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Assignment Overview  A jewelry firm wants to submit a bid to purchase a large collection of diamonds but is uncertain how much it should bid. You will use the results from a predictive model to make a recommendation on how much the jewelry company should bid for the diamonds.  Assignment Details  A diamond distributor has recently decided to exit the market and has put up a collection of diamonds up for auction. Seeing this as a great opportunity to expand its inventory, a jewelry firm is interested in making a bid. To determine how much to bid, the firm’s analytics department will use a large database of diamond prices to build a linear regression model to predict the price of a diamond based on its attributes.   As the business analyst, you are tasked to build the linear regression model and apply that model to make a recommendation for how much the company should bid for the entire collection of diamonds.  Assignment Submission  To complete this assignment, you will be submitting a file in Word using a report format to provide the answers to the following questions across five steps.  Step 1 – Research and Reflect:  Recent news reports have highlighted growing concerns about the value of diamonds, as technological advancements in creating simulated diamonds have made them nearly indistinguishable from their mined counterparts. These lab-grown diamonds possess identical physical, chemical, and optical properties to natural diamonds, leading to increased debate about the future of the diamond industry. As the production of synthetic diamonds becomes more cost-effective and environmentally friendly, the market may shift, potentially impacting the value and demand for traditionally mined diamonds. There is also concern regarding the perception of the value of simulated diamonds versus traditionally mined diamonds which could lead to potential confusion and devaluation in the market. As the quality and affordability of synthetic diamonds increase, some consumers may question the rarity and exclusivity traditionally associated with mined diamonds. Additionally, the ethical and environmental issues surrounding diamond mining may further drive the preference for lab-grown alternatives. This shift in perception could ultimately impact the value and demand for mined diamonds, leading to potential disruptions in the diamond industry. Consider the ethical and environmental concerns presently surrounding diamond mining and in no less than 500 words, answer the following question: Can the diamond industry effectively communicate the value proposition of mined diamonds to maintain consumer demand and differentiate them from the simulated alternatives? If so, how? If not, why not? Use what you learned from Part III of Drucker’s book (Managing for Results) to help support your argument. Remember to cite your sources. Step 2 - Understanding the Model:  There are two datasets.  "Diamonds"?contains the data used to build the regression model. Download "Diamonds"?contains the data used to build the regression model.  "New Diamonds" contains the data for the diamonds the company would like to purchase. Download "New Diamonds" contains the data for the diamonds the company would like to purchase.  [NOTE:?Click on the link above to assess the dataset]  Both datasets contain carat, cut, and clarity data for each diamond. Only the?diamonds?dataset has prices.   Carat?represents the weight of the diamond and is a numerical variable.  Cut represents the quality of the cut of the diamond, and falls into 5 categories: fair, good, very good, ideal, and premium. Each of these categories are represented by a number, 1-5, in the?Cut_Ord?variable.  Clarity represents the internal purity of the diamond, and falls into 8 categories: I1, SI2, SI1, VS1, VS2, VVS2, VVS1, and IF. Each of these categories are represented by a number, 1-8, in the?Clarity_Ord?variable.  Using Excel (or other application with which you are familiar), build the linear regression model using the diamonds dataset.  Based on the Summary Output produced by the regression analysis write out the linear regression model and explain why you are confident (or not confident) in the model to predict the price. NOTE: Copy and paste the summary output into your report.  According to the linear model, if a diamond is 1 carat heavier than another with the same cut and clarity, how much more would the retail price of the heavier diamond be? Why?  If you were interested in a 1.5 carat diamond with a?Very Good?cut (represented by a 3 in the model) and a?VS2?clarity rating (represented by a 5 in the model), what retail price would the model predict for the diamond?  