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WORLD HISTORY AND CULTURE

WORLD HISTORY AND CULTURE

This week, we explored the influence of different religious beliefs and religious structures on the development of civilizations in Asia, Africa, the Middle East, and Europe. Consider how these religious differences shaped the cultures around them. How did mythology affect the decisions of the working and ruling classes? What role did ritual (i.e., prayer, sacrifice, public celebrations, or morality) play in developing the markers of civilization such as the economy or the government?

2 PARAGRAPHS

PROJECT 2 – CVP ANALYSIS

CVP Analysis

Accounting 202 30 points
PROJECT 2 – CVP ANALYSIS

Name: Class time 9.3

Enter the last 4 digits of your student ID number:
(These digits will be used to for some variables in the project)
Save this file in EXCEL FORMAT as: P2Lastname Highest =
Round all dollar amounts to whole dollars, except for per unit amounts. Per unit amounts should be Lowest other than 0=
rounded to the nearest cent. Percentages should be rounded as follows: 20.75% or .2075
Do not change rows or colums on this spreadsheet. Input areas are in yellow.
You MUST show your work in the areas indicated to get credit for the problem.

Presented below is Trident Company’s Income Statement prepared on the traditional (functional) basis:

Requirement 1: Replace the two unknown amounts (?) in A. and B. as directed. To find the unknown for B, you will have to
complete Requirement 2. Then, complete the totals on the income statement.

Trident Company
Income Statement
For the Year Ended December 31, 2015
Sales $350,000
Cost of Goods Sold
Direct Materials (variable) $60,000
Direct Labor (variable) 52,500
Manufacturing Overhead (mixed) 64,000
176,500
Gross Margin 173,500
Operating Expenses

Commissions (variable) 21,000
Shipping (variable) ? A. Multiply the HIGHEST digit entered above
above by 1,000 and enter here enter the result
Advertising (fixed) 90,000
Billing (mixed) ? B. Complete Requirement 2 below and insert result
Sales and Administrative Salaries (fixed) 60,000
Total Operating Expenses

Net Operating Income (Loss)
Selling price per unit is $14 and variable manufacturing overhead is $1 per unit. All variable expenses in the company vary in terms of units sold. There was no change in beginning or ending inventories. Trident’s plant capacity is 40,000 units per year.

Requirement 2: Year Sales in Units Billing Costs
Billing costs for the past 5 years, along with total units sold follows: 2014 23,850 $ 3,375
2013 22,000 $ 3,156
2012 21,000 $ 3,033
2011 22,750 $ 3,290
2010 23,000 $ 3,309
Use the high-low method to calculate the following:
Show your work in this area: ANSWER:
a. Variable billing cost per unit $ 8.33
$8.33

b. Total fixed billing costs -4263.75
$ (4,264)

c. Total cost equation for billing costs =(4263.75)+8.33x

d. Determine the total number of units currently being sold. Then determine total billing costs for that level of sales.
23,850 194406.75
$ 194,407
Insert your answer for 2)d. in the income statement above in the blank provided for Billing (Unknown B)

The company has been operating at a loss for several years. Management is trying to determine what it can do to make next year profitable.

Requirement 3:
Redo Trident’s 2015 income statement in contribution format, showing both a total column and a per unit column in the space provided below.
You MUST use formulas and cell refereces in the income statements in Requirements 3 and 5 to earn full credit.
Hint: You will need to calculate the variable and fixed components of Manufacturing Overhead (MOH) and billing.

Total Units Amount
Per Unit

Sales
Variable Costs
Direct materials Hint: Divide total cost column by total units to get VC per unit.
Direct Labor
Variable MOH
Sales commissions
Shipping
Variable billing
Total Variable Costs
Contribution Margin
Fixed Costs
Fixed MOH
Advertising
Sales and admn. salaries
Fixed billing
Total Fixed Costs
Net Operating Income Hint: Operating Income must equal the original income from above.

