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  Accounting Assignment: Variable vs. marginal costing

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  Accounting Assignment: Variable vs. marginal costing

  Instructions:

  Costing Methods Paper

  Complete Exercise 19-17 from the Wiley Plus software.

  Exercise 19-17

  Polk Company builds custom fishing lures for sporting goods stores. In its first year of operations, 2012, the company incurred the following costs.

  Variable Cost per Unit

  Direct materials $7.73

  Direct labor $2.52

  Variable manufacturing overhead $5.92

  Variable selling and administrative expenses $4.02

  Fixed Costs per Year

  Fixed manufacturing overhead $239,522

  Fixed selling and administrative expenses $247,303

  Polk Company sells the fishing lures for $25.75. During 2012, the company sold 80,000 lures and produced 94,300 lures.

  (a)  Assuming the company uses variable costing, calculate Polk’s manufacturing cost per unit for 2012. (Round answer to 2 decimal places, e.g.10.50.)

  Manufacturing cost per unit $

  (b)  Prepare a variable costing income statement for 2012.

  POLK COMPANY

  Income Statement

  For the Year Ended December 31, 2012

  Variable Costing

  (c)  Assuming the company uses absorption costing, calculate Polk’s manufacturing cost per unit for 2012. (Round answer to 2 decimal places, e.g.10.50.)

  Manufacturing cost per unit $

  (d)  Prepare an absorption costing income statement for 2012.

  POLK COMPANY

  Income Statement

  For the Year Ended December 31, 2012

  Absorption Costing

  After completing the assignment, write a paper of no more than 350 words in which you respond to the following questions:

  • In this case, would it be better to use the variable or absorption costing method, and why?
  • What are the benefits of the two methods?
  • Which method would lead to the best decision when a competitor is submitting a lower bid for your product?

  The paper does not have to be in APA format.
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  Concepts of liberalism and socialism

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  Week 3 discussion Ideologies Compared

  This week your Critical Reflection Paper compares the concepts of liberalism and socialism. To best prepare you for this assignment, let’s take a deeper look at the variations found within liberalism. Classical liberalism is based upon the work of John Locke and Adam Smith whereas modern liberalism focuses upon the work of T.H. Green.

  So, what are the differences between these two forms of liberalism? And of the two, which do you agree with most?

   
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  Managerial Perspective Paper

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  WileyPLUS Assignment Paper Exercise 17-2 

  Access the following Week 4 reading, linked to this assignment:

  • Broadening Your Perspective 17-2

  Complete  the Broadening Your Perspective 17-2 activity titled “Managerial Perspective” in Ch. 17 of Accounting.  You need to answer all four parts and show the details for your answers for parts a, b, and c.  Part D is a written response and should be approximately 100 to 150 words long.

  Writea paper of no more than 750 words in which you respond to the Broadening Your Perspective 17-2 activity titled “Managerial Perspective” in Ch. 17 ofAccounting.

  Click the Assignment Files tab to submit your assignment.
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  Service Development Team Project

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  Service Development Team Project

  Coffee on the Go Project

   

  This is a team project.  The purpose of this project is for your team to propose a new service offering. Strong projects will be original and creative, with strong empiric evidence of potential viability. This project has a set of key deliverables:

  • The outline of the service itself. This section should include, but is not limited to, the following points of discussion:
    1. What is the current unmet or underserved need of consumers?
    2. What is the current (imperfect) solution that consumers are selecting in the absence of your offering?
    3. Competitive analysis – who are the main competitors, what do they offer, what are their strengths and weaknesses relative to your proposed company?
    4. Consumer analysis – who are the consumers that you will be focusing on as your target market?
    5. Full description of your service offering
    6. Marketing plan (4+3 P’s)
    7. Complete service blueprint for your service
  • Empiric support (primary research)
    1. Research should focus on customer perceptions of both current offerings as well as your proposed offering.
    2. Research can take the form of one or more of the following:
       1. Focus groups
       2. Depth interviews

