WESTWOOD HOMELESS TRAINING CENTER

Westwood, a medium-sized city in Washington, has a significant homeless population. Mayor Ozurumba is in favor of doing something, in principle, but he is not in favor of incurring a major new expense, given the many legitimate claims on the city's already strained budget. He has told Mr. Gates, who is developing the homeless training center, "We’ll give you space and utilities for a year at no cost. It is up to you to come up with a suitable homeless training center that conforms to state and federal law.” The only requirements specific to homeless training centers are that (a) they are licensed and inspected once a year, (b) all new homeless training center workers complete a three day state-certified training program and (c) the homeless person/worker ratio can be no greater than 10 to 1. The annual inspection fee is $750. The total cost of the three-day training program is estimated to be $250 per employee.

Mr. Gates has negotiated an arrangement with a local non-profit agency that is already providing training to the homeless in the Westwood metropolitan area. Fisherman Training Centers, Inc. has three locations; the contract with the City of Westwood would be a fourth training center. While discussing the proposed arrangements with Mr. Gates, Ms. Jobs said, "We will not need any additional administrative staff, since Ms. Edison, my administrative secretary, and I could certainly handle the additional administrative work."

Ms. Edison earns $2,000 a month. Ms. Job’s salary is $3,000 a month. Fisherman Training Centers, Inc. also must pay $60 per month for health benefits for each employee. These fringe benefits apply to all employees of Fisherman Training Centers, Inc.

The additional details of the contract are as follows:

· The homeless training center will be open 20 days every month. The center operates on an 8-hour day (9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.).

· Based on projected demand, it is expected that the homeless training center will open in January 2018 with 160 homeless people. Ms. Jobs has been successful in negotiating a ratio of 6 homeless individual to 1 staff worker for the first year of operation.

· Staff workers earn $11.00 per hour. They work from 9 to 5 and get paid for eight hours.

· Homeless people get fed daily. Through an agreement with Whole Foods, food cost is $4.00 per person per day. The cost of supplies is $2.50 per person per day. The City of Westwood has purchased certain equipment (such as paper and pens) for the first 120 homeless people. However, these costs are estimated to increase by $50 per person as the population of the homeless training center increase. For the first four months, it is expected that the homeless population will grow by 15 percent, beginning in February 2018.

· Beginning June 2018, the monthly growth is expected to be 5 percent.

· The State of Washington will pay $250 per month per homeless person. In the first year, Westwood is "donating" space and utilities.

· Mr. Gates says that this city contribution is worth $2,000 a month. Since many of the homeless in the city are veterans, the Veteran’s Administration will contribute to the cost of the city's new homeless training center by providing $2.00 per person per day for homeless veterans. It is estimated that 70 percent of the homeless are veterans.

· The state has a subsidized homeless training center grant for the first year of operation. This grant is $120,000 a year.

HOMELESS TRAINING CENTER COMPUTER EXERCISE, PART 1

You are a budget analyst in the Budget Office of the City of Westwood. Mayor Ozurumba just asked you to "run some numbers" so that he can take a look at the arrangement that was just negotiated between Mr. Gates, Ms. Jobs, and Ms. Edison. You should prepare the budget in a spreadsheet. Since Mayor Ozurumba may ask you some questions about the homeless training center budget, you should prepare the budget using parameters and as many formulas as possible. A well-designed (and flexible) spreadsheet will simplify your task later.

Complete the following tasks and a brief one-page memo describing your findings:

1) Prepare the baseline 2018 monthly budget for the homeless training center. (You can assume a calendar year.) Determine the total surplus and deficit for each month.

2) Suppose the homeless person/staff ratio were changed to the maximum allowed by law. What impact would this have on the budget?

3) What would happen to the deficit if the enrollment increased by only 10 percent per month for all months?

4) What other changes can be made to balance the budget? What are the advantages and

disadvantages of these changes? Produce a balanced budget and defend your choice of

changes.

Homeless Training Center Exercise Guide

Tips:

1. Get started early: this will take more time than you think.

2. Submit your budget in electronic form so I can examine it. If time permits, we will examine a one or two daycare budgets in class, so be prepared to discuss yours.

3. Collaboration: you may discuss techniques with each other teams (e.g. how to link pages), but the choices and calculations you make should be your own.

4. Respond to the questions with actual examples and estimates from your own budget. For example, answering question two by saying “reducing the child: staff ratio will reduce costs” is not a complete answer. Pick some specific changes and estimate the impact.

