Essays on Berg

MANAGEMENT ACCOUNTING

Management Accounting Introduction Setting the annual budget has been one of the mandatory activities in organizations at both tactical and operational levels. The annual budget outlines the projected revenues and costs for the firm in the coming year or the finite time period. Such budget is set to clarify the organizational direction to pursue by identifying the target revenues and variable costs associated with the business operations. It served as a successful budgeting process for several years, but today’s highly dynamic and continuously changing business landscape has made this system obsolete. In the 21st century, the annual budgeting ...

1. Exercising regularly is good for health. However, one should not be erratic about it i.e. one should have a plan and stick to it. Fitness also includes the food intake. One should have a balanced diet that gives all nutrients in the correct proportion. Exercise and food together lead to a healthy body. At times an overweight person will not be prepared to expose himself to others in a fitness centre. However, one should realise that it is to change this very situation that one need to keep oneself fit. As a result, one becomes more confident about ...

Counselling a young adult who is experiencing transition from adolescence may be challenging for new counsellors and therapists. The case at hand is a nineteen-year old college student who is feeling frustration and anxiety about his failing grades and looks back to his past as a high school student garnering high grades. Add to this, his homesickness, living so far from home, just so he can attend his school makes him miserable, and it affects his academic performance. Personally, I would choose the humanistic approach in counselling because it offers a fresh and hopeful disposition for the anxious client. ...

2017

The Research Method Introduction The research method is an essential part of the research design as it determines the framework in what type of data is collected and how it is utilized to address the central research problem and answer the research questions (Creswell, 2013). Therefore, effort is directed to evaluate what research method should be utilized in the case study so as to understand the impact of mining and quarrying activities in the Akamkpa mining region located in Nigeria (Creswell, 2013). Research methods are practical ways for conducting research and require that the research scope, problem and questions ...

Main Risk Factors for Cardiovascular Disease

According to the World Heart Federation (WHF, 2016), the majority of cardiovascular disease (CVD)’s etiology stems from risk factors that can easily be controlled or managed or modified although a few other risk factors cannot be controlled. For that matter, the risk factors can be grouped into two broader categories (I) modifiable factors and (II) non-modifiable factors. For the modifiable factors, they include hypertension, cholesterol, unhealthy diets, obesity and overweight, physical inactivity, and the use of tobacco (WHF, 2016). On the other hand, the non-modifiable factors include age; the risk of CVD increases with age because as a ...

An application of information about ocular detail and ophthalmic appliances in forensic discipline greatly depends on the correct choice of methods, their rational combination, and knowledge of forensic identification basics. It should be remembered that specific details of an identified object are of particular importance in a forensic discipline. This work reviews strengths and weaknesses of an article on the practical application of information about ocular detail and ophthalmic appliances and aims to provide fact checking. Bertolli, Berg, and Pannone (2012) wrote an article named Ocular detail and ophthalmic appliances as a potential aid in forensic identification. The key ...

Percentage of fat the athlete’s diet

Fat is a fundamental source of energy for the body. Importantly, fat provides approximately nine calories per gram which makes it a dense macronutrient. In strenuous athletic activities that last for about 6 hours, fats can offer about 60 to 70 percent of the energy required (Clifford & Maloney, 2011). Fats consumption in a diet of an athlete should be less than 30% of calories. Since athletes need a lot of energy, it is good to retain their fat intake at sufficient levels. However, depending on the activity, the athlete can decide to keep their fat intake at a minimum ...

The social scientific question analyzed in this paper is the influence of the family size on the process of socialization. Socialization is the process of integrating into a particular group and imitating the patterns, behavior, and worldview established in this group. It is influenced by the family, day care, educational institutions, peers, community, and mass media (Persell, 1990). The family plays a significant role in making a child involved in the community. From the first days of his or her life, the child is surrounded by the family members. The relations inside the family, traditions, upbringing methods, moral principles ...

The rediscovery of Mendel's works on heredity in 1900 became the foundation to investigate more on genetics. However, the acceleration of the study of genetics was slow, taking more than half a century later for Watson and Crick to crack the chemical basis of heredity. In fact, their proposal, the double helical structure of DNA, became the beginning of modern biology. Over the next 30 years, the advent of recombinant DNA technology allowed us to sequence specific DNA segments (Collins & McKusick, 2001). Note that mapping specific regions of a particular DNA offers explanations to many traits, including behaviors, disorders, ...

