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The Portfolio Project requires you to write a memorandum to a decision-maker, such as the president of the United States, a member of Congress, a chairperson of the SEC, or a state Governor, on how to reform corporate ethics in American business today. As we have seen, legislation such as Sarbanes-Oxley has received considerable media attention, but has not prevented significant catastrophes such as the global economic meltdown of 2008. You should be prepared to propose policies that might help to ameliorate or to prevent corporate ethics lapses that might occur in the future. You have the freedom to select any policy avenues that you think might help to strengthen and fortify corporate ethics. Your memo should do the following:

•Set forth why your chosen policy pathway is important
•Compare it to and contrast it with the policy it replaces
•Articulate your ideas on how to remedy the issue of corporate malfeasance
•Proffer some recommendations to the decision-maker about how to improve overall corporate governance
Please note that your prescription for change is not nearly as important as your ability to forecast potential challenges to the corporate boardroom and to predict possible ways the government could intervene to assist not only solid corporate governance, but also the interests of individual shareholders. It is recommended that you suggest at least two methods and/or policy proposals that critically address the public policy concern. Bring in facts and other data to support the policy issue addressed and make sure each fact is cited to the relevant authority. Demonstrate critical thinking by analyzing, evaluating and interpreting appropriate policy to provide original perspectives to enhance corporate legal and ethical environs.

You are expected to convey complex ideas in a clear, concise and organized fashion, using the required and recommended readings from the course for analytical support. Although you are encouraged to cite from your textbook, you are required to cite a minimum of four scholarly sources beyond the textbook to support your statements.

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Chapter 22 in our book deals with Connecting with the Public (I will upload the chapter). After reading it, what are some general guidelines you would give to a fellow student or employee about social media. What professional guidelines should they follow? Why do students and professionals need to be aware of their social media presence? Use at least one quote from the chapter in your response. The book: Markel, Mike. Technical Communication. New York: Bedford, 2012. Print.

Homework
Review carefully the statistics presented by “If Americans Knew” at http://www.ifamericansknew.org (also summarized in the PowerPoint slides) and showing:
Israeli and Palestinian Children Killed, September 29, 2000 – Present
Israelis and Palestinians Killed, September 29, 2000 – Present
Israelis and Palestinians Injured, September 29, 2000 – Present
UN Resolutions Targeting Israel and the Palestinians, 1955 – 1992
Current Number of Political Prisoners and Detainees
Demolitions of Israeli and Palestinian Homes, 1967 – Present
Israeli and Palestinian Unemployment Rates
Current Illegal Settlements on the Others Land
Daily U.S. Military Aid to Israel and the Palestinians, Fiscal Year 2013
Based on these statistics and the central arguments made in the textbook, write a thoughtful essay (200-300 words) in which (1) you summarize the significant facts you have learned from comparing and contrasting these statistics and (2) you explain why predominantly Christian America has supported and continues to support the Jewish Israelis who do not believe in Jesus against the Muslim and Christian Palestinians who do believe in Jesus, and who are clearly the underdog (“In fact, a good case can be made that current U.S. policy conflicts with basic American values and that if the United States were to choose sides on the basis of moral considerations alone, it would back the Palestinians, not Israel”, Mearsheimer and Walt, page 80).

Sources for homework assignments must be cited briefly and ONLY between parentheses in the text.

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Write a 350-word response regarding the differences between the direct and indirect presentation of cash flows. Why does the Financial Accounting Standards Board allow both methods? Which do you prefer? Why?

Format your response consistent with APA guidelines.

