...Kaplan University Graduate School of Management SELF DIRECTED LEARNING PLAN Your Name: Tiaira Walls Date: October 21, 2013 Course Title: GB519 Measurement and Decision Making Professional Goal (2-3 years) from now: My professional goal two to three years from now is to graduate with my Master’s degree in Human Resources and hopefully obtain a entry level position in Human Resources or management. Strengths to Leverage Step 1: The most effective and satisfied people align their work with their natural strong points. Identify 3-5 of your key strengths (see Column 1 below); these could be a competency, skill, ability, knowledge area or personal characteristic. Think about how you can leverage those strengths to be effective in your work, achieve your professional goals, and become a leader in your profession. Step 2: At the beginning of each course in your MBA program, answer the following question either using this template or a narrative format. What do you expect to learn in this course that will help you leverage your strengths? (See Column 2 below). Be as specific as you can, e.g., assume that strength is your analytical ability. You might expect to understand more about macroeconomics so that you can analyze how the housing crisis affects other segments of the economy, such as interest rates or unemployment. At the beginning of the course you are not expected to be an expert in all facets of the course learning; however, you can...
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...Learning Project (SDLP) aims to provide first year medical students with an introduction to children as patients, paediatric history taking, communication and developmental observation skills. This introduction will provide a context for Clinical Reasoning Sessions and paediatric learning in Stages 2 & 3. You will take a written history from the parent or carer of an infant or preschooler. You will also formally observe the child twice in a three month period and note changes in the child's development. Learning objectives: 1. Become familiar with an infant or preschooler in a non-medical situation where the child is comfortable. 2. Observe a child's development over a period of months. 3. Conduct a conversational interview with a parent or carer. 4. Structure the information from the parent/carer as a written history. 5. Write two sets of notes as a record of your own observations of the child at each visit. 6. Receive constructive feedback from a Paediatric marker. More information The SDLP Guidelines (pdf) contains detailed information about the project and marking sheets. In addition, an introductory paediatrics lecture will be given in Block 1 to outline the Paediatric SDLP. This lecture will be held at the Wallace Theatre on Thursday 25 February 2010 from 11am-1pm . For more information and an example project, please see the 2010 Paediatric SDLP lecture presentation slides (pdf). Submission: Students are required to submit with their SDLP project a printed...
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...Kaplan University Graduate School of Business & Management Self Directed Learning Plan Instructions The Self Directed Learning Plan (SDLP) is a process and document to chronicle your accomplishments and learning steps through the Master’s program and beyond as they relate to your professional goals. The SDLP will help you to identify and target the array of competencies you need to reach your professional objectives and to help you organize your Kaplan Master’s learning experience to suit your career objectives. The SDLP will be a section of your Program Portfolio, so take some quality introspective time to consider strengths and areas of development relevant to your career objectives. We encourage you to contact Career Services for feedback on relevant competencies for your career goal, as well as other insights. By knowing your strengths and areas to develop, you can begin a plan to find out what you need to do to achieve your career goals. We encourage you to continue to reflect on the identified areas throughout the Master’s program. If you feel strength or development area is no longer relevant, you may add another to take its place. At any time, you may also add additional areas. SECTION 1: Strengths to Leverage Step 1a: The most effective and satisfied people align their work with their natural strong points. Identify 3-5 of your key strengths; these could be a competency, skill, ability, knowledge area or personal characteristic. Think about how...
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...Kaplan University Graduate School of Management SELF DIRECTED LEARNING PLAN The Self Directed Learning Plan (SDLP) is a process and document to chronicle your accomplishments and learning steps through the MBA program and beyond as they relate to your professional goals. The SDLP will help you to identify and target the array of competencies you need to reach your professional objectives and to help you organize your Kaplan MBA learning experience to suit your career objectives. The SDLP will be a section of your Program Portfolio, so take some quality introspective time to consider strengths and areas of development relevant to your career objectives. We encourage you to contact Career Services for feedback on relevant competencies for your career goal, as well as other insights. By knowing your strengths and areas to develop, you can begin a plan to find out what you need to do to achieve your career goals. We encourage you to continue to reflect on the identified areas throughout the MBA program. If you feel a strength or development area is no longer relevant, you may add another to take its place. At any time, you may also add additional areas. Your Name: Shannan Weaver Date: 6/16/2015 Course Title: Financial Accounting Principles and analysis Professional Goal (3-5 years) from now: In three to five years from now I would like to be a manager at my current place of employment Strengths to Leverage Step 1: The most effective and satisfied...
