Create the algorithm that will solve the following problem definition

Create the algorithm that will solve the following problem definition: !A painting company has determined that for every 115 square feet of wall space, one gallon of paint and eight hours of labor will be required. The company charges $18.00 per hour for labor. The program will allow the user to enter the number of rooms to be painted and the price of the paint per gallon. It should also ask for the length and height of wall in each room (assumption: room dimensions are square). !The program will have methods that determine: !the square footage of the room (height of wall times length of wall = 1 wall) assume the room is square the number of gallons of paint required the hours of labor required the cost of the paint the labor charges the total cost of the paint job !It should then display the following information on the screen: !total square footage number of gallons of paint required and the cost the labor charges total cost of the paint job !Create 3 sets of test data. !!User defined methods !1) calculateSquareFootage calculate the square footage which is the length of walls times the height of walls = 1 wall. For example for a room that is 12 feet by 10 feet and ceiling height is 9 feet:
1st wall = length x height 12 x 9 = 108 square footage = 108 x 2 = 216 2nd wall = length height 10 x 9 = 90 square footage = 90 x 2 = 180
1st wall + 2nd wall = room 216 + 180 = 396 !This method will return the square footage of the room as a double value. !algorithm: ( (lengthOfRoom * heightOfRoom) + (widthOfRoom *heightOfRoom)) *2 2) PaintNeeded the number of gallons of paint required note: pass in double that contains the square footage returns an int which holds the number of gallons round up !algorithm: calculate paintNeeded = (squarefootage/115) round up paintNeeded to nearest whole number that is greater than itself (use the Math.ceil() method) !!!
3) hoursRequired the number of hours needed for the job 8 hours for each 115 square feet to be painted note: pass in double that contains the square footage returns an double which holds the number of hours needed to pain the room
algorithm: calculate hoursRequired = (squarefootage / 115) * 8 hours return hourseRequired !
!!4) costOfPaint calculate the cost for the paint for the room note: pass an int value paintRequired returns double which contain the cost of paint $50 for each gallons (squarefootage / 115) (# of gallons) (cost of gallon) 3.44 4 50 200 paint cost
5) LaborCharges calculate the cost for the labor to paint the room note: pass in double that contains the hours needed to paint the room returns double which contain the cost of labor cost per hour is 18$ hours needed times cost per hour = 27.52 18 = 495.36
6) totalCost calculate the cost to paint the room note: pass in double cost to paintroom pass in double cost of paint and double cost of labor return double contains the cost to paint the room LaborCharges + costOfPaint = totalCost 495.36 + 200 = 695.36
Algorithm for main method: !prompt user to enter number of rooms while number of rooms is not valid (must be greater than one) display error message to user prompt user to enter number of rooms end while prompt user for price per gallon of paint while price of paint is not valid display error message to user prompt user for price per gallon of paint end while For Each room that needs to be painted get squareFootage = call calculateSquareFootage() method accumulate squareFootage to totalSquareFootage End For Each get paintNeeded = call paintRequired() method passing in squareFootage get paintCost = call method costOfPaint() passing in paintNeeded get laborHours = call method numberOfHours() passing in squareFootage get laborCharges = call method laborCharges() passing in laborHours calculate costToPaintRoom = paintCost + laborCharges display totalSquareFootage, paintNeeded, paintCost, laborHours and laborCharges display totalCost

Organizational leadership akademik only | English homework help

 
Assignment 2: LASA: Leadership Theory Analysis and Application
Description of LASA:
In this assignment, you will review current literature on the leadership theories of your choosing. In addition, you will apply these theories to an organization of your choosing.
Instructions:
Based on your reading and your research on the topic of leadership, in this assignment you will choose at least three leadership theories and will provide a detailed analysis of each of the theories. This analysis will include your evaluation of the theories and a discussion on which of the theories would work best in your organization. Your evaluation and analysis must include at least six peer reviewed academic sources. You can locate these sources through the reading list for the course and through the Argosy Online Library.

Choose a minimum of three leadership theories from the materials in the course. These could  include Path Goal Theory, Contingency Theory, Transformational Leadership Theory, Member Leader Theory, Team Leadership Theory, and Psychodynamic Leadership Theory, to name a few. For each of your chosen theories, use at least two peer reviewed journal articles that discuss the attributes of the theory. Your sources should generally be no more than 5 years old.
Develop an introduction on the background of each of your theories and discuss the advantages and disadvantages of each of the theories.
Analyze all articles and describe the key themes that emerge across the three theories.
Based on your analysis of the literature, identify which leadership approach would be most successful within your chosen organization. You could identify a combination of two or three theories that would work best in your organization, but be sure to provide rationale as to why the combination would be most effective. Be sure to justify your choices.

