Day: May 14, 2018

Assignment: Introduction to Quantitative Analysis: Descriptive Analysis
In this Assignment, you will differentiate between the proper use of summary statistics for categorical and continuous level data. In this exercise, you will explore what output is provided for each of these variables and provide some meaning from these statistics for your reader. The ability to place the statistics into a context that your reader understands and can make sense of is a highly desirable skill.

For this Introduction to Quantitative Analysis: Descriptive Analysis Assignment, you will examine the same two variables you used from your Week 2 Assignment and perform the appropriate descriptive analysis of the data given.
To prepare for this Assignment:
Review this week’s Learning Resources and the Central Tendency and Variability media program.
For additional support, review the Skill Builder: Visual Displays for Categorical Variables and the Skill Builder: Visual Displays for Continuous Variables, which you can find by navigating back to your Blackboard Course Home Page. From there, locate the Skill Builder link in the left navigation pane.
Using the SPSS software, open the Afrobarometer dataset or the High School Longitudinal Study dataset from your Assignment in Week 2.
Choose the same two variables you chose from your Week 2 Assignment and perform the appropriate descriptive analysis of the data.
Once you perform your descriptive analysis, review Chapter 11 of the Wagner text to understand how to copy and paste your output into your Word document.
Write a 2- to 3-paragraph analysis of your descriptive analysis results and include a copy and paste your output from your analysis into your final document.
Based on the results of your data, provide a brief explanation of what the implications for social change might be.
Use appropriate APA format, citations and referencing. Refer to the APA manual for appropriate citation.

Assignment

Submit your Introduction to Quantitative Analysis: Descriptive Analysis Assignment.

Learning Resources
Required Readings
Frankfort-Nachmias, C., & Leon-Guerrero, A. (2015). Social statistics for a diverse society (7th ed.). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications.
Chapter 4, “Measures of Central Tendency” (pp. 96–134)
Chapter 5, “Measures of Variability” (pp. 135–176)
Wagner, W. E. (2016). Using IBM® SPSS® statistics for research methods and social science statistics (6th ed.). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications.
Chapter 4, “Organization and Presentation of Information”
Chapter 11, “Editing Output”

Optional Resources
Wheelan, C. (2013). Naked statistics: Stripping the dread from data. New York, NY: W. W. Norton & Company.
Skill Builder: Visual Displays for Categorical Variables
To access these Skill Builders, navigate back to your Blackboard Course Home page, and locate “Skill Builders” in the left navigation pane. From there, click on the relevant Skill Builder link for this week.
You are encouraged to click through these and all Skill Builders to gain additional practice with these concepts. Doing so will bolster your knowledge of the concepts you’re learning this week and throughout the course.

https://class.waldenu.edu/bbcswebdav/institution/USW1/201730_27/XX_RSCH/RSCH_8210/artifacts/GSS2014_student_8210.savhttps://class.waldenu.edu/bbcswebdav/institution/USW1/201730_27/XX_RSCH/RSCH_8210/artifacts/Afrobarometer%20(student%208210).savhttps://class.waldenu.edu/bbcswebdav/institution/USW1/201730_27/XX_RSCH/RSCH_8210/artifacts/HS%20Long%20Study_[student].savless

