Track the share price performance of Centrica PLC and SSE PLC over a period of time and identify significant announcements by the two companies
This topic tracks the share price performance of Centrica PLC and SSE PLC over a period of time. Identify significant announcements by the two companies in the past 12-month period. This should cover the announcement of interim results and the annual results and any other significant news.
Requirement: An excellent identification of key announcements made with in-depth discussion. Emphasising key results both interim and annual and identifying potential shortcomings. Include a recommendation that clearly identifies the company that represents the better investment, with reasons
Critically Evaluate Unilever’s Sustainability Performance
You are required to write a 2250 word individual essay evaluating the sustainability performance of Unilever. You must also provide a 400 word personal reflection (note this is not included as part of the essay’s 2250 word count)
Individual Essay on Cybercriminal Operation.
INSTRUCTIONS
Consider the following cybercriminal operation:
ExtinctionHotel focusses on the Middle East and targets hotels keen to service the burgeoning healthcare conference sector. The attack will take advantage of eager and unaware hotel employees, who will expose sensitive guest information through an apparently harmless spear-phishing emails. Highly legitimate-looking E-mails are crafted to convince the hotel staff of the seriousness of the reservation request. Fake domains with names that reference popular medical institutions will be set up to increase the legitimacy of the spear-phishing emails. The email will be written in Arabic. The attached file will claim to have the details for the medical conference and the names of the guests.
The attack will employ a remote access trojan known as PoisonIvy. A variation would be created to avoid detection from previously known attacks. After installation, several other modules are installed to capture the credit card details of customers and travel agencies. In addition, it makes copies of all stored customers’ personal data including date of birth, email addresses, phone numbers and, most especially, passports.
The attack is monetised by purchasing vouchers (e.g. Amazon) and reselling them for profit on platforms like eBay. The vouchers are sold to customers based in third countries, in an attempt to make tracking a harder task for local authorities. Further, the criminals have purchased programmable EMV chip cards which are used to withdraw large amounts of cash without the knowledge of the owner’s PIN. [adapted from: source withheld]
Questions
The overall word limit is 2000 words, the word limits for each question are suggestions only, but represent the distribution of marks.
- List the actors involved, their roles and abilities. (300 words)
- Design four countermeasures (300 words on an engineering, legal, economic and education countermeasure each):
- Give a clear description of the countermeasure, with sufficient technical detail that it could be implemented
- Targeted the mitigation to the cybercriminal operation – be creative and specific!
- Comment on potential implementation issues, and the wider consequences of implementing the countermeasure
- Discuss the effectiveness and limitations of the mitigation
- Use references to support your argument.
- Rank your countermeasures on their likelihood of success against the cybercriminal operation and explain the ranking. (300 words)
- How could the cybercriminals improve their operation considering your top rated countermeasure? (200 words)
- Give one creative improvement with sufficient technical detail that it could be implemented,
- Make an argument for the effectiveness of your improvement,
- Use references to support your argument.
creativity in science
Creativity is one of the contemporary ideas around Primary Science Education. Drawing on research and authors in the field of education, discuss the place of creativity in the primary science classroom.
Organizational Tax Planning
Questions2
1) 338(a)(1) shall be treated as having sold all its assets at the close of the acquisition date at fair market value in a single transaction, and 338(a)(2) shall be treated as a new corporation which purchased all the assets referred to in paragraph one as of the beginning of the day after the acquisition date. IRC Section 338 allows a deemed sale election generating immediate taxation to the target corporation and a stepped-up or stepped-down basis to the price paid by the acquiring corporation for the target corporation stock plus liabilities on the deemed sale.
- Examine the benefits of IRC Section 338 liquidation election for a target corporation and create a scenario that would demonstrate a favorable Section 338 liquidation election for a target corporation.
2) When a group of corporations comes together to form an affiliated group for tax purposes, individual corporate members in the group may choose to file their own income tax return or file a group tax return; with an agreement of all the group members, they can elect to file a consolidated return. Imagine that a client is pursuing the acquisition of Corporation A that has a substantial net operating loss. Corporation B is a member of a controlled group and is currently included in a consolidated tax return that also has a net operating loss.
- Analyze the potential advantages and disadvantages of Corporation B’s acquisition of Corporation A and Corporation A’s subsequent inclusion in Corporation B’s consolidated tax return.
- Suggest the critical tax issues the client should consider in determining the deductibility of the net operating losses.
- Evaluate the impact of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA) on the net operating losses.
Briefly discuss why non-standard risks may be hard to secure coverage for, and why a broker may use a wholesale broker in these cases.
(5 marks)
Jack and Jill Tsang own a large home with a pool in the backyard. When Mr. and Mrs. Tsang aren’t throwing pool parties for their friends and family, they like taking walks in the park with their guard dog, Rufus. Jack is a stay-at-home Dad and Jill is a writer for Inside Scoop Magazine, an online publication for gossip stories about celebrities and politicians.
Identify and briefly explain 2 liability exposures facing Mr. and Mrs. Tsang.
(5 marks)
Briefly discuss why non-standard risks may be hard to secure coverage for, and why a broker may use a wholesale broker in these cases.
(5marks)
Connie has just returned from a winter vacation in Mexico. She has asked her neighbor to keep an eye on her property while she was away and take the mail into the house daily. When Connie entered her house, she realized that a pipe upstairs had ruptured. This resulted in a collapse of the upstairs bathroom floor, and major water damage. Since this is Connie’s first insurance claim, she is asking her broker John for advice on how the claim will be handled and what to expect. Connie is a conscientious individual and wants to assist the insurance adjuster to ensure that she can move back into her house as quickly as possible.
