

 

 

•National Heart Lung and Blood Institute. (2007). Expert panel report 3 (EPR3): Guidelines for the diagnosis and management of asthma. Retrieved from http://www.nhlbi.nih.gov/guidelines/asthma/asthgdln.htm

Overview

Governmental and nongovernmental acquisition projects each have their own set of challenges, including extra regulatory activities. The basic project management scheduling and cost principles still apply. Cost and earned value analysis play an important role, just as they would in any project, to keep an acquisition project on track. In this course, you are asked to develop a Acquisition Project Scheduling and Cost Management Plan that allows you to select and integrate scheduling, performance, and cost-related tools to enhance the overall scheduling and cost control of an acquisition project. You will select a project that you may have developed in a previous class or a known project in an organization that is an acquisition-type project to create this plan for.

Throughout this course, you will be working on developing several components of the final Key Assignment. Additional information and the deliverables for each Individual Project will be provided in the assignment description for this project.

In this first Individual Project, you are asked to develop the outline of the sections that will be included in the Acquisition Project Scheduling and Cost Management Plan document and a draft of a proposal to submit to your instructor. The other information you will include is a high-level description of the project that you will be developing for a small-acquisition project.

You will also be setting up the final Key Assignment outline that you will add to each week. The combined Individual Project (IP) assignments will be your final Key Assignment deliverable.

Project Selection

The first step will be to select a project for which you want to develop a Acquisition Project Scheduling and Cost Management plan. This project will be used as the basis for each of the assignments throughout the course and should conform to the following guidelines:

• Nontrivial: The selected project candidate should reflect a real-life project.
• Domain knowledge: You will be applying knowledge of this acquisition project to address assignments related to scheduling and cost.

Select a project that fits these requirements, and submit your proposal to your instructor before proceeding further with the assignments in the course. Approval should be sought within the first few days of the course. Your instructor will tell you how to submit this proposal and what notification will be given for project approval.

Assignment

Your first task in this process will be to select a project to use as the basis of your Key Assignment. You will also create the shell document for the final project Key Assignment document deliverable that you will be working on throughout the course. As you proceed through each project phase, you will add content to each section of the final document to progressively complete the final project delivery, which is the Acquisition Project Scheduling and Cost Management Plan.

The project deliverables are the following:

• Submit your project proposal to your instructor for approval.
• Acquisition Project Scheduling and Cost Management Plan document shell
  • Use Word
  • Title page
    • Course number and name
    • Project name
    • Your name
    • Date
  • Table of Contents (TOC)
    • Use an autogenerated TOC.
    • This should be on a separate page.
    • This should be a maximum of 3 levels deep.
    • Be sure to update the fields of the TOC so that it is up-to-date before submitting your project.
  • Section headings (create each heading on a new page with “TBD” as the content, except for sections listed under “New Content” below)
    • Project Outline
    • Cost, Schedule, and Technical Performance Management
    • Management of Small Projects
    • Acquisition Project Guidelines
    • Costing Methods and Tools
    • Earned Value Management System
    • Overall Cost and Schedule Performance
• New content to be inserted in document shell
  • Project Outline
    • Give a brief description of the project.
    • Discuss the overall project deliverable.
    • The material can be taken from approved proposal submitted to instructor, and this will serve as the draft for the proposal.
    • Be sure this project is approved by the instructor.
  • Cost, Schedule, and Technical Performance
    • Discuss cost techniques both in determining initial estimates and in monitoring and controlling them throughout the life of the project.
    • Determine the project schedule for the acquisition component of the overall project and include a copy of it.
    • Develop the program evaluation and review technique (PERT) and critical path method (CPM) for this Key Assignment acquisition project, and include copies of those charts in this section.
    • Describe all of the key schedule influencers that can impact a schedule positively or negatively and how you would handle them.
• Name the document “LastName_FirstName_MPM434_IP1.doc.”

Phase 2

 

Assignment

In the Discussion Board, you already analyzed how you would manage a smaller project compared to a larger project. You will now synthesize what you have learned during the discussions on this topic. For this assignment, you are determining all of the processes, activities, and tasks you will need to incorporate in your acquisition project, which will be small in nature compared to a larger-sized project. You will also describe the overall processes such as project communication processes, integrated change control processes, and project monitoring and controlling processes.

