Corporate responsibility

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Your paper should cover:  A reflection of the Baldrige process and quality.  Organizational issues  Personal and organizational learning.  Corporate responsibility Your paper should cover the issu

Due Date: Thursday at 11:59 pm of Unit 8 Points: 100 Overview: As we have stated, self -assessment is a critical component of the Baldrige process. Accordingly, this assignment will require you to engage in a reflective process and allow you to develop and articulate your own thoughts on the concept of “quality”, the Baldrige principles, organizational issues, personal and organizational lear ning, corporate responsibility, and other important ideas discussed in this course. Instructions: Your paper should cover:  A reflection of the Baldrige process and quality.  Organizational issues  Personal and organizational learning .  Corporate responsibility Your paper should cover the issues above, address your learning experience in the course, and identify areas of your greatest (or least, if necessary) development or understanding. A well – developed paper will make reference to the Baldrige principles in a coherent and thoughtful way, introduce new thinking if appropriate, and show an understanding of the course materials and their application in an organizational or personal environment. Please write clearly and in a grammatically correct ma nner. Remember, clarity of presentation goes a long way in enhancing the credibility of the presentation. Requirements:  Length: a minimum of five pages, not including title or reference pages  Resources: a minimum of four resources to back up your reflection  Demonstrate a depth of thought and consideration worthy of a course in quality systems.  The final product will be a paper that is double -spaced, APA formatted pages. Be sure to read the criteria by which your work will be eval uated before you write and again after you write. BUS 211 – Baldrige Principles and Introduction to Quality Unit 8 Assignment: Reflection Paper Evaluation Rubric for Unit 8 Assignment CRITERIA Exemplary Proficient Needs Improvement Deficient (19 -20 Points) (16 -18 Points) (13-15 Points) (0-12 Points) Reflection of the Baldrige Process and Quality The reflection on the Baldrige process is clearly defined and presented, including all details. The reflection on the Baldrige process is present, but is missing minor details. The reflection on the Baldrige process is present, but is missing key details. The reflection on the Baldrige process is missing or poorly presented. Organizational Issues Organizational issues are clearly defined and presented, including all details. Organizational issues are present, but is missing minor details. Organizational issues are present, but is missing key details. Organizational issues are missing or poorly presented. Personal and Organizational Learning Personal and organizational learning is clearly defined and presented, including all details. Personal and organizational learning is present, but is missing minor details. Personal and organizational learning is present, but is missing key details. Personal and organizational learning is missing or poorly presented. Corporate Responsibility Corporate responsibility is clearly defined and presented, including all details. Corporate responsibility is present, but is missing minor details. Corporate responsibility is present, but is missing key details. Corporate responsibility is missing or poo rly presented. (5 points) (4 points) (3 points) (0 points) Resources More than 4 resources 4 resources 2 resources 0 resources Paper Length More than 5 pages 5 page s 4 page s 0-3 pages (9-10 points) (7-8 points) (5-6 points) (0-4 points) Clear and Professional Writing and APA Format Writing and format is clear, professional, APA compliant, and error free. Few errors that do not impede professional presentation. Significant errors that do not impede professional presentation. Errors impede professional presentation; guidelines not followed.

Organizational Culture and Innovation

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Unit 8 DB: Organizational Culture and Innovation Given the subject of the readings and resources regarding the intersection between the concepts of innovation and the formation of corporate culture,

Unit 8 DB: Organizational Culture and Innovation

Given the subject of the readings and resources regarding the intersection between the concepts of innovation and the formation of corporate culture, please discuss the following with your classmates:

  • Do you think creating a “culture of innovation” is enough to effect real change? Explain.
  • Apply this unit’s learning resources to debate which of the following is more difficult:  coming up with the innovation or managing its acceptance and diffusion?
  • Research and/or brainstorm to provide an example of a disruptive innovation that might be on the horizon.

Describe the internal controls that are put in place to specifically protect computer data

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look at the files before writing this Adding to your memo from Milestone One, document your understanding of the relationship between audit risk, audit evidence, and financial statement assertions

look at the files before writing this

Adding to your memo from Milestone One, document your understanding of the relationship between audit risk, audit evidence, and financial statement assertions as it specifically relates to this company and industry.

Describe the audit data or evidence your team will review. Why is this proof important? [

What if a significant portion of the data is overseas and beyond the auditors’ jurisdiction or audit universe? Analyze how the audit team will

compensate for that risk. What governing rules and regulations must be taken into consideration?