Requirment 4:
Calculate Trident’s current breakeven point in both units and dollars.
Show work in this area:
Units: ANSWER

Units

Dollars:

Dollars

Requirement 5:

Multiply the lowest digit (other than zero) from the last four digits of your student ID number by 10,000 and
enter for C. below to get the reduction in advertising.

a. The vice president suggests that selling price be lowered by 5% and advertising be reduced by C.
She is confident that this action will increase sales by 10,000 units.

The new selling price price per unit would be:

The new advertising amount would be:

b. Prepare a new contribution margin income statement, using the vice president’s recommendation. Remember, when volume changes,
total variable costs change proportionately. To get total variable costs, multiply the per unit amounts from Requirement 3 by the new
number of units. (Remember, VC per unit remains constant.)

Total Units Amount
Per Unit

Sales New from above
Variable Costs
Direct materials
Direct Labor
Variable MOH
Sales commissions
Shipping
Variable billing
Total Variable Costs
Contribution Margin
Fixed Costs 2
Fixed MOH
Advertising New from above
Sales and admn. salaries
Fixed billing
Total Fixed Costs
Net Operating Income

Requirement 6:
Using the budgeted income statement based on the vice president’s proposal above, calculate the
Show your work in the areas provided. (Hint: You must calcualte a new breakeven point to complete this section.)
a. Margin of safety in units:

b. Margin of safety in dollars of sales:

c. Margin of safety percentage:

Requirement 7:
a. Calculate the degree of operating leverage using the vice-president’s proposed income statement above.
Answer should use two decimal places.
Show your work in this area:

Answer

b. If sales volume increase 10%, operating income will increase by:

Percent Dollars

Client and Human Services setting descriptions

Instructions for the Paper Assignment

Now that you have learned about the various assessment procedures including intelligence, achievement, interests, personality, observational assessments, and career, as well as considered cultural and ethical factors in determining appropriate evaluation instruments, procedure and interpretation of test data; this assignment will provide an opportunity to reflect on all that you have learned in this course and to synthesize and integrate your new learning into your existing knowledge base. Choose a case example from your Assessment in Counseling (Hays, 2013) text and write a paper which addresses the following:

Client and Human Services setting descriptions, including:
The hypothetical case example (please note page in text where case example may be found) client and the Human Services setting where you are working with the individual described in the example (This should include any additional, relevant information that is not already covered in the case example).
The nature of your work with the individual
The rationale for recommending assessment to inform your service programming for the individual (This should include descriptions of the type of services you are looking to recommend, which should make sense for your client and the nature of work with the client).
Cultural and ethical/legal considerations associated with testing in this case.
A comprehensive discussion about the assessment considerations relevant to this case, including:
A clear and concise referral question for the provider of the psychological assessment evaluation.
A listing of both the general categories of assessments and specific instruments you would like to see included in the evaluation and why you believe these are appropriate for this case. Be sure to support your statements and beliefs with evidence from the assessment research literature. Include description of each instrument you would recommend in an appendix; Label your outline as an appendix, according to APA style (6th Edition) guidelines.
A comprehensive discussion about the possible short-term and long-term implications of the assessment results, both positive/helpful and negative/detrimental for the individual referred. Talk about how you would use the assessment data to avoid harm and instead maximize the potential benefits to the client. Be sure to support your statements and beliefs with evidence from the research literature.
Describe how the experiences of this course will contribute to your involvement (current or future) with assessment in the field of Human Services Administration. What do you consider to be the benefits and limitations of assessments?
This paper should be 4 to 6 pages in length exclusive of the title and references pages and appendices, must include a minimum of 5 scholarly references, and should follow APA Style (6th Edition) guidelines in every applicable respect (e.g., cover page, headings, margins, etc.). Note that scholarly literature includes books, journal articles, and electronic database documents. Scholarly literature excludes blogs and wikis (including Wikipedia) and similar simplistic opinion-based sources. If you are unsure as to whether a source is scholarly, please consult your instructor. The paper may be written in the first person.

RUBRIC:

0-23 Points

24-26 Points

27-30 Points

Introduction

The Introduction includes some ideas from the course. Overview of the case example and/or description of why you selected this example are lacking or superficial.

The Introduction includes some ideas from the course and your research. The overview of the case example and your explanation for selecting the case are adequately articulated.

