1. Consider the following set of commands on an access control matrix

A[s:subject, o:object] : Actions={read, write, execute, append, list, modify, own}

Basic Commands :

Create subject S, Create Object O, Enter action R into A[S,O], Delete action R from A[S,O], Destroy subject S, Destroy Object O Conditional command of the following kind ():

Command name(parameters)

If

then

end

Where can be of the form “if in A[p,f]” or conjunctions thereof.

A. Write a command for delegate_all_rights_(p: subject, q: subject, o:object) that delegates all rights

has over subject to subject .

B. Write a command for revoke_all_rights_(p: subject, q: subject, o:object) that deletes all rights that subject

has over object from subject .

C. Write the preconditions and post conditions for the conditional command delegate_all_rights you wrote for 1(A).

This assignment requires a contract analysis of 1,000 words in APA format and graduate level writing. There are three questions and several legal concepts (Covenants of good faith and fair dealing (SONS case is a great resource), Minor’s capacity to contract, fraud, capacity, Section 2-306 UCC, Implied Contracts, etc.), and at least half of these concepts must be incorporated into the paper when the questions are answered.

Contracts Analysis Case Study

Marshall Petersen and his wife, Gloria, began visiting the Sunday school class you teach in Huntsville, Alabama, about six months ago. Marshall is not a Christian, but with the encouragement of his wife, who is a believer, he says he is beginning to explore the faith.

After his first visit to the class, you spent some time talking with Marshall and you discovered that he owns a small, local health food products business, and that he is interested in growing the business by adding some new product lines. You informed him of the high antioxidant qualities of the Muscadine grapes your family’s produce company sells, and you asked him if he might be interested in promoting either the grapes themselves or the various products developed using their seeds. Marshall was interested, and a few days later you supplied him with some samples. The samples turned out to be a very popular item with his regular customers, so he placed a modest phone order with your company. Over time, Marshall placed regular, increasing phone orders, and he began investing heavily in advertising for the Muscadine products at his store. Your company has faithfully delivered everything requested, promptly, and at consistent prices. You typically sent an invoice with each delivery, requiring payment within 30 days, and though Marshall has frequently been late making payment, he has generally paid each invoice within 45 to 60 days. You have elected not to charge him any interest or penalties, though your invoices state that you reserve the right to do so.

On one occasion when your son, a part-time deliveryman for your company, delivered some product to Marshall’s store, Marshall handed your son a requirements contract and asked him to sign it on behalf of your company. The contract includes a guaranteed price schedule consistent with what he had been paying. Marshall told him that it was “just a formality” to guarantee a continuing business relationship. Your son signed the contract and gave it back to Marshall. Neither Marshall nor your son mentioned the contract to you. Your son was 17 years old at the time, but turned 18 last month.

After a columnist for The Huffington Post wrote an article praising the antioxidant qualities of Muscadines, the demand for Muscadines skyrocketed nationwide. Your company became inundated with orders, far in excess of your ability to meet the demand. A company in Texas offered to pay you twice the going rate for your products, but the company also required you to sign an output contract as a part of the deal.

Though this contract would represent a substantial financial windfall for your company, you felt bad about potentially leaving Marshall out to dry. You called Marshall, advised him of the offer you had received, and you suggested to him the names of other reputable potential suppliers in the area to try and soften the blow.

To your surprise, Marshall became very angry and told you that he expected you to continue to supply him with all the product he needs, when he needs it, and at the prices he had always paid, per the requirements contract between your businesses and in accordance with an implied duty of good faith and fair dealing that had evolved based on your ongoing business relationship. When you asked what requirements contract he was talking about, he faxed you a copy of the contract that had been signed by your son.

Jayson company’s variable cost are 40% of sales. The company is contemplating an advertising campaign that will cost $ 34000 . If sales are expected to increase $50000, by howmuch will the company’s net income increase or decrease?

