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March 22, 2024

Importance of Community

Importance of Community

Use the attached NAEYC documents to complete this discussion board.

The NAEYC guidance underscores the importance of early childhood educators having a strong understanding of communities and the resources they have to support families. Find one quote in those documents about the importance of community. Share that quote and discuss what it means for you as a future ECE.

Why will it be important for you to know about community connections?
What are ways you can build your understanding of what your community has available to support families?

The Discussion Assignment

Read: NAEYC Guidance

DAP position pages 1-19 with emphasis on page 19

Equity position read entire document and focus on page 8

Standards and Competencies Standard 2 pages 13-14

Importance of Community

Use the attached NAEYC documents to complete this discussion board.

Why will it be important for you to know about community connections?
What are ways you can build your understanding of what your community has available to support families?

The Discussion Assignment

Read: NAEYC Guidance

DAP position pages 1-19 with emphasis on page 19

Equity position read entire document and focus on page 8

Standards and Competencies Standard 2 pages 13-14

Importance of Community

Use the attached NAEYC documents to complete this discussion board.

Why will it be important for you to know about community connections?
What are ways you can build your understanding of what your community has available to support families?

The Discussion Assignment

Read: NAEYC Guidance

DAP position pages 1-19 with emphasis on page 19

Equity position read entire document and focus on page 8

Standards and Competencies Standard 2 pages 13-14

March 22, 2024

Developing a Leadership Plan

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Developing a Leadership Plan

Select a contemporary leadership challenge. It can be in your workplace, an organization you are currently or previously associated with, or an organization you can research through peer-reviewed resources. In this paper you will propose a leadership plan to the CEO and Board of Directors that will address this challenge.

Explain why leadership in this organization is not functioning to its potential and identify what needs to change.

Present a brief description of at least four leadership models and determine which leadership model(s) are exhibited in this organization.

Select a model and explain how your selected model will support success for the organization.

Describe the exhibited behaviors by the leader(s), and explain whether they add value.

Developing a Leadership Plan

In analyzing the leader(s), present a brief description of at least 4 leadership styles and determine which characteristics and leadership style exhibited requires improvement through reflection or training.

Explain to what extent conflict is present, both positive to challenge the status quo and negative based on personal agenda pursuit.

Examine the role that effective communication will serve toward conveying the scope of the problem and resolution in the situation.

Describe Tuckman’s teamwork performance stage, and recommend leader support to optimize conjoined efforts.

Summarize your findings and recommendations to the CEO and Board of Directors.

Developing a Leadership Plan

Your completed plan for the CEO and Board of Directors should be a minimum of seven pages in length. A title page or reference pages do not count toward this requirement. You may utilize charts, data, tables, and other visuals as needed, but this is not a requirement and does not count towards the page length.

You must use at least five peer-reviewed or scholarly sources to support the concepts for your paper, three of which must come from the CSU Online Library. Your textbook can be a resource. All sources used must have citations and references properly formatted in APA Style. APA formatting of your paper is also required.

March 22, 2024

Cyber Security Frameworks

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Cyber Security Frameworks

Submissions will be scored for plagiarism by TurnItIn so make sure you put the paper in your own words. Unfortunately, Turnitin does not offer a student interface to check you work before submitting. However, if you do a Google search for “free plagiarism checker”, you’ll find a few options that you can use if you’d like.

Part 2

Part 2 should provide a look at the current state of your topic. You can include things like:

What is the current technology regarding this topic?
What are the exploits against this topic?
Who are threat actors who create these exploits?
How is it defended?
How successful is the defense strategy?
What are some recent examples of breach regarding this topic?

Cyber Security Frameworks

Length

You should be shooting for a minimum of 1,000 words in 12 Times New Roman text. Bibliography and other supplemental materials do not count towards the word count.

Format:
You do not need a title page, but you must fully document your sources in APA format

including in-text citations. You must select high-quality research sources. If you have any questions about whether a source is “high-quality”, please ask me before you rely on it. You may choose to use any format that you choose for your research paper so long as it is easily readable. You will submit the research paper in Canvas as a Microsoft Word document or Adobe PDF.

Cyber Security Frameworks

Length

You should be shooting for a minimum of 1,000 words in 12 Times New Roman text. Bibliography and other supplemental materials do not count towards the word count.