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...the Border Poll) was a referendum held in Northern Ireland on 8 March 1973. The referendum was on whether Northern Ireland should remain part of the United Kingdom or join with the Republic of Ireland to form a ‘United Ireland’. It was the first major referendum to be held in a region of the United Kingdom. The referendum was held On 23 January 1973, the Social Democratic and Labour Party (SDLP) called on its members "to ignore completely the referendum and reject this extremely irresponsible decision by the British Government". Gerry Fitt, leader of the SDLP, said he “had organised a boycott to stop an escalation in violence”. The question “Do you want Northern Ireland to remain part of the United Kingdom?” won by a land slide 98.9% over the 1.1% of voters voting against. The electorate were asked to indicate: Choice | Vote | Percentage[5] | Do you want Northern Ireland to remain part of the United Kingdom? | 591,820 | 98.9% | Do you want Northern Ireland to be joined with the Republic of Ireland outside the United Kingdom? | 6,463 | 1.1% | The vote was not legitimate because the SDLP members did not vote. They could have opposed staying in the United Kingdom. Votes breakdown: * Electorate: 1,030,084 (in 1973 * Total votes: 604,256 (58.66% of Electorate) * Valid votes: 598,283 (99.01% of Total votes) * Spoiled votes: 5,973 (0.99% of Total votes) * Non-voters: 425,828 (41.34% of Electorate) Consequences: The Government of the United Kingdom took no action...
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...Politics Voting systems are often imperfect and often do not guarantee that the majority will of particular constituents are fulfilled. For instance, under Britain’s first past the post general election voting system, MP’s will frequently be elected with a minority of constituents support. In the 2010 election and the previous 2 elections (2001,2005) no MP had achieved the support of 50% of the total electorate in their constituency. A prime example of an MP winning with a minority was in the most recent election when Alastair McDonnell of the SDLP won Belfast South with a mere 24.5% of the vote, this means over three quarters of Belfast South did not want him to represent them. The electoral reform society were able to predict the result of 363/650 constituencies four weeks prior to the 2015 election, these are called safe seats. On the other hand some seats (81) are ‘marginal’ and an example of a ‘swing’ seat is Derby North where this year the Tories only won by 41 votes and it is these fine margins that decide our election. MP’s frequently follow party leadership instructions over thinking for themselves, their constituents or what is in the genuine best interest of the majority of the nation. For example Teresa Pearce, MP for Erith and Thamesmead has only voted twice against Labour and on a separate occasion opposed the majority will of her constituents by voting in favour of gay marriage. Elected representatives also frequently enjoy long terms in office (e.g. MP’s...
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...Socio-evolutionary identity plays a fundamental role in the building of the character of any nation, with Northern Ireland being no different. The constellation of discursive issues that demarcate Irelands conflicted history, are complex and multifarious. The conflict is steeped in the historical context of religious conviction, monarchical dispossession of territory and rights, a distrust of government and the impact of socio-economics on its people. Scholars, politicians and men of the cloth, from all sides of the political floor and religious faiths have assessed and reviewed the Irish ‘troubles’ and all remain convinced that they have the answer, the defining commitment or the epiphany that will or would have restored the island to peace and unity. However like all protracted conflicts the original catalyst is often lost or manifests into a raft of idiosyncratic reasons to fight. When we dissect the conflict down to base elements, there remains two strategic themes, the first being the alignment of faith between the Protestant minority and the Catholic majority and the second base element is the alignment of allegiance of country. The Catholic Nationalist desire for a unified Irish nation and the Unionist commitment to a fractured island with a northern annex, controlled by the United Kingdom is at the essence of the conflict. Whilst this might seem a myopic view of the struggle, it is difficult to reframe the conflict beyond its ethno-nationalist agenda and “Irishness...
