Write a paper on the Disaster Recovery and ContinuityPrimary Task Response: The discussion assignment for this week will be a review of the Key Assignment Draft from other students. Your first task is to post your draft to the discussion area so that other students will be able to review your work. Attach your document to your main discussion post, and include any notes that you feel are appropriate in the post. You are not being graded on your Key Assignment Draft at this point. The purpose of this assignment is to help improve the quality of your Key Assignment.
Respond to Another Student: Review at least 2 other students’ draft report and provide meaningful feedback. Refrain from generic feedback, such as simply stating “good job.” Your feedback to other students will be most helpful if you not only point out weak areas but also offer suggestions for improvement. The best feedback takes a three-stage approach to identify what was done well, weaknesses, and areas for improvement.
Best Writer
What is the importance of both Gates and Staples’ stories?
Read Henry Louis Gates’s “In the Kitchen” and Brent Staples’s “Black Men and Public Spaces (Links to an external site.)” and choose ONE of the prompts:
Compare/contrast the different aspects of the African American experience that both men share.
What is the importance of both Gates and Staples’ stories?
If these two stories were written by women, would they have been different?
Guidelines and Suggestions:
Due date 7/15; day of grace 7/16; 5pt deduction 7/17
3-5 pages not counting your Works Cited page
Works Cited page
MLA format
Use your sources 3-5 times. When you use the sources for the first time, make sure to refer to the author(s) by his/her first and last name(s) and his/her text’s name. After that, refer to the author(s) by his/her last name or the word author or writer.
Use only the source(s) you are given unless otherwise instructed
Use 3rd person
Use present verb tense
Use different sentence length and type: S, CP, CX and CC
Watch for F, CS, and RO
Provide a strong thesis statement
Every body paragraph need to have its own topic sentence
Address one issue at a time in each paragraph
Use the quote sandwich: Introduce the quote, provide the quote, and analyze the quote
No announcements: This essay will address, I just want to say, in conclusions, etc.
Use transitions all the way through
Eliminate excessive grammar and sentence structure issues
Compare or contrast two historical figures
Your thesis should convey the main idea of the essay and clearly articulate what two topics you are comparing/contrasting. Because you are writing in the informative mode for this essay, you should use objective language. Remember that for this essay, you are not trying to persuade or convince the audience that one thing is better or worse than the other; you are instead informing the reader about the similarities or differences between the two subjects in an objective manner.
Double-space your draft and use one-inch margins.
Use an easily-readable 12-point font.
All writing must be appropriate for an academic context.
What is the best digital marketing strategy for small-scale professional services companies?
Start with the proposal.
What is the best digital marketing strategy for small-scale professional services
companies?
Small-scale professional services companies (less than 10 employees) have historically
used traditional methods to develop and grow their businesses. With the expansion
of digital marketing techniques, some organizations have adopted digital marketing
and others have not. Which is the most effective? Students will be expected to agree on
a specific sector (with the supervisor) to investigate and to identify companies to
create a research setting.
Write a review paper on All juveniles who commit crimes should receive services and care in their home. In your response, discuss whether you agree with this policy, why you agree or disagree, and how it is supported by the research in the textbook.
For thois Discussion, your Initial Post should respond to this proposed policy: all crimes committed by juveniles should be treated outside of the institutional setting. Write a review paper on All juveniles who commit crimes should receive services and care in their home. In your response, discuss whether you agree with this policy, why you agree or disagree, and how it is supported by the research in the textbook.
Write a discussion on the Hazardous Industries Addition.
Write a discussion on the Hazardous Industries Addition.This is an addition to my refelctive paper on my whole BSc degree course and the last module.
You need to communicate closely with me.
The first part was already done well with 8 topics but there is another 4 topics to add in. Unfortunately, I can only upload the slides but not my thought as the lectures are not conducted yet. The 4 lectures are due on 18/07, 25/07, 27/07 and 01/08.
I will upload the slides for the 4 topics.
Write a review paper on the Cybersecurity principles of IT focus on a set of practices intended to keep a corporate infrastructure secure.
