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Chapter Four of Adult Development and Life Assessment addresses the cognitive abilities of adults in middle age. Review the cognitive areas discussed by Schaie and answer the following questions:

Of those cognitive areas, discussed by Schaie, which do you think are your strongest?
Which are your weakest?
How can you utilize your strongest areas in your class work?
What can you do to strengthen your weaker areas?
When using supporting information from Adult Development and Life Assessment or another resource for your discussion post, be sure to properly paraphrase the content. Also, properly cite the source and add the source reference in APA format at the end of your post.

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WEEK 1
DQ 1: What are the four elements of financial management? What is a professional or personal experience you have had with the elements? Identify the element or elements and explain the experience.
DQ 2: Why do we need financial and managerial accounting? What are the differences between the two? List references if you use a source other than the text.
WEEK 3
DQ 1: Provide an example of a direct cost and indirect cost from your workplace or an organization with which you are familiar. What is the difference? Explain your answer. List references if you use a source other than the text.
DQ 2: Understanding the difference between fixed and variable costs, what area of a health care facility or physician practice do you think would have a greater amount of variable costs than fixed? What would you suggest to lower the fixed costs for the same area?
WEEK 5
DQ 1: Each department is responsible for inventory control. At your workplace or an organization you are familiar with, what type of inventory method is utilized? Last in, first out, or first-in first out? What weaknesses have you encountered if any? Explain your answer. List any references if you used any sources other than the text.
DQ 2: What is the relationship between inventory and cost of goods sold for a pharmacy or medical supply business? Explain the depreciation concept. What items in a physician practice can be depreciated? What is the purpose?
WEEK 7
DQ 1: What do you think is the major purpose of financial statements? Why? Explain what type of information can be derived from financial statements. List references if you use a source other than the text.
DQ 2: Why is budgeting so important? What are the appropriate uses of a budget? How can budgets be mismanaged or misunderstood? What are some criteria you would use to choose between a fixed and a flexible budget? Explain your answers.
WEEK 9
Capstone DQ: Provide an example of a health care capital expenditure. Why is the capital expenditure budgeting process important? What concepts should be considered when evaluating a capital expenditure? What do you feel is the most important factor when considering a capital expenditure proposal?

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Assignment 3: Final Project

Complete the following assignment:

Apply the chaos theory to retail store of your choice, for instance, Nordstrom’s, Dillard’s, and so forth. If you are unsure if your choice of a retail store is acceptable, please check with your facilitator.
Identify core components and processes.
Examine how SWOT analysis can be used.
As a continuation of retail store project:
• Identify chaos in the retail business
• Examine how systems principles apply to the internal management of the store
• Examine how systems principles apply to the store and community
• Determine how to estimate the community’s total demand for retail goods
• Identify the core components and critical processes of the store

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Assignment 3 Grading Criteria Maximum
Points
Provided a complete analysis. 10
Synthesized several ideas into one application. 10
Provided quality suggestions for SWOT analysis. 10
Presented a structured report free of spelling and grammatical errors and cited sources in APA format when necessary. 5
Total: 35

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Control theory originated with the goal of managing small, mechanical operations (such as the thermostat example in your lecture) but it has since been applied in broader contexts. For this assignment, select a service operation (a bank, hospital, auditing company, financial consulting, etc.) and apply control theory to a particular process within the business. Explain how the concepts found in control theory can be used to ensure the smooth operation of the process. In a bank, a process to which we could apply control theory could be managing the length of the lines. In financial consulting, control theory could be applied to maintaining the balance between risk and return.
For this assignment, begin by choosing and describing a specific process within a service operation. Describe what the goals would be (maintain risk levels, manage queue lengths, maintain medicine inventory, etc.) and then explain, using relevant vocabulary, how control theory can be used to keep the goals on target. Use research to both find details about your selected type of business and also to learn more about control theory concepts. Be specific in your description and give concrete examples of what must be done. To support your arguments, create two graphs: the first should depict the feedback loop in the operation and the second should show the stability of the operation (how the value of the objective will behave over time). The online lecture has examples for both of these graphs.

Assignment 2 Grading Criteria Maximum
Points
Described the service operation. 10
Applied control theory concepts to explain how the operation can be managed. 10
Provided two graphs to show the control loop and stability of the operation. 10
Presented a structured report free of spelling and grammatical errors and cited sources in APA format when necessary. 5
Total: 35

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Case study/research paper
The primary purpose of the paper is to:
•Further understand the economic way of thinking and the accounting implications.
•Provide an incentive to think critically about course information.
•Apply economic principles and accounting principles to firms at microeconomic level in the U.S.

