Demonstrate the following knowledge and understanding : Recognise and understand the different methods of collecting data in quantitative and qualitative research approaches the basis of selecting ,methods of data collection and understand the ethics underpinning the collection of data.
Demonstrate the following skills and abilities. Able to choose a method of collecting data that is appropriate to answer research question. the ability to identify ethical principles that underpin the respective methods of data collection chosen. i have attached the assignment brief that must be followed.
Brand Management
1. To come complete a brand audit on John West a sub brand of Simplot.
2. How can we attract younger audience to consume John West (our products).
3. Instructions/structure of report are in the attached files (follow assessment brief and report structure).
4. My section is only Introduction, Brand Inventory & Target Market and Positioning Strategy (2-4 in AT2 Report Structure) I have attached a word document template that you can use to fill in the report ‘AT2 Report’.
5. I have attached additional resources that may be of good use.
Leading Change: Examining the Relationships between Leadership Style, Organizational Culture and Change Readiness in Private Universities of the State of Massachusetts.
Leading Change: Examining the Relationships between Leadership Style, Organizational Culture and Change Readiness in Private Universities of the State of Massachusetts.
Critically analyse the provisions of the Joint Contracts Tribunal (JCT), New Engineering Contract (NEC) and International Federation of Consulting Engineers (FIDIC) forms of contract for construction.
Learning outcomes
Code Description
LO1 Critically analyse the provisions of the Joint Contracts Tribunal (JCT), New
Engineering Contract (NEC) and International Federation of Consulting Engineers (FIDIC) forms of contract for construction.
LO2 Critically analyse the roles of the parties and contract administrators within construction contracts.
LO3 Critically evaluate a range of different contract events using the procedures in the standard forms of contract to identify practical, reasoned solutions and understand the impact on the client organisation.
LO4 Critically evaluate the principles of accountancy concepts and business planning models and their impact on the project.
Scenario
You work for a company that specialises in construction project management. Following a feasibility study for a new port, the government client has decided to follow a competitive dialogue process for the procurement of the different packages of work. Your company has been invited to come to a two-day presentation and meeting, together with other prospective contractors and consultants, at which the overall scheme will be explained and where you will be expected to contribute ideas and demonstrate your team’s ability to work cooperatively with others.
The main work packages of the scheme are:
• A new breakwater with rip rap protection.
• Two new harbour walls with berthing points for ships.
• Plant for offloading and stacking containers.
• Access roads for and rail head.
• Office buildings and facilities for port staff.
The client has carried out a preliminary risk workshop and identified the following risks:
• Marine weather conditions including storms and high tides.
• Uncertain ground conditions for the harbour wall and office building
• Possible supply chain shortages – the aim of the client is to supply as much of the scheme as possible from in country resources.
Additionally, because this is government money, the government department that acts as the client must make monthly reports to the treasury department regarding the cumulative spending on the scheme against the predicted spending, the spending needs over the following three months and
the likely final outturn costs of the scheme. The client has indicated that they would like prequalification companies to describe the financial reporting systems that they would use, should they be a contractor on the scheme.
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Task
Your managing director has asked you to prepare a report in advance of the pre-qualification process so that your team is prepared to participate in discussions, at the two-day workshop, about:
• the most suitable forms of contract for the packages, and why these forms can best deal with the anticipated and unexpected risks in the scheme.
• how the client can successfully administer the scheme through the contract personnel,
including an organisational chart for the scheme (make reasonable and supported assumptions about the sequencing of the work).
• how the contracts can provide reliable financial information for the client’s business planning, and in what form this information should be.
An executive summary is required.
Additional guidance
Competitive dialogue procedure is a method of pre-qualification and early contractor involvement, where short listed candidates are invited to discuss the nature of the project before tenders are invited. It is a recognized procedure under the EU public and utility procurement rules.
Reference list and bibliography
You should include a reference list with a minimum of eight separate relevant and appropriate sources that you have written about and cited within your work.
A bibliography of uncited sources is not required.
Further information to support you with this assignment is available within the study materials for this module on the .
Describe the body system/organ or pathologic condition that is a likely host for pathogen overgrowth
1. Please fill out attached chart with 2 peer reviewed less than 5 years old references.
2. Penicillin is the medication of choice to answer the question below with 2 references peer reviewed less than 5 years old
a. Identify pathogens eradicated by the drug selected
b. Explain the drug distribution and onset of action
c. Describe the body system/organ or pathologic condition that is a likely host for pathogen overgrowth
d. Provide information related to the medication’s metabolism (1/2 life, steady state)
Drug Class Bacterio- Method of Action ½ life – dosing interval Peak levels Side Effects Excretion Bacterial Spectrum (name bacteria effective against) static / cidal (renal, hepatic) + / – Penicillins Cephalosporins Monobactams Carbapenims Fluoroquinolones Macrolides Aminoglycocides Tetracycline Glycyclines Sulfamethoxazole/ trimethoprim
what is Marketing Mix and how does it fit with customer Oriented Brand Strategy?
A chosen brand-Wren Kitchens
Conduct research using academic and industry sources(800 words).