Does color effect the price of the diamond? If the color code of the diamond specified in part 3 is H, I, or J, how much cheaper or more expensive will this diamond be compared to any other color of the same diamond?  Does the regression model estimated in part 4, produce residuals that are normally distributed? Explain your answer; you may use a graphic to support your explanation.  Step 3 – Calculate the predicted price for each diamond:?Using the?new diamonds dataset, for each diamond, plug in the values for each of the variables into the linear model (equation), then solve the equation to get the estimated, or predicted diamond price. Note: For this step, simply use the model developed in part three, which does not include the color code information.   Step 4 - Visualize the Data:?Create two scatter diagrams (or scatter plot).   Plot 1 - Plot the data for the diamonds in the database, with carat on the x-axis and price on the y-axis.  Plot 2 - Plot the data for the diamonds for which you are predicting prices with carat on the x-axis and predicted price on the y-axis.  Note: If you know how, you can also plot both sets of data on the same chart in different colors.  What strikes you about this comparison?   After seeing this plot, do you feel confident in the model’s ability to predict prices? Why or why not?  Step 5 - The Recommendation:?Now that you have the predicted price for each diamond, it’s time to calculate the bid price for the whole set. Note: The diamond price that the model predicts represents the final retail price the consumer will pay. The company generally purchases diamonds from distributors at 70% of that price, so your recommended bid price should represent that. What bid do you recommend for the jewelry company? Please explain how you arrived at that number.   (CLO 1,4,5)  Most classes have a 2 paper requirement per course. Please be sure to address the following requirements when completing your papers:  The cover page and reference page/s are not included in the above-stated page requirement. These should be in addition to page requirements.  Papers need to be formatted in proper APA 7th Edition style.  Each paper requires a minimum of at least three outside peer-reviewed sources for your references (unless stated otherwise in the guidance above). o   Acceptable/credible sources include: Academic journals and books, industry journals,  and the class textbook.   To include additional types of sources, please review the “Guidelines for finding and utilizing required references for your paper,” shared below.  Using your textbook is highly recommended to demonstrate that you have read the required material and/or are connecting new thoughts to the course text/learnings. Guidelines for finding and utilizing required references for your paper: For a formal research paper, you are required to locate, understand, and integrate a certain number of peer reviewed journal articles and/or published books, as these are considered reliable and valid sources of information by academics and industry.  The best source of these articles is to search through your CiAM Library (LIRN).  However, if you find a website you would really like to share in your paper, you can do so if it is NOT counted as one of your reliable/valid articles/books (i.e., goes above and beyond the required amount of reliable/valid sources), and if it is NOT the basis/foundation of your paper.  Otherwise, there is no way to demonstrate that:  1.  You have done true research and have given the appropriate level of thought to your paper; and 2. There is no way to validate that the information you have received off of the internet has been fact checked.  Here are some guidelines on how to think about this process:  Using Wikipedia:  This internet source is very popular, and although there may be some great articles found there, there is no formal process (at this point) for what is posted to be fact checked.  Meaning, what you find there is not always true.  However, if you read an interesting article, you can go to their references, check on who they researched, then go to that ORIGINAL work (locate it in our library), and then read through that article and reference that article (not Wikipedia).  If you want to cite Wikipedia, you may do so if it follows the guidelines shared above (i.e., is NOT the basis of your paper, and is just a supplemental share going above and beyond the minimum required reliable/valid works).  You may also simply visit Wikipedia just to get more general information on a subject before you start your formal research process). 2.   General informational websites and business websites:  These follow the same rules as shared above.

