...an approval process which requires all the expenses should be properly documented and the need explained. This is not in place in Choice House 2. Identify ethical issues that Ashley should discuss with the Finance Committee? Which IMA Ethical Standards would apply to Ashley? Discuss. * Credibility: The ED should record all expenses and provide all information when I asked. He cannot deny any information. Providing accurate and insightful information are the key function to ED role. 3. How should Ashley respond to the Finance Committee? Review the IMA Resolution of Ethical Conflict section of the IMA Statement of Ethical Professional Practice for guidance. Prepare a memo to Joan sharing Ashley’s findings. Should Ashley send a copy of the memo to the ED? Explain. * Ashley should discuss the case with her immediate supervisor and also take the issue to upper level to the executive director. * Ashley’s Memo to Joan: Date: 6/3/2013 From: Ashley Parsons Subject: Findings on Choice House expense issue and lack of revenue for the year To: Joan Tanner CC: Beth * Most expenses were due to publicity brochures and small gift items that the ED requested for her trips to the state legislature and for other unspecified publicity activities. The overage was due to the leasing of two copiers for five years. Each house is required to prepare reports daily on the clients for the program and for the prison system. There are other records required for...
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...Clinical judgment is when one believes on whatever relevant data or what we believe is the best choice, while actuarial judgment solely uses practical proven statistical associations between data and outcome; in other words, one selects what statistics or numbers recommend (Dawes, Faust, & Meehl, 1989). I believe that both ways are not better than each other because for the most part, people tend to use their best judgments based on the situation at hand and an actuarial judgment may not offer the best choice. One of my clinical judgments was choosing a pest control company to fumigate my home bi-weekly. They showed up at my front door explaining the process and how they can eliminate all types of insects and other pests from my home. I was motivated to give them a try as I had recently moved into the house and did not have anyone doing this service during that time. They also offered to fumigate immediately and bill me monthly (did not have to pay that day). I thought this was a pretty good deal. After a week or so after the fumigation, I noticed I was getting spider webs by my front door. I called the service so they could come back out and take care of the situation. They came over and explained that it will take a few tries to kill these spiders. I was a bit upset as I did not have them prior to the fumigation. They explained that the venom drew them out and at least I can see them now. At that point I just asked them to fumigate around the area...
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...CUSTOM ORDER Evaluate the importance of each major steps in policy analysis as it relates to political choice. Next, debate if one would conside any of these steps more important than another. Procvide a rationale to support your answer. There are five steps that most Policy Analysts attempt to follow and these are: • Definition of the problem • Setting objectives and criteria • Developing alternatives • Analyzing various policies • Ranking and choosing Under the Definition of Problem Policy analysts need to decide which of the problems facilng public organisations are most pressing. There are several questions that need answers, the analyst must seek a clear statement of the problem, information of the nature and range of solutions. These questions include but not limited to: who is affected? Why has the problem surfaced? How does this problem relate to similar problems? E.g. building homes for the disabled: The analyst should be informed about the time or money and the limitations. He/she can talk to those who did similar jobs. Setting Objective and Criteria In setting the objective and criteria, the analyst should be able to say what the project is worth for the agency to achieve result A instead of B, e.g. routing a highway, the factors to be considered are the cost of the project, how many people will use the high way, number of houses and other properties that might be displaced, impact of noise and pollution on adjacent neighborhoods....
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...on ships (short-term) | Buy a house,car,start family (long-term) | | | | | | | | | | | Answer the Reflection Questions 1. Explain how the concepts of scarcity, choice, and opportunity cost relate to your dilemma. The concepts of all three relate to my dilemma because they all focus on a choice that I have to make. The scarcity in my dilemma is that I don’t have a lot of time to be home with family and be deployed on ships in the ocean. The choice in my dilemma is I have to choose either to stay home with family and friends and not be successful or become a Merchant Seaman and be successful and proud f what I made out of my life. The opportunity cost in my dilemma is that I have to give up laughter,fun,and games with family. 2. When making a decision, are the costs and benefits equally important to you? Why or why not? Based on your chart, explain which category, costs or benefits, would have the largest impact on your decision? No they are not because the costs is the things you will have to give up and the benefits is the good you get out of the dilemma choice you made. To me the costs category would have a big impact on my decision because to me family is important, I don’t like being without my family so by me having to leave them an giving them me up I would really be heartbroken and lonely. 3. Based on the chart and your responses to the above questions,what will be your final choice? Write a brief paragraph with at...
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...Harvard Graduate Student Housing Survey The purpose of the 2001 survey is to obtain useful quantified information that would influence future design and marketing decisions as well as influence and change the dynamics of thinking at Harvard housing, to make it more centered on demand. In section A “Current Housing”, there are five sub-sections, which are “What type of housing do you live now”, location, rent, “How do you know the current housing” and the housing features. In section B, the “Ideal Housing” section, the sub-sections are features of housing, type of housing, roommate preferences, marketing channel of housing, and “importance of the housing when first come to the University.” Section C is “Transportation” section, which is divided into two subsections, namely form of transportation and time of arrival and leaving. For the section D, the “Housing Features”, there are three sub-sections, including “neighborhood features,” “building features,” and “unit feature”. In section E, the “About Yourself” section, the sub-sections are academic and demographic information. The last section is “About Your preference,” whose sub-sections are preference of room type, “comparison among time, living space and rent”, “how to spend your time” and rent. The sections of the survey are in the order of current housing, ideal first year housing, transportation, housing features, demographic, preference on housing and further comments. Looking at this survey, it is not in a logical flow...
