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  Kohlberg’s theory of moral development Assignment (PPT and discussion)

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  Instructions : Read pages 274-276 of your text explaining Kohlberg’s theory of moral development. Do research in other sources to provide you with a more in-depth look at the stages that are discussed. Make a power point presentation consisting of at least 15 slides explaining these stages and how your own style of moral reasoning relates to Kohlberg’s stages.

  You will have at least one slide explaining each stage and at least one slide giving an example of each stage.

  You will answer the following questions about your own moral decision making in your discussion paper (using at least 500 words), after you have made your slide presentation on Kohlberg’s stages.

  (1.) Discuss your own moral decision making and how it relates to these stages.

  (2.) Do you make moral decisions at a different stage now than you did at an earlier point in your life? Explain and provide an example of a moral decision you made at an earlier point in your life.

  (3.) Discuss a recent moral decision that you made and explain how your style of moral reasoning relates to Kohlberg’s stage theory of moral development.
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  Financial analysis of QDVC and Emmar UAE

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  This is a financial analysis of QDVC and a comparison with Emmar UAE   with the industry benchmarks

  Table of Content:     

  S/N		Page
  1	Cover Page	1
  2	Executive summary	2
  3	Introduction	4
  4	Profile of the Chosen Company (QDVC)	5
  5	Profile of the Competitor Company (EMMAR)	5
  6	SWOT Analysis QDVC v/s EMMAR	6
  7	Industrial Analysis	7
  7.1	Overview of the GCC Real Estate Market	8
  8	Part one Ratio Calculations	9
  8.1	Return on Capital Employed	9
  8.2	Operating Profit Margin	10
  8.3	Gross Profit Margin	11
  8.4	Gearing	13
  8.5	Interest Cover	14
  8.6	Current Ratio	15
  9	Additional Calculations and Explanations	16
  9.1	Current Ratio	16
  9.2	Operating Profit Margin	16
  9.3	Return on Capital Employed	17
  10	Part Two Sources of Finance	18
  10.1	Influence on QDVC in 2014	19
  10.2	Influence on QDVC in 2013	20
  11	Part Three Budgeting	22
  12	List of References	26
  13	Appendices	26
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  Solutions to NSG4028 Quizzes

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  Question 1: Barriers to teaching can be best described as factors that

  Student Answer: negatively impact on the learner’s efforts to establish a mutual partnership with the nurse educator. interfere with the learner’s ability to attend to and process information. impede the nurse’s ability to deliver educational services to the learner. limit the nurse’s focus to conducting only formal, intended teaching and learning encounters.

  Question 2. Question : Which are two ways to decrease a behavior or response?

  Student Answer: Avoidance conditioning and escape conditioning Punishment and nonreinforcement Positive reinforcement and punishment Punishment and escape conditioning

  Question 3. Question : The foremost challenge for nurses is to demonstrate:

  Student Answer: a definite link between education and positive behavioral outcomes in the learner competence in their teaching sills accurately documenting teaching to meet accreditation standards the ability to create a positive learning environment

  Question 4. Question : Which best defines the term teachable moment? The moment when

  Student Answer: the nurse feels educationally prepared to teach. the patient views new and different situations as challenges rather than defeats. illness suddenly forces an individual to take a less active role in his or her care. an informed patient complies with medical treatment plans.

  Question 5. Question : Barriers to teaching differ from obstacles to learning in that obstacles to learning:

  Student Answer: are barriers that impede the nurses ability to provide education are barriers that prevent the learner from paying attention are psychosocial issues presented by the learner include lack of time for the nurse to teach

  Question 6. Question : Learning that is directed by the individual learner where information is received, interpreted and reorganized is known as:

  Student Answer: information processing cognitive learning discrimination learning stimulus generalization

  Question 7. Question : The major contribution of QSEN is to develop

  Student Answer: competencies related to patient education and safety an educational program for undergraduate nursing students staff development guidelines for patient safety programs to change the attitudes of nurses related to patient education

  Question 8. Question : Which learning theory is described by the idea to change behavior, change a person’s subjective feelings about the self.

  Student Answer: Psychodynamic humanistic behaviorist cognitive

  Question 9. Question : The broad purposes, benefits, and goals of the teaching-learning process are

  Student Answer: to predetermine client outcomes to accomplish the goals of care. to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of practice. to ensure client/family compliance with therapeutic regimens. to increase the competence and confidence of the learner.