Write a review paper on the Cybersecurity principles of IT focus on a set of practices intended to keep a corporate infrastructure secure. These practices include, but are not limited to, system, data, internal, external, and physical security. The principles are designed to prevent unauthorized access or alterations of a corporate environment. By understanding how cybersecurity principles are defined, they can be used to develop a comprehensive, corporate-specific, security policy.
Using the format of your choice, create a chart related to the cybersecurity principles listed below:
Separation (of domains/duties)
Isolation
Encapsulation
Modularity
Simplicity of design (economy of mechanism)
Minimization of implementation (least common mechanism)
Open design
Complete mediation
Least privilege
Fail-safe defaults/Fail secure
Least astonishment (psychological acceptability)
Minimize trust surface (reluctance to trust)
Usability
Trust relationships
For each of the principles listed, include the following:
Definition (1-2 sentences written in your own words)
Explanation of why each principle is important to security and how it enables the development of security mechanisms to implement desired security policies
APA style is not required, but solid academic writing is expected.
This assignment uses a rubric. Review the rubric prior to beginning the assignment to become familiar with the expectations for successful completion.
You are required to submit this assignment to LopesWrite. A link to the LopesWrite technical support articles is located in Class Resources if you need assistance.
Respond to the discussion
Conflict is an argument between people. For example, a person disagrees with another over different opinions. In healthcare, conflict is the breakdown of communication or trust between professionals in health and family that affects the treatment of the nurses to provide care to the patients. We will discuss in this essay: when to notify the staff in a clinic to close for the next three months, if its right to communicate to the staff about the closing at the same time, if downward communication can be used, if grapevine can be used to leak news to employees and when it is appropriate for the grapevine to pass information.
It is appropriate to notify the clinic staff between 30 to 45 days of the three months to prepare them psychologically to search for another job. Communication would be delivered simultaneously to ensure that all the employees have received the notice. Downward communication is the best because it involves messages that flow down in the command formal chain of the organization, for example, giving information from the upper to the bottom levels of the organization. (Genrich et al., 2020)
Grapevine should not be used to leak news to the workers because it brings some miscommunication and damages the company’s reputation. Grapevine is good if it is managed correctly. A grapevine is appropriate to pass information when the managers are sure about their subordinates’ reactions since the grapevine creates unity between workers as they discuss their views. (Worringer et al., 2020)
In conclusion, it is important to give notice to the employees in time and treat them to create an environment whereby employees do not feel the need to be given the notice. Notice should be given appropriately that is conducive to the employees.
References
Genrich, M., Worringer, B., Angerer, P., & Müller, A. (2020). Hospital medical and nursing managers’ perspectives on health-related work design interventions. A qualitative study. Frontiers in Psychology, 11, 869.
Worringer, B., Genrich, M., Müller, A., Junne, F., Angerer, P., & Seegen Consortium. (2020). How do hospital medical and nursing managers perceive work-related strain on their employees?. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 17(13), 4660.
What is that Beta (risk index) for the overall market?
The Document: Use a single document in MS Word or MS Excel to submit the project.
Inserting Excel Spreadsheets and Graphs: You will most likely use some financial tools that require spreadsheets or graphs. To do this for a Word document, it is recommended that you draw from Excel by cutting and pasting spreadsheets and graphs onto the Word page. Do this inline with your text. Just type along in the paragraph, refer to the spreadsheet or graph, and then drop down a line or two before you drop in the spreadsheet or graph from Excel.
Since Word cannot see inside the cells, and you will likely need to “show your work” from the cell, use adjacent cells to explain the data or computation, or use a text box.
Page Layout: The layout is found in both Word and Excel under the tab “Page Layout.”
· In both Excel and Word, format the margins at one inch all around and headers and footers at half-inch.
· Orientation of the document should be Portrait.
· Size should be Letter, 8½ x 11.
· Do not use colored background or colored text; use standard white background and black fonts.
· Use a footer to number the pages. Keep it simple; just the number is good.
· You do not need to use a footnote at the end of a page. Instead use parentheses in the paragraph and a References section at the end, per APA.
