Tag: course Work

1. One goal of both the U.S. and the U.S.S.R. during the Cold War was to continue adding unaligned nations into their sphere of political and military influence–could you say more about the importance to each side in pursuing this goal, given the context of the Cold War? Of what value were these nations to the Cold War’s main combatants, and what benefit or benefits might come to the unaligned nations were they to agree to enter a specific ideological camp?

2. Aside from reflecting a more moral approach to U.S. foreign policy, to what extent did the Camp David Accords have a direct connection to the Cold War and its persecution by the U.S.? More generally, how would you describe President Carter’s handling of the Cold War and the specific challenges he might have faced in that regard?

Turn in a description of a business enterprise that you create. Describe what you think the business makes/does /sells, its markets, and other general information about the business.

Develop a complete disaster recovery plan to be submitted to the executive board of your company.

Analyze the role that unions and employee associations play in the success of an organization. Second, develop a strategy that can be used by human resources professionals and managers to work with these groups to reach organizational success.

Reflect on the role that the electoral process and government plays in one’s daily work and family life. As nurses, health policy can influence both arenas of our lives. What policy issues might drive nurses to lobby Congress and/or get involved in campaign politics? What strategies might nurses use to have their voices heard?

Discuss the history of the Catholic Church’s struggle against women’s abortion rights in the U.S.

Create a post for these three questions. Justify your answers using a level of detail appropriate for the graduate level.

1. What are the opportunities and consequences for the company Blue Wood if it does not change its approach to the business?

2. Discuss how and why an FRM (financial risk management) or an ERM framework might benefit a company like Blue Wood.

3. What are the main challenges in developing and implementing a risk management framework for Blue wood? How does the ownership structure affect these challenges?

You are an analyst for the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) with responsibility for the Southwest Asia desk specifically, the country of Yemen. You are to write a position paper on the internal strife in Yemen and competing factions. Your product will be submitted to the Worldwide Intelligence Review (See Lowenthal, Page 84).

Write an intelligence briefing product and utilizing the appropriate portions of the intelligence cylce, inform the intelligence community on the current situation in Yemen concerning the competing factions and recommend a possible course of action for the U.S. senior leadership.

Securities and Exchange Commission’s Website, located at http://www.sec.gov/divisions/enforce/friactions/friactions2012.shtml, perform a search on several U.S. health care publicly-traded companies and choose a health care organization that has been accused of committing health care fraud.

Write a five to six (5-6) page paper in which you:

1. Evaluate the level of SOX regulations that applies to for-profit and not-for-profit health care organizations, indicating whether or not mandating SOX requirements for non-profits might reduce fraud and increase corporate governance. Provide support for your rationale.
2. Determine whether SOX has been effective in regulating ethical behavior of for-profit health care organizations. Defend your position.
3. Review the audit report issued by the external auditing firm from the company’s Website for the year it was accused of fraud. Then, determine whether the external auditors were negligent in preparing the audit report for the company. Formulate an opinion regarding which Internal Control was deficient or what GAAP was violated. Defend your position.
4. Determine what provision(s) of SOX was / were violated in the health care fraud case in question. Indicate whether or not SOX adequately provides sanctions to deter the behavior or if changes are needed to the regulations to remedy the issue(s) and thus ensure compliance.
5. Based on the fraudulent activity that occurred, recommend two (2) improvements to the internal control environment to reduce those occurrences. Provide detailed recommendations.
6. Use at least four (4) quality academic resources in this assignment. Note: Wikipedia and other Websites do not qualify as academic resources.

   The specific course learning outcomes associated with this assignment are:

   • Evaluate internal controls within an organization and create a risk assessment.
   • Analyze ethical theories to evaluate a decision-making process to determine compliance with professional codes of ethics.
   • Evaluate the health of organizations to assess the level of risk in an audit engagement.
   • Evaluate financial data for potential fraud and prepare an audit approach for detecting fraud.
   • Assess the risk of financial misstatement in an IT-based environment.
   • Use technology and information resources to research issues in accounting management.
   • Write clearly and concisely about accounting management using proper writing mechanics.