Describe analytical procedures you will use to determine the sampling program. How will your internal control evaluation affect this step? Be

specific

List and then describe the types of audit evidence you will request from the company.

Describe any considerations your team will make in auditing subjective areas, including any governing rules and regulations that were factored

into the auditing decisions. [

Describe the factors you took into consideration when planning the nature and extent of the audit documentation. [

Describe how responsibility for IT (computers, software, internet usage, databases) risk coverage for companies in the IT industry is defined. Is it

adequate? Describe how that definition addresses or fails to address current and future risks related to social media.

Describe the internal controls that are put in place to specifically protect computer data and proprietary information. How well do these

controls operate within the IT industry?

Where do current and future vulnerabilities exist for IT, and what must be done to manage these gaps? [

I am giving you more clear instruction on area you need to write !!!!: 

this paper need to be 3 pages and reference !!!

make sure you cover after looking at the “Final Project Scenario” and touching these areas:

·       Talk about evidence and what kind and why it’s important

Supporting claims in financial statements

what type of evidence you will use when come to account receivable?

fixed asset —no cash!

·      Audit universe (document that details all the audit activities to be carried out by the internal audit function)

Talk about entities such as:  Intangibles, account payable account receivable fixed asset payroll

Revenue that comes from software and computer

ext.

·      and what u do if entities come from outside USA

consolidate to US cup

. out of sea revenue!

this is not cash specific

·       we need to talk about analectic procedure, that is key audit technique such as

sampling risk, analectic software helps not being bias ext.

·      type of evidence, what is the evidence that is different that the first part

this is related to:

invoices

account reconciliation

documentation

bank reconciliation

AR receivable

Inquiry and observation or audit techniques

Read only access as auditor

Watching inventory count

You can rely on verbal statements, but you needed to have document when it comes to Inquiry.

External confirmation with AC /AP

·      Subjective areas:

Estimate and reserve

Management estimate with reserving account receivable methodology you need as auditor

need to audit against that methodology

(if receivable 90 days outstanding its need to be fully reserve, when they write off the receivable)

Good will, intangibles this is areas that Management can have decisions on and by that play around with the books.

Show led expenses and reduced bed debt reserve.

·      Documentation

Actual support your issue as auditor

·      IT have 4 parts that need to be different

1.     Risk of IT such as: Network access, IT GC, backup recovery, change management

2.     What is the general risk of control that any organization want to put with IT.?

3.     Protecting data such access controls and encryption.

4.     vulnerabilities what is that (fishing, cybercrime, virous software, etc.)

TAX RESEARCH MEMO: U.S. TAX COURT ASSIGNMENT

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TAX RESEARCH MEMO: U.S. TAX COURT ASSIGNMENT INSTRUCTIONS OVERVIEW For this assignment, you will be submitting a tax research memo regarding the scenario detailed below. The memo will be due by 11:5

TAX RESEARCH MEMO: U.S. TAX COURT ASSIGNMENT INSTRUCTIONS OVERVIEWFor this assignment, you will be submitting a tax research memo regarding the scenario detailed below. The memo will be due by 11:59 p.m. (ET) on Friday.

INSTRUCTIONS

The memo should be submitted in the form of a Microsoft Word document, using only the template provided, and labeled as follows: lastname_memoTax Court.doc. The Relevant Facts, Specific Issues, and Conclusions sections of the memo should be thorough but concise. The key portion of the memo will be the Support section, which should be properly supported by appropriate regulation citations (be specific with section, number, paragraph, and subparagraph as applicable).

As this is a memo, and not a formal writing assignment, current edition APA format is not required. Furthermore, there is no need to submit a title page or research page. Just substitute “Your Firm” at the top of the memo with your full name.Prepare (in good form) a research memorandum to the file.

SCENARIO: Robert Jones has just rendered service for a taxpayer as an expert witness in a case heard by the U. S. Tax Court. The taxpayer is requesting reimbursement for Jones’ fees and for those amounts paid to her attorney in presenting the case. Jones’ billing rate for this type of engagement is $500 per hour, the market rate for such services in his city, plus out- of- pocket expenses (e. g., auto mileage, computer charges). How much of Jones’ fee will the taxpayer recover?

Note: Your assignment will be checked for originality via the Turnitin plagiarism tool.