Business and Professional Ethics             Financial malfeasance is an act of outright sabotage where one of the parties to a signed contract takes an economic activity that is capable of causing internal damage. Some of the financial malfeasances that misdirect investors include the inappropriate scrutiny of the overall corporation leading to lack of proper oversights in finances and the failure to pay adequate attention to the expenditure of the organization’s resources on program implementation (Griffin, et al, 2014). This paper aims to identify instances of misrepresentation in the Enron, Arthur Andersen, and WorldCom. The investors, employees, regulators, as well as the public, were harmed and misled by the fraud. Here, the misrepresentations included recognizing the revenues prematurely by use of prepays, the syndication of SPEs, interest conflicts by the board of directors as well as false financial statements. Those that benefitted include the senior management of Enron and partners at Arthur Andersen (Brooks & Dunn, 2018). In Arthur Andersen, the misrepresentations involved the employment of a culture that was focused mainly on the production of revenue through non-audit services. Also,…

 Short Story Public Service Announcement (PSA) Assignment: Short Story Public Service Announcement (PSA) Complete all lessons prior to this assignment. A public service announcement (PSA) is like an advertisement that informs us about something important. The purpose of a PSA is to benefit the public by raising awareness about an issue or topic. Watch these public service announcements first to get an idea of what a PSA is: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v＝3x-KaVwUpNI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v＝WPmLoUDFIHY 1. Create the PSA flyer In this assignment, you will choose a single fiction story from the list below, analyze the story, and create a PSA flyer on a single theme from your analysis (see the example attached to the directions). You will not include the story title or author in the flyer; this is not a book report cover. [unique_solution]The flyer focuses only on the theme and adheres to the purpose of a PSA. Fiction story options/choose only one: Ambush Everything Stuck to Him A Worn Path The Turtle Winter Dreams In Another Country The Jilting of Granny Weatherall The Rockpile Everyday Use The Life You Save May Be Your Own…

Path to Nazi Genocide EQ’s -How did Hitler and the Nazis rise to power? -How were they able to perpetrate a genocide?[unique_solution] 5-main ideas/facts that would help answer both questions ·         Hitler started ascending to power after he was appointed the chancellor of Germany by President Paul Von Hindenburg in 1933. ·         The point where Hitler abolished the presidency, and in agreement with the army he declared himself the right chancellor to be in charge of the government ·         Hitler becomes the leader of the Nazi party ·         Racism messages directed to Germany Jews and blacks. ·         Germany Jews businesses attacked and burnt as they were declared enemies of the Germany state. ·         The revoking of the passport of Germany Jews ·         The idea of branding the Germany Jews as enemies of the Germany state 3-important vocabulary terms to help understand the history ·         Oath of allegiance ·         Dictator ·         Enabling Act ·         Radical policies ·         Traditional hymn ·         Parliament ·         Chancellor   2-most interesting pieces of information-things I didn’t know before ·         Was not aware that apart from the…

Literary analysis of, “A Wagner Matinee” By Willa Cather             Willa Cather is recognized as one of the most prolific writers in American literature. Her short story, a Wagner Matinee, is narrated in the first person by a young man called Clark. The story is characterized by sentences with many adjectives, use of imagery, irony and is developed extensively through the use of narration. The effect of this style makes the reader understand the life of Georgiana in her book A Wagner Matinee. Willa Cather demonstrates her styles and narrative approach in dealing with the themes of struggle, isolation, and hardship. Cather develops a sense of the hardship and physical suffering faced by Georgiana though out the story. Georgiana had eloped with Howard despite the reproaches and criticism of her friends and family. The narrator makes the reader aware that Howard was a carpenter who had no money. Both of them had eloped to the Nebraska frontier family. The extent of Georgiana’s hardship is evident from the narrator’s opinion of her when he describes her as having, “yellow skin as…

American Idols             It has remained evident from research and studies that have been conducted that the American society in the 1950s is one that is characterized by social, political as well as moral pervasiveness based on the old morality. Besides, the congressional panel was fabricated who’s primary function or goal was to cast out or similarly ferret out the subversions as well as the disloyalty that was deeply rooted in the American society (Clohesy, 25). Civil rights activists such as Robinson as well as Ginsberg utilized this opportunity or scenario to bring forth the racial injustices that had infiltrated the entire nation. This paper aims at reviewing the idols broken by Ginsberg and Robinson as well as the significance of their words. In his testimony, he was determined to continue with the fight against racial discrimination as the Black American race suffered a great deal of racial discrimination at the hands of the ‘white man.’ Robinson clearly states that his intention of fighting will only cease when all the discrimination is all licked from society. In his testimony, a…

