Week 2 DQ1Respond to the following:General Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP) are built on a framework of accounting assumptions, principles, and constraints.Describe one:Accounting assumption.Accounting principle.Accounting constraint. Support your rationale with an example of how each shapes accounting rules.Resources ReadingsHow can accounting standards be created if there are so many ways to conduct financial reporting? This chapter covers how conceptual frameworks help standardize accounting.In Intermediate Accounting, read:Chapter 2, "Conceptual Framework for Financial Reporting."Chapter 2 PowerPoints [PPT].Chapter 2 Notes [DOC].Week 3 DQ1Respond to the following:An accounting information system is a well-thought-out plan joining together diverse operating units to develop accounting policies and to create financial statements:Identify two departmental units that play a role in developing and maintaining the accounting information system.Explain the role each department plays in this process.Support your response with specific examplesResources ReadingsFinancial reporting can be a lengthy process, from analyzing transactions to completing the closing process. This chapter will help you understand how an accounting information system can help you manage the steps in financial reporting.In Intermediate Accounting, read:Chapter 3, "The Accounting Information System."Chapter 3 PowerPoints [PPT].Chapter 3 Notes [DOC].Week 5 DQ1 Respond to the following:Review and reflect on the material we have covered up to this point in Chapters 1–4.Identify any topics for which you still have questions or need clarification.Post your questions in the discussion area.This is an opportunity to get your questions answered.Respond to at least one additional post:Provide an explanation that helped you learn that particular topic if possible.Offer support to your classmates.Week 6 DQ1Respond to the following:Analysts use these ratios in three primary categories to analyze financial statements:Liquidity Ratios.Activity Ratios.Profitability Ratios.Financial analysts tend to use one or two of these categories to analyze a company's financial position.Imagine that you are a financial analyst:Select at least one ratio from each category.Describe what these ratios reveal about a company's financial health.Explain how you could use the ratio information to determine ways to improve a company's financial health.Explain which external user might be most interested in the ratio information and how they might use the information to make decisions.Resources ReadingsThe balance sheet is like a snapshot of a company's financial standing. It helps determine a company's worth and how much risk a business's finances can take. Your reading this week addresses important information about preparing balance sheets. The chapter also covers how the statement of cash flows can be used to solve business problems. For example, if you were a retailer, would you continue to buy an item that never seemed to sell? A company wants to know how its daily sales and purchases are moving, so it knows whether to make changes to benefit the business.In Intermediate Accounting, read:Chapter 5, "Balance Sheet and Statement of Cash Flows."Chapter 5 Balance Sheet PowerPoints [PPT].Chapter 5 Balance Sheet Notes [DOC].Chapter 5 Revenues and Cash Flows PowerPoints [PPT].Chapter 5 Revenues and Cash Flows Notes [DOC].Week 7 DQ1Respond to the following:A statement of cash flows is often one of the most used and least understood of the key financial statements. However, it is a vital report to use when evaluating or analyzing a company. Identifying where a company is receiving and using its cash—through operations, investing, and financing activities—is more important than knowing the company's net income:Describe the types of accounts/transactions in each section of the statement of cash flows.Explain how the net effect of cash used in each activity will help to evaluate liquidity, solvency, and financial flexibility.Explain why this statement is necessary even when a company has substantial net income.Substantiate your response with examples.Resources ReadingsMore than one way to gain interest on money exists. This chapter provides insights on these options. In addition, this chapter also addresses how annuities differ and how they affect a business's present and future, as well as the impact of these differences on the business.In Intermediate Accounting, read:Chapter 6, "Accounting and the Time Value of Money."Chapter 6 PowerPoints, Part 1 [PPT].Chapter 6 Notes, Part 1 [DOC].Chapter 6 PowerPoints, Part 2 [PPT].Chapter 6 Notes, Part 2 [DOC].

Click the link above to submit your assignment.Students, please view the "Submit a Clickable Rubric Assignment" in the Student Center. Instructors, training on how to grade is within the Instructor Center. Assignment 3: International Crime Witness, Part 2Due Week 8 and worth 250 pointsAfter providing your report to the professor in Assignment 2, the country’s governing body asks you to return to the country and testify in the court proceedings. While you are abroad, your professor asks you to report on the court proceedings and correctional system.Use the Internet or Strayer databases to research court proceedings and the correctional system in the same country you selected in Assignment 2.Write a three to five (3-5) page paper in which you:Analyze both the court system’s likely view on the accused’s rights, as well as the court system’s likely treatment of the defendant during trial proceedings. Provide support for the analysis.Assuming the accused is ultimately sentenced to a term of imprisonment, depict the most likely experience the defendant will have within the country’s prison system. Provide justification for your view of the country’s prison system.Expose two (2) ethical concerns you witnessed regarding the country’s court and correctional systems.Provide one (1) recommendation for change within each of the systems (court and correctional). Provide justification for the recommendations.Use at least four (4) quality references. Note: Wikipedia and other Websites do not qualify as academic resources.Your assignment must follow these formatting requirements:Be typed, double spaced, using Times New Roman font (size 12), with one-inch margins on all sides; citations and references must follow APA or school-specific format. Check with your professor for any additional instructions.Include a cover page containing the title of the assignment, the student’s name, the professor’s name, the course title, and the date. The cover page and the reference page are not included in the required assignment page length.The specific course learning outcomes associated with this assignment are:Evaluate and explain ethical issues inherent in criminal justice systems.Differentiate the role of courts in various societies and in international context.Compare international perspectives on corrections and criminal punishment, including comparative sentencing typologies.Use technology and information resources to research comparative perspectives in criminal justice.Write clearly and concisely about criminal justice topics using proper writing mechanics and APA style conventions.I have attached the rubric under Week 8 Assignment 3 and I attached Assignment 2 Part 1 paper that you did for me to help with this paper.

In this milestone, you will conduct an interview with your contact from the small business or organization client on which you are focusing your final project: Management Information System Analysis and Design Project Report. The interview will help you narrow the possibilities of information systems you can recommend for your final project, based on time and resource constraints. The meeting should help you identify the scope of what the project will address. This will prepare you to later decide what technology recommendations are appropriate for the organization in the design phase for Milestone 5.For this milestone, you will write an interview debrief report and start organizing the background information section of your final project.To successfully complete this milestone assignment, follow these steps:First, incorporating feedback you received from your Milestone 2 submission, conduct an interview with your contact from the small business or organization client that you are focusing on for your final project.Then, summarize the interview in an interview debrief report that addresses the following:Record how the interviewee responded to interview questionsIdentify a business problem or need that an information system could address (within the scope of the semester). For example: If inventory levels are unknown, a point-of-sale (POS) system could be designed that provides real-time, on-demand inventory reports.Describe the scope of what the project plan will includeAssess the type of data you will need to collect to help you evaluate the extent of the problem or needs (e.g., forms, reports, industry and journal articles, etc.)Write a Statement of Business Requirement (bulleted list of the requirements needed of the system)Submission Guidelines: Your interview debrief report should be submitted as a Microsoft Word document.To successfully complete this assignment, view the Milestone 3 Rubric document and Final Project document.