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write a research paper discussing the concept of risk modeling. Please also evaluate the importance of risk models. Lastly, construct an approach to modeling various risks and evaluate how an organization may make decisions about techniques to model, measure, and aggregate risks.

Your paper should meet the following requirements:

• Be four pages in length, not including the required cover page and reference page.
• Follow APA7 guidelines. Your paper should include an introduction, a body with fully developed content, and a conclusion.
• Support your answers with the readings from the course and at least two scholarly journal articles to support your positions, claims, and observations, in addition to your textbook. The UC Library is a great place to find resources.
• Be clearly and well-written, concise, and logical, using excellent grammar and style techniques. You are being graded in part on the quality of your writing.

2HHRS ,  80%

#Exp19_Excel_AppCapstone_Intro_Collection 

#Excel Introductory Capstone – Collection 

#Exp19 Excel AppCapstone Intro Collection

Project Description:

You are the financial manager for Judi’s Art Gallery. One of your clients, Raymond Chancellor, has a large collection of limited edition signed art by James C. Christensen (1942-2017). Over the years, you have helped Raymond maintain a list of his collection, including the title of the art, medium, issue date, issue price, the price he paid, and current market values. Most of the art is sold out from the publisher, which increases the value of the art. Other art is still readily available or is available in limited quantities. You want to update the list so that he can properly insure his collection.

Start Excel. Download and open   the file named Exp19_Excel_AppCapstone_Intro_Collection.xlsx.   Grader has automatically added your last name to the beginning of the   filename.

Select the range A1:A6 on the   Christensen worksheet, merge the cells, and apply Middle Align vertical   alignment.

Change the width of column K to   17.00, select the range K1:K3, and apply Thick Outside Borders.

Click cell C9, and freeze panes   so that rows 1 through 8 and columns A and B are frozen.

Select the range E9:E54 and   apply the Mar-12 date format.

Find all occurrences of Retired and replace them with Sold Out.

Click cell H9 on the Christensen   worksheet, and insert a formula that calculates the percentage Raymond paid   of the issue price by dividing the amount Paid by the Issue Price. Copy the   formula from cell H9 to the range H10:H54.

Click cell J9, and insert a   formula that calculates the percentage change in value by subtracting the   Issue Price from the Current Value and then dividing that result by the Issue   Price. Copy the formula from cell J9 to the range J10:J54.

Apply Percent Style with one   decimal place to the ranges H9:H54 and J9:J54.

Insert in the Current Values   section at the top of the worksheet summary functions that use the range   I9:I54. In cell I2, calculate the total of all the Current Values. In cell   I3, calculate the average current value. in cell I4, calculate the lowest current   value. In cell I5, calculate the highest current value.

Click cell C9, and insert a   VLOOKUP function that looks up the code in cell B9, compares it to the codes   and types of art in the range B2:C6, and returns the type of art. Copy the   function in cell C9 to the range C9:C54. Hide column B that contains the   codes.

Click cell K9, and insert an IF   function that determines if the Issue Price is equal to the Current Value. If   the values are the same, display Same as Issue (using the cell reference K2); otherwise, display Increased in   Value (using   the cell reference K3). Copy the function from cell K9 to the range K10:K54.

Display the Purchase worksheet,   insert a row above Monthly Payment. Type Monthly Payments in 1 Year in cell A5 and type 12 in cell B5.

In cell B6 in the Purchasing   sheet, insert the payment function to calculate the monthly payment using   cell references, not numbers, in the function, and make sure the function   displays a positive result. Apply Accounting Number Format and the Output   cell style to cell B6.

Display the Christensen   worksheet, select the range C1:E6, and create a clustered column chart.

Cut the chart and paste it in   cell A57, change the height to 4″, and change the width to 6.5″.   Add Alt Text The column chart compares total issue prices to total   current values by type of art. (include the period).

Type Raymond’s Art Collection for the chart title, apply   bold, and Black, Text 1 font color. Place the legend at the top of the chart.   Add Primary Minor Horizontal gridlines.

Create a pie chart using the   ranges C2:C6 and E2:E6, and then move the chart to a new chart sheet named Current   Values. Move   the Current Values sheet to the right of the Purchase sheet.

Type Percentage of Total Current Value as the chart title and change   the font size to 18 pt. Choose Colorful Palette 3 for the chart colors. Add   this description for Alt Text: The pie chart shows each art type by percentage of   total current value. (include   the period). 

Hide the legend. Add data labels   for categories and percentages; remove value data labels. Change the font   size to 16 pt, bold, and Black, Text 1 font color for the data labels. 

Explode the Masterwork   Anniversary Edition slice by 15% and change the fill color to Light Blue.

Display the Christensen   worksheet, click in any cell within the dataset, convert the data to a table,   assign a table name Collection, and apply Green, Table Style Light 14.

Apply a conditional format to   the range J9:J54 that highlights cells where the value is greater than 200%   (enter greater than 2) with Green Fill with Dark Green Text.

