Discuss the business strategies or events that your company was undertaking that may have caused the observed trend in this ratio.

1. Report the Return on Assets ratio for the last three years
a. 5pts – What does this ratio mean?
b. 5pts – Provide your detailed calculations of this ratio. (Showing values, formulas, and
calculations)
c. 5pts – Plot this information in a chart using your preferred computer program (e.g.,
Excel)
d. 10pts – Based upon the trend shown in your chart predict a return on assets ratio value
(or range of values) that you believe is reasonable for the next year. Provide a short
narrative explaining how you came to this value?
e. 25pts –
1. Reasons can often be found by reading the footnotes or Management
Discussion and Analysis section of the 10-K (i.e., annual report) or analyst comments ( )
2. Report the Inventory Turnover ratio for the last three years (if Inventory Turnover is not meaningful for your company, you may compute the Total Asset Turnover Ratio)
a. 5pts – What does this ratio mean?
b. 5pts – Provide your detailed calculations of this ratio. (Showing values, formulas, and
calculations)
c. 5pts – Plot this information in a chart using your preferred computer program (e.g.,
Excel)
d. 10pts – Based upon the trend shown in your chart predict an inventory turnover ratio
value (or range of values) that you believe is reasonable for the next year. Provide a
short narrative explaining how you came to this value?
e. 25pts – Discuss the business strategies or events that your company was undertaking
that may have caused the observed trend in this ratio.
1. Reasons can often be found by reading the footnotes or Management
Discussion and Analysis section of the 10-K (i.e., annual report) or analyst comments ( )

Develop a PowerPoint presentation (12-18 slides in length). It should include a title slide, an agenda slide, body content slides, a closing slide, and a references slide (if applicable). All slides count toward the required length.

The content should focus on some aspect of social media use in the workplace. Potential examples include the importance of companies embracing social media, advertising through social media, policies involving social media, proper professional communication through social media platforms, or any number of other angles.The presentation must be submitted in .PPT or .PPTX format.
The PowerPoint presentation must adhere to the following requirements:Content:
Address some aspect of social media use in the workplace.
Organize the presentation in a clear, logical manner.
Provide between 12-18 total slides.
Assume your target audience is familiar with the overall concept of social media.Format the PowerPoint presentation with headings on each slide, and two to three (2-3) relevant graphics (photographs, graphs, clip art, etc.) throughout the presentation (not per slide), ensuring that the presentation is visually appealing and readable from 18 feet away.Open with an engaging introduction (including one title slide and one introduction slide).
For the body of your presentation, cover the main points of your subject. Create slides that reinforce and illustrate your main ideas.
For your single closing slide, finish with a memorable wrap-up statement that refocuses on the purpose of your presentation.
Slides should cite any relevant outside sources using footnotes on relevant slides (the source should be clearly visible to the audience) OR in SWS format (in-text citations on slides and an included references page at the end of the presentation). Choose one method or the other (do not mix both).

Describe the scale, including the number of items and the response scale. According to Funder, what kind of data did you collect here?

Describe how you found your participants and how you collected the data.
Describe the sample, including age and gender breakdown, as well as the total number of participants you had.
What was the range of scores that you recorded in your participants? Is everyone getting the same scores? Are a lot of people scoring really low or really high? What does this tell you about the usefulness of your measure? (you are encouraged to present some sort of table or graph here)
What was the population of interest? Was your sample an appropriate representation of the population of interest?
What steps would you need to take to determine whether this scale exhibited construct validity?
Do you think a situation would be a better predictor of behaviors than this trait?
What was the biggest challenge associated with this assignment? How would you address that if you were to do this assignment again? Be thoughtful and thorough in your answer.
If you were to re-write your scale, what would you change? You must identify something here. Be thoughtful and thorough in your answer.
Grading and evaluation: This assignment is worth 20% of your grade in this course. Your grade will be based on the following (please see attached rubric for details and weighting):Following instructions (minimum 10-item scale; administering scale to at least 20 participants, etc.)
The appropriateness of your scale (measures a personality trait and contains a response format)
The creativity of your approach
The thoroughness of your written evaluation of the scale (answering ALL of the questions provided in the section above and doing so thoughtfully)

Explain how the article applies to the real world, your major, your current job, or your future career goal.

Visit one of the following newspapers websites: USA Today, New York Times, Wall Street Journal, or Washington Post. Select an article that uses statistical data related to a current event, your major, your current field, or your future career goal. The chosen article must have a publication date during this quarter.
The article should use one of the following categories of descriptive statistics: Measures of Frequency – Counting Rules, Percent, Frequency, Frequency Distributions
Measures of Central Tendency – Mean, Median, Mode
Measures of Dispersion or Variation – Range, Variance, Standard Deviation
Measures of Position – Percentile, QuartilesWrite a two to three (2-3) page paper in which you:Write a summary of the article.
Explain how the article uses descriptive statistics.