Using the following topics :
a).what is Marketing Mix and how does it fit with customer Oriented Brand Strategy?
b).what makes a Sustainable Customer Oriented Marketing Strategy?
Please show synthesis and integration of range of research informed information using academic/professional literature(from UK).Both in-text citations and the reference list should follow Harvard Referencing Style.
Explore a language teaching/learning topic of your interest by providing a critical comparison of two recent studies on an aspect of language teaching/learning and a broader discussion of the issue investigated.
The aim of the assignment for this module is to enable you to explore a language teaching/learning topic of your interest by providing a critical comparison of two recent studies on an aspect of language teaching/learning and a broader discussion of the issue investigated.
Select two empirical studies on the same topic. The topic needs to be related to the general focus of the module. The studies must have been published in international peer-reviewed journals (see the list of recommended journals in the module reading list) in the last 5 years. They may differ in their approach to the topic in terms of the theoretical approaches, analytical frameworks or research methodologies, or they may use similar approaches but focus on different contexts or languages.
Your assignment should include the following:
• An introduction to the topic the two studies deal with, which needs to be situated in a broader context of the literature on language teaching/learning. For instance, you may want to consider questions such as whether the topic is novel or well-established in the literature, why it is important for language teaching/learning, and/or what motivates you to focus on this topics.
• A critical comparison and contrast of the two studies, addressing issues such as the similarities/differences in the aims, specific foci, research questions, understanding of main concepts, theoretical approaches, research methods, participants, contexts, findings, implications for pedagogy, the richness and depth of insight into the topic, and/or any other important features of the studies. It is not necessary to address all of these issues; select those relevant to the comparison and contrast of your chosen studies. It is better to elaborate on a small number of comparison/contrast points than to list a large number but not provide much discussion.
• A synthesis of the findings and consideration of questions such as what the studies reveal about the topic (and what they do not, if relevant), in what ways they contribute to furthering our knowledge on the topic, and what remains to be explored in future research on the topic, leading to an extended commentary on the topic and its importance and interest for language teaching/learning.
Possible ways of structuring
your assignment
• Introduction
• Comparison and contrast
– Theme 1
– Theme 2
– Theme 3
• Conclusion
OR
• Introduction
• Comparison and contrast
– Similarities
– Differences
• Conclusion
• What NOT to do:
– Introduction
– Detailed summary of Study 1
– Detailed summary of Study 2
– A brief section on comparison and contrast
– Conclusion
• This structure typically leads to summaries becoming the main part of the paper; in addition, they tend to be presented as two completely separate sections
COMMON PROBLEMS
• There is too much summary and not much comparison and contrast of the studies
• The paper provides a long list of similarities and differences between the studies but doesn’t provide an in-depth critical elaboration on them
• The paper focuses on one study in great detail and only marginally on the other
References should NOT only include the two studies and references provided by the tutor but should demonstrate more extensive research. You may also refer to your language teaching/learning experience when assessing the significance of the topic/issues to language teaching.
Word length: 3,500 and 4,000 words. Please write the word count after the list of references. The list of references is not included in the word count.
Sources to be find in these journals:
KEY JOURNALS
· Applied Linguistics
· ELT Journal
· Language Teaching (especially state-of-the-art articles on specific themes)
· Language Teaching Research
· Journal of Multicultural and Multilingual Development
· Modern Language Journal
· Research in the Teaching of English (publishes annotated bibliographies every year)
· System
· TESOL Quarterly
· TESL-EJ (free online journal)
SOME SPECIALIST JOURNALS
· Classroom Discourse
· English for Specific Purposes
· Journal of English for Academic Purposes
· Journal of Second Language Writing
· Language Awareness
· Language Testing
(Law of the European Union Module) ‘The EU Treaties do not establish an effective and sufficiently democratic framework to control the exercise of EU competences. It is therefore not surprising to see some Member State courts pushing back against the primacy of EU law by asserting their power to review the legality of EU action.’ Critically discuss.
Answer the following question in no more than 2000 words.
‘The EU Treaties do not establish an effective and sufficiently democratic framework to control the exercise of EU competences. It is therefore not surprising to see some Member State courts pushing back against the primacy of EU law by asserting their power to review the legality of EU action.’
Critically discuss.
Consider the organization you are currently working for or the one you have worked for in the past. Describe this organization as a system. What is the input to this system? What is the output? What is the boundary of the system?
Consider the organization you are currently working for(I WORK FOR A HOSPITAL SYSTEM) or the one you have worked for in the past. Describe this organization as a system in a three page APA style paper (excluding title and reference pages). Discuss each of these concerning this system (Please see Definition of a System and its Parts in Chapter 1 of the text):
What is the input to this system?
What is the output?
What is the boundary of the system?
What are the components? And their interrelationships?
What are the constraints?
What is the purpose?
What are the interfaces?
And what is the environment?
Draw a diagram of this system (you can use Word or PowerPoint to draw a diagram).
In addition to the requirements above, your paper:
Must be 900 word double-spaced (three pages) and use 12 point font.
Must be formatted according to APA style.
Must reference two scholarly resources in addition to the textbook.
Must include a list of references written in APA format.
Evaluate capital projects and make appropriate decision recommendations.
