Explain the assertion that one (1) disadvantage of the pure project organization is the project professionals’ tendency to fall behind in areas of technical expertise that they do not use on projects. Demonstrate two (2) strategies which a project manager might use in order to avoid the stated disadvantage. Support your response with examples of the use of the identified strategies

Assume you are a functional manager tasked to assemble a project team. You wish to motivate employees to align their personal values with the organization’s values. Select the aspects of Maslow’s theory and Herzberg’s theory that apply to this situation. Provide a rationale for your response

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You will analyze the FORD MOTOR company’s financial performance, highlighting accounting principles and methods learned in this course. This project requires you to present, review, and analyze the organization’s published annual reports and related footnotes for the last 2 years. Specifically, your paper will cover the following:

Discuss methods used to account for assets, liabilities, and shareholder equity, and explain how the company’s inventory valuation method affects reported results.
Explain the company’s approach to internal controls, and assess its compliance with Sarbanes-Oxley.
Prepare and interpret the results of horizontal and vertical analyses of the financial statements.
Prepare and interpret the results of at least 5 ratios, 1 from each of the following categories:
Profit Ratios
Debt Ratios
Efficiency Ratios
Equity Ratios
Liquidity Ratios

Assess the company’s overall financial performance and the integrity of its internal controls.
Discuss how various stakeholders—internal and external—use information contained in the financial statements for decision making.

Include the last 2 years of published financial statements as Appendices to your report. Do not include the entire Annual Reports.

Present your findings as a Word document of 5–6 pages formatted in APA style.

Submitting your assignment in APA format means, at a minimum, you will need the following:

Title page: Remember the running head and title in all capital letters.
Body: The body of your paper begins on the page following the title page and it must be double-spaced between paragraphs. The typeface should be 12-pt. Times Roman or 12-pt. Courier in regular black type. Do not use color, bold type, or italics except as required for APA level headings and references. The deliverable length of the body of your paper for this assignment is 5–6 pages. In-text academic citations to support your decisions and analysis are required. A variety of academic sources is encouraged.
Reference page: References that align with your in-text academic sources are listed on the final page of your paper. The references must be in APA format using appropriate spacing, hang indention, italics, and upper- and lower-case usage as appropriate for the type of resource used. Remember, the reference page is not a bibliography, but it is a further listing of the abbreviated in-text citations used in the paper. Every referenced item must have a corresponding in-text citation.
Appendices: Include the last 2 years of the company’s published financial statements.

Audits of financial statements are designed to determine whether account balances are materially

correct. Assume that your client is a manufacturing company that has the following assets on its

balance sheet

·         Machinery: $1,278,000

·         Accumulated depreciation: $386,000

·         Leased equipment: $550,000

a. Describe a substantive audit procedure that can be used to determine that all leased

equipment that should have been capitalized during the year was actually capitalized.

Please refer to the knowledge from intermediate accounting and the requirements of an

audit working paper to design a template audit working paper that can be used to examine

whether a leased equipment should have been capitalized or treated as lease expense

b. The machinery account shows that the company retire approximately $400,000 of old

machinery this year. Identify a substantive audit procedure that will determine the

machinery account was properly accounted for during the year

c. Assuming the auditor determines that the machinery were properly retired, what other

information does the auditor need to know to have reasonable assurance that the

machinery-net of depreciation-is properly reflected on the balance sheet?

d. How can an auditor determine that all the machinery and leased equipment on the account

actually exist?