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Action Steps

1. Choose an organization that is of great interest to you.
2. Identify the major trends that will have the greatest impact on it in the next ten years.

Write a 3-5 page paper in which you do the following:

1. Discuss the major trends you have selected and why you selected them. You may use a couple of trends from the reading this week, but be sure to discuss a couple of trends that are not listed in that reading.
2. Anticipate how you expect these trends to affect your selected organization.
3. Determine the kinds of change-management skills and tools that may be required to address the trends.

Your assignment must follow these formatting requirements:

• Be typed, double-spaced, using Times New Roman font (size 12) with one-inch margins on all sides; references must follow
• Include a cover page containing the title of the assignment, the student’s name, the professor’s name, the course title, and the date. The cover page and the reference page are not included in the required page length.

  The following are specific course learning outcomes associated with this assignment:

• Use technology and information resources to research issues in organizational change and culture.
• Write clearly and concisely about organizational change and culture using proper writing mechanics.

  Grading for this assignment will be based on answer quality, logic/organization of the paper, and language and writing skills, using the following grading criteria.

   

• Describe the maintenance procedures planned for the proposed network, including a schedule of maintenance activities and the steps required for each activity.
• Identify the network operations that will be monitored, the information that will be gathered, and the meaning of the information as it relates to potential system problems.
• List at least 3 potential network problem scenarios, and identify the troubleshooting procedure that will be used if this scenario occurs.

 

Among the most controversial topics in physical science, global warming has received a great deal of attention during the past decade. Given its great impacts on both humans and the environment, lawmakers and scientists must weigh heavily the information that they are presented. Explore this debate in more detail by evaluating both the scientific basis of this phenomenon and the human role in global warming.
Write a three to four (4) page paper in which you:
1. Compare and contrast natural versus anthropogenic climate changes. Include specific examples of each.
2. Take a position as to whether or not global warming is taking place. Provide three (3) lines of evidence to support your position.
3. Assess two (2) current mitigation strategies for global warming, such as carbon sequestration, carbon taxing, clean coal technology, higher fuel efficiency standards, and so on. Include a discussion on the effectiveness of this mitigation strategy, as well as its potential costs and policy implications.
4. Speculate what policy changes you would propose to help stabilize global climate and which business sectors or nations would be held to more strict standards if you implement your proposed policies.
5. Use at least four (4) quality resources in this assignment. Note: Wikipedia and similar Websites do not qualify as quality resources. The body of the paper must have in-text citations that correspond to the references. Integrate all sources into your paper using proper techniques of quoting, paraphrasing and summarizing, along with proper use of in-text citations to credit your sources
Your report must follow these formatting requirements:
• Be typed, double spaced, using Times New Roman font (size 12), with one-inch margins on all sides; citations and references must follow APA or school-specific format. Check with your professor for any additional instructions.
• Include a cover page containing the title of the assignment, the student’s name, the professor’s name, the course title, and the date. The cover page and the reference page are not included in the required assignment page length.

Case Analysis

Case Study: Disney

The Happiest Brand On Earth

 

Analyze the problem, and prepare a group memo report (max: 2-5 pages, SINGLE spaced) include the following topics.

– General Overview of the Case

– Issues, alternatives, challenges you identified in the article

– Your recommendation for action, and why you recommend it; you must support what you recommend.

– anwer the questions, if any, at the end of the case.

– generate a list of questions (minimum 4-5) for the rest of the class to encourage participation.

 

Powerpoint Slides 10 Slides:

 

2 Background/ Video

4 Questions, each question on a slide ( the questions are attached)

2 Discussion questions (raise questions for the class)

2 Overview, What I learned from chapter 2  NOTE: Please talk about the SWOT Analysis that is the best example for chapter 2.

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For this assignment, you will choose an organization to analyze. This organization can be one you are personally familiar with, or one you have observed to be an effective organization, You now become a newly appointed senior leader in that organization.

