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Chapter 10: Exercise 10-2 on page 208 of the text.

Budget Development

Overview

If your organization makes frequent business transactions, one of  the tasks you face as a manager is budget preparation. A budget is a  tool used for planning and controlling financial resources. It guides  your future plan of action in financial terms within a set period of  time. A budget does not have to be complex; however, it should support  the organization’s strategic plan. We will need resources to achieve our  goals and objectives.

For this assignment, you will focus on the operating budget. An  operating budget shows the company’s projected revenue and associated  expenses for an upcoming period—usually the next year. An operating  budget starts with revenue and then shows each expense type. This  includes variable costs—or the costs that vary with sales—such  as the cost of raw materials and production labor. The operating budget  includes fixed costs, such as the monthly rent on office space or the  monthly payment for a photocopier lease. The budget also includes  operating expenses, such as interest on business loans, and the noncash  expense of depreciation. These items enable the company to compute its  projected net income and net profit percentage.

Instructions

Imagine you are the health care administrator for a nonprofit  clinic, home health agency, or outpatient surgery center. Your first  task is to locate the strategic plan for that organization or determine  its strategic direction through the vision statement, mission or purpose  statement, and strategic priorities or goals. You will also need the  audited financial statements for the organization.

Using the information from your research, develop a one-year  operating budget for the chosen entity, which will include operating  revenues and expenses. Include a 1–2 page document to justify the  approach you use in constructing the operating budget with the strategic  plan or strategic direction.

• Upload the strategic plan or strategic direction and audited financial statements as an attachment or include the Web link.
• Complete your operating budget using Excel.
• Support your work with at least three quality references, one  being your course textbook. These should be cited per the Strayer  Writing Standards. 

This course requires the use of Strayer Writing Standards. For  assistance and information, please refer to the Strayer Writing  Standards link in the left-hand menu of your course. Check with your  professor for any additional instructions.

The specific course learning outcome associated with this assignment is:

• Develop a budget for a department within a healthcare organization.

Case study for  BUS-206-Q1234 Business Law 

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Community Assessment

For your first project assignment, you will be conducting a community assessment.

Begin by providing an overview of the community in which you live (large or small, urban or rural).  Then, complete the following:

1. Identify community demographics, including social, ethnic, and cultural diversity.
2. Use local papers and other media to identify and describe two social change concerns appropriate to the community.
3. Identify the main actors (different ones for each concern) who may be involved in participating in a policy development process to address the concerns. 
4. Identify the potential implementing actor (for-profit organization, non-profit, or government) or the combination of actors for each concern.
5. Draft a statement of public policy for each of the two social change concerns you have identified for the community, taking into consideration public policy elements. Refer to the resources in your Social Policy Toolbox for developing these statements.

Assignment Requirements

• Page Length: 3–5 double-spaced pages.
• Font and font size: Times New Roman, 12 point.
• Formatting: Present your paper in APA format. 
• Written communication: Written communication must reflect graduate-level writing skills and successfully convey the message.

Reference the resources provided in your Social Policy Toolbox as well as the assignment scoring guide to help you complete this assignment.

Submit your Community Assessment assignment in the assignment area.

Resources

• Community Assessment Scoring Guide.
• APA Style and Format.

According to DuBrin (2015), the following strategies or tactics are identified for enhancing your career:

1. develop career goals,
2. capitalize on your strengths and build your personal brand,
3. be passionate about and proud of your work,
4. develop a code of professional ethics and prosocial motivation,
5. develop a proactive personality,
6. keep growing through continuous learning and self-development,
7. document your accomplishments,
8. project a professional image, and
9. perceive yourself as a provider of services. (p. 430)

Identify and explain three career-enhancing techniques or tactics in advancing your career.

Your essay should be at least two pages and should include an introduction, a body of supported material (paragraphs), and a conclusion. Be sure to include two references (on a reference page), and follow all other APA formatting requirements.

Details are attached

Paper #1 Requirements: A  “career path” in a given occupation can be defined as a series of  increasingly responsible and demanding “jobs,” where at least some of  those jobs are prerequisites for one another, like prerequisites for  college courses.  When we think of professional careers, we often think of progressions like “Jr. Accountant, Accountant, Financial Analyst,  Accounting Manager, Division Comptroller, CFO.”

Smart companies arrange step-wise  progressions for non-exempt (hourly paid, typically non-degreed)  employees in order to retain them over time.  For example, an employee of a residential moving company might go through the following sequence of positions: Loader B, Loader A, Lead Loader, Truck Driver, and  Project Coordinator, where each job requires the expertise gained in its  predecessor.  You should go into LIRN and search for at least a couple  of articles that treat these kinds of “job families” for non-exempt (or  “hourly”) employees. 

When companies create job families, they are said to have “internal labor markets,” which means that, aside  from an entry-level position, which can be filled “off the street,”  recruitment for the higher-level jobs is almost always done within the company. 

Deliverables 

Once you have done your research and reflected upon this matter, please address the following questions:

1. a. What are the advantages to a company of having such job families?
2. b. Do you believe that, over the long term, job families are good for profits, or not? Why? 
3. c. What are the advantages to the employees? Are there disadvantages to the employees that you can think of?
4. d. Overall, why would you recommend (or not recommend) the use of job families?

Use the required reading, the  lectures, and the sources cited in the lectures to justify your  position, along with additional research you have done.

