...CASE STUDY: CHALLENGES OF CHOOSING A NEW BOARD CHAIR 1. What issues does this Board have? The major issue which the Board of Welcome Communities is facing is that they do not have a strong leadership Board Chair to lead and make strategic decisions for the organization. There are several internal weaknesses of the Board that causes this problem. Many other things need to be considered as well. First, the structure of the Board and the responsibilities of the seats are not clearly defined. Based on the case, we can see that the organization did not develop a board structure to guide the job distribution right from the beginning. This should have been done in order to be sure that the board members will not be confused about the job responsibilities. A well-structured board should include at least five branches: a Board Chair, and four Committees specializing in Finance, Development, Human Resources, and Funding. However, in this case, Umberto took on the job of seeking donors’ support instead of supervising each committee’s duty. Furthermore, because he did not set a good example of a Board Chair, and the other members on the board are not able to fully understand what the job responsibilities consist of. Therefore, the members grow concerned about what the job entails of, which leads to only one member willing to step up for nomination. The unclear job definition also causes a passive attitude in the Board. Each member seems to want to cut back a little on their involvement...
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...Brown V Board Of Education May 17, 1954 was a date that had an impact on the board of education and our lives. There was an African American girl named Linda Brown, she was a normal girl in the third grade. Linda went to a school that was a mile away even though there was an all white elementary school, seven blocks away. Her father, Oliver Brown, tried to enroll her in the white elementary school, but the principal of the school refused to let her in due to her race. Mr. Brown then took this problem to the NAACP ( National Association for the Advancement of Colored People), they agreed to help him. As this case became more known it was then later brought up to supreme court. Other cases have led up to this case, these cases included, Sweat v. Painter (1950) and McLaurin v. Oklahoma Board of Regents of Higher Education (1950). The cases leading up to Brown Vs Board of Education featured African American people dealing with segregation problems. Brown argued segregation is seen as antithetical to our whole culture. If a particular class of people are forced to stay in their own neighborhoods, have their own schools, parks, stores, restaurants, movie theaters, and not welcome in 'mainstream' places, they are not equal as citizens. This is a violation of the 'equality' provisions of the 14th amendment. One of the most basic founding principles of the US is that we have only one class of citizenship, every citizen is entitled to exactly the same rights and privileges of citizenship...
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...Justice with the assistance of the Administrative Director and staff appointed by the Supreme Court. The Supreme Court hears appeals from lower courts and may exercise original jurisdiction in cases relating to revenue, mandamus, prohibition or habeas corpus ("Welcome to Illinois," 2011). The Appellate Court hears appeals from the Circuit Courts. There are five districts of the Appellate Court, and Judges are elected for 10-year terms. Cook County, which comprises the 1st District, has 18 Appellate Judges. The remaining 101 counties are divided into four districts that elect six Judges each. Additional Judges are assigned by the Supreme Court to the Appellate Court, temporarily, on a showing of need. Elgin is the seat of the 2nd District; Ottawa, the 3rd; Springfield, the 4th, and Mount Vernon, the 5th ("Welcome to Illinois," 2011). The Unified Trial Court in Illinois is the Circuit Court comprised of Circuit and Associate Judges. The state is divided in 23 judicial circuits, each having one Chief Judge elected by the Circuit Judges. The Chief Judge has general administrative authority in his or her circuit, subject to the overall administrative authority of the Supreme Court. Circuit Judges may hear any case assigned to them by the Chief Judge. Associate Judges may not preside over criminal cases in which the defendant is charged with an offense punishable by imprisonment for one year or more (felonies), unless approval is received from the Supreme Court. Circuit Judges are elected...