Your final product will be a Word document, approximately 8–10 pages long. Make sure you write in a clear, concise, and organized manner; demonstrate ethical scholarship in accurate representation and attribution of sources; and display accurate spelling, grammar, and punctuation. Apply APA standards to citation of sources.
By Sunday, August 14, 2016, deliver your assignment to the M7: Assignment 2 Dropbox.
Use the following naming convention:LastnameFirstInitial_M7_A2.docFor example, if your name is John Smith, your document will be named SmithJ_M7_A2.doc
LASA Grading CriteriaCO 1, 3, 4PO 1, 3, 4ILO 1, 2, 3, 4, 6

Assignment Components
Proficient

Max Points

Communicates understanding of choosing at least three leadership theories and providing a detailed analysis of each of the theories.

Response incorporates analysis and synthesis of central concepts of the assigned topic.
Response reflects understanding of the nature of the specific topic within the discipline and its applications in contemporary times.
Response provides necessary details and specific examples.

/60 pts.

Communicates the ability to develop an introduction on the background of each of your theories and discuss the advantages and disadvantages of each of the theories.

Response demonstrates a working command of the disciplinary content knowledge
Response examines the specific issue within the context of the topic area using relevant details and examples
Response analyzes the specific aspect of the issue to applicable areas within the discipline and their relevance to real world contexts.
Response is adequately supported by current and relevant literature

/60 pts.

Communicates the ability to analyze all articles and describe the key themes that emerge across the three theories.

Response demonstrates a working command of the disciplinary content knowledge
Response examines the specific issue within the context of the topic area using relevant details and examples
Response analyzes the specific aspect of the issue to applicable areas within the discipline and their relevance to real world contexts.
Response is adequately supported by current and relevant literature

/60 pts.

Communicates the ability to identify which leadership approach would be most successful within your chosen organization.

Response demonstrates a working command of the disciplinary content knowledge
Response examines the specific issue within the context of the topic area using relevant details and examples
Response analyzes the specific aspect of the issue to applicable areas within the discipline and their relevance to real world contexts.
Response is adequately supported by current and relevant literature

/60 pts.

Academic Writing

Write in a clear, concise, and organized manner; demonstrate ethical scholarship in accurate representation and attribution of sources (i.e. APA); and display accurate spelling, grammar, and punctuation.

Written in a clear, concise, and organized manner; demonstrated ethical scholarship in accurate representation and attribution of sources (i.e. APA); and displayed accurate spelling, grammar, and punctuation.
 

/60 pts.

Total:
 

/300pts

Program specification for homework 3, part 2.

Program specification for Homework 3, Part 2.
 
MP Mail Order House sells five products.  Product numbers, unit prices, and current inventory levels, are as follows:
 

Product No

Unit Price

Current Inventory Level

1

$2.98

10

2

$4.50

8

3

$9.98

15

4

$4.49

3

5

$6.87

0

 
I. Write the class  MailOrder to provide the following functions:
 
Set up one one-dimensional array for each field: product number (integer), unit price (double), and current inventory level (integer) in main memory to hold the above product information. There should be five rows (0 to 4) in each array, one for each item. For example, row 0 of the array for the product number is to hold the product number of product 1. Row 0 of the array for the unit price is to hold the unit price of product 1.  Row 0 of the array for the current inventory level is to hold the current inventory level of product 1, etc.
 
 The system should accept incoming sales orders until the user chooses to quit.  In each sales order, a user can buy more than one item.  For each item, the system accepts the product number and the quantity to be purchased.  The system retrieves the correct unit price and current inventory level for that particular item.  The system only sells up to the current inventory available.  If the system can sell x pieces of this item in this order, the system calculates and displays the total amount for this item and also decreases the item inventory level by x immediately.  When the user has finished keying in all the items of an order, the system displays the order total amount. 
 
When the user says there are no more orders, the system displays the daily sales total. This is the total sales amount of all the orders processed.  Then the system should end the execution of the system.
 
