Essays on Adjustments

No school operates without a curriculum. Fundamentally, aA curriculum is an essential part of the education system (Bradford, Kenneth, & Helen, 2017). A well-set curriculum contributes enormously to a good education. Additionally, it eases the learning process for the teachers and the learners. However, various schools have various curriculums set by various people in diverse ways. Nevertheless, quality education remains the core purpose of all the curriculums in education institutions (Armstrong, 2006). This paper is oriented towards comparing curriculums of different states, districts, and schools to the research of the best practice. Most successful schools are those that comply with ...

Holder, M. D., & Klassen, A. (2010). Temperament and happiness in children. Journal of Happiness Studies, 11(4), 419-439. doi:http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10902-009-9149-2 The article under discussion focuses on personality traits as predictors for happiness levels in children: the authors seek to clarify the correlation between the EAS model of temperament and happiness in childhood. The primary large-scale purpose of the research is to clarify relations between temperament and happiness following the pattern of similar researches in adulthood, identify personality traits, which are especially important for happiness and, by this, contribute to efficiency of programs improving children’s wellbeing. The findings illustrated in ...

A magneto is small generator formed from a permanent magnet, which uses electricity to give outputs such as pulses of high voltage. A magneto has a transformer, switch and distributor, which give alternating current the direction to the plug that produces sparks. Timing in magneto is the interval in which the breaking point occurs after producing the sparks. Therefore, the purpose of magneto timing is to actualize high voltage used to produce sparks at the right time. It is achieved through the internal and external timing. Internal timing takes place mechanically on a bench. There are two adjustments in ...

Part 1

The Intel case involved the transformation of Intel’s chip production for computers by incorporating new market developments such as technology. Previously, Intel Company believed that the best was to conquer the computer manufacturing industry was through more focus on introduction. However, the evaluation of their SWOT analysis enabled the company to realize that the main threat to the company was the changes in the industry, which involved newer companies developing smaller, and faster processing chips. Intel eventually adopted to the new changes in the industry and strived through the support of stakeholders such as its wide customer base ...

Psychology

Based on the information provided about Melissa and her performance skills complete the following; List three areas that the occupational therapy services should address within the school environment. The three occupational therapy services to be addressed within the school environment include the physical therapy, speech, and mental therapy. The three services help in addressing the three main points of need according to Melissa’s condition.

Design age-appropriate occupation-based activities that address each of the areas identified above.

The age-appropriate activities for the areas include exercise for the physical therapy, speech lessons for speech therapy and questionnaires for mental therapy. Each therapy helps in addressing the various areas of need for Melissa’ ...

Introduction

A load cell is a transducer used to convert a physical quantity (force) to electrical quantity (voltage). A strain gage is one of the commonest types of load cells. In these types of load cells, gages are connected to a structure that bends on the application of a force. A Wheatstone bridge circuit is a four type strain traducer that gives a maximum sensitivity as well as temperature compensation (Westwood 38). A quarter or half bridge are used to perform the same purpose. In the Wheatstone bridge device, two gages are under tension while the other two are in ...

President Obama ushered in his tenure of leadership with significant reforms in the healthcare industry. He was determined to reshape and refine the medical sector in the United States. The former commander in chief influenced healthcare regulations and proposed essential medical innovations such as Medicaid and Obamacare. He thus serves as the embodiment of a successful leader in the healthcare industry and the United States. This essay assesses the leadership values, characteristics, and styles of President Obama with regards to the DISC profile. What leadership insights has he left for those who are willing to take up his mantle ...

Compensation strategy of an organization is essential in ensuring a competitive advantage over rivals. In the contemporary business world, companies face increasing pressure to offer high-quality products and services. Compensation strategy is important to employees and employers. Workers often depend on salaries, wages, as well as benefits for income provision. Compensation practices differ in various companies. Managing compensation is a primary mechanism for decisions in the job market. Proper compensation management is crucial in improving organizational performance. Most companies adopt compensation strategies that enable employees to produce high-quality work. Companies such as Baker Hughes have a strategy aligned with ...

