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Income Statements
**Part I.
• Why is revenue recognition a significant issue? How do we determine when revenues are recorded for accounting purposes?
• Explain the difference between a product and period expense.
• Discuss the matching concept as it relates to accounting for revenues and inventory.

**Part II.  Refer to the latest annual financial statements for the two following companies: Apple: http://investor.apple.com/ and Samsung: http://www.samsung.com/us/aboutsamsung/ir/newsMain.do. Generally, this information is found in the Investor Relations area of the website.
Clearly identify the companies, the time period, and include the link to the financial statements you are analyzing in your report.
• What accounting conventions do the two companies follow, US GAAP or IFRS?
• Locate the income statement for the past two years for both companies. Prepare a table comparing five items or more from each statement.
• Comment on the changes from one year to another. Is the company doing better or worse? Did revenues and expenses increase or decrease?
• Is it easy to discern trends or compare the information from year to year and between the two companies? Please, comments on both aspects and show some examples.

Part 1
Length: 500
Task
Select an organisation you are involved with on at least a weekly basis. The organisation may be your employer, a voluntary organisation you are involved with, the university, study centre or any other organisation you engage with regularly, e.g. your church, social club, medical centre etc.

Note: You must use a pseudonym for the organisation so that no one can identify it by its real name.

Think about what formed part of the psychological contract when you first came to this organisation. For this part of the assessment, identify and discuss the “health” of your psychological contract.

PArt 2:

Length: 900 words

This assessment addresses learning objectives (LO) 2, 4 and 6
2. To recall and outline a range of theories and concepts about behaviour of people in
organisations as individuals or as members of collective groups, structures and cultures;

4. To assess and explain how individuals differ and how their behaviour may vary in different organisational scenarios;
6. To appraise and discuss how different behaviours in organisations may contribute towards the
satisfaction and productivity of organisational members.

Task Step 1: Blog (worth 10%) Select an organisation
You should have already completed Step 1 by identifying and discussing the “health” of your
psychological contract and posting this as a blog online.

Task Step 2: Organisational Observation-Review

Over the course of a couple of weeks observe and take notes on the behaviour you see occurring in
this organisation.

Note: You must use a pseudonym for the organisation so that no one can identify it by its real name.

You should base your observations on the concepts, theories and ideas covered in Topics 1 to 3.
The list below indicates SOME of the areas you could focus your observations around.

Note: Your observations should cover areas from at least 2 topics, however you don’t need to cover every
aspect of the topic. For example, observations on the psychological contract might also have
implication regarding job satisfaction and/or motivation.
Topic 1: Managing task performance, human resource maintenance, the psychological contract,
functions of management, knowledge management, work-life balance issues or ethical issues.

Topic 2: Organisational values, job satisfaction, job performance or workplace diversity.
Topic 3: Workplace motivation e.g., does equity theory apply or can you see evidence of
Herzberg’s satisfiers vs. dissatisfiers, is expectancy theory used? Are staff empowered? How?

Task Step 3: Write a Review (worth 10%)
Write a review of your observations that addresses the following point
1. Describe the organisation briefly.
2. Identify what behaviour/situations you observed in the workplace (this should include
reference to your personal observations on the health of your psychological contract).
3. Explain this behaviour using appropriate theories covered in topics 1 to 3 to support your
answer (e.g., was a manager involved in the situation, how was the situation handled).
4. Assess this behaviour/situation using organisational theory (e.g., was this the best outcome,
is there a better way of dealing with the behaviour or situation?)
5. Discuss how has using OB theories and concepts have helped you to understand what was
happening.

You are expected to cite at least three references, so please make sure you reference correctly any
theories or concepts you refer to appropriately, using APA6.

summarize the 10 economics principles and how you can apply each principle. I will upload the powerpoint slides. all information should be only from the slides.

Select a piece of modern art, from the 20th or the 21st century. Discuss
the following aspects of the work on 200 words : (I already selected below photo)

a. What makes this piece so important?
to you and the view?

b. Why is this piece in a gallery,
museum or a specific website?

c. Write about the way the artist uses
the color, shapes or other subjects
to grab your attention to the piece.

d. Is there any or all-emotional aspects
in this piece that helps the
viewer/you to understand the piece?

e. Write: Medium, Location and Date created

d. Site and use references.

Note: Attached the case study.

The following questions are related to the case Julie’s Call: Empowerment at taco Bell. You will have 15 minutes for each question and it is open text.
1. There are a number of employees at Taco Bell with different personalities. Choose two (2) to explain their personalities using concepts from the Big Five. In explaining the personalities use references from the case.

Employee:

Explanation:

Employee:

Explanantion:

2. Empowerment is a strategy to motivate employees. Explain using three (3) employees at Taco Bell whether this strategy has been effective and support your answer with direct references from the case.

a) Employee:

Explanation:

b) Employee:

Explanation:

c) Employee:

Explanation:

_ Wrier should follow the instruction and refer all examples to the case study.Please fill the answer in attached form.