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It is a progressive assignment based on topics studied in weeks 5-8 covering chapters 6 to 10.
Please attempt each question on a weekly basis which will prevent you from asking for extensions.
Objectives
This assessment item relates to course learning outcomes 4 – 8 as listed in the course profile.
Question 1:
Refer to Chapter 6
(a) Explain with reasons as to why additional advertising (non-price competition) will lead to a smaller and smaller increase in sales of that product. (2 marks)
(b) In the table below an oligopolist firm faces two demand schedules. The current price is given as $185.
Competitors price fixed: Quantity Demanded
Price ($)
Competitors follow: Quantity Demanded
Total Revenue
Marginal Revenue
20
200
35
30
195
40
40
190
45
50
185
50
60
180
55
70
175
60
(i) What would the demand curve be under the kinked demand curve hypothesis? Illustrate and explain. (1 mark)
(ii) Plot the marginal revenue curve corresponding to the kinked demand curve and explain. (2 marks)
(iii) Given that Marginal Cost is $150 at every level of output. Copy the above table and
calculate TR and MR. Determine the profit- maximizing level of output and plot on the graph. (2 marks) Total = 7 marks
Question 2:
Refer to Chapters 7 & 8
(a) Assume that a firm discharges waste into a river. As a result, the marginal social costs (MSC) are greater than the firm’s marginal (private) costs (MC). The table below shows how MC, MSC, AR and MR vary with output. Assume that the marginal private benefit (MB) is given by the price (AR). Assume also that there are no externalities on the consumption side, and that therefore MSB = MB. Study the table and answer the following questions.
Output
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
MC
23
21
23
25
27
30
35
42
MSC
35
34
38
42
46
52
60
72
TR
60
102
138
168
195
219
238
252
AR
60
51
46
42
39
36.5
34
31.5
MR
60
42
36
30
27
24
19
14
(i) How much will the firm produce if it seeks to maximise profits? (1 mark)
(ii) What is the socially efficient level of output? (1 mark)
(iii) How much is the marginal external cost at this level of output? (1 mark)
(iv) What size of tax would be necessary for the firm to reduce its output to the socially efficient level? (1 mark)
(v) Why is the tax less than the marginal externality? (1 mark)
(b) Explain and illustrate why the demand for labor curve is downwards sloping? (1mark)
(c) Explain and illustrate when a firm receives a surplus over its total wage bill under prefect competition? (1 mark)
Total = 7 marks
Question 3:
Refer to Chapter 9
(a) Explain in terms of the Australian circular flow of income if the following are net injections, net withdrawals or neither? If there is uncertainty, explain your assumptions.
(i) The government purchases US military aircraft. (1 mark)
(ii) The government runs a budget deficit (spends more than it receives in tax revenues) and finances it by borrowing from the general public. (1 mark)
(iii) The government runs a budget deficit and finances it by printing more money. (1 mark)
(b) Give examples and discuss the costs of (i) inflation and (ii) unemployment on the individual, firm, government and the economy as a whole. (2 marks each = 4 marks)
Total = 7 marks
Question 4:
Refer to Chapter 10
(a) Illustrate and explain what effect will the following have on the expenditure line:
(i) An increase in the proportion of people’s income that is saved. (1.5 marks)
(ii) A fall in exports. (1.5 marks)
(b) Using the withdrawals/injections and the income/expenditure approach, show graphically and explain the effects on GDP, consumption and unemployment of a substantial rise in:
(i) Exports (2 marks)
(ii) Government expenditure. (2 marks)
Total = 7 marks
Please Note: “This criteria sheet below will be included with your assessment when marked and returned to you on moodle.”
ECON 11026: Assignment-2 Marking Sheet
Student Name: Student/Number:
Question No
ECON11026 : A-2
Marks Out of
Total Marks
Q1
a
2
b (i)
1
b (ii)
2
b (iii)
2
Q2
a (i)
1
a (ii)
1
a (iii)
1
a (iv)
1
a (iv)
1
b
1
c
1
Q3
a (i)
1
a (ii)
1
a (iii)
1
b (i)
2
b (ii)
2
Q4
a (i)
1.5
a (ii)
1.5
b (i)
2
B (ii)
2
Referencing
1
Presentation
1
Total marks
Total marks out of 30
30
Additional Markers Comments:
________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________Markers Name: __________________________ Date: _________________________
Assessment criteria for Written Assessment Item 2
Use the DADA acronym when structuring your answers to all questions in economics. (Definitions: define the key terms; Assumptions: list or make assumptions as required; Diagrams: draw relevant graphs/tables and explain; and original Analysis: apply the theory to real life economic examples and explain).
(i) You must read the chapters each week and work on the assignment questions progressively each week—which will prevent you from asking for extensions. So please follow a weekly study schedule.
(ii) Plagiarism is a real concern, therefore, please remember to reference in-text and also provide a reference list. Do not give your assignment to anyone or copy from other students.
(iii) Concepts and key terms must be defined accurately and completely.
(iv) The assumptions upon which the analysis is based must be stated at the outset.
(v) Diagrams must be drawn properly, correctly labelled and the relations they depict explained on the diagram and in the accompanying text of your answer.
(vi) Answers must be complete, addressing the specific tasks nominated in the questions.
(vii) Sources must be acknowledged in-text and a list of references provided using the Harvard Referencing Style.
(viii)Where a question has more than one part, so too should the answer. Ensure complete coverage in the analysis section of your answer.
(ix) Students should reference more than two (2) to three (3) textbooks to answer these theory based questions as a minimum.
(x) Remember an extension is not a gift, it is a burden.

