What will your life look like when you are successful in your new career (e.g., new car, vacations, no worry about bills)?

Jasmine, Jamal, and Janet all decided to return to school for different reasons and to accomplish different goals; as such, they each have different motivations, and the same is true for all of us. Motivation is a funny thing; we need it to succeed in just about everything we do, but we can lose it all too easily. Think back to when you first considered the idea of pursuing your college degree and what motivated you to begin this exciting journey. Where do you see yourself after graduation? What is YOUR “big picture”?Let’s spend some time talking together about what your big picture is. When you have a tough day balancing school with life, it helps to think about your big picture and what brought you to CTU in the first place.For example:Mary is a nursing assistant who has worked at a hospital for 5 years. She has watched leaders come and go and believes she has what it takes to lead change at her hospital. Her big picture involves getting a degree in health care management so she can be involved in decisions. Although Mary doesn’t share her big picture with coworkers, she really sees herself running the hospital someday. When Mary is tired and unmotivated to do her coursework, she looks around at work and remembers why she went back to school. She knows she will make a great leader!Dwayne is a server at a local diner. It helps him pay the bills but nothing more. He has always been a whiz at computers. He loves fixing computers for his friends and family but wants to learn about programming. Dwayne’s brother does computer programming for a government organization in Washington, D.C. Dwayne sees how successful his brother is with computer programming, and he wants to get a similar job. His big picture also includes him opening up a computer fix-it store so he can get paid for doing something he loves.Olivia’s big picture involves law enforcement. Her father was a police officer, and Olivia has wanted to be an officer since she was a little girl. Olivia decided to get a degree in Criminal Justice to help advance her career. She knows that she will be better equipped to provide for her family if she gets her degree. She sees herself as the Chief of Police, just like her father. She has been focused on her big picture since she was 8 years old.Post a Primary Discussion Response by addressing the following questions:Describe your big picture. Be as detailed as possible.What will your life look like when you are successful in your new career (e.g., new car, vacations, no worry about bills)?What are 1–2 practical strategies you can employ to stay motivated even when you face challenges?Here are 3 resources you can check out if you need help:

Draw the timeline that illustrates the timing of all the events of the situation described above.

Bob and Carol are planning for the birth of their first child exactly four years from today. They are now ready to start their savings plan for the big event. The current hospital cost for having a healthy baby at the local hospital is $6500 after all insurance payments. Pre-natal care for the immediate 12-month period prior to having the baby amounts to $2000 out-of-pocket costs. Carol’s best friend is planning a baby shower, so only a crib, a baby carrier, and other miscellaneous items will be needed, which all cost $1,200 today. However, these items will be purchased and paid for the day of the child’s birth, and the items are expected to increase in costs by 10% each year over the next four years due to inflation.Bob and Carol now have $500 in cash that they plan to put in the bank in order to cover the all the new costs. Also, Uncle Ted has promised to contribute $1000 at the end of year two, as a present to Bob and Carol for baby expenses.Currently, Bob and Carol can earn 6% compounded annually on this money. In order to be able to pay cash for all these expenses on the day the baby is born, how much will Bob and Carol have to save, assuming the baby is born exactly four years from todayQuestions:Draw the timeline that illustrates the timing of all the events of the situation described above.How much will Bob and Carol need to have in the bank on the day the baby is born in order to achieve all their goals?What amount needs to be saved at the end of each year in order for Bob and Carol to reach their financial goals?Submission Details:Submit your 2 to 4 page paper in a Microsoft Word document, using APA style.

Why do we need different tools for analyzing financial statements? Don’t the numbers in the financial statements speak for themselves?

There are different tools for analyzing the financial statements of a company, such as horizontal analysis, vertical analysis, ratios for measuring financial health and profitability, and so forth. But before we begin using these tools, it is important to know the purpose of each tool.Q.1 Why do we need different tools for analyzing financial statements? Don’t the numbers in the financial statements speak for themselves?1. Include in your post that you attended the live lecture2. provide a summary of your key takeaways from the lectureBook for referencesFinancial Accounting: Tools for Business Decision Making 9th Kimmel, Weygandt and Kieso2019 Wiley

Suggest at least two items from each activity that creditors should analyze when deciding whether to lend money to the company. Justify your response.

