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Description Prior to beginning work on this assignment, review Chapters 8 and 21 of the textbook and the articles discussing product liability. The WestlawLinks to an external site. database in the UAGC Library would be a useful source of information for this purpose Visit the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission website. Select “Recalls.” Choose one product that has been recalled. CPSC.gov In your paper, Describe the product subject to recall, including the recall date, recall number, and the reason for the recall. Analyze whether the manufacturer or any other parties would be liable for negligence if the product had not been recalled and had caused harm to a consumer. This should include a discussion of the following elements of negligence: Duty of care Breach of the duty of care Actual causation Proximate causation Actual injury Analyze if a potential lawsuit could involve a claim of product liability. How would this differ from a claim of negligence? Discuss if the manufacturer or any other parties associated with the recall product would have a defense to claim of negligence or product liability. Analyze a consumer protection statute identified under “Consumer Protection” in Chapter 8 of your text that is relevant to the product recall that you have identified. Explain how this statute applies to the product involved. The Consumer Safety paper

Description The company I chose is Boeing airlines Organizational Planning and SWOT unit, Multi-touch book (Chapter 5), news articles, company websites, digital library searches, Canvas, etc. analyze the company’s internal and external environments as it relates to its strengths & weaknesses (internal), and opportunities & threats (external). Using information from Canvas? Organizational Planning and SWOT unit, the course Multi-touch textbook (Chapter 5), news articles, company websites, digital library searches, etc. analyze the company’s strengths, weaknesses, opportunities & threats. Submit a two-page preliminary examination of the chosen organization’s SWOT. Each section of the SWOT needs to have at least one item in it demonstrating an example of the company?s status in that category. The submission should include 4 subheadings, each titled: Strength Weakness Opportunity Threat A successful submission will include content from the selected organization?s website as well as content from iBook Ch. 5. Both sources need to be cited and referenced in the paper. 