Format:
You do not need a title page, but you must fully document your sources in APA format

March 20, 2024

HOTE 2 – Tour Operations

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HOTE 2 – Tour Operations

Final Assignment – Design a Tour from Concept to Promotion

The Task:

Here is your chance to put the course teachings into practice – have fun with this assignment and be creative.

Plan and develop a unique multi-day tour from design to promotion stage. Follow the steps for building a successful tour and best industry practices to create a group tour within the following parameters:

Minimum 20 tour members
Minimum 7 days
Minimum 2 destinations
Escorted with a group leader
Each tour must include (at a minimum): Accommodation, Transportation, Meal(s), Attractions, Group Leader, appropriate taxes and gratuities.

Remember to include the following:

Target market – give a description of the demographic group the tour will appeal to and some psychographic characteristics.
Clearly state the tour’s theme. Provide some market research indicators to back up your choice.
Include the tour’s objective and why it was chosen.
Include an inventory (separate section included with final submission).
Include the tour itinerary for passengers, being mindful of the factors affecting itinerary development. Specifically name hotels, attractions, meal locations etc.
Include the detailed tour itinerary for the Tour Leader – this will be used by them and cross-referenced to the inventory to ensure the tour runs smoothly
Include the complete budget/costing for the tour. Make sure the final price is realistic.
Include the promotional material in the form of a one page (minimum) promotional flyer. Include how, where, inclusions, price, extras, legal terminology.
Include a schedule on how, where and when the tour will be promoted. Remember traditional and non-traditional distribution methods
Include a job description for the group leader.
Include an evaluation that will be provided to participants.
Include your plan for tour follow-up.

HOTE 2 – Tour Operations

Use the following figures required for budget completion:

Office Administration $1000.00

Profit per person double – 15% of Net

Gratuities for coach drivers – $2 per person, per day

Gratuities for step-on guides – $50.00 per half day

Other gratuities undefined – 15%

Remember if your marketing plan includes selling through the travel trade, you must include a percentage commission, in addition to the profit.

HOTE 2 – Tour Operations

Assignment Details:

For this assignment you will work on your own and prepare a written report in a presentation style. Contents should follow a logical sequence and an index would be appropriate at the beginning of your submission. It is expected that the report will be approximately twelve – fifteen pages in length. A fully detailed Costing/Budget sheet must accompany your work.

All research sources, including costs for budget, must be identified in a reference section. Plagiarism will not be tolerated – you must develop this tour on your own not simply use a tour from a brochure. Tours that are not your own work and have been “borrowed” from established tour operators will receive a mark of 0 for the assignment.

Grading:

This assignment is worth 30% of your final grade and will be marked out of 60.

Marks will apply as follows:

Target market, theme, objective 5 marks
Inventory 5 marks
Tour Itinerary (5 each) 10 marks
Budget 10 marks
Promotional material and Distribution 10 marks
Group Leader job description 5 marks
Evaluation and Follow-up 5 marks
Writing and presentation: 10 marks

neatly presented document
well-formed sentences
grammar and spelling error-free

Creativity will be taken into consideration in all the above items – except budget! Use APA referencing style.

March 20, 2024

FDY005 Effective Communication

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FDY005 Effective Communication

The portfolio will include three tasks: 1. Delivery of an effective spoken presentation 2. Creation of a written handout 3. Annotated bibliography You will select a topic in consultation with your Module Tutor/Subject Liaison Tutor. The three tasks will all relate to that topic. 1. Delivery of an effective spoken presentation You will prepare and deliver a 10-minute presentation. You will be given a feedback sheet completed by your tutor which you should include in your portfolio as evidence that the presentation has been successfully delivered. Your presentation should be underpinned by reference to relevant sources. You will be expected to support it with appropriate visual materials, typically using presentation software, which you have designed in Module FDY006 The Digital Learner. FDY005 Effective Communication 2. Creation of a written handout You will produce a written handout to accompany your presentation. This may include some of the materials from the presentation slides and any accompanying notes. It should be professionally presented in a format suitable for the audience. 3. Annotated bibliography You will select five of the resources used to underpin your presentation to produce an annotated bibliography. You will explain why each text is important, useful and relevant, commenting on why you selected it, how it helps the study of the topic and how it illuminates the topic. This will be about 750 words in length. The references should comply with Harvard referencing conventions. FDY005 Effective Communication The notional word count for this assignment is 1500 but it should be noted that the word counts for Tasks 2 and 3 will vary depending on the handout you produce and sources you list. If your word count is significantly different from this please speak to your tutor. Your submission should be submitted as one document containing all three tasks and a reference list that complies with Harvard referencing.