The Introduction includes relevant ideas presented in the course, your own research, and a thoughtful overview of the case example including thoughtful reflection about why you selected this particular case.

Body

Your explanations of assessment considerations are missing or cursory. There is little to no attempt to individualize assessment considerations to the needs of the client/setting presented in the example. References poorly reflect link to the research literature or course readings.

You address some assessment considerations relevant to the case; references reflect some link to the research literature and course readings.

You thoughtfully address all relevant assessment considerations with attention to the individual needs of the client/context of setting in the example including: rationale, instruments, the assessment process, and recommendation; references reflect linkage to the research literature and to course readings and discussions.

Organization

No heading or subheading used to structure paper

Headings and subheadings are used, but inconsistently or do not improve the flow of the paper

Heading and subheadings are used to organize the paper so that it has a clear and logical flow

Conclusion

Your conclusions are sparse with less reflection on the personal meaning of what you learned. Your conclusion offers little depth of thinking in the integration of material from your introduction and the body of the paper and/or do not reflect any integration.

Your conclusions reflect your personal experience and what (content) you learned from the course, as well as adequate integration of material from your Introduction and the body of the paper.

Your conclusion are thoughtful and reflective of your personal learning experience during the course, i.e. what you learned, what surprised you, intrigued you, etc. plus– Your conclusion reflect depth of thinking as you integrate material from your introduction and the body of the paper.

References

APA format with many errors; fewer than 4 scholarly references

APA format with few or no errors; 4 or fewer scholarly references

APA format without error; 5 or more scholarly references in addition to the assigned readings

Appendix

Descriptions of instruments are not included

Descriptions of instruments are either not included, incomplete, or are not linked to the body of the paper

Descriptions of instruments are included, complete (e.g., purpose, age range of norms, administration time and method, and reliability & validity information) and clearly linked to and included in the body of the paper

Syntax, Grammar, and Spelling

Multiple errors

Several errors

Few or no errors

a cyber-security improvement plan

improvement plan outline
This week we will be continuing our journey to develop and communicate a cyber-security improvement plan in our case study assignment for PureLand Waste Water. During Week 2, we’ll be developing and submitting an outline for the improvement plan that will demonstrate understanding of the assignment along with all the required elements of a quality plan.

1. First, read the document titled, “Outline for Cyber-Security Improvement Plan” available in Blackboard in the PureLand Case Study area. This document will explain all the necessary parts included in your plan.

2. Using the detailed instructions attached in the file, “Outline for cyber security improvement plan.doc”, create your own outline that has the following components:

Introduction
Current state description
Overview of network weaknesses
Threats and vulnerabilities facing the ICS
Understanding of applicable regulations
Desired future state
Five areas of cyber-security you want to improve
Conclusion
Submit to Blackboard your outline for the final paper (in Microsoft Word format) which is a cyber-security improvement plan for PureLand Wastewater.

Important: This is an outline only, not a paper. It should only include headings, not paragraphs and content under each heading.

PureLand Wastewater Treatment
Cyber Security Case Study
Company Summary

PureLand Wastewater Treatment Inc. (est. 2001) is a company providing years of experience in all aspects of Wastewater Treatment with special emphasis on the Chemical Manufacturing and Biological Fermentation industries. We are a flexible, responsive organization with a network of resources to handle any size project. Each project is approached by utilizing our strong sterilization and engineering skills while drawing on our background in Operations, Service, Validation, and Quality to provide solutions for all of your Wastewater Treatment needs. We provide personal attention to ensure customer satisfaction in all services and equipment we supply.
Security Concerns

