•  The Role of Leadership (300–400 words)
  • Research and summarize senior management’s role in successful quality improvement programs. Be sure to use real, researched examples to demonstrate your points. The Baldrige Award site list of recipients could be a good resource for examples.
  • In general, identify senior management’s specific role in these large-scale strategic quality programs? Cheerleader? Role model? Decision maker? Resource provider? What else?
  • Why must firms adopt the identified roles? What is the risk of not using the roles?
  • Indicate how senior and middle management should derive the metrics to use to monitor and communicate performance?
• With each week, you should include a minimum of 3 new cited references. As such, the references should be varied and different with each section addition. You can reuse references, but repeat references do not count toward the minimum 3 new cited references.

Create a 6-8 page report that analyzes financial ratios for a selected company, uses the data to tell the financial story of that company, and concludes with a recommendation on whether the company would be a viable partner based on its financial condition.

Introduction
It is essential for financial advisors and upper management to know the financial condition of a company for a variety of reasons, including to improve its condition, to make decisions to increase shareholder value, and to know the true value of the entity. Such an analysis is important for any business, small, medium, or large.

This portfolio work project gives you a chance to apply the skills expected of an MBA graduate; from the financial management perspective, you should be able to:

Tell the financial story based on financial statements.
Conduct a financial analysis and identify focus areas for enhancing shareholder value.
Interpret ratio computations that are meaningful and inform business decisions and strategies.

Scenario
Maria Gomez is founder and president of PacificCoast Technology, a small technology company. She is considering being bought out by a larger publicly traded company so she can be rewarded financially for all of her entrepreneurial efforts. She calls you into her office and says:

Thank you for meeting with me today. I’d like to talk to you about the future of the PacificCoast Technology. I’ve been running this company for a long time now, and I think it’s time for me to consider the next five to ten years. I want to find a buyer for this company who can take it to its full potential but with me still leading it. I still want to be a part of the journey, to see this company’s growth, which means this potential buyer needs to be a high quality company with solid financial health. That’s the only way we’ll be sure there’s going to be necessary funds and stability for the firm to grow.

You are ready to take on this project to assist Maria with her vision to find a buyer to take the company into the next phase. At your desk, you review these additional meeting notes:

The acquiring company does not need to be in the same industry, as Maria values financial strength over any synergistic benefits.

Maria wants you to select a company and then examine its financial condition by analyzing its financial statements and using financial ratio analysis. She indicated that using both trend analysis—going back at least three years—and industry average analysis would be helpful information for her.
From this analysis, Maria wants you to tell the financial story of the potential buyer/company by listing its financial strengths and weaknesses.
She expects you to provide a list of actionable decisions so she can understand if the company would be a potentially viable corporate partner.

Your Role
You are one of Maria’s high-performing managers at PacificCoast Technology, and she trusts your work and leadership.

Requirements
After a few days of thinking about Maria’s project request, you call a meeting with her in which you lay out the requirements below. You tell her that by meeting these requirements, you believe she will have the information she needs. Maria approves your plan and asks that you get started right away.

Here is what your report should provide for Maria on the selected company:

Provide a brief background and summary of the potential corporate partner in terms of its history, product lines, and geographic reach. (Remember that Maria is looking for a partner that is a publicly traded firm.)

Analyze the financial statements of the firm, which can be typically be found in the annual report in the investors’ area of the corporate website, including the income statement, balance sheet, and statement of cash flows:

Do a comprehensive financial ratio analysis, including multiple financial ratios in each of the following categories—short-term solvency or liquidity, long-term solvency, asset management or turnover, profitability, and market value ratios.

Use the following tools to analyze these ratios: trend analysis (going back at least three years) and industry average ratio analysis. If industry average ratios are not available for the company, use an average of two of its nearest competitors.

Evaluate the financial statements and ratios of the firm to find its true condition and valuation.
From the ratio analysis, identify and strengths and weaknesses of the company.

Make conclusions on the current status of the firm based on its history and comparison to its competitors.
Make actionable items and conclusions, based on the data analysis, about the status of the company.

Based on the analysis of the firm, identify any general actions that need to be made to improve the financial condition, and indicate the ease or difficulty of the firm doing so.

Tell the current financial story of the firm and indicate the overall health of the firm as it relates to current valuation and the future prospects of the company.

Provide a clear picture of the financial condition and valuation of the company to shareholders, debtholders, customers, and employees.

Present information graphically and in narrative form, conveying a compelling snapshot of the company.

Recommend whether the company would be a good match to enter into a buyout tender offer/agreement.