 

As a new leader, you must prepare a report for the CEO that assesses the organization’s overall alignment between its vision, mission, values, and strategy. This report should consist of the following sections:

 

1. An analysis of the strategic cascade of the organization

   This includes assessing the organization’s strategy and market position. Use the framework implied in Michael Porter’s (1997) article “What is Strategy.” When describing the business strategy of your organization, consider the following questions:

   • What is the target market (target customer)?
   • What is your organization’s value proposition (How does it deliver value that satisfies the target’s wants and needs?)?
   • How is your product or service positioned in the market (What specific features and attributes define the product/service and how is its value reflected in its pricing, distribution, marketing communications, etc.?)?
   • How is your organization sustainably different from your competitors (What is the source of uniqueness and how sustainable is it from being diminished by competitors?)?
2. A strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats (SWOT) analysis

   A SWOT analysis is a strategy planning tool that examines both internal and external environments for factors and trends that should shape planning and operations over the next five years. Environmental factors internal to the company are classified as strengths (to be leveraged) or weaknesses (to be mitigated), while external factors are classified as either opportunities (to be pursued) or threats (to be monitored and responded to).

   Some primer questions for the SWOT analysis include the following:

   Strengths

   • What advantages does your organization have?
   • What do you do better than anyone else?
   • What unique or lowest-cost resources can you draw upon that others cannot?
   • What do people in your market see as your strengths?
   • What factors mean that you “get the sale”?
   • What is your organization’s unique selling proposition (USP)?

   Weaknesses

   • What aspects of your product or service could you improve?
   • What market segments or competitive areas should you avoid?
   • What are people in your market likely to see as weaknesses?
   • What factors can make you lose sales?

   Opportunities

   • What good opportunities can you spot?
   • What interesting trends are you aware of?Useful opportunities can come from such things as the following:
     • Changes in technology and markets on both a broad and narrow scale
     • Changes in government policy related to your field
     • Changes in social patterns, population profiles, lifestyle changes, and so on
     • Local events

   Threats

   • What obstacles do you face?
   • What are your competitors doing?
   • Are quality standards or specifications for your job, products, or services changing?
   • Is changing technology threatening your position?
   • Do you have bad debt or cash-flow problems?
   • Could any of your weaknesses seriously threaten your business?
3. A summary of the internal environment, including the organization’s values and the key elements of the organization architecture that influence worker behavior.

   Include the following characteristics when analyzing the internal environment:

• Structure: This includes the ways the organization assigns formal roles and responsibilities, decision-making authority, expertise and skills, and work tasks. Think of the organization chart and how its implied structure directs the decision making, resource allocation, and workflow of the organization. Is it consistent with the strategy?
• Systems: This comprises the information flows that coordinate activities between groups and across the organization structure while helping direct worker behavior, including performance management, financial management, operating, forecasting and planning, and other regulating mechanisms. How do these systems help align workers and their actions with the strategy?
• Culture: This consists of the unwritten rules and norms that govern worker behavior and help coordinate the activities across structural boundaries. Is the organization culture an enabler or impediment to the corporate strategy? What specific behaviors embedded in the culture support the strategy? What specific behaviors block the strategy?

A synthesis of the information evaluating the ability of the organization to implement the strategy using Kouzes and Posner’s Five Practices (for example, modeling the way) as a framework.

Include answers to the following:

• Company Culture
  • Describe the values and culture of your organization.
  • What are the values of your organization?
  • How are they reflected in the behaviors you see at work?
• Employee Behaviors
  • Describe the behaviors in your organization.
  • Are these behaviors consistent with the business strategy?
  • Where do they conflict with the strategy?
  • What new behaviors are required to align with the strategy?
• Leadership
  • How might you and other leaders create new behaviors to support the strategy?
  • What specific actions would you implement to communicate, motivate, model the way, coach, inspire the vision, challenge the process, and encourage the heart?

Your response to each part of the assignment should be approximately three pages.

 

Your final product will be in a word document and be approximately 10–12 pages in length and utilize 4–7 scholarly sources in your research. Your paper should be written in a clear, concise, and organized manner; demonstrate ethical scholarship in accurate representation and attribution of sources; and display accurate spelling, grammar, and punctuation.