The portfolio will include three tasks:

1. Delivery of an effective spoken presentation

2. Creation of a written handout

3. Annotated bibliography

You will select a topic in consultation with your Module Tutor/Subject Liaison Tutor. The three tasks will all relate to that topic.

1. Delivery of an effective spoken presentation

You will prepare and deliver a 10-minute presentation. You will be given a feedback sheet completed by your tutor which you should include in your portfolio as evidence that the presentation has been successfully delivered. Your presentation should be underpinned by reference to relevant sources. You will be expected to support it with appropriate visual materials, typically using presentation software, which you have designed in Module FDY006 The Digital Learner.

FDY005 Effective Communication

2. Creation of a written handout

You will produce a written handout to accompany your presentation. This may include some of the materials from the presentation slides and any accompanying notes. It should be professionally presented in a format suitable for the audience.

3. Annotated bibliography

You will select five of the resources used to underpin your presentation to produce an annotated bibliography. You will explain why each text is important, useful and relevant, commenting on why you selected it, how it helps the study of the topic and how it illuminates the topic. This will be about 750 words in length. The references should comply with Harvard referencing conventions.

FDY005 Effective Communication

The notional word count for this assignment is 1500 but it should be noted that the word counts for Tasks 2 and 3 will vary depending on the handout you produce and sources you list. If your word count is significantly different from this please speak to your tutor.

Your submission should be submitted as one document containing all three tasks and a reference list that complies with Harvard referencing.

March 20, 2024

Principles of Investments

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Principles of Investments

The expected returns and standard deviation of returns for two securities are as follows:

	Security Z	Security Y
Expected Return	15%	35%
Standard Deviation	20%	40%

The correlation between the returns is +0.25.

Calculate the expected return and standard deviation for the following portfolios:

All in Z
75 in Z and .25 in Y
5 in Z and .5 in Y
25 in Z and .75 in Y
All in Y

Draw the mean-standard deviation
Which portfolios might be held by an investor who likes high mean and low standard deviation? (In other words, which portfolios are on the efficient frontier?)

Here are some characteristics of two securities:

Security 1: 𝐸(𝑅₁) = 0.1 𝜎²(𝑅₁) = 0.0025

Security 2: 𝐸(𝑅₂) = 0.16 𝜎²(𝑅₂) = 0.0064

Answer the following questions:

Which security should an investor choose if she wants to (i) maximize expected returns, (ii) minimize risk (assume the investor cannot form a portfolio)?
Suppose the correlation of returns on the two securities is +1.0, what is the optimal combination of securities 1 and 2 that should be held by the investor whose objective is to minimize risk (assume short sales are not allowed)?
Suppose the correlation of returns is -1.0, what fraction of the investor’s net worth should be held in security 1 and in security 2 in order to produce a zero-risk portfolio?
What is the expected return on the portfolio in (c)? How does this compare with the riskless return on Treasury Bills of 10%? Would the investor want to invest in Treasury Bills?

Principles of Investments

Assume that the expected return on the market portfolio is 10%. If a stock with a beta of 2 has an expected return of 15% in this economy, what is the expected return on a stock with a beta of 5?
Using historical data you estimate the expected return and beta for Stock A as 9.5% and 1.2, and for Stock B as 14% and 1.8. The expected return of the market portfolio is 9% and the risk-free rate is 5%. If CAPM holds, which stock should you invest in?
Suppose that a single factor APT holds. The risk-free rate is 4% and the expected return on a portfolio with unit sensitivity (sensitivity equal to 1) to the factor is 7%. Consider a portfolio of two securities with the following characteristics:

Security	Sensitivity to the factor	Proportion in the Portfolio
A	0.8	0.3
B	1.7	0.7

Principles of Investments

According to APT, what is the portfolio’s equilibrium expected return?

Consider an economy where two factors are sufficient to describe the returns on common stocks. Stated formally, we have:

𝐸(𝑟_i) = 𝑟_ƒ + 𝑏_i,1ƒ₁ + 𝑏_i,2ƒ₂

The following table gives the estimated sensitivities of stocks A and B to the two factors, as well as their expected returns.