Briefly discuss the steps John will take to guide Connie’s expectations of the claims process.
(5 marks)
Deby Matteo is insured with your brokerage. Deby owns a large single detached house and has replacement cost coverage on her building and contents. She declined sewer backup coverage as she felt the coverage was too expensive. Six months after issuing the policy, Deby experienced a large sewer backup loss in her house. Shortly after the loss occurred, she submitted a claim to her insurer. The insurer subsequently denied the claim as there was no coverage in place.
Deby was frustrated by the denial of coverage and is considering looking for insurance elsewhere. As her broker, how should you communicate with her to maintain good relations?
(5 marks)
Briefly explain who a NAMED INSURED is as part of an insurance application, and why the distinction is important.
(5 marks)
Frank, a broker, is reviewing Condominium unit coverage with his new client, Rucha. She requests a detailed explanation from Frank about how and why she could have unexpected expenses to pay as a result of damages to the condominium corporation’s building or property grounds.
Identify and briefly describe the coverage that would protect Rucha if she is required to pay unexpected expenses from the corporation
Brotherhood (Hassan al Banna; Sayyid Qutb) vs. those of Osama Bin Laden and Ayman Al-Zawahiri.
Answer three questions, three pages each, typed double spaced. One-inch margins.
Question one: Sunni Islam: (3 pages).
Identify the commonalities and differences between the attitudes of the Muslim Brotherhood (Hassan al Banna; Sayyid Qutb) vs. those of Osama Bin Laden and Ayman Al-Zawahiri. Give four examples. (See RWE pg. 370-388 and MW pg.200—213 to answer this question).
Question two: Shi’ite Islam: (3 pages).
Select appropriate Shi’ite texts on behalf of offensive vs. defensive war. Identify the commonalities and differences. Give four examples. (See RWE pg. 407-440, to answer this question).
Question three: (3 pages).
Identify jus ad bello and jus in bello for the Russian Orthodox Church and detail their relationship to Putin’s Russian-Orthodox Church-supported invasion of Ukraine. Provide details – and offer your own explanation for any discrepancies. (See RWE pg. 164-172, to answer this question).
NOTE:
• This paper should be 9 pages in total excluding the reference/Bibliography page
• Use the Bible and Quran as additional sources to support the provided texts(files)
• You can use outside sources to support the provided text. All outside sources must be related to the topics and properly cited.
• Use footnotes
• The reference/Bibliography should on a separate page.
apply your knowledge of theory associated with culture and cultural groups and (hypothetically) apply it to a group in such a way that is plausible, and likely to help the group succeed in collective-action and socio-cultural problems
In this essay, students will apply their knowledge of theory associated with culture and cultural groups and (hypothetically) apply it to a group in such a way that is plausible, and likely to help the group succeed in collective-action and socio-cultural problems.
The student must assume the position of a ‘consultant’ who has been hired by a movie director / novelist to help make their movie more authentic and scientifically accurate. Students must draw on their understanding of culture and psychology to propose a range of strategies to ensure that a hypothetical social group can survive and thrive over multigenerational time. There are three movies/topics the student may choose from.
• You are responsible for dictating how a group of post-apocalyptic survivors will endure after a global cataclysmic event, with respect to common and expected social and environmental problems.
The task is to help describe a likely and reasonable set of psychological solutions to common problems that would be encountered by a group of people in this setting. In each case, the following conditions are present:
• The group is between 1000 – 1500 people strong, and includes families and people from multiple generations.
• This group cannot communicate with any outgroups.
• This group is diverse, and includes people from different faiths, ethnicities, nationalities. You may assume that they all share a common language.
• Natural resources are unreliable or seasonal. The group must anticipate periods of both abundance and scarcity.
• The group must survive for at least 200 years, and as such, it can be expected that those who are present after 200 years will have had no direct contact with those who first arrived. That is, social learning is important, as will be social structures associated with families.
• The group must be prepared for new individuals arriving who wish to enter into the group. They may also have to be prepared for individuals in the group defecting and leaving the group.
The student must address several key factors:
• How the group will bond and subsequently form and maintain a shared social identity.
• How the group will address issues of cooperation, defection, norms, and/or morality.
• How formal or informal institutions within the group will facilitate social learning and transmission of important information with minimal loss or error.
• How family units are structured, and a justification for this decision
• What the social hierarchy will look like.
• How the group will integrate new members (if at all).
This essay will contain creative elements, but all decisions must be based on, and defended with, peer-reviewed literature drawn from the course and further afield. Students are strongly advised to draw on real world examples in order to illustrate and inform the reader.
Discuss the differences between Gram positive and Gram negative bacteria.
• The term paper should be written on 8.5″ x 11″ with one-inch margins, 1.5 spaced,
12 pt., Times New Romans font, numbered pages, with author’s name appears in the first page, and in APA format.
• Paper should contain the following sections:
• Title page
• Abstract (not to exceed 250 words)
• Introduction
• Body of the paper
• Conclusion
• References
Produce a marketing plan for your allocated brand to cover the next three years (January 2023-December 2025) outlining how you would protect and build on the brand’s current strengths and overcome its key weaknesses
Individual task is to produce a marketing plan for your allocated brand to cover the next three years (January 2023-December 2025) outlining how you would protect and build on the brand’s current strengths and overcome its key weaknesses to take advantage of the key opportunities that you have identified within the marketplace and to minimise the potential impact of the key threats.
arial 12
double spaced
