WK 3 DISCUSSION 1:

Cash Flow Statement [WLOs: 1, 3, 4] [CLO: 3]

Prior to beginning work on this discussion, read Chapter 16 in the textbook. In addition, the MyLab materials listed in the Recommended Resources section this week may provide more in-depth information for this discussion (optional).

Write: Make sure your response addressing the prompt is more than 200 words and that you include an in-text citation or a brief quote from the reading material where appropriate.

The statement of cash flows reconciles the beginning cash total to the ending cash total by showing cash inflows (sources) and cash outflows (uses). The statement shows the company’s ability to pay future cash obligations.

The statement is divided into three parts: operating, investing, and financing activities. In your post, address the following:

• Describe the three parts of a cash flow statement and indicate which transactions affect each part.
• Give examples of non-cash investing and financing transactions and state how they are reported.

Explain the difference between the cash flow statement indirect and direct method of reporting.

WK 3 DISCUSSION 2:

Horizontal and Vertical Analysis [WLOs: 1, 2] [CLO: 6]

Prior to beginning work on this discussion, read Chapter 17 in the textbook. In addition, the MyLab materials listed in the Recommended Resources section this week may provide more in-depth information for this discussion (optional).

Write: Make sure your response addressing the prompt is more than 200 words and that you include an in-text citation or a brief quote from the reading material where appropriate.

Investors and creditors cannot evaluate a company’s performance by solely looking at 1 year of data. There are three main ways to analyze financial statements: horizontal, vertical, and ratio analysis.

• Explain horizontal and vertical analysis and how they are prepared to analyze comparative income statements and balance sheets.

Explain trend analysis and common size statements.

. Choose a contemporary moral issue in our society (course materials) and apply the ethical principle of Utilitarianism to approve this moral issue. You must pick a moral issue that you strongly support and apply the utilitarian claims (course materials) to back up your arguments. You must use at least 3 sources from LIRN in our library. The paper must be done in MLA format with a minimum of 500 words (quotes are not included in the word count). You must use at least 3 sources from LIRN in our library. User name. You must apply Bentham/Mill’s “Principle of Utility” (week 3 Lecture) for 50 points and Bentham’s Felicific Calculus for 50 points (under course materials)

• Note that the publication dates in the references in this chapter appear as pre-2008 years. Within the ensuing years from 2008 forward, discuss three key international events that may affect the leadership of talent management strategies.
• As you speculate how world events may have affected talent management, determine a method to refresh the talent management strategy of your organization. Keeping in mind that the world is ever changing and the needs to find and develop talent are changing along with it, describe how an updated approach is necessary and what it would look like.
• NO PLAGIARISM

Social Science

For this project, you will need to address both parts of the assignment below and be sure to submit all documents to the folder. References are required to support your analysis and citations should be included in APA format.

Simulator Practice:

Complete the simulator activities:

• 1.2.2 Configure a Security Appliance
• 1.2.3 Install a Security Appliance

Once you complete your lab, click Done for your score to be submitted. You can do each lab up to three times. The average score will be considered. Attach your completed reports from the simulator activity (within the simulator environment using the Print these Results link at the end of the simulator activity) to the submission folder.

Security Report:

The weekly assignment for the course is a comprehensive assignment. You should begin by reviewing the scenario document. Each week, you will complete part of this assignment based on the content covered in the week. You will add new content to the report each week to build a comprehensive security solution for an organization.

You have been hired by this company to suggest ways of securing its technology assets. ABC, Inc. requires you to complete the project and provide detailed recommendations for improving their security in the next five weeks. You will be assigned specific tasks in each of the weeks of this course based on the content covered in the week.

As you complete this assignment, you must also realize the importance of describing the implementation of the solution that you propose and explaining how to verify the solution by providing activities to test the security (such as intentionally using an incorrect password to make sure the system rejects the login attempt).

In this week, review the scenario and analyze the security requirements of the organization. On the basis of your understanding, create a 3- to 4-page report in a Microsoft Word document that includes the following:

• A paragraph summarizing the problems faced by the organization.
• A list of top five recommendations for implementing better security in the organization and an explanation of how each of these will benefit the organization. Justify the importance in your ranking.
• Outcomes for your report, such as what implementing your solution will do for the organization; this should be a preliminary report that will evolve as the weeks progress.

In addition, respond to the following questions in your report:

• How does an attack like the one suffered by ABC, Inc. impact consumer confidence in its product? Why would the company wish to remain anonymous during this process?
• Which basic user policies would you put in place to make sure employees cannot access each other’s information?