Introduction

Earnings or Net Income is the single most important figure in a company’s financial statement for the average investor. Even a small fall in the reported earnings can result in the loss of millions of dollars in stock value and subjects company managements to scrutiny by investors and financial analysts. Corporate executives are under therefore under pressure to meet market expectations resulting in “earnings management”. Earnings manipulations can range from minor adjustments within the law and the accounting standards to the outright fraud of showing non-existing profits (Carruth, 2011). The Sarbanes- Oxley (SOX) Act of 2002 was enacted ...

Introduction

IT governance is mainly concerned with decision making and communication. This is because it was brought about by organizations’ desire to make good decisions concerning their IT functions and communicate them effectively. All organizations require IT governance to ensure that they adhere to organizational strategies and meet their objectives. Of utmost importance is compliance with regulations governing IT systems such as the regulation of server power consumption developed by the Environmental Protection Agency (Kadivar, 2011). As such, IT governance can be simply defined as the alignment of IT and business strategies in a structured manner to ensure that organizations ...

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An individual faces different types of problems, out of which the financial issues are the most commonly seen phenomena. The usually faced personal financial problems are the overspending of income and not knowing the perfect way to save for the future uncertainties. There is a need for identifying these problems in the early phase of life in order to secure the future financially. In this paper, I have applied the Five-Step Model as described by John Chaffee in his book “Thinking Critically” (Chaffee, 2014). The identified Five-Step Model provided in chapter three of John Chaffee’s “Thinking Critically” book ...

Project management requires vigilance of tasks that need to be accomplished and delegation of duties to those responsible and managing their progress throughout the entire activity. Project management requires skills such as scheduling and management tools such as the resource calendar to ensure the scheme is completed in the most viable way in line with the intended objectives.

Question 1

A breakdown structure is an instrument in project management that allows for the prediction of possible outcomes based on a myriad of scenarios. This capacity is essential in allowing for optimal decision making. By visually defining what has to be accomplished, ...

Chapter 3: Methodology

3.0 Introduction The theory of purchasing power parity is essential for the study of international trade since it argues that there exist a relationship between prices of products and exchange rates. This theory provides a framework for assessing long-term changes in the exchange rates. It states that similar goods and services in various countries should have the same cost in the long-run (Frankel 153). Essentially, the PPP theory is based on the assertion that the exchange rates tend to adjust themselves in such a way that there no opportunity costs for buying particular goods or services in a particular ...

Achieving optimal staffing levels of nurses especially in the cardiac unit is a huge milestone that would help in minimizing adverse events, increase job satisfaction among nurses and ultimately foster quality outcomes. Hence, this emphasizes the need to develop a comprehensive implementation plan relating to the proposed solution in order to ensure that the intervention is properly integrated into the organizational system and subsequently enhance care delivery. The project is based in a cardiac care unit and shall involve various stakeholders including: the senior hospital administrators, nurse managers and the general nursing staff. Thus, it is important to obtain ...

Introduction

Policy development should pass through some analysis processes before drawing the levels of authenticity, credibility and legitimacy required for them to be rated as authoritative. Importantly, policy development follows many deliberations aimed at ensuring that they offer solutions to specific challenges in the society. In most cases, policy developers will engage in debates and stem out the merits and demerits of the policies that they seek to pass as per the demands of the existing challenges. Imperatively, public participation and sensitization is always a core exercise that is always critical to the entire exercise of policy development. In the ...

Compensation is the payment offered by an employer to an employee in exchange of the services received from him. Mostly compensation is monetary but it may include certain non monetary facilities such as housing, conveyance, insurance etc. Compensation is further divided into two general types: Direct and Indirect compensation. Direct compensation includes base wage, incentives, bonus, leave encashment etc. while indirect compensation is designed to provide additional benefits such as social security, health insurance etc and does not vary with performance. Designing a compensation plan that is satisfactory to all is a major challenge for the Human Resource Management ...

One Determinant of Short-Term Liquidity Ratio

The single most important determinant of short-term liquidity ratio is that the current assets of an organization should be in excess to its short-term obligations, as examined by current and quick ratios. This is so because when an organization has more current assets than liabilities, it would be easier for the entity to generate revenue and repay creditors on time. Moreover, excessive short-term assets than obligations can also help the company finance its working capital operations efficiently. Because of this determinant of excessive current assets than obligations, an organization can provide higher safety margin to creditors’ investments .

