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Contemporary Corporate Report – to the company “Land and Houses Public Company Limited (Thailand)” You are required to produce an individual assignment report (In business report style) with a view to evaluating its suitability for a major investment by a client Main requirements that you should meet in this assignment: • Undertake an in-depth research into the company by evaluating a range of financial and non-financial information, taking into account impression management. • Present a critical analysis of the company’s performance. Base your analysis on the most recent five years performance of the company. You can use financial ratios and undertake trend analysis and industry analysis and/or comparison analysis • Include in brief strategies of impression management that the company has used • Present a final recommendation to the client on the suitability of his/her future investment in the company

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Evaluate accounting-related legal and ethical business implications.

Scenario During your weekly meeting, the Director of Accounting has shared with you the topics discussed at a recent Association of Certified Fraud Examiners (ACFE) meeting. Of particular interest was the agenda item about how some companies have gotten in regulatory trouble with the SEC over their revenue and expense recognition practices. While you both are confident that there are no issues relating to this at your company, you both decided that you wanted to learn more about these cases. The Director of Accounting wants you to research two such cases and write a summary report to present at the next Accounting Department meeting.

The director believes that understanding what has happened to other companies in this area of accounting can help prevent issues in your company. The Director provides you with the SEC website that they have used in the past to do article searches: www.sec.gov Instructions

You are asked to select two recent SEC actions against companies (not individuals) that relate to revenue and expense recognition and Prepare a Word document that: summarizes reasons for the SEC actions. identifies the SEC issues related to accounting data and/or operations and the remedial actions assigned and/or penalties given to the company. critiques the remedial actions/penalties. Gives an opinion as to whether you believe they will be effective in preventing future violations by the co

Assignment Content: Imagine that you manage a department in a health care organization of your choosing (Oncology unit). The organization recently merged with another, layoffs occurred, and departments are now being consolidated. Your department now has employees whose ages span four generations, three different cultural groups are represented, and conflict is brewing between them. The conflict is affecting performance, shift scheduling, and cooperation with other departments. A-Write 1000 words a directive to address these conflicts. Do the following in your directive: 1 -Assess the situation that your department is facing. 2-Create clear and reasonable expectations and goals to achieve cohesion, cooperation, and communication in your department. 3- Lay out a strategy to overcome these conflicts and improve workplace performance. 4- Explain how success will be measured based on your strategy and goals. 5- Consider using tables, matrices, or other visuals. 6- Evaluate what leadership traits you need to incorporate in order to lead your diverse department. B- THEN summarize the key points by Creating a 10-minute, 5- to 9-slide voice-over presentation using PowerPoint® that presents your directive to the human resources manager and chief operating manager.

Part 1 RESEARCH CONTEXT As a prominent local research expert, you have been approached to carry out some initial exploratory secondary research on behalf of the above proposed business, as well as a plan for appropriate primary research. The following paragraphs outline the research context and ‘brief’. You have been recruited as a local researcher by the ‘No Alcohol’ Institute; a research organisation sponsored and funded by the UK Government. The purpose is to carry out a study of attitudes to alcohol among university students in Leicester. The ‘No Alcohol’ Institute wishes to develop an awareness programme among students in Leicester during January 2020 of the health risks arising from excessive alcohol intake. Before launching that programme, they want you to get data for them on some of the following: • The wider background situation in the UK concerning alcohol related problems. • attitudes of current undergraduate students in the age range 19-24 to drinking alcohol and managing alcohol intake. • current student social behaviour patterns around alcohol • student perceptions of their own drinking habits and that of family members or friends, including any financial implications. • how and why some students might experience issues of alcohol abuse or addiction, or related problems, when they come to study away from home. Also, the ‘No Alcohol’ Institute would be interested in identifying the level of knowledge of undergraduate students of the health risks associated with varying levels of alcohol intake. You are asked to prepare a research plan for to address the ‘No Alcohol’ Institute’s requirements. In this plan, they expect you to undertake exploratory secondary research, and some primary research, with a sample of university students in Leicester. NB The ‘No Alcohol’ Institute is an entirely fictitious organisation invented solely for the purposes of this examination case study. Part 2 PROPOSED RESEARCH TASK You will need to consider what exploratory secondary research would be useful here and how it might contribute to the later part of the study – the main data collection. For the primary research, you will need to comment on sampling, quantitative data perception and respondent choice, on the research method taken (interview, survey, focus group) and the specific insights that the proposed research can offer. Some consideration of the dimensions (issues) that the research would focus on is also important, and how the data generated could be of value to the ‘No Alcohol’ Institute. Finally, you should indicate some data analysis that is appropriate for the research method(s) you propose. Important facts You need to do some background reading on the context (secondary desk research) and to prepare ideas on the key areas noted in the task. Preliminary secondary research is needed so that you understand the patterns of alcohol consumption in the UK, some of the current behaviour and lifestyle trends and how that links to the health issues of young people in the age range 19 to 24. propose a specific main data collection process and you should consider what method would address the requirements of the ‘No Alcohol’ Institute. You are expected to demonstrate knowledge of research design, to be able to explain different parts of the research process logically and to illustrate all those elements in a relevant way in this case. Some reference to key authors is advised when considering choice of research method, sampling methods, approaches to data collection and potential data analysis.