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Should Tiffany be allowed to conduct this audit given her limited skill level? How might she acquire the necessary skills?

Should Tiffany be allowed to conduct this audit given her limited skill level? How might she acquire the necessary skills?

15-13. Tiffany Martin, CPA (Information Technology Audit Skills) Tiffany Martin is an audit manager in a medium-sized public accounting firm. Tiffany graduated from college seven years ago with a degree in accounting. She obtained her CPA certification soon after she joined the firm where she currently works. Tiffany is a financial auditor; she has had little training in auditing computerized information systems. The current engagement Tiffany is working on includes a complex information processing system with multiple applications. The financial accounting transactions are processed on a server. The IT department employs 25 personnel, including programmers, systems analysts, a database administrator, computer operators, technical support, and a director. Tiffany has not spoken with anyone in the department because she is fearful that her lack of technical knowledge relative to IT will cause some concern with the client. Because Tiffany does not understand the complexities of the computer processing environment, she is unable to determine what risks might result from the computerized system’s operations. She is particularly worried about unauthorized changes to programs and data that would affect the reliability of the financial statements. Tiffany has spoken to Dick Stanton, the partner who has responsibility for this audit client, about her concerns. Dick has suggested that Tiffany conduct more substantive testing than she would undertake in a less complex processing environment. This additional testing will hopefully ensure that there are no errors or fraud associated with the computer processing of the financial statements. Requirements Do you think that Dick Stanton’s suggested approach is the most efficient way to control risks associated with complex computer environments? How should Tiffany respond to Dick’s suggestion? What can a public accounting firm, such as the one in which Tiffany works, do to ensure that audits of computerized accounting information systems are conducted efficiently and effectively? Should Tiffany be allowed to conduct this audit given her limited skill level? How might she acquire the necessary skills?

Compare black mans burden and white mans burden

Compare black mans burden and white mans burden

1- This assignment should also compare and contrast The Black Man’s Burden and The White Man’s Burden. How are the documents similar? How are they different? How can similarities and differences be explained or accounted for?

2- Your assignment will be graded on both content and writing style and must conform to the instructions for writing essays and grading rubric included at the back of the syllabus. Remember that you will be penalized for not properly citing your work and for not following all instructions.

3- This assignment, which is intended to improve critical and analytical thinking and writing skills.

Violence of the french revolutionary era

Violence of the french revolutionary era

What happens when political power is exercised through emotion, intuition, and gut feeling (including religious faith), rather than through reason and logic? Or vice-versa? What are the pros and cons?

Please read and answer the above question

The violence of the French Revolutionary era, the ideologies of the Enlightenment passing through the fire, the powerful reaction against the traumatic decades just passed: all these factors roiling together produced the new ideology known as “Romanticism.” It began as a literary and artistic movement, rejecting everything the Enlightenment stood for – instead of logic and reason, emotion and intuition; in place of the clear and linear, the dark and labyrinthine.

This was the age of “Frankenstein” and Byron and Shelley, Delacroix and Goethe, the “Rime of the Ancient Mariner” and “I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud” – works and artists that would have been laughed at in the eighteenth century – or at least dismissed as sappy, gloomy or pretentious. (the painting above shows what Picasso thought Frankenstein’s monster looked like . . . hmmm.) The greatest of all Romantic poets and artists, William Blake, spoke for many people with his eerie images of the enthronement of Reason and Machine. “Art is the tree of life,” Blake wrote. “Science is the tree of death.” The image at right is Blake’s “Mind-Forg’d Manacles” – the title explains itself.

Read the text for explanations of nationalism, socialism, liberalism, conservatism. Anarchism is also a product of this period, though the textbook gets to it a little later. All these “isms” were products of the “Romantic” frame of mind, in spite of their vast differences.

Characteristics of this new way of political thinking

  • Utopianism – a belief that the world can and should be made a better place. Romantic thinkers often had wonderful ideas about a better world, but no idea how to get there.
  • Distrust of logic and reason – the new political ideologies would often appeal to gut feelings and emotion . Think about Hitler’s charisma and today’s debates over abortion rights or gun control.
  • Nationalism – believe it or not, this didn’t exist before the 19th century. You might have been loyal to the “king of England,” but not to “England.” All modern political ideologies have played on nationalism and its psychotic form, “patriotism.” More about this in the next chapter, as we look at how new nations were being organized.
  • The use of history to brainwash people, not educate them.
  • Mixing political ideas that are inconsistent with each other (see bullet 2 above). For example, claiming to believe in democracy and individualism but also in the “community” or the “Volk” (again, Hitler).
  • Hero worship or personality cults: the belief that a “great man” (rarely a woman) can embody the will of the people. The last 200 years has been full of these larger-than-life characters and their worshipful followers: Napoleon, Queen Victoria, Bismarck, Abraham Lincoln, Mussolini, Hitler, Franklin Roosevelt, Churchill, MaoTse-tung. Look at the newspaper and maybe you can think of a few more.