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...Professor in Residence, KPMG (2007) Office: GSB.5.124E; Ph.: 475-8852; E-mail: mark.bradshaw@mccombs.utexas.edu Office hours: Tuesdays and Thursdays from 11:15 – 12:15 and by appointment. I generally prefer e-mail as a means of contact outside of class and office hours. Teaching Assistants Star Yuan, traditional M.P.A. student E-mail: star.y.yuan@gmail.com Ashley Ross, 5th year integrated M.P.A. student E-mail: ashley.ross@bba07.mccombs.utexas.edu Star and Ashley will assist with the grading of cases and exams. After graded cases are returned throughout the semester, they will schedule office hours to discuss such assignments. If you have grading or other questions concerning a case that has been returned, please make every effort to attend their scheduled office hours. All other questions and communications concerning course-related matters (including case and exam preparation and exam grading) should be directed to me. Internet Discussion Board and "Blackboard" We will use...
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...Good Day Willy, Welcome back, I hope your trip went fine! Please forget the rain this is unusual here ;-) I have been on-board to ASV looking for you but perhaps was not my lucky day! Unfortunately since few days we are on Yellow Alert due to the bad weather conditions. In preparation of this, they have swap several people between the ASV and the FLNG including myself yesterday evening, I hope the situation will be back soon. Although I still have few more days to spend on board, I would very much appreciated if could put down a good pieces of information in a word documents in order for us to made clear all the process for the Verification tracker, TO.xp, Closure punch, Check sheets, Contact points etc. never know something happen again!...
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...Prodectivity The IMA Educational Case Journal (IECJ®) is a quarterly, online journal whose mission is to publish for management accounting and related fields: · Teaching cases · Research related to case writing or teaching with cases The case studies in this journal provide an educational resource rich in detail to reflect current problems and complexities characteristic of today's dynamic business environment. It aims to facilitate interaction between financial professionals and educators. IECJ is listed in the Cabell's Directory of Publishing Opportunities in Accounting. IMA offers case writing competitions with cash awards, including: * 2015 Special IECJ Ethics Case Competition: Cases must be based on real companies or events and relate to an ethical situation. Cases submitted to the competition will concurrently be reviewed for publication in IECJ. Deadline: October 1 * 2016 Carl Menconi Ethics Case Competition: Cases are focused on business ethics, and the winning case is featured in Strategic Finance. Deadline: January 26 * 2016 IMA Case Writing Competition: Cases in any area of management accounting or related fields are invited. Deadline: July 11 Congratulations to the winners of the 2015 IMA Case Writing Competition: First Place Award ($2,000) “West Coast Equestrian Association” Doug Kalesnikoff, FCPA, FCA, IFA, CFE, University of Saskatchewan Vince Bruni-Bossio, MBA, University of Saskatchewan Suresh Kalagnanam, PhD, CPA, CMA...
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...segregation in public schools. Black children were denied admission to public school mend for whites. The story of Oliver brown whom her daughter was denied admission to a white school blocks from her home rather than attending a black school couples of miles away from her home. Thus, Brown stood up and strived to eradicate this system of segregation between whites and black in schools. This specific issue was treated seriously and it led to what is known as Brown v. Board of Education. The NAACP eagerly welcomes Brown into their team and seized the great opportunity to battle racial discrimination. These issues were brought up in the Supreme Court. The NAACP argued that segregated schools were perceived by the black children seeing themselves inferior to whites; therefore, the school were simply unequal. However, The Board of Education’s backup was that, segregated schools prepared black children for the racial discrimination they would face during their adulthood staged. Also the board listed out some great African- American such as George Carver, Frederick Douglass, and Booker T. Washington who had overcome more than just segregated schools to achieved success. So they opposed the challenged sent forth on them that segregated schools were not harmful to black kids. Therefore, the...
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...Cerrillo, as the new Chief executive officer of Tomorrows Products, the Accounting Department would like to welcome you to the company. We would also like to stress how important it is for our company financial statements to be accurate as possible for our Board of Directors meetings at the end of every month. As the Chief Financial Officer, I would like to extend any help from the Accounting Department to assist you at anytime you feel you have any discrepancies in our statements. The owner brought to my attention in our last board of directors meeting that you were having minor issues with the reports; I want to setup a meeting with you to show you specific tools that you can use to analyze the companies financial statements. I would like to point out the three main ratio analysis we use for analysis of primary financial statements, the profitability, liquidity, and solvency ratios. Profitability ratios measure the income or operating success of a company for a given period of time. For example, from the last income statement I emailed to you Wednesday, you will notice that the companies sales increased by net income decreased during the period. To evaluate the companies profitability we will use ratio analysis. The liquidity ratio measures the short term ability of the company to pay its maturing obligations and to meet unexpected needs for cash. In this case you will use one liquidity ratio, current ratio, which is computed as current assets divided by current liabilities...