Government and Non for Profit Accounting
1. The city of Bowie handed you the accountant , the following information for one of its township on January 1st 2016.
Budget Information
Inflows
Estimated property tax 10,500,000
Estimated fines and taxes 500,000
Bond Issuance 4,000,000
Total 15,000,000
Outflows
Estimated operating cost 1,500,000
Outlay for Infrastructure 12,000,000
Bond and Interest repayment 375,000
Transfer out 500,000
Total 14,375,000
Through out the year, the township had the following transactions in general, capital project and debt service funds:
1/15/2016 : the capital project fund levied property taxes in the amount of $10,600,000 with expectation that $100,000 will be collectible.
2/15/2016 : The Capital project fund collected $5,100,000 of the taxes levied on 1/15/2016.
2/15/2016 The general fund paid salaries and other admin cost totaling $475,000.
2/18/2016 :Capital project fund signed a contract to construct a small bridge, the bridge is expected to cost $11,500,000
3/1/2016 :Capital project fund issued a 5 % serial bond with face amount of $4,000,000 at 101. The premium was transferred to the debt service fund.
4/18/2016 :The capital project fund made the first installment payment in the amount of $6,900,000 towards the construction of the bridge.
4/30/2016 : general fund paid salaries and other admin cost totaling $500,000.
7/31/2016 General fund collect fines and penalties totaling $475,000.
8/1/2016 Capital project fund transfer $375,000 to the debt service fund to cover payments associated with the bond.
9/1/2016 Debt service fund made first payment on bonds $375,000 (principal $300,000 and Interest $75,000)
10/15/2016 The capital project fund collected $5,450,000 on taxes levied on 1/15/2016, the remainder was deemed worthless and was written off.
11/15/2016 Capital project fund paid the remainder of the due on the construction of the bridge to the contractor.
12/15/2016 Genral fund paid salariesand admin cost totaling $530,000.
12/31/2016 Interest due on the bond total $40,000 . Payment is not due until 3/1/2017. Required :
1. Prepare the entry to record the budget for 2016
2. Prepare the entries to record the above transaction throughout the year, Entries should be made on the Fund statement and Government wide statement.
3. Prepare the necessary closing entries for the fund statement.

Question 1. Materials Ltd (“ML”) sell building materials and sold 200 tonnes of gravel to Builders Ltd (“BL”) for a price of £8000. BL bought the bulk of the gravel to use in the construction of a new warehouse for Olicana Ltd (“Olicana”) on a site owned by Olicana. BL agreed to sell 25 tonnes of the gravel bought from ML to Patel Builders (“Patel”) for £1750. The 200 tonnes of gravel was delivered to the Olicana construction site from ML’s storage facility containing 20,000 tonnes of gravel. The contract between ML and BL provided that payment was due within 14 days of the invoice which was sent to BL on delivery. BL are in financial difficulties and even though BL received an interim payment under their contract with Olicana towards on- going costs of construction including materials, BL failed to pay ML for the gravel. Payment to ML is now 3 months overdue. BL has become insolvent and there is no money to pay ML.

50 tonnes of the gravel has already been used in the construction of the foundations on the site; another 50 tonnes has been mixed with dry cement ready for use in the construction. The remaining 100 tonnes of gravel is on the site separated into 2 piles. A smaller pile of a 25 tonnes has been set aside for Patel who paid BL for the gravel, but the gravel is being stored for them by BL on the site for collection by Patel. Following several downpours of rain, the 2 piles of gravel have spread and grass and weeds have started to cover the small 25 tonne pile of gravel making it very difficult to remove.

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The contract between BL and Olicana for the construction of the warehouse included a clause stating that ownership of any building materials on the site passed to Olicana immediately on payment of the first interim payment under the construction contract. The contract between ML and BL contained a clause stating that ownership in any goods supplied by ML does not pass unless and until the goods are paid for and in the case of any sub-sale, ML have the right to any proceeds of sale. Due to BL’s insolvency, Olicana have employed new contractors to finish the work and say all the gravel on the site, including that mixed with the cement, belongs to Olicana. Patel say that the pile containing 25 tonnes belongs to them as they have paid for it and ML say that all the gravel including that mixed with the cement and the proceeds of sale belong to them under the terms of their contract with BL. The liquidator for BL is arguing that all the gravel belongs to BL and that the clauses in the contracts with ML and Olicana are ineffective.