5. Understand the difference between assumptions and parameters. Parameters are key variables affecting budgets that are expected to change at least once in the next several years, such as wages, inflation rates, benefit levels, user fees, unit costs, etc. Read through the case narrative and highlight those factors that are parameters. Assumptions are defined as simplifications that are made in the spreadsheet design process to make it manageable. For example, you might assume in designing this homeless training center budget that there is no turnover in homeless training center workers, and that all homeless training center workers receive the same hourly wage. While these assumptions are unrealistic in the long run, they may be reasonable simplifications for the first year’s budget. As you encounter questions about key parts of this exercise, make assumptions and formally write these assumptions down. The goal is to design a budget that is both flexible and transparent to future budget analysts.

6. Note that the parameters associated with fringe benefits include the percent of wages required to set aside for social security, unemployment insurance, pensions, and monthly costs for health insurance.

7. It’s a good idea to have your list of parameters on one excel worksheet, organized into logical categories, and your actual budget on the other. The actual budget should identify all of the major expenditures and costs (lay these out horizontally) for each month (lay out months vertically). The parameters should be a simple list of numbers e.g. salary, teacher-student ratio. This will help make your budget transparent. You can make your budget flexible by linking the parameters to the calculations on the budget page. As you change the parameters, the budget should automatically change. This will save you a lot, since one flexible budget is a lot easier than creating a different budget to answer each question.

8. Think about the desirable qualities of a budget and try to implement those. The budget should be easy to understand, clearly laid out and employing logical formulas to make calculations. As mentioned above, it is also desirable for such a budget to be flexible, able to adjust to changing parameters. You should only need one excel spread sheet (with a working worksheet and the current budget worksheet) plus your memo.

Formatting:

9. Absolute cell references: Excel allows you to use formulas to link to a cell, but the formula will normally adjust as you move it around. For instance the formula for B2 might be =A1+A2. If you move the formula to B3 it becomes =A2+A3. This works well for some instances, but in other occasions you will want to use absolute cell references. Absolute cell references, denoted by putting a $ in front of either the column or row address, fixes the cell address in the formula so that it doesn’t change when it is copied to a new cell. This will be useful when referring back to specific parameters. So, for example, if you wanted to consistently add A1 to another cell, the formula would become $A$1+A2 (or whatever the variable cell).

10. Note that Excel allows you to round or round the solution of a calculation by simply writing "round" or "roundup" before the brackets of the calculation.

DIfference Between A Sales Budget And A Master Budget

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Assignment 2: Current Examples of Market Structures

In the previous assignment and the assigned readings for this module, you analyzed industries, identified their market structures, and determined how management decisions are made on the basis of the market structure.

In this assignment, you will learn to determine the industry classification of specific market structures and industries.

Tasks:

Identify an article on any one of the following management decisions commonly made in an organization:

o Cutting costs

o Enhancing business operations

o Increasing productive capacity using technology

You can consult sources such as the Wall Street Journal, Financial Times,Bloomberg Markets, the Economist, US News and World Report, and the Argosy University online library resources.

After reading the article, respond to the following:

o Identify the unifying theme in the article. Does the theme pertain to economics and the reasoning for cutting costs, enhancing business operations, or increasing productive capacity using technology? How?

o Evaluate the situation that you think proposes the most significant consequences for society. What are the consequences that you foresee?

o If you were the regulator of the industry analyzed in the article, how would you decide the validity of the company policy in the article and why?

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Hist 4389 – World War I                                                                                                  200 points total

Complete the following sections of the exam; please read all instructions carefully and answer the questions as completely and in as much detail as possible.  The system will only accept one submission, so make sure you answer both questions in one Word document.  And, as with every other assignment in this class, cite your sources.

Midterm Exam

Section A (1 Essay worth 100 points):  Answer the following question in detail,

1). “World War I had one, overriding cause that most people can agree on.”  Agree or disagree, use examples from the lecture to buttress your argument.

Section B (1 Essay worth 100 points): Answer following question in detail,

2). After the war began, it quickly spread around the world.  Based on what we have covered in the class so far, explain why the war spread from the Western Front to the rest of the world.  Make sure you cite facts from the class so far to back up your basic assertions. 

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Leadership in Organizations

(10%=Individual Written Report)

Purpose of Assignment

· To help students understand what leadership is.

· To become familiar with the different types of leadership and how they function within different industries. The student will also understand the theory behind different leadership styles.

Objectives

· The student will be able to define leadership.

· The student will be able to show his understanding of different leadership styles.

· The student will be able to show his understanding of different leadership styles and the function of each type across industries.

· The student will be able to differentiate between a manager’s role in an organization and a leader’s role.

· The student will be able to list five characteristics of an effective leader.

· The student will be able to show his understand of how an identified characteristic of an effective leader empowers their leadership style.