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..."My power lies in balance. I strive for equality and choose not to indulge in instant gratification at the expense of my purpose. I am responsible for my own decisions and take on only what I can handle based upon that which I value. I am empowered by choice and my asset is negotiation". Unfortunately, easier said than done. The power of peers always amazes me. I can have an absolute purpose in mind, and get me around several peers out for no good, and I become one of the pack. Becoming one of a pack can never have a good ending. It was going to be a boring Friday night. Just the thought of sitting at home watching some old rerun with my mom rubbed me the wrong way. But earlier, I had an invite from Jennifer to a birthday sleepover. At 17, I'm past the age for sleepovers but weighing my options, a sleepover didn't sound so immature. I found myself getting an address and saying I'll see you around 8. At home I get on Facebook to see who all is going to be there. The more I read, the more I know I shouldn't be attending this gathering. It has become more than a sleepover. The location has been moved to the house of some older boys who have graduated and are renting out a house referred to as the "party house". I know there will be no supervision, but this just makes it more interesting. I tell my mom, of course, it is still a sleepover for one of my friends birthday. I get her to drop me off before she has to go pick up my sister at work. She grills me...
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...My Big Decision Every day, from the minute we wake up, till the time we go to bed, we are faced with choices. The choices we face on a day-to-day basis range from getting out of bed and starting our day, to investing our hard earned money into buying a new car or house. We make so many choices in just one day and most of the time we don’t even ponder the decisions we end up making. Recently, in the past year, after being involved in an automobile accident I was faced with, what seemed to be a very big decision. This very big decision was whether or not to move back to Cleveland after living on my own for five years. I pondered this choice for a very long time and in the process many thoughts crossed my mind. I had a considerable amount of concerns while pondering this thought such as where I would live, where would I work, and if I was ready to start my life all over again in a new but familiar place. Since my automobile accident, moving back to Cleveland was the biggest decision I was faced with making yet. I contemplated it for about six months before making a definitive choice. My biggest concern in moving back home was where was I going to live? Five years ago, when I moved out of my parent’s house, for college, I told myself that I would never move back. I told myself that I would never move back not because I didn’t love or care for my parents but because I felt that going to college was a step toward becoming an adult and moving back home would be anything...
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...Analyzing Robert Frost’s ‘The Road Not Taken’ “Every life is a march from innocence, through temptation, to virtue or vice.” Lyman Abbott In the poem ‘The Road Not Taken’ Robert Frost toys with the ideas of innocence and experience that one can relate to in his or her own life by the choices they have to make in their day to day lives. Like his other works that explore fundamental questions of existence, depicting the loneliness of an individual in an indifferent universe, the poem ‘The road not taken’ explores a man’s uncertainty to choose from two paths that lay before him. In the following article I shall present a close analysis of Frost’s poem and how it can relate to one’s life. Most people have come across a time where they have to make a decision between two figurative roads. Not sure where to go and unaided, they might choose the road that would take them to the place where they want to go or the road that takes us somewhere new, but either way the path we choose takes us to where we are now. In life situations where we have to choose from different metaphorical paths such as which college to join, which house to buy, etc. there exists a road we took that got us where we are and a metaphorical road not taken. While making such decisions we come across the big question of whether to take the well beaten path or be non-conformists and take the less travelled route. Robert Frost’s “The Road Not Taken” is all about these quandaries present in every person’s life. The...
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...What choices do we make in our lives that are driven by our needs and wants? There are many differences between our needs and wants when making decisions. Some purchases are driven by the basic everyday items that we need to survive. Other choices are made by the personal desires of our own wants. We see in our society new items coming out everyday. There are things such as new technology, cars, houses, and more. Everyone in the modern day society, everyone wants what everyone else has. They want to be better than one another. Some of the choices that we make will affect us for the rest of our lives. There are some things in life that we feel are obligated to do such as attend college, purchase our everyday needs, and provide for our families....
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...Life‘s Choices Case Analysis Life Choices Mark’s dilemma is that he has thirty more years left to work and he is now being offered a position that will affect not only his career path but his family. The company located in Macro where Mark is currently employed, had a loss in profits over the last year because of the recession and new competitors. Other companies in the same business field also suffered a loss in profits. Marco cautiously decided to sell their company to a larger company on the East Coast. This problem meant that Marco now had to respectfully lay off some of their employees and changes would have to be made to incorporate the new company policy. Both Mark and his wife work for the same company, although her position was not effected she was not offered a job at the new location on the East Coast. Again the company had decided to reduce the head count in the Midwest. That meant Mark’s position would be eliminated but the CEO offered Mark a new position as the senior manager at the new location on the East Coast, but first he must decide to let go of all his current employees and must move to the new headquarter. Mark and Annie both must face a new problem, they both have lived in the Midwest their whole entire life, have family living nearby and they enjoy the companies of their friends and neighbors. Now facing the question, should they pick up, move and relocate to the new headquarter for Mark’s new position has been a difficult decision for them to...