Making Technical Adjustments to Ratios

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National Bank of Canada

National Bank of Canada is among the largest commercial banks in Canada, with its headquarters located in Montreal, Canada. The bank’s history dates back in 1859 when francophone businesspersons founded it (Cheffins, 1998). The bank has approximately 452 branches located in most of the Canadian provinces and approximately 2.4 million clients. The bank also has partnerships, subsidiaries and representative offices in other countries through which it serves both Canadian and non-Canadian customers. The bank has a public company ownership structure and its shares trade in Toronto stock market. This paper discusses in details the organizational structure, managerial practices, ...

The evaluation phase is the next step after implementing a research initiative. It involves the assessment of a project to determine its relevance and whether the goals of the project have been met. Measuring project outcomes is an effective way of gauging the success of a change process. Evaluation enhances efficiency and sustainability. DSME initiatives aim at helping diabetic persons to gain knowledge and skills relevant in the modification of behavior and lifestyle. Diabetes literacy improves self-management and prevents disease complications. Measuring DSME outcomes helps educators in analyzing behavior change (American Association of Diabetes Educators, 2011). It also informs ...

Positive Intelligence and Productivity

The article published by Achor Shawn in the Harvard Business Review asserts that positive intelligence or positive mindset is optimistically correlated with performance, productivity, creativity, and engagement at the workplace. "Happiness advantage," as the author has termed it, is the factor that helps in clarifying the relationship between positive intelligence and workplace effectiveness/productivity. Happy workers are likely to perform better than their unhappy counterparts, confirms meta-analysis of 225 studies. On an average, happy employees are 31 percent more efficient. Positive intelligence, which is the science of mastering own mind, assist a person in optimizing the level of happiness. Simply ...

Society has always been divided along racial, gender, class, religious, sexual identity and various other lines. The divisions among society more often than not give rise to negative reactions and stereotypes towards the members of society belonging to groups that are perceived as inferior and not of equal status for one reason or the other. Discrimination and stereotyping affect those it is directed to and deny them the various opportunities to be productive and successful members of society. Therefore, this paper aims to show that the only way to stop discrimination is to experience what the discriminated group goes ...

According to the Greenberg website, the company has been owned and run by the Greenbergs for three generations, and it is more like a family tradition rather than a business. Sam’s mother, whose husband converted Turkey smoking to a business venture, treats the Turkey Smoking place as her late husband’s shrine. The business has been able to grow its client base over the years at a rate of 5-7% annually (Underwood, 2003). The customer base growth can be attributed to the fact that the Greenbergs have been able to maintain old clients, and the same time, acquire ...

Economic income is susceptible to changes that result from several factors some of which include: the level of inflation whereby high inflation decreases economic income by increasing its volatility. The existing tax rate in an economy also has an influence on the financial income. This is because low tax increases the disposable incomes. The primary factor leading to a change in the taxable incomes in an economy is the inflation adjustments. Notably, inflation has the propensity of increasing the costs of commodities and services. To ensure the society keeps pace with these changes, adjustments must be to particular deductions, ...

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Application of Drone Technology to Facilitate Effective HIV Diagnostic and Treatment Services to Children in Rural Malawi

INGO UNICEF 1Broadway, New NY 10022 USA Dear Sir, Drones without Borders (DWB) is an organization which has been created to serve HIV vulnerable children in rural Malawi through a partnership with ZipLine Drones. Our organization seeks to develop and implement an four-months program aimed at ensuring fast and continuous delivery of HIV test kits, results, and antiretroviral drugs to provide immediate medical attention to HIV positive children in rural, cut off, hard to access, often combat zone areas in Malawi. The mortality rate of the infected children has been on the rise due to lack of access ...

Background

The present-day advancements in the field of technology present a major breakthrough or opportunity for the healthcare system at large. This is purposely due to the myriad of information management, analysis and sharing products that come with health information technology (HIT). This means that accurate health information can be quickly and safely transacted between the patient and the healthcare provider as well as between the healthcare providers. One of the areas that the contemporary advancements in technology could be feasibly harnessed is through the provision of post-discharge patient care. The post-discharge phase of care presents a unique care situation ...

