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Gross domestic product (GDP) is a measure of the market value of final goods and services produced within the borders of a country during a specific time period, usually a year.  What is the GDP deflator?  How does the GDP deflator relate to real GDP?  Review GDP and nominal versus real.  Real adjusts for inflation, so how do we arrive at the real GDP number from nominal GDP?  Review the GDP deflator formula, where GDP deflator = (Nominal GDP/Real GDP) X 100. 75-150 words

Go to the General Accountability Office (GAO) Website to review the materials recently issued in “Yellow Book”, located at http://www.gao.gov/yellowbook/overview. Compare and summarize the three (3) primary types of government audits: financial audits, attestation engagements, and performance audits. Examine how the GAO Yellow Book guides the audit process. Go to the AICPA Website to review the materials on The Single Audit Act, located at http://www.aicpa.org/Advocacy/Issues/Pages/AuditsofFederalFunds_SingleAudits.aspx and Subpart F of the Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) Part 200 located at https://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/FR-2013-12-26/pdf/2013-30465.pdf. Discuss major provisions and implications of the Single Audit Act and identify to whom it applies  This is a class Discussion

Please analyze and critically assess the case of Kweku Adoboli and answer the key question: Why did he do it? 1) In explaining why Mr. Adoboli engaged in illegal trading, please consider explanations at multiple levels of analysis: a. Individual-level b. Organizational-level c. Industry-levels d. Societal-level 2) Please evaluate Mr. Adoboli’s actions using the relevant theories . 3) Please assess whether Mr. Adoboli should be allowed to work again in financial institutions. sources available on the case (please do not limit yourself to these sources): a. Wiki https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kweku_Adoboli b. Interviews i. BBC Hardtalk interview in podcast (audio) format: https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/p047222l ii. https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p047v0b5 iii. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QnJxvu4s_RQ iv. https://youtu.be/67Q7A_oC_6c c. Short discussions in books. Please search https://books.google.com/ d. Multiple newspaper articles, including in leading financial newspapers (e.g., Financial Times, Wall Street Journal) and other news outlets.This task is NOT a descriptive summary of the case or the reading materials. Rather, these resources should be used and cited systematically in your discussionAttached are relavant ethical theories that need to be applied to the case that can be used and a sample expected essay structure

Course: Human Capital in Organizations  Part I: Leading Self Reflect on the personal goal that you identified in the first individual assignment at the beginning of the semester. To what extent did you achieve the goal? If you have to grade yourself, on a scale of 1-5, how will you evaluate the effort you put in to achieve your goal? What strategies did you use, and how did they work? What factors contributed to the success or failure of the achievement of your goal? How will you implement the self-award and self-punish that you identified earlier?  Personal Goal on the first individual assignment: Productivity Part II: Leading Others Select one concept, idea, or practice that we have discussed during the semester that you experienced in real life. What did/will you do differently as a result of learning the concept in class? What was/will be the impact or result of your action? Talk about organizational behavior or social learning theory  Part III Leading Teams: Reflect on your experience in the team project. What did your team do well? What could have been done differently? What did you learn? Good thing: prepared well Bad thing: Because I was in Korea, I had difficulty on communicating: time difference Part IV: Managing Change The COVID-19 for the fall 2020 semester presented a huge challenge for all of us. How did you react to the rapidly changing environment around you? What strategies did you use to stay centered and focused?

Leadership Training: How Organizational Behaviour Impacts Managers   OBJECTIVES ·        Contrast theories related to organizational behaviour ·        Determine what influences affect workplace behaviour ·        Explain how personal perception influences organizational behaviour ·        Analyze the components of group communication   Step 1 Review assignment requirements. Your boss, the lead consultant, has asked you to create a series of four leadership training modules to help the managers learn the principles of organizational behaviour. Your supervisor has provided you with the presentation requirements for the first section of the presentation.   Step 2 Create your presentation. The requirements for the presentation are as follows: ·        Provide a contemporary definition of organizational behaviour and explain how it connects to management functions. ·        Select two major theories of organizational behaviour that demonstrate how a manager’s skills impact the effectiveness of the employees. Be sure to highlight the similarities and differences between the approaches based on the theories you choose. ·        Identify how individual employee attitudes, values, personalities, and perceptions are connected to organizational behaviour. ·        Create a short case study that highlights how two different employees in the same job or position in the organization can have different perceptions and react very differently to the same event or situation. ·        Use this case study to illustrate why it is valuable for managers to understand organizational behaviour and how they can apply their understanding to help employees achieve company goals. ·        Title the presentation as follows: Leadership Training—How Organizational Behaviour Impacts Managers ·        Under the title, include: Presented by “Your Name” ·        Include pictures and/or graphics in your presentation to support your material. ·        Include citations for all resources used in your presentation. ·        Use clear, concise bullet points to present your information, and do not overcrowd your slides. ·        Label each slide with the slide title and number.

