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Discuss the statement of cash flows Values Limitations This relates to Intermediate Accounting 2, Statement of Cash Flows Revisited, Chapter 21, Intermediate Accounting 7th Edition, Spiceland, Sepe, Nelson. Comment Solution 2. Cash flow statement helps management in proper cash planning and maintaining matching between cash inflows and outflows. .

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Discuss the differences between a form and a report. What characteristics make a form or report good (bad) and effective (ineffective)? Give examples of good and bad reports and forms. Solution Reports are only used to extract and present data for viewing and printing. Forms are a generic term for windows used to interact with users. A form can accept data from a user for data entry or to provide input to a query. A form can present data to a user, e.g. the results of a query. Forms are intended more for simple/limited data interaction where reports are used to present, typically, larger volumes of data Communication is the essence of life. Every day, millions of messages are sent and received both verbally and nonverbally. Whether it is the president making a speech, a billboard promoting a product or a professor lecturing to a class, communication has the power to shape and change culture, society and the lives of individuals. Communication is simply conveying information to another person in a way they fully understand. Ineffective communication can lead to confusion, frustration and low morale. Function The function of effective communication is to accurately relay a particular message in such a way that the listener understands. Communication is used to inform, correct, share emotions and educate. If communication is ineffective it has the power to hurt, confuse and misinform the listener. The function of effective communication can be best seen in the business world. If a company is able to effectively communicate with its workers, they will feel empowered, informed and appreciated. Types The two types of communication are verbal and nonverbal. Verbal communication is the oral use of words to send a message. Nonverbal communications are messages that are sent and received without the use of words. For example, if you say, .

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DQuestion 23 10 pts Explain how the de Broglie wavelength is related to the stability of the electron orbit in the atom Solution The Bohr model for the atom, proposed by Niels Bohr in 1913, had negatively charged particles called electrons orbiting around the positively charged nucleus in fixed circular orbits. Orbits close to the nucleus were of less energy than orbits further away from the nucleus. This model was designed to explain the hydrogen emission spectrum, which it did quite well, but it was an uncomfortable mix of classical physics and the quantisation of energy. It did not answer the question of why electrons should move in circular orbits at fixed distances from the nucleus. In 1905, Albert Einstein showed that light could be considered as both a wave and a particle. This is referred to as the wave-particle dualism of radiation.In 1924, French physicist Louis de Broglie suggested that particles might also have a wave-particle dualism and sometimes act as waves. He said that the wavelength (?) of a particle should be inversely proportional to both the : Increasing the mass of a particle reduces its wavelength. Increasing the speed of a particle reduces its wavelength (and thereby increases its frequency) In the Bohr model of the atom, an electron close to the nucleus has less energy (lower speed) than an electron further from the nucleus (faster moving electron).If electrons can be considered as a wave, then an electron close to the nucleus would have a longer wavelength than an electron further from the nucleus. Louis de Broglie realized that if an electron is confined to an orbit around the nucleus, standing waves would be set up, that is, the orbit of an electron would correspond to a fixed whole number of wavelengths for the electron. Fractions of wavelengths are not allowed. You can have 1 wavelength or 2 wavelengths, but you can\'t have Â½ a wavelength nor can you have 1.75 wavelengths. 2 Close to the nucleus, n=1 of the Bohr model, the energy of the electron provides for an orbit corresponding to 1 wavelength. The next orbit, n=2, corresponds to an orbit two wavelengths long. Then the n=3 orbit can fit three wavelengths, etc Bohrâ€™s theory works! It generates the correct formula for the energy levels in a hydrogen atom. This is because the Bohr postulate: inadvertently makes use of the de Broglie wave associated with an electron. m o vr = n (h/2?) Supposing the classical orbit is circular, letâ€™s look at that the associated de Broglie wave following the motion: in order for the wave to return to its initial value (i.e. we are requiring that the wave be single valued), we must have 2?r = circumference = n ? .

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Discuss the impact of a strong culture on organization and managers Solution Organization Culture is the sum total of the psychology and attitudes which are communicated by the leadership team to the employees and the ethics, values and beliefs which are incorporated for execution of work and obtaining business objectives. Leadership: Organization culture is defined by the leadership of the organization. The CEO is the torch-bearer of organization culture. The mission, vision and strategy communicated by the senior management is the glue which holds the organization together and moves everybody in the same direction. Lack of clear direction, frequent and abrupt changes and arbitrary decisions in mission, vision and strategy contribute to the negativity in the organization culture. This also results in various departments having different work cultures and working in a counter-productive manner. This directly impacts the efficiency and effectiveness of business operations. Depending on the level and clarity of leadership communication, the organization at a macro level may be in high, medium or low risk as depicted in the adjoining chart. Attitudes & Beliefs: The psychology and behavior shown throughout the organization by the employees for doing day-to-day operations reflect the organization culture. Organizations show healthy attitudes where employees are rewarded on performance, there is lack of discrimination due to age, race, color and gender and there is minimal harassment and workplace aggression. Organizations having aggressive work cultures, which are number driven and lack humanity, impact the control environment negatively. In such cases, for the sake of efficiency, legal requirements are compromised. Carried to an excessive stage, the organization may become unsafe for work and/or shareholder investments. The control environment is such cases maybe seriously impacted, as there is strong alignment towards unhealthy and corrupt business practices. .

