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Data-Driven Decision Making Using Microsoft Excel

Data-Driven Decision Making Using Microsoft Excel

This assignment must be completed and submitted using a Microsoft Excel spreadsheet (.xls). Provide a source for each equation you use. Sources must be listed at the bottom of the spreadsheet. No title page or additional formatting is required.

  1. Channels of Communication
  2. Benefit Cost Ratio (BCR)
    • Roto Air plans to spend $1,000,000 on this project, resulting in a total savings of $2,500,000 over the life of the project. Calculate the Benefit Cost Ratio. Important: show your work. Ignore any effects of the time value of money.
    • Roto Air also considered another project that would have partially satisfied their needs. It would have required a $750,000 investment and would result in a savings of $125,000 per year for 10 years. Calculate the Benefit Cost Ratio. Important: show your work. Ignore any effects of the time value of money.
    • Comparing only the BCRs, explain which project should Roto Air should have chosen. Ignore any effects of the time value of money.
  3. Payback Period
    • Calculate the payback period for the $1,000,000 investment shown above. Important: show your work. Ignore any effects of the time value of money.
    • Calculate the payback period for the $750,000 investment shown above. Important: show your work. Ignore any effects of the time value of money.
    • Comparing only on the payback periods, explain which project should Roto Air have chosen. Ignore any effects of the time value of money.
  4. Net Present Value (NPV)
    • Calculate the Net Present Value of Roto Air’s $1,000,000 investment with a $250,000 annual savings for 10 years when the interest rate averages 3% annually. Important: show your work.
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Evaluating New Business Opportunities

Financial Management Presentation

Financial Management Presentation Grading Guide
MGT/418 Version 4		 3

University of Phoenix: School of Business
Financial Management Presentation Grading Guide
MGT/418 Version 4
Evaluating New Business Opportunities
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Individual Assignment: Financial Management Presentation

Purpose of Assignment

This assignment will assist the students in developing a list of possible issues their new firms might encounter concerning financing. Obtaining information from other firms on how they are resolving these issues will allow the students to create a plan on how to solve issues their firms might encounter when obtaining financing.

Grading Guide

Content
 Met Partially Met Not Met Comments:
The student researches three critical financial issues that start-up or newly-acquired businesses may face.  
The student describes potential resolutions for these issues.
The student discusses the importance of financing to a new business.
The student describes best practices for handling working capital and cash flow for a new business.
The presentation is 10 to 15 slides in length with speaker notes and is appropriate for the audience.
The presentation includes relevant media and visual aids that are consistent with the content.
Total Available Total Earned
7 #/7
Presentation Guidelines Met Partially Met Not Met Comments:
Organization
The tone is appropriate to the content and assignment.
The introduction provides a sufficient background on the topic and previews major points.
Major points are stated clearly; are supported by specific details, examples, or analysis; and are organized logically.
Paragraph transitions are present, logical, and maintain the flow throughout the paper.
The conclusion is logical, flows from the body of the paper, and reviews the major points.
Mechanics
The presentation is laid out with effective use of headings, font styles, font sizes, and white space.
Intellectual property is recognized with in-text citations and a reference slide.
Sentences are complete, clear, and concise.
Rules of grammar and usage are followed including spelling and punctuation.
Total Available Total Earned
  3 #/3
Assignment Total # 10 #/10
Additional comments:
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challenges leaders and managers face

After addressing the challenges leaders and managers face regarding diversity in M6: Assignment 1, let us focus on how leaders and managers might abuse power in dealing with a diverse workforce. Consider the role cultural stigmas play regarding how leaders and managers communicate with and react to a diverse workforce. Consider the importance of diversity training for leaders, managers, and employees. Further, consider how sociocultural factors related to leaders, managers, and employees help or hinder functionally effective communications. Finally, there is the ethical consideration of determining whether a leader or manager’s use of power to gain compliance is acceptable.
Using the module readings and the Argosy University online library resources, research the ethical implication of cultural abuse. Based on your research, respond to the following:

  • Explain the ethical implications of cultural abuse of leader/manager power. Your response should not simply state whether cultural abuse of power is ethical or unethical but also include the underlying theoretical premise that justifies your position as well as personal experiential examples.
  • Briefly discuss how diversity might influence (hinder or aid) such abuse.
  • Research your textbook as well as appropriate trade journals and academic peer-reviewed journals to support your arguments.

