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I need help with a Business question. All explanations and answers will be used to help me learn.

• Begin each writing assignment by identifying the question number you are answering followed by the actual question itself (in bold type).

• Use a standard essay format for responses to all questions (i.e., an introduction, middle paragraphs and conclusion).

• Responses must be typed double-spaced, using a standard font (i.e. Times New Roman) and 12 point type size.

. All work must be free of any form of plagiarism.

Textbook: Organizational Behavior

16th Edition, 2015

Author(s):Stephen P. Robbins & Timothy A. Judge

Publisher: Pearson Education Inc.

I’m studying and need help with a Business question to help me learn.

Write a three-page research paper covering the following topics:

1. Define project cost terms and tell how each is used in estimating project cost.
2. Compare and contrast analogous, parametric, and bottom-up methods of estimating costs.
3. Describe issues in project cost estimating and how to deal with each.
4. Describe the earned value management terms.

Find at least two sources , and you may also use your textbook to complete this research paper. Be sure to use APA format and cite resources used. Include a title page and a reference page (not included in the number count of pages).

Kloppenborg, T. (2015). Contemporary project management (3rd ed.). Stamford, CT: Cengage

I need help with a Computer Science question. All explanations and answers will be used to help me learn.

The vast majority of the population associates Blockchain with cryptocurrency Bitcoin; however, there are many other uses of blockchain; such as Litecoin, Ether, and other currencies.

Describe at least two cryptocurrencies with applicable examples. Discuss some similarities and differences. Lastly, discuss if you have any experience using any cryptocurrencies.

Minimum 2 peer reviewed articles for reference.

Textbook

Pearlson, K., Saunders, C., Galletta, D. (2020). Managing and Using Information Systems: A Strategic Approach, 7th Edition. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc. ISBN: 978-1119560562

Can you help me understand this Sociology question?

YOU WILL PRETEND THAT YOU INTERVIEWED A COLLEAGUE OF INDIAN DECENT FOR THIS PRESENTATION….YOU WILL NOT RECORD THE VIDEO YOU ARE JUST PUTTING TOGETHER THE POWERPOINT PRESENTATION BY ANSWERING ALL OF THE INTERVIEW QUESTIONS AND ALL OF THE QUESTIONS IN THE INSTRUCTIONS

Assignment: Interview Presentation

How you present yourself to others is an important part of being a social worker. Being able to present yourself in an open, caring, and professional manner helps with building rapport and influences your clients’ willingness to share their experiences. You also must be skilled at interacting with clients who are different from you.

Interviewing skills are also very important, as you have seen, and social workers must be mindful of how to conduct an interview in a culturally competent and culturally sensitive manner.

In this Assignment, you have an opportunity to practice your engagement and assessment skills. You conduct an interview with an individual from a different culture than your own to learn their perspective about culture and gender. The goal is for you to explore the cultural norms within that ethnic or cultural group.

To prepare:

• Identify an interview subject with a different cultural background than you.
• Download the “Interview Presentation: Questions” handout from the Learning Resources.
• Ask your interview subject the questions found in the Interview Presentation handout. Be sure to record the interview (with participant’s permission) and/or take good notes.
• You will not submit the interview itself. You create a presentation about the interview.
• Use the Personal Capture function of Kaltura Media to record a PowerPoint presentation. Your video should be 4–5 minutes but no more than 6 minutes.

By Day 7

Submit a recorded PowerPoint (PPT) presentation about your interview with a person from a different culture than your own. Your PowerPoint presentation should include 8–10 slides and should be 4–5 minutes in recorded length.

In the PPT presentation, address the following:

• Identify basic background information of the interviewee.
• Provide a summary of what you learned about the individual when conducting this interview.
• Analyze the individual’s cultural experience at the:
  • Micro level
  • Mezzo level
  • Macro level
    • Support your analysis at each level with scholarly resources.
• Describe your reaction to this activity.
• Reflect on these reactions and explain why you believe you may have experienced these thoughts and feelings.
• Describe what you learned and explain how you can apply what you learned to the social work profession.

Please remain mindful of confidentiality and privacy of the interviewee when presenting information in the educational environment.