Description Objective: Develop an External Factors Analysis Summary (EFAS) What are external factors? External factors are those the firm has NO control over. I will be doing reality checks when reading your work, asking, "Does the firm control this activity or not?" For instance, a firm has control over the price it chooses to charge, but they don't have control over whether or not that price is acceptable to the ultimate consumer. What do you have to do? Fill in the table in TemplateSA-EXH 1-EFAS.docx available in this location and Course Resources. The table has five columns: External Factors, Weight, Rating, Weighted Score, and Comments. Use short names for the factors, but flesh them out in the comments so they make sense when you approach them later on. The textbook is clear enough to work on all columns but the Comments. Your comments make all the difference in the quality of the EFAS. Use the template for Exhibit 1 - EFAS Use the Template EFAS as the template for your work. Ensure that your format displays correctly and is readable.  Do NOT copy from the text or from the Template EFAS text!  Use your own critical analysis and critical thinking.  The template is provided to assist you with the layout--i.e., make it easy for you to construct the chart.  The template also gives you a good idea of the appropriate explanations required in the Comments blocks about the why an SF, potential quantified impact, how weighted, and how rated. Comments Column Comments are expected to be 4-5 sentences in length and depth and offer a clear explanation of the strategic factor (SF) in 4 aspects: Why it is a strategic factor (SF); (1-2 sentences only) A quantified estimate of the potential impact (QPI) of the SF; (1 sentence only) How you assign the weight; (1 sentence only) and How you assign the rating. (1 sentence only) Keep the 4-5 sentences of your Comments in order for clarity and ease of understanding.  The recommended order is:  Why SF comments; QPI comments; Weight comments; and finally Rating comments. How to write the Why SF and QPI comments: For the Why SF, explain WHY you selected this SF, WHY it is important to your firm, and WHAT is the potential impact on the firm in the future. For the QPI comments, estimate the potential impact on the firm in the future in a quantitative manner using some metric:  sales, revenues, costs, market share, profits, logistics pipeline, CSI, etc.  Express the quantitative potential impact (QPI) in Dollars $$.  If you express the potential impact in $$, that makes each strategic factor comparable against the other strategic factors. And expressing the impact in sales makes them even more easily comparable.   Make sure you are making significant estimates based on the size of your company based on annual revenue values in your 5-Y financials. You develop this estimate. The monetary value of the QPI is useful to compare the strategic factors and rank them in relevance.  Ranking them will help you to assign the Weights (2nd column in the table) to each strategic factor. Use a positive analysis (quantitative) rather than a normative analysis (feelings, desires).  Focus on what is the potential gain for your SF opportunities or the potential loss from an SF threat in the future.  History lessons are not needed nor applicable.  You should estimate and predict the impact in the future. Be creative.  Don’t develop future actions or alternatives here in the EFAS about how a firm may, or should take action on a particular SF.  The brainstorming development of those alternative actions comes with the TOWS Analysis that we will start presenting in Module 4. HINT:  To focus your thinking on addressing “why” you selected each SF and “why it is important,” start your “why select/important” sentence with words like this:  “I selected this SF because…..” or “This SF is important because…”  By using this lead-in phrase you should be able to concisely state why that particular SF is important. HINT:  To focus your thinking on addressing the quantitative potential impact (QPI) in the future of each SF, be sure your QPI sentence contains words like this:  “potential impact of $____” or “potential increases to ____ are $____ per year” or “reduction in sales by $____ per year.”  Be sure to state the potential impact in dollars so you can compare the potential impacts of your various SF. How to write the Weight and Rank comments: To assign weights, explain the importance of the SF to the firm’s future survival.  Is the SF of vital importance or low importance on a scale of 1 to 0?  What is the impact of the SF on the future survival of the firm?  What SF has the biggest impact?  Which one(s) are the Big Dogs?  Make a logical explanation of why the weight you have assigned is what it is.  Comparison and ranking between SF is a useful technique to assign the weight.  See your potential $$$ impacts from your “Why” analysis above. The bigger the $$$ impact is, the bigger the weight should be.  Remember the weight column adds to 1.0. HINT:  To focus your thinking on addressing the importance of the SF to the firm’s future survival, be sure to include the keyword “survival” in your weight sentence. To assign ratings, provide an explanation of how well, or how badly, the firm is handling each specific external SF RIGHT NOW – not in the future or not in the distant past – but right now. Use the scale of 1 – 5, poor to outstanding; comparing the firm’s performance against the industry standard rating of 3.  Give a logical explanation of why the rating you have assigned is what it is.  Do they handle it well or are they lost?  Are they performing in average way as other competitors are? Remember the industry average performance is rated at 3. HINT:  To focus your thinking on addressing how well your firm is handling each SF, understand what the 1-5 scale means and then use your rating number from the rating column with matching words (low, average, above average, high, etc) in your rating sentence. Example of a good comments block: SF - International Growth Opportunities in SE Asia, Japan, and Korea This SF was selected because of its very significant potential impact on profit growth.  Successful expansion into overseas markets could potentially result in doubling the size of OPC to a firm with $800M in sales per year and an increase in profits from $50M to $100M per year.  This SF is weighted highest at .25 since expanding internationally is vital to the future survival of OPC in light of worldwide competitors and markets.  I rated this low at 2.5 since OPC does not have any international experience or markets at this time. Point of View Remember to keep your decision-making at the strategic level --the Big Picture level. You are acting at the CEO/SVP level. But you are also acting at the lower levels to brainstorm, generate alternatives, perform critical analysis, and make recommendations to the CEO/SVP levels. The decision-maker CEO/SVP decides on the most important strategic factors.

Description Written Assignment 2 asks you to identify and apply certain kinds of contract clauses associated with some of the chapters you studied through this course.  It is worth 210 points in total and consists of ten (10) questions worth 21 points each.  Make sure you answer all ten (10) questions! Your responses MUST be integrated into the word document itself.  Do not write out a separate submission with your answers alone.  Doing so will result in a deduction of 10 points.   The questions in this assignment draw from the legal principles explained in your textbook.  Your answers should come solely and exclusively from your ability to spot the proper legal issue and review your text on the principles to be applied. 