Ethical Considerations Ethical considerations are paramount in any business institution. Not only is the management of the business entity supposed to respect the shareholders but also the stakeholders. Stakeholders such as employees ought to be ethical in their operations within and out of the business premises. Besides, they should incorporate all the aspects of ethics when handling matters concerning their business; for instance, honesty, integrity, trust, accountability, and be law abiding. However, some of the employees show high levels of unethical issues to both their employees and customers leading to high losses in the business. According to the story Brenda Williams, some of the characters show both ethical and unethical issues. Even though both Joan and Harold are active and hardworking, they have unethical issues too. For instance, Joan signed payment vouchers without counterchecking leading to employees over expenditure. Also, Harold violated the company’s policy by travelling in first class and Porsche despite the company’s rules on air tickets and Chevy Luminas. I think it is mandatory for all employees to respect the company’s policy despite their managerial positions. Harold…

Potential Segmentation The behavioral, demographic and psychographic approach are the best to this marketing plan. terms of behavioral approach, the loyalty of the customers is based on making the product appealing to the potential buyers by raising interest. People are becoming conscious about health hence find ways to maintain body fitness. Awareness of the trends such as benefits of cycling is a factor to place under considerations classified as either aware or not aware of the products. Demographically, in terms of gender, men are more concerned with their body fitness that they purchase bikes more than female counterparts. Moreover, age is an important factor as the youthful population has the energy to cycle compared to the aging population. Moreover, there are middle and upper classes of time as they are more concerned about exercise as a way of keeping their bodies standard. Psychographically, lifestyle is a critical consideration as people living luxurious lives sees cycling as the only method for exercise. Also, the enjoyment in people when going out is a consideration as people who like staying indoors are more…

MBA606_HW    Being the chief information officer in a firm seeking to recover from a set of challenges without much Information Technology background information can be a significant challenge.  The new CIO stand numerous risks such as remaining at the bottom of the capability gap for longer than the company can afford, thus destroying his reputation and career. However, being business smart presents its set of opportunities towards closing the capability gap necessary for effective management of the IT department within an organization.IVK needs to collaborate with its IT and managerial functions through timely communication to enhance its effectiveness. IT is one of the critical infrastructural development in business. However, failure to leverage the technology and reap its benefits while the opportunity window is open can result in substantial unwarranted costs in a company. Nicholas Carr’s argument that companies should not  invest huge sums of money in information technology while every other competitor can access the same technology sounds profound.  However, understanding the management aspect on the window of opportunity is insightful on the issue. Industry leaders reap their profits…

 Challenging issues in OSI and TCP/IP model Different developers have different implementation techniques for software development. As a result, communication between these systems becomes impossible. However, with the introduction of the Open System Interconnection model (OSI model) in 1979, promoted interoperability between communication devices. End devices running on different software can, therefore, communicate with each other freely despite their implementation diversity. The concept of the OSI model allows networking engineers to understand conceptual communication architecture. The OSI framework allows standardization of critical concepts such as data-type implementation and interpretation between devices by breaking the implementation conflict (Priya, Samina & Zahida, 2017). The OSI model consists of seven distinct layers that operate sequentially to facilitate communication between devices. While the application layer serves as the user interface, the other layers are concerned with data communication between the devices. The session layer maintains the session between the devices, ensuring uninterrupted communication. Sometimes communication between devices may be unsuccessful due to the existence of faults within the  OSI model layers. Sometimes the server may take longer to respond due to latency problems, especially…

Abel and Bäuml’s Article Review             Reviewing articles culminates in a state-of-the-art comprehension of a research topic. Therefore, reviewing articles is essential and should never be questioned. Abel and Bäuml attempted to find out the involvement of inhibition, strength-based blocking, and output interference in both socially shared retrieval-induced forgetting (SS RIF) and within-individual retrieval-induced forgetting (WI RIF) in their 2019 study. The study can help in understanding selective memory retrieval because of its thought-provoking experiments, which suggest that inhibition and strength-based blocking influence both types of RIF and output interference does not  forgetting. Even though not explicitly stated, the researchers’ hypothesis was that blocking, inhibition, and output interference contributed to both SS RIF and WI RIF. The authors tested the hypothesis using four experiments. Experiment 1 used a 2 x 3 mixed-factorial design while experiments 2, 3, and 4 employed the same 2 x 4 mixed-factorial design (Abel & Bäuml, 2019). During the experiments, the participants were expected to recognize specific items that were previously presented to them while being subjected to output interference, inhibition, or blocking. The results suggested…