INTERVIEW QUESTIONS:

• Have you ever lived or visited outside of the United States? If so, where? Describe the experience. -No
• What do you identify as your culture?-American culture
• What are the most important values and beliefs of your family and community? -Love,Hard work,independence , and equality.
• What are the important events, traditions, celebrations, and practices in your family or community? All holidays , achievements, anniversaries & more.
• How does your family or community define gender roles? -We don’t have gender roles in my family , everyone helps out in every area.
• How do you identify your:
  • Race-Caucasian
  • Ethnicity-American
  • National origin-German/Irish
  • Color-White
  • Sex-Female
  • Sexual orientation-Straight
  • Gender identity or expression-Female
  • Age-27
  • Marital status- single
  • Political belief-None
  • Religion-Christian
  • Immigration status-Legal
  • Disability status-None
• How well do you fit within your family or community based on these other identities you hold? -Good.
• How do you think others outside your community view your culture? -Everyone is entitled to their own opinions.
• Have you experienced prejudice or discrimination? Please describe. Yes, it’s never a good feeling to feel unwanted or bothered by for the color of your skin.

Need help with my Business question – I’m studying for my class.

• Begin each writing assignment by identifying the question number you are answering followed by the actual question itself (in bold type).

• Use a standard essay format for responses to all questions (i.e., an introduction, middle paragraphs and conclusion).

• Responses must be typed double-spaced, using a standard font (i.e. Times New Roman) and 12 point type size.

. All work must be free of any form of plagiarism.

Textbook: Business Communication Today

13th Edition, 2016

Author(s): Courtland L. Bovee & John V. Thill

Publisher: Pearson

I’m studying for my Management class and need an explanation.

What are the pertinent components of Process Improvement? Examine a local store or business with which you are familiar. What specifically needs to improve? What processes are in place and what is not in place? For example, you can discuss customer service issues or product concerns.

• Write between 700 – 1,000 words using Microsoft Word in APA style, see example below.
• Use font size 12 and 1” margins.
• Include cover page and reference page.
• At least 80% of your paper must be original content/writing.
• No more than 20% of your content/information may come from references.
• Use at least three references from outside the course material, one reference must be from EBSCOhost. Text book, lectures, and other materials in the course may be used, but are not counted toward the three reference requirement.
• Cite all reference material (data, dates, graphs, quotes, paraphrased words, values, etc.) in the paper and list on a reference page in APA style.

References must come from sources such as, scholarly journals

found in EBSCOhost, CNN, online newspapers such as, The Wall Street

Journal, government websites, etc. Sources such as, Wikis, Yahoo

Answers, eHow, blogs, etc. are not acceptable for academic writing.

I’m trying to learn for my Business class and I’m stuck. Can you help?

• Explain the differences between the arithmetic return and the geometric return. Include in your explanation what factor determines the difference between arithmetic returns and geometric (compounded) returns. (75–150 words, or 1–2 paragraphs)
• If you own a stock with volatile returns over a 2-year period, will the average return be higher or lower than the geometric return? Explain why. (75–150 words, or 1–2 paragraphs)
• Why is it more convenient to display your investment returns in percentage terms rather than dollar terms? (75–150 words, or 1–2 paragraphs)
• Would a common stock or a corporate bond demand a higher risk premium? Explain why. (75–150 words, or 1–2 paragraphs)
• What are the differences between a bond risk premium and an equity risk premium? (75–150 words, or 1–2 paragraphs)
• Explain whether it is possible to earn excess returns without taking on additional risk. (75–150 words, or 1–2 paragraphs)

Note: For each prompt, be sure to reference at least one scholarly source to support your answer. Use the Walden Undergraduate Paper Template, provided in this week’s Learning Resources, to complete this Assignment.

I’m studying for my Excel class and don’t understand how to answer this. Can you help me study?

Major Organizational Decision

Many of the major decisions undertaken by healthcare organizations (HCOs) are guided by managerial accounting tools and methods. Given the significant capital requirements that are often required to build a hospital, expand a service, or even purchase advanced technology, senior leaders and operational managers look to managerial accounting to make sense of available information.

It is important to understand that managerial accounting assessments are not perfect but that they provide an evidence-based approach to decision-making. Estimates about future cash flows, interest rates, and even patient demand undoubtedly contain a measure of error. Two available options for protecting the accuracy of decisions include sensitivity analysis prior to decision and variance analysis after decisions are made.