Sort the dataset by Type of Art   in alphabetical order and then within Type of Art, sort by Current Value from   largest to smallest.

Set a filter to display art that   equals Sold Out as the status.

Add a total row to display the   sum of the Issue Price, Paid, and Current Values columns. Remove the total   for the Note column.

Select the Purchase sheet, set   2″ top margin, and center horizontally on page.

Select the Christensen sheet,   select Landscape orientation, Legal paper size, set 0.2″ left and right   margins, 0.5″ top and bottom margins, and set row 8 to repeat at the top   of pages.

On the Christensen worksheet,   change the width of column A to 27, the width of column D to 11, the width of column J to 12. Wrap text in cell A1 and cell   J8.

Create a footer with Exploring   Series on the   left side, the sheet tab code in the center, and file name code on the right   side on the Christensen sheet.

Save and close Exp19_Excel_AppCapstone_Intro_Collection.xlsx.   Exit Excel. Submit the file as directed.

Prepare a comparison study with various continuous authentication approaches (which supports one factor or more than one factor). You are required to search various papers and websites of these approaches and find out their unique features and write at least four(4) continuous authentication approaches mentioning their features, uniqueness, how the study was conducted, what is the accuracy of this approach. Regarding these approaches, please consider recent two/three years publications (2018-2021) only. You are required to write a paragraph mentioning the above criteria. It is possible to choose some adaptive authentication techniques which published in recent years that support continuous authentication.

Then based on your research, need to prepare a comparison table with these four approaches and mention your criteria to compare these approaches and why you choose these criteria. You are required to provide a reference for each of the chosen Continuous authentication approaches. 

Must be 2 to 3 pages long not including the title page. 

 Considering the importance of data in  organization, it is absolutely essential to secure the data present in  the database. What are the strategic and technical security measures for  good database security? Be sure to discuss at least one security model  to properly develop databases for organizational security. Create a  diagram of a security model for your research paper. Your paper should meet the following requirements: 

• Be approximately 4-6 pages in length, not including the required cover page and reference page. (Remember, APA is double spaced)
• Follow APA 7 guidelines. It should include an introduction, a body with fully developed content, and a conclusion.
• Support your answers with the readings from the course and at  least two scholarly journal articles to support your positions, claims,  and observations, in addition to your textbook. 
• Be clear and well-written, concise, and logical, using excellent  grammar and style techniques. You are being graded in part on the  quality of your writing.

 Current management accounting practices (MAPs) have incorporated financial and nonfinancial techniques to provide information at both operational and organizational levels, including factors such as competition, perceived environmental uncertainty, production environment technology, and business society. Managers’ significant challenges and pressures require them to change management accounting (Ahmad & Leftesi, 2014).            Companies use management accounting (MA) with different methods and tools (traditional and contemporary) to assess their operations. Those methods help them to plan, direct and control operating costs and to achieve their targets. It is recognized that MAPs are essential for companies’ success (Ahmad, 2014; Ahmad & Leftesi, 2014; Alleyne & Marshall, 2011).             In our textbook by Hilton & Platt, the MAP of well-known, real-world organizations are highlighted to stimulate student interest and provide a springboard for classroom discussion. Hence, most students are mostly aware of MAP as applied to multi-national corporations (MNC) and so so much on small to medium-sized enterprises (SMEs).             The goal of this research paper is to explore the significant application of MAPs in SMEs. The paper should critically address the following touchpoints: 

1.  What are the most commonly used MAPs by SMEs?
2. What are the most common traditional MAPs used by SMEs and the reason for the choice?
3. What are the most common modern MAPs used by SMEs and the reason for the choice?
4. What traditional and modern MAPs that are very valuable but yet being underutilized by SMEs?
5. Discuss the constraints of SMEs that contribute to the underutilization of MAPs.
6. The portion of your paper should provide “Discussion, Application, & Analysis.” In this portion, you will choose one SME listed in this article (cut and paste the link to obtain the article)

https://www.forbes.com/sites/boburlingham/2017/05/09/forbes-small-giants-2017-americas-best-small-companies/?sh=7581268d4c32    Identify and discuss the following in the “Discussion, Application, & Analysis.” 

1. What MAP do you believe they should use to improve their business even more. Remember: even though this is based on your opinion, you should find some journals and articles that will support your argument
2. Identify one or more traditional MAP you believe your SME should use to improve their business even more. Remember: even though this is based on your opinion, you should find some journals and articles that will support your argument
3.  Identify one or more modern MAP you will recommend to the SME should use to improve their business even more. Remember: even though this is based on your opinion, you should find some journals and articles that will support your argument
4. Provide a recommendation to overcome the constraints that SMEs faces in implementing MAPs. Remember: even though this is based on your opinion, you should find some journals and articles that will support your argument

            ***Remember that persuasive and compelling paper should always be supported by authoritative articles or journals. Therefore, find several related journals and articles regarding the topic and integrate them with your assertions and discussions on numbers one to six, including 6(a) to 6(d). Cite them.             ***Your paper should include the essential elements of a research paper, including (a) abstract (b) keywords, (c) introduction, (d) discussion on the subject matter separated by the touchpoints  (e) this is the portion of your “Discussion, Analysis, & Application,” and (e) conclusion.             ***Your paper should observe the APA style 7th, Edition, for the formatting requirements (margins, spacing, citations, references, headings, subheadings, page numbering, and running head).             ***A minimum of 20-page is required, excluding the title page, abstract, and reference page. 