The Printable Area: Print out your Word document for yourself if necessary to be absolutely certain that you have avoided widows and bleed-over. These are lines of text and exhibits, such as spreadsheets and graphs, that run off the page onto another page. If you do a spreadsheet or graph in Excel, check for bleed-over before you drop the exhibit into the Word document. In Excel, you can also check this by hitting Control-Print, and then selecting the Home tab again. A dashed line will show the printable area in Excel. You do not want spreadsheets, graphs or text running over those dashed lines.
Text: Use Times New Roman at 12-point font consistently throughout the document.
Cover Page: Center all lines on the cover page.
· The top of the cover page includes two lines containing the title of the paper and your name.
· Drop down a couple of lines and type the Course Name, Course Number, and Section.
· Drop down another line and type the project name: “Comprehensive Capital Budgeting Analysis.”
· On the next line enter the date.
· Finally, drop down several lines and near the bottom, write the academic honesty statement using the guidelines document provided in the Canvas module entitled “Comprehensive Capital Budgeting Analysis.”
The Body – Writing: In the body of the document, writing should begin your document and end your document. You should probably write throughout the document, while your exhibits provide support for what you say. At a minimum for your beginning, you need an introductory paragraph explaining the project parameters and what you are setting out to do. To end the document, you need, at minimum, an ending paragraph giving your conclusions with adequate explanations. Business students are often fond of data, computations, spreadsheets, and graphs, but writing is most important! If you have data and
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computations, do not leave it unexplained with no writing. Write about what you are going to do, then write about what you have done, and how, and why! For every exhibit of data, spreadsheets, or graphs there needs to be a written explanation (within reason).
Grammar: This is very important and a part of the assignment’s grade. Use complete sentences. Avoid run-on sentences. Look up how to avoid run-on sentences on the internet, or consult a grammar textbook. Watch for errors related to conjugation of verbs. Punctuate and spell properly. Spellcheck does not catch every spelling error. Some common errors include “fro” instead of “for,” “form” instead of “from,” and a favorite for business majors, “manger” instead of “manager.” Watch for slips in sentence construction and logic, as well as missing words. Finally, proofread and edit your document.
Length: There is no length requirement. Too little writing and exhibits will become apparent to any reader, because the answers to the questions will not be understandable, or adequately explained, or complete. However, if you do not explain what you are doing with the exhibits, or how the computations are done, you will know that your document is too short.
References: After the end of the body of the paper, use referencing as required under the university’s APA guidelines. You have already been doing this with the Academic Assessments.
The Project: Use the guidelines and project requirements given in the document entitled “Capital Budgeting Analysis.” It is provided in the Canvas module in Unit 5 entitled “Comprehensive Capital Budgeting Analysis.” Also view the video from Dr. Roller on this project. The project will call on you to use every relevant tool in the “toolbox” that you have acquired throughout the first four weeks of the course. As you read the document, you will see that some of these tools will be obvious from the data and answers requested. Dr. Roller pointed out in his video that this project involves synthesis from your new knowledge base to answer the requirements of the capital budgeting project. He referred to the maxim, “Begin with the end in mind.” To do this, keep in mind that you want to find answers through analysis to reach logical conclusions. Your data and exhibits should support these conclusions. This method usually requires some kind of testing or probing to discover answers. Such probing is where your financial tools come in handy. Is there a minimum of financial tools required? You will not be given a specific answer here, because your synthesis of much information and the requirements of the project, along with your financial judgment, will answer that for you.
Students,
Here are more hints. Keep in mind that you are comparing two Alternatives, so you will have two sets of Cash Flows, etc.
To get the Initial Investment right, follow the solution method on p. 456.
For the Incremental Cash Flows, let Delta mean “change in.” Let T = Taxes at the given rate. Then…
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Incremental Cash Flow per year = (Delta Revenue – Delta Expenses)(1 – T) + (Delta Depreciation x T). You saw this in Dr. Roller’s video.
Do your setup horizontally left to right, year 1 through the terminal year. You can stack this with a column of data for each year, For example, setting up Year 1 only, below:
Year 1
Delta Revenue
Delta Expenses
Delta Depreciation____________________________
= Year 1Incremental CF (using the above formula)
You will need to next go to the Cumulative Cash flows. But here you start at Year 0, where you have the negative figure for Initial Investment. (You must get that Initial Investment right to proceed!) So start a new cash flow row beginning with Year 0, then Year 1, etc.