Goal: Construct a case study/research paper that examines a firm in the U.S. from a microeconomic standpoint and provide suggestions based on your findings.
•Step 1: Choose a firm for your focus. In addition to picking a firm that you find interesting, you will likely want to pick a firm that has available data (or a firm that for which you can personally provide data). Publicly traded companies file reports with a great deal of data (preferred).
•Step 2: You will need to complete an analysis of the following categories for your firm. The following must be included:
Be sure to break your paper into the following sections with headings:
•What does your firm do? Introduce your firm
•How have supply and demand conditions impacted the firm in recent years?
•Examine price elasticity of demand for the products your firm sells.
•Examine the costs of production for your firm.
•What is (are) your firm’s primary competitive advantage(s)?
•Are there entry barriers for firms in this industry?
•What substitutes are available for your product?
•What is the market share for firms in the industry?
•What market structure best describes the conditions your firm faces?
•Based on the characteristics of your firm, provide advice regarding what you think the firm should do going forward and provide a prediction of their future.
•Include a paper abstract (a brief summary of your paper; around 150 words).
•Paper section:
oAn introduction that clearly introduces your firm and the goal of the paper.
oThe main body of the paper should clearly describe your findings and your suggestions.
oA conclusion that summarizes and emphasizes your contribution.
•The paper should be double spaced with times new roman font (size 12), 1 inch margins and justified text.
•You should cite all sources that you use for data and analysis.
•Resources should be cited on a reference page using APA format
The primary purpose of the paper is to:
•Further understand the economic way of thinking and the accounting implications.
•Provide an incentive to think critically about course information.
•Apply economic principles and accounting principles to firms at microeconomic level in the U.S.
Goal: Construct a case study/research paper that examines a firm in the U.S. from a microeconomic standpoint and provide suggestions based on your findings.
•Step 1: Choose a firm for your focus. In addition to picking a firm that you find interesting, you will likely want to pick a firm that has available data (or a firm that for which you can personally provide data). Publicly traded companies file reports with a great deal of data (preferred).
•Step 2: You will need to complete an analysis of the following categories for your firm. The following must be included:
Be sure to break your paper into the following sections with headings:
•What does your firm do? Introduce your firm
•How have supply and demand conditions impacted the firm in recent years?
•Examine price elasticity of demand for the products your firm sells.
•Examine the costs of production for your firm.
•What is (are) your firm’s primary competitive advantage(s)?
•Are there entry barriers for firms in this industry?
•What substitutes are available for your product?
•What is the market share for firms in the industry?
•What market structure best describes the conditions your firm faces?
•Based on the characteristics of your firm, provide advice regarding what you think the firm should do going forward and provide a prediction of their future.
•Include a paper abstract (a brief summary of your paper; around 150 words).
•Paper section:
oAn introduction that clearly introduces your firm and the goal of the paper.
oThe main body of the paper should clearly describe your findings and your suggestions.
oA conclusion that summarizes and emphasizes your contribution.
•The paper should be double spaced with times new roman font (size 12), 1 inch margins and justified text.
•You should cite all sources that you use for data and analysis.
•Resources should be cited on a reference page using APA format

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Based on the readings for the week, would you say that Steve Jobs was an ethical leader? State your rationale. Are you an Acolyte or a Rejector? Why?

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HCR 210 Records Format
Resource: Ch. 4 of Essentials of Health Information Management: Principles and Practices
Summarize, The differences among source oriented records, problem oriented records, and integrated records. Include how you think the advantages and disadvantages of each record format affect everyday work—remember to think about retrieving records as well as filing them.

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IS 210 Website Migration Project – Tony’s Chips (APA Format + References)
Term Paper: Website Migration Project
Due Week 10 and worth 200 points
Tony’s Chips has recently been sold to a new independent company. The new company has hired you to manage a project that will move the old Website from an externally hosted solution to an internal one. The company’s leadership is very concerned about redundancy for their site, insisting that a back-up site be available as a failover in case the main site goes down. In addition, they want the site redesigned to allow customers to order products online.