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Discuss how engineers and risk experts view and deal with risks. (Approximately 2 paragraphs). Solution Risk identification is one of the most important steps of risk management, and consists of discovering, defining, describing, documenting and communicating risks before they become a problem and adversely affect a project. Engineers must deal with risks and uncertainties as a part of their professional work and, in particular, uncertainties are inherent to engineering models. Models play a central role in engineering but often represent an abstract and idealized version of the mathematical properties of a target. Using models, engineers can investigate and acquire understanding of how an object or phenomenon will perform under specified conditions. This paper defines the different stages of the modeling process in engineering, classifies the various sources of uncertainty that arise in each stage, and discusses the categories into which these uncertainties fall. The paper then considers the way uncertainty and modeling are approached in science and the criteria for evaluating scientific hypotheses, in order to highlight the very different criteria appropriate for the development of models and the treatment of the inherent uncertainties in engineering. There is increasing awareness that discrepancies in risk judgments between experts, in addition to those with the public, are a major difficulty in achieving effective risk communication. This article reports on a survey of members of different environmental disciplines to determine the extent to which these individuals share similar beliefs and conceptual frameworks concerning basic assumptions in environmental health risk assessment. The results showed that divergent interpretations did exist among respondents on several issues, and even between members of the same discipline. In light of these difficulties in evaluating and communicating risk, experts should evaluate their own knowledge and understanding of these concepts and should be fully aware of the strengths and limitations of the methods used for risk assessment. isk assessments are necessary to anticipate and prevent accidents from occurring or repeating. Since product design safety and reliability are affected the most by decisions made during the early design phases, a risk assessment that can be performed with less mature data during these design phases is needed. This study focuses on the relationship between function and risk in early design by presenting a mathematical mapping from product function to risk assessments that can be used in the conceptual design phase. An investigation of a spacecraft orientation subsystem is used to demonstrate these mappings. .

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Discuss how complementary social, managerial, and organizational assets help optimize returns from information technology investments. Solution The research (Management Information System by Kenneth C Laudon and Jane P. Laudon, 12th Edition) says that itself doesnot provide best returns because companyâ€™s social, managerial, and organizational assets play important role on helping the company to optimize returns from information technology investments. The followings are some of main aspects that companyâ€™s social, managerial, and organizational assets help the company to optimize returns from information technology investments: First, favorable organizational assets are supportive business culture that value efficiency and effectiveness, appropriate business model. Efficient business process, decentralized of authority, highly distributed rights, and strong information system development team. Organizational assets are so critical to information sharing across enterprise. In favorable organizational environment, each part of organization contributes their part of operation chain and then information is ready available to down-stream operation or up-stream operation. A well implemented and used supply chain system is a good example. Second, important managerial complementary assets are strong senior management support for changes, incentive systems that monitor ad reward individual innovation and emphasis on teamwork and collaboration, training programs, and a management cultural that value flexibility and knowledge. Managerial asset are key success factors for company to introduce and then effectively utilize information technology. Letâ€™s take ERP (enterprise resource planning) systems (such as SAP and PeopleSoft), if we have a strong senior management that supports for changes, we would have better outcome on introducing new technologies especially enterprise system. Third, social assets such as the intern et. A digital firm is one in which nearly all of the organizationâ€™s significant business relationships with customers, suppliers, and employees are digitally enabled, and key corporate assets are managed through digital means. When a firm goes digital, itâ€™s not about just adding a computer system to the mix. Throwing a computer system at outdated business processes is exactly the wrong thing to do. A truly digital firm has several characteristics that distinguish it from most of the firms claiming to be digitized: And the number one reason digital firms experience greater opportunities for success and profits is because they view information technology as the core of the business and a primary management tool. .

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difference between Gre tunnel and vpn tunneling? Solution 1. VPN tunneling means Virtual private networks. This network is used to connect two locations for transferring the data over the two locations using internet. Where GRE means Generic routing encapsulation. This will create private point to point connection between two networks for transferring the data using internet. 2. VPN tunneling uses many number of Encryption methods to secure the data while transferring the data, so that the data cannot be attacked by the third party. GRE tunneling uses the Encapsulation method to transfer the data. That means the encapsulated packet will be routed using internet to the destination. It works with the encapsulating the payload. When the packet is encapsulated the inner packet payload will not change. As the outer packet reaches the destination the encapsulation is removed and the final payload is forwarded to the destination. 3. VPN tunneling requires an internet connection and some software applications and some installations. So it is less expensive and less installation to connect the two new networks. GRE tunneling does not have any mechanisms for the flow control and security by default. By this feature this tunneling can be easily configured. 4. VPN tunneling cannot forward the data from discontiguous network through a single tunnel. GRE tunneling can forward the data from discontiguous network through a single tunnel. 5. VPN tunneling cannot be used to forward multicast traffic. GRE tunneling can forward multicast traffic. By this reason advertisements sent by routing protocols can be easily transferred between remote sites. .

