repare for the capstone project by listening to the audio interview, “Capstone.”

Preview and utilize “Topic 1 Checklist.” This resource will assist you in organizing your work and will provide additional information regarding the assignment.

Consider the clinical environment in which you are currently working or have recently worked. Collaborate with a leader or educator in the clinical environment to identify a problem, issue, or educational deficit upon which to build a proposal for change.

In a paper of no more than 800 words, describe the nature of the problem, issue, or educational deficit. Include the following in your discussion:

1. The setting and/or context in which the problem, issue, or educational deficit can be observed.
2. Detailed description of the problem, issue, or educational deficit.
3. Impact of the problem, issue, or educational deficit on the work environment, the quality of care provided by staff, and patient outcomes.
4. Gravity of the problem, issue, or educational deficit and its significance to nursing.
5. Proposed solution to address the problem, issue, or educational deficit.

Prepare for the capstone project by listening to the audio interview, “Capstone: Planning Your Project” located athttp://lc.gcumedia.com/zwebassets/courseMaterialPages/nrs441v_capstone.php

Review “Topic 1: Checklist.” This resource will assist you in organizing your work and will provide additional information regarding the assignment.

Prepare this assignment according to the APA guidelines found in the APA Style Guide, located in the Student Success Center. An abstract is not required.

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Assume
that you applied for a position in UPC’s internal audit department after 5
years in the finance department. As a senior internal auditor, one of your
assignments is to design and implement controls over capital budgets and review
control effectiveness. Your company is required by the Sarbanes Oxley Act of
2002 (SOX) to report material weaknesses in internal controls.

You
created the attached spreadsheet to verify the growth rate used in calculating
cost of capital. You identified many inconsistencies with the data used by the
finance department. The discrepancies led to a higher cost of capital for the
truck replacement project. Therefore, UPC decided to lease trucks instead.
Further, you are aware that the finance director is the one who approves
capital projects and makes procurement and leasing decisions. The finance
director owns a truck leasing company, and proposals have been received from
his leasing company.

Your
have been instructed to respond to the following tasks:

• Identify and
  explain 5 or more audit objectives for UPC’s capital plans.
• Provide a report
  of your audit, and discuss any SOX reportable issues.
• Recommend
  internal controls to address identified and perceived control weakness in
  UPC capital plans.
• Some managers
  have complained that the process of accepting projects does not consider
  qualitative factors. What qualitative factors will you recommend? Are
  there any associated risks?

Attachments:

Copy-of-13723….xlsx

Sociological Imagination 101 Spring 2014
Chapter One
True or False –Write your answer
**If False: write in the correct answer or change the sentence to make it true
Sociologists who use the functionalist perspective stress how industrialization and urbanization have undermined the traditional functions of the family.
Answer:
Sociologists often use “common sense” to understand the way the world “is.”
Answer:
The corners of life that people occupy, such as jobs, income, education, gender, age, and race, are referred to as the social imperative.
Answer:
Booker T.

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Sociological Imagination 101 Spring 2014
Chapter One
True or False –Write your answer
**If False: write in the correct answer or change the sentence to make it true
Sociologists who use the functionalist perspective stress how industrialization and urbanization have undermined the traditional functions of the family.
Answer:
Sociologists often use “common sense” to understand the way the world “is.”
Answer:
The corners of life that people occupy, such as jobs, income, education, gender, age, and race, are referred to as the social imperative.
Answer:
Booker T. Washington was the first African American to earn a doctorate degree from Harvard University.
Answer:
Herbert Spencer believed the most capable and intelligent members of a society would survive while the weak and less capable would die, thus improving society, in a master plan he called “the survival of the fittest.”
Answer:
Multiple Choice – Circle your answer
1. The first person to propose that the scientific method could be applied to the study of social life was ________.
A) Auguste Comte
B) Max Weber
C) Karl Marx
D) Emile Durkheim
2. The notion that only the fittest members of society deserve to survive and that social programs to help the poor will ultimately weaken the social order is a doctrine known as ________.
A) positivism
B) social Darwinism
C) post-modernism
D) social welfare
3. Karl Marx suggested that the force that drives human history and is at the core of human society is ________.
A) class conflict
B) religion
C) family
D) education
4. The sociological perspective emphasizes how the social context influences people’s lives, particularly how people are influenced by ________.
A) random chance events
B) geographical location
C) society
D) inherited genetic structure
5. What are values in the context of sociology?
A) beliefs about what is desirable in life and the way the world ought to be
B) estimations of the amount…

Attachments:

transtutor.docx

Calculate capitalized cost and depreciation expense (LO 1,2)

The executives for Sea World bought a piece of property adjacent to the park with an old, run-down motel. The cost of the land with the old motel was
$1,500,000 Real estate commissions and fees including the title search were $317,850. SeaWorld paid its attorney $15,000 to review the contract and
complete the purchase of the land on July 1, 2008. The resort paid $25,750 for the old motel to be demolished and an additional $17,850 for sugar white
sand to be hauled in to prepare the land for use. The company paid $80,000 for some palm trees for the new area. Sea World hired three new employees at a
salary of $35,000 a year each to maintain the landscaping for the new area.