Introduction

The human body consists various cells that are actively involved in the maintenance of metabolism. Although, the body organs, cells as well as tissues usually carry out different functions, the body cells are similar in regard to their pertinent metabolic needs (Sherwood, 2015). Thus, maintaining the internal environment at a constant state mainly by proving the oxygen as well as nutrients and elimination of waste in the body is an essential process for the wellbeing of the cells as well as the whole body. As such, the various processes through which the human controls or regulates the internal environment ...

1.0. Background This OD intervention proposal is for a real estate marketing organization namely “Cobra Marketing Network (CMN)” that is a medium-sized organization. The company has its branches in three different cities and provides marketing services for real estate projects launched by different construction companies. Taskforce of CMN consists of 179 individuals working in different departments including management, copywriting and editing, designing, video editing, outdoor marketing, etc. Real estate marketing is characterized by tough competition and is enjoying decent growth based on the growth of real estate construction in the region (Mathews, 2015). Over the past few years, the ...

Abstract

The article is about writing and critical thinking in the workplace. It covers issues on changing organizational environment, comparisons of traditional and new principles as well as understanding of public relations. The authors present these topics to how they affect the perception of technical communications amidst an increasingly demanding complex environment. They also show the adjustments that can be applied to help professionals adapt to the workplace. Keywords: changing organizational environment, public relations, new principles, technical communication, professional adjustments, curriculum design, technical writing and higher education.

Introduction

Media personalities and CEO recognize the importance and the value of quality technical ...

Question one

The coca cola Enterprise was incorporated in Delaware 2010. Additionally, it is a publicly traded firm that is listed in New York Stock Exchange. It is a marketer, distributor, and producer of the nonalcoholic drinks of Coca-Cola Company via a licensed territory agreements in Belgium, great Britain, Monaco, and Sweden (2015 Annual Report:23). The coca cola Enterprise Inc. acts as the anchor bottler in West Europe, and North America. The products of Coca-Cola Enterprise Inc. are Diet Coke, Sprite, Fanta, and Coca-Cola among others. Its primary strategy is to be the bottling partner in Western Europe as well as ...

Healthcare

In the current paper, we will discuss the complications in removable implant prosthesis, fabrication, delivery, and function. For the purpose of understanding these topics better, we need to understand the basic concepts of dental implants first. A dental implant can be described as an artificial replacement of a tooth root which is placed in the jaw for the purpose of holding a replaced tooth or a bridge. Dental implants can be used as an option for the patients who had lost a tooth as a result of a periodontal disease, injury or any other reason. Two different types of ...

The suggested intervention approach encompasses three main activities; community engagement, capacity building and community-based research. The main reason for the feasibility of this three-pronged approach is it requires simple execution, monitoring, and observation. The feasibility of a study needs to be established prior to carrying out the formulation of (Kothari, 2004). The approach has been evaluated in detail and is feasible. There is a comprehensive framework that can establish if a research is feasible or not. The basic question is if the study can be realized (Flick, 2015). The answer is yes, that it can be realized. Similar examples ...

INTEL CORPORATION

Intel Corporation

Generic Strategy The generic strategy according to Porter refers to the details of interaction between product differentiation strategies, cost minimization, and Market focus strategies. It describes a company as one having multiple segments which can be targeted by the firm. According to the case study on Intel Corporation between 1968-2003, the generic strategy involves a number of ideologies. These Ideologies include, cost leadership, focus, and differentiation

Focus

For almost a decade, Intel corporation was a leading company in the production of EPROM and DRAMS and was famously known for it. Nevertheless, due to the rapidly changing markets, Intel ...

Chapter VII Case Study

Introduction Discrimination implies judging individuals by their ability/disability statuses, race, gender, sexuality, age, and religion as opposed to their competence levels. People may apply for jobs where they are the best-qualified candidates. However, they could fail to get these jobs because of the HR’s discriminative practices. Such form of practice is authentic discrimination. This case study describes one such instance as follows. In July 2015, a large health care facility lost a case in the settlement of a disability discrimination suit filed by one of its employees (named Ms. X hereafter for confidentiality) through the U.S EEOC. The ...

<Institution> As people grow from infancy to adulthood, they take on different roles in order to perform specific tasks that would enable them to become better suited to the environment or the society to which they belong. Due to the ever changing nature of human existence influenced by the environment and technological development, these different roles that people take also changes along the passing of generations. During middle adulthood, many people take the role of a romantic partner or a spouse. When a child is conceived and born, these people become parents during middle adulthood. In the past, ...