Female genital mutilation (FGM) is the complete or partial removal of the female genitals. Different cultures in various locations perform the practices in a variety of different ways and to differing degrees. The World Health Organization describes four different standard procedures: a) Clitoridectomy – a practice where all or part of the clitoris is detached; b) Excision –a practice where the clitoris and part or all of the labia minora, the inside vaginal lips, are eliminated; c) Infibulation – a practice where all of the outside genitalia is eradicated and then the opening is tacked up to where there is only ...

NR451 RN Capstone Course

Term and Year Skin-to-Skin Contact for Neonates The separation of mother and neonate for non-urgent medical reasons is a growing trend in nursing practice. However, research has indicated that the practice can have a deleterious long term effect on the healthy infant and mother with regard to breast feeding, cardio-respiratory stability, and blood glucose levels (Moore, Anderson, Bergman, & Dowswell, (2014). The solution to the problem is to initiate skin-to-skin contact at birth (Moore, et al., 2014). The nursing focused plan is to introduce the practice of skin-to-skin contact following birth, which entails placing the naked infant prone on the ...

Selected Scenario:

You are a newly hired junior account specialist in a highly respected public relations agency. Research Question: How will a new accounting system affect the reputation, organization, and operations of a public relations company? Single Source Louis , H., Sun, A. X., & Urcan, O. (2012). The value of cash holdings and accounting conservatism. Contemporary Accounting Research, 29(4), 1250-1271. The three authors have an extensive background in accounting. For one, they have a PhD in the same. Additionally, they have extensive experience in teaching accounting with each individual holding a position in their respective schools. Thus, the authors are qualified ...

Reentry is an issue that has social, and public policy implications. Supervision and release as handled by parole has created more intensity among scholars. Many plausible factors have contributed to as to why offenders have a hard time re-entering the community successfully (Nally, Lockwood, Ho & Knutson, 2012). More than 700, 000 individuals are serving time behind bars. One of the main predictors of post-release recidivism is lack of employment (La Vigne, et al., 2008). It is difficult as for most jobs criminal background checks are required, which in itself is an obstacle and challenge in securing employment upon an ...

The 1980s was a complex era of transition, which saw the rise of military power, but also the emergence of new technology, as the fight against communist threats intensified. During this decade, the sci-fi genre reached immense popularity, and was closely related to the new blockbuster films which Hollywood exported throughout the world. During this decade, illegal immigration, the memory of the Vietnam War and the transformation of masculinity under the threat of feminism became prominent issues, which were reflected in the popular media of the time. As a genre which is particularly fit to reflect the anxieties and ...

Identifying the Object

The Mondrian dress is a red, blue, white, and yellow dress that shows the integration of art and fashion. One of the renowned French designers, Yves Saint Laurent, designed the dress in the winter of 1965-66 and made it his signature piece. This illustrates that the integration of art and fashion is an old concept, and it remains significant today. The Mondrian dress takes the form of the 1960s modified form of a sack dress, and Laurent utilized the color blocks. Inspired by the contemporary artists of the Mondrian art movement, Laurent incorporated the flat planes derived from 1960s’ ...

Abstract

Hemophilia is a genetic condition that is traceable in generations. The disease is usually linked to the excessive bleeding of the patient at a point where the blood vessel is damaged. A lot of research on the disease has been carried out trying to define the origin of the disease and offer extensive support to the solution of the condition. Over time, the disease has attracted extensive attention as the cases of the disease increase. It has not been easy to control the disease since the condition has been overwhelmingly disturbing to the patients as well as the family ...

Identifying the Object

The Mondrian dress is a red, blue, white, and yellow dress that shows the integration of art and fashion. One of the renowned French designer, Yves Saint Laurent, designed the dress in the winter of 1965-66 and made it his signature piece. This illustrates that the integration of the art and fashion is an old concept, and it remains significant up to date. The Mondrian dress takes the form of the 1960s modified form of a sack dress, and Laurent utilized the color blocks. Inspired by the contemporary artists of the Mondrian art movement, Laurent incorporated the flat planes ...

Suggest the issues that could have developed had the team not had taken a risk plan

Within a Satellite Development Project, new technology, with often untested outcomes, is involved. In the absence of a risk plan, the technology included in this project could have generated unexpected results that might have compromised the project. As the project’s description informs, the satellite development project implied many unknowns with variables that stretched across manufacture, supply chain system integration, etc. (Lavigne, n.d.). With the high amount of unknown factors, many aspects could have gone wrong in the project, which could have endangered its success. Risk refers to uncertainty regarding future events and outcomes, expressing “the likelihood and impact ...

