The goal of this research project is for students to learn more about international accounting standards.
Professional Topic Research Paper Assignment: The purpose of this assignment is for
students to research and learn about current topics/issues in international accounting. Students
will identify topics in international accounting (Textbook TOC could be used to identify topic),
research more about the chosen topic, and write an APA paper on their findings. The discussion
and analysis of the paper must be at least 6 pages (the cover page, outline, and reference page
are not part of the 6 pages).
2. The research topic selection must be posted to the assigned proposal topic assignment
discussion thread by the end of the first Module.
The research must be conducted using peer-reviewed trade, online CPA journals, accounting
organizations, academic journals, and other reliable online resources. While Blogs, Wikipedia,
encyclopedias, popular magazines, newspaper articles, online websites, etc. are helpful for
providing background information, these resources MAY NOT suitable resources for this
research assignment. However, it depends on topic selection. It is important to double check with
teaching faculty.
Please Note: The Library staffs are very helpful with assisting students in using the Online
Library journal database. Please contact them if you have issues.
Assignment Requirements:
1. Choose a research topic by the end of Module 1. If you do not know what to select, it is
critical to ask teaching faculty by posting questions within weekly Q/A discussion thread.
2. Research/find a minimum of at least 10, preferably 5 different peer-reviewed journal
articles on your topic from the University Library online business database. Online
reliable resources can be used as well. It is important to check with faculty, if you are not
sure about your resources.
3. The article(s) must be current/published within the last five (5) years. (The one exception
is for the accounting history of chosen topic – hard to find current articles on the
accounting history).
4. Write a 6 pages double spaced paper in APA format discussing the findings on your
specific topic in your own words. Note – paper length does not include cover page,
outline, and references page. Students cannot use quotation marks for this short research
project.
5. Structure your paper as follows (Please review the course syllabus for due date of each section
below). This is just a sample structure. Teaching faculty will provide feedback and observation
for each section accordingly.
a. Cover page
b. Outline/table of contents
c. Introduction section
d. Discussion section: students must integrate resources fully and support the
discussion with in-text citation.
e. Conclusion
f. References
MBA560 Research Project
6. Below are weekly schedules and requirements.
Module 1:
Research Assignment: Students must review the research assignment requirements and post a
potential research project topic to share with faculty by the conclusion of this Module. The
individual assigned group discussion thread can be found under Activities Menu/Group.
This is where teaching faculty provides supports during the duration of this project.
Module 2:
Research Assignment:
At this point, students should have established a concrete topic for the research project. During
this Module, students must conduct research thoroughly. It is imperative for students to
communicate with faculty on a regular basis with their progress during the duration of this
Module within the individual assigned research discussion thread. This is where teaching
faculty provides supports during the duration of this project. The initial outline is due by the
end of this Module.
Module 3:
Research Assignment: At this point, students should have established a concrete topic for the
research project. It is imperative for students to communicate with faculty on a regular basis with
their progress during the duration of this Module within the individual assigned research
discussion thread. The initial outline must be revised and upload to the discussion thread by the
end of this Module. Most importantly, the initial draft of the project is due by the end of Module 4.
Module 4:
By the end of this Module, students should post the initial draft of the research project to the
assigned Research Project Discussion thread. It is important to not post the MS Word file.
Students must copy and paste the project discussion into the discussion post. Faculty will provide
feedback and observation for improvements directly from the discussion post. Most
importantly, the second revision draft of the research project is due by the end of Module.
Module 5:
By the end of this Module, students should post the second revision draft of the research project
to the assigned Research Project Discussion thread. It is important to not post the MS Word
file. Students must copy and paste the project discussion into the discussion post. Faculty will
provide feedback and observation for improvements directly from the discussion post. Most
importantly, the final copy of the research project is due by the end of Module 7. This is the
last observation and review for improvements.
Module 6:
MBA560 Research Project
During the duration of this Module, students should work on the revision of their revision draft
after they have received feedbacks from teaching faculty. Students are encouraged to upload the
second draft to the research assignment draft Dropbox to check for APA issues by the end of
this Module. Students must download the Turnitin report and make changes to each matching for
the discussion section of the research project. Students should ignore the matching of the cover
page and the reference pages of the project. Most importantly, each matching of the discussion
section must be less than 3 percent. No quotation mark usages are allowed for this research
project. If students have questions, it is important to post questions within the assigned research
discussion thread. The final copy of the research project is due by the end of Module 7.
Need:
Outline for Paper due by 01/27/23
Initial revisied outline due by 02/04/23
Intitial draft due by 02/11/23
second revision Draft due by 02/18/23
Final paper due 02/26/23
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Discussion 8 – Pfizer
Some types of capital investments have associated cash flows that are very difficult to estimate, while other types of capital investments have associated cash flows that are very easy to estimate. Name two capital investments from your chosen publicly traded entity, one that has associated cash flows that are easy to estimate and one that has associated cash flows that are difficult to estimate. Explain how these two types of investments differ and why the associated cash flows are easier or more difficult to estimate.
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Discussion 7 – Moderna
Pick a publicly-traded company and exam the company products. If the company produces many products, please pick one important product and explain why and how it is important for management to understand cost-volume-profit relationships. Remember, a company can be selected once for the discussion.
