NIKE Part A Read the Notes to the Financial Statements (FS) for your SEC 10-K company.  These “notes” are displayed after the financial statements. 1. Inventory comments: comment on inventory issues using the concepts of materiality and geographic location. 2. Inventory and Sales: comment on issues related to diversity in customer base and issues of internal control. 3. Accounts Receivable and Sales:  comment on […]

  This memo will be short (about 1 page in length) and can be a bit more informal than the Rhetorical Analysis memo. You do want to still pay attention to grammar, spelling, punctuation, and flow though. You may use headings if you wish, but they are not necessary. In the memo, you will reflect back on both documents the (Rhetorical Analysis Memo and the […]

 Strengthening the Relationship Between HR and Business Unit leaders in Chapter 6 of Powerful, McCord shares a story about an attempted handoff of staffing responsibilities and a lack of responsiveness from business-unit leaders for either hiring or firing.  How would you address a situation in which you were not getting the support you needed from a hiring manager? What is the right balance of motivation and […]

  Think of three simple tasks where you believe the sequence of instruction matters.  Is there a way to modify it to where sequence doesn’t matter?   Find steps in each task where the sequence can be changed and still achieve the desired outcome.  Write out the original and modified algorithms AND pseudocode for each task. Write a short paragraph for each task describing the changes […]

  This week’s reading assignment continues last week’s theme on how government employs regulations and oversight to achieve particular ends. The author, Keith Horton, looks specifically at the failures of government regulation and oversight with the crematory industry.  The writing assignment is to write a summary of the article that must be a MINIMUM of 3 pages and articulate a thorough overview of the problem or research question, theoretical background, main arguments, recommendations, and conclusion.

Select any example of a visualization or infographic, maybe your own work or that of others. The task is to undertake a deep, detailed ‘forensic’ like assessment of the design choices made across each of the five layers of the chosen visualization’s anatomy. In each case your assessment is only concerned with one design layer at a time.For this task, take a close look at […]

You have recently accepted a new position at a large hospital that specializes in critical care of cancer patients. Your supervisor, the CIO, has requested you create and present to upper-level management (C-Suite: CEO, CFO, CSO, etc.) a presentation on the various actors your organization may face in the near future. The CIO impresses upon you the need for additional funding to secure key systems […]

1.Conduct an internet or library search on the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act (GLBA). Read one or two articles that you find interesting. Identify the article(s) you read, including a link to the article(s). 2. Explain the main security and privacy requirements of GLBA. What data elements does GLBA protect? What are the main privacy requirements of the law? What are the main security requirements of the law? […]

 As a library assignment or using the Internet, you must locate basic information about the responsibilities of one your state’s U.S. senators and your specific U.S. representative—committee assignments, subcommittees, length of time in office, and major bills he or she has sponsored. I recommend that students evaluate your senator’s/representative’s websites or recent copies of constituency newsletters to assess the policy positions taken by your representative.  […]

 In the 1950s the United States enjoyed a broad-based, unprecedented level of prosperity. Rising purchasing power, expanding credit, and a rapidly growing advertising industry stimulated consumerism. One industry that rapidly developed and expanded was the automobile industry. During the 1950s, Americans purchased 58 million cars. By 1960, 75 percent of American families owned one. The automobile created mobility on a scale not known before, and […]