Q1 What are support departments, and why are their costs allocated to other departments? What process is used to allocate support department costs?

Q2 How are joint costs allocated? Explain and analyze using numerical example.

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Q 3 How are budget variances calculated and used as performance measures? Provide numerical example?

Each student will select one of the key terms (Whistle-blowing, motivation, decentralization, group norms, or needs) presented in the module and conduct a search of to find 1 recent peer-reviewed academic journal article (within the past 3 years) that closely relate to the concept. Your submission must include the following information in the following format:

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DEFINITION: a brief definition of the key term followed by the APA reference for the term; this does not count in the word requirement.

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SUMMARY: Summarize the article in your own words- this should be in the 150-200 word range. Be sure to note the article’s author, note their credentials and why we should put any weight behind his/her opinions, research or findings regarding the key term.

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DISCUSSION: Using 300-350 words, write a brief discussion, in your own words of how the article relates to the selected chapter Key Term. A discussion is not rehashing what was already stated in the article, but the opportunity for you to add value by sharing your experiences, thoughts and opinions. This is the most important part of the assignment.

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REFERENCES: All references must be listed at the bottom of the submission–in APA format.

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Be sure to use the headers in your submission to ensure that all aspects of the assignment are completed as required (i.e., Definition, Article Summary, Discussion).

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Any form of plagiarism, including cutting and pasting, will result in zero points for the entire assignment. The assignment is due the final day of the two week module.

Discussion : For this discussion, we are going to look at the validity of the police checkpoint and due process rights. Presently, police agencies utilize the checkpoint as a tool of aggressive patrolling. Checkpoints require a motorist to enter and submit to an investigative process, looking for a violation of law both obvious and unknown (wanted on warrant for example). Violations may include intoxicated drivers, seatbelt violations and other driving and equipment/registration violations. Officers are required to follow a strict protocol on the way they employ the checkpoint, and minimize the stress and discomfort to the parties in the vehicle, as well as following the legal mandates. But, is the checkpoint a violation of the due process protections? Do they violate Search and Seizure requirements of the Fourth Amendment? This is what you will discuss in your response. Make sure to defend your position by referencing the different components of searches and seizures; When are warrants necessary, the Exclusionary Rule, Exigent circumstances, and so on. Refer to the legal components outlined in Ch. 5 in your response.

This assignment task asks that you: ‘Choose a country or small geographical region that is not part of Western Europe or North America and produce and design a brochure that introduces the art and culture and cultural tourist attractions of that area. This brochure is designed for an educated reader who is keen to understand the deeper culture of the region- rather than for a typical “tourist”. Make sure to include several examples of art work of that region in the brochure, to discuss the history of art and culture there, and to provide critical critique and much evidence of research into the region’.

The document needs to include references presented in the Harvard style, images and also a bibliography in the Harvard style. The document needs to be uploaded to Canvas. Good sample assignments from previous years are uploaded for you to view on the module Canvas site.

(composer trading card) The following formatting rules must be followed:

• Typed w/12pt professional font (if you have to ask, it’s not professional)

• Complete, collegiate level sentences

• Correct spelling and grammar

• Double spaced

• 1″ margins all around

• Writer’s information in the following format in the top right-hand corner on the first page:

  • First Name Last Name

  • Course

  • Assignment

  • Instructor

• Writer’s last name in the header (omitted on the first page)

• Page number in the footer (omitted on the first page)

The first portion of the project is listed below:

Think of your favorite musician/band/group. You are going to do some research on this person/band/group.

With your chosen musician/band/group, you are going to create a biographical essay over that person/band/group. In your essay, you will need to cover the following:

1. Who is the person/band/group

   1. Dates (Birth-Death)

      1. Where/when were they born

      2. Where/when did they die

   2. Where did they go to school

   3. What/Who influenced the person/band/group

   4. Career Information

      1. What albums have they released, and dates

         1. List the “Top Ten” based on your opinion

      2. Have they won any awards?

Activity I: Product Development. Consider the simplified set of activities in the Table below for the development of a consumer product from initiation through the market test phase.

1. Draw the AOA network for this project.

2. Calculate total slacks and free slacks, and interpret their meaning. .

3. Determine the critical path and interpret its meaning.

4. Construct a Gantt chart and mark the latest start times for each activity.

Activity II: A project has 11 activities that can be accomplished either by one person working alone or by several people working together. The activities, precedence constraints, and time estimates are given in Table below. Suppose that you have up to five people who can be assigned on any given day. A person must work full days on each activity, but the number of people working on an activity can vary from day to day.

1. Prepare an AOA network diagram, and calculate the critical path, total slacks, and free slacks assuming that one person (independently) is working on each task.

2. Prepare an early-start Gantt chart.

3. Prepare a daily assignment sheet for personnel with the goal of finishing the project in the minimum amount of time.

4. Prepare a daily assignment sheet to “best” balance the workforce assigned to the project.

5. By how many days could the project be compressed if unlimited personnel resources were available? Please make sure No plagiarism. Add references.

Article 1
The present Charter seeks, within the context of the national identity of the Arab States and their sense
of belonging to a common civilization, to achieve the following aims:
1. To place human rights at the centre of the key national concerns of Arab States, making them lofty
and fundamental ideals that shape the will of the individual in Arab States and enable him to improve
his life in accordance with noble human values.
2. To teach the human person in the Arab States pride in his identity, loyalty to his country,
attachment to his land, history and common interests and to instill in him a culture of human
brotherhood, tolerance and openness towards others, in accordance with universal principles and
values and with those proclaimed in international human rights instruments.
3. To prepare the new generations in Arab States for a free and responsible life in a civil society that
is characterized by solidarity, founded on a balance between awareness of rights and respect for
obligations, and governed by the values of equality, tolerance and moderation.
4. To entrench the principle that all human rights are universal, indivisible, interdependent and
interrelated.

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After completing the form, write a 1-3 paragraph justification for why you ranked them in this order. Attach the justification only to this assignment, not the ranking form. When you meet with your group next week, you will justify how you ranked these professions from 1-14. (The form says 1-15, but one was cut off, so the least important will be 14.)

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PLS 201 Methods of Political analysis

Problem 1 (7 points):

1. a) During regular trading hours, go to https://www.barchart.com/ to look up Crude Oil WTI futures prices at https://www.barchart.com/futures/quotes/CLJ21/futures-prices. Choose two future months (preferable at least several months apart) for which recent trades were made (do not use two consequent months and do not use cash price). Record the following information:

• the day and time you collected your data

• the two months you have chosen

• the price at which the last contract for each month was traded

1. b) Assume that futures are equal to forward prices and forward prices satisfy F=S*. Estimate r.

2. c) Given the current interest rate in the market and taking into account possible transaction costs, if forward prices for oil were, indeed, to satisfy F=S*, your estimated interest rate should be around 1%. Is your estimated interest rate is higher or lower than 1%? It must be different from 1% because oil is a consumption asset with storage cost, so the forward price equation F=S*cannot be applied to oil forwards. Do you think the specific relationship between your estimate of r and 1% is because of the storage costs or because oil is a consumption asset? Support your answer with rigorous proof using the appropriate futures price formula. (Note: your answer cannot be “both”)

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