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Effective managers stay abreast of current HR topics. Some relevant issues facing today\'s managers include: global HRM, labor relations, social media, whistleblower rules, e-HRM/self-service, moving from transactional to strategic HRM, the knowledge economy, outsourcing pros and cons, managing four different generations in the workforce, increasing age of the workforce, the glass ceiling, implications of baby boomer retirements, immigration, social responsibility, elder care, executive pay, and alternative work arrangements. Select three topics from the list above (other than the topics you researched in Module 8 DQ 1). Research each topic. For each of your three chosen topics, provide a bulleted list of five or six relevant facts that you believe have significance for line managers. Solution SOCIAL MEDIA: Marketers spend billions of dollars on social media every year, and they\'re increasingly turning to technology vendors to support their social programs. But for many marketers, the social technology vendor landscape verges on indecipherable. To select the right tools and technology for their social plans, marketing leaders must classify and choose vendors based not on the characteristics of their technologies but instead on the distinct business value those technologies offer. To aid in that process, this report introduces the four categories of social technology that marketers should consider: Global Human Resource Management With the advent of globalization, organizations - big or small have ceased to be local, they have become global! This has increased the workforce diversity and cultural sensitivities have emerged like never before. All this led to the development of Global Human Resource Management. Even those organizations who consider themselves immune to transactions across geographical boundaries are connected to the wider network globally. They are in one way or the other dependent upon organizations that may even not have heard about. There is interdependence between organizations in various areas and functions. The preliminary function of global Human Resource Management is that the organization carries a local appeal in the host country despite maintaining an international feel . To exemplify, any multinational / international company would not like to be called as local, however the same wants a domestic touch in the host country and there lies the challenge. objectives: LABOUR RELATIONS: The main objectives of labour relations system are:- .

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effective managers stay abreast of current HR topics. Some relevant issues facing today\'s managers include: global HRM, labor relations, social media, whistleblower rules, e-HRM/self-service the knowledge economy, outsourcing pros and cons, managing four different generations in the workforce, increasing age of the workforce, employee privacy, the glass ceiling, implications of baby boomer retirements, immigration, social responsibility, elder care, executive pay, and alternative work arrangements. Select three topics from the list above (or choose other current topics that are not included). Research each topic. For each of your three chosen topics, provide a bulleted list of four or five relevant points that you believe have significance for line managers. Solution The three topics that I have chose are : 1. Outsourcing. 2.Alternative Work Arrangements. 3.Labor relations. 1. Outsourcing : Defination: Outsourcing is a process where one company hires another another company to get the job done. A company can hire a firm on contract basis and work until the contract is finished.The company offers to provides services to toher company , which was once produced within the company. The most common outsourcing is done by the companies like : Advantages of Outsourcing : Disadvantages of Outsourcing : 2. Alternative Work Arrangements : Defination : The arrangements stan ddifferent from the regular mode of office works. Thi sprovides more scope fro flexibility at time and work locations to the employees. Advantages of Alternate Work Arrangements : Disadvantages of alternative Work Arrangements : 3. Labor Relations. Defination : The relationship between the management and its employees is known as labour management. Many acts and Laws have been passed to ensure good working conditions in the organization.Labour Acts are issued as per the working conditions and daily wages of the hiring company. Advantages of Labour Relations: Disadvantages of Labor Relations : .

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Discuss how the following court case illustrates how the courts, through judicially enunciated doctrines, impact the interpretation of tax law. Charles E Wolfe w 612 F. Supp 605 (DC Mont, 1985) aff d. 798 F.2d 1241 (9th Cir, 1986). Follow the format of the Case Brief Example on blackboard and include: Facts Issue Decision Reasons for Decision Solution Facts: Wolfe & E company\'s into truck trailer lease , the sole shareholder and president is Mr.Wolfe , he is also the proprietorship of other \" on the road business\" under the name of Charles .e. wolfe d/b/a Evergreen express.Wolfe did not have a seperate bank account for the corporation , also he paid all the wages and salraies form the proprietorship account while claiming the expenses under the corpoeration Issue : the wolfe Corporation incurred a federal tax liability of $114,472.91 for employment , fuel and highway use taxes and for penalties fees and interest.Wolfe paid the tax after ICC was laid on him but he contended that Service cannot look into his personal property for payment if the tax due.However IRS stated since corporation was alter ego of the Wolfe Decision : It was decided that corporation was the alter ego of the Wolfe, thus justifying the piercing of viel. Reasons for Decision: The wolfe did not maintain a seperate bank account , also he paid salary and wages of the employees form the proprietorship,also wolfe was the sole shareholder and president of the corporation,He did not consulted other directors for decision making.his personal funds are premingled with corporations.His and corporations credit are used interchangebaly to acquire loans, they are in the same business,sharing same address, wolfe admits to third parties that they are one and the same, corporations income is distributed through other means than diividends. thus corporation and shareholder share common identity, thus it was proper for the service to look into his personal property. .

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