Question one

The practices that are involved in the setup and management of healthcare organization budgets are the application of comparative standards, setting accurate and high departmental budgets, the establishment of the culture of accountability and expenses management, making corrective action plans, and using a balanced scorecard. The historical, zero-based, and flexible are some of the budgeting approaches that are used in any healthcare organization. For instance, historical methods assume that the past data has been updated by the current facts and proposals. Therefore, it incorporates trends into projections. The zero-based approach assumes the justification of all costs in the hospital, ...

Ergonomics

Issues with subjective questionnaires? Subjective questionnaires in the collection of information are said to lack external validity. This is because they tend to limit the respondent’s feedback to the confinement of the specific details that whoever constructed the questionnaires wants. This type of questionnaires may not give accurate findings if not carefully constructed because they might enquire information which the respondent is not willing to answer due to personal and private reasons and this might yield false feedback or reluctance to respond. They subject the respondent to what they ought to answer and limit the information gathering scope ( ...

Introduction

Human resource management and human resource planning are integral parts of any organization. Employees are key players in any organization and the success of an organization considerably depends on the productivity of the employees. Human resource management aims at ensuring cohesion between employees and the management. In the 20th century employees were merely considered as tools to achieve organizational goals but the trend changed. Continuous and intensive research has played a major role in ensuring that organizations view the work force as assets rather than just a means of production (Niehaus& price, 2013, 5). For the purpose of this ...

Medicine

2016-05-16 The revenue cycle management in the healthcare industry can be considered as managing of claims, payments and revenue generation. A special medical billing software is needed in order to effectively keep track of all business processes (especially, claims tracking). There are twelve main steps for managing company’s revenue cycles (McKesson, 2016). Let’s describe them in more detail. Physician ordering is the first step. It belongs to the pre-visit part of the revenue cycle management. During this step staff should receive information about eligibility and confirm it. Patient registration is the next step of the pre-visit part. ...

The incorporation of security practices into business management enables the firm to reduce and control the overall risks. The implementation of the safety controls requires an efficient security management process that entails strategy, policy, compliance, awareness, monitoring, and access. The domain of safety management relies on the regulations that dictate the company’s standards regarding security. Without a stringent and adequate policy, no group or individual can be accountable and in charge of protecting the organization. This essay sheds more light concerning the security management procedure. The security management process in a corporation provides a thorough and accurate evaluation ...

Could Free Trade Agreements be a effective instrument to regulate climate change mitigation measure in the context of missing a comprehensive multilateral instrument?

The recent century is featured with the expansion of the international trade in the global scale. The development of the trade legislation and increase of the volumes of import and export relations between the countries gives rise to the question as to whether globalization of international trade affects the spread of the climate changes. In this regard, the majority of the experts in trade sphere consider the role of the World Trade Organization in the mitigation ...

Introduction

The development of investments analysis is managed and represented by ratio analysis that projects and business will be having. Identifying with the examples of a manufacturing company, this analysis will be interested in the risk-adjusted return on capital (RAROC). The adjusted risk return on capital is described as the adjustment on the return on capital based on the element of risk that might be eminent with the investments (Klaassen & Van Eeghen, 2014; Investopedia, 2016). Additionally, the adjustments seem to suggest a valid expectation on the return that the company will be expecting on investment.

Risk Management Systems

Risk management and the return ...

The University

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Appendix A . 13 1.0 Starbucks at 20 Percent Net Revenue Growth 1.1 Net Revenue Growth of 20 Percent 1.1.1 Current State Statista (2016) ranked Starbucks as the 2015 top leading coffeehouse chain globally in terms of revenue with its revenue of $21.095 billion, followed far behind by Costa Coffee ($1.809 billion) and McCafe ($1.462 billion). It also has the largest store chain of 23,043 stores worldwide. As of fiscal year 2015, Starbucks had a total number of 23,043 stores globally, 12,235 (53%) of which are company-operated stores and 10,808 (47%) are ...