Detailed description of how the system should work is as follows:
 
When the system is run: 
Display the following main question:
 
Please enter the next action ( a new order and ): user enters 1 or 2
 
If the user enters any value other than 1 and 2, then the system displays an error message and displays the above question until the user has entered either 1 or 2.
If the user chooses entering a new order (1), then display the next product number question:
Please enter the next product number to buy (1 – 5 or -99 = end): user enters 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 or -99
 
If the user enters a value that is not one of -99, 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5, then repeat this question again until the user has entered one of the acceptable values.
 

If user enters -99, this means the end of the current order:

 
Display order summary, for example:
 
Order Total Amount:      $  72.83
 
Add this order total amount to the daily sales total amount.
The system should go back to asking the main question, as shown above.
 

If the user enters 1, 2, 3, 4, or 5 (these are product numbers), this is the next item to be purchased:

 
If the current inventory level of this product is 0, display “This item is out of stock. Please pick another one.” The system goes back to asking for the next product number, as shown above.
 
If the current inventory level is 0, display “Unit Price: the unit price of this item “ and “Current Quantity Available: the current inventory level of this item”
ask for the quantity ordered, “Enter quantity ordered: “ user enters the quantity ordered.
           
If the quantity available is smaller than the quantity ordered, sell only the quantity available. Otherwise, sell the ordered quantity.
 
Display “Quantity Sold: the quantity that can be sold”
Calculate the amount for this item as Unit Price * Quantity Sold.
                              Display the amount for this item: “Item Amount: $ the amount calculated”
                              Add this amount to the current order total amount.
                              Since this item has been sold, update the current inventory level of this item.
 
 
Repeat the above until the user enters -99 for the next product number to buy.
 
Then the system displays the main question again and repeats the above until the user enters a 2.
 
If the user chooses ending the whole order entry operation (2), then the system displays the daily sales total amount and ends the execution.
 
II. Write the class  MailOrderTesting to provide the following functions:
 
In method main of this application, instantiate an object of MailOrder and call the method processOrders of this MailOrder object to start order processing.

Annotated bibliography for this week

This assignment:
In Week Three you will construct a business report or proposal, and in Week Five you will construct an essay that discusses a public issue or concern. Review the assignment instructions in Week Three and Week Five, and identify one topic that you will use for your Week Three and Week Five assignments.
Next, research and select three scholarly sources that you plan to use in developing your Week Three and Week Five topic, and create an Annotated Bibliography of the key findings of the source material and how it fits with your topic. Include at least one government source, and one industry-specific source. In composing your annotated bibliography address the following:

Describe the overall purpose of each source as it relates to your chosen topic.
Identify at least one specific part of this work that is most applicable to your topic.
Select a direct quote from each source that provides a key insight applicable to your topic, and explain how the quote and the source address the interests of both a public audience and a business audience.

Each annotation should be at least 250 words in length. Your sources must include at one source from the Ashford Library, one source from an academic journal, and one video or multimedia source.
Be sure to use APA style when citing your sources.  For information regarding APA, including samples and tutorials, visit the Ashford Writing Center.
Week 3 Assignment for above:
 
Construct a business report or proposal using the topic that you chose in Week Two. You may use an existing business as a model or a fictionalized business appropriate to the needs of the topic. For this assignment, you may choose one of the following two options:

Write an internal report (you are part of the organization) that identifies a problem and offers an objective analysis of the consequences of taking a specific action.
Write a proposal from a potential vendor that addresses the problem and offers a specific solution.

The essay

Must be five to seven double-spaced pages in length (not including title and references pages) and formatted according to APA style as outlined in the Ashford Writing Center.
Must include a separate title page with the following:

Title of essay
Student’s name
Course name and number
Instructor’s name
Date submitted

Must use at least three appropriate sources for the intended business audience, including at least one government source and one industry-specific source. These sources may or may not be the same as the sources you used to create your Annotated Bibliography for the Week Two assignment.
Must begin with an introductory paragraph that has a succinct thesis statement that clearly presents a solution or initiative to the problem identified in the introduction.
Must address at least three key issues that clearly support the thesis statement with relevant points and critical thought.
Must end with a conclusion that reaffirms your thesis.
Must document all sources in APA style as outlined in the Ashford Writing Center.
Must include a separate references page that is formatted according to APA style as outlined in the Ashford Writing Center.