Paper Writing Requirements 

Please be sure to address the following requirements when completing your papers:

• The cover page and reference page/s are not included in the page requirement or word count. These should be in addition to paper page count requirements.
• Papers need to be formatted in proper APA 6th Edition style.
• Each paper requires a minimum of at least three outside peer-reviewed sources for your references.
  • Acceptable/credible sources include: Academic journals and books, industry journals, and the class textbook. You could also use credible business website sources in addition to the peer-reviewed required sources, but avoid Wikipedia and Google. These are academic papers that need to include scholarly research.

·  Write a 2-3-page essay on a selected issue related to the tension between individual freedom and social institutions.

By successfully completing this assessment, you will demonstrate your proficiency in the following course competencies:

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·  Competency 1: Explain the nature of ethical issues.

o  Explain the ethical basis for the relation of individuals to their government.

·  Competency 2: Critically examine the contributions of key thinkers from the history of ethics. 

o  Describe the social contract theories of Hobbes, Locke, and Rousseau.

·  Competency 3: Engage in ethical debate. 

o  Assess the advantages and disadvantages of these theories as they relate to a selected issue. 

·  Competency 4: Develop a position on a contemporary ethical issue. 

o  Apply traditional social contract theories to a selected contemporary issue.

·  Competency 5: Communicate effectively in the context of personal and professional moral discourse. 

o  Communicate in a manner that is scholarly, professional, and consistent with expectations for members of professional communities.

• To deepen your understanding, you are encouraged to consider the questions below and discuss them with a fellow learner, a work associate, an interested friend, or a member of the business community.

As you think about the theme “freedom and authority,” consider addressing the following questions:

• Which version of social contract theory offers the best understanding of your issue?
• How much individual freedom is compatible with the legitimate authority of government?
• What solution do you defend for the issue you have selected?

·  Assessment Overview

Political philosophy concerns itself with the formation and maintenance of civil societies. Its central theme is the need to explain the relationship between individual human beings and their governments. You have been considering several specific examples of the tension between individual freedom and social institutions. From among those examples, you have chosen one as the focus for your own views on freedom and authority.

Assessment Instructions

Your assessment is to write an essay assessing the issue you selected, both in terms of versions of social contract theory proposed by Thomas Hobbes, John Locke, and Jean-Jacques Rousseau and from your own view of the proper relation between society and the individual.

Address the following concepts in your essay:

1.  Explain the ethical basis for the relation of individuals to their government

2.  Describe the theories of Hobbes, Locke, and Rousseau about how societies are organized.

3.  Assess the strengths and weaknesses of the theories in justifying the imposition of authority over individuals.

4.  Apply these social contract theories to the issue you have selected.

Your instructor may provide video feedback on your work, as well as completing the official scoring guide for the assessment.

Assessment Requirements

·  Written communication: Ensure written communication is free of errors that detract from the overall message.

·  APA formatting: Format resources and citations according to current APA style guidelines.

·  Number of resources: Use your judgment to ensure your topic is thoroughly researched. There is no minimum number of resources required, however.

·  Length of paper: Submit 2-3 typed, double-spaced pages.

·  Font and font size: Use Arial, 12-point font.

·  Freedom and Authority Scoring Guide

Freedom and Authority Scoring Guide 

Criteria

Non-performance

Basic

Proficient

Distinguished

Explain the ethical basis for the relation of individuals to their government. 

Does not identify the ethical basis for the relation of individuals to their government.

Identifies the ethical basis for the relation of individuals to their government. 

Explains the ethical basis for the relation of individuals to their government.

Justifies the ethical basis for the relation of individuals to their government, using supporting resources. 

Describe the social contract theories of Hobbes, Locke, and Rousseau. 

Does not list features of the social contract theories of Hobbes, Locke, and Rousseau.

Lists features of the social contract theories of Hobbes, Locke, and Rousseau.

Describes the social contract theories of Hobbes, Locke, and Rousseau.

Explains the social contract theories of Hobbes, Locke, and Rousseau. 

Assess the advantages and disadvantages of these theories as they relate to a selected issue. 

Does not assess the advantages and disadvantages of these theories as they relate to a selected issue.

Assesses the advantages or disadvantages of these theories as they relate to a selected issue, but not both.

Assesses the advantages and disadvantages of these theories as they relate to a selected issue.

Assesses the advantages and disadvantages of these theories as they relate to a selected issue, supporting the assessment with research. 

Apply traditional social contract theories to a selected contemporary issue. 

Does not describe traditional social contract theories to a selected contemporary issue.

Describes traditional social contract theories as they relate to a selected contemporary issue.

Applies traditional social contract theories to a selected contemporary issue.

Applies traditional social contract theories to a selected contemporary issue, with the support of detailed research. 

Communicate in a manner that is scholarly, professional, and consistent with expectations for members of professional communities. 

Does not communicate in a manner that is scholarly, professional, or consistent with expectations for members of professional communities.

Communicates inconsistently in a manner of scholarly and professional expectations for members of professional communities.

Communicates in a manner that is scholarly, professional, and consistent with expectations for members of professional communities.

Communicates in a manner that is scholarly, professional, and consistent with expectations for members of professional communities, with written communication that is free of errors that detract from the overall message. 

Compare and contrast the differences between and benefits of job enlargement, job rotation and job enrichment.  

Compare and contrast the differences between and benefits of job enlargement, job rotation and job enrichment.

Read Case 9-1 

“IT Governance at University of the Southeast” and then answer the following questions. 

First, describe the IT governance system that was in place at the University of the Southeast using both decision rights and structure as the basis of governance. 

Second, what are the advantages and disadvantages of a centralized IT system?

Your answers should be in your own words, but should also incorporate (and cite) 

Your submission should be approximately be in APA format, three full pages, double spaced, running header, subheadings, in text citations and a reference list.