Analyze the relationship between business events and accounting.

Complete three accounting exercises related to liabilities and equity using a provided worksheet.

Introduction

Information about liabilities is most useful when the balance sheet identifies them as either current or long-term. Managers need to know when obligations are due so they can plan for them and take appropriate action. This is the essence of classifying liabilities.

Current Liabilities

All liabilities for an organization reported in the financial statements exhibit three distinct characteristics: (1) definition, (2) classification, and (3) uncertainty. No liability can be reported when one or more of these characteristics is missing. As an example of liability definition, most organizations expect to pay salaries or wages to their employees in the months and years to come; however, these future payments are not liabilities because no past event, such as employee work, resulted in a present obligation.

Uncertainty in liabilities involves addressing three important questions: (1) Whom to pay? (2) When to pay? (3) How much to pay? The answers to these questions helps accounting employees make the correct entries, post to the correct customer accounts, and reconcile liability amounts to the financial statements.

Long-Term Liability and Corporate Stock

Organizational projects that require large amounts of money often are funded from the issuance of bonds or corporate stock. Some examples of organizations that use this form of financing include for-profit and non-profit companies, government units, water authorities, and school districts. In return for financing these large projects, bonds promise to repay the lender with interest. Purchasers of corporate stock do so with the expectation of dividend earnings and stock value appreciation.

Overview

This assessment consists of three accounting exercises. The exercises are provided in the Accounting for Liabilities and Equity Worksheet. Use this worksheet to record and submit your solutions for Exercises 4-1, 4-2, and 4-3.

Preparation

In addition, practice problems for each exercise are provided in the Assessment 4 Practice Problems Worksheet. The worksheet and answer key can be found in the Capella Resources activity of this assessment and are optional.

The following resource is required to complete the assessment.

CAPELLA RESOURCES

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Submission Guidelines

Submit your Accounting for Liabilities and Equity Worksheet for faculty evaluation. Please do not submit completed practice problems with your assessment.

Competencies Measured

By successfully completing this assessment, you will demonstrate your proficiency in the following course competencies and assessment criteria:

• Competency 1: Analyze the relationship between business events and accounting.
  • Record bond discount amortization transactions, including bond issue, amortization and interest calculations, and an amortization table.
  • Record stock transactions, including preparation of a retained earnings statement.
• Competency 2: Apply accounting principles as the language of business.
  • Determine short-term note maturity dates and interest due at maturity.
  • Prepare journal entries to account for short-term notes payable events and transactions..

Explain how the identity of “youth” and the time period of “childhood” is socially constructed and how it varies over time and across countries.

consider how the categories of “youth” and “childhood” vary over time and across cultures. To do this, you will answer a series of questions regarding photos you select of the “jobs” of young people in three different contexts: (1) 19th and early 20th-century America; (2) Present day America; and (3) Present Day India, Nigeria, or Brazil (select one).

In present day United States culture, childhood is a nurturing time of carefree exploration and personal development, where a child’s main job is to go to school. However, this was not always the way we understood youth and childhood in the U.S., and it is not how it is understood across all countries. In fact, the concept of childhood is linked closely to social class identities. In other words, in societies (or families) that have more socioeconomic resources, childhood is a time period set aside for parental nurturing, carefree exploration, and personal development. On the other hand, in contexts of severe economic hardships, childhood is a luxury that many families cannot afford. Instead, children enter the labor force at a much younger age as a necessity of family survival (Barone 2015).

Explore the ways that the social identity of “youth” and the category of “childhood” vary across the three social contexts mentioned above by incorporating photos of the expected jobs of young people in each context.  Using your selected photos and assigned readings (e.g., course text, resources provided below, supplemental materials provided by your instructor, and two additional scholarly sources), create a 12-slide PowerPoint presentation (including one title slide and one references slide in APA style).

Your PowerPoint presentation should include two main parts:

1. Seven of your slides must contain photos with brief descriptions. Be sure to include a minimum of three photos for each of the three social contexts (you can include multiple photos per slide). You must obtain photos from public Internet searches and properly cite each photo.

In your description of each photo, be sure to:

• Describe how the photo helps you understand the expectations and value of “youth” and “childhood” in that society. In other words, what clues does the photo give you to determine how the identity of youth is constructed in that society?

1. In the remaining three slides, address the following questions:

• Explain how the identity of “youth” and the time period of “childhood” is socially constructed and how it varies over time and across countries.
• Explain how social class impacts the social construction of “youth” and “childhood.”
• Discuss how comparing the different photos across your three social contexts help you understand the ways in which these categories are socially constructed.

What events led to the closure of Probuild in Australia?

What events led to the closure of Probuild in Australia? And what was the reaction of its micro environmental factors (customers, suppliers, competitors, intermediaries, public) and/or macro environmental factors (political, legal, economic, social, cultural, environmental and technological)

What is your plan to assist in the role transition from expert student to novice graduate nurse?

Self-Reflection concept Map. What strengths and weaknesses do you have entering the professional of nursing?

