For this benchmark assignment, you will be creating a functional behavioral assessment (FBA), implementing interventions based on the FBA, and reflecting upon the results of the FBA interventions.
Note: Part 1 of the Benchmark will be submitted to LoudCloud only. Parts 1 and 2 will be submitted together in Topic 5.
Continuing the work you began in your field experience in Topic 1, observe the student for at least 90 minutes and begin drafting a Functional Behavioral Assessment (FBA).
At the beginning of your FBA, submit the following in 250-500-words based on your observations:
After drafting your FBA, assess the student and compile the data.
From the FBA data, create a table that clearly identifies, by column:
In a 250-500-word narrative, address the following:
Complete an ABC-Iceberg form, that can be downloaded for no cost referenced in this week’s readings. Utilize the information gathered from the UCC and the FBA you started. Submit the compiled UCC, completed ISSI, the beginning draft FBA including table and narrative, and ABC-Iceberg to your instructor.
Prepare this assignment according to the APA guidelines found in the APA Style Guide, located in the Student Success Center. An abstract is/is not required.
This assignment uses a rubric. Please review the rubric prior to beginning the assignment to become familiar with the expectations for successful completion.
Read “Applied Behavior Analysis and Autism Spectrum Disorders: Literature Review,” by Fernandes and Amato, from CoDAS (2013).
http://www.scielo.br/pdf/codas/v25n3/en_16.pdf
Explore The National Professional Development Center on Autism Spectrum website.
Please go through the uploaded files to have clear idea of the requirement.
The GAO’s website on disposal of high-level nuclear waste lists several key issues that must be addressed that are based on risk perception, in part, including (a) social and political opposition; and (b) transportation. The public’s concerns about permitting this site are coupled with storage of high-level nuclear wastes in the geologic and hydrologic setting at Yucca Mountain. As applied to the proposed Yucca Mountain Waste Repository site in Nevada, is the public’s perception of risk valid? Should another less risky site be permitted instead? How would you change the public’s perception of risk on long-term storage of high-level nuclear wastes?
·Evaluate potential business level strategies for the organization.
·Assess potential corporate level strategies for the organization.
·Assess potential global strategies for the organization.
·Recommend a strategy or combination of strategies the organization should implement, and include a rationale for that recommendation.
Life is Like a Box of Chocolates
One memorable line from the Forrest Gump movie is that “Life is like a box of chocolates. You never know what you’re gonna get.”
Respond
Our textbook discusses sixteen different “Life is” interpretations for the meaning of life. It would be useful to review these before starting the assignment.
In no more than 750 words, you will be constructing your own Meaning of Life.
1. For this assignment, first fill in the blank with your own answer for “Life is ________________,” and briefly explain what you mean by your answer.
Then, answer the following questions:
2. What does your answer about what life is say about you and how you see yourself? (For example, if your answer is happy and light-hearted, then you probably see yourself that way as well. Or, it could be that your answer reflects how you wish life was and that it was different from your real life.)
3. How does your answer explain your ultimate life goals? Expectations? Hopes? Fears? Purpose? If it does not explain any of these things, why not?
4. Would your close friends and family members agree that answer truly describes your outlook on life? Why or why not?
5. Now that you have had some chance to really think about it, would you like to start this assignment all over again with a different answer for the “Life is” statement? If “yes,” what would the new answer be and why would you prefer it to your original answer? If “no,” explain why not? (Possible answers might include that you are too lazy to keep working on the assignment, that you are too arrogant to admit that you have changed your mind, that you are too dogmatic and rigid to even considering that your first answer was not the best answer, and so forth).
It is preferable to come up with your own answer about what “Life is” for you. However, if you are having a hard time coming up with an original answer, besides those mentioned in the book, some answers given by other students are listed below.
Life is a puzzle, except that you don’t know what the picture is supposed to look like, and you don’t even know if you’ve got all the pieces.
Please ensure that your essay addresses each component of the assigned questions and that your answer is well-organized, uses excellent, college-level prose, and makes judicious use of textual evidence. Your essay must follow APA formatting and should be 500-750 words long.
If you quote, paraphrase, or summarize from the textbook or any other source, you must include in-text citations and a References page.
Grading Criteria Assignments |
Maximum Points |
Meets or exceeds established assignment criteria |
40 |
Demonstrates an understanding of lesson concepts |
20 |
Clearly presents well-reasoned ideas and concepts |
30 |
Mechanics, punctuation, sentence structure, spelling, APA formatting. |
10 |
Total |
100 |
My company of focus is: Avalon Bay Communities, Inc. – https://www.avaloncommunities.com/about-us
Overview: The final project for this course is the creation of an external capital funding proposal. Most businesses face a landscape of uncertainty and a never-ending stream of risks and opportunities. Managers must continually project the likely financial impact of decisions, make recommendations, act on those decisions, determine how to pay for them, and evaluate the costs and effectiveness of what has been done. Many decisions are short-term, routine, and operational. Others are longer-term investment decisions that require substantial new resources, such as developing new services, expanding into new geographic markets, or undertaking business combinations or spin-offs. Each requires managers to forecast, plan, and make decisions based on a thorough understanding of both internal and external factors that can affect a company’s financial success. For the summative assessment in this course, you will bring your finance and economics knowledge to bear by preparing an external capital funding proposal for a major international investment at a publicly traded corporation. In order to secure the support of potential financial backers, your proposal will need to lay out what the proposed investment opportunity is, how it fits within the company’s broader mission and goals, its financial impact, and the amount being requested and why (including alternative funding mechanisms considered). In addition, it will also need to include information on the organization’s context, risk factors, and microeconomic assumptions that could affect the success of the investment.
Prompt: Submit a short paper that addresses Section III, Part C; Section V; and Section VI of the final project.