LECTURE 9 NOTES

Al Gore was quoted as saying that NAFTA was the best deal since the Louisiana Purchase. Hardly a diplomatic quote but in this lesson’s reading you will begin to see what he meant . The best way to understand the economic processes taking place throughout Latin America is to consider them from the perspective of a Rural-Urban continuum with immigration taking place along a line of development – from least developed areas all the way to the US border and beyond. 50 percent of the rural population is landless. Part of the problem here is that, in developing, these countries increasingly rely on cash crops for export – things like coffee, bananas, beef, sugar etc. These crops lend themselves to large scale industrial agricultural production and they take the best lands to do it. The crops do not feed the local people, they do not create a lot of work, and they do not leave much in the way of added value in the countryside. On the other side of the coin what developing countries buy is expensive capital goods – machinery, computers, airplanes etc. So they sell low -and are forced to buy high. On top of this as more countries grow cash crops prices fall. It is a buyers market for us – a sellers market for them in terms of what they buy from us. So poverty, hunger and debt is manufactured and built into the relationship between the two areas. On top of this traditional economies are based on creating as much work for as many people as possible – however “inefficient” this may seem to us. Capitalist economies on the other hand are based on creating profit – even at the expense of community or social capital. You create profit by downsizing the workforce and increasing the productivity of those left employed. In other words the global needs of people – for work – are sacrificed for the “artificial” needs of a particular economic system. So you find at least 25-50 percent underemployment and unemployment in “developing” societies.

With Nafta also the small farmer is being squeezed off the land by heavily subsidized corn, pork, poultry and eggs from the United States. They cannot compete with these subsidies.

What is to be done?

Pay particular attention to the section on migration to the United States and to Box 10.5. Recent figures suggest that over 50 percent of immigration to the US is from Latin America and that Latino populations in most States are increasing by 50 percent every decade. This is a marriage with no possibility of divorce. Yet there is a lot we could do – at marginal cost – to significantly improve the lives of the new immigrants. We just need the will to do it.

Reading:
The Legacy of Mesoamerica

Pages 353-378

Global Studies :

Pages 205-216

1. Reaction Paper: Is Capitalist penetration of the peasant class good or bad for local economies and cultures?

2) State your best argument for God (providing reasons) and identify what
kind of God is defended by this argument.

3) State your best argument for the deity of Christ (provide reasons).

4) State your best argument for the resurrection of Christ (provide reasons).

5) State your best argument for the authority of the Bible (provide reasons).

6) State specifically what steps or beliefs or conditions are required for
salvation and defend your answer.

1.In 300 words describe three ethical issues involved when taking the role of mediator and provide examples of each.
2.In 250 words identify three areas of interest for which you might wish to advocate.

Reference
Baker, S. B., Robichaud, T. A., Westforth Dietrich, V. C., Wells, S. C., & Schreck, R. E. (2009, February). School counselor consultation: A pathway to advocacy, collaboration, and leadership. Professional School Counseling, 12(3), 200-206.