Donyelle, the company owner, likes the idea of going to the cloud but wants to learn more about the best cloud solution for the company. She wants you to investigate further and has asked you to prepare a narrated PowerPoint presentation that will be presented to company leadership at the next meeting.

In this project, you will develop a detailed comparative analysis of cloud vendors and their services. A comparative analysis provides an item-by-item comparison of two or more alternatives, processes, products, or systems. In this case, you will compare the pros/cons of the cloud service providers in terms of security, ease of use, service models, services/tools they provide, pricing, technical support, cloud service providers’ infrastructure, and architecture model.

You will present your findings to the owner of the company in a narrated PowerPoint presentation with 10 to 20 slides. The presentation will be submitted next week. Use the Cloud Presentation Template.

Presentation Guidelines

Your presentation should be comprised of the following:

1. One to two slides on the company profile.
2. One to two slides on what the company is struggling with. 
3. One to two slides on current infrastructure.
4. Three to six slides on the top three cloud services providers. Include their service models (i.e., SaaS, PaaS, IaaS), services/tools/solutions (i.e., compute, storage, database, developer tools, analytics tools, networking and content delivery, customer engagement), pricing, accessibility, technical support for companies, global infrastructure.
5. One to two slides on a recommended cloud service provider based on the comparative analysis and the cloud vendor’s abilities to meet the service needs of the company.
6. One slide on the conclusion. 

Draw a UML diagram showing the relationships among the classed involved in the linked list implementation of a set. 

You have been asked to develop UML diagrams to graphically depict and describe the architecture of two (2) unrelated software systems. The first system is for an automated ticket-issuing system used by passengers at a railway station. The second system is for a computer-controlled video conferencing system, located in a corporate office and accessible to senior management that allows video, audio, and computer data to be visible to several participants at the same time.
Write a three to five (3-5) page paper in which you:
1. Create two (2) UML diagrams, one (1) showing a conceptual view and one (1) showing a process view of the architectures for each of the two (2) following systems (for a total of four [4] diagrams) through the use of Microsoft Visio or its open source alternative, Dia. Note: The graphically depicted solution is not included in the required page length.
1. An automated ticket-issuing system used by passengers at a railway station.
2. A computer-controlled, video-conferencing system that allows video, audio, and computer data to be visible to several participants at the same time.
2. Describe how you created the conceptual and process view for all four (4) diagrams. In the description, be sure to provide a justification for each key decision in the design.
3. Explain how you arrived at your final solution for the four (4) conceptual and process view diagrams that you have created.

This is a 2-phase discussion wherein you will make your first post having completed roughly half the videos and then a second post after completing the rest of the videos.  The halfway point in the video Series is the “Ideation” video course.  Your first post should discuss what concept, approach, or tool you found most useful in the first half of the videos and how it could have assisted you in a course or job project you had to complete in the past.  The second post should discuss a concept, approach, or tool you found most useful from the 2nd half of the videos and how you could have applied it to a past school or job project.  Posts should be substantive and clearly explain your understanding of the concept, approach, or tool and why you found it useful as well as clearly describe the past project and how the identified element from the videos could be employed and its benefits to the project completion process.  Two or three sentences will not suffice as substantive posts. These should be well thought out and clearly demonstrate your understanding of the applicability of the concept, tool, or approach to a project.

Each paragraph should be 10 to 15 lines. I can’t be able to give you access of the video, so I mention all the topics. Please follow the rubrics. 

First paragraph topics: 

1. Planning a career in user experience 

– Design Careers 

       -Interaction design 

        – Visual design

        – service design 

         – information architecture 

-Research Careers

-Strategy careers 

-Your UX career

2. UX design: 1 Overview 

1. User-centered Design

2. Techniques in these course

3. UX design: 2 Analyzing user data

Data analysis in the user-centered design process

Gathering user data

Experience mapping 

Actionable data 

4. UX design:3 creating personas

Personas in the user-centered design 

Persona creation 

Data-driven personas

5. UX Design: 4 Ideation 

Adding creativity to the user-centered design

Ideation techniques

For the second paragraph.

6.  UX Design: 5 Creating scenarios and storyboards 

Creating scenarios 

Storyboards to visualize scenarios 

7.  UX Design: 6  Paper prototyping 

Creating a paper prototyping 

User testing a paper prototype 

8. UX Design: 7 Implementation planning 

Planning and tracking 

Story mapping 

9. UX foundations: Interaction Design 

Interaction designer 

A model of psychology and interaction design 

Intro psychology 

The interaction design model

Interaction design 

10. Sketching for UX designers 

Sketching and design 

Basic techniques 

Other sketching formats