Description Protest and Written Submissions to Appeals Division: If an IRS examination is not resolved within the Examination Division, a thirty-day letter will be issued to set forth the proposed adjustments. The taxpayer has the right to request an administrative appeal to the Appeals Division of IRS within thirty days of the date of the receipt of Letter 525, general 30 day letter (“Protest letter”). During the Appeals process, the Appeals Division may request further factual and legal submissions. Assignment: Draft a Protest Letter (See attachments including IRS Publication 5 attached). The general requirements in the preparation and submission of a protest letter are also attached. FACTS: Your client Robert Richards’ 2019 form 1040 was examined by Internal Revenue Agent Williams. The only adjustment made was related to Robert having claimed a business bad debt deduction for a debt of his wholly owned company, “Robert’s Rulers, Inc. Robert is an employee of Robert’s Rulers, Inc. (an S Corporation). In fact, the salary and distributions that Robert’s Rulers, Inc. pays to him are his primary source of income. Robert’s Rulers, Inc. has had severe cash flow problems for some time and has fallen behind on paying suppliers of products that Robert’s Rulers, Inc. uses in its business. Inch by Inch, Inc., is Robert’s Rulers, Inc.’s most important supplier. Inch by Inch’s president, Michael Meter has called Robert and told him that, unless prior invoices were paid, Inch by Inch would not sell any additional products to Robert’s Rulers, Inc. This would be an unmitigated disaster as Inch by Inch’s provides the primary component in Robert’s Rulers, Inc.’s products. Not only that but Michael Meter has threatened to force Robert’s Rulers, Inc. into bankruptcy. Not only would this result in the likely demise of Robert’s Rulers, Inc. but it would also destroy Robert’s business reputation and basically ruin him. In order to prevent this, Robert paid Robert’s Rulers, Inc.’s debt to Inch by Inch individually. Unfortunately, this did not save Robert’s Rulers, Inc. which went out of business at the end of the year anyway. On his form 1040 for 2019 Robert claimed the business bad debt for personally paying the debt to Inch by Inch. You have explained all this to the Revenue Agent Williams but to no avail. At the end of his examination, Williams issues a form 4549 (see attached 4549). You discussed the issue with Robert and you both do not agree with the revenue agent’s adjustment. You mention the possibility of taking the matter to the Appeals division of the IRS. Robert agrees to let you represent him before Appeals. You have told Robert that you are required to prepare and submit a Protest Letter requesting a conference with the Appeals division. You have a template (attached) that the manager of the CPA firm you work for has provided to you to assist in properly structuring the protest letter. Likewise, your manager provided you with a sample protest letter (attached). You advised Revenue Agent Williams that the taxpayer does not agree with the adjustment. RA Williams writes the case up unagreed and assesses the Accuracy Related Penalty on top of the deficiency for the disallowed item. In addition, even if the IRS was successful in finding that the payment was not a business bad debt, no accuracy related penalty should be assessed because you feel that your client had reasonable cause for the position taken on his 2019 tax return. Your protest letter will address these two issues. Please note, Robert’s 2019 income tax return did not have a form 8275 Disclosure Statement attached. You need some direction in doing your research so that you can properly describe why Robert should be entitle to the deduction. Your manager suggested that you research the topic of business bad debt, job preservation, and perhaps other searches, In order to determine the position you will take in your protest letter. You should also determine if Robert has reasonable cause as a defense for the accuracy related penalty. Your manager has also suggested that you consult the Internal Revenue Manual (IRM) as she feels that if there was something helpful on point it would be very powerful in making your case. You understand that a protest doesn’t mean that you will win in Appeals. However, Robert wants you to appeal so you begin the job. The following documents are attached: 1. From 4549-E Income Tax Discrepancy Adjustments. 2. Form 915 Letter 915 – Letter to Transmit Examination Report. 3. Explanation of proposed adjustment prepared by the Revenue Agent. 4. Preparing a written Protest Letter to the Appeals Office. 5. Appendix 22B Sample Protest Letter. 6. Publication 5, “Your Appeal Rights and How to Prepare a Protest If You Do Not Agree.” You may use the information from item 3 above in lieu of the “How to Prepare” section of Publication 5

Description This video is based on a realistic but fictitious arbitration hearing involving a Nurse (Kevin) who received a disciplinary suspension as a penalty for alleged insubordinate behavior. You will observe the arbitration hearing and listen to the witnesses testimony. Your assignment is to take over the role of the neutral, third party arbitrator, decide how to rule on the case and to write the arbitration award.  This link will provide you with a word-by-word transcript of the hearing from the video.  You may want to refer to it when composing your paper. There should be four sections to your paper: I. The issue: In very simple terms (one or two sentences), what is the question before the arbitrator? You will hear the parties agree on this at the beginning of the arbitration hearing.  II. The positions of the parties: Management’s position: Main bullet points THE UNION’S POSITION: MAIN BULLET POINTS III. Discussion and the arbitrator’s opinion: Go through each of the points above (in part II) for union and management and discuss your opinion on each point and summarize. This should be the lengthiest section of your paper. IV. THE ARBITRATOR’S AWARD: A short statement (one or two sentences) awarding the case in favor of either the union or management or some combination of the two. There are three possible outcomes from which you need to decide: The grievance is sustained (the Union and the grievant prevail) The grievance is denied (management prevails) THE GRIEVANCE IS SUSTAINED IN PART AND DENIED IN PART (SOME FORM OF A SPLIT DECISION)