Deliverables

The following are the overall project deliverables:

• Update the Key Assignment document title page with a new date and project name.
• Update the previously completed sections based on the instructor’s feedback.
• Create the following new section:
  • Management of Small Projects
    • Develop your small acquisition project schedule using MS Project (tasks, predecessors, duration, and resources assigned).
    • Copy a screen print of the schedule and Gantt chart into this shell.
    • Copy a screen print of the critical path network diagram, or of the Gantt screen of the Tracking Gantt view showing the critical path into this shell.
    • Describe the specific processes that you will use within each of the 5 Project Management Institute (PMI®) process groups: initiating, planning, executing, monitoring, and controlling and closing.
• Name the document “LastName_FirstName_MPM434_IP2.doc.”

Phase 3

 

Assignment

In the Discussion Board, you looked at the tasks that should be included in the project plan, so you will go back and update your project plan to include these tasks. You will also develop your request for proposal (RFP) based on Discussion Board. Prepare a table of the evaluation criteria that you will use to select your top vendor. Finally, you will present a status update process diagram and describe the process for the vendor to communicate status.

Deliverables

The following are the overall project deliverables:

• Update the Key Assignment document title page with a new date and project name.
• Update the previously completed sections based on the instructor’s feedback.
• Create the following new section:
  • Acquisition Project Guidelines
    • Update the project plan and Gantt Chart with acquisition project activities with MS Project, and copy it into this section.
    • Develop a request for proposal (RFP) template for the acquisition project with the elements discussed in the Discussion Board for this week.
    • Develop a table with the vendor evaluation criteria.
    • Diagram and describe the vendor status update process.
• Name the document “LastName_FirstName_MPM434_IP3.doc.”
• Submit the document for grading.

Phase 4

Assignment

You are now ready to apply costing methods, tools, and techniques to your project. There are many of these available to assist you in determining your overall budget, as well as to estimate the durations for individual tasks. These methods could include the following:

• Expert judgment
• Analogous estimating
• Parametric estimating
• Bottom-up estimating
• Three-point estimating
• Reserve analysis
• Cost of quality
• Project management estimating software
• Vendor bid analysis

You will be responsible for using your plan that you developed in Weeks 2 and 3 to estimate your budget for your key assignment project. You should apply 2 of the above methods to determine a worst-case scenario budget. Please put your calculations in a spreadsheet similar to the following:

Deliverables

The following are the overall project deliverables:

• Update the Key Assignment document title page with a new date and project name.
• Update the previously completed sections based on the instructor’s feedback.
• Create the following new section:
  • Costing Methods and Tools
    • Select 2 of the costing methods, and discuss why they will support developing a realistic budget.
    • Provide an example of computations for a few of the activities for the 2 selected methods.
    • Fill in a table similar to the example table so that your 2 different total project budgets are based on the 2 selected methods.
    • Discuss what type of contingency budget you will put in place based on the 2 budgets to mitigate an underestimation.
• Name the document “LastName_FirstName_MPM434_IP4.doc” (Note that this is the same document that will be submitted as the Key Assignment draft).
• Submit the document for grading.

Phase 5

 

Assignment

In the previous weeks, you developed a plan for project managing acquisition projects. In Week 1, you discussed which tools would be most appropriate for managing cost, schedule, and technical performance. In Week 2, you evaluated the difference in managing a project if it is small in nature. In Week 3, you focused specifically on guidelines for acquisition projects. In Week 4, you incorporated cost methods and tools to assist you in project tracking and monitoring.

This week, you will be incorporating earned value management and how overall cost and schedule performance will be monitored and controlled.

Deliverables

The following are the overall project deliverables:

• Update the previously completed sections based on the instructor’s feedback.
• Complete the following new sections:
  • Earned Value Management System
    • Discuss how an earned value analysis will be utilized for this project or Key Assignment, including the formulas to compute earned value analysis (EVA).
    • Cover the following 4 scenarios and what you should do:
      • Behind schedule and over budget: Include a sample calculation that would trigger this interpretation, along with a graph.
      • Ahead of schedule and on budget: Include a sample calculation that would trigger this interpretation, along with a sample graph.
      • Behind schedule and on budget: Include a sample calculation that would trigger this interpretation, along with a sample graph.
      • Ahead of schedule and under budget: Include a sample calculation that would trigger this interpretation, along with a sample graph.
    • Discuss for each of the above situations how you compute the final cost and end date if nothing changes with its present state.
  • Overall Cost and Schedule Performance
    • Discuss how you will monitor progress.
    • Discuss what metrics, reports, and graphs you will use to monitor progress.
    • Discuss how they would determine the cause of the variation.
    • Discuss how you will respond to deviations; (specifically around schedule compression and a contingency budget).
• Update the Key Assignment title page with a new date and project name.
• Be sure to update your table of contents before submission.
• Name the document “LastName_FirstName_MPM434_IP5.doc.”
• Submit the final Key Assignment document for grading.

