What were some of the findings, for example, if there were any hypotheses asked, were they supported?

While most applications of blockchain technology have emerged in the financial sector (for example, Zcash, Circle, and Abra), its practical applications go beyond finance, because essentially any type of digital asset can be tracked and traded through a blockchain. Many different industries are experimenting in the blockchain space, even though this experimentation is still in its early stages. Examples range from medical records (MedRec, PokitDok), to digital rights and micropayments (Brave Browser, Ascribe, Open Music Initiative), identity systems (uPort), and supply chains (Everledger, Hyperledger).

For your literature review this week, you are required to choose a blockchain initiative that interests you. It could be an existing application that you have come across in your own research, one of the examples listed above, or an idea that you may have for blockchain technology as a solution to a business problem.

You are to review the literature on your blockchain initiative and discuss problems and gaps that have been identified in the literature. You will expand on the issue and how researchers have attempted to examine that issue by collecting data – you are NOT collecting data, just reporting on how researchers did their collection.

Paper Layout:

1. Title Page
2. Table of contents:
   1. Use a Microsoft Enabled Table of Contents feature.
3. Background:
   1. Describe the issue, discuss the problem, and elaborate on any previous attempts to examine that issue. Be sure to discuss similar blockchain initiatives here.
4. Research Questions:
   1. In the identified problem area that you are discussing, what were the research questions that were asked? Be sure to include main research questions from all the literature you are reviewing.
5. Methodology:
   1. What approach did the researcher use, qualitative, quantitative, survey, case study? Describe the population that was chosen. You will discuss the methodology for all the literature you are reviewing.
6. Data Analysis:
   1. What were some of the findings, for example, if there were any hypotheses asked, were they supported?
7. Conclusions:
   1. What was the conclusion of any data collections, e.g., were research questions answered, were hypotheses supported? Be sure to also include the similarities and differences between the literature. Also discuss here the future of this blockchain initiative and if it is a viable initiative.

Paper requirements:

• Be a minimum of 7 pages in length, not including the required cover page and reference pages.
• Follow APA 7 guidelines. Be sure to conduct research on formatting literature reviews.
• Your literature review should include a minimum of 8 scholarly peer-reviewed journal articles.
• Be clear and well-written, concise, and logical, using excellent grammar and style techniques. You are being graded in part on the quality of your writing. You can use Grammarly for help with your grammar and spelling.

Describe an intervention you would implement to promote resiliency.

Discussion topic: 

That colleagues respond to: See attached document

• Reflect on your fieldwork or other professional experience, and identify a case where it would have been beneficial to employ resiliency theory. Describe the case in 2 sentences.
• Describe the presenting problem in one concise sentence.
• Describe an intervention you would implement to promote resiliency.
• Identify an instrument from the Smith-Osborne and Whitehill Bolton’s article that would be appropriate when employing a single-subject design to evaluate how effective the intervention is in increasing the client’s level of resiliency.
• Explain why you selected the instrument.
  • In other words, why would the instrument be appropriate? (Consider the age of the client and for whom the instrument was designed, how feasible it would be to administer the instrument such as cost, time to administer it, etc.).

Respond to two colleagues:

• Discuss how you would use the data collected by your colleague to guide the next step in the planned change process or to inform future work with clients.

Evaluate the current state of knowledge, theory, and practice in this area and identify how this information may influence the central idea of your dissertation research AND/OR further the study and practice of global Human Resources.

Research Paper and Presentation Guidelines and Rubric

The research paper should focus on how strategic HR Management can inform and influence the topic> “Evaluative and Corrective Actions”<. Ideally, you may choose to consider the impact of human capital and human resources on the topic of your dissertation research.

Alternatively, the paper may be a broad literature review in one of the major functions of the field of Human Resource Management. Special attention should be paid to the global aspects of the chosen subject. You may use one of the areas from the weekly readings, or an entirely different area related to Global HR Management.

Topics must be approved by the instructor no later than Sunday 11:59 PM EST/EDT of Module 4. The research paper should do the following:

1. Identify/define the area of study and the fields of theory and research that make up this area.
2. Identify the past theory and research in this area.
3. Evaluate the current state of knowledge, theory, and practice in this area and identify how this
   information may influence the central idea of your dissertation research AND/OR further the
   study and practice of global Human Resources.
4. Make suggestions for theory development and possible streams of research, and how and why
   this continued research is of significance.
5. The paper should be approximately 9, excluding the cover page and reference
   section. Standard APA format should be used including in-text references and a Reference page.
6. In the Collaborate 3 session (Module 8), you will give a short (2-3 minute executive summary)
   oral presentation of your work, emphasizing where your research indicates the particular area of study is headed and opportunities for doing further research

Prepare ABC Company’s budgeted unit sales and total sales volume for the first quarter of the coming year.

ABC Company’s actual unit sales in the current year for January, February, and March were 15,700, 12,700, and 18,700 units, respectively. Current year selling price is $60. An analysis of general economic trends and specific initiatives at ABC forecasts increases for the coming budget year: sales volume by 10% and sales price by 5%.

Required:

Prepare ABC Company’s budgeted unit sales and total sales volume for the first quarter of the coming year.

PART-2

ABC Company’s budgeted sales for June, July, and August are 16,000, 20,000, and 18,000 units, respectively. ABC requires 30% of the next month’s budgeted unit sales as finished goods inventory each month. Budgeted ending finished goods inventory for May is 4,800 units.

Required:

Calculate the number of units to be produced in June and July.

PART-3

ABC Company’s budgeted sales for June, July, and August are 15,000, 19,000, and 16,700 units, respectively. ABC requires 40% of the next month’s budgeted unit sales as finished goods inventory each month. Budgeted ending finished goods inventory for May is 6,000 units. Each unit that ABC Company produces uses 4 pounds of raw material. ABC requires 35% of the next month’s budgeted production as raw material inventory each month.