Stock	𝑏i,1	𝑏i,2	𝐸(𝑟_i)
A	0.7	1.4	12.7%
B	2.1	0.7	17.6%

The risk-free rate of return is 5%. Suppose A and B are priced consistently with the two-factor APT above.

Calculate the risk premiums of the two factors (ƒ₁ and ƒ₂).
Suppose there is another stock, C with sensitivities 𝑏_𝐶,1 = 3 and 𝑏_𝐶,2 = 0.8. Your analysis shows that holding c your expected return will be 10%. Is c is overvalued, undervalued or correctly priced based on APT?

Principles of Investments

For this exercise you would need to use the spreadsheet xls posted on the Blackboard.

The file contains information about monthly returns of twelve stocks, AMGN, AMZN, STX, MSFT, BA, WMT, PFE, ABB, YHOO, AAPL, VZ, GOOG, as well as the value-weighted market index excess return (MKT-RF), and the risk-free rate (RF). The sample period begins on January 2004 and ends December 2012.

The spreadsheet is set in a way that you would only need to change the values in cells H122 and T123 in order to control the portfolio weights and the stock/portfolio chosen for the regression calculation.

Calculate the Beta and 𝑅² of each stock by running a regression of the monthly returns

of the stock (excess of the risk-free rate) on the monthly returns of the value-weighted market index (excess of the risk-free rate ). The latter are denoted MKT-RF and they are located on Column P (notice the risk-free rate has already been subtracted from the index). You can choose different stocks by changing the values in cell T123. This would immediately provide you with the excess returns of each stock in Column T. These returns should be used for the regression.

Principles of Investments

Graph a scattered plot of the Security Market Line (SML), i.e. each point on this plot is a pair of the average returns of a stock and its Beta. Calculate the risk premium of the market index as the slope of the regression line in this graph. Is the premium statistically significant? Are these results consistent with the CAPM?
Calculate the amount of idiosyncratic risk as a fraction of total risk (1-𝑅²) for five portfolios. The first portfolio includes only AMGN. The second portfolio includes the first three stocks, i.e. AMGN, AMZN, and Similarly, portfolios 3 through 5 include the first six, nine, and twelve stocks, respectively.

These portfolios can be chosen by changing the value of cell H122 (change also the value of T123 to 14 to run the regressions for this part). Use APA referencing style.

Plot the fraction of idiosyncratic risk as a function of the number of stocks in the What is your conclusion?

March 20, 2024

Performance Improvement

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Performance Improvement

Nurse-Sensitive Quality Indicator: Percentage of Patients with Pressure Ulcers

Draft a 3- to 4-page paper analyzing areas where there is good performance and areas of opportunity from the sample Dashboard.

Analyze the data provided in the Dashboard and select an area of performance that needs improvement. Include information on why this area was chosen. (Area chosen would be the % Patients with Pressure Ulcers)

Develop a nursing plan that includes suggestions for improving the selected indicator’s performance.

Be sure to provide at least three best practices from the evidenced-based literature to support your suggested nursing plan. (Three resources)

Be sure to include an introduction and conclusion in your paper.

No abstract or running head is required

Please use the attached dashboard!

Performance Improvement

Nurse-Sensitive Quality Indicator: Percentage of Patients with Pressure Ulcers

Draft a 3- to 4-page paper analyzing areas where there is good performance and areas of opportunity from the sample Dashboard.

Develop a nursing plan that includes suggestions for improving the selected indicator’s performance.

Be sure to provide at least three best practices from the evidenced-based literature to support your suggested nursing plan. (Three resources)

Be sure to include an introduction and conclusion in your paper.

No abstract or running head is required

Please use the attached dashboard!

Performance Improvement

Nurse-Sensitive Quality Indicator: Percentage of Patients with Pressure Ulcers

Draft a 3- to 4-page paper analyzing areas where there is good performance and areas of opportunity from the sample Dashboard.

Develop a nursing plan that includes suggestions for improving the selected indicator’s performance.

Be sure to provide at least three best practices from the evidenced-based literature to support your suggested nursing plan. (Three resources). Use APA referencing style.

Be sure to include an introduction and conclusion in your paper.

No abstract or running head is required

Please use the attached dashboard!