Write a 3–4-page paper in Word format. Note: The title page, references, and appendices are not included in the page count.
Apply APA standards to citation of sources. Click here to download the APA Guide. Use this guide to format your assignment.
Write your responses in a clear, concise, and organized manner; demonstrate ethical scholarship in accurate representation and attribution of sources; display accurate spelling, grammar, and punctuation per APA (6th edition) standards.
Use the following file naming convention: LastnameFirstInitial_M6_A2.doc.
By the due date assigned, deliver your assignment to the Submissions Area.

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types of diversity

In this assignment, you will build upon your response to the Required Assignment (RA) in Module 4. You will continue your case study of your chosen organization.
Scenario: Now that you have defined the problem, use behavioral theory constructs to explore how organizational teams might affect the change effort.
Instructions:

  • Discuss factors of diversity including various types of diversity likely to be encountered in the organization.
  • Identify actual ethical perspectives/approaches within the organization. (Note: Do not identify that something is simply ethical or unethical.)
  • Explain how factors such as offshoring and outsourcing may lead to employee fears and uncertainty.
  • Discuss how all the previous three items (i.e., diversity, ethics, and offshoring/outsourcing) may lead to conflict individually and in teams. Include the specific types of conflict that may be present. How might even individual conflict affect a team’s performance? Is there a systemic component to this consideration, and if so, how?
  • Recommend a manner to minimize, or perhaps alleviate, such fears and uncertainty.

Write an 8–10-page, well-argued case paper in Word format. Be sure to include a summary section. Note: The title page, references, and appendices are not included in the page count.
Apply APA standards to citation of sources. The course book, the trade journal(s) noting the problem, as well as peer-reviewed journal articles are to be used to support your position and theoretical constructs. General Internet sources will not be accepted as references. Click here to download the APA Guide. Use this guide to format your assignment.
Write your responses in a clear, concise, and organized manner; demonstrate ethical scholarship in accurate representation and attribution of sources; display accurate spelling, grammar, and punctuation per APA (6th edition) standards.

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Perez Art Museum

Pretend you went to Perez Art Museum… Dont do the sketch, just write the analysis answering the questions. The photos attached are the one you need to write about answering the question based on those photos. When you refer to the peace of art please call it by its name. Below all the instructions

  1. Your report should follow the guidelines stated under the Written Assignments  section of your syllabus. Your paper must be typed in a 10-12 point  font, double-spaced with margins that are no more than 1 inch.
  2. If you don’t have Microsoft Word, save your file as a .txt, .pdf, or  .rtf file. Title your document with one word. For example, I might use  sarah1.doc.
  3. Your report must be at least 700 words. You need a sketch for each section A-E.
  4. Please make sure to turn in your own work. Use your own words, not  summaries of the descriptions of the artwork listed in the exhibit  brochure or displayed with the objects’ titles.
  5. Also, this report is an individual project. It should not be done with other students.
  6. Any papers that are plagiarized will be turned back to the student and an “F” grade will be given.
  7. Make sure to upload your paper to the dropbox and read your  originality report. If your paper is above 5% copied (excluding quotes)  make the necessary changes before re-submitting it into the dropbox. For  more information on using the turnitin dropboxes in Blackboard and  understanding originality reports, click here.
  8. Sketches should NOT be included when you upload your paper. They  should be scanned in and uploaded to the seperate Sketch dropbox or they  can be faxed to the number in the syllabus. Make sure your professor’s  name is on the cover sheet. The sketches can also be mailed to the  address in the syllabus.
  9. If you have problems getting started writing your report, take a look at Questions You Should Think About When Looking at Art. DO NOT LIST THE QUESTIONS YOU HAVE. ANSWER THEM. 

Subject Matter (Content)

  1. Is the work objective or non-objective art?
  2. If the work is objective, what object(s) or event(s) does it show?
  3. Does the title of the picture relate to it?
  4. If an artist of today painted this picture, would it look the same? If not, how would it be different?
  5. Is there are theme (main idea)? If so, have you seen this theme in other works? (Example: Love, Hate, War).

 

Color

  1. What color is used most?
  2. How many different colors have been used?
  3. Is the general coloring in the painting strong/weak, bold/shy, primary/secondary, warm/cool?
  4. Describe at least two examples of the artist’s use of color.
  5. Do the colors tell the time of day or season?
  6. Are there more light or more dark colors in the picture? Do the light areas or dark areas stand out most?
  7. Does the artist use color to show distance?
  8. Did the artist use color to make something in particular stand out? How? Why did the artist do this?
  9. How do the colors affect the mood of the painting: sunny/stormy, happy/sad, shy/bold?