  • Survey

  1. Experiment

  1. Research results should be presented in a manner appropriate to the method of research employed, and should have enough data points (i.e., participants) to be convincing and representative

  • Financial feasibility
    1. This section consists of a series of projections, including:
       1. Price being charged
       2. Variable costs incurred

  • Fixed/Overhead costs

  1. Anticipated sales volume (first year, second year, third year)
  2. Venture profitability projections based on the above

  1. Please note that while these projections will be primarily estimates, I would like you to provide strong justification/rationale for these estimates

  Project charter:  Objectives enumerated, approach planned (what do you plan to do), timeline; (1-2 pages long).  In completing the proposal remember:

  1. You need to clearly explain to me what your service idea is and why you think it could be successful
  2. Establish roles within the team (e.g., project leader, research leader, etc.). Effective teams are ones in which all members have clearly outlined responsibilities.
  3. What is your proposed research approach to support the viability of your plan?
  4. Decide on timeline and what to do first
  5. I need to approve the business you outline before you begin.

   

  Final papers:

  The body is likely to be 15-20 pages long, double-spaced, 1” margins, 12-point Times New Roman font (10 pages minimum, 20 pages is the maximum, and includes any figures and tables, but does not include title page or citations).

  Use the material from the class on research methods and the text and readings on what firms need to do to be a strong service provider. Use this information to help you in evaluating how well the competition is doing on service as well as how effectively you could address any of their shortcomings. Use references to note where you are drawing this information from unless it is from your head or from your own research. Your paper should fully elaborate on research methods used.

  Peer Evaluation: Alongside your paper submission, you will evaluate the participation of your group members. Remember, lack of participation will significantly damage your project grade. I reserve the right to assign a grade of zero on this project to any individual who receives an average score of 2 or less out of 5.

  Presentation:

  You will have an opportunity to present your project as a group to the rest of the class at the end of the semester. Presentations will be approximately 10-12 minutes, with time for questions. All group members are expected to present in a manner consistent with a business presentation. This means that you should not have cue cards, should not be reading verbatim off of slides, and should be engaging the audience with energy and eye contact. 

  Grading: Project charter 25 pts., Class presentation 50 pts., Written paper 150 pts., Peer review 25 pts. Total 250 pts.
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  Challenges Faced by Positive Psychology

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  Week 7 – Assignment: Prepare a Transcript of a Fictional Debate About the Challenges Faced by Positive Psychology 

  Instructions

  Imagine that you are attending a psychology conference and you attend a session led by two distinguished researches in the field.  The first researcher, Dr. Adams, is extolling the successes of positive psychology and contending that this field will continue to be a viable force in modern psychology. The second researcher, Dr. Hernandez, believes that there are many challenges faced by the field of positive psychology.  The purpose of the session is to raise the challenges and listen to the arguments that are made to refute these issues.

  You need to prepare a transcript of the debate that ensues between the two researchers. Each researcher has the opportunity to first explain their position (e.g. Dr. Adams will give a brief overview of why she supports positive psychology and Dr. Hernandez will give a brief overview of why he is skeptical of the field). They then have a dialogue raising points and counter points about the criticisms that have been leveled at the respective approaches.

  • What challenges would Dr. Hernandez raise?
  • How could Dr. Adams respond to these challenges?

  You need to use at least 5 scholarly resources, including those you located last week. Make sure that you locate research that both supports and refutes each of the challenges.

  Length: 4 pages

  Your debate transcript should demonstrate thoughtful consideration of the ideas and concepts that are presented in the course and provide new thoughts and insights relating directly to this topic. Your response should reflect graduate-level writing and APA standards.

  This week you will learn about some of the challenges faced by the field of positive psychology. These challenges range from cultural to research to scope. For example, some contend that cultural context has been virtually ignored. What constitutes a positive emotion or trait in one culture is not necessarily the same in another.