How will you overcome or minimize them?

What is your plan to continue to prepare for NCLEX? How will you maintain the momentum to ensure that your knowledge and test-taking strategies remain “second nature”?

What is your plan to maintain competency and becoming a lifelong learner? Where will you find resources to assist in this process? What does certification mean to you?

What is your plan to assist in the role transition from expert student to novice graduate nurse? How will you gain your new professional identity?

Describe how these activities help achieve quality patient care.

Instructions
In 1-2 pages, describe your experiences while developing the project and connect the experiences with the course objectives( please see attached. Include an assessment of the agency’s use of data to monitor outcomes of care processes and its improvement methods to design quality and safe health care systems. Describe how these activities help achieve quality patient care.
Submit assignment journal in APA format and include a title page and reference(s).
Background
My experiencing working with Complete Homecare continues to be great. I am getting to much more about the company and how they operate. This week did work both in the field and also working alongside my preceptor and other administrative staff to gather the information needed. The focus of this week was assessing the company use of data, to inform decisions.
Complete home care is a member of the Lifecare group. Life care group gather data about companies’ event such as fall and other adverse event. They utilized the data and break them into, where the event occurs, how the event occurs and finally what cause the events. He information gather are used to effect change and create an overall better out-come.
Additionally, complete home also used the information locally. The Nursing Director and collect data such as patient Falls and use the information to make changes to the assignment. Some of the changes that they are able to make from the data gathering include but are not limited to Aide to the patient assignment (assigning the best skillset based on Patients’ needs) and whether to assign two people or one on a particular case.Please see attached work done previously on this project

Analyze one strength and one limitation of using mindfulness interventions for the client.

Respond to two colleagues:

• Compare the studies you and your colleague identified and the experiences you presented from your mindful practice exercise. Analyze one strength and one limitation of using mindfulness interventions for the client. Consider how culturally relevant it is, how aligned it is with social work ethics, etc.

Describe how exploring your research question improved your understanding of the historical roots of your current event.

Use the provided Module Five Activity Template: Historical Interpretations Word Document to complete this activity. First, you will reflect on the process of researching the subject of your historical research question and its connection to your current event. You will then consider the impact of bias on our existing knowledge. Finally, you will address how the narratives about your historical and current events would change if told from alternative viewpoints.
Specifically, you must address the following rubric criteria:
Describe how exploring your research question improved your understanding of the historical roots of your current event.
How did learning more about the subject of your research question help you identify events from the past that contributed or led up to your current event?
Explain how biased perspectives influence what is known about both your historical and current events.
Support your points with relevant course resources.
Propose how the narrative about your historical event might change if it were told from a missing perspective.
Refer to the missing perspective you identified in this week’s discussion. How might this point of view change the story about your historical event? For example, would the narrative focus on different details, or would those details be interpreted differently?
Propose how the narrative about your current event might change if it were told from a missing perspective.
Expand on the missing perspective from criteria three and apply it to your current event. How might your current event be understood differently by examining it from that perspective?
Guidelines for Submission
Submit the Module Five Activity Template: Historical Interpretations.  Sources should be cited according to APA style.
I also attached the template to fillout and a couple of my last assignments to give you an idea of where i stand on the subject.

What is human language? From an anthropological perspective, are some languages or dialects better than others?

1. Think about a social issue that is impacted by linguistic inequality, and find evidence for it in the form of a news article or academic paper. (A news article is an article from a media source like a newspaper or magazine such as the New York Times, FOX, The Washington Post, VICE, National Geographic, etc. that addresses a current event. It does not include general information websites and sources like Wikipedia, eHow, dictionaries, academic journals, online encyclopedias, etc.)
2. Write a 300-word essay that answers the following questions, referring to the article and course materials, NOT random sources:
   -What is human language? From an anthropological perspective, are some languages or dialects better than others?
   -What are language ideologies and where do they come from? See Chapter 9.
   -What is the example of language inequality or language ideologies in your article and how does it impact the groups mentioned there?
3. Discuss with details and tie the findings in the article to what you learned in the module.
4. Your essay should:
   Be a total of 300 words or more.
   The 300-word limit DOES NOT include the questions, names, titles, and references.
   It also does not include meaningless filler statements
   Be written in complete sentences and paragraphs.
   Be proofread for clarity.
   Use factual information from the textbook and/or appropriate articles and websites.
   Be original work – your submission will be checked for plagiarism.
   Cite all your sources – type references according to the APA Style Guide Links to an external site..
   Essays without proper citations and/or large portions copied from other sources will receive a zero.
5. Type your essay in a WORD Document, then upload your file by clicking “Browse My Computer” for Attach File.
   Essays submitted to the “Comments” textbox or using an unsupported file type (see below) will receive a zero.

Does this matter warrant an internal investigation? Why or why not?