  BUS 210 Module One Journal Guidelines and Rubric Overview To understand the leadership of an organization, it is necessary to understand the individuals in those roles and how they lead. When you are in a leadership role within an organization, you should be familiar with your own leadership style so you know how best to lead others in the organization. Understanding your leadership personality is an important element when it comes to understanding your individual leadership style. Directions After taking the Big Five personality traits assessment, reflect on the results. Consider how the assessment captured your traits and personality and how the results can be incorporated into your leadership style and approach. What strengths do your personality traits bring to your leadership style, and what are some of your opportunities for improvement? Specifically, you must address the following rubric criteria: Results Summary: Summarize your results of the personality assessment and how you think these elements might help or hinder you as a leader. Describe Results: Explain what elements of your personality assessment results surprised you, if any, and explain how accurate you felt the results were and why. Leadership Style: Select two elements of your results and explain how they impact your leadership style. Importance of Leadership: Describe how leadership impacts organizations and why it is important to understand this impact. What to Submit Your submission should be a 1- to 2-page Microsoft Word document with 12-point Times New Roman font, double spacing, and one-inch margins. Module One Journal Rubric CriteriaExceeds Expectations (100%)Meets Expectations (85%)Partially Meets Expectations (55%)Does Not Meet Expectations (0%)ValueResults SummaryExceeds expectations in an exceptionally clear, insightful, sophisticated, or creative mannerSummarizes the results of the personality assessment and how these elements might be a help or a hindrance to a leaderShows progress toward meeting expectations, but with errors or omissions; areas for improvement may include summarizing in more detail the results of the personality assessment and how these elements might be a help or a hindrance to a leaderDoes not attempt criterion21Describe ResultsExceeds expectations in an exceptionally clear, insightful, sophisticated, or creative mannerExplains what elements of the personality assessment were surprising, and explains how accurate the results were and whyShows progress toward meeting expectations, but with errors or omissions; areas for improvement may include explaining in more detail what elements of the personality assessment were surprising, or better explaining how accurate the results were and whyDoes not attempt criterion21Leadership StyleExceeds expectations in an exceptionally clear, insightful, sophisticated, or creative mannerSelects two elements of the results and explains how those elements impact their leadership styleShows progress toward meeting expectations, but with errors or omissions; areas for improvement may include selecting more than one element of the results and explaining how those elements impact their leadership styleDoes not attempt criterion21Importance of LeadershipExceeds expectations in an exceptionally clear, insightful, sophisticated, or creative mannerDescribes how leadership impacts organizations and why it is important to understand this impactShows progress toward meeting expectations, but with errors or omissions; areas for improvement may include describing in more detail how leadership impacts organizations and why it is important to understand this impactDoes not attempt criterion21Clear CommunicationExceeds expectations with an intentional use of language that promotes a thorough understandingConsistently and effectively communicates in an organized way to a specific audienceShows progress toward meeting expectations, but communication is inconsistent or ineffective in a way that negatively impacts understandingShows no evidence of consistent, effective, or organized communication16Total:100% 

Overview When you are considering responses to healthcare situations, it is important to be able to quickly identify the underlying ethical and bioethical theories driving a proposed solution. While completing the Ethical Theories Worksheet, consider the core elements of the theory that must be addressed in the solution. Prompt In this activity, you will utilize the main ethical and bioethical theories in solutions to a proposed scenario. Specifically, the following critical elements must be addressed: Part One: Propose a solution to the following scenario using each of the five ethical theories presented in this module. Explain how your solution aligns with the major ideas within each theory. Scenario: There is a pandemic of a contagious disease. In the United States, there is only enough of a vaccine to cover 70% of the population. How do you determine who gets the vaccine? Part Two: Consider the same scenario, but explain what process you would need to add to your solution to protect the bioethics principles. If you use resources, cite them according to APA formatting.

All I need is replies to peers post. Describe a news story or professional experience in which someone claimed that a doctor, nurse, hospital, nursing home, or other healthcare provider did not treat them with the appropriate standard of care. Briefly discuss what happened. How was the situation handled? Do you believe the standard of care was violated? If so, how? The best answers will relate concepts from this week's materials. Respond to the posts of at least two of your classmates.