  Question 10. Question : With which learning theory individuals to be motivated, individuals need to be in a state of deprivation; there needs to be something that they want. Thus, giving children everything they want when they want it may undermine their motivation to perform

  Student Answer: humanistic psychodynamic cognitive behaviorist

  Question 11. Question : Which learning theory is described by the idea to change behavior, change the stimulus conditions in the environment and a person’s responses to the environment?

  Student Answer: Psychodynamic humanistic behaviorist cognitive

  Question 12. Question : Which of the following actions would not enhance the permanence of learning?

  Student Answer: utilizing the new skill reinforcing the information the nurse is called away during the teaching relate previous experiences to the learner

  Question 13. Question : Which learning theory represents a combination of behaviorist and cognitive principles of learning?

  Student Answer: Gestalt Developmental Attribution Social learning

  Question 14. Question : Which learning theory is described by the idea to change behavior, change a person’s perceptions and thoughts?

  Student Answer: Psychodynamic humanistic behaviorist cognitive

  Question 15. Question : When comparing nursing process and education process, the education process focuses on:

  Student Answer: the physical and psychosocial needs of patients changing knowledge, skills, attitudes and values (p. 11) quality outcomes meeting patient needs

  Question 16. Question : The primary role of the educator is to:

  Student Answer: teach create partnerships with learners promote learning in environments conducive to learning (p.13) meet accreditation and legal mandates related to patient teaching

  Question 17. Question : Which statement concerning nurses as educators is false?

  Student Answer: It is predicted that the growth of managed care will impact negatively on the nurse’s responsibility for health education of clients. During the past few decades, client and staff teaching have begun to be recognized as independent nursing functions. Nurses must be prepared to teach colleagues, staff and students effectively. The role of the nurse as educator has changed from a disease-oriented approach to a health-promotion approach

  Question 18. Question : When learning a new motor skill, the learner completes the skill and is praised by the nurse. This type of feedback is described as:

  Student Answer: intrinsic extrinsic follow-up outcome

  Question 19. Question : What is the single most important goal of the nurse as educator?

  Student Answer: To prepare the client for self-care management To determine the trends in the delivery of high-quality care To understand the forces affecting nurses’ responsibilities in practice To maintain the client’s sense of value and self-worth

  Question 20. Question : Which of the following is not a perspective within cognitive theory?

  Student Answer: Systematic desensitization Social constructivism Information-processing Developmental

  Question : Which principle is not applicable to adult learning?

  Student Answer: Learning is self-controlled and self-directed. Learning is person-centered and problem-centered. The nature of learning activities remains stable over time. Learning is reinforced by application and prompt feedback.

  Question 2. Question : The nurse demonstrates to a client how to change a dressing. During the return demonstration the nurse should include which intervention?

  Student Answer: Question the client about the procedure. Offer the client cues when necessary. Explain each step as the client does it. Reduce the client’s anxiety with casual conversation.

  Question 3. Question : What is the purpose of writing clear and concise behavioral objectives?

  Student Answer: To specify what the teacher is expected to teach To specify what the learner is expected to be able to do To keep the learner motivated To allow the learner to achieve many possible outcomes

  Question 4. Question : Which is the most significant guideline to consider when selecting audiovisual aids?

  Student Answer: Computer-assisted technology will be the more effective way to convey messages to the learner in the future. Materials of all types should be previewed for accuracy and appropriateness of content and delivery. Purchasing the best equipment available will ensure currency information for the longest period of time. The suitability of a medium depends on its diversity in communicating information.

  Question 5. Question : Who is the noted expert in defining the key milestones of psychosocial development?

  Student Answer: Erikson Havighurst Knowles Piaget

  Question 6. Question : What should be included in the performance characteristic of a well-written behavioral objective?

  Student Answer: The testing situation or constraints under which the learner’s behavior will be observed With what accuracy, or to what extent, the learner will be able to carry out the behavior Who will do the learning, such as the patient, family member, or significant other What behavior the learner is expected to be able to do to demonstrate evidence of achievement

  Question 7. Question : Which statement is false regarding the cognitive, affective, and psychomotor domains of learning?

