After reading case 1-2 Standard Setting: “Politicization of accounting standards – A necessary act?” in the textbook, write an essay that includes the following elements: A formal introduction.Answers to questions (a) through (e) of the case, focusing on the possible erosion of the independence of the accounting standard-setting process.A conclusion.Your submitted paper should be at least 2-3 pages long and written according to following APA style, and properly referenced.Note that the textbook author is citing a source in this case, which must be considered when forming your references and citations.

In an ever-increasing competitive job market, a strong resume is a crucial component in any successful job search. Your resume serves as your personal marketing document and your first impression to prospective employers. Your resume is a one-of-a-kind, quick and easy reference for an employer that proves you are the perfect candidate for the position you are applying for. To create a strong resume, you must first identify the message you want the reader to receive and determine the skills and qualifications you would like to highlight on your resume. What you highlight is generally based on the position you are applying for. For this journal, you will explore the components of a strong resume, reflect on your own career goals, and assess what action steps you can take to build your resume or to make your resume stronger. To prepare for your journal: Watch the Career Jump Start Series Part 1: Developing a Professional Cover Letter and Resume (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site. webinar to help prepare you for creating or updating your resume. Login to My Career through your Student Portal (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site.. Revisit your career goal and identify the top three to five skills or qualifications that make you a strong candidate for this career/position. If you already have a resume: Use resume resources (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site. to update your resume and target the industry or occupation you are seeking. Also, look for the sample resumes tab after you click on the previous link above. If you do not have a resume: Use the resume resources (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site. and this resume template (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site.to develop an initial resume, and target the resume to the industry or occupation you are seeking. administration of Early Childhood Ed. is the job I am going for In your journal, complete all the tasks listed below. Choose one of the following: List your career goal and the three to five key skills or qualifications that make you a strong candidate for the career or position you are interested in. Describe what sections of your resume you feel are the strongest and best highlight your qualifications and why. Share three specific changes you made to your resume that helped to emphasize your selected skills or qualifications. If you build a new resume, list three things you put on your resume that emphasizes your selected skills or qualifications. Attach your resume.

Quality Benchmark Project Please read the instructions and rubrics for the entire Quality Benchmark Project before starting this assignment. They will provide you with an overview of all three components.  Step 1: Write a two-page proposal identifying a significant quality issue that you will research for this project. Your paper should include a title page and a reference page. Be sure that you address each requirement. Use headings to differentiate each topic areas. In your proposal, provide the following information: Write an introduction to the Quality Benchmark Project. Describe the quality issue to be addressed. Provide background information on the issue. Examine previous attempts to address the issue. Cite all sources in 7th ed APA format. Quality Benchmark Project: Description & Due Dates Broad Overview Week 1: Choose and begin researching a significant quality issue. It can be anything that you believe is vital to patient safety and/or improving overall quality of care. Some examples may include: Hand hygiene, to include nosocomial infections driving healthcare costs Medication errors, to include transcription errors or staffing issues. How does fixed hospital budgets fit in? Patient falls, to include alarm fatigue or short hospital stays – Who pays the cost if a patient falls while in the hospital? Bed sores acquired in the hospital. Who pays if the patient gets a bed sore while at the hospital? Misdiagnosis and how that affects short and long-term patient care. How does that affect healthcare costs? Issues with patient identification – may tie into treatment errors and billing issues. Documentation quality and how it negatively affects reimbursement and drives hospital costs. Budget costs limiting up-to-date technology or research-based interventions from being implemented. Inter-departmental communication, to include nursing triage and efficient, safe decision-making. Consider if this is an effective use of time management and how it can be improved. Staffing ratios – is it really a nursing shortage or just budgetary restrictions? How does this negatively affect quality of care, nursing retention and hospital costs long-term? How does it affect patient and staff satisfaction? Integrating mental health into medical. When a patient comes in for a heart transplant, for example, we need to consider depression and anxiety – quality of life issues after discharge, psychosocial issues etc. Dissolve the current system of medical focusing on medical and psych focusing on psych and merge the two for a comprehensive patient overview. Managing health care costs and chronic disease. Consider cost of prevention to keep acute from becoming chronic and long-term benefit to our society. Week 2: Quality Benchmark Project, Part 1. “The Proposal” is a minimum of 2-pages, not including title page and reference page. Written in APA 7th edition format. Title page – Make sure you have headers for each page set up correctly and page numbers. Introduction paragraph – why is this issue important and introduce research. Minimum 5 sentences, not to exceed half of first page Body – Using research, describe quality issue you chose. Each paragraph should be minimum of 5 sentences – use headers for each section. Body – Provide background and why you believe it is significant to health care today. Body – Examine previous attempts to address this quality issue – why did it improve or fail and why do we need to continue to address it today. You do not need a conclusion for Part 1, as Part 2 will be added to this project to continue your paper. Week 5: Quality Benchmark Project, Part 2. An additional 2-pages added to Step 1 for a total of 4(+) pages. Body – Who has jurisdiction over your quality issue – who has control to make change? Body – Who are the stakeholders, investors or decision-makers in this issue and how do they influence this issue? Body – What are the resources needed to promote change in this quality issue toward improvement? Week 9: Quality Benchmark Project, Part 3. An additional 2-pages added to Step 1 & Step 2 for a total of 6(+) pages. Body – Public policy or regulatory procedures that have already addressed this issue. Body – How does this quality issue negatively or positively affect nursing and nursing practice? Body – Potential barriers to implementation? Conclusion – No new information introduced in conclusion. Tie up all the main points and leave reader in awe of your awesomeness. :) Step 1: Add 2-3 additional pages to the Quality Benchmark Paper you submitted in week 5's assignment. Add to the original document so that Part 1 (the proposal), Part 2, and the content below is contained in a single document.  Step 2: Add the following information to your paper using clear paragraph headers: Explain an aspect of quality management within the framework of public policy and/or regulatory procedures that can address the issue. Discuss how this affects nursing and nursing practice. Explore potential barriers to implementation.