For this week’s discussion, use the Internet to research one publicly traded company in which you are interested. Review its most recent statement of cash flows. Be prepared to discuss.Review the company’s operating, investing, and financing activities. Suggest at least two items from each activity that creditors should analyze when deciding whether to lend money to the company. Justify your response.

Should small-business owners of bars and other establishments be free from copyright laws?

1. (only 2 questions for 1.)FactsNorton’s Country Corner (Norton’s) is a cowboy bar located in Queen Creek, Arizona. The bar is owned by McDade & Sons, Inc., which is owned 100 percent by Nancy McDade. McDade is its sole officer and director. Live bands play country-and-western music at Norton’s on various nights of the week. Certain copyright owners of music have authorized Broadcast Music, Inc. (BMI) to license the use of their copyright songs to broadcasters and to owners of concert halls, restaurants, and nightclubs for live performances of the copyrighted music. BMI attends public performances of music to determine whether any copyrights it is authorized to license are being performed without such license.One night, a BMI representative attended a live band performance at Norton’s bar and recorded the songs played by the band that night. The audio recording showed that 13 copyrighted songs that BMI was authorized to license were played by the band at Norton’s without the required license. BMI sued McDade & Sons, Inc. and Nancy McDade in U.S. district court for copyright infringement. The defendants argued they had not committed copyright infringement and that copyright law did not apply to owners of small establishments.IssueAre the defendants liable for copyright infringement?Language of the CourtThe Copyright Act gives the owner of a copyright the exclusive right to publicly perform, or authorize others to perform, the copyrighted work. Any person who violates this exclusive right is an infringer. Lack of authorization is established by the undisputed fact that defendants were not licensed by BMI to perform plaintiffs’ copyrighted musical compositions. Defendants contend that the copyright laws are unfair to small bar owners “struggling to get by week by week.” Defendants seek an exemption from complying with the Copyright Act, but have not cited any authority for such an exemption. The record reflects that defendants’ infringements were knowing and willful.DecisionThe U.S. district court held that the defendants had engaged in copyright infringement and awarded $39,000 in damages, attorney’s fees, and costs to the plaintiffs, and issued a permanent injunction against the defendants’ infringement of copyrighted musical compositions licensed by Broadcast Music, Inc.Critical Legal Thinking QuestionsShould small-business owners of bars and other establishments be free from copyright laws?How many restaurants, bars, and other establishments play copyrighted music without the copyright owner’s permission?2. Exclusionary RuleEvidence obtained from an unreasonable search and seizure is considered tainted evidence (“fruit of a tainted tree”). Under the exclusionary rule, such evidence can generally be prohibited from introduction at a trial or an administrative proceeding against the person searched. However, this evidence is freely admissible against other persons.The U.S. Supreme Court created a good faith exception to the exclusionary rule.13 This exception allows evidence obtained illegally to be introduced as evidence against the accused if the police officers who conducted the unreasonable search reasonably believed that they were acting pursuant to a lawful search warrant.U.S. Supreme Court, Washington DCIn the United States, suspected criminals are given many rights by the U.S. Constitution and state constitutions. Parties in the United States are free from unreasonable searches and seizures of evidence, and any evidence obtained illegally is considered tainted evidence and cannot be used in court. People who are suspected of a criminal act may assert their right of privilege against self-incrimination and may choose not to testify at any pretrial proceedings or at trial. In addition, if convicted of a crime, the criminal is free from cruel and unusual punishment.Critical Legal ThinkingDoes the exclusionary rule allow some guilty parties to go free?Is this an acceptable result when balanced against the protections afforded by the Fourth Amendment?Find and share a case where a person was set free based on unreasonable search and evidence was found? If you cannot find one, try to find a case simlar to the one below.Case Example: DON’T USE THIS CASEDavid Riley was stopped for driving with expired registration tags. A search of the car turned up two concealed and loaded firearms. The police confiscated Riley’s smartphone and went through it and found gang related information and a photograph of Riley in front of a car they suspected to be involved in a shooting a few weeks earlier. Based on the information retrieved from the cellphone Riley was charged with that earlier shooting, with firing at an occupied vehicle, assault with a semiautomatic weapon, and attempted murder. Riley was convicted of all charges and was sentenced to 15 years in prison. Prior to trial, Riley moved to suppress the evidence the police obtained from his cellphone, alleging that the information obtained from his phone was the fruit of an unconstitutional search in violation of the Fourth Amendment. The court denied Riley’s request. After appeal, the U.S. Supreme Court granted certiorari to hear the case.