  Student Answer: Each domain is ordered in a taxonomic form of hierarchy from a series of simple to complex behaviors. The cognitive, affective, and psychomotor domains are separate and unrelated, reflecting the development of skills, thinking, and feeling capabilities, respectively. The cognitive and psychomotor domains represent the degree of understanding and skill attainment while the affective domain represents the degree of internalization and commitment to a feeling. The learner must be successful at demonstrating behaviors at the lower levels of any domain before being able to achieve behaviors at the higher levels in that domain.

  Question 8. Question : Which of the following statements is false with respect to the characteristics of goals and objectives?

  Student Answer: A goal is multidimensional and long-term. An objective describes the specific performance a learner must exhibit to be considered competent. An objective is unidimensional and short-term. A goal is the intended result of instruction that is derived from the stated objectives.

  Question 9. Question : A nurse educator is conducting a learning needs assessment prior to teaching a group. Which is the best method to collect information quickly while safeguarding individual privacy?

  Student Answer: Structured interviews Focus groups Questionnaires Observations

  Question 10. Question : Which of the following is mandated by The Joint Commission?

  Student Answer: Teaching plans must address stage-specific competencies of the learner. Families must decide whether to participate in patient education prior to patient discharge. The client is required to initiate education about his or her diagnosis. The nurse must provide patient education in written form.

  Question 11. Question : How does anxiety affect emotional readiness to learn?

  Student Answer: As the level of anxiety increases, emotional readiness peaks and then begins to decrease. The optimal time for learning is when a person experiences a low level of anxiety. A person is most ready to learn when his or her anxiety is on either end of the continuum, either mild or severe. Moderate anxiety interferes with a person’s readiness to learn.

  Question 12. Question : Educators provide the best teaching when:

  Student Answer: educators avoid using only teaching methods that match their own learning style. learning activities reinforce the teachers learning style only one learning style is used by the educator the educator stimulates learners to utilize new learning styles

  Question 13. Question : Which is a common argument by educators against the use of behavioral objectives for teaching and learning?

  Student Answer: Written objectives tailor teaching only to the learner’s particular circumstances and needs. Careful construction of objectives directs educators to keep their teaching targeted and learner-centered. Predetermined objectives force teachers and learners to attend only to specific objectives, thereby stifling creativity and freedom in teaching and learning. Mutual decision making in establishing objectives requires effort on the part of both the teacher and the learner.

  Question 14. Question : All of the following statements are true about learning styles except:

  Student Answer: Leaning style theory assists the nurse educator to ensure that each individual learner is given an equal opportunity to learn. Nurse educators tend to prefer abstract and unstructured approaches to teaching. No single mode describes someone’s learning style, because each person is unique and comes with other factors that are equally important in learning. Preference for a particular style of learning tends to change very little over time.

  Question 15. Question : The most important criterion in evaluating an instructional method is to determine whether the method:

  Student Answer: facilitates the achievement of objectives. uses resources efficiently. promotes active learning. is enjoyed by learners.

  Question 16. Question : Which guideline should the educator follow when selecting instructional materials?

  Student Answer: The goal for learning should be set before materials are selected. The choice of materials should give direction in the establishment of objectives for learning. The selection of appropriate materials should assist the educator in determining the domains of learning on which to focus instruction. The audiovisual tools available should guide the educator’s decision making regarding the content for instruction.

  Question 17. Question : Learning needs can best be defined as

  Student Answer: gaps in knowledge that exists between a desired level of performance and the actual level of performance. the manner by which an individual perceives and processes information. an outcome by which learners demonstrate more confidence in what they are expected to do. an interest and an ability in learning the type and degree of information or skills necessary to maintain optimal health.

  Question 18. Question : The nurse educator is preparing a class for a group of middle-aged adults. Based on the developmental stage of this group, which topic should the nurse select for this class to meet the immediate needs of these learners?

  Student Answer: Accident prevention Stress reduction Chronic illness management Treatment of acute illnesses

  Question 19. Question : Which is not part of the instructor’s role when using gaming as an instructional method?

  Student Answer: Explain the objectives and rules for the players. Intervene during the game to explain concepts. Award prizes to winners at the finish. Debrief players after the game.

  Question 20. Question : Which method is best to accomplish objectives in the psychomotor domain?

