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Read Case Study 1, “Bernie Madoff: How “One Big Lie” Can Destroy Thousands of Lives,” on pages 258-264. Summarize the overall viewpoint of the author, and discuss the major issues presented in the case. Review the “Questions for Thought.” Answer the four “Questions for Thought” using the business ethics principles from the textbook. Your summary of the author’s viewpoint and your discussion of the major issues presented in the case must be in paragraph form. However, your responses to the four “Questions for Thought” can be answered either in paragraph form or as a numbered list. Ensure to include your summary of the author’s viewpoint, your discussion of the ethical issues facing Bernie Madoff, and your responses to the questions. Deliverable length is a minimum of 500 words, double spaced, 12pt New Times Roman font. Title page, abstract, and running head are not required; however, if you paraphrase or quote words or ideas from your course tex

The Chief Operating Officer where you work does not understand why the company should waste their time in preparing the statement of cash flows. He wants to have a better understanding of this financial statement and asks you to do the following:

Select two companies in the same industry, and use the Internet to find their current statement of cash flows; provide citations for both.
For each company, answer the following questions:
Which method do they each use when calculating the net cash provided by operating activities?
What was the most significant item reported by each company in their investing section and in their financing section?
What were the companies’ trends in net cash provided by operating activities during this period of time?

[u04d2] Unit 4 Discussion 2
Gender Conflict in the Workplace
Resources

Discussion and Participation Scoring Guide.

Note: This is a graded discussion. Please refer to the Scoring Guide for this discussion question to see how you will be evaluated.

Identify a gender conflict that you have experienced or observed in a workplace setting. This can be an explicit conflict or a more implicit one that is present in the background but not openly discussed.

For this question:

Describe the conflict.
Identify variables within the organizational structure that may have contributed to this conflict. In other words, how have factors within this organization—especially in relation to the hierarchy of the organization and how the organization itself is structured—contributed to the conflict?
Have there been attempts by the organization or individuals to resolve this conflict (or to resolve problems related to this conflict)? If so, describe these, and then evaluate in detail the degree to which these have been successful. If there have not been attempts to resolve this conflict, evaluate the organizational issues that have hindered the ability to attempt to resolve this conf

Begin working on your presentation.

Submit an outline of the presentation that includes the following:

A full description of the new system, a description of its components, and the benefit it will provide to Riordan
A discussion of the business requirements driving the need for the system
A discussion of the information used in the system

A discussion of any information security and ethical concerns with the system

Note: Riordan Manufacturing is one of the Virtual Organizations. Please see the link under Academic Resources or on this entry.

Continue working on your proposal.

Develop the flow diagram of the information and any control elements needed to ensure proper access for the information.

Submit a 700- to 1,050-word section of the paper with the following elements:

A diagram of the information flow and any elements controlling proper access to the information it uses
A description of any proposed business process changes for the system along with flow diagrams

A specific discussion on any Internet and mobile access components of the system

Note: Riordan Manufacturing is one of the Virtual Organizations. Please see the link under Academic Resources or on this entry.

Collaboration in a business environment is a best practice that leverages the collective knowledge of the team assembled. Peer evaluation and support, provided in the spirit of continuous improvement and organizational success, result in higher quality deliverables than generally possible by the efforts of an individual. Please describe the process you plan to use to conduct research, identify findings, and develop the Comprehensive Project due in Unit 5 and present a preliminary outline indicating how you intend to organize the project deliverable.

Collaboration in a business environment is a best practice that leverages the collective knowledge of the team assembled. Peer evaluation and support, provided in the spirit of continuous improvement and organizational success, results in higher quality deliverables than generally possible by the efforts of an individual. Please describe the process you plan to use to conduct research, identify findings, and develop the Comprehensive Project due in Unit 5, and present a preliminary outline indicating how you intend to organize the project deliverable.

For your Final Project, you need to find a business such as your employer, a company you support through your personal consumer buying behavior, or a business in your city that is successful and explain how each of the Four P’s of marketing mix work together in order to make this business a success. If one of the elements of the marketing mix was to be off balance with the other P’s would this change the success of the business? Why or Why not?

Discuss how the unique physical and chemical properties of water contribute to the importance of water for life on Earth to survive.

This paper should be creative and interesting, and should be a minimum 1500 words in length. It should be well-organized and demonstrate an orderly flow of information that clearly addresses the subject chosen.