Week 5 Assignment:
 
 
Using the topic you selected in Week Three’s Business Writing Essay assignment, construct an essay that discusses a public issue or concern. For this assignment choose one of the following:

Write an opinion/editorials article for your local newspaper
Write a speech that could be delivered in a public forum

The essay should use standard writing practices such as subheads, bullets, charts and figures.
The essay

Must be five to seven double-spaced pages in length (not including title and references pages) and formatted according to APA style as outlined in the Ashford Writing Center.
Must include a separate title page with the following:

Title of essay
Student’s name
Course name and number
Instructor’s name
Date submitted

Must use at least three appropriate sources for the intended public audience, including at least one government source, and one industry-specific source. These sources may or may not be the same as the sources you used to create your Annotated Bibliography for the Week Two assignment.
Must begin with an introductory paragraph that has a succinct thesis statement that clearly states why the issue identified should be considered a public concern.
Must contain at least three fully-developed body paragraphs must clearly support the thesis statement with relevant supporting points and critical thought.
Must end with a conclusion that restates the essay’s main points and reaffirms your thesis.
Must document all sources in APA style, as outlined in the Ashford Writing Center.
Must include a separate reference page that is formatted according to APA style as outlined in the Ashford Writing Center.

Fin540 week 10 assignment 1

 
Fin 540 Assignment 1: Galaxy Skis
 
 Galaxy International is a small privately held company in the Northeast U.S. which manufactures high- tech carbon composite skis for the U.S. market. The company has been in business for 20 years, has 125 employees, and has $50 million in annual sales. Its owner, Jeremy Riven, is an ex-Olympic skier who developed the proprietary technology and bonding polymers that give Galaxy skis their unique flexibility, durability, and propensity to need low maintenance—all of which serious skiers in the U.S. have come to prize. Major costs involved in the manufacturing of skis are oil polymers, carbon fiber, and labor. Ski technicians are highly skilled machinists, and manufacturing the finished product is as much an art form as it is a science.
 
 
 
 
 
Jeremy has recently considered an initial public offering (IPO) to allow the firm to raise the funds it needs to go international. The underwriting group from Morgan Stanley believes they could easily raise sixty (60) million in the equity markets, and fifty (50) million in the bond market. Jeremy is trying to determine the cost of debt, the cost of equity (four [4] million shares at $15/share), and the firm’s weighted average cost of capital if he goes public and issues corporate bonds with a coupon rate of 8%. Last year, the firm resided in a 28% tax bracket. The risk-free rate in the U.S. is 2%, and the expected return on the market is 14%. Morgan Stanley estimates Galaxy’s beta, if traded publicly, would be approximately 1.8%. Galaxy has been growing at 15% a year since its inception.
 
 
 
 
 
Jeremy would like to expand his current U.S. facility from 40,000 square feet to 100,000 square feet, automate certain processes which heretofore have been done manually, and outsource work to China, where he plans to either build or lease a plant to extend his ski line worldwide. He could build a 50,000- square-foot facility in Canton for fifty (50) million dollars, or lease a similar facility for ten (10) million a year. Annual operating costs would be twenty (20) million dollars, and projected free cash flow, based on past experience, would be twelve (12) million a year (whether he leases or buys). The life of the plant would be fifteen (15) years, and inflation in China is currently running at 6% annually. Galaxy would repatriate profits from the Chinese operation and consolidate them with those of the U.S. operations. All expenses of operating the plant in China would be in Yuan.
 
Use the Internet to locate information about current events in China related to its economic state.
 
 
 
Faculty Note: If you would like to substitute China with a different country to avoid plagiarism, please do so.
 
 
 
Write a six to eight (6-8) page paper in which you:
 
 
 
1.Examine the pros and cons of an IPO for Galaxy International. Recommend whether the company should or should not proceed with an IPO.
 
2.Evaluate the appropriateness of the financing alternatives and strategies that are available to Jeremy, and select the one (1) you believe best suits the company. Provide support for your rationale.
 
3.Determine the advantages of debt over equity, and what each would cost after taxes. Determine Galaxy’s weighted average cost of capital (WACC) if it uses both alternatives to raise capital (i.e., debt and equity).
 
4.Recommend one (1) financial instrument that Jeremy could use in order to ensure a stable supply of oil for his operations and to protect his firm from currency translation losses.
 
5.Suggest one (1) approach that Jeremy can use to hedge his currency translation and transaction exposure to the Yuan. Provide support for your suggestion.
 
6.Determine whether Jeremy should lease or buy the plant in China. Justify your position using information regarding the current economic state in China.
 