  Student Answer: Computer-assisted instruction Group discussion Role-modeling Simulation
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  PHI 413V Week 5 Assignment Case Study on Death and Dying

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  PHI 413V Week 5 Assignment Religious View of Euthanasia

  The practice of health care providers at all levels brings you into contact with people from a variety of faiths. This calls for knowledge and acceptance of a diversity of faith expressions.

  The purpose of this paper is to complete a comparative ethical analysis of George’s situation and decision from the perspective of two worldviews or religions: Christianity and a second religion of your choosing. For the second faith, choose a faith that is unfamiliar to you. Examples of faiths to choose from include Sikh, Baha’i, Buddhism, Shintoism, etc.

  In your comparative analysis, address all of the worldview questions in detail for Christianity and your selected faith. Refer to Chapter 2 of Called to Care for the list of questions. Once you have outlined the worldview of each religion, begin your ethical analysis from each perspective.

  In a minimum of 1,500-2,000 words, provide an ethical analysis based upon the different belief systems, reinforcing major themes with insights gained from your research, and answering the following questions based on the research:

  • How would each religion interpret the nature of George’s malady and suffering? Is there a “why” to his disease and suffering? (i.e., is there a reason for why George is ill, beyond the reality of physical malady?)
  • In George’s analysis of his own life, how would each religion think about the value of his life as a person, and value of his life with ALS?
  • What sorts of values and considerations would each religion focus on in deliberating about whether or not George should opt for euthanasia?
  • Given the above, what options would be morally justified under each religion for George and why?

  Finally, present and defend your own view.

  Support your position by referencing at least three academic resources (preferably from the GCU Library) in addition to the course readings, lectures, the Bible, and the textbooks for each religion. Each religion must have a primary source included. A total of six references are required according to the specifications listed above. Incorporate the research into your writing in an appropriate, scholarly manner.

  Prepare this assignment according to the guidelines found in the APA Style Guide, located in the Student Success Center. An abstract is required.

  This assignment uses a rubric. Please review the rubric prior to beginning the assignment to become familiar with the expectations for successful completion.
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  Change Our World Challenge Paper

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  Change Our World Challenge Paper Guidelines

  Introduction: Your mission with this challenge is to find a way to positively impact/improve the life of one or more individuals in a direct way and then tell the teaching team about your idea and experience. You will do this by finding a way to engage with others around social responsibility, sustainability and integrity. This can happen by simply helping someone you know to be in need or working through a non-profit organization. The challenge can include a small cash gift (used in a creative way), an in-kind gift or volunteering to help someone.

  Many times, having a personal impact does not require huge dollars. This project does NOT require giving of money (optional only). Note:  If cash is part of your idea, make sure it is no more than $20.00 and that it is deployed creatively (a straight donation of money does not meet the criteria for this project). The teaching team expects you to put into practice your idea for this challenge: volunteering (3 hours minimum), in-kind donation (goods you own or control, done creatively) or cash (maximum of $20.00) deployed creatively.

  Impacts of Leadership & Leverage: A key component of this challenge is to showcase your leadership and that you understand leveraging that leadership for greater impact. To achieve full credit for the project, you must engage with a local non-profit organization or develop your own project to impact others, but you must engage others with you on the project. For example, say you volunteer somewhere; invite 4 friends to volunteer with you. That is leveraging your leadership for greater impact. Or do a project where you go and engage many others, thus leveraging your efforts for greater impact.

  Paper Content Guidelines:  Your paper must be no longer or shorter than one page, divided into 3 sections as noted below and demonstrated in the sample project, each beginning with the BOLD headings below and responding to the following elements:

  Section #1 – Challenge Idea: Section #1 of your paper is to describe your idea.

  Section #2 – Implementation Process: In Section #2, explain the process of taking the action and the anticipated impact your action will have.

  Section #3 – Summary: In Section #3, explain who benefited from your challenge, whether you were successful and how this challenge changed your view or attitude toward helping others. It is very important to discuss what you have gotten out of this (what you learned about yourself).

  Paper Mechanics/Deliverable Guidelines:

  1. Title: CHANGE OUR WORLD CHALLENGE
  2. Page 1 (one page, no more, no fewer) – paper as described above; optional Page 2 – one challenge picture as described above
  3. A type-written, electronic document (single-spaced, 0 pt. between lines); must be .doc/.docx only
  4. Margins from 0.5 to 1 inch are acceptable (all 4 sides) – do not use the default margins
  5. Written in first person (I, me, we, us, myself, etc.) – tell us your thoughts
  6. Times New Roman or Calibri font
  7. Font size of 11 or 12 point
  8. Bold headings for all three sections as noted above
  9. Grammar and spelling are always important – please check both
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  Interview and Analysis Case Study (PHI 413V Week 4 Assignment)

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  This assignment requires you to interview one person and requires an analysis of your interview experience.