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Assume you are the partner in an accounting firm hired to perform the audit on a fortune 1000 company.  Assume also that the initial public offering (IPO) of the company was approximately five (5) years ago and the company is concerned that, in less than five (5) years after the IPO, a restatement may be necessary. During your initial evaluation of the client, you discover the following information:

• The client is currently undergoing a three (3) year income tax examination by the Internal Revenue Service (IRS). A significant issue involved in the IRS audit encompasses inventory write-downs on the tax returns that are not included in the financial statements. Because of the concealment of the transaction, the IRS is labeling the treatment of the write-down as fraud.
• The company has a share-based compensation plan for top-level executives consisting of stock options. The value of the options exercised during the year was not expensed or disclosed in the financial statements.
• The company has several operating and capital leases in place, and the CFO is considering leasing a substantial portion of the assets for future use. The current leases in place are arranged using special purpose entities (SPEs) and operating leases.
• The company seeks to acquire a global partner, which will require IFRS reporting.
• The company received correspondence from the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) requesting additional supplemental information regarding the financial statements submitted with the IPO.

 

Write an eight to ten (8-10) page paper in which you:

1. Evaluate any damaging financial and ethical repercussions of failure to include the inventory write-downs in the financial statements. Prepare a recommendation to the CFO, evaluating the negative impact of a civil fraud penalty on the corporation as a result of the IRS audit. In the recommendation, include essential internal control procedures to prevent fraudulent financial reporting from occurring, as well as the major obligation of the CEO and CFO to ensure compliance.
2. Examine the negative results on stakeholders and the financial statements of an IRS audit which generates additional tax and penalties or subsequent audits. Assume that the subsequent audit and / or additional tax and penalties result from the taxpayer’s use of an inventory reserve account, applying a 10 percent reduction to inventory over three (3) years.
3. Discuss the applicable federal tax laws, regulations, rulings, and court cases related to the inventory write-downs, and explain the specific relevance of each to the write-down.
4. Research the current generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP) regarding stock option accounting. Evaluate the current treatment of the company’s share-based compensation plan based on GAAP reporting. Contrast the financial benefits and risks of the share-based compensation stock option plan with the financial benefits and risks of a share-based stock-appreciation rights plan (SARS). Recommend to the CFO which plan the company should use, and provide the correct accounting treatment for each.
5. Research the reporting requirements for lease reporting under GAAP and International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS). Based on your research, create a proposal for future lease transactions to the CFO. Within the proposal, discuss the use of off-the-balance sheet financing arrangements, capital leases, and operating leases, and indicate the related business and financial risks of each.
6. Create an argument for or against a single set of international accounting standards related to lease accounting based on the global market and cross border leases of assets. Examine the benefits and risks of your chosen position.
7. Examine the major implications of SAS 99 based on the factors you discovered during the initial evaluation of the company. Provide support for your rationale.
8. Analyze the potential for a material misstatement in the financial statements based on the issues identified in your initial evaluation. Make a recommendation to the CFO for the issuance of        restated financial statement restatement. Identify at least three (3) significant issues that can result from the failure to issue restated financial statements.
9. Examine the economic effect of restatement of the financial statements on investors, employees, customers, and creditors.
10. Use six (6) quality academic resources in this assignment. Note: Wikipedia and other Websites do not qualify as academic resources. (Include 3 Online resources)

 

Your assignment must follow these formatting requirements:

• Be typed, double spaced, using Times New Roman font (size 12), with one-inch margins on all sides; citations and references must follow APA or school-specific format. Check with your professor for any additional instructions.
• Include a cover page containing the title of the assignment, the student’s name, the professor’s name, the course title, and the date. The cover page and the reference page are not included in the required assignment page length.

 

The specific course learning outcomes associated with this assignment are:

• Analyze accounting situations to apply the proper accounting rules and make recommendations to ensure compliance with generally accepted accounting principles.

• Analyze business situations to determine the appropriateness of decision making in terms of professional standards and ethics

• Analyze business situations and apply advanced federal taxation concepts.

• Use technology and information resources to research issues in accounting.

• Write clearly and concisely about accounting using proper writing mechanics.