March 20, 2024

Recruiting Methods – Remote Work

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Recruiting Methods – Remote Work

One of the primary objectives of recruiting is to attract qualified candidates to meet the organization’s goals and objectives. Once organizations have determined the necessary worker competencies, the next step is to identify various sources that will help the organization determine the best candidates for the open roles. Often organizations will look internally. However, to attract new talent outside of the organization, external recruitment efforts can be employed. In today’s current work environment, there is a mixture of both onsite and remote workers. Onsite workers are workers that typically work mixture of both onsite and remote workers. Onsite workers are workers that typically work at the physical location of an organization. Virtual workers can work anywhere electronically. Additionally, recruiting diverse talent is imperative. Candidates for both Remote and onsite should be a diverse and well-qualified pool.

Recruiting Methods – Remote Work

Instructions

As a recruiting manager for a company of your choice:

Create a job opening, based on the needs of the company.
Describe the position, as well as the ideal candidate.
List the job duties that will be performed.
List the required qualifications for the position.
Make sure to include whether the job will be onsite or virtual. Explain why this job is virtual/onsite.

Recruiting Methods – Remote Work

Explain which recruitment methods you believe are appropriate to use for a diverse and well- qualified pool. Also, discuss what organizations must be aware of when recruiting candidates from diverse talent pools.

Guidelines

For this assignment:

Develop a 6-slide presentation, not including the title and reference pages, which are required.
You must include a minimum of two paragraphs of notes, within the speaker’s note section (for EACH slide), to enhance your slide and prevent clutter, realizing this is a slide presentation for leadership. You may also add audio if you choose.
Your presentation must be properly cited and formatted according to APA standards.

March 20, 2024

Forecasting and Planning

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Forecasting and Planning

Consider the following scenario: Your organization’s forecasts from last year were wildly inaccurate, and your manager has tasked you with finding a better method of forecasting and planning for success.

You may choose from one of these types of organizations/departments:

Marketing
Financial
Human Resources

Your manager cannot decide between qualitative techniques, time series analysis and project and causal models. Research the techniques, being sure to analyze how constraints are related to production and forecasting, how capabilities function as both constraints and KPIs, and how to differentiate between short-term and long-term capacity building. Based on your findings, determine building.

Forecasting and Planning

Based on your findings, determine which approach best suits your organization and/or department. Provide an overview of each method, and recommend the best solution to your manager, along with the rationale for your choice.

Your submission for this assignment should be formatted for a business context; a white paper, slide presentation, or similar option that includes your overview and recommendations would be appropriate.

You should include a references section that conforms to APA guidelines. Include at least 3 credible references in addition to the course textbook. You should include a references section that conforms to APA guidelines. Include at least 3 credible references in addition to the course textbook.

Forecasting and Planning

You may choose from one of these types of organizations/departments:

Marketing
Financial
Human Resources

March 20, 2024

Portfolio Management Assignment

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Portfolio Management Assignment

Question One

Suppose that there are many stocks in the security market and that the characteristics of stocks A and B are given as follows:

Stock Expected Return Standard Deviation

A 12% 6%

B 15% 8%

Correlation : -1

Suppose that it is possible to borrow at the risk-free rate Rf. What must be the value of the risk-free rate ?
(Hint: Think about constructing a risk-free portfolio from stocks A and B)

Please include your calculations for each question.

Question Two

Suppose you have a project that has a 70% chance of doubling your investment in a year and a 30% change of halving your investment in a year.
What is the standard deviation of the rate of return on this investment?

Please include your calculations for each question.

Portfolio Management Assignment

Question Three

Consider a risky portfolio. The end-of-year cash flow derived from the portfolio will be either 70000 USD or 190000 USD with equal probabilities of 50%. The alternative risk-free investment in T bills pays 5% per year.

Please include your calculations for each question.

If you require a risk premium of 8%, how much will you be willing to pay for the portfolio?

Suppose that the portfolio can be purchased for the amount you found in III.a. What will be the expected rate of return on the portfolio?

Now suppose that you require a risk premium of 12%. What is the price that you will be willing to pay?

Comparing your answers to III.a and III.c, what do you conclude about the relationship between the required risk premium on a portfolio and the price at which the portfolio will sell?

Suppose that the portfolio can be purchased for the amount you found in III.a. What will be the expected rate of return on the portfolio?

Now suppose that you require a risk premium of 12%. What is the price that you will be willing to pay?

Comparing your answers to III.a and III.c, what do you conclude about the relationship between the required risk premium on a portfolio and the price at which the portfolio will sell? APA.

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