Instructional Media: Tools and Resources

· You will be provided with online articles, reports, and different resources that will assist you in understanding the leadership styles. You will be provided in-class time one week before the assignment is due in order to discuss in groups and search online for additional required resources.

Requirements

Written Report

1. The report must use your own language and should specify the reference(s) from which the information is taken. If you cut and paste a sentence you must use quotation marks and write the author, year, and page number in brackets in the text after the quotation.

2. The report must:

· have a cover page

· use Times New Romans or Arial, font size: 12

· have a space of 2 between lines,

· be between 2-3 full pages in length (not including the reference list)

· use topic sentences at the start of each paragraph

· be written in the third person (do not use “I” or “my” or “our” or “we”)

· have a reference for each section (excluding the Conclusion)

· use full sentences (and no bullet points)

3. The report must use the following headings:

Introduction

Include a clear thesis statement, justify the importance of the assignment, a reference to justify assignment, outline what topics the report will cover

Leadership

Define leadership, justify its importance in organizations, and explain how it differs from management.

Assignment 2: Designing Compensation Systems

Many people search for jobs on the Internet; therefore, it is important that employers provide accurate information about themselves and their philosophies, culture, and work conditions.

In this assignment, you will research what others are doing in the world of compensation. Using all that you have learned, you will critically analyze the strategies of other organizations.

Tasks:

Research the Internet and identify two company websites to critically analyze their human resources (HR) pages in a 2- to 3-page paper. In your critique:

• Evaluate the information provided on the HR pages of the companies from the perspective of a job applicant.
• Analyze the strengths and weaknesses of the HR pages.
• Highlight any missing information that would benefit a prospective job applicant. Suggest strategies to improve such pages.

Support your assumptions by citing in APA format any reputable source material used for this discussion.

Assignment 1: Discussion—The Benefits of Person-Focused Pay Programs

Although no large-scale studies have clearly demonstrated the benefits of the person-focused pay programs, case studies suggest that employees and companies enjoy advantages from person-focused pay programs.

In this assignment, you will review and apply the benefits of a person-focused pay program.

Tasks:

Respond to the following:

• Discuss the advantages and disadvantages of a person-focused approach for both the employer and the employee. Support your position with specific examples.

Submission Details:

• By the due date assigned, post your responses to this Discussion Area.
• Through the end of the Module , respond to at least two of your classmates' posts. While responding, make sure you include course content and appropriate references to support your statements.

Write your initial response in 300-500 words. Your response should be thorough and address all components of the discussion in detail, including citations of all sources, where needed, according to the APA Style, and demonstrating accurate spelling, grammar, and punctuation

Do the following when responding to your peers:

• Read your peers' answers.
• Provide substantive comments by
  • contributing new, relevant information from course readings, Web sites, or other sources;
  • building on the remarks or questions of others; or
  • sharing practical examples of key concepts from your professional or personal experiences
• Respond to feedback on your posting and provide feedback to other students on their ideas.
• Make sure your writing
  • is clear, concise, and organized;
  • demonstrates ethical scholarship in accurate representation and attribution of sources; and
  • displays accurate spelling, grammar, and punctuation.
• __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Comparing Aspects Of US Business Organization Law With The Law Of Saudi Arabia

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For this project, you, the researcher, will select a topic of your choice (which is related to geography). A 2 page single spaced paper will be written over this topic. Extra is okay…under is not! (The page count does not include any graphics/figures you may add.)

As the concept of PLACE is a main theme in geography, an emphasis on place will be a vital aspect of this project.

Instructions:

1) Select a topic from the suggested ideas page or come up with a topic on your own (if you choose this route please confirm your topic with me before beginning your research.

2) Once your topic is selected make sure to address at least three of the following questions:

a) Why does place matter?

b) How would this phenomenon be different if located somewhere else?

c) How is culture of the area affected?

d) Is there political, social, or economic factors contributing to the phenomenon?

e) Has this been affected by or influenced globalization?

f) Has it changed over time?

3) After addressing at least 3 of the above questions, dedicate 1 paragraph on your perceptions and understandings (what is your take away). In this paragraph you may use “I”.

4) Be sure to introduce your paper: state goals, objective, theme or paper, perhaps why it is of interest (thesis statement). Make sure to have body paragraphs and a solid conclusion.

5) Include at least one figure, image, or table

Format /Style /Organization

· Include a title page (Title, Name, Section, and Date)

· Include page numbers

· Please use Times New Roman or Calibri Font (Size 12, Single Spaced)

· Use 5 sources, 1 May be from your Textbook, others should be from journal articles. Avoid generic websites.

Things to remember

· Always be culturally sensitive!

· Do not use absolute words unless it is true 100% of the time everywhere.

· Use formal language (University level writing)

· You can use first person but only in your perceptions