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Discussion 6 – Non-Value-Added
Identify a non-value-added activity at three different publicly traded organizations. Explain how each organization might be able to eliminate the non-value-added activity identified. Please make sure not to select organizations that are similar to prior posts.
Manufacturing Costs: Pick a product and identify four direct materials that are used to create the product, identify at least two types of labor, Identify at least three types of overhead costs, and discuss how the company should be able to do to lower each cost.
An American company is considering entering into a joint venture with a firm in another country (please select another country of your choice). Describe what cultural and accounting practice differences each party should consider and explain why.
No identical company/country can be used for this discussion. It is important to review prior posts first. No credit can be given for using the same company/country.
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Discussion 3 – LabCorp
Select a publicly traded company and access the company’s most recent annual report (select the “Investors” menu item). Locate the notes to the financial statements and identify the information topics disclosed in these footnotes and explain the reasons for disclosure.
Papers must be typed, double-spaced, Times-New-Roman, 12-point font and one-inch margins.
Papers should be 3 pages long
Writing should use formal language and correct spelling and punctuation
Topics reflected upon may include any information covered in class or in the reading assignment for the week
Papers may take 1 or 2 topics and examine them deeply, or more topics examined in less detail
When writing, consider the following:
What have we studied that is interesting?
What new things have you learned?
How has your learning affected the preconceptions or misconceptions you brought with you into class?
How does your learning affect your view of the world and the universe?
Will what you have learned change your professional behavior in the future?
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QSEN Competency
In 2012, the American Association of Colleges of Nursing (AACN) convened a panel of experts in the field of quality and safety education and graduate-level practice and representatives of key stakeholder organizations to review the existing Quality and Safety Education for Nurses (QSEN) graduate competencies and AACN’s recently revised Essentials of Master’s Education in Nursing (2011).
Their goal was to determine the competencies that graduate-prepared nurses must possess to meet contemporary care standards.
All MSN-prepared nurses should be competent in the following OSEN areas.
• Quality improvement
• Safety
• Teamwork and collaboration
• Patient-centered care
• Evidence-based practice
• Informatics
For this discussion, please choose a QSEN competency that impacts your role (nursing administration).
Please discuss the following:
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• Describe the graduate-level QSEN competency and how this competency specifically impacts your role.
• Specifically describe how you, a graduate-prepared nurse, will address this competency compared to how an undergraduate nurse would.
Note :This is my very last Capstone class, they are looking for me to write very high quality papers…
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Modern World Literature m2A
Write a 2-page literary analysis of one of the short stories from the assigned readings for Module 02, explaining how the author used characteristics of modernist literature or dystopian elements to create the dominant theme of the short story. You should include two of the terms used in your Module 02 literary terms exercise, and highlight the unique elements utilized in either modernist or dystopian fiction from your reading this week. Consider the following:
What was the main theme of your chosen story? (This is the main idea or message of the story). Examples of theme might be man vs. technology, man vs. nature, love, death, coming of age, freedom, the hero or heroine’s quest, etc.
If you chose a dystopian story, what vision of the future did the reading reflect?
Which of the literary terms or characteristics of modernist fiction did you find in your chosen story? (See your lesson content and literary terms in Module 02 for more on these).
Focus as much as you can on how this short story exemplified the genre you have selected. You will also find it helpful to research the selected work online and in our library. You may use more than one article for your paper. Research includes at least one outside library article on the work selected.
Your paper must be written in APA format. Use the APA template from the Course Guide to complete this assignment. You should have an APA cover page; two full pages of essay text with in-text citations, quotes, and lines from the readings; and a reference page.
40 Short Stories: A Portable Anthology
“The Story of an Hour” by Kate Chopin
“Araby” by James Joyce
“A Hunger Artist” by Franz Kafka
“The Lottery” by Shirley Jackson
Yiu, A. (2003). Three-dimensional reading: Stories of time and space in Japanese modernist fiction, 1911-1932. University of Hawaii Press.
“Hell in a Bottle” by Yumeno Kyusaku
Haddon, M. (2003). The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time.
Continue reading this week; no assignments on this work until Module 3 (Next 50 pages recommended) (Cloud Library edition)
Literary Terms 2
Dadaism
A philosophy that rejected any s form of authority and created works which focused on mocking the establishment in art, music, and literature.
Anti-hero
A leading character, male or female, without positive attributes and status found in classic drama.
Nihilism
Total rejection of belief in anything; felt life was “meaningless”.
Surrealism
A 20th-century avant-garde movement in art and literature that sought to release the creative potential of the unconscious mind (e.g., irrational juxtaposition of images).
Stream of Consciousness
In fiction, the technique designed to represent a character’s inner thoughts, which flow in a stream without grammatical structure, punctuation or apparent coherence.
Utopian
A kind of fiction that imagines perfect social, moral, and physical worlds for the characters or citizens.
Didactic
A kind of fiction that is designed to present or demonstrate a moral, religious, political, or other belief or position.
Modernism
A movement that represented a radical break with conventions of the past, including religion, art, literature, and science.
Dystopian
A kind of fiction that illustrates the negative consequences of a so-called perfect society, usually created by technological advances leading to totalitarianism.
Primitivism
A recurrent theory or belief, as in philosophy or art, that the qualities of chronologically early cultures are superior to those of contemporary civilization.