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ACCT 410 Quiz 3T/F questions are worth .5 point each:1.A fund in itself is a separate legal entity that is established to comply with laws that require that certain transactions be segregated and accounted for as a separate “fund.”2.The Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) sets generally accepted accounting principles (GAAPs) for non-government not-for-profit organizations, while government non-profit organizations must follow GASB.T 3.The size of a government’s operations does not necessarily coincide with the number of funds it establishes.4.The MDA section of the basic financial statements is an introduction of events that have occurred in the organization as well as the possible effects of events that might happen.5.The government wide financial statements are presented in addition to fund financial statements and include the entity’s fiduciary activities.6.The budget of an NFP organization is not integrated into the record-keeping procedures and the applicable financial statements, as it is for governmental entities.7.Certain revenues are precluded by GAAP from being recorded in special revenue funds. Revenues that are earmarked for expenditures for major capital projects should be recorded in special revenue funds.8.NFP organizations adjust the value of their long-term debt for discounts or premiums on issuance of the debt, whereas governments list their long-term debt in the General Long-term Liabilities accounts at face value even though it may have been issued at a discount or at a premium.9.Because they use full accrual accounting, NFPs account for depreciation. There is an exception, however, in regard to certain assets that have collection value which are preservable in their current condition, and have a claim on resources sufficient to preserve them indefinitely.10. Proprietary funds use the accrual basis of accounting and the economic resources measurement focus. Accordingly, proprietary funds recognize revenues when they are earned and recognize expenses when a liability is incurred.11.The basis of accounting describes when transactions are recorded, not what transactions are recorded. Accordingly, allocations such as depreciation and amortization are not recorded as expenditures of governmental funds, nor are long-term liabilities. 12.Governmental funds use the current financial resources measurement focus, which recognizes as expenditures those costs that result in a decrease in current financial resources.13.Routine employer contributions from the general fund and internal services billings from the enterprise fund are treated as transfers between funds.14.The City of Virginia Beach issues $5 million in revenue bonds on January 1 to build a water line for the water enterprise fund.  Interest is payable every six months.  What entry is made for interest expense as of June 30?15.The GASB requires each governmental entity to prepare a CAFR.16. The budget for Virginia Beach authorizes expenditures of 12 million and forecasts revenues of 10 million for 2016.  The entry to record the budget in the General Fund is as follows (true or false).18. GASBS 34 updated the types of fiduciary funds to include the following:Pension (and other employee benefit) trust fundsInvestment trust fundsPrivate-purpose trust fundsEnterprise funds19.Identify 4 main (the big between fund accounting and proprietary accounting.  20.How are the 4 main differences (refer to question 19) reflected in the fund verses the government financial statements ?

As the director of pharmacy for CMC, you have been experiencing an increase in drug cost of approximately eight to ten percent per year for the past three years. The annual pharmacy drug cost has increased from $10,300,000 to $16,800,000 in the past five years. The hospital is experiencing an increase in drug cost even though actual drug usage has remained stable.Along with the increase in drug cost, drug related errors have also increased. Patient safety has become an even more serious issue. As you know, patient safety is the number one item on the national health care agenda for the next several years.At the hospital the number of dispensing errors has increased by two percent during the past twelve months. The registered nurses who are administering the drugs have discovered many of the dispensing errors; however, the ones not discovered resulted in patients getting the wrong drug, wrong dosage, and/or the wrong frequency. When the overall drug error rate was analyzed, it was found that dispensing errors in the pharmacy were the number one cause. The overall drug error rate had increased from three percent to five percent.Fortunately most of the dispensing errors were discovered before the medications were administered to the patients. When the incorrect drugs were administered, it resulted in adverse effects in three cases. One patient received the right medication but the wrong dosage because the medication label was incorrect. This patient had to be admitted overnight to the Intensive Care Unit for intense cardiac and respiratory monitoring. The patient stayed in ICU for approximately twenty four hours. Another patient received the wrong medication on the day of planned discharge and had to remain in the hospital for an additional day, though only for observation. In the third case, the patient had reported that he was allergic to a certain category of drugs, but nonetheless received a drug of that type. He had an adverse reaction–a rash–which delayed his discharge by one day. On the basis of your understanding of the above case study, express your views on the following:

