What would be the value of a savings account started with $690 , earning 5 percent (compounded annually) after 6 years?

What would be the value of a savings account started with $690 , earning 5 percent (compounded annually) after 6 years?

Brenda Young desires to have $23600 saved after 18 years from now for her kid’s college fund. If she will earn 4 percent (compounded annually) on her money, what amount should she deposit now?

What amount would you have if you deposited $9700 a year for 13 years at 3 percent (compounded annually)?

A few years ago, Michael Tucker purchased a home for $114000. Today the home is worth $158000. His remaining mortgage balance is $51000.

Assuming Michael can borrow up to 66 percent of the market value of his home, what is the maximum amount he can borrow?

Kim Lee is trying to decide whether she can afford a loan she needs in order to go to chiropractic school. Right now Kim is living at home and works in a shoe store, earning a gross income of $1770 per month. Her employer deducts a total of $230 for taxes from her monthly pay. Kim also pays $90 on credit card debt each month. The loan she needs for chiropractic school will cost an additional $170 per month.

Calculate her debt payments-to-income ratio with college loan. Don’t forget to convert your answer to a percentage.

Describe the role of a leader in ensuring a healthy organizational culture?

A number of issues related to organizational behaviour such as culture, change, teams, structure, leadership and encourages you to think about the future in which you will operate.

The paper requires an introduction and conclusion that ties together the following questions.

Please use a title page, a short introduction and individual headings for each question and for your conclusions. Also provide a separate page for references used to complete your paper

The paper should be should be between 1500 to 2000 words in length

What is organizational culture?

Describe the role of a leader in ensuring a healthy organizational culture?

How can an organization’s culture affect its organizational structure? How does an organization’s structure affect its culture?

What can a leader do to lessen the resistance to change?

Is power or influence more important? Why?

How can the creativity of a team be improved?

Analyze the influence the classroom environment, daily schedule, and thought teachers have on the healthy growth and development of young children.

Many young children live in diverse families. Conduct online research about the challenges of providing for different types of families. Think about diverse families, the challenges families face, and what you can do as an early childhood professional to support contemporary families. Reflect upon these ideas and then write your thoughts.

When responding to the question, it is important that you use the textbook and/or online sources to support your ideas.This includes citing as needed throughout your response and including a References page. 

This assignment should be 2 full pages, double-spaced, Times New Roman font.  Please name your assignment YourLastNameED103Wk1.  As an example, Jane Smith’s assignment would be saved as SmithED103Wk1.

This assignment links to the following course objectives:

  • Identify the major historical influences and current issues affecting early childhood education today.
  • Analyze the influence the classroom environment, daily schedule, and thought teachers have on the healthy growth and development of young children.

Discuss the different services each CDN provider offers to its subscribers. 

Select two of the CDN providers from the list below and provide a descriptive comparison of each provider’s service. (no tables)

  • Microsoft Azure
  • Akamai
  • Google Cloud
  • Amazon Cloudfront
  • Cloudflare
  • EdgeCast

What are the major differences? Which provider do you think works best for hosting a real estate company located on the East Coast of the U.S based on price, performance, and features?

Respond substantively to at least two other students’ posts. In your responses to your peers, please discuss the different services each CDN provider offers to its subscribers.

Describe the industry you are choosing to use in the paper, preliminary challenges with information governance that you have identified, and list potential resources you will use to develop the paper.

Describe the industry you are choosing to use in the paper, preliminary challenges with information governance that you have identified, and list potential resources you will use to develop the paper.

Describe the principles of assessment that will guide the use of assessment in your center.

As early childhood educators, it is our job to ensure that students are learning and developing at an appropriate rate. As we have learned throughout this course, using developmentally appropriate assessment is one of the most efficient ways to be able to ensure that this happens. While it is our responsibility to understand the assessment process and the various strategies, tools, and procedures that are used with young children, the families of the children we work with may not always understand why we are doing what we are doing when it comes to assessment. As the director of an NAEYC-accredited preschool, you have decided to develop a comprehensive strengths-based and family-centered assessment plan where families are included each and every step of the way.

For this assignment you can choose to create your assessment plan in many formats. You could develop a handbook using Word, create a PowerPoint Presentation, or even create an assessment website using a tool such as Weebly. Regardless of which format you choose, your strengths-based and family-centered assessment plan must include the following sections:

  • Describe your center or school’s philosophy of assessment. Your philosophy must be supported by scholarly or credible sources.

Goals, Benefits, and Uses of Assessment:

  • Explain the purpose of assessment. Refer back to your first Week One discussion to assist with this.
  • Discuss the assessment cycle. Refer back to your second Week One discussion to assist with this.
  • Describe the principles of assessment that will guide the use of assessment in your center. Refer back to your second Week One discussion to assist with this.

Types of Assessments: For each of the types of assessment listed below, you will need to define the assessment, provide a rationale for using this type of assessment, share an example, and explain at least one way you use the information from this assessment to inform your instruction.

  • Observations. (Refer back to your work from Week Three to assist with this.)
  • Checklists, rating scales, rubrics. (Refer back to your Week Four discussion to assist with this.)
  • Teacher-designed assessments. (Refer back to your Week Four assignment to assist with this.)
  • Performance-based assessments. (Refer back to your Week Five discussion to assist with this.)
  • Standardized assessments. (Refer back to your work in Week Two to assist with this.)
  • Portfolios. (Refer back to your Week Five assignment to assist with this.)

Using Assessments to Inform Instruction:

  • Analyze how the assessments you are using meet ethical standards
  • Examine how you use these assessments to make decisions; include specific examples
  • Discuss how you will use assessments to help ensure students are meeting their goals on their IEPs and/or IFSPs.

Assessment Partnerships with Families:

  • Explain how your school will develop an assessment partnership with families. Include specific strategies for involving families and communities in their children’s learning and development. (Refer back to your Week Six discussion to assist with this.)
  • Discuss, using specific examples, how you will use parent conferences to communicate about assessments. (Refer back to your Week Three assignment to assist with this.)
  • Explain how diverse families and community characteristics will be taken into consideration when communicating about assessments.
  • Share at least two professional organizations or assessment based resources you can provide families with to help them better understand the use of assessments.

Describe an example of how a business might improve the performance of one of its existing business processes.

1. What do we mean by lead information and lag information? Give an example of each, and describe the role that information could play in starting or improving a business process.

3. Describe an example of how a business might improve the performance of one of its existing business processes. This could be a hypothetical example, or one you’ve experienced as an employee or a customer. What challenges were encountered in improving the process? How were lead and lag information used in initiating and assessing the improvements?