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...Sinn Fein Sinn Fein (/ʃɪn ˈfeɪn/ shin-FAYN) is an Irish republican political party active in both the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland. The name is Irish for "ourselves" or "we ourselves",although it is frequently mistranslated as "ourselves alone:Originating in the Sinn Fein organization founded in 1905 by Arthur Griffith, it took its current form in 1970 after a split within the party (the other party is the Workers' Party of Ireland), and has been associated with the Provisional Irish Republican Army Gerry Adams has been party president since 1983. Sinn Fein is currently the second-largest party in the Northern Ireland Assembly, where it has four ministerial posts in the power-sharing Northern Ireland Executive, and the fourth-largest party in the Oireachtas, the parliament of the Republic. Sinn Fein also received a plurality of Northern Ireland votes in the 2010 United Kingdom general election, although the Democratic Unionist Party won more seats. Police Service of Northern Ireland The Police Service of Northern Ireland (Irish: Seirbhís Póilíneachta Thuaisceart Éireann, Ulster Scots: Polis Servis o Norlin Airlan) is the police force that serves Northern Ireland. It is the successor of the defunct Royal Ulster Constabulary (RUC) which, in turn, was the successor to the Royal Irish Constabulary (RIC) in Northern Ireland. Although the majority of PSNI officers are still from the Protestant community, this dominance is not as pronounced as it was in the RUC because...
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...Assess the view that since 2007 the Assembly has been successful in holding the Executive Committee to account In Northern Ireland, holding the Government to account is one of Parliament’s main functions. The Assembly forces the Executive to justify bills, explain their motives and defend their actions; essentially through many mechanisms of scrutiny, that is Committees, Question Time and Debates. The main scrutiny instruments in the Assembly are the Statutory Committees. They hold the Executive to account through their wide-ranging scrutiny powers, mainly holding inquiries, scrutinising budget and by scrutinising legislation. Statutory Committees, as well as committees in general, are the engine room of the Northern Ireland Assembly. Statutory Committees hold inquiries into topical issues then report with recommendations and/or suggested solutions or alternatives back to the minister in question. Committees carrying out such scrutiny would convene and work with experts and stakeholders in the specified area surrounding the matter at stake, assisting the committee with their knowledge and understanding of the topical issue in question to which they can bring forward to the minister a fuller representation of evidence into the inquired issue. Much evidence to those is taken on board by the minister which subsequently leads to the implication good scrutiny. For example, in 2009 the Health Committee published a report on Obesity. 22 out of the 24 recommendations made were accepted...
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...UCLA EXTENSION – BUSINESS VALUATION MGMNT X 430.132 – Professor Walton WALTON DRILLING LLC VALUATION REPORT By James Lin & Lea Jovanovic for ‘Mike’ (a seller) Spring Quarter 2013 TABLE OF CONTENTS 1. Identification of the Interest Appraised page 4 2. Date of the Report page 4 3. Standard of Value page 4 4. Intended Use of the Report page 4 5. Name of Client page 4 6. Names of Appraisers page 4 7. Valuation Approaches Considered and Used page 4 8. Sources of Information Relied On page 4 9. Description of Business & Recent Developments page 6 10. Relevant Economic and Industry Analysis page 6 11. Risk Factors page 7 12. Disclosure Regarding Forward Projections page 8 13. Financial Outlook page 8 14.1 Selected Financial Data from 10K (2008-2012) page 8 14.2 Income Statement (2008-2012) page 9 14.3 Cash Flow (2010-2012) page 9 14. The Income Approach page 10 15.4 Net Cash Flow page 10 15.5 Discounting page 10 15.6 The Build-Up Model page 10 15.7 Risk-Free Rate page 10 15.8 Equity Risk Premium page 10 15.9 Size Premium page 11 15.10 Industry Adjustment page 11 15.11 Company-Specific Risk Adjustment page 11 15.12 Estimated Equity Discount Rate page 11 ...