Analyze the business-level strategies for the corporation you chose to determine the business-level strategy you think is most important to the long-term success of the firm and whether you judge this to be a good choice. Justify your opinion.

Write a 6-8 page paper in which you do the following:Analyze the business-level strategies for the corporation you chose to determine the business-level strategy you think is most important to the long-term success of the firm and whether you judge this to be a good choice. Justify your opinion.Analyze the corporate-level strategies for the corporation you chose to determine the corporate-level strategy you think is most important to the long-term success of the firm and whether you judge this to be a good choice. Justify your opinion.Analyze the competitive environment to determine the corporation’s most significant competitor. Compare their strategies at each level and evaluate which company you think is most likely to be successful in the long term. Justify your choice.Determine whether your choice from Question 3 would differ in slow-cycle and fast-cycle markets.

Would you make localization changes to the product, marketing, and so on, for this product in that market? Why or why not?

In this lesson, we have explored the issues with and strategies for marketing on a global level. For this exploration, you will use the theory/skills you learned in this lesson and from previous lessons in this class (such as the lessons on culture, exporting, and strategy). Put yourself in the role of a marketer from Kraft Heinz Company. The beloved American treat Kraft Macaroni and Cheese is widely available in the United States and other select countries (such as Canada and Australia). Imagine that the company would like to get into new markets in either South America, Central America, Eastern Europe, or Africa. You are asked to recommend a new market in one of those areas and create a (brief) marketing plan for the product in that market.In a 500–700 word post to this discussion forum, answer the following:What country from the regions in the prompt did you select and why?Note: You must select a country – a continent or a region do not qualify as a country. And your country must be in South America, Central America, Eastern Europe or Africa. Countries outside of these regions will not meet the requirements of this assignment.2. Would you make localization changes to the product, marketing, and so on, for this product in that market? Why or why not?Notes and hints:You must use reputable sources to support your decisions, such as academic sources (peer reviewed) or authoritative sources (having expert qualifications in the subject or area).Use course theory to support or guide your decisions:the four Ps, Hofstede, global strategy, and so on, are all good places to start.You must cite all of the sources you use just as you would a paper, and use APA formatting.