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...includes: * accommodations in ocean-front A/C cabana with private bath with hot and cold running water * three Belizean meals daily, including packed lunches when on tours * transportation to and from Dangriga and Coco Plum Resort (arrival & departure) * air transportation to and from Philip Goldson International Airport (BZE) in Belize City and Dangriga * complimentary bottle of wine * unlimited free local beer, local soft drinks, and local mixed drinks (mixed drinks made with local gin, local coconut rum, local vodka, and local rum only) * one romantic candlelight dinner served on the beach or your veranda * nightly turn down service * free use of kayaks, snorkel gear, stand up paddle boards and Hobie Cat * a welcome drink on the day of your arrival * daily housekeeping services * unlimited time to relax on our beach or in our hammocks for two * all hotel and sales taxes and park entrance fees * 4-night package include two snorkeling trips along Belize's Barrier Reef * 5-night package includes three tours (two snorkeling trips along Belize's Barrier Reef and one inland tour) * 6, 7, 8, and 9 night packages include five tours (three snorkeling trips along Belize Barrier Reef and two inland tours) * 10 night packages include seven tours (five snorkeling trips along Belize Barrier Reef and two inland tours). * Choose from: * Explore the...
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...Executive Summary This report equips our audience with broader approaches to the case of Genzyme and Relational Investor. After an examination of existing issues and accountability of companies operating framework, it can be concluded that companies have a primary responsibility to their shareholders. Nevertheless, this case has a lot of nuances that are relevant to the analysis that we will point out. This analysis is expected to showcase for upcoming and existing organizations to adopt operations and management practices that are more benefic to shareholder even when science is involved. This report consists of an introduction to the case. This is followed by recommendations and alternatives that individually provide different implications to the case and conclude with some recommendations for the company. Introducing the case, the first section of this report examines current issue of Genzyme, such as diversification and its implications. Science sits at the most basic level of a biotechnology company, followed by diversification, a trend where businesses integrate its daily operation. The development of the issue shows clearly its source. The recommendations are based on the analysis made by an external company, Relational Investor that suggested a path to follow to lift up the decline in the stock price and the business in general. The alternatives are presented in the case as the dilemma the current CEO faces as a response to the recommendation given by Relational...
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...This is CS50. Harvard College Fall 2010 Problem Set 3: The Game of Fifteen due by 7:00pm on Fri 10/1 Per the directions at this document’s end, submitting this problem set involves submitting source code on cloud.cs50.net as well as filling out a Web-‐based form (the latter of which will be available after lecture on Wed 9/29), which may take a few minutes, so best not to wait until the very last minute, lest you spend a late day unnecessarily. Be sure that your code is thoroughly commented to such an extent that lines’ functionality is apparent from comments alone. Goals. • Introduce you to larger programs and programs with multiple source files. • Empower you with Makefiles. • Implement a party favor. Recommended Reading. • Section 17 of http://www.howstuffworks.com/c.htm. • Chapters 20 and 23 of Absolute Beginner’s Guide...