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...642.5 million users , and Google with more than 620million visitors daily. Like any other business as big as they are, they are facing external as well as internal issues, from managing their stakeholders to the geographical segmentation matters. The globalisatin business strategy sometime has a great impact to the coperate business, which sometimes the busnesses have no control over. Only the internal factors and issues are easy for a company to deal with. Case Study 1 Introduction: Google was found in 1998 as a research project by Larry Page and Sergey Brin, Ph.D. students in coincidences of developing a singular integrated universal digital library; the Stanford Digital Library Project (SDLP). Its first headquarters are in Mountain View California. Google has built up a strong brand name or domain and it is a leader in the cyber industry, particularly in terms of its excellent web service and its very rapid growth. Google’s popularity...
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...CHAPTER I PROBLEM AND ITS BACKGROUND Introduction Nowadays new technologies have brought a lot advantage to us, especially to those who involve in business. One of those technologies is using a computerized system in their business, but not all business is using computerized system, some of them are using manual in their transaction. Classical inventory theory usually assumes that the inventory on record is accurate and thus reflects the actual inventory level. However, in practice the inventory on record is not always accurate. The exact inventory level is not known to managers, and can deviate from the actual inventory level. There are many possible reasons for such discrepancies between the inventory on record and the actual inventory level, including transaction errors, misplaced inventory, spoilage, defective product quality. As technology increasing and handling the business world, there are still businesses that are still attached in traditional or manual system because they are afraid to change the way of their existing system. One of those businesses is the Dory’s Restaurant that until now is using a manual in their Sales and Inventory System. Inventory system is used to track information of a particular goods or product it monitors the product left and the product that need to restock. Sales is important in the business, because it involves the money that goes in for the company, sales is the business asset and the customer business deals. Dory’s...
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...Barbados Barbados is a North American sovereign island country located in the Caribbean. The capital of this state is Bridgetown. This state raised its head as an independent state in 1966 after being a Colony of the British Empire for almost 350 years. Category | Fact | Category | Fact | 1.Size | 439 Square km | 4.Religion | Christianity | 2.Population | 277,821 | 5.Currency | Barbadian Dollar | 3.Language | Barbadian | 6.GDP Rate | $16,653 | The main resources of Barbados are Petroleum, Fish, Natural gas, Sugarcane etc. The national symbols of Barbados are Neptune's trident, pelican, and Red Bird of Paradise flower (also known as Pride of Barbados). In Barbados Queen Elizabeth II is the Head of the State and represented locally by Governor General which is at present Elliott Belgrave. These two heads are advised by the Prime Minister of Barbados who is also the Head of the Government on matters of Barbadian state. The current Prime Minister of Barbados is Freundel Stuart. ...
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...___________________________ LIVING HISTORY Hillary Rodham Clinton Simon & Schuster New York • London • Toronto • Sydney • Singapore To my parents, my husband, my daughter and all the good souls around the world whose inspiration, prayers, support and love blessed my heart and sustained me in the years of living history. AUTHOR’S NOTE In 1959, I wrote my autobiography for an assignment in sixth grade. In twenty-nine pages, most half-filled with earnest scrawl, I described my parents, brothers, pets, house, hobbies, school, sports and plans for the future. Forty-two years later, I began writing another memoir, this one about the eight years I spent in the White House living history with Bill Clinton. I quickly realized that I couldn’t explain my life as First Lady without going back to the beginning―how I became the woman I was that first day I walked into the White House on January 20, 1993, to take on a new role and experiences that would test and transform me in unexpected ways. By the time I crossed the threshold of the White House, I had been shaped by my family upbringing, education, religious faith and all that I had learned before―as the daughter of a staunch conservative father and a more liberal mother, a student activist, an advocate for children, a lawyer, Bill’s wife and Chelsea’s mom. For each chapter, there were more ideas I wanted to discuss than space allowed; more people to include than could be named; more places visited than could be described...
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