Introduction

Heart valve surgery is used for the repairing or replacement of valves of the heart that are diseased. The patients receive general anesthesia in this type of surgery whereby the surgeon makes a large surgical incision in the breastbone. The incision is meant to enable the surgeon to reach the aorta and the heart (Kato Paragraph 2). The relevance of stroke to the procedure of open-chest valve surgery is that it is one of the risks associated with cardiac surgery. Other risks include death, failure of the kidneys, cardiac arrest, irregular beats of the heart, and post-pericardiotomy syndrome (Kato ...

Introduction

The protection of patients’ information is an inevitable responsibility for the local healthcare system to uphold. This is pegged on the health care ethical standards and the confidentiality levels of holding patients’ critical information with utmost dignity. The initiation of the Electronic health Record (E.H.R.) project should be established on very specific guidelines and regulations to ensure that there is no patients’ information spill over. This system should provide a distinctive watchdog on how the sensitive information of the patients is created, shared and stored (Baker, Wagner, Singer & Bundorf, 2013). Therefore, the health care system must take vital steps ...

Essay

Introduction The headquarters of Wal-Mart are located in Bentonville, Arkansas. Sam Walton, the founder of the company, launched a variety store in Newport, Arkansas in 1945. His brother, James 'Bud' Walton, opened an identical store in Missouri in 1946. Until the 1960s the enterprise was focused wholly on variety stores (Brunn, 2006). The original Wal-Mart Discount City was launched in 1962, which became the original discount store of Wal-Mart. The original Sam's Clubs were then launched in 1984, which was followed by the opening of the original supercenter in 1988. The original neighborhood market was launched in 1999. In ...

Methodological Paradigm

I will approach the study through the Critical Theorist lens. A critical theory paradigm focuses on a research through a political perspective, whereby various groups: politicians, men, rich people, capitalism in general influence and exert power over other groups. It is all about power and influence. In other words, the critical theory approaches issues through a historical lens. The objective of the paradigm is emancipation of the oppressed (Dantzker& Hunter, 2012).For that reason, I will rely on dialogue method, which is a combination of interviews and observations with approaches that prompt reflection and conversation for a qualitative research. ...

Introduction

Organizations, companies, educational institutions, and governments, face different challenges and threats every day, and the need to plan for undesirable future events is a critical requirement for any organization (Berg, 2010, p.80) There are times when the risk factors are unforeseen, catching the organization by surprise. Other instances are beyond human control, like disaster strikes and natural phenomena. In most cases, however, the risk areas are known, and management carries out the task of planning for the risk by creating contingency plans or determining ways to avert the risk. In extreme cases, the organization might choose to absorb the ...

For this comparative research, we selected Spain and Germany, two countries of the European Union with similar political parliamentarian systems. Personification is a distinctive feature of presidentialism and it seems reasonable to examine to what extent this trend occurs in European parliamentary systems today.

The position of political leaders in parliamentary systems is different from the position occupied by them in the presidential republics. Lijphart identifies three characteristics that distinguish essentially presidentialism and parliamentarianism (Lijphart, 2000). Firstly, in a presidential system the executive chief is elected directly by the electors by popular vote and therefore without legislative intervention, so ...

Culture, Advocacy and Sexual Practices

Female genital mutilation (FGM) is the partial or complete removal of the female genitals. Different practices are preformed depending on culture and location. The World Health Organization describes four different procedures: a) Clitoridectomy – a process where all or part of the clitoris is removed; b) Excision –a process where the clitoris and some or all of the labia minora which is the inside vaginal lips is removed; c) Infibulation – a process where all of the outside genitalia is removed and then the opening is stitched up to where there is only a small hole left for urine and menstrual ...

The plight of the black started just before slavery. With the slave trade, the black Americans were exposed torture, oppressions and all kinds of dehumanising things. After the end of slavery, there were hopes that the status of the African Americans will improve and their plights will reduce. However, the plight of the African Americans is getting even worse than ever. The racial discrimination and segregation have become worse than it initially was (Berg 19). Various figures have come upon to fight for the rights of the African Americans but all have ended up failing or being assassinated. The ...

Brief information, risk factors and symptoms

Colon cancer, that is also known as colorectal, is a type of cancer that starts from rectum or colon. As any other type of cancer, colon cancer is characterized by uncontrolled growing cells of the body. This type of cancer usually starts with a polyp – a kind of growth on the inner lining of the rectum or colon. However, it is important to know that not all polyps change into cancer, though some of them might do it after several years. The chances that a polyp will become cancer after some, depends on the type of polyps. There are ...