 

Line

  1. What kinds of lines do you see in the picture, straight or curved?
  2. Describe at least two examples of the artist’s use of line.
  3. Are most of the lines in the picture vertical, horizontal, or diagonal?
  4. Are the lines deep/bold or shallow/light, jagged/smooth, continuous/broken, moving/still?
  5. Sometimes artists create imaginary line directions (lines not  actually drawn) in the direction a person is staring, talking, pointing,  etc. or by the formation of imaginary lines created by shape. Does this  picture have any imaginary lines?

 

Texture/Mass

  1. Does the texture look: thick/thin, lush/sparse, bumpy/even, coarse/fine, hard/soft, light/heavy, rough/smooth? Why?
  2. Do you see anything that would feel sharp, prickly, soft, slick, sticky, rippled, etc.?
  3. Why did the artist use different textures for different things?
  4. Does the artist use color or line to show texture for different things?
  5. Describe the texture of the work in one specific object or area.
  6. Describe the mass of one specific object or area.

 

Shape

  1. Are most of the shapes organic (natural or curved) or geometric (angular or straight).
  2. Is there a main focal area of the work? If so, what is it?
  3. What shapes appear in the artwork?
  4. What shape is repeated most in the picture?

 

Space/Perspective

  1. Is the picture full or empty? What takes up most of the space in the picture… the subject matter or the background space?
  2. How does the artist depict objects in the foreground: large/small, high/low, near/far. In the background?
  3. Describe any perspective used in the work.

 

Balance

  1. Is the picture symmetrical or asymmetrical?
  2. Is the picture well balanced?
  3. Is one side of the picture heavier than the other?
  4. How did the artist balance the picture? Color, shape, line, space, repetition?
  5. Is it even/uneven, equal/unequal, complete, incomplete?

 

Repetition

  1. What elements do you see repeated in this picture? Color, line, shape, texture?
  2. Does the repetition create movement in the picture: regular/irregular, flowing/halting, random/exact, rising/falling?

 

Part A. The Most Beautiful Object in the Museum

  • As you walk through the museum, you should seek the most beautiful  object you can find. When you have discovered it, stand or sit before it  for at least two minutes.
  • Try not at first to look at the “title” or other information  displayed with the object. Use your insight and imagination to  understand the art before you.
  • Think about what thoughts and questions are going through your mind  as you look at the object. Try to answer these questions in your paper;  don’t just list questions without answers.
  • Take notes that express your feelings and thoughts plainly and simply.
  • Make a 8 x 10 sketch of the object, including the important details.  (Do not worry about your artistic talent – I just want to see your  impression of what you saw.)
  • This part of the paper should include:
    • the name of the museum you visited.
    • the title of the work you selected, its artist, and the country the artist is from.
    • a detailed description of the work and why you selected it. (Use Questions You Should Think about When Looking at Art if you get stuck. However, do not list the questions in your paper. Answer them.)
    • the feelings the work aroused in you.
    • your 8×10 sketch, including the important details.

 

Part B. The Most Interesting Non-European/Non-North American Work of Art

  • Follow the directions for Part A. Make sure to list the country the artist is from. (Make sure to complete a sketch.)

 

Part C. The Most Disturbing Work of Art OR A Work of Art that You Disliked

 

  • Follow the directions for Part A. (Make sure to complete a sketch.)

 

Part D. 2 Paragraphs about a Special Exhibition

 

  • Please add a paragraph about a special exhibit at the museum. What  was the title of the exhibit? What was the purpose of the exhibit? Give a  general description of the artwork that is part of the exhibit.
  • In your second paragraph, select an object you feel is the most  significant of this particular exhibit. Make sure to include the title  of the piece, the artist, country of origin, a description and sketch,  and why you thought it was the most significant of the exhibit. (Make  sure to complete a sketch.)

 

Part E. What Would You Take Home

 

  • If you could take one work home, from anything in the museum, what  would you select and why? Describe the work you have selected. (Make  sure to complete a sketch.)

 

Part F: Follow These Procedures

 

  • Make sure your paper has a title.
  • If you have trouble writing your paper, go to Questions You Should Think about When Looking at Art. Please do not list the questions you are using. Just answer them.
  • Your paper must be typed in a 10-12 point font, double-spaced with margins that are no more than 1 inch.
  • If you don’t have Microsoft Word, save your file as a .txt, .pdf, or  .rtf file. Name your document with one word. For example, I might use  sarah1.doc.
  • Make sure to upload your paper to the dropbox and read your  originality report. If your paper is above 5% copied (excluding quotes)  make the necessary changes before re-submitting it into the dropbox. For  more information on using turnitin dropboxes inside of Blackboard and  understanding originality reports
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Political Economy