The new “isms” (read the chapter!)

  • Nationalism – a particular group with a shared heritage and language should be self-governing because it is unique and special — but we will look at this in the next chapter.
  • Liberalism – government should be minimal, and you should have the right to live as you please – as long as you don’t interfere with other people’s right to live as they please.
  • Utopian socialism – the economy should be “leveled,” that is, no one should be really rich or really poor – this can be done by having the state own and plan the economy (as opposed to capitalism, where the economy is privately owned and not regulated, causing more and more wealth to accumulate in the hands of fewer and fewer people). The term was coined by Marx, who meant it negatively.
  • Anarchism – both government and capitalism should be abolished, and everyone should have a voice in establishing society’s rules — that is, pure democracy. (Anarchism is not “anarchy” or chaos.)
  • Conservatism – protect the status quo, be very cautious about any changes. Capitalism is the best economic system and representative democracy or constitutional monarchy are the best governments (it’s dangerous to put power directly into the hands of the people).

Later, growing out of these isms but not flowering until the twentieth century:

  • Marxism and all its variants – history is a record of the struggle between “haves” and “have-nots,” capitalism, once good for building the economy, has now become oppressive; the next stage will be an uprising of exploited workers who will take power and the economy into their own hands (the “dictatorship of the proletariat” and “public ownership of the means of production).
  • Fascism and its racist variant, Nazism – the individual exists to serve the state, not vice-versa; society is like an organism and all ‘troublemakers’ must be ruthlessly suppressed, as the body suppresses a virus; one great leader speaks for all, just as the brain speaks for the body.

Early Childhood Literacy

Early Childhood Literacy

 

Discuss the key features of a teacher’s role as model, provider, and facilitator in promoting language learning and literacy. Be specific in discussing practical ways that each role is shown.

 

4 Pages

 

The rubic is attached please follow every directions given.

 

Text book: Machado, J.M. (2016). Early Childhood experiences in language arts: Early literacy (11th ed). Boston, MA: Cengage Learning

 

 

Paper on Anabolic Steroids and Athletes

Paper on Anabolic Steroids and Athletes

Specific Guidelines for preparing the paper

  • Submission: Papers must be submitted to through Blackboard. In the ‘Content’ section, there will be an assignment folder for submission of the paper.
  • File format: Submit your paper as a PDF file if you can. Otherwise, Microsoft Word, Pages, OpenOffice, GoogleDocs, TXT files are acceptable.
  • File name: your file using the following format: AdvisorLastName_StudentLastName_StudentFirstInitial.
  • Length: 3,000-5,000 words excluding references.
  • Plagiarism: All papers will automatically be run through the “SafeAssignâ€Â program to check for plagiarism. Be attentive to this issue and except for the citations themselves, avoid any direct extraction of text from published sources.
  • Organization: Use the attached template for first page, but otherwise the paper can be organized according to your own preferences.

    A simple organization is probably the best, something like the following.

    • –  An Introduction that presents the problem and makes it clear why it is important and

      provides an outline of what will be covered in the paper,

    • –  Background section that provides the reader with the information necessary to understand what you are talking about.
    • – Body section that describes the specific details of your topic and presents the key pieces of data from published studies.
    • – Conclusion that ties the whole thing up into a neat simple message that a reader can remember and maybe a bit of speculation if appropriate.
  • Title page: Every paper must include a title page using the general format shown in the attached template. The summary/abstract should be a distillation of the entire paper, providing a concise statement of the topic, its significance, the main points/findings, and the overall conclusion. This will be distributed to each student before the symposia starts, to be used as a study guide for the exam questions that will be taken from each presentation.
  • Illustrations: Diagrams or drawings to explain key models or concepts, and data figures to illustrate key scientific results should be included. These can be imported directly from the original sources or you can create them yourself. In either case they need to be properly cited.
  • Citations: Citations for key literature sources must be provided.

International Business – Country Analysis

International Business – Country Analysis

Instructions:

BA 433 – International Business – Country Analysis – Template

  1. Executive Summary: (One Page)
  2. Introduction: (No more than one page)
  3. Body of Work
    1. Demographics
    2. Culture
    3. Political System
    4. Legal System
    5. Economic System – GDP, GDP Growth Rate, GDP per Capita, Currency, Exchange Rate (IMF.org)
    6. Economic Development – Economic Development Index (Indicators)
    7. Social Development – Social Development Index (Indicators)
    8. Ease of Doing Business – (Worldbank.org/ http://globalEDGE.msu.edu)
    9. Investment Opportunities
    10. Benefits
    11. Costs
    12. Risks
  4. Strategies for Doing Business
  5. Recommendations
  6. Conclusions
  7. Citations (APA Format)
  8. References: 1-2 pages (APA Format)

Length of Paper: 10 pages

Spacing: Single-Spaced

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