Sensitivity analysis comes in many forms but essentially seeks to determine the impact of inaccurate or even evolving decision support input variables. By providing best, likely, and worst-case input values, sensitivity analysis provides HCO managers and leaders with a risk assessment of sorts. Variance analysis to assess operational performance compared to developed budgets and managerial accounting estimates, provides an opportunity to change inputs to course correct when necessary. The initial decision must be continually evaluated to provide the desired profit margin and outcomes. Sensitivity analysis can also be associated with variance analysis to guide decisions. For example, if variance analysis shows that projected patient volume hasn’t materialized as expected in the likely scenario, costs can be adjusted downward and/or alternative patient volume or other revenue sources can be pursued as already outlined in the worst-case scenario. These techniques will increase the accuracy of decision support analyses and tools and protect margins and outcomes.

As all departments don’t produce revenue to cover their expenses, these costs must be methodically and equitably distributed to departments and services that generate profit and loss (P&L). Critical and necessary services—such as housekeeping, internal audit, and human resources—do not directly provide revenue. However, without their support, surgery, oncology, and other product lines would be unable to complete their revenue-generating work. As a result, consistently capturing all expenses and outflows, and allocating them comprehensively, is necessary to accurately assess break-even points, contribution margins, and other financial outcomes.

Finally, managerial accounting tools and techniques can help to guide financing decisions. Debt financing provides the benefit of retaining ownership and has tax advantages but has strict qualification requirements. Equity financing eliminates the burden of a loan that must be repaid and sometimes ignores creditworthiness but ownership must be shared producing a loss of some control. Managerial accounting helps to decide whether debt, equity or a combination is in the best interests of the HCO. Under each option, an analysis of the cost of capital provides an assessment of how much financing would cost the HCO. Revenues or inflows must cover these costs as well as produce any desired margin to define success for the HCO.

QVC Medical Group (QVC MG) is a profitable and very busy multi-specialty group practice. As a part of its growth strategy, QVC MG is considering purchasing one of three medical practices in the community. Each of the practices provides a unique strategic advantage that is aligned with QVC MG’s long-term plans.

Clinics to compare:

Senior Clinic is located in a community offering extensive and very popular services for older patients. Junior Clinic/Pediatric Clinic serves a growing but younger population with the largest population of children in the area. Sports Clinic provides sports medicine services and is the preferred provider for the local all-state high school teams as well as the local college sports programs.

As the vice president of operations for QVC MG, you’ve been asked to lead this effort and recommend a decision to the board. Although all three practices are very attractive and have expressed an interest in being acquired, the board will only choose one. The others may be considered at a later date.

You’ve collected the following data related to acquisition costs, cash inflows, and overhead expenses for the next 5 years. The cost of capital is determined to be 11%:

Senior Clinic will cost $20M to acquire. Additionally, there are several roofing and facility maintenance needs that will cost $200,000 in Year 1, and $150,000 in Year 2. Finally, lab services will cost $100,000 per year beginning in Year 1. Expected cash inflows from Senior Clinic are $4.5M, $8.5M, $10.265M, $11M, and $500K for Years 1 to 5.

Pediatric Clinic will cost $19M to acquire. The practice is only two years old, and the facilities are in excellent condition. However, the clinic will have debt payments of $130,000 in Years 4 and 5. Finally, Pediatric Clinic has a lab outreach program that generates $20,000 in revenue every year beginning in Year 1. Half of this revenue will flow to QVC MG. In addition to the lab revenue, expected cash inflows from Pediatric Clinic are $6M, $6.5M, $7M, $7.5M, and $8M for Years 1 to 5.

Sports Clinic will cost $21M to acquire. The clinic is in a state-of-the-art facility with owned and leased equipment. Annual lease payments are $90,000 per year and maintenance agreement costs are $50,000 per year, both beginning in Year 1. Finally, the clinic receives $75,000 per year from the local college for medical coverage beginning in Year 1, all of which will flow to QVC MG. In addition to the college revenue, expected inflows from Sports Clinic are $9M, 7.5M, $8.5M, $6M, and $3.25M for Years 1 to 5.