For this week’s discussion you will consider the scenario below and respond in detail to each of the questions below. Here is the scenario you will use:Roberta has come to counseling because she is contemplating a divorce from her husband of 12 years. She has been unhappy in her marriage for several years and doesn’t think that she and her husband can rekindle the interest necessary in their relationship to make it work. To complicate the situation, she has been seeing a married co-worker for several months on the sly and is sexually involved. Roberta thinks she loves the man she is having an affair with and would like to marry him. Though he wants to continue seeing her he has made it clear that he is unwilling to end his marriage or break up his family to be with her. Roberta and her husband have three young children and she knows a divorce would be crushing to the children. She’s come to you for counseling to sort through these issues.1. In your opinion, which of the following counseling theories would you prefer to use to try and help her: Person-centered, Gestalt or Reality? Choose only one and explain your reasoning in detail.2. Using your chosen theory from question 1, would you go about helping her sort through her confusion? Be sure to bring in concepts from your chosen counseling theory to show how you would specifically work with her.3. Roberta is looking for answers to questions she feels unable to answer herself because she is so emotionally involved. After she tells you her story she asks you to give your perspective and advice on what she should do. How would you respond to this request? What potential problems might arise if you do give her direct advice? What potential problems might arise if you don’t give your perspective? Be specific and detailed in your response.  What would your chosen counseling theory have to say about giving direct advice?4. At the end of the session, Roberta is very distraught and asks if you would be available to meet her for coffee later that day to continue the conversation in a more casual environment. Under what circumstances might this be appropriate, if at all? What potential conflicts might this create? Be specific and draw upon information from your text and lecture materials to support your points.  

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The prompt: the political bias behind walt disney’s company.
PLEASE DO A RELEVANT ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY OF THE SOURCES I HAVE PROVIDED.
Annotated bibliography:

We’ve also included your list below in case you’d like to cut and paste it into your paper.

Please note: We recommend downloading the DOCX file above. However, if you copy the text below, you will need to manually add additional formatting. See MLA, APA, or Chicago rules.
Biocca, Frank. Television and Political Advertising. N.p.: n.p., n.d. Print.

Cooper, T. P. “Walt at War – Animation, Transformation and Indoctrination: The Hypothetical Image of Disney’s Animal Soldiers.” Animation 9.3 (2014): 333-51. Web.

“Donald Versus Hitler: Walt Disney and the Art of WWII Propaganda – SPIEGEL ONLINE.” SPIEGEL ONLINE. N.p., n.d. Web. 06 May 2016.

Inge, M. Thomas. “Walt Disney’s Song of the South and the Politics of Animation.” The Journal of American Culture J Am Cult 35.3 (2012): 219-30. Web.

Inge, M. Thomas. “Walt Disney’s Song of the South and the Politics of Animation.” The Journal of American Culture J Am Cult 35.3 (2012): 219-30. Web.

Raiti, G. C. “The Disappearance of Disney Animated Propaganda: A Globalization Perspective.” Animation 2.2 (2007): 153-69. Web.

“6 Classic Disney Animated Wartime Propaganda Cartoons.” Http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/6-classic-disney-animated-wartime-propaganda-cartoons-stuff-watch/. Tim Brookes, Nov.-Dec. 2011. Web. 04 May 2016.

Waldner, Lisa K., and Betty A. Dobratz. “Graffiti as a Form of Contentious Political Participation.” Sociology Compass 7.5 (2013): 377-89. Web.

Yu, Hongmei. “From Kundun to Mulan: A Political Economic Case Study of Disney and China.” ANE ASIANetwork Exchange: A Journal for Asian Studies in the Liberal Arts 22.1 (2015): 12. Web.