Essay for Blackboard Dialogue  Operations Management and Biblical Best Practices This course has offered you many trends, tools, theories and techniques that can be utilized within the field of healthcare operations management.  How will you utilize the information presented in this course to develop a comprehensive plan for identifying and improving operations within your current healthcare organization or a healthcare organization you aspire to be a part of in the future?  Describe the “Biblical best practices” you will incorporate as you aim to identify and improve operations.   Textbook:  Healthcare Operations Management, 2nd ed: A System Perspective  James R. Langabeer II Jeffrey Helton

Discuss rationale as to why there are vast differences in payment for the same services (by CPT-treatment code) by various payer sources (e.g., private pay, grant, Medicare/Medicaid, traditional insurance like Blue Cross/Blue Shield, or managed care). How does this practice impact the profession and budgeting?

The paper should follow the APA style, so the report shall have the following features: •          start with a title page, •          cite any fact, assertion, conclusion, or opinion from external sources,  •          use 12-point font and double-space the text, •          indent and single-spacing for long quotations, •          use separate headings for each question, •          include a list of references at the end, and •          show page numbers.   Question: 8-3 Hand Sanitizer Due to the H1N1 flu outbreak, the demand for hand sanitizer tripled. Should Johnson & Johnson increase production of their Purell hand sanitizer? Should it invest in doubling production capacity? Explain.   Question: 10-2 Increasing Customer Value To increase a company’s performance, a manager suggests that the company needs to increase the value of its product to customers. Describe three ways in which this advice might be incorrect (Hint: Think about what else might or might not change that affects profit.) Explain.   Question: 14-1 Barbie Dolls and Accessories Why might Mattel set a much lower margin on its Barbie dolls than on the accessories for the dolls? Explain.   Question: 14-5 Music Pricing The pricing model for iTunes has been to price songs individually. Instead, Spotify opted to offer unlimited song playing for a monthly fee. Would Spotify’s pricing model likely yield more profit than pricing songs individually? Explain.   Question: 19-2 College Degrees Required for Police Officers Many police officer positions require the applicant to have a college degree even though the tasks of a police officer rarely call upon college course material. Why don’t police departments increase their applicant pool by dropping this requirement? Explain.

Final Business Proposal Instructions Your Final Business Proposal Report must contain at least one reference from Galileo, either a direct quote surrounded by quotation marks or some type of paraphrased information. This article can pertain directly to your business idea. Or, the article can generally address the process of starting a business, or it may identify particular problem that your business idea may solve. The final page of your report will be your Works Cited page, and the citation must be set up in MLA format. Also, within your report, you may have a parenthetical reference to your source beside any information – a sentence, phrase, date, statistic, etc. – that you have taken from the source. The font should be Times New Roman 12. More Information about the Format The report should be set up in MLA format: 1. Everything should be double spaced. 2. The proper header should be set up in the upper left-hand corner of the page (student’s name, instructor’s name, ENGL 1010, and date) 3. The page numbering should be set up in the upper right-hand corner of the page with the student’s last name preceding the number. The Report Should Be Divided into Three Sections: 1. An Introduction Paragraph will set up your business or charity/community service goal. The paragraph should explain the type of business that you would like to set up and why. You may mention as well that you see a need in your community for your business. 2. A Body Paragraph will provide specific information about the business. This section can include more than a paragraph, if necessary. 3. A Concluding Paragraph will summarize your business dreams and ways that you hope that your business will have a positive impact on your community. More Information about the Body Paragraph Consider the following ideas for your body paragraph (however, these ideas should not be presented in a numbered list in your final report): 1. Projected location of the business and potential building to buy or construct. 2. Clients to whom your business will most likely appeal. 3. Certain costs that may be involved, such as rent, supplies, personnel 4. Specific information about personnel. How many employees? Type of personality that you seek? Number of hours that the employee will work. 5. Your business’s mission statement. 6. AVOID: Here is an example of a dropped quotation: Did you know that some bread batters should be hand mixed? “This light mixing technique produces quick breads with a lovely open crumb” (Greenspan 2). 7. INSTEAD TRY: Here is the same example with a signal phrase: Did you know that some bread batters should be hand mixed? According to Dorrie Greenspan, author of Baking: From My Home to Yours, “This light mixing technique produces quick breads with a lovely open crumb” (2).

1. Name of your business 2. Hours you will be open 3. What do you do? (Fix, sell, build, feed, serve, help?) 4. Location of the business. Is it a small, rural community or a large, urban community? Where in the town will you be located? Actually choose a location. Explain why that location will be good for your business. 5. Identify the competition in your business area and location. 6. How many employees will you need? You must have at least 3. What specific positions will these employees hold? Give details. 7. Why do you think your business will succeed? 8. Graphics to help convey your ideas—could be photos, organization chart, map, etc. 9. Write a short slogan that will be used to represent and advertise your business. It should not be more than six or seven words.