As part of your job, you must complete a 10-to-15 page paper that follows this project through the system development life cycle (SDLC). This assignment will require you to do the following:
Discuss what it will take to build a Web architecture, move an existing Website with minimal downtime, and provide a disaster recovery solution to ensure the site is always available.
The Web architecture should describe and justify operating system choices (i.e., Linux, Apache, MYSQL, PHP, Windows, IIS, SQL, etc.).
Evaluate alternatives to the company self-hosting the site.
Build a Gantt chart using Microsoft Project or equivalent software, showing all tasks associated with implementing the Website.
The chart should include a minimum of five (5) tasks, each with three (3) sub-tasks.
Explain and justify the system architecture you have selected.
Illustrate the system architecture using Visio or equivalent software.
Create a use case that documents the event of a customer ordering a bag of chips from the new Website.
The use case should include a graphical representation using Visio or equivalent software and a text description of the events.
Discuss the support operations that the internally hosted Website will require after implementation.
Explain how you will evaluate the performance of the new site and the success of your project.
The specific Course Learning Outcomes associated with this assignment are:
Design high-level logical system characteristics (user interface design, design of data, and information requirements).
Use contemporary CASE tools in process and data modeling.
Use technology and information resources to research issues in systems analysis and development.
Write clearly and concisely about Systems Analysis and Development topics using proper writing mechanics and technical style conventions.

CIS 210 Website Migration Project – Tony’s Chips (APA Format + References)

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WEEK 1
DQ 1: What are some of the many considerations in selecting the correct information system to use for trading futures and stocks?
DQ 2: Is Service Oriented Architecture a new solution to information technology, or is it a new name for the rehash of providing the user with what the user wants? Explain.
DQ 3: Based on the article by Zhu, Ding, Li and Kemp (2009), what components or modules of a standard electronic computer system might be engineered into a bio-chip? What problem in the development of future electronic computer does the developing bio-chip technology address?
DQ 4: Based on the article by Pronk, Pimentel, Roos and Breit (2007), especially Figure 1, what are the general functions of processors, software and networks? What is the classical (von Neumann) architecture of a computer system?
WEEK 2
DQ 1: Do you agree or disagree that throughput and capacity are determining factors for effectiveness of a system more so than processor speed? Why or why not?
DQ 2: What security issues must be resolved now that cannot wait for the next version of Windows® to arrive? Are we looking at a patch or a work-around to solve the present issues?
DQ 3: Based on Ornes’ (2009) article, what are the improvements that a memristor might have over current physical and electronic storage devices? Is a memristor a green technology?
DQ 4: Based on the article by Polakovic and Stefani (2008), what are the main requirements to reconfigure software on-the-fly? How do the authors define a computer component?
WEEK 3
DQ 1: Based on Elerath’s (2009) article, what are the two main categories of hard disk drive failure? How does SMART technology work and what does it mean when limits are exceeded?
DQ 2: Based on Thibodeau’s (2008) article, what are the advantages and disadvantages of the use of mainframes?
DQ 3: Find a recent article about the use of mainframes in today’s IT world, review it for the class and include the link to the article.
WEEK 4
DQ 1: Does a new software product always provide a fundamental improvement to the system where we install the new software product? What could some of the gains include?
DQ 2: Based on the article by Jason Brooks (2009), what capability will XP Mode in the Windows7 operating system add to PCs? What computer system hardware resource(s) may need to be enhanced to use this capability?
DQ 3: Based on the article by Michael Vizard (2009), why is the Hyper-V virtualization technology available in Windows Server 2008 an important resource for many business IT environments? What role does the SUSE version of Linux play?
DQ 4: What question would you ask about a topic you would like to talk about relating to operating systems that has not been touched on thus far in the course.

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Assume that you have been appointed as the Speaker of the House. You must deliver a speech about the current state of the U.S. macro economy to a number of amateur reporters who are unfamiliar with economics.
Prepare a 750- to 1,050-word speech in simple terms and concepts that focus on international trade and foreign exchange rates.
Integrate a summary of your answers to the following questions and cite external research to further justify your facts:
What happens when there is a surplus of imports brought into the U.S.? Cite a specific example of a product with an import surplus, and the impact that has on the U.S. businesses and consumers involved.
What are the effects of international trade to GDP, domestic markets and university students?
How do government choices in regards to tariffs and quotas affect international relations and trade?
What are foreign exchange rates? How are they determined?
Why doesn’t the U.S. simply restrict all goods coming in from China? Why can’t the U.S. just minimize the amount of imports coming in from all other countries?

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