  From a research perspective, there have been concerns about the rigor of the research and the conclusions that are being drawn based on a relatively small number of self-reporting participants. It is important to remember that this is still a relatively new field. Scientific studies that assess the benefits of positive psychology (e.g. positive psychology interventions) are limited. This will change, but for some psychologists the jury is out on positive psychology until more scientific studies are published.

  Still further concerns relate to the fact that positive psychology seems to extol the virtues of positive thinking without acknowledging the potential disadvantages (e.g. excessive positive thinking can lead to a disassociation from reality). Conversely negative thinking is discouraged when actually it might be beneficial for some (e.g. used as a protective factor). You will encounter additional challenges as you conduct your research this week.

  Since the late 1990s there have been numerous positive psychology research studies, articles, intervention techniques, etc. Many researchers have embraced positive psychology and believe that it has enhanced modern psychology. However, other researchers have raised concerns about what they perceive to be flaws and weaknesses associated with positive psychology.

  Some researchers object to what they believe is an over-simplification of positivity and negativity, specifically that thinking positively is good and thinking negatively is bad. There has been research that has documented the benefits of negative thinking for some. Moreover, psychologists have questioned the wisdom of instructing people to think positively to avoid problems or to cope with issues in their lives. Their concern lies in the fact that individuals who are not able to adopt this way of thinking may feel even worse about themselves because they are led to believe that they have the power to fix their issues and they are just not.

  Another criticism levelled at positive psychologists is that it lacks cultural utility. Positive psychology was borne in an individualistic culture and the application of the premises of this field in other cultures (e.g. more collectivist cultures) simply might not be valid.

  It is important to consider measurement and how positive psychologists have conducted their research. There has been concern that there has been an over-reliance on self-report measures in this field. Specifically, a lot of the data has been collected via asking people to complete questionnaires about themselves and these self-reports might not always be accurate.

  It is important to always evaluate both the strengths and the weaknesses. In this part of class, you are going to delve deeper into some of these key criticisms and learn about how positive psychologists have responded.
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  Warm Up Activity 4.1 VIA survey

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  Instructions

  Warm Up Activity 4.1 VIA survey

  Go to The Via Institute on Character website, found in the Books and Resources for this Week, and learn about the VIA survey and character strengths and virtues.

  Assignment

  Imagine that you are a school counselor at a high school. You want to introduce a program that enables students to take the VIA youth survey, which is a version of the strengths survey designed specifically for children between the ages of 10 and 17. Students will then learn about their individual strengths and how they can apply them in areas of their lives (e.g. family relationships, future career directions, etc.).

  You need to convince the school administration of the value of the new strengths program that you want to adopt. Create a PowerPoint that you are going to deliver to the school administration. Make sure that it includes the following:

  • Introduce positive psychology and their ideas about the importance of character strengths.
  • Explain the VIA survey (e.g. how was it created? What strengths does it assess? Etc.)
  • Discuss how the VIA survey has been adapted for adolescents.
  • Evaluate the potential value of your program for the students.
  • Include specific examples of how strength knowledge might have a positive impact on specific aspects of the students’ lives.

  Support your presentation with at least five references from peer-reviewed journal articles.

  Length: 7-10 slides; expanded notes of 200-300 words

  Positive traits have been an important area of research for positive psychologists. Researchers wanted to establish a list of character strengths that are considered stable positive traits across cultures. Positive psychologists distinguish between strengths and talents. Talents are considered to be innate whereas strengths can be selected and nurtured.

  This week you will learn about a nonprofit research institute, the VIA Institute on Character. This institute has been responsible for administering the VIA survey created by Christopher Peterson and Martin Seligman to assess character strengths. This survey assesses 24 character strengths that are categorized under 6 essential virtues (wisdom, courage, humanity, justice, temperance, and transcendence).