Yu, Hongmei. “From Kundun to Mulan: A Political Economic Case Study of Disney and China.” ANE ASIANetwork Exchange: A Journal for Asian Studies in the Liberal Arts 22.1 (2015): 12. Web

A 2-3 pages long paper (12 pt, Times New Roman, 1-inch margins, single space) answering the questions.Instructions:
In order to identify the role of resources in one’s daily life, the Wheel of Wellbeing activity will be used. Wheel of Wellbeing is not a new concept and used in a variety of formats by various people. For this assignment, we will use the version including 7 parts: Health, Family, Romance, Personal Growth, Recreation, Physical Environment, and Career.If you do not feel comfortable enough to reflect your personal life on this activity, please feel free to identify a well-known movie, TV show or book character, and reflect on the resources of this person. The goal of this activity is to encourage you to identify the resources in the life parts mentioned above and apply them in daily lives. The grading will also be based on identifying the resources and skillfully applying them.

Your Paper:
1- At the first page, copy the wheel attached at the relevant Assignment section and write your (or your character’s) resources (at least two) at (or next to) each part. The “resources” for each of these are the things/situations/people that helps you to be satisfied in these areas. For instance, for Health, your resources can be organic food, healthy diet, or daily fruit intake. For Romance, your resources can be date nights, romantic experiences, or above all, having a (potential) significant other. For Physical Environment, your resources can be comfy pillows, frames of loved ones, or photo albums. For Career, your resources for satisfaction can be your major, internship, volunteering activities. For Personal Growth, your resources can be self-help books, movies, or your volunteer activities as well. Hope these make sense.
2- Second, score your satisfaction for each part at a 0-10 scale, 0 indicating no, and 10 indicating most satisfaction.
You can do this exercise by hand, take a picture and upload to Scholar or do it on a .doc file. You can also list the dimensions and write the scores next to them, as you wish. Just, please be sure that the document is in a familiar format (.jpg, .doc, .pdf, .txt).
3- Third, please respond the questions below as 3-4 sentences for each.
a. Which parts of your (or your character’s) life were the most and least easy to identify the resources?
b. Which parts of your (or your character’s) life activate most easily when you (or your character’s) face with stressful situations? (Which resources you [or your character] use most?)
c. Which parts of your (or your character’s) life you would like to be in better connection with? What can you (or your character) do in order to improve these parts?

Even the most superficial of presentations calls for some kind of preparation. An “elevator speech,” which summarizes a topic in minutes, if not seconds, calls for lightning thought and reflexive application of the rhetorical triangle, grammar, outlining, content knowledge, and logic as you are standing there. For more elaborate and considered presentations, you should reflect on your topic and on the implications and potential for your message. If presenting yourself, you want to be seen as a mature professional and in the best light. If presenting discipline-related material, you want to be seen as a mature and reflective professional, who has not only laid out a mechanical and logical outline of the material, but who has linked the material, with meaning, to the audience.For this Individual Project, you will create a sentence outline for a presentation and informally share your ideas for approaching the visual elements of a presentation.Using your thoughts from earlier in the course and your elevator speech ideas, create a sentence outline for a 10-minute presentation about a discipline-related topic in which you propose a small project or professional action to an audience of mid-level executives.The outline should indicate the flow and content for your anticipated presentation.Incorporate an introduction of yourself, and link your background, experience, goals, and education to the topic. Imagine that the audience has not met you or that they do not know you very well. Assume that your own strengths and abilities, including your university studies, will be key and important to the success of your proposal for the project. Be sure the outline reflects solid organization and process.In Unit 4, you will give a final presentation based on this outline, so be sure to provide enough information for future use. Therefore, use a sentence outline format rather than simply jotting down one- or two-word topics.After you complete the outline, add a paragraph or two sharing your initial thought process for determining visual support for your presentation. Consider color choice, font choice, use of white space, layout, and so on. Refer to intelli, unit resources, and your assigned readings for additional ideas.Please submit your assignment as a single Word document. 