Required

a. What amount should be capitalized for this new asset?

b. Would there be any depreciation expense for land at the end of 2008? Explain your answer.

P17-5B
Smith and Jones is a law firm that serves both individuals and corporations. A controversy has developed between the partners of the two service lines as
to who is contributing the greater amount to the bottom line. The area of contention is the assignment of overhead. The individual partners argue for
assigning overhead on the basis of 30% of direct labor dollars, while the corporate partners argue for implementing activity-based costing. The partners
agree to use next year’s budgeted data for purposes of analysis and comparison. The following overhead data are collected to develop the comparison.

Instructions

(a) Using traditional product costing, compute the total overhead cost assigned to both services (individual and corporate) of Smith and Jones.

(b) (1) Using activity-based costing, prepare a schedule showing the computations of the activity-based overhead rates (per cost driver).

(2) Prepare a schedule assigning each activity’s overhead cost pool to each service based on the use of the cost drivers.

(c) Classify each of the activities as a value-added activity or a non–value-added activity.

(d) Comment on the comparative overhead for the two service lines under both traditional costing and ABC.

Journal entries and trial balance

On January 1, 2014, Alicia Masingale established Leopard Realty, which completed the following transactions during the month:

a. Alicia Masingale transferred cash from a personal bank account to an account to be used for the business in exchange for capital stock, $23,500.

b. Paid rent on office and equipment for the month, $4,000.

c. Purchased supplies on account, $1,800.

d. Paid creditor on account, $675.

e. Earned sales commissions, receiving cash, $16,750.

f. Paid automobile expenses (including rental charge) for month, $1,000, and miscellaneous expenses, $800.

g. Paid office salaries, $2,150.

h. Determined that the cost of supplies used was $925.

i. Paid dividends, $1,600.

Instructions

1. Journalize entries for transactions (a) through (i), using the following account titles: Cash, Supplies, Accounts Payable, Capital Stock, Dividends,
Sales Commissions, Rent Expense, Office Salaries Expense, Automobile Expense, Supplies Expense, Miscellaneous Expense. Explanations may be omitted.

2. Prepare T accounts, using the account titles in (1). Post the journal entries to these accounts, placing the appropriate letter to the left of each
amount to identify the transactions. Determine the account balances, after all posting is complete. Accounts containing only a single entry do not need a
balance.

3. Prepare an unadjusted trial balance as of January 31, 2014.

4. Determine the following:

a. Amount of total revenue recorded in the ledger.

b. Amount of total expenses recorded in the ledger.

c. Amount of net income for January.

5. Determine the increase or decrease in retained earnings for January.

Which of the following statements in your view describe the inefficiency of a market?

(a) tax-free US municipal bonds with a lower rate of return for the investor than

government bonds which are taxed.

(b) managers make higher than average profits by buying and selling shares in the company they work for.

(c) there is some correlation between the market rate of return during a given

quarter and a company’s expected change in profits the following quarter.

(d) market watchers have observed that shares that have shot up in the recent past will go up again in the future.

(e) the market value of a company will tend to go up before the announcement of a takeover bid.

(f ) earnings on shares in a company whose profits have recently risen sharply will be high in the coming months.

(g) on average, earnings on shares that carry a risk are higher than earnings on

shares that are relatively risk-free.

Consider the information on the three firms A, B, and C:

a. Calculate the debt ratio for each firm.

b. Calculate the debt-to-assets ratio for each firm.

The financial manager of the Variable Corporation has looked into the department’s crystal ball and estimated the earnings per share for Variable under three possible outcomes. This crystal ball is a bit limited, for it can only make projections regarding the earnings per share and the probability that each will occur. Unfortunately, it can- not tell the financial manager which of the three possible outcomes will occur. The data provided by the crystal ball indicates:

Help the financial manager assess this data by calculating the expected earnings per share and the standard deviation of earnings per share for Variable Corporation.

The Chew-Z Corporation is considering three possible financing arrangements to raise $10,000 of new capital. Currently, the capital structure of Chew-Z
consists of no debt and $10,000 of equity.

There are 500 shares of common stock currently outstanding, selling at $20 per share. The Chew-Z is expected to generate $12,000 of earnings before
interest and taxes next period. It is expected that the interest rate on any debt would be 10%. The three possible financing alternatives are:

Alternative 1: Finance completely with new equity.

Alternative 2: Finance using 50% debt and 50% new equity.

Alternative 3: Finance completely with new debt.

a. Calculate the following items for each alternative, assuming that there are no taxes on corporate income:

¦ Earnings to owners

¦ Earnings per share

¦ Distribution of income between creditors and shareholders

b. Calculate the following items for each alternative, assuming that the marginal rate of tax on corporate income is 40%:

¦ Earnings to owners

¦ Earnings per share

¦ Distribution of income among creditors, shareholders, and the government