  The strengths approach encourages individuals to identify their key character strengths. Individuals are then able to focus on these virtues and utilize their strengths to maximize success in many areas of their lives. When individuals play to their strengths they are more effective in the workplace and are more equipped to form close relationships. Character strengths can also protect us from mental illness.
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  Scale Construction Proposal

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  Week 8 Assignment: Create a Scale Construction Proposal

  Activity Description

  For this task, complete the readings for this assignment, and then write a paper in which you complete the following:

  1. Write an introduction that examines the construct, its conceptual definition/s, and related concepts.
  2. Review the literature and the existing tools that measure the construct.
  3. Provide justification for your original scale.
  4. Discuss how you intend to construct the items, cognizant of the basic principles of item pool construction, the necessity of SMEs, the unidimensionality or multidimensionality of the construct, etc.
  5. Write at least 20 sample items that represent the construct you are planning to measure. You may construct negatively-worded items, but indicate these in a chart or table. If the construct you choose has two or more dimensions under it, write sample items indicating which items fall under which dimension. (See for example, the Life Position Scale that contained four dimensions I’m OK etc. at first, but after factor analysis the dimensions reduced to two—I and You.)
  6. Argue for a specific method of running an item analysis procedure.
  7. Argue for at least two specific methods of establishing your scale’s validity (Choose at least one method for construct validity, and another method for criterion-related validity. In criterion validation, it is not enough to simply write that you are planning to employ the method. Be sure to specify the variable(s) you will correlate your scale with.

  Length: 10 pages

  Your assignment should demonstrate thoughtful consideration of the ideas and concepts presented in the course by providing new thoughts and insights relating directly to this topic. Your response should reflect scholarly writing and current APA standards.

  Learning Outcomes

  3.0   Select methods used in the creation of items that measure psychological constructs.

  4.0   Appraise different approaches to establishing item and instrument reliability.

  5.0   Evaluate the different approaches to instrument validation.

  6.0   Discriminate methods of establishing criterion or predictive validity.

  Introduction: 

  Your proposal is similar to a research proposal that expresses intent to perform a scientific investigation. However, unlike a research proposal that first establishes the existence of a gap in the knowledge and proceeds to argue for a relationship between or among variables, the scale construction proposal is just a scaled-down manuscript that discusses your intention to construct a psychological scale.

  Nevertheless, it should contain an introduction that discusses the construct of interest and a review of the existing tools created to measure it. It should also be ideal to explain why you intend to construct an original scale that measures your chosen construct or why the existing tools do not satisfy the purpose of your dissertation. What follows this should include specific methods that you will employ to construct the items, to weed out bad items and retain good ones, to establish item reliability and consistency, and a proposal to establish the scale’s validity. In establishing validity, you must be specific in the methods that you will employ and the variables that you will correlate with your chosen construct. Also, be specific in the variables that you expect to correlate highly with your construct and those that should yield weak correlations with it (as what you will expect in a Multi-trait, Multi-method matrix, page 287 in Kline).
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  Prepare a Literature Review

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  Week 12 Assignment: Prepare a Literature Review

  Topic: Physiological and Neurological Aspects of Fear and Anxiety

  Signature Assignment

  Activity Description

  For your Signature Assignment, choose one of the primary emotions (happy, sad, fear, anger, disgust, or surprise), and then identify research that has been conducted on the emotion you selected. Your investigation should include research conducted on this emotion as it relates to the various topics discussed in this class. For example, if you select “anger” you could search for research conducted on the emotional regulation of anger, areas of the brain activated during an anger response, physiological changes occurring during an anger response, individual differences in the expression of anger, etc.

  The literature review should not simply consist of a series of article reviews; the literature review should provide an integrated synthesis of the research in the particular areas you select to include in your paper.

  In addition to the articles you used in your annotated bibliography, be sure to locate another five references from scholarly sources to support your assignment.