The police officers play an imperative role in a country’s law enforcement system. As citizens, we depend on them to protect us and always expect them to treat use equitably irrespective of our race, religion, sex orientation, gender, ethnicity, race, national origin, or social and economic background. Police stops are frightening to many individuals. The best thing to do to avoid completely coming across the police officers is always obeying the law. For those who are fond of breaking the law, the article by Mike Riggs, "An Ex-Cop's Guide to Not Getting Arrested," advise them to be invisible ...

Credit Risk Management Analysis

Credit risk emanates from the peril of loss of principal or shortfall of a financial reward stemming from a borrower default to repay a loan obligation. The failures to honor a contractual agreement of a loan results of a wholesale credit risk. When a borrower envisages to use future cash flow to pay a current debt credit risk will eventually arise. Then the savers will assume credit risk by way of interest payment from the borrower or issuer of the debt obligation. The wholesale credit risk, therefore, emanates from the defaulters of debt obligation that have been acquired from ...

No one was able to state with certainty the aim of the Soviet Union and its idea of communism in the German region. In the Eastern part of Europe, the communist parties were very small but in the end, they became famous. Many of the European states had witnessed the impact of war, and they were not ready to see Europe in another state of conflict (Perry, Berg & Krukones, 2009, p.301). The West and the Soviet Union had many differences as the Soviets believed that communism and capitalism could not coexist. During the Cold War period, some patterns were ...

Impact of the Second World War on Western Europe

The war had a devastating impact on the social, economic, and political life of Western Europe. Psychologically, the people of Western Europe were tired of the war. It is perhaps the most significant difference between the aftermaths of WWI and WWII. Consequently, calls for retaliation and nationalistic sentiment were not as high. The severity of the psychological anguish is illustrated by the millions of people that the war left dead. Many more were displaced from their homes (White, 1953). Sickness and injury were the norm rather than the exception. Many, especially the Jews and those that survived the Nazi ...

ABSTRACT

Statistics reveal that there are over one million asylum seekers around the world every year. Asylums seeker have different definitions, but the most basic idea is that they are people seeking to leave their countries because their lives are at risk because of their race, color, religion, political persecution, war, or natural disasters (Bozorgmehr and Razum, 2015; Esses, V. et al, 2008). Many factors determine whether the refugees will be accepted in their intended country or not. Demographic variables, as well as the attitudes of the natives and the attitudes of the asylum seekers, determine the kind of attitude ...

Objectives

Introduction A wind instrument is an instrument that produces sound by manipulating air through varying the wind pressure passing through the air outputs of the device (Berg and Stock, 27). These devices are heavily dependent on pressure as well as the size and shape of the instrument (pg. 28). A good example of a wind instrument is the organ pipe. It is a tool that produces a specific pitch when pressurized air is driven through it. Organ pipes usually exist in sets, where each is confined to produce a specific tune. Normally, it is a keyboard device that is ...

Abstract

One of the most significant milestone that has been done for the United States’ civil rights platform is enactment of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. These rights were enacted on July 2nd, 1964. It is through these rights that the rights of civil servants in the United States were assured of protection against such discriminations based on their sex, race, and religion, place of origin or color of their skin. This paper will in detail examine the Civil Rights Act of 1964. The paper will in detail elaborate on the meaning and significance of the Act as well ...

Marketing and consumption decisions

Introduction Marketing entails the process through which groups and individuals obtain what they want and need by exchanging and creating products and value with others (Same, 2012). Thus, marketing is the process of delivering customer satisfaction at a profit. The objective of marketing is to satisfy the needs and wants of a customer better than the competitor. There are a variety of activities that are involved in marketing. These activities include identifying the needs of the customers, designing of the product, promotion of the products or services benefits with the aim of motivating purchase, pricing and ensuring they are ...

Aims

Studying the vibrational modes of organ pipes Introduction Sound is a vibration that arises from a mechanical wave of pressure and displacement, through a medium like air or water (Berg and Stock, 23). The reception and perception of these waves by the brain is referred to as sound. On the other hand, acoustics deals with the study of these mechanical waves in matter (pg. 40). In this experiment, the organ pipe is the main target of discussion. This is a sound producing wind instrument that resonates at a specific pitch when pressurized air is driven through it. A complete ...