Unit V Assignment Barrier Analysis Worksheet Project Read the U.S. Chemical Safety Board investigation report of the 2007 propane explosion at the Little General Store in Ghent, WV. The final report can be read/downloaded at the following link: http://www.csb.gov/assets/1/19/CSBFinalReportLittleGeneral.pdf. Additional information on the incident, including a video summary, can be found at the following link: http://www.csb.gov/little-general-store-propane-explosion/ NOTE: This is the same investigation report used to […]

Unit IV Essay   Film Essay   Each of the movie selections this unit deal with a big question that is very hard to answer, but a question we should all wrestle with. How do we determine perception vs. reality?   In the movie A Beautiful Mind, a doctor is explaining the horror of schizophrenia to John Nash’s wife and he says:    You see […]

Another important law in economics is the “law of marginal returns or the law of increasing costs”. Discuss in terms of your study in this course, how might you know that you are at a point of diminishing returns, or where more study will not benefit you like it did before? Can you identify any of the costs discussed in this lesson in your decision […]

You are the chief financial officer (CFO) at a community hospital. One of the comments that has come back from patient surveys is the need for a commercial 24-hour pharmacy within the hospital. In this way, patients or their families will be able to fill prescriptions and begin taking ordered medication right away instead of waiting until the following day. The chief executive officer (CEO) wants you […]

COMPETENCIES TO MASTER ·         Can identify commonalities in texts from different places, cultures and time periods ·         Can identify differences in texts from diverse places, cultures and time periods ·         Can write a five-paragraph essay Overview The five-paragraph essay is a useful way to organize and express your ideas. It provides a framework that helps you establish a position or thesis and support it with […]

Lab 10:  File Access This lab accompanies Chapter 10 of Starting Out with Programming Logic & Design.       Lab 10.1 – File Access and Pseudocode   Critical Review   When a program needs to save data for later use, it writes the data in a file.  The data can be read from the file at a later time.   Three things must happen […]

Scenario 1: Susan is unhappy with her grade in her college class. She wants to clarify what she can do to improve in the course. She also feels like venting her frustrations to her professor due to the many hours she is spending studying and writing papers (which may or may not be a good idea). She decides to email her professor; however, before she […]

The research paper assignment is worth 220 points or 22% of the course grade.  A grade of C or better is required as per MBA policy as this is the Final Assessment for the course.   The objectives/purpose of the research paper project are to enable you to do a comprehensive financial analysis of a publicly traded corporation; and provide you with substantial information for […]

Read the Success on the OAES document for full instructions about how to use this system. Assigned questions for Module 5 are: Q16-1: What is Zero based budgeting? Q16-2: A company’s annual sales budget is for 120,000 units, spread equally through the year. It needs to have one and three quarter’s month stock at the end of each month. If opening stock is 12,000 units, what are the number […]

Respond to classmate discussion question.  A good paragraph will do with a question , and add reference:   Option 1 – Discuss a current business activity that you or your department does that could be improved by leveraging variance analysis. Discuss the perspective you could gain, and what a “favorable price” and a “favorable quantity” variance mean in this application.   My credit union is […]