7.Imagine that you are a portfolio manager. Determine whether or not you would want to participate in the IPO if Galaxy International goes public. Provide a rationale for your decision. Determine the expected return on the stock using Capital Asset Pricing Model (CAPM).
 
8.Determine if the Galaxy International’s expected returns would exceed its WACC. Provide a rationale.
 
9.Use at least five (5) quality academic resources in this assignment. Note: Wikipedia and other Websites to not qualify as academic resources.
 
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.
 
 
 

Incorporate your qualitative research | Human Resource Management homework help

*Homework
Its time to write the 2-3-page section of your outline that incorporates your qualitative research. (Note that in some outlines, qualitative research may appear in more than one section check your outline!) Whatever approach your outline takes, for your qualitative research, you may want to conduct an interview, hold a focus group of your own, or simply observe a particular event, meeting, or environment. To support your own findings, you should then try to include some sample qualitative research others have done. This type of information can be found in your library.
Please include the following information in this qualitative research section of your report:
Your chosen method(s) of qualitative research.
Your hypothesis (echoes your thesis statement)
Basic information from any research event(s) (location, time, date, participants, etc.)
Your observations from the qualitative research event(s) or report(s)
Your interpretations of your observations
How this research supports your thesis statement
If you refer to library resources, such as journals, books, etc. please include a tentative list of references in proper APA format. (If you do this as you go along, it will be much easier for you to make your Annotated Bibliography and your final References Page in the later stages of your project.)
Submit this section of your report as an attached Word document and then save it in your folder: you will incorporate it later into your completed report.
Submit your completed assignment by following the directions linked below. Please check the Course Calendar for specific due dates.
Save your assignment as a Microsoft Word document. (Mac users, please remember to append the .docx extension to the filename.) The name of the file should be your first initial and last name, followed by an underscore and the name of the assignment, and an underscore and the date. An example is shown below:
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Pervious assignment
Topic: The hidden effects of cosmetic surgery on women
Research question: Are the associated dangers of cosmetic surgery worth the procedures?
The topic will be addressed from the definition of cosmetic surgery, the types, and conditions leading to its performance and finally the risks and effects associated with undergoing these procedures. The topic is important to me and I chose to research on it after the recently increased frequencies of botched operations. Many women often feel unfulfilled with a particular body part and end up spending so much money on corrective cosmetic surgery. Such women go into the procedure without taking into account the potential dangers that the operations could cause. Medical practitioners also give two sides of the story and advice women on the side effects of these operations. They often ignore the fact that the surgery may not turn out to be as helpful and perfect the way that they intended. I am a believer that everyone is created perfectly, and we are a reflection of beauty, I, therefore, discourage cosmetic surgery and through this research paper, I hope to reach out to younger women who are currently considering such procedures.
The background information for this research will be attained from the journals, recorded experiences from victims and news articles that are related to the study topic. The materials that I would need to achieve this research would be medical journals on cosmetic surgery, testimonies from victims of botched operations, the Bible, medical websites with information about the topic and the government website about the same issue. This research is ideally both a quantitative and qualitative research. It involves the collection of data from observation, interviews, and data from accredited sources and numerical explanations from medical journals. Finally, I anticipate completing the research paper in seven days. This is to allow me to collect enough evidence and information to support my topic.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Reference
Negative Effects How Much Is Too Much. (n.d.). Retrieved from http://botchedface.weebly.com/-negative-effects.html
 
 
 
 
 