1. Introduction Agriculture is an important area of policy development in the EU. There are 500 million people residing in the EU (European Commission, “Agriculture”). Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) expresses the EU’s agricultural strategies and plans for all member states. CAP is one of the oldest EU policies. Revision of the CAP occurs periodically to accommodate emerging issues affecting all member states or specific to one or some member states. Spain protects its interests as a major agricultural producer by influencing the EU’s agricultural policy. Agriculture is a key sector in Spain. The agricultural sector contributes 3.4% ...

Many a time have people heard about politicians who do plenty of talking. However, verbal rhetoric is only meaningful when backed by actual deeds aimed at the improvement of what politicians oversee, which is society and its welfare. The incumbent Senate President of New Jersey, Stephen Sweeney is one of such politicians who may be said to utilize his legislative authority to its limit. He has showed his aptitude in areas, such as education, property ownership, taxation, healthcare, and the protection of different social categories. Of course, as with other prominent politicians, however renowned, Sweeney has made some controversial ...

Balancing life and school is certainly important for learners. Judging from the comparisons between the initial and current scores on various aspects related school and life balance; I have done tremendously well over the past few days. There are various changes that have taken place, and nearly of them are for the better. For example, I scored 10 in the health section. This meant that I started eating healthy and exercising more frequently unlike before. Positive nutritional intake and regular exercise translated to maintaining a good weight. Health also does encompass appropriate better ways of managing stress; as set ...

The Problem

For this case study, we focus on an application of regression analysis in engineering. In this case study, we use data to build a model for predicting average electrical output, y. In this case study, we use data from a Combined Cycle Power Plant to build a model for average electrical output, y. We examine the residuals, the deviations between the predicted and the actual electrical output levels, to detect an independent variable omitted from the regression model.

The Data – Source: UCI Machine Learning Repository

A combined cycle power plant (CCPP) is composed of steam turbines (ST), gas turbines (GT), and heat recovery steam generators . In ...

Abstract

This paper discusses how exercise stimulates the release of growth hormone. Older people tend to have lower levels of the hormone. As a result, mechanisms have been formulated to help deal with the deficiency which includes inducing the growth hormone into the individual’s body. This, therefore, leads to the discussion of the exact mechanism through which the growth hormone facilitates exercise, maintains growth and repair of worn out muscles or even reverses the aging process among the aged. Also, the functions of IGF-I binding proteins during exercise and its importance in aiding the release of the GH is ...

Pathophysiology

One of the most important parts of achieving the goal of being able to meet the patient’s entire healthcare (i.e. nursing) needs is to ensure that the underlying disease’s pathophysiology is well understood by all the stakeholder groups. These groups, in this case, would include the medical and healthcare practitioners, patients, and their respective family members. It would be a lot easier to instruct a patient to have a patient undergo a prescribed healthcare routine once he understands the nature of his condition, why each procedure is being done, and how they collectively contribute to the end-goal ...

Evaluation of franchise investment

The franchise investment project is evaluated based on the net present value and the internal rate of returns. The available information is used to determine the NPV and IRR of Schneller Zug and Kyuko Densha. The two measures are used to assess whether each project is viable. NPV and IRR also help in choosing the better project between the two. NPV and IRR are determined using the cost of capital for Javelin Railway Co.

Determination of the cost of capital

The cost of capital is the return investors require from investment to secure funding. It is the minimum return projects must generate to be funded ...

Introduction

The decision to either shop online or offline depends on the consumer preferences based on a variety of factors. The challenge to the online industry is to ensure that the supply chain is satisfying the demand chain, therefore, enhancing its efficiency. The amount consumers who are willing to pay for the services depend on how they become satisfied with the services that are provided for by the offline or the online industry. Since the online industry in a recent development, it has to apply new selling and branding techniques to convince consumers to buy from them. Proper considerations have ...

The book Cultural Map by Erin Meyer indicates the way and manner through which culture intercepts with the work environment. This includes an evaluation of what role culture plays in the workplace and this includes communication, appropriateness, persuasion, power structures, decision-making processes, trust, conflicts and the conception of time. This book shows how the average worker and the average organization makes use of cultures and how the globalizing world is going to have inherent issues with conflict and other cross-cultural dimensions and its related issues. The book shows that culture can be explained and presented to people with divergent ...

