Describe the difference between intrinsic and extrinsic motivation and explain why it is important in understanding the types of motivation when it comes to team performance.

Describe the characteristics of the performance-driven team. Describe the difference between intrinsic and extrinsic motivation and explain why it is important in understanding the types of motivation when it comes to team performance.

Discuss the risk and costs of compromised data integrity breaches.

Discuss the risk and costs of compromised data integrity breaches.

Focus on integrity not confidentiality. Look at military, education, science, medicine, finance, utilities, municipalities, etc.

Use at least three sources. Include at least 3 quotes from your sources enclosed in quotation marks and cited in-line by reference to your reference list. Example: “words you copied” (citation) These quotes should be one full sentence not altered or paraphrased.

Evaluate the work of the Chief Executive’s office and suggest further solutions that might be helpful.

The responsibility of implementing any community-policing effort lies with the Chief Executive office of the law enforcement agency. Many of these community policing efforts have to do with violence in low income areas. Navigate to kansascitynova.org and review the material provided by the organization. Using peer reviewed articles and other professional publications including local newspapers, search for information about Kansas City Nova and learn how the community has responded to the program.

Summarize what you have learned and cite any sources you have used.

1) Analyze the role of the Chief Executive’s office in this effort.

2) Evaluate the work of the Chief Executive’s office and suggest further solutions that might be helpful.

3) In regards to maintaining the momentum of the program, how would you advise the Chief’s Office to deal with periods of time when violence increases rather than decreases?

Analyze and discuss the nontraditional forms of retailing of the selected retailer. Suggest two actions that the retailer can implement to take advantage of the consumer trends in retailing.

Imagine that you are a new marketing strategist for a retail business and wish to examine the practices of existing retailers for a frame of reference. Go to The World’s Largest U.S. Retail Chains in 2017 and select from the list a retailer in which you are interested.

Write a six to eight-page paper in which you:

  1. Determine which of the retailers from the website is currently the most successful at strategic planning and building relationships. Support your position with one example of such success.
  2. For the retailer you selected, recommend three actions that would enhance relationships with its customers.
  3. Analyze and discuss the characteristics of ownership of the selected retailer and justify your logic.
  4. Analyze and discuss the nontraditional forms of retailing of the selected retailer. Suggest two actions that the retailer can implement to take advantage of the consumer trends in retailing.
  5. Describe the target consumer for this retailer and the buying process this consumer uses specific to this retailer.
  6. Use at least three quality academic resources in this assignment. Note: Wikipedia and other websites do not qualify as academic resources.

Reflect on your most recent visualisation project and try to sketch or write out the approach you took. What stages of activity did you undertake and in what sequence?

Reflect on your most recent visualisation project and try to sketch or write out the approach you took. What stages of activity did you undertake and in what sequence? Did it feel efficient or chaotic? Was it interrupted by changes, uncertainty or a sense of too much choice? Before you can seek to improve your ongoing approach it is worth unpicking what you currently do and how you do it.

Assignment Link: http://book.visualisingdata.com/chapter/chapter-2

Explain risks associated with the industrial control system.

Project 3: Threat Analysis and Exploitation
Step 3: The Financial Sector

To be completed by the Financial Services Representative: Provide a description of the impact that the threat would have on the financial services sector. These impact statements can include the loss of control of the systems, the loss of data integrity or confidentiality, exfiltration of data, or something else. Also provide impact assessments as a result of this security incident to the financial services sector. Ensure that the information is appropriately cited.

To be completed by all team members: Provide submissions from the Information Sharing Analysis Councils related to the financial sector. You can also propose fictitious submissions. Then, review the resource for industrial control systems and explain their level of importance to the financial services sector. Explain risks associated with the industrial control system.

Explain the differences between consolidated and combined financial statements.

Select three of the following questions for your initial response. Important: At least one (and preferably two) of the questions you decide to answer should be a question not answered by a classmate as of when you make your initial responses. Copy and paste the questions you decide to answer in bold type. It is a good idea to select questions to which you do not know the answer or would like to understand better. Also, be bold and answer a question you have not seen a classmate answered yet.

  1. How does a variable interest entity differ from a traditional corporate business entity? Be specific.
  2. What major criteria must be met before a company is consolidated? Again,be specific, referring to the Codification where necessary.
  3. What types of entities are referred to as special-purpose entities, and how have they been generally used?
  4. What is meant by indirect control? Give an illustration or an example.
  5. Explain the differences between consolidated and combined financial statements. Be specific.
  6. What is meant by a noncontrolling interest in a subsidiary?
  7. What must be done if the fiscal periods of the parent and the subsidiary are not the same?
  8. When is consolidation considered inappropriate even though the parent company holds a majority of the voting common shares of another company?
  9. Are consolidated financial statements likely to be more useful to the creditors of the parent company or the creditors of the subsidiaries? Why or why not?
  10. What characteristics are normally examined in determining whether a company is a primary beneficiary of a variable interest entity?

Post about the changes in the treatment in operating lease accounting and how these new standards will impact debt covenants.

Since the textbook has been published, FASB has issued new accounting standard guidance for operating leases. Read the two required reading articles in this module about leases listed below:

Shannon, C. (2016). How will the new lease accounting standard impact loan covenants? (Links to an external site.) Equipment Leasing & Financing, Washington D.C., 32(4), 40-41.

Sliwoski, L. (2017). Understanding the new lease accounting guidance (Links to an external site.). Journal of Corporate Accounting and Finance, 28(40), 48-52.

Post about the changes in the treatment in operating lease accounting and how these new standards will impact debt covenants. What is the impact to off-balance sheet reporting? Be sure to include your opinion on how this new standard impacts the reliability and transparency of financial statements.