You must produce a portfolio, selecting 3 of the 5 given case studies. Within this portfolio you must:
• Analyse three of the five given mental disorders
• Analyse society’s negative attitudes that one of your case studies may experience and evaluate 2 support services you feel would benefit them.

Your work must include consistent referencing throughout to maximise your quality grade (GD7).

CASE STUDIES:
1. Melanie is a 26 year old who suffered from sexual abuse from the age of 12. She did not complete any schooling and has never been in employment. She experimented with drugs between the ages of 14 and 20. She has not taken drugs or alcohol for 6 years but suffers terribly with Agoraphobia (fear of open spaces). This anxiety disorder has resulted in Melanie not leaving the house for up to 4 weeks at a time.
2. Tariq is a 35 year old man who suffers with depression. He had a particularly bad episode of depression 18 months ago following the death of his mother, and had 12 months off work. He returned to work 6 months ago on a ‘graded return’. He is now up to 4 days a week at work, but is finding his workload particularly stressful. He doesn’t feel particularly welcome in his work either.
3. Frances is a 48 year old woman who was diagnosed with Schizophrenia aged 22. At 24 she had a daughter who she looked after independently when her party left her during her pregnancy. Her condition is well controlled medically and she works full time. However she has recently become concern that she is the victim of work place bullying.
4. Dylan is a 13 year old boy whose parents are currently going through a very messy divorce. Nobody knows it, but Dylan binges on food and then makes him self sick. Dylan feels that eating is the only thing he has control over. Dylan is picked on at school because ‘he is rubbish at football’ and is ‘the weirdo’.
5. Percy is a 56 year old alcoholic. He lives with his wife and their relationship is strained due to his drinking. He does not accept he has a drinking problem, he believes he is a social drinker only. He drinks 8-10 pints at least 4 times a week. His wife, Janice, is feeling very stressed and her friends are putting pressure on her to leave him.

I’m doing research about The Last Airbender series ANIMATION. I want you to pick specific sources, and it will be on the requirements of the Annotated Bibliography, which is down here.

PLEASE READ THIS DOCUMENT CAREFULLY AND FOLLOW THE ASSIGNMENT SPECIFICATIONS PRECISELY.

Timetable:

You must complete and submit your annotated bibliography on _________. (It must have 16 or more correctly identified, acceptable entries for you to get full credit.) Late penalty: Your final grade for this assignment will be docked a full letter grade for each day you submit it after the original deadline. (After class starts on _________ = late.)

Assignment Requirements:

Your bibliography must include a minimum of 16 entries (1 source = 1 entry). Your annotated bibliography will be docked half a letter grade for each and every entry fewer than 16. (For example, having only 13 entries = 1 ½ grade penalty.) I will drop entries that are not reliable, suitably objective, or appropriate for college-level research (children’s books, Wikipedia or wiki entries, self-published websites, sources with a clear political or religious bias, etc.) from your total number of sources. I will also drop sources that are in a language you cannot read.

Entries for all sources must appear in correct APA format. (Double-space citations. Single-space annotations.) Incomplete entries—without a full citation or in a format other than APA—do not count toward your 20+ total required entries.

(For example, submitting 1 entry in a format other than APA = ½ grade penalty.)

Every entry must have a 3-5 sentence Less than a 3-sentence annotation disqualifies an entry; it won’t count toward your 20 total entries. (For example, submitting 4 entries without full annotations = 2 grade penalty.)
Your annotated bibliography must include the kinds of entries listed below, in the amounts indicated. Your annotated bibliography will be docked half a letter grade for each and every missing type of entry. (For example, submitting only 3 journal articles, even if you have 20+ total entries = 1 grade penalty.)
Present your sources in the order listed below (books 1st, etc.):

