1. What are the purposes of each tool and circumstances for using each tool?. Also consider whether these tools can be used independently or if they should ideally be used together.
2. What are the differences and similarities between the activity-on-node and activity-on-arrow (or activity-on-arc) diagramming techniques?
3. Propose and describe in text form a sample project that you would theoretically develop into a PERT diagram and Gantt chart. For example, ‘Building a car would consist of the following steps…'(briefly outline the steps as task statements). Postulate the critical path of your sample hypothetical project: What would be the critical path sequence?

 

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Hello Tutors,

I have attached the postings for discussions below. Feel free to answer the postings in your own words, and must be at least 200 words. Please make sure to post each response LA1

Please remember to cite references if used. Each post is based off the subject below:

Do the work and reflection needed to come up with a list of 10 to 12 top values. Prioritize them. When you’re done, post your list, together with a discussion (in essay form) of what was hardest/easiest for you in this exercise, anything that surprised you, and anything that you have reconsidered, or intend to reconsider.

(If for some reason you prefer to email me your list privately, you may do so. If you do email me your list, please still talk about the process of compiling/prioritizing the list and your discoveries along the way in the usual discussion forum.)

Looking at your prioritized values, can you determine the connection between those values and your usual ethical stance? This will require you to consider whether your ethical approach tends to be Utilitarian (consequentialist and teleological), Aristotelian (Virtue Ethics – a slightly different type of teleological approach), Kantian (Deontological – duty, based on the Categorical Imperative), or some other approach. What ethical approach do you tend to take, and how is that demonstrated (or is it demonstrated?) by your list of prioritized values?

Referring to your list of prioritized values, determine which values would be most likely to cause you to have an ethical difficulty in business. Focus on just one, and detail how that value could give rise (or perhaps already has given rise) to an ethical dilemma in your work. How would you resolve any conflict? As ever, tell me how and why.

 

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Activity #1 – Excel Budget

12.4.

Excel Project.

REQUIRED

a. Create a 12-month cash flow budget in Excel using the following assumptions:

o• Initial sales of $5 million, with forecasted monthly growth of 1%

o• 40% of each month’s sales for cash; 30% collected the following month; 20% collected 2 months later; 8% collected 3 months later; and 2% never collected

o• Initial cash balance of $350,000

b. Add a “spinner” to your spreadsheet that will enable you to easily change forecasted monthly sales growth to range from 0.5% to 1.5% in increments of 0.1%.

c. Add a scroll bar to your spreadsheet that will let you modify the amount of initial sales to vary from $4 million to $6 million in increments of $100,000.

d. Design appropriate data entry and processing controls to ensure spreadsheet accuracy. (Hint: For help on steps b and c, see the article “Dial a Forecast,” by James A. Weisel, in the December 2006 issue of the Journal of Accountancy. The Journal of Accountancy is available in print or online at the AICPA’s Web site: www.aicpa.org.)*

For this assignment, you are creating a cash budget in Excel. As part of this budget, you integrate the appropriate data entry and processing controls.

Complete “Problem 12.4: Excel Project” at the end of Chapter 12. This project is used to complete the second activity for this week.

Activity #2 – Validation Controls

13.6.

Excel Project

a. Expand the cash flow budget you created in Problem 12.4 to include a row for expected cash outflows equal to 77% of the current month’s sales.

b. Also add a row to calculate the amount of cash that needs to be borrowed in order to maintain a minimum cash balance of $50,000 at the end of each month.

c. Add another row to show the cash inflow from borrowing.

d. Add another row to show the cumulative amount borrowed.

e. Add another row to show the amount of the loan that can be repaid, being sure to maintain a minimum ending balance of $50,000 each month.

f. Add appropriate data validation controls to ensure spreadsheet accuracy.

This activity expands on Week 06 Activity 1 that you created earlier. For this assignment, you are adding more data and including data validation controls.

Complete “Problem 13.6: Excel Project” at the end of Chapter 13. Make sure that you are using the file that you created for Activity 1.

Please make two excel files.

One for activity #1

The second file should include both activity #1 and #2.

 

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This week’s learning activities have given you insight into the fundamental rights of persons to be protected from unreasonable searches and seizures in regard to their homes, persons, papers, and effects. The U.S. v. Katz case is a landmark case that tested the concept of privacy under the Fourth Amendment.

• Review the case brief of U.S. v. Katz, including facts, procedural history, issue, rule, analysis, and conclusion.
• Answer the following questions:
• What is Justice Harlan’s formulation of the privacy test?
• Why did the majority of the Court reject the trespass doctrine?

Full credit requires more than a one-sentence response to Question 2. Furthermore, your response must be analytical, and must demonstrate an appropriate application of the concepts that you are learning. Each answer should be at least one paragraph in length; one or two sentences per answer are not sufficient.

You will be assessed on the accuracy and the nature and scope of your response to the questions. Please keep in mind that depth of analysis is important.

In addition, you must proofread your material, and submit it without grammar, spelling, or other mechanical errors. Finally, remember to use APA format in this and all assignments.

Use your textbook as your primary reference, and use the Internet to supplement your research if necessary. Cite all of your sources, including the text, lectures, and other sources, using APA guidelines.

Submit your essay to the Week 1: Essay dropbox.

Each question MUST have at least a paragraph answer. The essay MUST be at least a page.

 

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Articles are attached.

APA Format

In January 2012, the 86 year old Hostess Brands, which is known around the world as the “Twinkie Maker,” filed for bankruptcy protection. As a result, 19,000 workers were left without a job. Hostess was successful in reaching a new contract with its largest union, International Brotherhood of Teamsters, but talks between the company and its second largest union, the Bakery, Confectionery, Tobacco Workers & Grain Millers International Union were unsuccessful and the union went on strike. Hostess then filed for bankruptcy arguing that the company could not financially handle an extended nationwide strike. This was the second time the company had to use bankruptcy to address its finances with many of the issues being blamed on the unions and their contractual cost to the company. In the end, thousands of workers are out of work with the potential of only 1,500 being picked-up by the new owner. 

1. Do you feel that Hostess’ decision to file for bankruptcy was a result of the financial burden imposed by the strike as management claimed, or was it a way out for a struggling company that was already headed to its second trip to bankruptcy court? Please explain.
2. The new CEO does not expect for the company to be represented by unions going forward, what strategies could management use to prevent the newly hired employees from feeling the need to become unionized? 
3. International Brotherhood of Teamsters was willing to accept the terms of the new contract, while the Bakery, Confectionery, Tobacco Workers & Grain Millers International Union rejected the new contract and imposed a strike.  What lessons could other unions learn from the outcome of this strike?
4. Union president, David Durkee, believes that the union is in a better position as a result of the strike. Do you agree or disagree?  Please support your answer.

Part 2

• Explain what have you learned about strike replacements.  Should the NLRA be revised to prohibit the use of temporary or permanent strike replacements?

 

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