Overview For your Final Project, you will analyze a case. To help get you started on your analysis, you will complete the Describe the Case Worksheet. The worksheet will assist you in identifying the pertinent details of a court case including facts and issues. Prompt Your instructor will use the rubric below to make sure you have correctly identified the crucial facts in the malpractice case when you complete the Describe the Case Worksheet. Specifically, the following critical elements must be addressed: Parties: Include all of the parties in the case: plaintiff and defendant Facts and Circumstances: Accurately explain the facts and circumstances that brought the parties to court Question of Fact or Question of Law: Explain whether the court is deciding a question of fact or a question of law Facts that Raise Issues: Explain which facts of the case raise issues Explanation of Nonissues: Explain the nonissues of the case What to Submit Complete and submit the Describe The Case worksheet using complete sentences and submit to your instructor as a Microsoft Word document.  https://law.justia.com/cases/minnesota/supreme-court/2020/a18-1987.html

Overview Employees can have several reasons to want to unionize or to join an established union. As a human resource professional, you will sometimes be required to advise stakeholders on why employees might find unions desirable. You may also be required to suggest strategies for stakeholders in response within the confines of the law. As you begin this assignment, spend some time researching reasons that employees join a union, including reviewing the article Reasons Employees Give for Joining A Union found under the Supporting Materials section. Think about what you can do within your organization to the eliminate reasons that employees join a union. Directions To complete this assignment, address the reasons that employees seek union representation and explain how these choices might be mitigated. Specifically, you must address the following rubric criteria: Union Representation: Discuss three of the top reasons that employees seek union representation and explain each reason in detail, supported by evidence. Strategies: Describe two strategies that management can employ to avoid the three reasons chosen. Mitigating Choice: Explain why the identified strategies might mitigate the choice of seeking union representation. What to Submit Submit your assignment as a 1- to 2-page Microsoft Word document with double spacing, 12-point Times New Roman font, and one-inch margins. Sources should be cited according to APA style. Reading link: https://www.fisherphillips.com/en/news-insights/reasons-employees-give-for-joining-a-union.html

Overview Understanding management rights versus mandatory subjects of bargaining is crucial for the HR professional. If you set a precedent of bargaining a management right, you potentially forfeit that right forever. You are a new human resource manager and you met with managers from all the other departments. During your onboarding conversations with the managers, they gave you a list of practices they would like to change. They have tasked you with communicating the changes to the employees and to make the appropriate policy updates. You know that you cannot make some of these changes without conferring with the union. Directions The following is the list of changes. Choose five of these changes for your response. Management wants to change represented police officers’ schedules from a 10-hour day to a 12-hour day. Management wants to change an unrepresented supervisor’s schedule to include one weekend day. Management wants to open on Saturdays. Previously they have been closed. Management wants to force 25% of employees to work on Saturday. Sales are slow. Management wants to cut all exempt employees’ hours by 25% this week. Sales increased suddenly. Management wants to force all union employees to work overtime this week. Management wants to decrease the tuition assistance benefits because sales are low. Some employees are unionized; others are not represented. Management wants to implement additional background check measures. Management is going to remove money from the unofficial employee recognition program and will reinvest those funds in operations. This will affect all employees. The finance department, partially represented, has requested elimination of two positions. One position is union, and one is unrepresented. Management wants to create a new union position, and they insist that the position pay $25 per hour because it is hard to fill. Management wants to change the current COVID-19 safety protocols. Using your selected five changes, answer the following questions. Specifically, your responses must address the following rubric criteria: Identify Requests: Identify which of your selected changes are likely covered by the collective bargaining agreement. Requires a Meeting: Explain which of the selected managers’ requested changes will require a meeting with the union and why. Be sure to address unrepresented employees. Steps: Describe the steps that Human Resources must take to implement each selected change. What to Submit Your assignment must be submitted as a 1- to 2-page Microsoft Word document with 12-point type, Times New Roman font, and one-inch margins.