If all of these matters fitted together perfectly, or if ethical considerations were clear in all cases, we probably wouldn’t have a class addressing the matter. What is important, and what you will receive the most credit for, is your analysis of the situation and the facts surrounding it. the purposes of this, the rules, regulations, or laws of an organization or department of government don’t matter. You’re the ethical boss; you have the power to make it right if it is not. What matters is what you think is the correct ethical approach, and whether or not your conclusions are supported by clear, persuasive, and convincing points and arguments in favor of one position or another. Discussing both sides of an issue will gain more credit than examining only one side of it because often, if not always, there’s more than one side to a problem. The reasoning is more important than the exact conclusion, so long as your conclusion is not actually without ethical foundation. After all, you may in future have to explain your ethical conclusions to others occupying positions of higher decision-making authority, so it makes sense that your ethical analyses and conclusions have firm foundation and must be clear, persuasive, and convincing 

Scenario:

A LEAKY RECORDS DIVISION

Capt. George Stevens is the supervisor of the Criminal Records Division of the Administrative Support Bureau in your police department. You are a Major and the Bureau Commander. Stevens reports to you with regard to his responsibilities, and you have the authority to recommend the imposition of disciplinary and corrective action for Stevens and others, sworn and unsworn, who work in the division.

As part of his duties, George reviews all fines collected by the traffic court and checks them for both receipt of correct amounts and the statutory authority for the fines levied. With respect to this responsibility and all others, George is very good. He maintains exceptionally close attention to detail, and he performs his work promptly and efficiently; additionally, he has a pleasant, helpful personality and generally outstanding work habits.

Recently, you became aware of a story circulating around town. It concerns the arrest of a prominent local citizen who was stopped by an officer, and who failed to pass a series of field sobriety tests, and in fact registered 0.18% BAC on a chemical field test. The citizen, who was arrested and charged with Driving While Intoxicated, was as well accompanied by a female who identified herself as a Miss Jones, and who rather boldly introduced herself as a prostitute whose base of operations was New York. According to criminal history records available to law enforcement through the FBI-NCIC, the FBI’s national records database, the professional description that Ms. Jones offered appears to be accurate.

The story of this arrest was told at a local meeting of a fraternal club, and has attracted much interest and is also a favorite topic of conversation around town. The arrestee (the prominent citizen) has complained to you about this story, and it is clear to you that Capt. Stevens told or perhaps re-told this story at the club meeting. The detail content of police records is confidential, that is, police reports are not furnished for non-official purposes, however arrest and court records themselves are available to the general public. When you present Capt. Stevens with the information you have obtained through your investigation of the citizen’s complaint, he admits he told the story.

Has Capt. Stevens committed an ethical violation by only telling or re-telling the story? Should this matter be referred to the Internal Affairs Bureau, or can you handle it at your level? Does this matter warrant an internal investigation? Why or why not? Suppose Stevens says that he only repeated what he heard from others, and that he did not reveal protected or confidential information gained from official sources, and supports that by asserting that he did not see the report or official record maintained by his division? Based on the above, do you think you have sufficient information to make a judgment regarding Capt. Stevens’ conduct? Why or why not? If what Stevens says is correct in every detail, should or should not a police official in his position discuss any matter that has not been completely adjudicated in the judicial system? How would you further handle this matter if the chief of police asked for more information, and how do you think the chief should proceed?

What are two different types of conflict the Brazil groups are experiencing due to the reorganization?

Competency
Apply conflict management and negotiation strategies to decision-making.

Scenario
Recently, Johnson Consulting Company reorganized many of its departments worldwide to improve efficiency for working with customers. The leadership decided to combine its Customer Service and New Business Development Departments to allow both groups to experience working with new and existing customers. This move created one department where employees will work together to develop new customers while supporting existing customers.

However, the move created conflict between the individuals involved with the reorganization in many South American locations, particularly in Brazil. For instance, the Customer Service Representatives were only handling existing customer issues before the reorganization, but the Business Development Specialists believe they should respond to new customer inquiries. Some of the Business Development Specialists prefer not to work closely with many Customer Service

Representatives as they have demonstrated rude behavior to coworkers from time to time.
As the newly appointed manager for both of these departments, you research Brazil’s natural and cultural dimensions. Then integrate what you have learned about the country’s culture in a conflict resolution strategy for the team.

Instructions
Develop a conflict resolution strategy plan that addresses the following:

• What are two different types of conflict the Brazil groups are experiencing due to the reorganization? What bargaining technique would be most useful for addressing each of the different conflict issues? Why?
• What elements of a negotiation should be considered when managing conflict in this situation?
• What dimensions of Brazil’s culture should be considered by management to determine the best way to address the situation with the employees in Brazil? How would resolving conflict in the U.S. differ from Brazil?
• Use examples to support the understanding of concepts in a well-defined conflict resolution strategy plan.
• Provide attribution for credible references used in the development of content ideas following academic guidelines.
• As always, please keep in mind who your audience is and use correct grammar and spelling.
• Use the Writing Lab for timely feedback to help you fine-tune your deliverable before you submit it for grading.
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