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Blueprint for Professional and Personal Growth—Your Future as a Manager, with Executive Summary of Class and Management Accounting Skills

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Application: Individual Reflection: Blueprint for Professional and Personal Growth—Your Future as a Manager, with Executive Summary of Class and Management Accounting Skills

As you begin this Assignment, review the broad range of topics presented throughout the course related to using accounting information for decision making. Clearly, 8 weeks does not provide enough time to explore all the topics of this course as deeply as you might have liked.

For this final Individual Reflection, select concepts or topics that resonated with you during this course and commit to learning more about them. To bring this commitment to life, identify concrete action items that will support your goal to deepen your personal learning experience in the coming year. Then, consider the following:

What can you do now to integrate the experiences and insights you had in this course with your personal and professional development goals?
What are the most important things you are taking from this course that will shape your future and enable you to make a positive difference?

The Assignment:

All components of the Assignment must be turned in as one document:

The executive summary: Write an Executive Summary of the course (2–3 paragraphs) that addresses the following questions:

Which content and Assignments in this course improved your understanding of using accounting information to make decisions for your organization (or one with which you are familiar)?
What impact has your improved understanding had (or you anticipate it will have) on the value you will bring to your role within an organization?
In what ways does the content from this course affect a manager’s ability to create positive change within an organization?
To what extent can the content from this course help you contribute to social responsibility and positive social change?
How have the content and Assignments changed the way you will use accounting information to make management decisions?
How have the content and Assignments shaped your goals now and how do you anticipate they will shape your goals in the future?

After considering what you have learned in the course, create a focused and succinct strategy for your professional or personal life that will enable you to improve profitability for an organization or improve your personal financial resources while demonstrating social responsibility. This strategy could take the form of increasing revenue or reducing expenses. As part of your strategy, be sure to include responses to the following:

List three areas you could focus on for your strategy relative to your own organization, an organization for which you would aspire to work, or your personal life. Describe the importance of each of the focus areas chosen, including how they will enable you to demonstrate social responsibility and positive social change. Provide examples with support from the resources.
Describe how you will measure progress toward your success.

Your action plan: Write a detailed action plan for one new goal for professional and personal development. (You will continue to build on the list of goals you selected in your previous course.) Include the following in your action plan:

Describe your specific goal for professional and personal development with an explanation as to why you selected this goal. Be sure to provide concrete and specific examples of why the goal is important, the extent to which this goal enables you to be an agent for positive social change, and the personal or professional value you expect from achieving each goal, and how the goal relates to the resources reviewed in the course.
Provide at least two objectives for the goal you have identified. Also, provide a rationale that explains how your objectives support the goal.

You are now in the final stage of the project plan development. All previous documentation should be combined into one document that will serve as the statement of work for the project. Your goal is to have the project approved by the executive team. The project plan should be very detailed, which is designed to accomplish the monumental task of implementation; however, the executive team is only interested in a 30-minute summation. Therefore, you also must create a compelling executive summary that is supported by your detail that convinces the executive team that they should move forward with your solution.

Develop a thirty to forty (30-40) page project plan in which you:

Write a five to ten (5-10) page executive summary that provides a high-level technical overview of your project in which you:

Describe the scope of the project and control measures.

Describe the goals and objectives of the project.

Include a high-level overview of all project deliverables.

Give a detailed, realistically estimated cost analysis of the entire project, including human capital.

Relate the value of the project plan solution to the competitive advantage that information technology will afford your organization.

Recommend solution providers who can assist with development and implementation.

Combine all previous documentation for Project Deliverables 1-5 in which you:

Provide all aspects of the information technology implementation into the project plan.

Revise the documentation based on feedback from the earlier evaluation of your deliverable.

Use at least five (5) quality resources in this assignment. Note: Wikipedia and similar Websites do not qualify as quality resources.

Section 1 of this assignment must follow these formatting requirements:

Be typed, double spaced, using Times New Roman font (size 12), with one-inch margins on all sides; citations and references must follow APA or school-specific format. Check with your professor for any additional instructions.

Include a cover page containing the title of the assignment, the student’s name, the professor’s name, the course title, and the date. The cover page and the reference page are not included in the required assignment page length.

Include charts or diagrams created in MS Visio or Dia as an appendix of the project plan. All references to these diagrams must be included in the body of the project plan.