PureLand has special security concerns due to the highly toxic nature of some of the chemicals they use to sterilize and treat wastewater streams for their customers. Although Physical Security has always been on their radar and relatively strong, Cyber Security has not been something that they were particularly concerned about. After all, the chemicals they use to do their work were not proprietary so they had little concern about theft of intellectual property or trade secrets being compromised.
All this changed recently when PureLand executives and operations folks were contacted by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) in regard to a particularly toxic chemical they use to sanitize Wastewater in biologically hazardous processes-Chlorine Dioxide. DHS officials were aware of their use of the chemical because of publicly available waste treatment permits provided to PureLand by the EPA. As it turns out, Chlorine Dioxide is on the DHS Chemical Facility Anti-Terrorism Standards (CFATS) list of chemicals of interest because of the risks associated with chemical release or sabotage using this chemical. PureLand was aware Chlorine Dioxide was a very dangerous chemical, but they had never considered Cyber Terrorism or theft of the chemical for sabotage when completing prior risk assessments. The implications of this were quite serious for PureLand, as they now are required by Federal law to comply with both Physical and Cyber Security regulations related to their use of this chemical of interest. DHS officials made PureLand aware of their obligations and informed them that they would be subject to an audit by DHS within eighteen months that would assess their compliance with CFATS regulations. If compliance was not achieved within 12 months of the initial audit, PureLand would be subject to huge fines and penalties that could include closure of their facility.

PureLand Reaction

The PureLand Executives were quite alarmed by the news and immediately formed an internal team to create a Cyber Security improvement and compliance plan. The team researched the issue and reviewed the information provided by DHS around security standards. The first objective was to use a tool provided by DHS to perform a Cyber Security Self Evaluation on their computing systems. The hope was that by using this free tool, they could get some insight on the most critical Cyber Security gaps that existed and potentially provide a road map on where to focus their security improvement plan. A team of system administrators, security professionals, and management representatives worked on the Cyber Security Self Evaluation over a period of two days.
Cyber Security Self Evaluation Results

The results of the Self Evaluation were very disturbing for the entire team. The evaluation reported varying levels of compliance from 0% to 100%, but it was very clear that they had their work cut out for them. The leadership team met with the IT staff and their IT Security Analyst, and it was decided that they didn’t have the internal staffing or appropriate skillset to implement the needed security improvements within one year. The decision was made to hire an outside consultant to help devise and implement a Cyber Security improvement plan that would achieve these critical objectives:

1. Reduce their risk from Cyber Security incidents to an acceptable level
2. Achieve compliance with CFATS regulations
3. Minimize negative impacts to production and safety

Path Forward

As the outside consultant, it’s your job to lead the effort to create the Cyber Security improvement plan per the objectives laid out in the accompanying document: Developing Cyber Security Improvement Plan for Industrial Control System – Case Study.

You’ll focus your efforts by studying the PureLand Cyber Security Assessment which includes various tables and charts indicating the areas of most concern. PureLand has contracted you to provide two major deliverables for this contract:

1. Industrial Control System Cyber Security Improvement Plan (Detailed requirements included in document – ICS security improvement case description)
2. Presentation to key stakeholders one week prior to formal plan presentation

Outline for Cyber Security Improvement Plan
Objective
This assignment requires the student to write an outline for your final paper which is a cyber-security improvement plan for PureLand WasteWater.
Instructions for assignment
1. Read the PureLand Cyber Security Case Study document to understand the premise of this assignment. In summary, you are a consultant hired by PureLand Wastewater to improve their CyberSecurity due to new CFATS regulations from the US Department of Homeland Security.
2. Read Developing ICS cyber security improvement plan.doc in the PureLand Case Study section within Blackboard and be sure the required elements from section 1 are included.
3. Write an outline that will be used to build your cyber-security improvement plan, and have these required parts in your outline:
a. Include an introduction
b. Document and communicate the current state for security of the PureLand WasteWater Industrial Control System and overall network
c. Provide an overview of the network design including major weaknesses in the design and layout of network components with suggested network layout improvements
d. Identify the threats and vulnerabilities facing the assets of an Industrial Control System including Advanced Persistent Threats and recommend potential security measures that could have prevented those incidents
e. Understand applicable regulations and include provisions for achieving compliance with CFATS regulations within the plan
f. Based on knowledge of recommended security best practices and standards, document and communicate the desired future state for security of the ICS.
g. Document at least 5 security improvements you would recommend for PureLand to implement in their Industrial Control System. (Hint: These 5 improvement areas should be areas that are weak as stated in the document titled, Site Summary Report PureLand WasteWater.docx)
h. Include a conclusion

HU345 DB7

HU345 DB7

Visual Image Analysis (1 of 1)
Choose a photograph from a newspaper or news magazine. Explain and describe the visual image in your own words. Does the visual image make an argument? Would the
visual image persuade a reasonable person or does the image employ fallacious reasoning?