A) Advise ML as to the ownership of the gravel. In particular, whether they are entitled to remove the remaining gravel including that mixed with the cement and whether they can claim the proceeds of the sale to Patel. (1500 WORDS)

Question 2. William and Mary are brother and sister and together operate an estate agency business, “Homes R Us”. William started the business on his own 5 years ago and initially Mary worked as his part-time secretary. For the last 3 years, Mary has had a greater involvement in the business dealing with clients, suppliers and placing adverts on behalf of the firm. Mary receives a 25% share of the profits by way of a salary. They verbally agreed Mary would not spend over £1500 on behalf of the firm without William’s approval. Without consulting William, Mary recently contracted in the name of the firm to buy a digital camera for £4000 to take photos of properties the firm were selling and a fur coat for £3000 to keep her warm when escorting buyers on property viewings. In addition, Mary has been placing adverts with a local paper owned by her boyfriend and, unknown to William, has been receiving a 5% discount on all adverts which she has retained for herself whilst the firm has paid the full price. 3 weeks ago, William sold 2 laptop computers that he had advertised in the local paper as “nearly new, only 2 years old” to Ivan who has a part-time business re-furbishing and selling computers for £300. The computers had been used by William and Mary for both personal and business use. Ivan has complained that he wants his money back as one of the computers is not working at all and cannot be fixed and that the other is in fact 5 years old and this has been confirmed by an independent expert. Nothing was specifically agreed about the quality of the computers.

B) Advise William as to whether or not a partnership exists and, if it does, as to his take against Mary in respect of her actions.liability and the liability of Homes R Us in relation to the contracts and what action, if any he can (750 words)

C) Advise William as to the liability of Homes R Us to Ivan regarding the sale of the computers.
(10%)(250 words)

IB TOK essay. REQUIRES TOK ESSAY WRITER! My essay is the fifth question form this years topics. I’m analysing this question form the point of view of the natural and human sciences (my specific example for these two fields would be biology and psychology as I studied these subjects in my IB course). The essay should follow the following structe (as per my teachers suggestion)

Introduction (75-150 words)
Re-phrase/define the key concept(s) in your own words to introduce the main knowledge question, and links to AOKs/WOKs. Sign-post the arguments you will be discussing in your essay and introduce their implications

Main body – section 1
Develop the main knowledge question presented in the title as an argument, focusing on one AOK, and other relevant TOK concepts. Provide justification for the main argument, referring to real-life and examples from your learning.

Main body – section 2
Extend the main argument further by referring to another AOK, with relevant WOKs. Provide further justification for the main concept by referring to real-life examples from this second AOK.

Main body – section 3
Introduce a counter-claim to the main argument. Highlight relevant AOK/WOKs and other TOK terms, as well as specific real-life examples.

Main body – section 4
Either extend the main counter-claim further by referring to other AOK/WOKs, or introduce and justify another counter-claim, in the context of AOK/WOKs and real-life examples.

Main body – section 5
Discuss further the limitations and merits of each argument and counter-claim. Refer to implications in other areas and examples

Conclusion (200-300 words)
Summarise what you have said and re-state the main knowledge question and this affects your attainment of knowledge. End with a forward-looking view, referring for example to why you could not answer the question, or to what you would need to know to answer the question

Citations should be made in regards to examples made such as biological theories or psychological studies.

The assignment is to submit a business report in response to the scenario below. Although based on Porsche there is no need for you to contact anybody within the organisation as you are applying what you have learnt on the module to this organisation. An in depth knowledge of Porsche is not necessary, so don’t waste too many words describing in detail what they do. You must, however, take into account the current business environment and the general nature of what they do/their industry.
Please include an Executive Summary.

The scenario

Porsche is a multibillion euro organisation that employs approximately 25,000 employees in a variety of locations, who carry out many different roles including engineers, production operatives and managers (Porsche, 2015).

As part of your Business and Management degree you are completing an internship at Porsche. You are working in the HR department based in Porsche’s UK site in London. You report to Janine, the HR Manager for Porsche UK.
As part of the induction period of your internship you have to complete a number of reports, presentations and small projects.

Here’s a copy of the email your boss Janine has sent you, which outlines your first assignment:

Hi,
As part of your induction I’d like you to write a report for me so that I can hear your ideas on resourcing and talent planning. I’m specifically interested in your recommendations for Porsche, and I would like to use some of your suggestions in our next biannual Resourcing and Talent Review. This review covers topics such as how we can improve the recruitment of our employees, which selection methods we use, how we approach resourcing at Porsche and how we manage talent.