Required: 

Calculate the number of pounds of raw material to be purchased in June.

How much was ABC Company’s cost of goods manufactured in September?

Accounting Assignment 5

PART-1

The following information is from ABC Company’s general ledger for the month of September: Beginning and ending finished goods inventory, respectively, were 63,000 and 57,000. Cost of goods sold for September was $146,000.

Required:

How much was ABC Company’s cost of goods manufactured in September?

PART-2

Maryville Incorporated incurred the following costs during June:

During the month, 53,000 units of product were manufactured and 48,000 units of product were sold. On June 1, Maryville carried no inventories. On June 30, there were no inventories other than finished goods.

Required:

a. Calculate the cost of goods manufactured during June and the average cost per unit of product manufactured.

b. Calculate the cost of goods sold during June.

c. Calculate the difference between cost of goods manufactured and cost of goods sold. How will this amount be reported in the financial statements?

d. Prepare a traditional (absorption) income statement for Maryville for the month of June. Assume that sales for the month was $2,448,000 and the company’s effective income tax rate was 30%.

Complete this question by entering your answers in the tabs below.

a. Calculate the cost of goods manufactured during June and the average cost per unit of product manufactured. b. Calculate the cost of goods sold during June.

Determine the variance of the data. Show your work.

1. The time (in minutes) spent stopped in rush-hour tra¢ c by 18 drivers was recorded and is tabulated
below. 50 52 49 53 53 58 40 30 41
62 61 51 60 71 59 64 22 35
Determine the following:
(a) Determine the mode of the data.
(b) Determine the range of the data.
(c) Determine the mean of the data. Show your work.
(d) Determine the variance of the data. Show your work.
(e) The standard deviation of the data.
(f) Determine the 70th percentile of the data. Show your work 

2(g) Determine the Five-Number Summary of the data. Show your work.
(h) Construct a box plot for the data.

Provide at least 2 examples for each one of the four factors that shows how Ted Bundy meets these features of psychopathy.

Case Study # 1

You are being given a printed copy of background and case study information on Ted Bundy. Please read through the materials provided and then respond to the following questions on a separate sheet of paper. Your responses should be typed in 12 point font and double spaced. Please place your name at the top of the page; it is not necessary to create a cover page.

1. Please refer to Table 7-1 in your textbook. It is titled Psychopathic Behaviors Identified by Hare and Cleckley. After reading through the background information you are to choose FIVE of the behaviors from the Hare PCL Checklist and FIVE of the behaviors from the Cleckley’s Primary Psychopath Description list and provide examples of how Ted Bundy meets each of those criteria. 

For example (and you cannot use this specific one): According to Cleckley one of the characteristics of psychopaths is that they tend to be intelligent and Bundy graduated with a degree in psychology and attended Law School.

You also must choose ten total different characteristics. For example, do not choose pathological lying from the Hare scale and Untruthfulness from the Cleckley list and then use the same example for both. I want 10 different behaviors. (This section is worth 30 points).

2. For this question please refer to Table 7-2 titled Summary of the Four Hypothesized Core Factors of Psychopathy. Provide at least 2 examples for each one of the four factors that shows how Ted Bundy meets these features of psychopathy. You should have a total of 8 answers when you are done. (This section is worth 16 points).

3. Review the definitions of primary psychopaths, secondary psychopaths and dissocial psychopaths. Based on these definitions as well as your evaluation of Bundy in the previous two questions, identify which type of psychopath you believe Bundy to be and why? Again provide some evidence based on what you have learned about his case and what the requirements are for the type of psychopath you determine him to be. (This section is worth 4 points).

Develop a report that analyzes one company’s approach to multinational expansion.

Economic Environments and Risk Mitigation

Overview: This milestone will help you complete Sections II and III of the final project.

Prompt: Develop a report that analyzes one company’s approach to multinational expansion. Include financial factors such as economic environments and market conditions, risk mitigation strategies, and ethical and legal practices.

Specifically, the following critical elements must be addressed:

II. Economic Environments and Market Conditions C. Explain the role of international financial markets and institutions in global environments in evaluating their impact on the company’s risk

management strategies. D. Analyze impacts of exchange rate on the company’s performance for determining if a loss occurred because of fluctuations or devaluations of

foreign currencies. Provide examples from the past year to support your claims.

III. Risk Mitigation: Examine sources of risk and risk reduction methods available to multinational corporations. Use the 2007–2008 annual report and the most current annual report to support responses in this section.

B. Discuss risks and financial factors associated with exchange rates and interest rates for assessing how they inform the company’s financial management approaches.

C. Discuss diversification in the company’s expansion model for examining advantages or disadvantages, and provide examples and financial information from the past year to support claims.

D. Discuss company strategies before and after the 2007–2008 crisis for determining possible reasons for the company’s current financial performance. Provide examples to support your claims.

Discuss how and why you should avoid office politics.

Discuss how and why you should avoid office politics. This is not talking about political discussions, but internal office politics

                  ANSWER THE ABOVE QUESTION. THEN REPLY TO CLASSMATES’S POST AND EXPLAIN WHY YOU AGREE

Is there a difference between a manager and a leader?

1. Is there a difference between a manager and a leader?
2. Can someone be a leader in an organization without being a “manager?”
3. Do you consider yourself a leader, or do you aspire to be a leader? Describe your experiences as a leader or your desire to become a leader.
4. Who is someone you see as a leader that inspires you? What is it about them that makes them a leader?
5. Your responses should be 7-10 sentences, with proper spelling and grammar.