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  FIN 320 Final Project Milestone One Guidelines and Rubric Overview This milestone is the first in a series of connected assignments leading up to your Final Project. In Milestone One, you’ll analyze and evaluate a business’s financial health and recommend financing options that can improve it. Use the Final Project Business Options List to choose the business that you’ll examine in your Final Project. Then use Mergent Market Atlas to locate the latest quarterly financial statements for the business: the balance sheet, the income statement, and the cash flow statement. Scenario The CFO of your company has asked for your support in preparing a report for the business’s board of directors. Many of the board members are new, and some of them have little background in finance. With this in mind, you will need to write a report that all board members can easily understand. Directions Write a short paper that introduces the business you chose for your final project. Specifically, you must address the following rubric criteria: Business Selection: Select a company from the Final Project Business Options List and describe the business you chose, including the business name and what the business offers consumers. Financial Statements: Using Mergent Market Atlas, look up the balance sheet, the income statement, and the cash flow statement for the latest fiscal quarter for the business you chose. Use these statements to accurately report the following values: Total assets Total liabilities Current assets Current liabilities Net income Shares outstanding Earnings per share (EPS) Total revenue Shareholders' equity Financial Statement Role: Explain why financial statements are important to a business and how they help a business determine its financial health. Cash Flow Management: Use a financial news story from the past two months as an example to explain why cash flow management is important to a business and its financial health. What to Submit Your submission should be a 4- to 5-paragraph Microsoft Word document with 12-point Times New Roman font, double spacing, and one-inch margins. All sources should be cited using APA style. Include the Balance Sheet and Income Statement from Mergent Market Atlas with your submission. Final Project Milestone One Rubric CriteriaMeets Expectations (100%)Partially Meets Expectations (70%)Does Not Meet Expectations (0%)ValueBusiness SelectionDescribes the business chosen, including the business name and what the business offers consumersShows progress toward meeting expectations, but with errors or omissions; areas for improvement may include describing in more detail the business chosen, including the business name or what the business offers consumersDoes not attempt criterion15Financial StatementsUses the financial statements for the latest fiscal quarter for the chosen business and accurately reports the values requestedShows progress toward meeting expectations, but with errors or omissions; areas for improvement may include accurately reporting the values or not reporting all the values requestedDoes not attempt criterion15Financial Statement RoleExplains why financial statements are important to a business and how they help a business figure out its financial healthShows progress toward meeting expectations, but with errors or omissions; areas for improvement may include explaining in more detail why financial statements are important to a business and how they help a business figure out its financial healthDoes not attempt criterion25Cash Flow ManagementUses a financial news story from the past two months as an example to explain why cash flow management is important to a business and its financial healthShows progress toward meeting expectations, but with errors or omissions; areas for improvement may include using more detail when using a financial news story from the past two months to explain why cash flow management is important to a business and its financial healthDoes not attempt criterion25Clear CommunicationConsistently and effectively communicates in an organized way to a specific audienceShows progress toward meeting expectations, but communication is inconsistent or ineffective in a way that negatively impacts understandingShows no evidence of consistent, effective, or organized communication10Citations and AttributionsUses citations for ideas requiring attribution, with few or no minor errorsUses citations for ideas requiring attribution, with major errorsDoes not use citations for ideas requiring attribution10Total:100% 

  Project One: Financial Analyst Job Aid Guidelines and Rubric Competency In this project, you will demonstrate your mastery of the following competency: Describe the purpose and function of financial management in an organization Scenario You’ve been an entry-level financial analyst for six months. Your supervisor plans to fill another entry-level financial analyst position on your team. Your supervisor has asked you to create a job aid for the financial analyst role. The purpose of the job aid is to help the new hire move smoothly into the role. The job aid must describe the responsibilities of a financial analyst. It must also describe the impact the role has on a business. Directions Using the Financial Analyst Job Aid (linked in the What to Submit section), create a job aid for a new hire to an entry-level financial analyst position. Your job aid should be thorough, but it should also be easy to understand for someone new to the field of finance. In your job aid, you’ll give a general overview of financial