In preparation for your research, select an individual currently in a leadership position. The person must be responsible in some capacity for other employees, and the person must be an individual that can be researched.

Overview
In your overview of the leader, include:

• The leader’s name and title.
• His or her specific role or position and responsibilities.
• The name, industry, and description of the organization, including the culture of the organization.
• The length of time the leader has been in his or her current position.
• A brief history of the leader’s background and career path to his or her present day leadership position.

Analysis
Your analysis should:

• Describe, assess, and analyze the person’s leadership style. Be sure to provide specific examples.
• Identify and describe three significant challenges they faced as a leader.
• Identify and describe their greatest achievement, to date, as a leader.
• Apply and correctly cite a minimum of three leadership concepts from the course to this leader’s roles and responsibilities within the organization, their relationships with others, etc.
• Use these concepts to help describe the person’s leadership style and assess what makes it effective or ineffective.
• Reflect on what you learned about leadership from your research.
• Reflect on the implications for your personal leadership style.

Writing the Final Paper:
The Final Paper:

• Must be eight to ten double-spaced pages in length (excluding the title and reference pages) and formatted according to APA style as outlined in the Ashford Writing Center.
• Must include a title page with the following:
• Title of paper
• Student’s name
• Course name and number
• Instructor’s name
• Date submitted
• Must begin with an introductory paragraph that has a succinct thesis statement.

Carefully review the Grading Rubric for the criteria that will be used to evaluate your assignment.

• Describe why most companies expect significant added costs to their firm as a result of SOX compliance.

Sources used for this project should be largely comprised of the following:

• Scholarly and peer-reviewed professional journals.
• Authoritative accounting pronouncements and standards published by the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB), the International Accounting Standards Board (IASB),the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (PCAOB), the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA), and the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC).
• Public laws passed by Congress.

Prepare a 10-12 page research paper (excluding title page, abstract, references page, and appendices) in APA format that presents your findings. In addition, the paper should also discuss the following:

• Active GAAP and IFRS Convergence projects of the FASB and IASB.
• Potential impact on business and the accounting profession of changes in accounting standards or securities laws.

A minimum of six (6) peer-reviewed academic or professional references must be used in development of this paper.

This assignment will be assessed using the rubric provided here.

Reference

Please submit your assignment.

The following grading criteria will apply to this assignment:

Indicate whether each of the following statements is true, false, or uncertain, and explain your answer. Your grade will depend primarily on the quality of your explanation. If a word or phrase is underlined, your answer must include a concise definition of the word or phrase. 

1. If money demand’s sensitivity to income increases, fiscal policy becomes weaker.

    

2. If investment’s sensitivity to the rate of interest decreases, monetary policy becomes stronger.

3. If the net exports variable does not depend on income and interest rates, monetary policy becomes stronger.

4. The higher the Marginal Propensity to Consume, the stronger fiscal policy would be.

5. Starting from a position of long-run equilibrium, if the demand for money increases, the economy will experience deflation before reaching long-run equilibrium.

6. If the economy is in a recessionary gap, and the price-adjustment mechanism has an expectation augmentation component, the economy will definitely overshot the full-employment level of output during the transition period.

Business Plan Paper Instructions – For a Bakery in Missouri

As an entrepreneur, you want to start a business. You know that the first step is to consider drafting a business plan proposal to organize all of your ideas. For this assignment, you will submit a business plan for your imaginary business. For research purposes, you can choose any state for the location of your business. You are creating your business based on biblical principles, which should be integrated throughout your plan.

Your business plan must include the following:

1.      Introduction of the proposed business;

2.      Description and explanation of the type of business entity that is best for your business;

3.      Description of the specific steps needed to be followed to successfully and legally start the business;

4.      A draft of a valid contract with a vendor, supplier, customer, etc. that illustrates all elements of a contract and takes into consideration some of the topics discussed in the contract chapters;

5.      Description of possible ethical considerations for your business, including any social responsibility plans or attitudes that your business will embrace;

6.      Description of a possible disagreement that could be encountered among the partners, or investors and shareholders, or other stakeholders in the business; and

7.      Illustration of the various ways the disagreement could be resolved (referring back to the formal documents, such as the articles of incorporation or the partnership agreement).

This paper must be 1,500–2,100 words, double-spaced, Times New Roman font or similar, structured in APA form. Your analysis must be supported by at least 3 scholarly sources other than the Melvin textbook. Sources must be cited in current APA format.