Nursing Informatics

Nursing Informatics
Assignment: Application:

Using the Data/Information/Knowledge/Wisdom Continuum

Have you ever gone online to search for a journal article on a specific topic? It is amazing to see the large number of journals that are available in the health care field. When you view the library in its entirety, you are viewing untapped data. Until you actually research for your particular topic, there is little structure. Once you have narrowed it down, you have information and once you apply the information, you have knowledge. Eventually, after thoughtful research and diligent practice, you reach the level of wisdom—knowledge applied in meaningful ways.

Are there areas in your practice that you believe should be more fully explored? The central aims of nursing informatics are to manage and communicate data, information, knowledge, and wisdom. This continuum represents the overarching structure of nursing informatics. In this Assignment, you develop a research question relevant to your practice area and relate how you would work through the progression from data to information, knowledge, and wisdom.

To prepare:

Review the information in Figure 6–2 in Nursing Informatics and the Foundation of Knowledge.
Develop a clinical question related to your area of practice that you would like to explore.
Consider what you currently know about this topic. What additional information would you need to answer the question?
Using the continuum of data, information, knowledge, and wisdom, determine how you would go about researching your question.
Explore the available databases in the Walden Library. Identify which of these databases you would use to find the information or data you need.
Once you have identified useful databases, how would you go about finding the most relevant articles and information?
Consider how you would extract the relevant information from the articles.
How would you take the information and organize it in a way that was useful? How could you take the step from simply having useful knowledge to gaining wisdom?

Write a 3- to 4-page paper that addresses the following: APA style with refernces

Summarize the question you developed, and then relate how you would work through the four steps of the data, information, knowledge, wisdom continuum. Be specific.
Identify the databases and search words you would use.
Relate how you would take the information gleaned and turn it into useable knowledge.
Can informatics be used to gain wisdom? Describe how you would progress from simply having useful knowledge to the wisdom to make decisions about the information you have found during your database search.

Your paper must also include a title page, an introduction, a summary, and a reference page.

A Civil War Battle in Arkansas

A Civil War Battle in Arkansas.

5 Page Research Paper- A Civil War Battle in Arkansas.
Research a Civil War Battle in Arkansas. Use MLA format.
Pick a battle that you are interested in that happened in Arkansas.
Research it with as many primary sources as possible.
Write a 5-10 page research paper.
Document your sources carefully. No Wikipedia!!
Please include pictures or maps.

The Past and Present Corrections Environments

The Past and Present Corrections

M1 Assignment 2 – The Past and Present Corrections
Module 1: Module 1 – M1 Assignment 2 Discussion Assignment 2: The Past and Present Corrections Environments
The corrections environment of the past is vastly different from that of today. However, many
aspects of the modern corrections environment have been the direct result of the influence of
historical architecture, ideology, and practice. To understand the mission of modern corrections,
it is essential to examine lessons learned from the past.
Submission Details: What are the primary differences between the mission of US prisons during the late
eighteenth or early nineteenth century and the mission of corrections today? What influences prompted the differences between these missions? Consider the
following discussion points:
o The medical model vs. the justice model. Prison as a punishment vs. prison as a rehabilitation tool.
In at least 300 words, post to the Discussion Area your responses to the following

auditing exam

auditing exam

the midterm. The following topics will cover the majority of the questions:
PCAOB – their composition, inspections, their frequency, inspection reports,
Fraud – duty to detect, risks for fraud, types of fraud
CPA liability – negligence, 1933 vs. 1934 acts, defenses
Compilations & reviews – their similarities and differences, procedures, reports
AICPA Code of Professional Conduct – discreditable acts, fees
Independence – GAAS & PCAOB, self-review, covered members, prohibited services
SEC & SOX – certification, internal controls, 102(e)