Week 2 Essay

Some questions in Part A require that you access data from Statistics for People Who (Think They) Hate Statistics. This data is available on the student website under the Student Test Resources link.

Ken is 63 years old and unmarried. He retired at age 55 when he sold his business, Understock.com. Though Ken is retired, he is still very active.

I am writing to express my sincere appreciation and to thank you for supporting H.R. 6261.

1. Explain how the use of substances alters a person’s state of consciousness, including depressants, stimulants, and hallucinogens. Include in this explanation what happens to the neurotransmitters and body chemicals as well as how you might recognize whether a person at work or in your family is in an altered state of consciousness due to the influence of drugs.

The $300,000 is treated as business income. After deducting all of the business expenses, the

Riordan Manufacturing is a global plastics manufacturer and is a subsidiary of Riordan Industries. Riordan Manufacturing has three main production facilities located in Georgia, Michigan and Hangzhou, China. This paper will focus on the manufacturing business and supply chain activities of the electric fan production in Hangzhou China with information on manufacturing strategy, production performance, supplier relationships, forecasting and inventory.

RATIONALE: Each fracture site would be coded separately. The C1 fracture would be coded with 805.01, and the C2 fracture with 805.02. As reported in the Indication section, this was an MVC of an unspecified nature, and the patient was the driver. E819 is the code for MVC of unspecified nature with the 4th digit of 0 to show the patient was driving.

(TCO B) Good project cost estimations are critical to a successful project. With that in mind, compare and contrast parametric estimating and vendor bid analysis as cost estimation techniques on a project. Please provide an example of each.

The word “fraud” was magnified in the business world around the end of 2001 and the beginning of 2002. No one had seen anything like it. Enron, one of the country’s largest energy companies, went bankrupt and took down with it Arthur Andersen, one of the five largest audit and accounting firms in the world. Enron was followed by other accounting scandals such as WorldCom, Tyco, Freddie Mac, and HealthSouth, yet Enron will always be remembered as one of the worst corporate accounting scandals of all time. Enron’s collapse was brought upon by the greed of its corporate hierarchy and how it preyed upon its faithful stockholders and employees who invested so much of their time and money into the company. Enron seemed to portray that the goal of corporate America was to drive up stock prices and get to the peak of the financial mountain by any means necessary. The “Conspiracy of Fools” is a tale of power, crony capitalism, and company greed that lead Enron down the dark road of corporate America.

Between the years 2000 and 2002 there were over a dozen corporate scandals involving unethical corporate governance practices. The allegations ranged from faulty revenue reporting and falsifying financial records, to the shredding and destruction of financial documents (Patsuris, 2002). Most notably, are the cases involving Enron and Arthur Andersen. The allegations of the Enron scandal went public in October 2001. They included, hiding debt and boosting profits to the tune of more than one billion dollars. They were also accused of bribing foreign governments to win contacts and manipulating both the California and Texas power markets (Patsuris, 2002). Following these allegations, Arthur Andersen was investigated for, allegedly,

1. What are the current challenges facing United Way? What are key issues in the general and non-profit charitable giving industry environments that affect United Way’s operations?

1. Experts believe that the widening gap between the richest and poorest individuals in the U.S. is in part due to the weakened position of labor unions. (Points : 1)

Walking into my classroom every day allows me to feel that I am creating someone’s future be it personally or professionally. I love my career choice because of the impact that I have on my students. In these two years of teaching high school, I have learned a lot about the students in which I share a city with. I say this because when I was in high school, I faced struggles with peer pressure, fitting in, and other frivolous things that really was not as big as I made them. But what I find now is that my students are facing life decisions at even younger ages. Some are facing extreme poverty where they are having to choose

Show the employee name, salary, commission, and the total of salary and commission. Be sure you evaluate null values correctly.

Ethical behaviour in an organization is guided by the ethical culture of the organization, by any relevant professional norms and codes, and particularly by the tone at the top and the example set by top executives. AA’s CEO at the time, Joe Berardino played a significant role in misguiding the firm and pushing revenue generation rather than working towards decreasing the conflicts between the auditing profession and the public interest. On April 2, 2002, U.S. House Energy and Commerce Committee released a memo dated December 9, 1999 from Carl Bass a partner in AA’s Professional Services Group to David Duncan, the AA partner in charge of the Enron account. This memo asked for an accounting change that would have resulted in a $30-$50 million change to Enron’s earnings (believed to be in regard to the SPE transactions). In February 2000, Bass attempted again to bring light on what he believed was an arm’s length transaction by emailing Duncan to object setting up LJM Partnership (LJM was a company set up by former Enron CFO Andrew Fastow). Duncan overruled Bass on the first memo and shortly after the second attempt where he questioned the CFO, Andrew Fastow and his role with the SPE’s was Duncan removed from the Enron account entirely. In any other of the Big 5 firms, Bass would have been able to overrule Duncan. However, this is a great example that stresses that AA’s objectives were