· The Year 0 CF is Initial Investment (negative).
· The Year 1 CF is Year 0 CF + Incremental for Year 1.
· Year 2 CF is Year 1 CF + Incremental for Year 2. And so on.
When you get to the terminal year, add the cumulative plus the Terminal CF.
In your capital structure, evaluate the book values and market values for new common stock, bonds, and preferred stock. Assume they are workable for all three types of financing, and you will find the weights from your calculations, thus:
· For Bonds (book value) it is # shares outstanding x Par. For market value, # shares outstanding x market price.
· Similar for Stocks (book and market).
· Similar for Preferred stocks (book and market).
You can assess not only the weight of each type of financing, but also the cost ( in percent) and weighted average (in percent). Use the formula for WACC to add up the cost of debt, common stock, and preferred.
RISK: Risk can set up the Beta in the CAPM. Assume that “10% less risk than an average project” is translatable to Beta for the market as a whole. So then “20% more risk than an average project” is also translatable to Beta for the market as a whole. What would these two Betas be?
RADR is derived from the CAPM from the given data and the surmised figure for Beta (hinted above). So the project’s risk-adjusted required return equates to the RADR. For example, use the RADR in the NPV computation.
Dear Students,
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By now you you have probably seen several Announcements. Take a look at the entire list of Announcements to be found to the left of the Canvas for this course. I have sent several previous Announcements about the Big Project due this week! The Hints below point to specific things to do and pitfalls to avoid. At this late stage, I hope it is not information overload — so I would appreciate your comments. Here goes…
Hints and Assumptions:
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a. The CAPM equation has two uses in the analysis: (1) deriving the required return for the overall firm using the firm’s Beta (non-diversifiable risk index, given as 1.35), and (2) deriving each proposed project’s required return using the project’s Beta. Project Betas are indirectly given where it says Project A’s risk is 10% less than the average project, and Project B’s risk is 20% higher than the average project. Assume this: “Average project” risk is equivalent to the overall market’s non-diversifiable risk. What is that Beta (risk index) for the overall market? To answer this, on p. 351, read the first two sentences under the heading, “Interpreting Betas.” Look at Figure 8.8, p. 350. If you were to draw the returns (characteristic) line for the stock market, it would be a 45-degree angle, as both axes would be labeled “Market Return.” So what is the slope of a 45-degree angle? Hint: The line falls between Pepsico’s slope of 0.66 and BOA’s slope of 1.73. So if you know the Beta for the “average project,” you can derive each project’s beta from the given “10% less risk than” and “20% more risky than” quotes.
b. Use after-tax cost of new capital (debt, preferred, common) to figure WACC. Use market prices and shares outstanding to figure total market value per debt, preferred, and common. The proportion of each dollar value to total value of capital will set the weight as a percentage for each type of capital. Weight times cost of capital for each is the weighted average for each. Sum the weighted averages to derive the WACC. Then the WACC plugs into the CAPM (eq. 8.8, p. 353) as the equivalent of required return of the market, rm.
3. About those target weights versus the “next best thing” in the project instructions, see p. 393, which discusses market value weights versus target weights. With no available target weights, you must use the market value weights.
4. See “Using CAPM to Find RADR” on p. 470. So use the RADR as the Required Return of Asset i (ri) in the CAPM. Then CAPM is…RADR = Rf + [Beta x (WACC – Rf)].
5. Use the NPV equation (eq. 10.1, p. 414). Some common errors with NPV include: (1) Taking the CFs as they are (not applying a discount rate). (2) Using FV instead of a PV calculation.(This happens often.) These first two errors produce very inflated NPVs! (3) Incorrectly figuring the amounts of the annual CFs. A very common error is at the very beginning, getting the initial
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investment wrong. Opportunity cost is very often overlooked as an outflow toward the initial investment total. To identify the opportunity cost, Read the discussion of opportunity cost, p. 448. (4) Failing to subtract the initial investment.
Investigate the following: The fundamental objectives of mobile forensics are to identify, extract, document, and interpret the electronic data. Talk about the process.
Investigate the following: The fundamental objectives of mobile forensics are to identify, extract, document, and interpret the electronic data. Talk about the process.