Discussion: 2 responses | Nursing homework help

APA format. MUST BE  1 SEPERATE RESPONSE TO EACH QUESTION. 1 paragraph per response. Use only scholar authors only. References needed
Discussion 1:
This week we discuss the hurdles implementing the quality improvement plan. At first I thought this would be difficult but looking back to my previous posts I have already touched on the many hurdles in implementation. One that I have not discussed is lack of providers. With Washington being 45th in the nation for mental health it goes to reason that one of the reasons we rank so poorly is lack of access and in that we lack providers (Mental Health America, 2020). My facility is currently trying to hire two new mental health providers, we are already facing understaffing in this area of practice. Attempting to have an existing provider attend rounds when they are already understaffed is unlikely, however, if we fill those position it would become more feasible. This means availability of physical staff available is my largest hurdle to overcome.
The cost of having a dedicated mental health practitioner could be argued as cost prohibitive. When just looking at patients with delirium we find increased cost of stay and increased mortality rates (Blair et al., 2018). If we look at the cost of extended stays for patients with mental health disturbances, including delirium, we could argue the savings from shortened stays and lowering mortality rates more than offsets the cost of the dedicated practitioner. Many of our mental health patients present with being underinsured, if they have medical insurance at all and have chosen to not seek treatment until it is life threatening do to cost prohibitive appointments (Mental Health America, 2020). If patients could be extubated earlier and leave the hospital sooner, the overall cost could be a net positive by having more patients survive the ICU and leave quicker.
If given the opportunity to implement the addition of mental health into the ICU it would be done in a 6-12-week period to adapt the culture to this addition. I would first have them participate in daily rounds with the unit to facilitate conversation and see if they could add input to manage those suffering with delirium or difficult to wean from sedation patients. After two weeks I would implement a more intimate relationship with the staff and have them round alone, not just with daily rounds, to see if nursing or physicians had more in-depth concerns for certain patients. After two to three weeks doing more personal rounds giving physicians the ability to consult the specialist early for concerns about medications or response to daily awakening trials would be implemented. This is the point that the new team member would be fully integrated.
Discussion 2:
In a utopian world, the implementation of all proposed action steps would be utilized to prevent adverse drug events (ADEs).  Unfortunately, the absolute amount of resources required to facilitate solving all healthcare problems is not a reality.  A proposed action step to improve practice would be to have a pharmacist within each department to monitor and adjust medication orders quickly, mix various medications, and be a resource for provider and nursing staff.  A pharmacist who is available as a resource to collaborate with and educate those seeking assistance is a vital component to patient safety.  According to Grill et al. (2019), the implementation of on floor pharmacists in the emergency department saved physicians 75 minutes per shift and spared physicians from distractions, reducing a myriad of prescribing errors.
             Additionally, the implementation of bar code scanning monitoring and providing routine education to those who fall below a specific scanning threshold.  For those who consistently above the threshold, incentives and praise should be incorporated into the organizational infrastructure to improve colleague morale and job satisfaction.  It is important not to implement punitive measures, as Battard (2017) explains that punitive measures undermine the overall goal of improved patient safety and diminishes morale.
             Regrettably, the implementation of departmental pharmacists is limited financially.  Justifying to administration powers the costs and benefit ratio in a reasonably small community hospital would be challenging.  One could argue for on-floor pharmacists who assist critical care floors such as the emergency department and intensive care unit due to the acuity of patients in those domains.  However, justifying pharmacists for multiple departments would not be cost-effective.
             Bar code scanning monitoring, education, and performance incentives are potential cost-effective methods for reducing ADEs.  Still, a barrier could be resistance from directors and managers who must develop and conduct the educational meetings in addition to their existing workload.  This application appears to be the most practical method for improving ADEs in a small community hospital setting.

logan-fg | Nursing homework help

Respond to this post with a positive response :
Ask a probing question, substantiated with additional background information, evidence or research.
Share an insight from having read your colleagues’ postings, synthesizing the information to provide new perspectives.
Offer and support an alternative perspective using readings from the classroom or from your own research in the Walden Library.
Validate an idea with your own experience and additional research.
Make a suggestion based on additional evidence drawn from readings or after synthesizing multiple postings.
Expand on your colleagues’ postings by providing additional insights or contrasting perspectives based on readings and evidence.
Use  references
EXAMPLE OF A REFERENCE:
If you cannot locate a doi number, this is how the reference should look: 
Quelly, S. B. (2017). Characteristics Associated with School Nurse Childhood Obesity Prevention Practices. Pediatric Nursing, 43(4). Retrieved from https://www.pediatricnursing.net/issues/17julaug/abstr5.html
                                          MAIN POST
                               Scholarly Writing and Plagiarism
                Learning is a journey and not a destination. A part of this journey was to use Grammarly and SafeAssign. I will discuss my experience with those two platforms as well as my perception of paraphrasing and plagiarism. The internet is full of resources, so I will be sharing an online resource that supports scholarly writing. Finally, I will share two American Psychological Association (APA) formatting rules that I believe are useful for academic writers.
                I have never used Grammarly before, but I like that I can check grammar in real time. I did not know such a tool was in existence and I will be using Grammarly for all my assignments going forward before sending. However, SafeAssign is not a new tool for me. When I went to Western Governors University, I used TurnItIn, which is similar to SafeAssign. It checks how much of your paper matches other known scholarly works. I wrote a sample paragraph with SafeAssign, and it was a 0% match. I like to see my works matching at 5% or less as a matter of philosophy. It is easy to avoid plagiarism if two things are remembered. Use thoughts that originate from your cranium and cite works according to APA rules and Walden University requirements. During this process, my insight was learning how to paraphrase better. Walden University (2012) states that paraphrasing is beyond simply rearranging a sentence and choosing synonyms. I realized paraphrasing is about turning the whole idea into your own words and then citing the author.
                Scholarly writing is a term that can be confusing for many students. I had no idea what it meant until I researched the topic. According to Jackson State University (2015), scholarly writing is structured and seeks feedback from the audience. It would seem that this is the purpose of using discussion boards in an online learning environment. I believe that this online resource is useful, and I plan on adding it as a bookmark as a reminder of the essentials of scholarly writing.
                As previously mentioned, proper APA style and formatting is essential in scholarly writing. A rule that I was not versed in was related to in-text citations with more than five authors. The APA Manual states, “when a work has six or more authors, cite only the surname of the first author followed by et al” (American Psychological Association, 2010, p. 175). Also, I did not know that the following rule existed. According to the American Psychological Association (2010, p. 170), presenting your existing work as new when it is not is the definition of self-plagiarism. I found this to be an interesting rule that I had not considered before and will make sure I never do.
 