Analyze the reasons why the article chose to use the various types of data shared in the article.
Format your paper according to the Strayer Writing Standards. Please take a moment to review the SWS documentation for details.

elaborate on the lack of specific laws regarding cyberbullying and what constitutes cyberbullying, lack of strict regulation of social media and what can be done to control cyberbullying and to punish the perpetrators of cyberbullying?

elaborate on the lack of specific laws regarding cyberbullying and what constitutes cyberbullying, lack of strict regulation of social media and what can be done to control cyberbullying and to punish the perpetrators of cyberbullying?

Explain the importance of each functional area (i.e., planning, organizing, leading, and evaluating) associated with your athletic organization. Also, provide one (1) example for each of the aforementioned functional areas in order to support information presented in this final essay.

Assignment: During week 7 of this class, submit a four to five (4 to 5) page essay (i.e., paper) concerning “Challenges in Functional Areas Applied to Sport Management.”
Review the assigned readings presented within SPHE400 (i.e., see “Lessons” tab located on left hand side of SPHE400 home page).
You are the President of an athletic organization. This organization can be hypothetical.
Compose an essay, which can educate a group of interns working for your athletic organization.
For this assignment, please write a four to five (4 to 5) page essay in third person voice (avoid counting the title or reference pages within the paper’s length requirement).
Your essay should include:
I. Introduction; (make certain to identify your athletic organization — this organization can be hypothetical).

1. Planning – “A functional area of management that includes defining organizational goals and determining the appropriate mean by which to achieve those desired goals” (Masteralexis, Barr, & Hums, 2015, p. 576).
2. Organizing – “A functional area of management that focuses on putting plans into action by determining which types of jobs need to be performed and who will be responsible for doing these jobs” (Masteralexis, Barr, & Hums, 2015, p. 575).
3. Leading – “A functional area of management that is the “action” part of management process; it involves a variety of activities, including delegating, managing differences, managing change, and motivating employees” (Masteralexis, Barr, & Hums, 2015, p. 572).
4. Evaluating – “A functional area of management that measure and ensures progress toward organizational objectives by establishing reporting systems, developing performance standards, observing employment performance, and designing reward systems to acknowledge successful work on the part of employees” (Masteralexis, Barr, & Hums, 2015, p. 569).
Once again, the information presented can address a hypothetical athletic organization.
III. Concluding summary.
Please clearly identify each of the aforementioned sections (see above — I, II, and III) in your final essay. Your essay must include at least three (3) references. Use the APUS Online Library, the Internet, and SPHE400 assigned readings to locate publications to complete your essay. These literary sources need to be cited in the body of your essay and included as references (i.e., review APA format).
Include an American Psychological Association (APA) formatted Title page and References page with your submission.

Select a primary communication context (e.g., interpersonal communication.) that is reflected in a particular film of your choosing.

Also, you will use several, specific terms (e.g., self-disclosure, relational dialectics, stages of relational development, etc.) that are related to your communication context.
2. Conduct scholarly research in order to fully understand your chosen context. In other words, you will find journal articles and use your textbook to help you understand and apply course terms in your paper. This becomes the evidence for your paper.
3. Lastly, you will define and explain the terms, and analyze how they are presented in the film. In addition, you will cite your journal articles and your textbook within your paper as evidence and support of your ideas.
4. Please note that you will submit two copies of your paper. You will attach one copy to the assignment posted in Moodle and upload a second copy to Turnitin.com.Your main goal in this paper is to apply communication terms to
a film in order to demonstrate your understanding of these terms.

Knowing what you do from reading Chapter 11, about PSAs and teenagers (page 337), and after reading the article, would you think this PSA from the police department would be effective? More effective than the anti-drug ads in the article? Why or why not?

This week, read the article in the link to the left of your screen, in ARTICLES FOR DISCUSSION, titled Texting_Teenagers_PSA, about texting and public service announcements.THEN, watch this PSA from the United Kingdom (warning – it is pretty jarring). http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R0LCmStIw9EIt has been watched more than 2 million times. Also, some have said this should be shown in high schools, or in teen driving classes, but others have found it too gruesome. Would you have this required viewing for teen drivers (or those about to become drivers?) If so, why? If not, why not? THREE meaningful posts each for points.write a response by answering the questions above.