3 – 4 books (this includes our text book and the short readings from Keywords, and the books on library hold)
1 – 2 Ted talk Presentations
2 – 4 scholarly journal articles (write doi # if available, if not URL))
4 online newspaper & magazine articles (these must be from legitimate newspapers’ like National Geographic)
2 Web sites—including Avatar wiki sites, wikipedia, or any other site where you find valuable information for the research (if you cite these, be sure to add where they led you in your deeper research, they are invaluable sites to get you started in this research
2 – 4 reliable web sites that are not wikis (University (.edu), government (.gov), and non-profit (.org) sites are best, but objective, unbiased magazines, TV stations, radio stations, and other kinds of media outlets are OK).
1 – 2 film, video, or TV program (DVD and online are both OK)
Formatting:

Use 12-point, Times New Roman Font
Double-space citations. Single-space annotations.
Organize/group your entries by type (for example, put all books together).
Give each section a heading (for example, “Books:”, “”Journal Articles:”, etc.).
Alphabetize entries within each section (for example, alphabetize your books, alphabetize your journal articles, etc.).

Entry Guidelines (for each source/entry):

For each source/entry on your annotated bibliography, you must:

1) Record the key publication info in a correctly formatted APA entry.

2) In the annotation for each source/entry, you must:

Identify what kind of source it is (scholarly journal, single-author book, online newspaper article, website, film, online magazine article, etc.). Underline and bold the kind of source it is.
Describe where, how, and when you found the source.
Explain what factors help you establish the source’s reliability (such as peer review, having been published by a university press, an author’s credentials,).
Include 1 or 2 sentences summarizing what kind of info the source contains.
Explain how the source is likely to help you make your argument in your research-based essay (focus on which question(s) from the prompt it may help you answer and explain how it will help you answer the question(s)).

EACH SOURCE IS GOING TO BE ABOVE ITS PARAGRAPH IN APA FORMAT

  The “How are you Culture” Clash “WHEN an American asks me this question, it’s like a wall of ice crashing down between us.”The question my Moscow-born friend Galina was referring to had nothing to do with Putin, or Pussy Riot, or the culinary ethics of adding ketchup to your pirogi. And yet, it is the back across which Russian-American relations are broken.The question in question is, “How are you?”The answer Americans give, of course is, “Fine.” But when Russians hear this they think one of two things: (1) you’ve been granted a heavenly reprieve from the wearisome grind that all but defines the human condition and as a result are experiencing a rare and sublime moment of fineness or (2) you are lying.Ask a Russian, “How are you?” and you will hear, for better or worse, the truth. A blunt pronouncement of dissatisfaction punctuated by, say, the details of any recent digestive troubles. I have endured many painful minutes of elevator silence after my grandmother (who lived in the Soviet Union until moving to the United States in her 60s) delivered her stock response: “Terrible,” to which she might add, “Why? Because being old is terrible.” Beat. “And I am very old.”Cue desperate thumbing of the “door open” button.It feels as if I’ve spent half my life trying to smooth over the bafflement of my American friends and the hurt feelings of my Russian expat family as a result of this innocuous inquiry. “ ‘Fine’ makes Russians think that Americans have no soul,” I explained recently to an American-born friend. “That they just want to go home, eat a frozen dinner in front of the TV, and wait out the hours before going to work to make money again.”He laughed, then quickly sobered. “You know, there’s something to that.”But if the American “fine” can come off as plastic and insincere, the speed with which Russians unload intimate details is just as disturbing. I was born in Ukraine to Russian parents, but I grew up in the United States, and I get it. It’s like, “I don’t know you, Random Russian Lady, so why are you showing me your rash?”The thing most Russians don’t realize is that, in English, “How are you?” isn’t a question at all, but a form of “hi,” like the Russian “privyet!” The Americans weren’t responsible for its transformation; that honor goes to the British. The Oxford English Dictionary defines the phrase’s precursor, “How do you do?” as a common phrase “often used as a mere greeting or salutation.” The anodyne exchange dates at least as far back as 1604, to Shakespeare’s Othello, where Desdemona asks her husband, “How is’t with you, my lord?” and Othello replies “Well, my good lady.” Even though he is half-mad with jealousy and only five scenes away from murdering her.Whereas it’s easy to read a particularly American optimism into the easy embrace of the auto-fine, Russians seem almost congenitally unable to fake fineness.The Russian food critic and cultural historian Anya von Bremzen recently offered me an intriguing hypothesis as to why this might be the case. In Soviet days, proclamations of joy, enthusiasm and optimism were associated with state propaganda and officialese. As a citizen of a Communist utopia, you were pretty much supposed to feel fine all the time (never mind the time you spent squabbling over the communal stove or waiting in a two-hour line to buy toilet paper). So, Ms. von Bremzen explained, a moan or a complaint would be considered a more authentic, non-state-sanctioned response to “how are you.”I liked this theory, but my father scoffed when I suggested it was the Soviets who devalued “fine.” By way of explanation, a quote from Dostoyevsky arrived in my inbox: “The most basic, most rudimentary spiritual need of the Russian people is the need for suffering, ever-present and unquenchable, everywhere and in everything.”Maybe that’s not such a bad thing. Psychologists at the University of Michigan have shown that, while Russians are, indeed, more prone to brooding than Americans, their open embrace of negative experiences might ultimately be healthier, resulting in fewer symptoms of depression.Recently, when I looked through a few American guides on traveling to Russia, I was disappointed to find that they all suggested that tourists adopt the American approach to “How are you” (“kak dela” in Russian) and lob back a hearty “Khorosho!” My advice? Don’t let “How are you” be your Waterloo. Instead, take a vacation from fineness.If you lack the Russian vocabulary to fully express your unquenchable suffering, fear not — a lot of angst and ambivalence can be packed into just a word or two. Try “tak-sebe” (so-so) or “normalno” (the usual) or “eh” (eh). Even “fine” is fine. Injecting a world-weary sigh before your “khorosho” can neatly reverse its meaning, or render it shorthand for that other, more satisfyingly nuanced, response: It’s complicated.