References
American Psychological Association. (2010). Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association (6th ed.). Washington, DC: American Psychological Association.
Jackson State University. (2015). What Is Scholarly Writing? Retrieved from http://www.jsums.edu/wrightcenter/2015/04/29/what-is-scholarly-writing/
Walden University. (2012). Walden University: Proofreading and revising. Retrieved from http://writingcenter.waldenu.edu/872.htm

Keiser Career College Port St Lucie Nursing Question

Look Ahead: Research Paper Topic GuidelinesComponents: This project consists of three major activities:Conduct secondary research (i.e. library, internet, etc)Write research paper computing the financial ratios yourself.Prepare a Power Point Presentation supporting your Research Paper.Due Date and Time: 4/26/23 before MidnightPapers and presentation are due at the beginning the final class meeting and are to be submitted in the same manner you submitted other assignments.You have just graduated from Keiser University’s MBA program and have secured a position as a fund manager for a well-known investment banking house. You have been given $25 million to manage/invest in a single stock. The fund is a pension/retirement fund, so its perspective is long term with moderate risk of loss of capital and a required return of 9% per annum. Your assignment is to determine if the fund you are managing should invest $25 million dollars in the stock of the company you have selected for your first analysis/investment decision. Select a publicly traded US based company. Do not select a bank or financial intermediary (i.e Investment Bank, Insurance Company, Brokerage House etc). Your decision to invest or not invest will be supported by the research paper and a Power Point Presentation.Your analysis, based on the concepts covered in this course, will address each of the following:Accounting Analysis: Do the accounting practices adopted by the company generally reflect an accurate picture of the economic performance of the company? Did your research find any public announcements of restatement of earnings or other financial statements that would indicate that the financial statements may be of dubious value? This can be done by reviewing the company’s 8K filings with the SEC (a mandatory requirement for this paper). These filings can generally be found on the company’s website under Investor Relations – SEC filings.Financial Analysis: Analyze financial ratios and cash flow measures of the company relative to its historical performance. For purposes of this research paper a 2 year look back is sufficient and required. You must use at least 10 of the ratios noted on page 119 of the text including all four of the profitability ratios.Prospective Analysis: Develop forecasted performance measures and list the assumptions associated with your forecast. List your assumptions and reasons for your forecast. You may also cite the works of other analysts who have published forecasted earnings for the time frame you are addressing. (Hint: take a look at Yahoo/finance – analysts opinionConclusion: Will you or will you not invest $25 million in this particular Company? Support your conclusion? Remember a negative conclusion is just as valid and valuable as a positive conclusion. Conducting Library Research:Participate in a research orientation offered by the graduate librarian.Conduct a search for sources that offer accurate information on your company. A minimum of six legitimate and valid relevant resources are required.Note: An excellent place to start is in Keiser University’s library LIRN database. Enter LIRN, go to INFOTRAC, in INFOTRAC enter “Business and Company Resource with PROMT and Newsletters. Enter the name of your company. Under your company you will find items such as “Historical”, “Investment Reports”, “Financial” and other data. You can find Industry Analysis in Standard Poor’s. Individual company information may be found in Value Line and Morningstar. Additional information can generally be found on the company’s website under “Investor Relations”. Here you will find SEC 10-K, 10Q, 8K’s and other filings. You may also wish to visit the website of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) for filings by your company.Avoid general Internet key word searches. Wikipedia and other unauthorized sources are inappropriate for graduate work. Articles noting up to date information is such sources as The Wall Street Journal, Barron’s or Business Week may be useful in addressing the appropriateness of current strategies, resource pricing, etc. given market conditions or the status of competitors.Writing the Paper:The following are general guidelines for format and organization.Format:Minimum of ten pages (including self-prepared exhibits), with numbered pages.Typed, double spaced.New Times Roman (i.e. business) font, 12 point.Margins – 1.25 inches.Note source citations as appropriate under APA guideline.Organization:Cover page – Name of paper, your name, course number and name, date submitted.Introduction – A brief statement of the purpose of the paper and explanation of its organization. You are welcome to use pseudonyms for the name of the company or individuals addressed in the paper.Summary – A brief statement combining the finding arising from the analysis.Conclusion/Recommendations – should you invest or not invest the $25 million and why or why not.Preparing the Presentation:Presents will be made in class during the last day of class. The presentation will be supported by a Power Point slide and will last not less than 12 minutes or more than 15 minutes (Executive Committee length).