Here’s some advice:

Please give the reasons for the recommendations you make, and consider their potential limitations and how we could minimise them.
Porsche is part of the Volkswagen Group but I am specifically interested in Porsche, so please focus only on Porsche in your report.
I am very interested in hearing about theoretical concepts. Make sure you support your statements and ideas with evidence (i.e. reference journal articles, books, statistics and what other organisations do). Please use the Harvard Referencing system so that I can look up any references that you use.
The aim of this report is to see where you are in terms of your understanding and knowledge of HR theories and practices and to see if you can apply these to our business. A good report will be influential in our decision making regarding HR practices at Porsche. Please make sure that it is presented as a professional business report.

Please try to use references that are widely available to the public.

Class of International Law and Security

The Essay Question:
Write an essay about article 51 in the united nation discuss and defined and explain the article 51 in the united nation. Critically analyze and evaluate through an open current case example the legal, strategic and operational environments and effectiveness of self defense of UN missions.
o The essay, will examine the following parts.

1. Methodology of approach
2. Description
3. Analysis
4. Critical Thinking
5. What we learn from
6. Research Evidence based references used.

Write an essay about article 51 in the united nation discuss and defined and explain the article 51 in the united nation.
the question will be on the right of Self Defense.
o Under which conditions we have the right of protection of our country?
o What are the rules and regulations of warfare?
o What does the UN say about it?
o What I want you to remember is that you have to advise me what to do in case someone attacks the country?
o Do I have the right for Self defense?
o what does the UN Say?
o are there any cases as such? or compared with?
o what can we discuss and learn from?

• You will be examining only 1 case that is currently ongoing also in 2016!! an ongoing international security issue that is currently ongoing using article 51
The topic as stated should only up to date.

Which means that the references and sources should be also up to date as possible. Examine current cases seen from the point of view of security and strategy and combine some legal elements that may justify your research.

The format of the Paper will be examined on the following.

Meeting the CLOs. (1,2,3)
1. Analyze international law and security relations.
2. implement law and rules on international security.
3. understanding the role of military force in global affairs.
2. Structure your methodological approach based on current events.
3. Analysis Case analysis after a brief only arhival historical background.
4. Think that you are the advisor. And you have to report on a project through a current analysis on a running case within 2016.

It may be all cases of international security and or safety. It has to be international case. Not national and not local case.

Important Note… only current cases within 2016, should be considered. Not past case. This means evidence should be as recent as possible. Use also the UN Charter when and where applicable or other legal sources to examine the case.

The format of the Paper will be examined on the following.

1. Meeting the CLOs.
2. Structure and methodological approach.
3. Analysis and Case analysis

Structure that we are currently learning is clear.

It needs to include a standard format and style of paper.

Introduction: Statement/questions to be raised/introducing the subject.
Main: what is analyzed how is described. What is the correlation to the matter and the subject.
Answer the why when where with what elements, positioning and clearly describing and defining.

The case study should be as updated as possible. They should be properly sourced and referenced at all times.

Lessons Learned/Recommendations/Solutions
Concluding remarks/personal Statement.

References.

I prefer the case example will be in separate page

Consider the following case -overweight 5-year-old boy with overweight parents. Write an explanation of the health issues and risks that are relevant to the child . Describe additional information you would need in order to further assess his or her weight-related health. Taking into account the parents’ and caregivers’ potential sensitivities, list at least three specific questions you would ask about the child to gather more information. Provide at least two strategies you could employ to encourage the parents or caregivers to be proactive about their child’s health and weight.
Ball, J. W., Dains, J. E., Flynn, J. A., Solomon, B. S., & Stewart, R. W. (2015). Seidel’s guide to physical examination (8th ed.). St. Louis, MO: Elsevier Mosby.
Chapter 6, “Growth and Measurement” (pp. 79-94) Chap 7
Martin, B. C., Dalton, W. T., Williams, S. L., Slawson, D. L., Dunn, M. S., & Johns-Wommack, R. (2014). Weight status misperception as related to selected health risk behaviors among middle school students. Journal of School Health, 84(2), 116–123. doi:10.1111/josh.12128

https://www.cdc.gov/obesity/childhood/