Impacts of Outsourcing Internal Audit Fuction Author NameInstitution Name

Abstract This research finds out the effects outsourcing internal audit and extent of external auditors’ dependence on the work done by the internal audit team. We explore if outsourcing the internal audit function affects reliability on internal audit job already done and the use of assistant’s position for internal audit. We determine if internal audit outsourcing, the role of internal audit in systems consulting, affects external auditors’ dependence on internal audit. Results show that involvement in consultancy activities relating to the financial reporting system affects the extent of reliance on the work of the internal audit. When internal ...

Introduction

Industries in West Virginia have violated the state-issued permit of pollution by releasing toxic substances such as coal ash and selenium into the local water supply. In addition to the threat toxic substances like coal ash and selenium pose to the health of the community, toxic water destroys the environment and destabilizes the local ecosystem of the areas impacted by such pollution. West Virginia Department of Environmental Protection (WVDEP) was formed as a guidance tool to aid persons to know when it is environmentally secure to withdraw water from the stream. This judgment is built on percentages of yearly ...

Introduction

In this paper, the author analyzes the case on the troubled alliance between Volkswagen and Suzuki, two of the biggest and most popular auto-makers in the respective regions that they cater. Suzuki is famous for their small, petite, and fuel efficient cars in Asia. Volkswagen, on the other hand, is famous for their powerful, elegant, and fuel efficient cars in Europe and the Americas. Because of the theory that was posed earlier suggesting that in the current industry environment, most automobile manufacturers are on a constant lookout for more ways to expand—the fastest way possible. From the start, ...

Change Management in Bettington Trading and Sons

As a family company, Bettington trading and sons has experienced a commendable growth in business over some years. Transfer of management from one family member to the other with the help a professional board of directors has seen the company remain sustainable due to commitment and relationship building. However, a move to implement change in the organization by a family member tasked with managing the company has met frustrations from the board of directors who do not seem to agree with how this should be done so fast. The management is not in agreement on whether the company should ...

The primary objectives of my field experience include enhancing of practical knowledge and awareness in the field of private pediatric dental care in Jeddah, to aid the parents in interpretation of dental care knowledge and to offer dental services for low income individuals. I noticed while working in the private clinic that there was a great need for education in the area. Despite the fact that parents had a lot of questions about oral health; the dentist did not have enough time to educate the patients and answer all of the questions. Furthermore, some patients might have the knowledge, ...

Abstract

This paper analyzes the importance of generator synchronization to the power grid, the required conditions to perform this procedure and the consequences of imprecise synchronization. For a generator to be synchronized to a grid, the voltage magnitude, frequency, phase sequence and phase angle must match. Manual synchronization depends on an operator to modify generator voltage and frequency, confirm phase sequences of generator and grid, and monitor phase angle difference to timely initiate breaker closure. Automatic synchronizers perform all these function through a computerized system that consists of complex algorithms and control systems, and are categorized in phase lock type ...

1.0 Introduction of a Developmental Issue Hong Kong primary and secondary school students are under constant academic pressure since they have no spare time to relax leading to psychological stress. In fact, it is difficult to change the education system. Since the beginning of the school year to the present day, the number of Hong Kong students who committed suicide rose to the highest levels. According to most of the students, school workload is just a fuse with “no joy, no hope, and no help.” There is a case that happened in a middle school in Hong Kong. The ...

Abstract

The Irish leadership perspective has a crucial role in its national life due to the impact Irish political leaders have in the economic life of the country. Understanding this national leadership characteristics significantly contributes to the national awareness of its strengths and weaknesses. Based on Hofstede’s leadership categorization model, the commonly held leadership characteristics can be described as small power distance, weakly uncertainty avoidant, collectivist, masculine, and long-term oriented. American leaders who want to engage Irish leaders and population will have to make adjustments in at least three dimensions of differences, namely, individualism vs. collectivism, uncertainty avoidance, and ...

A person is regarded to be having a disability if the individual has either a mental or physical challenge that may considerably incapacitate his/her key life activities. There should be a documentation of the impairment. Physical or mental impairment include many diseases and conditions like mental retardation, emotional illness, specific learning disabilities, epilepsy, visual, speech and hearing impairments among many others. Children with special dietary needs are determined based on a case-by-case basis which covers those children who have the food intolerance or allergies. It is important to ensure that equal opportunity is given to children with disabilities in ...