Research the main professional organizations of the human resources profession, such as the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM), pick one professional discipline and address the following:
1. Discuss the history of the discipline.
2. What is the requirement for education and experience for the discipline?
3. What are the certifications for this discipline?
4. How the specialty is generally applied in organizations?
5. Do you see yourself as potentially working in this discipline, why or why not?

For this assignment, review the article provided in this week’s resources, “Sadder and Less Accurate? False Memory for Negative Material in Depression.”

Then, use the Walden University Library or Internet resources to find and select one professional journal article that presents an opposing view on this topic.

The assignment: (3–4 pages)

Explain how the professional journal article you selected defends its opposing view from the original article.

For each article, explain any biases, slants in opinions, and any other errors in logic that are present. Be specific and provide examples from the literature.

Explain how, if at all, reading the opposing article changed your views on the topic presented in the original article.

Explain the importance of applying critical thinking to the reading of psychological research and professional literature.

“Please write an essay answer this prompt: how do foodborne-illness outbreaks affect the success of a restaurant?”

Essay #1
Write a response of 150-200 words to one of the topics listed below. Your completed Journal should include evidence of familiarity with the assigned readings in addition to your personal reflections on the topic.

2. In the Words of Wordsworth: Explain what Wordsworth means when he calls nature “The anchor of my purest thoughts, the nurse, / The guide, the guardian of my heart, and soul / Of all my moral being.” Compare your own responses to nature and the natural landscape. To what extent do you share the Romantic view of nature?

Essay #2
Write a response of 150-200 words to one of the topics listed below. Your completed Journal should include evidence of familiarity with the assigned readings in addition to your personal reflections on the topic.

2. Nineteenth-Century Stereotypes: Describe in your own words how nineteenth-century stereotypes influenced the way women were portrayed in the literature of the period. Explain why George Sand shocked many of her contemporaries and how her writings and her life contradicted the stereotype offered by Romantic poets like Heine.

Essay #3
Write a response of 150-200 words to one of the topics listed below. Your completed Journal should include evidence of familiarity with the assigned readings in addition to your personal reflections on the topic. Your writing must be well organized and contain correct grammar, spelling, and sentence structure.

2. Romanticism in the East: Romantic era architects took some cues and inspiration from the “exotic” East. Give examples of “Romantic” architecture and describe what aspects of the buildings reflect eastern influences. What other aspects of the architecture of the time demonstate the “Romatic” style? Explain why/how these aspects reflect the ideas of Western Romanticism.

BUS -301-801: Human Resource Management
Fall 2013
E Portfolio Assignment

The purpose of this exercise is to give you an opportunity to move out into the world of practice and interview a person (or group of persons) involved with the Human Resource Management matters in the UAE. Much can be learned by studying a subject in a class setting. Additional learning is achievable also by interacting with a practitioner in a real business setting.

Identify a person whose job involves considerable dealings with managing people in the organizations of the UAE. This could be a public (government) or private institution. Ask the HR official or manager the following:

 What is your official title?
 What are the major things that you do in your job that deal with managing people in your organization?
 What training and experience must a person have in order to be eligible to perform your job effectively?
 Over the last couple of years what’s been the most interesting two HR situations that you have encountered in your job? Why were these situations special to you? What lessons did employees involved in each situation learn?
 What type of advice can you offer to people living in the UAE about the importance of HRM for the citizens and companies obeying UAE employment law.
 In your opinion, what’s the biggest misconception or misunderstanding people have about the employment system of the UAE?
 What changes do you anticipate in the UAE employment system in the future? Why?
 If a student were interested in performing the kind of work that you do, what career advice can you offer to such a person at this time?

You are encouraged to think about additional unique questions that apply to the specific type of work that your interviewee does, and ask them in addition to the ones above.
“So what should my paper look like and what should I write after having conducted the above interview?” Here’s an outline that you can use:

A Title Page

Name, Student Number, Class Name, Class Session Time, Date

Section I — Acknowledgements Page

A brief summary of the date, time, and location where the interview or conversations took place. Be sure to name and thank your interviewee as well as any other persons who were involved in helping you (or your group) setup or conduct this interview.

Section II — The Interview(s)

An overall summary of your conversation with the interviewee. It can be as simple as noting the exact answers given to the questions noted in the previous page.

Section III — Reflective Summary

Include here (1) your overall impressions, thoughts, and opinions that you had of the job and the person who you interviewed.

(2) In a second summary area also detail what you learned by completing this project. Please make sure in this second part that you discuss “how” what you learned or heard in your conversations relates to our class text and discussions. If possible, try to link sections of the book to comments stated in your summaries