Week 1 Quiz

Budget management analysis is used by mangers as a tool and helps determine that all resources available are being used efficiently. The budgets are determined yearly and are based upon the previous year’s budget and variances. This paper will discuss specific strategies to manage budgets within forecast, compare five to seven expense results with budget expectations, describe possible reasons for variances, give strategies to keep results aligned with expectations, recommend three benchmarking techniques, and identify those that might improve budget accuracy, and justify the choices made.

I will start by introducing the project that I decided to do for 5s assignment. The 5s project which it is a method that many companies use to organize their workplace to make it more effective and useful for their employees. For example, at my work we already have 5s implemented and it is working great so far. It is easy to identify tools that we the employees need in the daily basis and we all collaborate to keep it sustainable. However, since at my work we are pretty good on this project and there are not more areas where I can take the opportunity to implement 5s I decided to do 5s to my storage house.

1. Write checks to pay the following bills. The beginning balance in the checkbook is $4562.79.

As you work with 3-year-old Effie, you keep track of all the new words she uses. You find that, on average, Effie uses two or three new words every week over a period of several months. Based on this information, Effie’s language development:

1. He ___________________ a professional musician. He plays the violin so badly. 2. He _________________ lots of money.

District Attorney Michael Nifong acknowledged and offered a full and unqualified apology for his crusade to convict three innocent white Duke University students who belonged to the lacrosse team of raping a black woman in March 2006. Nifong acknowledged there had been “no credible evidence” of their guilt. In fact there had been exculpatory evidence that he had quashed. His apology was rendered to a judge who later sentenced him to one day in jail and a $500. fine for contempt of court. He could have received thirty days (Prosecutorial Indiscretion, 2008).

Haley Romeros had just been appointed vice president of the Rocky Mountain Region of the Bank Services Corporation (BSC). The company provides check processing services for small banks. The banks send checks presented for deposit or payment to BSC, which records the data on each check in a computerized database. BSC then sends the data electronically to the nearest Federal Reserve Bank check-clearing center where the appropriate transfers of funds are made between banks. The Rocky Mountain Region has three check processing centers, which are located in Billings, Montana; Great Falls, Montana; and Clayton, Idaho. Prior to her promotion to vice president, Ms. Romeros had been the manager of a check processing center in New Jersey.

Study Questions: Answer the following questions (based on the reading), save it and then submit it to the professor.

At about 6:08am, on October 4, 2009, Trisha Oliver, a resident of Cranston Rhode Island called 911 reporting that her six-year-old son, Marco Nieves, stopped breathing. Emergency authorities took Marco to Hasbro Children's Hospital, where he was found to be in full cardiac arrest. He later died after 11 hours attempt to save his life. At about 6:20am, Sgt. Michael Kite of the Cranston Police Department had arrived at the apartment, where he found Oliver, her boyfriend Michael Patino, and their 14-month-old daughter, Jazlyn Oliver grieving the loss of their loved one. Officer Kite noticed a few odd things about the apartment where Marco suffered his cardiac arrest. Among these things was a

The learning phase happens in all the agents which helps each agent to understand the market situation. Consider an agent $A_{i} $ at a given time instance $t$. The knowledge bank has the information about its previous states and the action the agent has to take with respect to the particular situation. The information $A_{i} (t-1)$ and the current conditions gives direct correlation how the agents previous action has affect the auctioning scenario.

Each Team Member at Nucor Steel Birmingham is expected to act in an environmentally responsible manner and use good judgment when confronted with situations that may not have been clearly defined during training:

Higher value can attract more customers or increase the profit margin for the value add benefit.

Several internal factors can influence the valuation of a company, however, in the subsequent are some factors that will assist management in protecting its shareholders. The first reason is the desire to generate profits for the company, as a profitable firm will attract investors. Secondly, the need to improve the management of a company can lead to valuation as the information can be used to spur growth. Valuation will assist in understanding some of the factors affecting the value of the company such as client relationships, financials, image, technology employees, and marketing. Proper management is implemented after identifying the issues affecting the organization’s value. Thirdly, communicating to the public accurate and current information is essential in attracting investors and maintaining transparency, which builds the company image.

(TCO 2) Because Timothy was laughed at by his second grade peers, he was reluctant to speak out in class. This is a demonstration of which goal of psychology?

d. What was the cost for the 10 percent of employees who incurred the highest dental expense?