Discuss what is meant by the term Qualitative Research

Instructions: Response must be at least 4-5 pages excluding the title, abstract and reference pages. Must be written in current APA format with at least three academic references cited. References must be within the last five years.You will critically appraise a research designYou will select one research report with a qualitative design and one with quantitative design and answer the following questions regarding the following categories:Discuss what is meant by the term Qualitative ResearchBriefly, describe the characteristics of qualitative research and identify nursing issues/phenomena that lend themselves to a qualitative research approach.Compare and contrast three different qualitative research methodologies.Briefly, discuss the strengths and weaknesses of qualitative research evidence for informing nursing practice.Communicate how this research design used in research.The study, sampling, data collection, analysis, rigor, findings and limitationsIdentify the purpose of the study.Briefly, describe the design of the study and explain why you think it is either appropriate or inappropriate to meet the purpose.Identify ethical issues related to the study and how they were/were not addressed.Identify the sampling method and recruitment strategy that was used.Discuss whether sampling and recruitment were appropriate to the aims of the research.Identify the data collection method(s) and discuss whether the method(s) is/are appropriate to the aims of the study.Identify how the data was analyzed and discuss whether the method(s) of analysis is/are appropriate to the aims of the study.Identify four (4) criteria by which the rigor of a qualitative project can be judged.Discuss the rigor of this study using the four criteria.Briefly, describe the findings of the study and identify any limitations.Use the information that you have gained from your critique of the study to discuss the trustworthiness and applicability of the study. Include in your discussion any implications for the discipline of nursing.Discuss what you understand by the term Quantitative Research – Use the following dot points to guide your discussion (give reasons for your argument and support with references):Describe the characteristics of quantitative research.Identify nursing issues/phenomena that lend themselves to a quantitative research approachDifferentiate between observational and interventional research designs and also between experimental and quasi-experimental designs.Briefly, outline the difference between inferential and descriptive statistics and their relationship to levels of measurement.Communicate how this research design used in research.Critique the Quantitative Research Report – Use the following headings to guide your critique (in all discussions and explanations give reasons for your argument and support with references):The studyIdentify the purpose and design of the study.Explain what is meant by ‘blinding’ and ‘randomization’ and discuss how these were addressed in the design of the study.Identify ethical issues related to the study and how they were/were not addressed.SamplingExplain the sampling method and recruitment strategy that was used.Discuss how the sample size was determined – include in your discussion an explanation of terms used.Data collectionBriefly, outline how the data was collected and identify any data collection instrument(s).Define the terms validity and reliability and discuss how the validity & reliability of the instruments were/were not addressed in this study and why this is important.Data analysisOutline how the data were analyzed.Identify the statistics used and the level of measurement of the data described by each statistical test – include in your discussion an explanation of terms used.Findings and limitationsBriefly, outline the findings and identify any limitations of the studyUse the information that you have gained from your critique of the study to briefly discuss the trustworthiness and applicability of the study. Include in your discussion an explanation of the term statistical significance and name the tests of statistical significance used in this study.

Is the number of active products an indicator of innovation, or an indicator of whether the innovation is incremental or discontinuous?

OverviewOrganizational creativity and innovation have proven to be challenging concepts to measure. There is not a particular output that indicates organizational levels of innovation. To flourish, innovation and creativity must be fostered within the organization. They must be established as cultural values in order for the organization to see the benefits.PromptWrite a paper evaluating business metrics for innovation. Although business metrics generally measure symptoms or outputs of an organization’s culture, we can find correlations between some business metrics and the quality of an organization’s innovation culture. Review the table shown below and answer the following questions.Consider the metrics in the table and evaluate if each is a good measure of innovation and creativity.Is the number of active products an indicator of innovation, or an indicator of whether the innovation is incremental or discontinuous?Is research and development (R&D) headcount an indicator of innovation or labor efficiency?What would it mean if any of these metrics increased over time?Evaluate and select which company (INAGG, Inc. or AMMB, Inc.) is most likely to have a culture that supports innovation and creativity.How might non-R&D staff time dedicated to experimenting with new products be an indicator of an innovation culture?What are some scenarios in which having more patents would not be a good indicator of an innovation culture?Discuss the ability, and limitations, of metrics such as the ones in the table and business intelligence (BI) to measure the ability of an organization to innovate or support employee creativity.What are the limitations of the metrics that you think are the best indicators of innovation culture?Could some of the limitations be avoided by using a combination of metrics?How could business intelligence be used to evaluate limitations of metrics?Note: Both companies are in the same industry and make similar products. They have the same number of total employees, revenue, and length of time in business.

describe how the organization bridged the gap between the idea and actual implementation.

Discussion area a brief description of the organization you selected without revealing the name of the organization and explain the strategic issue that compelled the organization to add or reduce services. Next, describe how the organization bridged the gap between the idea and actual implementation. Then, describe the organization’s key strategic and business factors as it relates to planning and implementing the idea. Finally, explain how tools such as strategic plans, SWOT analyses, and business plans help healthcare administrators plan and implement ideas to address the challenges and opportunities they face in improving the health and well-being of individuals and populations

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