Answers have to be at least a few sentences long. 

1.  Describe how other ethical systems define what is moral- specifically, ethics of virtue, natural law, religion, and ethics of care.

2. Describe the steps in analyzing an ethical dilemma.

3. Describe the ethical issues faced by prosecutors and defense attorneys.

4. Provide justification for police power and the basic ethical standards that derive from this justification and what are the ethical issues involved in proactive & reactive investigations?

5. Under corrective justice, distinguish between substantive and procedural justice.

6. Describe the types of misconduct by community corrections professionals and provide some of the explanations for this misconduct.

7. What are the principles of ethical decision making?

8. Discuss three of the five types of police misconduct, with examples of each type.

9. What steps should organizational leaders take to encourage ethical decision making on the part of employees?

10. What are the elements of any ethical system?

Citizen Journalists

What is the role of the professional journalist? What do we mean when we say that in today’s era we have expanded this role to include citizen journalists? Does this affect how we share news and information in a free society?

Think about the traditional work and role of the journalist as you approach this question. Consider the journalists portrayed in the movie, All the President’s Men, who were real-life journalists in the 1970s. Then consider how the role of journalists have changed, including how social media is creating a form of citizen journalist where everyone with access to a smartphone and the internet can film, post, and circulate stories of interest.

Answer the following in a thoughtful 1-to-2 page response:

? What is the role of the professional journalist?

? What do we mean when we say that in today’s era we have expanded this role to include citizen journalists?

? Does this affect how we share news and information in a free society?

? It may be helpful to review these two resources that further describe All the President’s Men. This link describes the work of Woodward and Bernstein from a journalist’s point of view: https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/national/longterm/watergate/stories/ringle.htm (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site.

?This link leads to the PDF that includes the question sheet to gain background: http://jea.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/specialreport.pdf (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site.

A06 Intermediate
Accounting II

Part A (40 points)

Colorado Company
has provided you the following information.

Year  Taxable income  Income tax rate

2014  $390,000  35% 

2015  $320,000  37%

2016  $400,000  40%

2017  ($1,200,000)  40%

Colorado Company has decided to use the loss carryback and
carryforward provision as a result of the year 2017 loss. The enacted tax rate
remains at 40% after year 2017. Colorado Company has determined that a
valuation allowance is not necessary.

Prepare the journal entry on December 31, 2017 to record the
carryback and carryforward decision.

Part B (30 points)

The Matrix Company began operations as of the beginningof 2015. During  2015, Matrix reported GAAP (book) income
before taxes of $789,500. For income tax purposes, depreciation expense was
$150,000; for GAAP (book) purposes, depreciation expense was $74,000. Matrix
accrued $900,000 of revenue for GAAP (book) purposes during 2015; $600,000 of
the accrued revenue was taxable during 2015. Matrix earned interest of $79,800
from a municipal bond investment during 2015. Matrix’s marginal income tax rate
is 40%. Matrix did not make any income tax payments during 2015.

a.  Determine Matrix’s taxable income for the year ended December 31, 2015.

b. 
Prepare the 2015 year-end journal entry
to record income tax expense.

Part C (30 points)

a. 
For each of the items below,
determine whether the items are temporary differences or permanent differences.
Also, for each temporary difference, you are required to determine whether a
deferred tax asset or deferred tax liability is created by the temporary difference
described. Assume that each of the temporary differences described is an originating
difference.

1.  Municipal bond interest

2.  Accrued warranty expense

3.  Sales revenues received in advance

4.  Prepaid insurance where the tax deduction in future years will be less
than the book expense

5.  Tax depreciation expense exceeds GAAP (book) depreciation expense

6.  Accrued bad debt expense

7.  The dividends received deduction

8.  Installment sales revenue (recognized currently for GAAP, recognized
for tax purposes when cash is collected in future years)

9.  Life insurance payments for executives for which the company is the
beneficiary

10.  Fines paid for law violations

b.  Explain why temporary differences result in deferred tax assets or
deferred tax liabilities while permanent differences do not, and describe the
difference in the formation of deferred tax assets and deferred tax
liabilities.

