American Express Company Value Enhancing Strategies             American Express Company (Amex) in an American financial organization that specializes in processing payments, credit cards, and provide travel-related services across the globe. Over time, the company has established itself as one of the top brands in financial service provision. The company has excellent significantly in its operation, as seen in its USD 27 billion cash position and a market capitalization of USD 97 billion. It has a strong financial ratio of 1.86, which places it a pole position of liquidity. The financial ratio is higher than its liabilities; thus, it is capacitated to manage its debt obligations. Compared to its competitors, the company has a lower solvency ratio. Its excellence can also be attributed to its low financial risks. The company has reported an increase in its return on assets ratio, as well as a significant net profit margin. Despite the successes, AMEX has a large pool of opportunities. The company also needs to leverage its capital structure, which can be vital in reducing the company’s expenditure. Though AMEX has been successful,…

Synthetic Diamonds                                                      Introduction De Beers had for decades enjoyed a monopoly in the diamond business. The monopoly had reached a point where the terms De Beers and Diamonds could be used interchangeably. Between 1888 to the 1980s, De Beers mined about 90% of diamonds produced annually. The firm rooted its monopoly through strategies such as purchasing all the available diamonds in the market, stockpiling them, and releasing only the required diamonds each year in order to exert control over the supply of rough diamonds to maintain consumer confidence and ensure price stability. The success of this approach is asserted by Kleingeld, De Sousa, and Penny (2001) who state that diamonds were the only products whose price had steadily increased since the Depression. However, by the end of the 20th century, there were a number of forces threatening De Beers’ dominance in the diamond industry: declining profitability, growing competition from new entrants into the industry, and loss of market share. Also, new technology paved way for the creation of synthetic diamonds, which are indistinguishable from those created by natural forces.…

Is cyberterrorism a real threat? (contrasting viewpoints Yes/No)   Introduction What is terrorism Terrorism can be indicated to be the use of attack to create a universal condition of panic in a society and hence attracting political attention. This term originated at the time of the French Revolution in the eighteenth century.  Terrorism is commonly used to associate something with wrong did. Most governmental and non-governmental institutions use this term to show a group on the opposition. Terrorists are known for instilling fear to the public as they attack people publicly; engage in violent and dramatic assaults like kidnapping, hijacking, bombing, and other forms of attacks. On the other hand, Cyber terrorism can be defined as an attack on computer programs, information, computer systems, and data that causes violence. It can as well be referred to as the use of the internet to carry out violent activities threat that causes the loss of data and money as the hackers get access to personal or organization informants.  Cyber terrorism came into existence once the computers started to evolve, and the experts,…

Gross sales Gross sales are the overall trade transactions that are reported within a period. These transactions do not include any deductions. On the other hand, net sales are the gross sales subtracted the following deductions; sales discounts, sale allowances and sales returns. Net sales are used to calculate the vertical analysis of an income statement because they provide the total overall sales. In vertical analysis, each item on the financial statement is indicated as a percentage of the total sales. The vertical analysis shows several expenditure lines of items as a percentage of the total sales. For an entrepreneur, the numbers in the vertical report tell them about the trending of their account and also help them see the different changes that happen to the account over some time. The information is valuable for noticing the hiking in expenses or which expenses are unworthy of the company’s attention. The vertical analysis uses one accounting period to compare the percentages of items in a financial statement, while the horizontal analysis compares the historical data of different accounting periods over several…

simple survey of members within a team in which you work You will conduct a simple survey of members within a team in which you work. This survey is meant to tap into key aspects of team science discussed in class thus far. You will design 10 questions meant to be distributed to a small diverse team (no less than five people). Questions should be a combination of metrical and explanatory questions. What questions you ask are up to you but keep in mind that you will be providing a paper that described what you learned. HINT: read Assignment #2b before completing your questions. [unique_solution] This is a five page assignment. All papers must be presented with excellent grammar and spelling and follow the American Psychological Association Publication Manual (6thedition) for writing style and format. See the assignment rubric for a full description of the grading criteria.  