Section 2: Revised Business Requirements Document

Document all revisions made to the written project plan in the Document Control section of the business requirements document from Project Deliverable 2: Business Requirement. Note: This documentation must outline the revisions made to the previous deliverables required in Section 1: Written Project Plan.

Section 3: Project Plan PowerPoint Presentation

Additional to your detailed executive summary you must present your findings to the executive team and the venture capital group that along with the executive summary will convince the group that your solution is optimal.

Create a ten to fifteen (10-15) slide PowerPoint presentation in which you:

Illustrate the concepts from your executive summary in Section 1 of this assignment.

Create bulleted speaking notes for your presentation to the executive board in the Notes section of the PowerPoint. Note: You may create or assume any fictitious names, data, or scenarios that have not been established in this assignment for a realistic flow of communication.

Use a professional technically written style to graphically convey the information.

You are now in the final stage of the project plan development. All previous documentation should be combined into one document that will serve as the statement of work for the project. Your goal is to have the project approved by the executive team. The project plan should be very detailed, which is designed to accomplish the monumental task of implementation; however, the executive team is only interested in a 30-minute summation. Therefore, you also must create a compelling executive summary that is supported by your detail that convinces the executive team that they should move forward with your solution.

Develop a thirty to forty (30-40) page project plan in which you:

Write a five to ten (5-10) page executive summary that provides a high-level technical overview of your project in which you:

Describe the scope of the project and control measures.

Describe the goals and objectives of the project.

Include a high-level overview of all project deliverables.

Give a detailed, realistically estimated cost analysis of the entire project, including human capital.

Relate the value of the project plan solution to the competitive advantage that information technology will afford your organization.

Recommend solution providers who can assist with development and implementation.

Combine all previous documentation for Project Deliverables 1-5 in which you:

Provide all aspects of the information technology implementation into the project plan.

Revise the documentation based on feedback from the earlier evaluation of your deliverable.

Use at least five (5) quality resources in this assignment. Note: Wikipedia and similar Websites do not qualify as quality resources.

Section 1 of this assignment must follow these formatting requirements:

Be typed, double spaced, using Times New Roman font (size 12), with one-inch margins on all sides; citations and references must follow APA or school-specific format. Check with your professor for any additional instructions.

Include a cover page containing the title of the assignment, the student’s name, the professor’s name, the course title, and the date. The cover page and the reference page are not included in the required assignment page length.

Include charts or diagrams created in MS Visio or Dia as an appendix of the project plan. All references to these diagrams must be included in the body of the project plan.

Section 2: Revised Business Requirements Document

Document all revisions made to the written project plan in the Document Control section of the business requirements document from Project Deliverable 2: Business Requirement. Note: This documentation must outline the revisions made to the previous deliverables required in Section 1: Written Project Plan.

Section 3: Project Plan PowerPoint Presentation

Additional to your detailed executive summary you must present your findings to the executive team and the venture capital group that along with the executive summary will convince the group that your solution is optimal.

Create a ten to fifteen (10-15) slide PowerPoint presentation in which you:

Illustrate the concepts from your executive summary in Section 1 of this assignment.

Create bulleted speaking notes for your presentation to the executive board in the Notes section of the PowerPoint. Note: You may create or assume any fictitious names, data, or scenarios that have not been established in this assignment for a realistic flow of communication.

Use a professional technically written style to graphically convey the information.

Labor Laws

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Review the key federal legislation, particularly the following:

Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964
The Civil Rights Act of 1991
The Equal Employment Opportunity Act of 1972
Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967
Americans with Disabilities Act
The Immigration Reform & Control Act of 1986
Fair Labor Standards Act

Create a PowerPoint presentation for a meeting to review these laws. In your PowerPoint presentation, explain to the key managers how these laws impact the recruitment and selection process. Be aware of any other state laws that may have additional requirements.

In your discussion, explain how the laws intertwine. In addition, explain the repercussions for noncompliance.
Explain how the number of employees in the company affects the company’s status if the company is not in compliance.

Application: System Security and Ease of Use

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Application: System Security and Ease of Use

For ethical, legal, and business reasons, the security of health care data must be a top priority in health care organizations. HIPAA, for example, requires that health care organizations safeguard patient data, and there are serious consequences for breaches of privacy. Yet organizations have many types of sensitive clinical or administrative information they need to protect. To make their systems secure, health care organizations put in place policies as well as technical safeguards such as encryption and passwords. There can be a tradeoff, however, between system security and ease of use by health care providers.