Analyze and explain the associated health problems of the obesity epidemic and eating disorders such as anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa, and binge-eating.
Write a response of at least 350 words that explains the associated health problems of the obesity epidemic and eating disorders. Address the following:
Include references with citations in APA format.
Discussion Forum Content Guidelines:
In Discussion Forums (DF) online, students are expected to provide substantive responses to all questions posited by the instructor. Substantive responses to the instructor’s questions should include insights and concepts from the week’s reading and approximate 150 words in length. Replies to students in the Discussion Forum should approximate 80 words in length. Students, however, should not be limited by these measures if they feel there is more to write and express. However, failure to approximate responses and replies using the above guidelines will result in a lower point total for this component of the course.
Note: There are no points awarded for prompt question responses or student responses once a weekly Discussion Forum closes Saturday midnight
Discussion Forum Directions:
Read Case Application 2 (the case can be found in chapter 8 page 233) addressing the need for Garmin to change directions. After reading the case, answer the questions below.
Instructor Prompt Questions:
8–10 slides with speaker notes of 200–250 words per slide
Your boss recently attended an accounting seminar at which the balanced scorecard was discussed. He has asked you to prepare a presentation for the next manager’s meeting about the balanced scorecard and how EEC might adopt it. In your presentation, you should complete the following:
Part 2
The President of EEC realizes that the balanced scorecard translates an organization’s mission and strategy into operational objectives and performance measures. The group received an e-mail from him asking the group to include information in the PowerPoint presentation about tying compensation to performance measures. Discuss the following in the group presentation:
Distinguish between managerial and financial accounting as to (a) primary users of reports, (b) types and frequency of reports, and (c) the content and purpose of reports.
Please respond to the following discussion question. Your response should fully address all elements of the question and be a minimum of 200 to 300 words long
Comment on two student posts in 100 word count
By: Jeff
Financial accounting is about the collection of accounting information into the financial statements and managerial accounting talks about the internal processes used to justify for business transactions. The key differences between the two is that financial accounting provides information primarily to users (stockholders, creditors, regulators) outside the company, but is also distributed within the company, while managerial accounting information is focused more internal to the company to aid officers and managers in the decision making process. Financial accounting reporting transpires through the use of financial statements, which are reported quarterly or annually, and is used by external users for general purpose analysis. The financial statements reports on the results of an entire business and must comply with various accounting standards as well as being limited to double entry accounting and cost data (Kimmel, Weygandt, & Kieso, 2016). Managerial accounting provides a more detailed report and is focused on the specifics of what is causing a problem and how to fix them. Managerial accounting is more concerned with operational reports and abide by a different set of accounting rules and procedures utilized by management for internal business analysis; reports are as frequent as possible to address budgets and forecasts to be able to resolve any issues as early as possible.
By: Antonia
We have already established that financial accounting is keeping track of the money in the company. The accountant needs to know where the money is going, what money is coming in, and what money is being used for. There are for financial statements. The financial statements include a balance sheet, an income statement, a statement of cash flows, and a Shareholder’s equity statement. Together, these financial statements measure the state of a business. The numbers determine if a company will have longevity or if it is headed towards disaster. These financial statements are normally made public for anyone to access.
Managerial accounting is analyzing data that would be needed to make decisions. I gave an example previously about a manger using data to determine how many hours that needed to be scheduled for employees. By analyzing the ins and outs of the business, a manger can then make decisions that will be more beneficial to the company. That is why this information is kept private within the company. Another way to use company data to make decisions is by deciding what inventory the company should stop investing in. For example, if a certain brand of chips is not selling well at the local grocery store, it would be foolish to order more so they can get old. Product that doesn’t sell is a loss to the company.
Kimmel, P. D., Weygandt, J. J., & Kieso, D. (2016). Accounting: Tools for Business Decision Making (6th ed.). Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons.
Scenario: For this assignment, you and your partner(s) will assume the role of third-party financial advisors. In doing so, you’ll evaluate an annual report of an organization’s financial and operational standing, for fiscal year 2017, and present your findings and recommendation to a group of prospective investors (i.e. your audience). Your job is to give an objective overview and then tell the audience whether they should buy stock in the company and why or why not. Your instructor will assign each group an annual report to review.
Task: Your task is to examine a company’s Annual Report (not the 10-K, though you can consult this document for data to prove your arguments about profitability or financial loss) and present an objective and straightforward analysis of the organization’s finances and operations for the 2017 fiscal year. You will need to focus on the facts and look beyond the marketing messages in your assigned Annual Report. You’ll need to communicate all info you report in a way that is easily understandable for a general audience. Provide definitions and context, as necessary, to help your audience understand the logic and content you’re presenting and analyzing.
Specific content requirements: prepare PPT slides to complement your clear and engaging oral explanations of the following:
Note that you’ll need create at least one original visual piece of info (e.g. chart, graph, table, infographic) that you display and explain to your audience. This visual should be helpful in advancing and displaying one of the required topics above. To earn credit, please explicitly introduce the visual as being designed by you, before explaining and analyzing the content within.
Technical presentation requirements:
Note about TEAM DYNAMICS
Please note an important grading criterion that didn’t apply to your earlier, solo, oral presentations this semester: “Team dynamics present and team is well rehearsed; seamless transitions and team is conscientious of each other’s speaking turns.”
In other words, your grade will depend on you showing — in your presentation — that you and your partner(s) have spent time practicing and preparing together. You should plan transitions between each other and have conversational rapport as you present. Your presentation will be far less engaging if you simply divide the content between speakers into a “first half” and “second half,” never showing your audience any kind of practiced team dynamics.
Learning to execute an effective, cohesive team presentation will be valuable for your upper level courses (especially capstone courses) and your career.