I need help on the papers for Gilead Science, Inc. 

Strategic Plan Part 2: SWOT Analysis
Paper

Conduct an internal and external environmental analysis, and a supply chain analysis for your proposed new division and its business model.

Create a SWOT table summarizing your findings. Your environmental analysis should consider, at a minimum, the following factors. For internal factors, identify strengths and weaknesses; for external factors, identify opportunities and threats; and for all factors, identify any important trends and include them in your table.

External forces and trends considerations:

• Legal and regulatory
• Global
• Economic
• Technological
• Innovation
• Social
• Environmental
• Competitive analysis

Internal forces and trends considerations:

• Strategy
• Structures
• Processes and systems
• Resources
• Goals
• Strategic capabilities
• Culture
• Technologies
• Innovations
• Intellectual property
• Leadership

Write a synopsis of no more than 1,050 words in which you analyze relevant forces and trends from the list above. Your analysis must include the following:

• Identify economic, legal, and regulatory forces and trends.
• Critique how well the organization adapts to change.
• Analyze and explain the supply chain of the new division of the existing business. Share your plans to develop and leverage core competencies and resources within the supply chain in an effort to make a positive impact on the business model and the various stakeholders.

Identify issues and/or opportunities:

• Identify the major issues and/or opportunities that the company faces based on your analysis.
• Generate a hypothesis surrounding each issue and research questions to use for conducting analysis.
• Identify the circumstances surrounding each issue; classify the circumstances; attribute the importance of each classification; and test the accuracy of the importance for each classification.

Strategic Plan Part 3: Balence scorecard and communication plan

Write a 1,050- to 1,400-word strategic objectives summary. Include your balanced scorecard and its impact on all stakeholders, and the communication plan.

Identify key trends, assumptions, and risks in the context of your final business model.

Develop the strategic objectives for your new division of the existing business in a balanced scorecard format in the context of key trends, assumptions, and risks. The strategic objectives are measures of attaining your vision and mission. As you develop them, consider the vision, mission, and values for your business and the outcomes of your SWOT analysis and supply chain analysis.

Consider the following four quadrants of the balanced scorecard when developing your strategic objectives:

• Shareholder Value or Financial Perspective, which includes strategic objectives in areas such as:
• Market share
• Revenues and costs
• Profitability
• Competitive position
• Customer Value Perspective, which includes strategic objectives in areas such as:
• Customer retention or turnover
• Customer satisfaction
• Customer value
• Process or Internal Operations Perspective, which includes strategic objectives in areas such as:
• Measure of process performance
• Productivity or productivity improvement
• Operations metrics
• Impact of change on the organization
• Learning and Growth (Employee) Perspective, which includes strategic objectives in areas such as:
• Employee satisfaction
• Employee turnover or retention
• Level of organizational capability
• Nature of organizational culture or climate
• Technological innovation

Evaluate potential alternatives to the issues and/or opportunities identified in the SWOT Analysis paper and table you completed in Week 3.

Create at least three strategic objectives for each of the four balanced scorecard areas.  Baseyour solutions on a ranking of alternative solutions that includes the following:

• Identify potential risks and mitigation plans
• Analyze a stakeholder and include mitigation and contingency strategies.
• Incorporate ethical implications

Develop a metric and target for each strategic objective using a balanced scorecard format.

• Example: a strategic objective in the shareholder or financial perspective is to increase market share. A metric to actually measure this strategic objective of market share increase is, “The percentage of increase in market share.” The target is the specific number to be achieved in a particular time period. The target for the metric of “Increase market share” could be “Increase market share by 2% for each of the next 3 years” of an increase of 2% per year for 3 years.)

Outline a brief communication plan discussing how you will communicate the company’s strategic objectives that includes the following:

• Define the purpose.
• Define the audience.
• Identify the channel(s) of communication and why you selected that channel.