Prepare for this Application Assignment as follows:

Select a type of health care organization, such as an outpatient clinic, nursing home, or hospital, and a specific department or function in this setting, such as a nursing unit, radiology department, or admissions, that would make use of sensitive health data. Bring to mind specific ways in which these data might be improperly accessed, lost, stolen, and so on.
Review this week’s Learning Resources, and conduct online research, as needed, to clarify for yourself the ramifications for individuals and organizations of security breaches in this department, and the solutions that have been devised to protect these data. In what ways might these security measures interfere with the staff’s ease of use of the system? Consider how best to balance these competing interests of data security and convenience for staff.

Then write a 2- to 3-page paper that addresses the following:

Describe key challenges for your selected health care department in ensuring that its sensitive data are secure. Illustrate with specific examples, and address not only technological issues but also human factors involved in ensuring its system security.
What are some implications of security breaches of its health care data? Who might be impacted and how?
Summarize security measures that might be taken as well as their potential impact on the staff’s ease of use of the information system.
Explain what you believe is the appropriate balance between data security and ease of use.

Review this week’s Learning Resources, and conduct online research, as needed, to clarify for yourself the ramifications for individuals and organizations of security breaches in this department, and the solutions that have been devised to protect these data. In what ways might these security measures interfere with the staff’s ease of use of the system? Consider how best to balance these competing interests of data security and convenience for staff.

Then write a 2- to 3-page paper that addresses the following:

Describe key challenges for your selected health care department in ensuring that its sensitive data are secure. Illustrate with specific examples, and address not only technological issues but also human factors involved in ensuring its system security.
What are some implications of security breaches of its health care data? Who might be impacted and how?
Summarize security measures that might be taken as well as their potential impact on the staff’s ease of use of the information system.
Explain what you believe is the appropriate balance between data security and ease of use.

Review this week’s Learning Resources, and conduct online research, as needed, to clarify for yourself the ramifications for individuals and organizations of security breaches in this department, and the solutions that have been devised to protect these data. In what ways might these security measures interfere with the staff’s ease of use of the system? Consider how best to balance these competing interests of data security and convenience for staff.

Then write a 2- to 3-page paper that addresses the following:

Describe key challenges for your selected health care department in ensuring that its sensitive data are secure. Illustrate with specific examples, and address not only technological issues but also human factors involved in ensuring its system security.
What are some implications of security breaches of its health care data? Who might be impacted and how?
Summarize security measures that might be taken as well as their potential impact on the staff’s ease of use of the information system.
Explain what you believe is the appropriate balance between data security and ease of use.

MODULE 5 ASSIGNMENT ENVM 585: WATER AND WASTEWATER TREATMENT Module 5: Engineered Systems for Water Treatment: Part 1 Each question is worth 10 points. 1. Discuss how you would go about collecting data for an analysis of the water budget of a region. 2. D

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MODULE 5 ASSIGNMENT

ENVM 585: WATER AND WASTEWATER TREATMENT

Module 5: Engineered Systems for Water Treatment: Part 1

Each question is worth 10 points.

1. Discuss how you would go about collecting data for an analysis of the water budget of a region.

2. Discuss how the principle of sand filtration has evolved and the impact that it has had in conjunction with chlorination on the occurrence of waterborne diseases.

3. Discuss the differences in the quality of water obtained from groundwater sources and water obtained from surface water sources.

4. Discuss thermal stratification, how it may cause a water quality issue that needs to be addressed and a treatment method to deal with the problem.

Each question is worth 10 points.

1. Discuss how you would go about collecting data for an analysis of the water budget of a region.

2. Discuss how the principle of sand filtration has evolved and the impact that it has had in conjunction with chlorination on the occurrence of waterborne diseases.

3. Discuss the differences in the quality of water obtained from groundwater sources and water obtained from surface water sources.

4. Discuss thermal stratification, how it may cause a water quality issue that needs to be addressed and a treatment method to deal with the problem.

Each question is worth 10 points.

1. Discuss how you would go about collecting data for an analysis of the water budget of a region.

2. Discuss how the principle of sand filtration has evolved and the impact that it has had in conjunction with chlorination on the occurrence of waterborne diseases.

3. Discuss the differences in the quality of water obtained from groundwater sources and water obtained from surface water sources.

4. Discuss thermal stratification, how it may cause a water quality issue that needs to be addressed and a treatment method to deal with the problem.