  Part I: Interview

  Select a patient, a family member, or a friend to interview. Be sure to focus on the interviewee’s experience as a patient, regardless of whom you choose to interview.

  Review The Joint Commission resource found in topic materials, which provides some guidelines for creating spiritual assessment tools for evaluating the spiritual needs of patients. Using this resource and any other guidelines/examples that you can find, create your own tool for assessing the spiritual needs of patients.

  Your spiritual needs assessment survey must include a minimum of five questions that can be answered during the interview. During the interview, document the interviewee’s responses.

  The transcript should include the questions asked and the answers provided. Be sure to record the responses during the interview by taking detailed notes. Omit specific names and other personal information through which the interviewee can be determined.

  Part II: Analysis

  Write a 500-750 word analysis of your interview experience. Be sure to exclude specific names and other personal information from the interview. Instead, provide demographics such as sex, age, ethnicity, and religion. Include the following in your response:

  • What went well?
  • Were there any barriers or challenges that inhibited your ability to complete the assessment tool? How would you address these in the future or change your assessment to better address these challenges?
  • How can this tool assist you in providing appropriate interventions to meet the needs of your patient?
  • Did you discover that illness and stress amplified the spiritual concern and needs of your interviewee? Explain your answer with examples.
  • Submit both the transcript of the interview and the analysis of your results. This should be submitted as one document. The interview transcript does not figure into the word count.
  • Prepare this assignment according to the guidelines found in the APA Style Guide, located in the Student Success Center. An abstract is not required.

  This assignment uses a rubric. Please review the rubric prior to beginning the assignment to become familiar with the expectations for successful completion.
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  Writing 39C Advocacy Essay – Overcoming Obesity

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  An Advocacy Essay

  Like the HCP Project, the main assignment here is a multi-modal composition that uses various rhetorical positions and different types of evidence to make an argument. This one, however, is a bit different from the first in that over the course of these next few weeks, as you research and evaluate various sources, and as you draft, craft and organize your thoughts and evidence, you will at some point have to make a decision to become an advocate for a solution/policy to your central problem. Your argument for advocating a solution/policy in combination with the analytical reasons you provide for why you have chosen to focus on a particular solution/policy will after weeks and weeks of diligent engagement become a richly-textured thesis statement, one that deepens your articulation of the problem at hand and argues for a convincing way to move forward.

  Important notes about the Advocacy Project:

  1. Your solution must be apolicy that you find in your research – this is a requirement. A policy is a definite course of action.  For more information about policies, see UCI’s library webpage on Advocacy Project Sources.
  2. Your solution/policy may not be implemented where you have defined the problem – the solution/policy must either be proposed (i.e. not implemented yet) or the solution/policy may be implemented outside the location of your problem (i.e. advocate for a current policy in NY to be implemented in CA, if CA is where you have defined your problem).
  3. 3. While you will be advocating for a solution/policy in this paper, it is important to understand that your solution/policy will likely not solve the entire social/cultural/political problem – these are complex issues that are current problems because there is no simple singular “solution.” Thus, your task for the advocacy project is to find the best solution/policy to minimize your chosen social/cultural/political problem. What policy will minimize the problem the most?

  You should use at least 10 sources. Use the APA system for citing your sources.

  YOUR ESSAY MUST INCLUDE THE FOLLOWING ARGUMENTS

  1. Causation Argument: What are the root causes of the problem? Does your policy address those causes more effectively than other solutions?
  2. Coverage/Comprehensiveness Argument: Does your policy satisfactorily address the problem for a significant number of those people most affected by the problem? (You will need to show how many people, or what groups of people, will be affected by your solution.)
  3. Cost/Benefit Argument: Do the policy’s benefits exceed its costs? (Remember that not all costs are financial– time/effort/inconvenience etc can also count as costs.)
  4. Feasibility Argument: Is your policy feasible? Is it more realistic than other solutions? Is it easy to implement? Does it have enough support from significant parties to make it likely to be implemented?
  5. Comparison Argument: Has a similar policy worked significantly well in another comparable context?
  6. Anticipating the Opposition: What arguments do opponents of your policy make? (They might argue directly against your policy, or they might advocate a different policy.) How can you answer those arguments? It’s best if you can find real arguments made by real people that you can quote and cite, but you can also imagine what an opponent might say if you must.
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  Active Sports Life Case Study

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  Module Assessment

  Coursework 1 50% weighting

  You will research and present an appropriate response relating to a current management accounting problem or issue.