 

10 pages or more in length

Must have Ms project work

Must be completed in APA style

Must have 5 references

 

Key Assignment 1500-2000 words

Assignment objective:

Analyze the role of the prosecution, defense, judges and juries in the criminal trial process

 

Key Assignment

 

Please review the scenario below from an appellate court case highlighting issues concerning the roles of the various participants (prosecution, defense attorney, judge, or jury) in the criminal court process

 

 

 

Part 1

 

Based on what you have learned in this class, respond to the following questions:

 

• Did the prosecutor and defense attorney comply with their duties and responsibilities, as well as ethics, in this case? Why or why not?
• Are there issues that Tommy could raise on appeal? What is the likelihood of success?
• Did the judge breach any of his responsibilities? What should he have done or not done in handling this case?

   

  Part 2

  Resource Requirements

 

• Cite a minimum of 2 examples that you have found in your research that identify concerns with juvenile prosecutions as adults.
• Cite a minimum of 4 library resources and journals to support your conclusions in this case.
• Discuss why you chose these resources to study this case and why you believe they adequately display the function of the court.
• For each resource listed, indicate the stage of the criminal court process that is illustrated as well as the criminal court process participants and their roles as outlined in these resources.

 

 

 

Scenario:

 

On November 21, 2011, police received a 911 call from a distraught female who was crying and whispering frantically, “Oh my God, they did it, they did it, you have to come or we’re all going to die, please . . . help!” The line went dead, but as abruptly as that call ended, several more 911 calls came in. One said that there had been a shooting, one caller was unintelligible, and one said to come to the high school. Simultaneously, a fire alarm came in from the local high school.

 

All available officers were dispatched to the high school, where they saw flames coming from the gym area and from a second-floor classroom window. As they ran toward the building, they heard several shots fired in quick succession. One officer radioed for the tactical squad to be dispatched to the high school.

 

Upon arrival, law enforcement immediately surrounded the perimeter of the school, while several officers entered the building to assess the situation. Officers heard four more shots, and then it went quiet. Tactical squad officers arrived, the building was searched, and officers found 14 students and teachers fatally wounded, including one student holding a shotgun who was later identified as Brian Davidson. An autopsy of that student revealed that he died by poisoning. Eventually, his death was ruled a suicide because an empty juice box found in his pocket contained traces of ricin, the remains of which would have been sufficient to kill a human being.

 

Officers accounted for three of the four 911 cell phone callers but located an abandoned cell phone on the floor of the school’s kitchen. Subsequent investigation revealed that the phone was registered to Gerald Hancock. The phone was fingerprinted, and two separate sets of prints were lifted from the phone. The same two sets of prints were located on the shotgun, which was also registered to Gerald Hancock. All bullets and bullet casings recovered came from the shotgun. Ultimately, forensics determined that the two sets of prints belonged to Tommy Hancock and Brian Davidson.

Further investigation revealed that Gerald Hancock’s son, Thomas, attended the high school, and the abandoned cell phone was regularly used by Tommy Hancock.

 

Video surveillance at the school revealed that Tommy Hancock and the dead student with the rifle entered the high school at essentially the same time and may have arrived together. Another camera captured them talking in a hallway at 9:23 a.m., and it appeared as though something passed between them, although other students passed in front of the camera at the same time, which obscured their interaction. Additional footage from other cameras showed students running in the halls. Officers also saw some footage that showed an object being thrown into a classroom, which erupted in fire, but the image of the person throwing the object was off-camera and could not be identified. There was not any footage showing how the fire started in the gym. The last bit of surveillance tape that was usable showed a student with a rifle and his back to the camera. He tipped something to his face, and in less than ten seconds, he slumped to the floor. Four other security cameras in the school had been defaced with black spray paint, and officers could not see anything on the surveillance tapes. These were the cameras in the areas where they found faculty and students shot.

 

On that date, 33 students had been marked absent. Ultimately, officers were able to account for all but six of the students registered at the school: two female students and four male students. None had a good explanation for their whereabouts, and their parents had not requested that they be excused from school. In fact, the parents had dropped the students off at school that morning and anticipated that they had entered the school building.

 

Officers quickly honed in on Tommy Hancock because his cell phone and his father’s gun were located in the school, video surveillance ostensibly showed him talking to the shooter, and Tommy Hancock’s cell phone showed an incoming call from Brian Davidson’s home number 3 days before the shooting. Tommy Hancock was 15 years old.