management and its importance to a business. Specifically, you must address the following: Financial Responsibilities: Describe the responsibilities of a financial analyst. Write five to seven bullet points outlining the responsibilities of a financial analyst. Write in complete sentences. Financial Management Decisions: Use an example to discuss the importance of analyzing and managing finances to help make business decisions. Consider the bullet points you outlined in the previous section. Then write a brief paragraph that answers the following questions. Use examples to support your claims. How do these responsibilities help inform management decisions? What would happen if management didn’t have this information? Accounting Principles: Explain how to use accounting principles to analyze a business’s financial health. Give examples to support your claims. Write a brief paragraph that explains how financial analysts use accounting principles to analyze a business’s financial health. In your paragraph, also answer the following questions: What accounting information do financial analysts use? What would happen if that information was not available or was not accurate? Financial Statements: Describe how to use financial statements to help businesses make finance-related decisions. Give examples to support your claims. Think about how financial analysts identify the information contained in financial statements. Then write a brief paragraph that answers the following questions. Use examples to support your claims. What does a financial analyst need to do their job? What types of finance-related business decisions would this information help businesses to make? Financial Terminology: Explain how a financial analyst uses key financial terms every day. Ensure your response is clear and easy to understand. Define each term listed below. Then, for each term, write one or two sentences showing how a financial analyst might use the term and how the concept is used to make important financial decisions. Financial statement Liquidity Working capital Diversification Time value of money What to Submit To complete this project, you must submit the following: Financial Analyst Job Aid Submit your completed Project One: Financial Analyst Job Aid that includes sources cited according to APA style. Project One Rubric CriteriaExceeds Expectations (100%)Meets Expectations (85%)Partially Meets Expectations (55%)Does Not Meet Expectations (0%)ValueFinancial ResponsibilitiesExceeds expectations in an exceptionally clear, insightful, sophisticated, or creative mannerDescribes the responsibilities of a financial analystShows progress toward meeting expectations, but with errors or omissions; areas for improvement may include describing in more detail the responsibilities of a financial analystDoes not attempt criterion17Financial Management DecisionsExceeds expectations in an exceptionally clear, insightful, sophisticated, or creative mannerDiscusses the importance of analyzing and managing finances to help make business decisions and gives examples to support claimsShows progress toward meeting expectations, but with errors or omissions; areas for improvement may include discussing in more detail the importance of analyzing and managing finances to help make business decisions or giving examples to support claimsDoes not attempt criterion18Accounting PrinciplesExceeds expectations in an exceptionally clear, insightful, sophisticated, or creative mannerExplains how to use accounting principles to analyze a business’s financial health and gives examples to support claimsShows progress toward meeting expectations, but with errors or omissions; areas for improvement may include explaining in more detail how to use accounting principles to analyze a business’s financial health or giving examples to support claimsDoes not attempt criterion16Financial StatementsExceeds expectations in an exceptionally clear, insightful, sophisticated, or creative mannerDescribes how to use financial statements to help businesses make finance-related decisions and gives examples to support claimsShows progress toward meeting expectations, but with errors or omissions; areas for improvement may include describing in more detail how to use financial statements to help businesses make finance-related decisions or giving examples to support claimsDoes not attempt criterion16Financial TerminologyExceeds expectations in an exceptionally clear, insightful, sophisticated, or creative mannerExplains how a financial analyst uses key financial terms every day; writes responses that are clear and easy to understandShows progress toward meeting expectations, but with errors or omissions; areas for improvement may include explaining in more detail how a financial analyst uses key financial terms every day or writing responses that are clearer and easier to understandDoes not attempt criterion18Clear CommunicationExceeds expectations with an intentional use of language that promotes a thorough understandingConsistently and effectively communicates in an organized way to a specific audienceShows progress toward meeting expectations, but communication is inconsistent or ineffective in a way that negatively impacts understandingShows no evidence of consistent, effective, or organized communication10Citations and AttributionsUses citations for ideas requiring attribution, with few or no minor errorsUses citations for ideas requiring attribution, with consistent minor errorsUses citations for ideas requiring attribution, with major errorsDoes not use citations for ideas requiring attribution5Total:100%