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...In life one choice by a single person can make or break what fate had in store for the particular circumstance that you are in. In the “The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet” many factors decided the outcome, including all of the decisions made by the Nurse. Juliet’s Nurse single handedly took down the whole story line by deceiving Juliet into indirectly marrying by lobbying her to marry Paris. The Nurse also plays a vital role in convincing Romeo that he will never be good enough, resulting in him pursuing Juliet like a bloodhound after a prisoner escape. Here in the real world our “great society” can be duped into anything as long as we are told a believable lie. Every crime consequentially has a culprit, in the case of this play the Nurse was interfering, and deceiving numerous characters, therefore completely obliterating or “transforming” Shakespeare’s story line. Near the beginning of the play the Nurse is trying to convince Juliet why she should marry Paris proclaiming no imperfections. “A man, young lady! Lady, such a man As all the world-Why, he’s a man of fine wax”(Shakespeare 388). Essentially the Nurse is inciting that Paris would be the perfect man for Juliet, since he has no lack of...
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...Tianna Shepperson March 16, 2012 Personal Ethics Reflection Out of the four ethical lenses, my preferred ones are Rights and Responsibilities and Result lens because I often use my feelings to determine the choices that I make towards my happiness. As an example I moved out my mother house soon as I graduated because I rather be independent and free than living with my mom rules and not having as much freedom as I do now. My blind spot stated that as long as I’m satisfied that I unintentionally leave everyone else to fend for themselves. This is badly handled because the problem is left unresolved. I am satisfied so I am okay with it. My strengths out rule my disadvantages because I had more positive theories that related to me more than the negatives did. It stated that my gifts are self-knowledge and free will because since I tend for myself I am fiercely reliable and accountable; I make responsible choices that are good for everyone. The best solution for me is both consistent and flexible as well as treating everyone fairly. On a different perspective my disadvantages were a change of thought to the way I felt about my ethics of life. I relate to the theory because of the simple fact that by me being more reliable on myself that I have a hand full of responsibilities to organize and fit into my everyday schedule. My values in life have a major impact on me because of my nationality. My morals in life have been handed down from older generations and which I believe...
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...TOEFL Writing Topics Topics in the following list may appear in your actual test. You should become familiar with this list before you take the computer-based TOEFL test. Remember that when you take the test you will not have a choice of topics. You must write only on the topic that is assigned to you. People attend college or university for many different reasons (for example, new experiences, career preparation, increased knowledge). Why do you think people attend college or university? Use specific reasons and examples to support your answer. Do you agree or disagree with the following statement? Parents are the best teachers. Use specific reasons and examples to support your answer. Nowadays, food has become easier to prepare. Has this change improved the way people live? Use specific reasons and examples to support your answer. A company has announced that it wishes to build a large factory near your community. Discuss the advantages and disadvantages of this new influence on your community. Do you support or oppose the factory? Explain your position. If you could change one important thing about your hometown, what would you change? Use reasons and specific examples to support your answer. How do movies or television influence people’s behavior? Use reasons and specific examples to support your answer. Do you agree or disagree with the following statement? Television has destroyed communication among friends and family. Use specific reasons...
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...Are Choices an Illusion? Section 1 Do I believe that the choices we make are just mere illusions? That we do not really have our own free will in making decisions? Yes, I believe this to be true. Section 2 However, some believe that we do have free will. Roy F. Baumeister, a social psychologist states that we do have free will, and he says: If culture is so successful, why don’t other species use it? They can’t—because they lack the psychological innate capabilities it requires. Our ancestors evolved the ability to act in the ways necessary for culture to succeed. Free will likely will be found right there—it’s what enables humans to control their actions in precisely the ways required to build and operate complex social systems. (Baumeister). What Baumeister is saying is that based on how our ancestor has developed a sense of communication is an act of free will. They have free will because they chose how they want to develop and how it will help them evolve. Baumesiter also states how our self-control "counts as a kind of freedom because it beings with not acting on every impulse," meaning that because of our free will, we don't always act straight away when we see something. We think about it first before we trigger a response. Such as thinking about what we say before we say it, we just don't say the first thing that comes to our mind without thinking about it. Steve Zara, a writer in the Richard Dawkins discussion section of the websites states that ...
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...In modern society, there is freedom of choice, opinions, but in the dystopian society of Lois Lowry’s novel The Giver, everything is chosen for you for instance career, opinion on society. Compared to The Giver the modern world seems like a utopia such as being able to choose your career, having an opinion, and choice. In the novel careers are chosen when you turn twelve, by the Committee of Elders by observations and stay there until you get to the house of the old at age fifty. In modern society, there is freedom to choose what career and when, even when to quit and choose another job or retire. Even though, some of the qualities of having your career chosen for you may seem pleasant, the idea of having that same career until you cannot...
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