Remember that it is not enough to just simply summarize numbers or data for your audience. Put yourself in their shoes and make the connections for them, tell them why it is important, and tap into their concerns and motivations.

Deliverable Format
Create a report that tells the financial condition of a company. Your report should provide information on the following:

Analysis of the financial statements.
Evaluation of the true condition and valuation of the company.
Recommendation of actionable items for the company based on the financial analysis.
Report requirements:
Ensure written communication is free of errors that detract from the overall message and quality.
Use at least three scholarly resources.
Your report should be between 6 and 8 pages.
Use 12 point, Times New Roman.
If you are experienced with preparing professional reports, you may use a format of your choice. However, if you are new to this type of writing and document style, you may wish to use these sections as a way to organize your report:

Early Adulthood Decisions

complete the readings in this unit related to early adulthood, including intimate relationships, adjustment to marriage, decisions related to childbearing, and all aspects of life in this phase of development. Then, review the case study at the beginning of Chapter 11 of your text (the case begins on page 418).

What are some of the challenges that this individual is facing? Knowing these challenges associated with trajectories and transitions outlined in the text, evaluate the developmental crisis and implications for an individual facing the psychosocial crisis of intimacy versus isolation.

Cite at least two references from the unit readings to support your work.

Middle Childhood and Counseling Specializations

The purpose of this discussion is to consider how different specializations within counseling might address issues of school-age development. Use the readings in this unit, along with the ones you found in your own independent research, to help you think through and write about these issues.

For your initial post, choose one of the cases below and address the following in relation to that case:
•Identify the challenges that the student, family, or individual client may be experiencing, based on your specialization.
•Identify any psychosocial conflicts that may be present and the transitions related to middle childhood that may be considered.
•Choose one theory of personality development and explain how that theory helps you understand this student’s behavior.
•Describe specific ways of helping the student, family, or individual client from your professional perspective.

Tracy, 10-Year-Old Student

Tracy is a 10-year-old student who is heavily influenced by his parents regarding his academic activities. The pressure that he is receiving at home has caused him to withdraw from all pleasurable activities at school, including his passion for writing, arithmetic, and friends. He was once an A student but now is maintaining a C average. He has disengaged from regular activities and sits alone when he is not required to participate in group activities. It is known that the family has had some major stressors last year that has resulted in Tracy’s parents contemplating divorce.

Sonia, 9-Year-Old Student

Sonia is 9 years old, and she reports feeling lonely all the time. She seems to be isolated from her peers and reports feeling different from everyone around her. She says that she does not like the feeling of being vulnerable and has a hard time opening up to others. She reports hating school and only wants to stay at home with her mother. She cries every morning when her mother gets her ready for school. She will also cry each time the teacher indicates that the next upcoming subject is math. Sonia’s parents are concerned for their daughter and are unable to ask for assistance because of a language barrier

Developing and Implementing an Action Plan (35%)
Related Assignment No. 2 Filipino Community in Calgary

Based on your understanding of your community and the issue(s) identified in the community assessment, you can now put together much of what you have learned across the whole course to design a hypothetical intervention to address the community health issue.
Describe a participatory approach to addressing the community issue(s) identified in Assignment 2 in a paper of no more than 3000 words (about 10-12 double-spaced pages, excluding appendices), using Times New Roman 12 point font. Use the APA Style Guide to format your paper, and be sure to include citations and a reference list.
Address the following points in your paper, and where warranted, include research evidence (citations) to support your answers.
Briefly summarize the community issue(s) identified in the previous assignments.
Describe the context and the determinants of the problem in enough detail so that it is possible to see both the impacts and root causes of the problem.
Building on your understanding of community development, and what a community intervention must look like, design and describe the steps and processes of a participatory intervention that will address the community problem you have described.
Integrate the use of at least five of the principles of community development.
Apply critical thinking principles to analyse the results of the community development approach you use. Discuss what model you think your approach most closely resembles, and describe the strengths and weaknesses of that model. What worked well and what didn’t work well? What would you change if you had to do it again?
Include references to the course readings and at least three other sources from the literature to support your work.