You are a programmer for the software development group of a large

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You are a programmer for the software development group of a large retailer. Your company has grown dissatisfied with its current point-of-sale software because it has historically struggled with the correct application and calculation of sales tax on an order. Your business deals primarily with storefront business and its customers are primarily on foot in the store when they buy, so it is of the utmost importance that sales tax be calculated quickly and accurately. This may sound like a simple task, but remember that sales tax varies by state and maybe even by item within that state.
Your supervisor has asked you to pull apart the initial version of a possible new sales system, which he has colorfully but aptly named SaleBad for the sake of illustration (and perhaps his love of Tarzan movies). After a quick analysis, you sketch out the following UML diagram to describe it.
It is clear that the program does, indeed, need some work. To demonstrate the problems within the project, you prepare a brief demonstration of its weaknesses.
Task 1: Highlight the Problems. Unzip and open the project SaleBad. Create some Item objects, a Sale object, and some SaleLines objects (via the addItem method in SaleBad). Determine how the total (from the SaleBad object) is calculated and explain why the class needs to be redesigned. In one or two paragraphs, explain why the current design will not suffice. For the moment, do not worry about how, exactly, that redesign will happen.
It occurs to you that the code needs to be more loosely coupled. Changes in tax policy on various items, or on the tax rate itself, should affect as few classes and methods as possible. As you begin to conceptualize the new design, your supervisor pops his head around the corner again. Evidently, the store has been errantly charging sales tax on food items that are specifically supposed to be tax-free in some states.
You decide that the Item class is the best place to implement sales tax because the tax on each item could vary. The state in which the Item is purchased may also affect the tax, so with these thoughts in mind, you sketch out a new-and-improved UML class diagram, illustrated below.
This diagram is implemented in the project SaleBetter. Despite the improvements, however, something is bothering you.
Task 2: Whats Bothering You? You had good reasons to implement tax calculations within the Item class-it makes much more sense than placing it in the other current classes. However, it simply makes more sense to introduce an entirely new Tax class. In 1-2 paragraphs, explain why, citing principles of good program design.
Now that you have decided that the taxation policies on items should be handled in a completely separate class, you proudly craft the UML diagram below. Feeling more and more confident, you implement it in a project called SaleEvenBetter.
Task 3: Taxation With Class Representation. Open the SaleEvenBetter project and explore how sales are calculated. In 1-2 paragraphs, explain how this design improves upon its predecessor.
One final hurdle needs to be cleared before you can mark this project complete: You still need to account for Items that are not taxed. You sketch the UML diagram below, splitting the Tax class into two subclasses, PercentageTax and NoTax. You have a plan in place, and your supervisor approves, so it is time to implement it.
Task 4: Let Them Eat (Untaxed) Cake. Using the project SaleEvenBetter as a starting point, implement the new design as described in the UML diagram above. Verify that the tax method within PercentageTax returns the same value as the getPriceWithTax method in the current version of SaleEvenBetter for taxed items, whereas the tax method in NoTax returns a value of zero. To complete Task 4, submit the new version of SaleEvenBetter.