Use capital budgeting tools to determine the quality of three proposed investment projects, and prepare a 6-8 page report that analyzes your computations and recommends the project that will bring the most value to the company.
Introduction
This assessment is about one of the basic functions of the finance manager, which is allocating capital to areas that will increase shareholder value and add the most value to the company. This means forecasting the projected cash flows of the projects and employing capital budgeting metrics to determine which project, given the forecast cash flows, gives the firm the best chance to maximize shareholder value. As a finance professional, you are expected to:
Use capital budgeting tools to compute future project cash flows and compare them to upfront costs.
Evaluate capital projects and make appropriate decision recommendations.
Prepare reports and present the evaluation in a way that finance and non-finance stakeholders can understand.
Scenario
Senior leadership has now called upon you to analyze three capital project requests based on forecasted cash flow as they relate to maximizing shareholder value.
Your Role
You are one of Marias high-performing financial analyst managers at ABC Healthcare Corporation and she trusts your work and leadership. Senior leadership was impressed with your presentation in Assessment 1 and they are tasking you with the analysis of these three proposed capital projects based on forecasted cash flow. You have completed forecasting the projected cash flows of the projects as reflected in the attached spreadsheets, Projected Cash Flows [XLSX]. You now need to conduct your analysis recommending which will provide the most shareholder value to the organization.
Requirements
Use capital budgeting tools to compute future project cash flows and compare them to upfront costs. Remember to only evaluate the incremental changes to cash flows.
Employing capital budgeting metrics, determine which project, given the forecast cash flows, gives the organization the best chance to maximize shareholder value.
Demonstrate knowledge of a variety of capital budgeting tools including net present value (NPV), internal rate of return (IRR), payback period, and profitability index (PI). The analysis of the capital projects will need to be correctly computed and the resulting decisions rational.
Evaluate capital projects and make appropriate decision recommendations. Accurately compare the indicated projects with correct computations of capital budgeting tools and then make rational decisions based on the findings.
Select the best capital project, based on data analysis and evaluation, that will add the most value for the company. Provide a rationale for your recommendations based on your financial analysis.
Prepare reports and present the evaluation in a way that finance and non-finance stakeholders can understand.
Project A: Major Equipment Purchase
A new major equipment purchase, which will cost $10 million; however, it is projected to reduce cost of sales by 5% per year for 8 years.
The equipment is projected to be sold for salvage value estimated to be $500,000 at the end of year 8.
Being a relatively safe investment, the required rate of return of the project is 8%.
The equipment will be depreciated at a MACRS 7-year schedule.
Annual sales for year 1 are projected at $20 million and should stay the same per year for 8 years.
Before this project, cost of sales has been 60%.
The marginal corporate tax rate is presumed to be 25%.
Project B: Expansion Into Three Additional States
Expansion into three additional states has a forecast to increase sales/revenues and cost of sales by 10% per year for 5 years.
Annual sales for the previous year were $20 million.
Start-up costs are projected to be $7 million and an upfront needed investment in net working capital of $1 million. The working capital amount will be recouped at the end of year 5.
The marginal corporate tax rate is presumed to be 25%.
Being a risky investment, the required rate of return of the project is 12%.
Project C: Marketing/Advertising Campaign
A major new marketing/advertising campaign, which will cost $2 million per year and last 6 years.
It is forecast that the campaign will increase sales/revenues and costs of sales by 15% per year.
Annual sales for the previous year were $20 million.
The marginal corporate tax rate is presumed to be 25%.
Being a moderate risk investment, the required rate of return of the project is 10%.
Deliverable Format
In this assessment, you will prepare an appropriate evaluation report to senior leadership using sound research and data to defend your decision.
Report requirements:
Your report should follow the corresponding MBA Academic and Professional Document Guidelines, including single-spaced paragraphs.
Ensure written communication is free of errors that detract from the overall message and quality.
Format your paper according to APA style and formatting.
Use at least three scholarly resources.
Length: Between 6-8 pages of content beyond the title page, references, and any appendices.
Use 12 point, Times New Roman.
Evaluation
By successfully completing this assessment, you will demonstrate your proficiency in the following course competencies through corresponding scoring guide criteria:
Competency 1: Apply the theories, models, and practices of finance to the financial management of an organization.
Use capital budgeting tools to compute future project cash flows and compare them to upfront costs. Demonstrate knowledge of a variety of capital budgeting tools, including net present value (NPV), internal rate of return (IRR), payback period, and profitability index (PI).
Competency 2: Analyze financing strategies to maximize stakeholder value.
Evaluate the capital projects using data analysis and applicable metrics that align to the business goals of maximizing shareholder value. Accurately compare the indicated projects with correct computations of capital budgeting tools and then make rational decisions based on the findings.
Competency 3: Apply financial analyses to business planning and decision making.
Select the best capital project, based on data analysis and evaluation, that will add the most value for the company. Provide a rationale for your recommendations based on your financial analysis.
Competency 5: Communicate financial information with multiple stakeholders.
Prepare an appropriate evaluation report for senior leadership, using sound research and data to defend the decision. Present the evaluation in a way that finance and non-finance stakeholders can understand.