 

Police went to the high school 8 days after the shooting and placed him under arrest. Officers did not call his parents until after they had arrived at the police station. Each parent was called separately. Their phone call to his father went immediately to voice mail, and police left a message. They did reach his mother by phone and told her they were interviewing her son about the school shooting, but they did not tell her that she could be present during his interview. Tommy was interviewed for a total of 6 hours by three different detectives. The interview was videotaped. Tommy’s parents arrived at the police department 2 hours into his interview. They asked to see their son, and a detective said “just a minute,” but did not come back out to get them. At one point, Gerald Hancock asked a passing officer if he should get a lawyer for his son, but the officer responded by stating he did not know anything about his son’s case. Mr. Hancock called a couple of attorneys’ offices, but because it was after hours, he did not reach anyone. He left a voice mail for one attorney to call him back.

 

When officers were finished questioning Tommy Hancock, they came out of the interview room and told his parents that their son had been arrested for murder. An hour later, Mr. Hancock received a phone call from the one of the attorneys that he previously called. The attorney asked the parents if they were in the interview and if Tommy had agreed to talk with officers. The Hancocks had very little information to provide to the attorney, because they had not been present during the interview.

 

Tommy Hancock was charged with 14 counts of first-degree murder in juvenile court and was represented by attorney Nathan Johnson, who had never represented a juvenile nor served as a criminal defense attorney. The prosecutor announced that the state would file a motion to waive Tommy to adult court, to which his attorney said he would not object. Based on this representation, the juvenile court set a waiver hearing for 3 weeks in the future. During the interim, Mr. Johnson requested evidence from the prosecutor, including any written statements by Tommy Hancock, notes made by the police, and a copy of the videotaped interview. Halfway through the interview, the sound malfunctioned, and 4 hours of the interview were silent. Mr. Johnson did not conduct any additional discovery or talk with any witnesses. He read the entirety of the prosecutor’s case file and determined that there was no way that his client would win at trial.

 

Tommy Hancock lived in a state where juveniles charged with crimes may have a jury trial, but a specific jury trial demand must be filed. In the absence of the demand being requested through counsel, a jury trial is deemed waived. Mr. Johnson did not file a demand for a jury trial, and the court found on the record that a jury trial was waived. Based on the media attention attached to the case and the evidence against his client, Mr. Johnson counseled Tommy Hancock to enter a guilty plea to all charges. Mr. Johnson told Tommy and his family that he believed the court would be more sympathetic to Tommy if the case came to a swift conclusion.

 

Tommy told his attorney that he was not guilty and that the police told him that all of the evidence pointed to his guilt. Tommy said that he told the police he wanted to talk to his parents, but police told him that his parents were not there. They also told him that if he just told the truth, he would be able to go home, and they could close their file. He said the police told him that they had his cell phone and that the surveillance tapes showed him talking with Brian Davidson and the two of them at school together. Police also told him that they had interviewed several students who told them that Tommy Hancock and Brian Davidson were together and that it was Tommy Hancock who started the fires. Tommy’s attorney said that the evidence was pretty overwhelming and that he should plead guilty. The attorney said that he would get a lighter punishment if he pled guilty. If he had a trial, the judge would be likely to “throw the book” at him.[MZ1]

 

The attorney met with Tommy and his parents and told them that Tommy needed to plead guilty because there was “no way” they would win at trial with all of this evidence. The parents asked the attorney what would happen to Tommy if he pled guilty. The attorney told all of them that he could “guarantee” that Tommy would not have to go to jail because he was just a kid and that they should do as he said because he was the attorney.

 

Based on the advice from Tommy’s attorney, Tommy pled guilty in adult court. The judge conducted allocution and asked Tommy if he was pleading guilty of his own free will because he was guilty, whether he had had sufficient time to talk with his attorney, and if Tommy was satisfied with the representation of his attorney. Tommy was very timid in responding to all questions, although he did respond in the affirmative but he looked at his attorney after each question to see what he was supposed to do. When asked if he was satisfied with his attorney’s representation, he responded, “I guess.” The judge did not inquire further or ask questions about Tommy’s timidity. The case was continued for sentencing.

 

Despite Tommy’s lack of criminal record and his statements to the presentence author that he did not commit this crime, the judge sentenced Tommy to 15 years to be served in state prison. Because Tommy was a juvenile, he would be housed separately from other inmates, but because he had been convicted as an adult, he would go to state prison. Tommy’s mother shouted out that the attorney told all of them that Tommy would get house arrest. Tommy immediately began crying. Tommy’s mother was ordered out of the courtroom because of her outburst, and Tommy was led away in handcuffs.