Competitive Programming Activity             CodePSU is an organization that is responsible for competitive programming activities, which are mind computing sports usually held over the internet or local network. The main aim of the organization is to organize a competition that motivates students to perfect their computing skills. The association register participants in groups and involved applicants try to program according to the provided specification. The organization host competitions on a regular basis, and the activities are referred to as sport programmers. The activity is recognized and supported by various multinational software with internet companies like Google and Face book. Participants should be in a group of three to five. My group comprised of three members, and we were required to write source code of computer programs that will be able to solve given programs. Vast problems appeared during programming, and we had to answer them in both mathematical and logic. The activity was inclusive of online judging in online the environments, and the judge’s rank list s shows participants who have the most significant number of solutions through the time…

Transforming Rehabilitation Introduction Internationally, criminal justice has been privatised for over years now in which the private sector’s role in managing and providing criminal justice services to the public has remained highlighted[1]. Another such event of privatisation was witnessed in the media debate about the response of the Coalition government to the consultation of “Transforming Rehabilitation” in which method to subcontract work with different risk offenders was outlined.  The Reforms focused on transferring all the probation staff from public sector Probation Trusts to the newly formed organisation namely Community Rehabilitation Company (CRC) that was responsible to work with medium and low-risk offenders. The reforms, which only applied to Wales and England, and allowed for voluntary and private organisations to deliver specific interventions, offender management, and supervision to offenders, were criticised with such claims that criminal justice is the responsibility of publicly funded probation trusts and government[2]. Thus, this report focuses on criticised the privatisation of criminal justice institutions under the claim that: “It is wrong in principle and wrong in practice, to place criminal justice institutions in the hands of…

HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT Introduction Turkey has been a major destination for overseas direct investments as one of the stable economies in the world. Multinational corporations all over the United Kingdom significantly invested in Turkey in an attempt to expand their operations as well as develop markets in the area. More recently, upcoming multinational corporations from other nations around the world other than the United Kingdom have arrived in Turkey and start their operations. The aforementioned various multinational corporations have brought human resources, majorly expatriates along with financial resources, and in many instances, specific ways of supervising their labour force from their home headquarters. Transferring human resource management could be challenging and highly sophisticated since human resources are the resources which are majorly country bounded. Foreign multinational corporations operating in Turkey experience a wide range of challenging emerging from the transfer process in addition to the adaptation of human resources management practices, as a result of the uniqueness of Turkey traditions together with their national diversity within Asia with regard to employment traditions. It is important to look how multinational corporations…

Crowd Sourcing Crowdsourcing is the process of putting to use disparate individuals to perform a service that generates ideas, information or content about something. Crowdsourcing was introduced in the early 20th century, which was other times referred to as the wisdom of crowds. The concept that crowdsourcing was trying to put across was that many people coming together could generate the best surprising, collective insight or value as a workforce (Saffire, 2019). It occurs because many people around who make decisions, especially in business and organizations should reach an agreement which should be rational but in turn a well-informed decision. The kind of data collection in the crowdsourcing consists of developing groups called data sets which originates from a large group of people. Sometimes data provided may have missing links, and therefore the sources and the people who supply the data must be found, people who know and are more than willing to try and look at the pending issues themselves.  The way of indicating this crowdsource information was introduced and originated from the scientific world (Eric, 2017). They’re very…

Abortion Debate in Ethics Abortion is the terminating pregnancy by the expulsion of the embryo or the fetus before it is time o ready to survive in the outside world. Abortion which occurs without being induced is called a miscarriage, but the abortion that occurs with deliberate interventions is called induced abortion. Whenever abortion is done but at late stages, and the fetus can survive outside, it is called new termination of pregnancy (Jones, Witwer & Jerman, 2019).  Safe abortions are considered the best procedures in the medical industry, but the opposite happens with unsafe abortions as they are the leading cause of maternal deaths. In the United States, abortion is considered safe compared to childbirth, which has been rated to be 14 times higher chances of death for the mothers. Globally, over 56 million abortions are carried out, with 45% of them conducted unsafely. Between 2003 and 2008, the number of abortions slightly reduced with the introduction of family planning methods and birth control. And it even became safer as from 2008, almost half of the women were able…