Description Read these articles. They are about three highly publicized incidents where actions by employees forced each company to take a drastic and unusual action. As you read, think about the ethics of what is happening. Then in 1-2 sentences per number, answer the questions. Spelling and grammar count. There must be at least one text reference (chapter/section/edition). There is no right or wrong answer. There is only a complete answer that is supported by a complete reference to the text. Download Houston Doctor Fired over Covid Vaccines Actions https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/10/us/houston-doctor-fired-covid-vaccine.html?action=click&module=RelatedLinks&pgtype=ArticleLinks to an external site. https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/a60167400/caterpillar-william-barr-trump-justicedepartment/Links to an external site. Caterpillar Tax Problems Disappear-1.pdf Actions https://www.nbcnews.com/news/investigations/phony-bank-accounts-resurface-wells-fargo-twist-rcna98005Links to an external site. Wells Fargo Accused In a New Fake Accounts Scandal.docx Actions 1. Do you think Dr. Gokal was acting ethically in the way he administered the vaccine? Why? 2. Should the doctors disclose this event to anyone and, if so, to whom? Why? 3. Read the article on Caterpillar. Who do you see exhibited unethical behavior? Explain? 4. Think about the Approaches to Ethical Reasoning, such as Duty-Based Ethics, Outcome Based Ethics etc. . Which approach did Judge Bynum use in regards to the vaccine situation? Which approach should have be used in the case of Wells Fargo in the face of multiple violations? Explain?

Description Review the introduction to Chapter Twelve in your textbook. Read the statement regarding the legalization of cannabis for recreational purposes in the state of Colorado. It also contains a question regarding the potential impact that such legalization may have on employers' substance abuse policies. In your initial post, discuss issues that may be raised in employment law and substance abuse policies with respect to the legalization of recreation and medical cannabis. During this final discussion, you are encouraged to draw on any other topics addressed in the course, including contracts, protections against discrimination, regulatory oversight of business, or any other topic that you feel might apply to the questions asked.

Description The contracts you will be using are in the Contracts Module. Below is a question for Contract 1. I am looking for the ability to read and comprehend the contract so the appropriate contract clause can be applied to the questions connected with each contract. In order to answer the contract fact scenario, you will also need to be able to identify the legal concept that is applicable to the situation described. This is an analysis so please treat it as such. Your personal opinion is not appropriate. There are correct answers for the question. If a student discusses a different legal theory for answering the questions, partial points will be given. In cases of complete or partial answers, text references are mandatory to support the remedy proposed by the student. A text reference that has no bearing on the remedy or legal arguments will be counted as "no text". For example, if any contract has an issue of risk of loss, referencing the text on contract formation will not meet the requirement. The sections of the text that you have read contain all the information you need for this analysis. Please remember to reference the applicable parts of the contract that you are using to answer each question. Your response should be in IRAC Writing Format. A student will be given 4 points for the text reference, 4 points for the contract reference, with 15 points for the analysis itself, 4 points for proper IRAC formatting. The remaining 3 points will be given as a spelling/grammar score. Following is the prompt. Residential House Lease The following question is based on the Residential House Lease found in the Contracts Module. Please reference the Lease by clause number as you answer the questions. Essay ( IRAC Format- complete with text references to the textbook by chapter and section number and the contract by clause to support your answers) Alec, the landlord, refuses to fix a drainage issue that was there prior to the current tenant. Brenda, the current tenant, has just discovered the drainage issue after a heavy rain. The consequence is that black mold has been forming on the siding for quite some time. Brenda still has significant time remaining on her lease. Brenda has notified Alec in writing by email of the mold and drainage issue but has received no response. She is concerned about the premises becoming unsafe to live in. It has been 14 days since she emailed him her notification.  What are all of Brenda's options if Alec declines to do the repairs?

Description In this activity, you will read through a scenario within the context of a police department facing a transgender officer's transition. You will analyze diverse perspectives and formulate strategies to address the situation effectively, preparing yourself for future leadership roles by fostering empathy, inclusivity, and the ability to manage complex diversity issues in the workplace. Instruction Step 1: Open the Diversity ManagementLinks to an external site. presentation to read about a complex Diversity Management scenario. Step 2: Download the Diversity Management Reflection Worksheet Download Diversity Management Reflection Worksheet[DOCX]. Complete the worksheet document by answering the four questions.