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...09/05/2016 Welcome! Welcome! • Intermediate Financial Accounting (ACCT 3200) • M-W-F 2:30-4:20 in AE 208 • Important Dates – – – – – Intermediate Financial Accounting Friday May 13, 2016 – First Midterm (25% of grade) Monday May 23, 2016 – No class Friday May 27, 2016 – final date to withdraw Friday June 3, 2016 – Second Midterm (25% of grade) Friday June 17, 2016 – Final Exam (1:30-4:30) (45% of grade) • Quizzes will be announced the class prior Copyright © John Wiley & Sons Canada, Ltd. 1 Copyright © John Wiley & Sons Canada, Ltd. Welcome! Welcome! A little about me… 2 A little about YOU!… Copyright © John Wiley & Sons Canada, Ltd. 3 Copyright © John Wiley & Sons Canada, Ltd. 4 1 09/05/2016 INTERMEDIATE ACCOUNTING How to be successful in this class TENTH CANADIAN EDITION Kieso • Weygandt • Warfield • Young • Wiecek • McConomy • This is a summer session class = quick • This is a 3rd year class = challenging – Quick + challenging = be organized • Do the assigned homework (min. 1:1) • Read the chapter beforehand • Come to class CHAPTER 1 The Canadian Financial Reporting Environment • Exams will have – Multiple choice & matching questions – Short answer questions – Problems – mini cases Prepared by: Dragan Stojanovic, CA 5 Copyright © John Wiley & Sons Canada, Ltd. As edited by Jeff Kent, CPA,CA M.B.A. The Canadian Financial Reporting Environment CHAPTER 1 The...
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...Professor: Gooding Students and welcome. Today we have Officer Derrick Stogner visiting us from our local state penitentiary. He and I will be doing a little Q & A on some questions that were provided and selected from you guys earlier in the week. So without further ado let us just dive right in and get started. Professor: How does the prison environment influence security and custody in your prison? Me: Hello everyone and hello professor. Well the prison environment is unlike anything a person not affiliated with the correctional institute has experienced. You must always at all times be on guard and vigilante because you never know what a person will do who is in that type of situation. With that being said we have implemented security features to help us combat and prevent attacks both on other prisoners and guards. We have daily inspections, security cameras almost everywhere, security checkpoints at everywhere entrance to any part of the building both inside and out, armed guards in towers, and along the perimeter of the building, dogs on standby, SWAT like teams in case something happens that needs to be controlled, a minimum of two guards per person being moved anywhere as the prisoner will be in both hand chains and leg chains, as well as spit mask if necessary. It is a hostile environment and must be treated as such at all times. We are outnumbered in there and the prisoners know it. They live there day in and day out and they learn everything they...
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...Gorby Case Study: IT Project Implementation Failures The case study of the Memorial Health System and their CPOE implementation poses many issues that contributed to their IT failure. The first issue I noticed was the unrealistic timeline developed by the original champions Dryer and Roberts. Dryer and Roberts planned to execute their new IT among eight hospitals in less than eighteen months. With their failure to respect uncertainty from members of the discussion board, they demanded and rushed results from their clinical and IT team. This resulted in a rushed out requirements analysis, request for proposal quickly issued, and a rush to select the vendor and signing the contract. When the original champions were replaced by Lu and Sparks, I initially thought they were capable of successfully pulling off implementing this system even in the short timeframe. They would probably have been successful if Sparks did not lack candor. The executive project manager, Martin, had a perfectly thorough and detailed a project plan that most likely would have guided the organization to success if they followed her suggestions. Spark’s lack of candor and anger to Martin’s project plan lead her to lie about the truth and withhold important progress information on the project. At the end of the eighteen month timeline, the go live date resulted in failure due to all of these issues. With an organization like ours, there are several ways to reduce an IT failure like the case study...
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...resources to ensure adequate medical care in this ever changing economy. Schools are challenged with finding ways to engage parents in utilizing these resources and learn how they can help make keeping their children safe and healthy. I am proposing that we hold a Health and Safety Fair for the students and parents to create awareness. There will be games, music, prizes and food for all. Students will host this event and assisted by their teacher, welcome their parents to the event. This fair will highlight the healthcare resources available in the local community, Fire safety and safety during sports activities. The location of the fair will be Johnson Park in Everman. Charges have been waived as a courtesy to the local schools and as a citizen of Everman, use of the park is free. The objective of this event is to keep parents informed of the community resources that are available to them as a family. Children have fun learning how to be safe and parents engage in practicing along with their children what to do in case of an emergency. Since this is a park setting there will be no need for childcare as parents will be with their children. Our goal is to: * increase health awareness by providing health screenings, activities, materials, demonstrations, and information; * increase awareness of local, state, and national health services and resources; * motivate participants to make positive health behavior changes; * provide immunizations for children...
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