  Summative Assessment

  CW 1: 30% of the final grade

  Task 1:

  You are an advisor to a manufacturing firm called Active Sports Life which produces female sportswear. Recently there has been a reduction in the sales revenue of this firm due to which the Operations Manager has issued the following statement –

  ‘The standard costing principles within the firm are at odds with modern business needs such as continual improvement and responding to individual customer needs. Although the ‘McDonaldisation’ of the firms operations has led to reduced costs due to standardising services, it has also resulted in reduced customer service and individuality which ultimately resulted in reduced sales revenues over the period 1 March 2014 – 28 Feb 2015.’

  In response the Operation Managers statement, the CFO of Active Sport Life has asked you to critically evaluate the implications (limitations and benefits) of retaining the standard costing system and make appropriate recommendations.

  You are required to make these recommendations in the form of a report of 1000 words.
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  Jack Investor and Groupon Case Studies

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  Problem 1

  On March 28, 2008, Jack Investor was sitting at home when the phone rang.  Jack picked up the phone and the other party on the conversation began as follows. . .

  “Have you heard of the Cosmopolitan Resort Casino, the construction project on the Vegas strip in which the developer recently defaulted on a loan?  The primary lender, Deutsche Bank, has foreclosed, and because of the credit crisis, would like to liquidate the property as quickly as possible.

  “My company, Vegas Bailout, Inc., has decided to make a bid in Deutsche Bank’s auction.  We are hoping to raise $ 1.3 Billion in cash by Tuesday, April 1, in order to submit a bid.  We are selling “investment units” at a price of $ 10,000 per unit in order to raise cash for our bid, and if we fail to win the bid, the full amount would be refunded.  We are hoping to resell the property to another developer by the end of the summer, and any profits associated with our bid will be allocated proportionately between the units sold.  Please understand that this is a risky proposition.”

  Based on the information provided above, after sleeping on it for one day, Jack Investor decided to wire transfer $ 10,000 of cash to the bank account that the caller mentioned.  On April 15, 2008, Jack Investor called the phone number indicated for Vegas Bailout Inc.  The phone number was disconnected, and eventually Jack learned that the parties with whom he had spoken had taken all of the investor’s money and had lost it gambling.

  QUESTION

  If this case went to the Supreme Court, and they followed their historical precedent, would Vegas Bailout, Inc. be found guilty of fraud?  Support your answer by indicating whether each of the elements of fraud are present in this case.    (Fraud Triangle analysis framework is in the attachment.)

  Problem 2

  In April 2012, Groupon announced that they were restating their financial statements resulting from a “material weakness in internal controls”

  http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702303816504577313983768173826.html

  Based on information in the Wall Street Journal article mentioned above, as well as other information that you may find, please address the following questions:

  1. With regard to the COSO Framework, in which category(s) of Internal Control would you place Groupon’s material weakness? (The COSO Framework is in the attachment)
  2. With regard to financial reporting, when was this material weakness disclosed for the first time?   Do you believe that this weakness existed previously, but had not been reported previously, or that the material weakness did not exist previously, but conditions deteriorated to the point that it passed the threshold to be classified as a “material weakness”.
  3. How did the stock market react to the disclosure of the material weakness?   Based on whatever evidence you may find, do you feel  that the market responded consistently with other firms who disclosed control weaknesses?
  4. In the last three years (i.e. since April 2012), has Groupon effectively addressed this weakness in internal controls?   BRIEFLY describe the evidence that you found to support your conclusion (or alternatively, what evidence you hoped to find, but failed to find).
  5. Suppose that you applied the Beneish Model (i.e. the M-Score) to the financial statements of Groupon for their year-ending Dec. 31, 2013 and Dec. 31, 2014.    Do you find evidence of “earnings  manipulation”?  Support your answer by performing the calculations.