Must clearly identify the chapter, headings, and subheadings. It must be single-spaced and approximately 1-2 pages in length. Please provide a written summary (3 sentences) of the chapter headings and subheadings. You must read the assigned material and then formulate a written synthesis of this information.
1.
Ronald Schmidt (2000). Public policy and racial equality: A framework for analysis. Proceedings form the American Political Science Association.   See attachment for article 
2.
Summarize in 1-2 page single space Clark, Political Economy, Chapter 1, Politics, Economics, and Political Economy
3.
Summarize in 1-2 page Clark space, Political Economy, Chapter 2, The History of Political Economy
4.
Summarize in 1-2 page Clark, Political Economy, Chapter 3, The Classic Liberal Perspective *need done ASAP*

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Database and Programming Design

Project Deliverable 3: Database and Programming Design
Due Week 6 and worth 150 points
This assignment consists of two (2) sections: a design document and a revised Gantt chart or project plan. You must submit both sections as separate files for the completion of this assignment. Label each file name according to the section of the assignment for which it is written. Additionally, you may create and / or assume all necessary assumptions needed for the completion of this assignment.
One (1) of the main functions of any business is to transform data into information. The use of relational databases has gained recognition as a standard for organizations and business transactions. A quality database design makes the flow of data seamless. The database schema is the foundation of the relational database. The schema defines the tables, fields, relationships, views, indexes, and other elements. The schema should be created by envisioning the business, processes, and workflow of the company.
Section 1: Design Document
1. Write a five to ten (5-10) page design document in which you:
a. Create a database schema that supports the company’s business and processes.
b. Explain and support the database schema with relevant arguments that support the rationale for the structure. Note: The minimum requirement for the schema should entail the tables, fields, relationships, views, and indexes.
c. Create database tables with appropriate field-naming conventions. Then, identify primary keys and foreign keys, and explain how referential integrity will be achieved.
d. Normalize the database tables to third normal form (3NF).
e. Create an Entity-Relationship (E-R) Diagram through the use of graphical tools in Microsoft Visio or an open source alternative such as Dia. Note: The graphically depicted solution is not included in the required page length but must be included in the design document appendix.
f. Explain your rationale behind the design of your E-R Diagram.
g. Create a Data Flow Diagram (DFD) through the use of graphical tools in Microsoft Visio or an open source alternative such as Dia. Note: The graphically depicted solution is not included in the required page length but must be included in the design document appendix.
h. Explain your rationale behind the design of your DFD.
i. Create at least two (2) sample queries that will support the organizational reporting needs.
j. Create at least two (2) screen layouts that illustrate the interface that organizational users will utilize.
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.
  • Include charts or diagrams created in MS Visio or Dia as an appendix of the design document. All references to these diagrams must be included in the body of the design document.

Section 2: Revised Gantt Chart / Project Plan
Use Microsoft Project or an open source alternative, such as Open Project, to:
2. Update the Gantt chart or project plan (summary and detail) template, from Project Deliverable 2: Business Requirements, with all the project tasks.
The specific course learning outcomes associated with this assignment are:

  • Describe the various integrative functions and processes within the information systems area, including databases, systems analysis, security, networking, computer infrastructure, human computer interaction, and Web design.
  • Demonstrate the ability to evaluate organizational issues with integrative technological solutions.
  • Apply integrative information technology solutions with project management tools to solve business problems.
  • Use technology and information resources to research issues in information technology.
  • Write clearly and concisely about strategic issues and practices in the information technology domain using proper writing mechanics and technical style conventions.
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Islamic Golden Age 

 Do some more research on the Islamic Golden Age 

http://www.1001inventions.com/
http://www.1001inventions.com/media/video/library
 
Respond in writing to the following question after exploring the internet sites and videos above.

  1. List and explain at least three of the  contributions of Islam to global culture between ca. 700 and 1400. Be  sure to provide specific examples of how these innovations shaped our  modern world.
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theory analysis

Use the viewer response  theory of “Rasa”  and the theory of “Darsana” to  discuss  if there is a deeper exploration of human emotion  in this art piece? According to Frithjof Schuon, the  profoundest of all effects upon those who experience art is the measure of all sacred art—does it  lead to interiorization? Does it help to collect all thoughts, dispel distraction and lead to Interiorization? Discuss giving examples.
Here’s the link to the reading that you should use as reference/example:
http://artindia.critstudies.calarts.edu/seeing%20the%20sacred.pdf
http://artindia.critstudies.calarts.edu/iconicaniconic.pdf