 You get 50 points for the conservative policy analysis, 50 points for the liberal policy analysis, 50 points for the creative conservative presentation, 50 points for the creative liberal presentation. You need to reference your team members positions and provide arguments that counter their position and their proposal.  Each of you needs to complete an analysis and presentation — but it needs to be coordinated with your team mate as they are arguing for a DIFFERENT solution to the same issue.  Each student completes their own analysis/presentation — based on the work that the other student is doing.So — you have ONE topic/policy that is defined, analyzed and presented from ideological perspective. Put another way….100 points of 200 points are for your creative demonstration of ideas and economic thought as applied to a problem and presented from 2 different perspectives;100 points of 200 points is for your in-depth critical thinking and analysis — your WELL-CITED and PROPERLY referenced use of ECONOMIC THEORY as applied to a single problem as analyzed from 2 different perspectives. In other words…Half of your final grade is related to your creativityHalf your final grade is related to your quantitative analysis skillsIn more words….I am grading you on your ability to think creatively and apply critical thinking to real-world problems.  Everything must be well-written and properly referenced and cited, or it is not professional and will not be acceptable for a 300 level college course.  Writing and critical thinking are vital to your long term success, and I want to make sure you get to practice those skills.  You are all smart individuals, show me what you got! PS — for example, let’s say we look at illegal immigration.  One team member argues for one position (say build a wall and deport all illegal aliens) and the other argues for another solution (instant amnesty for all and citizenship for all).  Using the tools of economics (demand, supply, taxation, deadweight loss, changes to GDP and employment, public provisioning of social services, fiscal vs monetary policy….) would argue for why their stated position is rational and preferable to the other side’s position. Each team member takes on the persona of a policy wonk for one side of the political divide and makes strong arguments USING ECONOMICS for the position of the party/candidate.  My solutions above are clearly extreme versions of what the current political debate is — and I certainly take no side in this debate and will not criticize or mark down any assignment for the ideology or philosophy.  Positions must use data, facts, theory, and logic — this is not an opinion piece — even though the issues can be very heartfelt. This is an exercise in applying critical thinking and analysis skills to complex problems. MORE INFO:1) as a policy advisor for the leading US presidential democratic contender; and