*** In addition to the above information, you’ve determined that for the selected clinic, the NPV probabilities are:

* 20% for the worst-case scenario(expected cash flow will equal 90% of data from above)

* 60% for the most-likely scenario (data above)

* 20% for the best-case scenario (expected cash flow will equal 108% of data above)

Finally, the board would like your recommendation on other financing options. Ignoring the previous 11% cost of capital, you’ve discovered that:

* equity financing costs 15%

* 20% debt financing costs 10% (after tax) with equity costing 16%

* 45% debt financing costs 11% (after-tax) with equity costing 17%

Assignment

As VP-Operations for QVC MG, assess each clinic option. In your assessment, develop tables showing the NPV and IRR for each option. After selecting a clinic to recommend, determine its expected NPV and make a financing (equity and/or debt) recommendation to the board.

Provide your supporting documentation (spreadsheets or solution sheets) and develop a PowerPoint presentation to present and explain your findings to the board.

Presentation Length: 7-10 slides with 150-200 words (speaker notes) per slide

Excel Workbook Length: Three Excel Workbooks

I’m studying for my Sociology class and don’t understand how to answer this. Can you help me study?

Which sociological theory do you find to be the most accurate (Functionalism, Conflict, Symbolic Interactionism)? Why? Explain.( 2 paragraphs must)

Also respond to 3 other students. whether you agree or disagree with them and why? (2 sentences per respond )

student 1:Out of the 3 sociological theories, the one I find to be the most accurate as well as relatable is “Conflict Theory.“

We learned that Conflict Theory sees society when there is a type of inequality or power disbalance and then how this may produce reactions of “struggle or competitiveness or conflict.” Conflict theory seems to be the accurate one since the hierarchy is formed, there always seems to be a huge gap, which creates conflict and tension. And as each hierarchy and division is created, we see movements happening. Look at our world today! I can not find a better theory that fits today’s news. In my understanding, the reason I see the other 2 sociological theories to be less accurate than Conflict Theory is because of the irregularities brought by the theory itself. Functionalism Theory seems to have a lot of potholes. Functionalism depends on every individual playing their part. But what if one person doesn’t do their part? What if there is dysfunction is this “system”? We see not much of a drastic impact, therefore weakening the theory itself. Whereas Symbolic Interactionism also seems to have some irregularities, like not taking the person’s intentions/thought process after analyzing a symbol. Everyone is different and how to interpret something can be different. What they do after they interpret could move away from what the theory says.

I understand that it definitely depends on one’s perspective too. I may be wearing and seeing only through the lens of Conflict Theory, while some may be analyzing today’s society with another theory. All I know is when I switch on my television, watch the news, and see today’s society and the norms created around it – I clearly see how “Conflict Theory” would be matched to many headlines today.

Student 2:After reading about the three theories the one I believe to be the most accurate would be the Functionalism theory. I believe each “function” plays its role and does make a stable environment. I believe the social institutes such as the government, education, the law, religion ect. all provided order and shared public values and each function shares several roles in society and this is what makes the world go round. All of the social facts that are mentioned play a huge part and many of our everyday lives and has worked for many years. With out some sort of structure society would be unorganized and caotic. These functions exist because they play a vital role in the functioning society and if these roles die new institution’s will evolve and or emerge.

Student 3:After comparing these three sociological theories, I find that symbolic interactionism is more accurate.

Symbolic interactionism focuses on our day-to-day social interactions vs other theories that look on other issues that can be debatable. We can definitely glean more from looking at what people do in there natural environment and learn why they do it and how that affects their social interactions than looking at conflict which can vary or be subjective — depending what is considered to be a conflict in different cultures.

Learning about how we think, what we become, and how we imagine ourselves creates a more insightful explanation when it is based on day-to-day activities that are relate-able and understandable. With symbolic interactionism there is less interpretation and more substantial and accurate information to explain social interaction in any given culture or society.

I’m studying and need help with a Business question to help me learn.

• Begin each writing assignment by identifying the question number you are answering followed by the actual question itself (in bold type).

• Use a standard essay format for responses to all questions (i.e., an introduction, middle paragraphs and conclusion).

• Responses must be typed double-spaced, using a standard font (i.e. Times New Roman) and 12 point type size.

. All work must be free of any form of plagiarism.

Textbook:Organizational Behavior

16th Edition, 2015

Author(s): Stephen P. Robbins & Timothy A. Judge

Publisher: Pearson Educational Inc.