At the end of week seven you will be required to submit a marketing plan for your final
project.
I. Marketing Plan Requirements:
You are to choose a company and develop a marketing plan for a product or service.
Your business of choice may be a new business launch or a company seeking to break
into new markets. Each component of the marketing plan must be thoroughly
discussed. Keep in mind that your plan must be realistic and doable. Also, it will be
required that you address each component in the marketing plan outline.
Your marketing plan should be crafted as if you were submitting a formal marketing plan
to an executive committee, board members or investors in the marketing initiative. The
marketing plan should be of the highest caliber and exhibit the utmost of professionalism.
Required components of the Marketing Plan:
• Company name
• Executive summary
• Situation Analysis
• Customer
• Competition
• Strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats (SWOT)
• Macro environmental analysis
• Market segmentation
• Product
• Price
• Distribution
• Promotion
• Projections
• Projected costs | Categorized budget information
• Conclusion
Appendix
Complete visuals consisting of bar charts, pie charts, and flowcharts all three is required
Remember that all of the components will be required

Measurement of solution properties
1. With the data given partial specific volume and partial molar mass should be calculated.(table.1)
Table1. Protein conc. Solution density
77.12. 1.0195
154.79. 1.0394
249.98. 1.0635
336.82. 1.0856
421.08. 1.1068
2.measured viscosity of the aqueous protein solution at 15 degree C as a function of protein concentration. The 585 amino acid has a molar mass of 66500 g/mol (table.2).

Identify a Multinational Enterprise and discuss its overall international strategy (global, transnational, localization or international) and the structure that supports this strategy.

answer in complete sentences, and be sure to use correct English, spelling and grammar. Sources must be cited in APA format. Your response should be four (4) double-spaced pages; refer to the “Assignment Format” page located on the Course Home page for specific format requirements.

Discuss the applications of each of following in biology today and include three examples of each with a brief description.

DNA in forensic science

Population evolution and microbial life

Biological diversity evolution

Plant and animal evolution

Population growth

Biomes and ecosystems

Notes in this lesson:

We will investigate the study of ecology. We’ve learned in previous sections that plants and animals remain in the areas that provide them with the necessary food and environments that aid in their survival. As people expand their territories, boundaries of plants and animals may recede, forcing them to take up residence in other locations.

We will learn about biomes and their individual offerings to wildlife. From temperature to precipitation to available vegetation, each has something to offer different species of animals. While any of these changes may not affect an endangered animal, for example, they may affect prey or predators of this animal population. From our earlier lessons, we learned about competition and the food chain. What would happen if an endangered animal did not have enough of the vegetation or the smaller animals that are part of its diet? Yes, you’re right, this animal couldn’t survive! Alternately, if this endangered animal did not have enough predators, what would be the outcome? Most likely, this population would grow unchecked and proliferate. No matter which outcome occurs, it sets off a chain of events sometimes not anticipated.

We will also discuss population growth. The authors of your textbook have provided some excellent graphs that visually demonstrate concepts such as density of populations and survival rates. These provide us with some easily identifiable ways to understand the main points of the lesson. We will also discuss biological control and how some species remain unchecked. You will discover the reasons for this. Think of your own yard. Why are weeds prevalent? What peak times do we notice specific weeds? When we plant bulbs, what are the reasons they either thrive or do not survive?

Human population growth is presented in detail. We will discuss our ecological footprint. You may remember earlier in this lesson we discussed our carbon footprint. Some ways we can reduce our carbon and ecological footprints include living in smaller spaces and using fewer natural resources. We can live in smaller houses that use solar panels or water conservation systems. We can also walk, ride our bike, carpool, or take public transportation to work or school. In the United States, we are faced with both overpopulation and overconsumption (Simon, Dickey, & Reece, 2013).

Energy flow in ecosystems starts with an energy source, such as the sun. Producers, like plants, use this source for their growth. The pyramid continues with primary, secondary, and tertiary consumers. Each is dependent on the preceding level for its survival. Biodiversity is the variety that exists in all living things, and we are interdependent beings and need each other to exist (Simon, Dickey, & Reece, 2013).

Let’s look an example of interdependence in our society. Let’s say we need to receive a vaccination. We begin by making an appointment to see the health care provider who can prescribe the immunization. We rely on the nurse to administer this vaccination after performing the necessary checks on the lot number, the expiration date, and the refrigeration temperature. We also count on the fact that the nurse received appropriate training from his or her nursing school and has passed the state licensing exam and that he or she is competent. We count on the pharmaceutical companies to provide a quality product. Furthermore, we count on our government to inspect the quality of the product the pharmaceutical company has provided. We are counting on each step of the process to be near 100 percent, aren’t we?

This course was designed to enlighten you on the many wonderful offerings of biology, and I hope you have learned the different ways you connect to this world and it connects to you.

Answer each of the questions below using information gathered from your readings, lectures, and outside research. You should provide at least a paragraph response for each of the questions.

1. If we cannot see atoms, how do we know that they really exist?
2. What are the components of an atom, and how are they organized to form an atom?
3. Why are enzymes important in the sustenance of life?
4. What are the main functional differences between DNA and RNA?
5. What happens to ionic and covalent compounds when they dissolve in water?