  Length: 12 pages

  Your literature review should demonstrate thoughtful consideration of the ideas and concepts presented in the course by providing new thoughts and insights relating directly to this topic. Your response should reflect scholarly writing and current APA standards

  Learning Outcomes

  1.0   Assess the concepts and theoretical framework of emotion, motivation, and cognition.

  2.0   Interpret the critical research findings related to emotion, motivation and cognition.

  3.0   Assess cultural and social influences on emotions, motivation, and cognition.

  4.0   Evaluate the development of emotional, motivational and cognitive skills throughout the lifespan.

  6.0   Synthesize concepts of emotions, motivation and cognition using a variety of communication tools.

  Week: 12

  Signature Assignment

  Introduction: 

  Your Signature Assignment for this course represents a culmination of your learning about cognition, emotion, and motivation. As you work to complete your literature review integrating research on a selected emotion, take a minute to reflect on what direction future research into cognition, motivation, and emotion may take. For example, the National Institute for Mental Health has laid out a research domain matrix that is an attempt to categorize areas, or domains, of research into mental health issues that show what is known and thus, provide some direction for future research.

  Additionally, as we continue to gain understanding of human behavior, particularly related to cognition and emotion, we likely will see the introduction of new therapeutic approaches or adaptation of existing methods to address psychological disorders reviewed in this course. For example, researchers have investigated treatment options for returning war veterans presenting with Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder. Kopytin and Lebedev (2013) studied the therapeutic effects of art therapy among a group of Russian war veterans and found humor, long associated with positive emotion, increased.
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  Emotional Development Throughout the lifespan

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  Emotional Development Throughout the lifespan Blog Entry

  Week 9 Assignment: Create a Blog Entry

  Activity Description

  For this task, imagine that you have been asked to contribute comments for a blog that discusses research on emotional regulation throughout the lifespan. This includes developmental changes during childhood as well as how emotional regulation changes in adults over age 60. The intended audience for this blog is a general population of adults who may not necessarily have a psychology background or be familiar with terms such as “emotional regulation” and “inhibitory control.” Although you should not provide formal “dictionary” definitions for these terms, you should clearly explain these terms throughout your blog.

  Length: 450-500 words

  Your blog entry should demonstrate thoughtful consideration of the ideas and concepts presented in the course by providing new thoughts and insights relating directly to this topic. Your response should reflect scholarly writing and current APA standards.

  Learning Outcomes

  1.0   Assess the concepts and theoretical framework of emotion, motivation, and cognition.

  2.0   Interpret the critical research findings related to emotion, motivation and cognition.

  4.0   Evaluate the development of emotional, motivational and cognitive skills throughout the lifespan.

  6.0   Synthesize concepts of emotions, motivation and cognition using a variety of communication tools.

   

  Week: 9

  Emotional Development Throughout the lifespan

  Introduction: 

  As you learned during Week 7, emotional intelligence consists of many factors related to the regulation of emotions within ourselves, along with the perception and interpretation of emotions in other people. Emotional regulation is crucial to success in social situations and research has found that children, who are better able to regulate their emotions, also are more successful in school and in social settings with their peers.

  The ability to regulate emotions is a developmental process that appears to develop at a young age. Hudson and Jacques (2014) discuss several factors important for the development of emotional regulation and one of these is inhibitory control. You may remember from Week 4 that inhibitory control is considered an executive function and the development of which may be linked to continued brain development in children, particularly the development of the prefrontal cortex. As you may recall from your other classes, the frontal lobes are the last areas of the brain to develop in children with some research suggesting that this development continues throughout adolescence. Interestingly, we see that the frontal lobes are one of the first areas of the brain to show age-related decline in older adults (over 60 years of age).

  Although frontal lobe declines tend to be negatively related to deficits in executive function, Isaacowitz and Blanchard-Fields (2012) provide evidence that emotional regulation actually increases in adults over the age of 60. These researchers suggest that this may be due to the changes in motivational strategies in older adults.

  Your assignment this week is to write a newsletter article that summarizes the research on emotional regulation. This should include development during childhood as well as how emotional regulation changes in adults over the age of 60.

  Be sure to review this week’s resources carefully. You are expected to apply the information from these resources when you prepare your assignments.