ACCT 19083 Corporate governance and ethics
Term 3 2016
Assessment 3 Case Study
Task
This is an individual assessment.
Assessment item 3 is made up of two parts. Both parts are based on a hypothetical case study. The case study is found below.
Part A
You are required to answer a number of short answer questions based on the hypothetical case study.
Short answer questions for Part A
1. Ferrell, Fraedrich & Ferrell (2015) on pages 196-198 outline many types of power that shape corporate culture. What is the type of leadership power that is exhibited by the Board of Directors of the ABC Bank? Explain and support your response by evidence from the case study.
2. Using the Framework for Ethical Decision Making in Business highlighted by Ferrell, Fraedrich & Ferrell (2015, Figure 5-1, p 129), analyse how Edward comes to his decision- making, supported by facts from the case study. You are also to discuss which moral philosophy or philosophies may apply to Edward in arriving at his decision. The various philosophies are found in Table 6-1, page 157 of Ferrell, Fraedrich & Ferrell (2015).
Requirements for Part A
For Part A, you are not required to present it in a report format. You are to place your answer to each of the questions in a single MS Word document. Number your answer with the corresponding question.
You are not required to reference your responses as page references are given in the questions.
A maximum word limit of 1000 words applies to Part A of Assessment Item 3. Please indicate your word count at the end of your responses for Part A. You are not required to repeat the questions in your responses.
Part B
You have been appointed as the new ethics officer following the departure of Edward. A new board has also been appointed for ABC Bank. In light of the whistleblowing incident by Edward, the new board is highly aware of the need for a new ethics program to instil confidence in stakeholders and avoid possible reoccurrence of the whistleblowing saga that has seriously damaged the reputation of ABC Bank.
You have been briefed by the new Board of Directors to strengthen ABC Bank’s ethical practices. You are given authority to insert a new section in the ethics program to specifically encourage internal reporting of corporate misconduct and protect whistle blowers as part of the ethics program.
You have also discovered from your investigation that ABC Bank does not have a Statement of Values.
You are to write a business report to the new Board of Directors on the following matters:
1. The orientation of the new ethics program to be adopted and the reasons for the recommendation of such an orientation.
2. Draft up a Statement of Values for the Board of Directors to peruse and approve. You are to put forward three values in the Statement of Values and explain to the Board of Directors how they these values strengthen the corporate culture in ABC Bank.
3. Three recommendations to be provided to protect whistle blowers and to encourage reporting of corporate misconduct. In your recommendations you are also to set out procedures on how these recommendations are to be implemented and monitored for effectiveness as part of the ethics program.
4. Explain to the Board of Directors how your recommendations in point 3 above have met the reasonable expectations of the stakeholders of ABC Bank.
Requirements for Part B
The format of your business report should be as follows:
• Title page with word limit of Part B to be clearly indicated
• Executive summary
• Table of Contents
• Introduction
• Report body
• Conclusion
• References.
The in text referencing style that is required for this business report in Part B of this assessment is the American Psychological Referencing (APA) style. A maximum 2000 word limit applies to Part B of Assessment Item 3, excluding title page, table of contents and references. You are permitted to use a wide range of sources for your references, including textbooks, academic journals and websites. There is no prescribed number of journal articles required for Assessment 3.
Due Date
You must submit your Assessment 3 Short Answers and Business Report on the Case Study on Friday 3 February 2017 (Week 11) by 11:45pm AEST via online submission under the link “Assessment 3 (40%)” in the Assessment Block.
Please name your file with your name and student number e.g. JUDYHUI s0123456 and submit in WORD document format (.DOC).
eBook
For those who have not purchased the textbook, you may want to consider renting chapters 5, 6, 7, 8 and 9 from the publisher to undertake Assessment 3. You can access the following website at this link for renting these chapters from the publisher:
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Case Study
Edward, aged 35, is a risk officer in ABC Bank, responsible for managing the risk associated with ABC bank’s $100 million portfolio of residential loans. ABC bank is an Australian regional bank. The Bank employs a significant number of local residents as its employees. The Bank is also the only bank that operates in the region.
Edward is a local resident who grew up in the region. His parents came from overseas with very little command of English. They own a grocery store in town. Edward had always supported himself through his education by working part time whilst studying a Bachelor of Accounting online with a local University. The locals knew him well as he volunteers in a number of charitable organisations. Edward is a respected young leader amongst his community. Edward is married to Josephine who works as a teacher in the local primary school. They have one child aged five years old.
Before Edward joined the ABC bank, the Bank had undertaken an internal investigation into the inflated income to loan applications necessary for the approval of the loans. More than 30% of the customers are overvalued in their income capacity to repay the loan. Edward was unaware of the internal investigation.
Several months after he joined, he figured out something was wrong. He discovered that the Bank has significantly increased the income capacity of borrowers so as to pop up the loan book of the Bank. This practice has been going on for nearly a year. This would significantly increase the Bank’s exposure to risk. He had also read internal memos and emails from some customers who complained that ABC Bank had been very aggressive in pushing home loans to them and some had written to the Bank that they were uncomfortable with the sales tactics. It appears that no one from ABC Bank had replied to their concerns. Edward was particularly concerned about a number of customers that are new settlers in the town from worn torn overseas countries that have very little experience dealing with financial matters. ABC Bank was aware of their limited understanding in financial products.
Edward was so concerned about the issue that he contacted the Chief Executive Officer and was invited to a meeting with the Board of Directors, accompanied by ABC Bank’s in house lawyer. Edward, after gathering the appropriate documents, fronted up to the meeting, feeling confident that he could draw the support of the Board for fulfilling his job as the risk officer.
In the meeting, he informed the Board of the Bank’s lending practice. The Bank’s lawyer told Edward that his conversation was subject to privilege and could not be disclosed to anyone under any circumstances. He also said to him that this is not his concern as the Chief Financial Officer had already undertaken investigation. Besides he says if there is any adjustment done to the balance sheet, it will jeopardise the financial health of the Bank and many employees would need to be laid off. The Board also chipped in and added, “Don’t you dare do anything stupid. If this piece of information goes public, our company’s share price will fall and threaten our shareholdings. Moreover, the Bank’s image will be severely tarnished.”
Edward ponders the situation. Edward believes that hundreds of customers of the Bank may have been duped into entering into the loan agreement without understanding the risk involved should interest rates go up in the future. Edward is troubled by the thought of these people losing their homes if interest rates do go up in the future as their income is not sufficient to support their repayments. He strongly suspects that if he makes further noise, he would lose his job. After serious consideration, Edward decides to contact the media.

Assessment Item-3: e-Business Prototype Website
Solution and Report (Total 50 marks)
Due Date: Friday, 10th of Feb 2017, 11:45PM AEST
Weighting: 50%
Length: 3500 words
Submission: Online Group submission as per instructions on the Moodle web site.
Assessment Objectives:
This assessment items relates to course learning outcomes:
1. Articulate the recent developments in e-business industry and its likely future directions.
2. Compare and explain various types of e-business infrastructure technologies, business models, and payment and security systems in a corporate setting.
3. Formulate and critically evaluate the impact of e-business strategies on organisational processes and outcomes.
4. Demonstrate the technical research skills to assess existing and emerging e-business technologies to transform organisations for competitive advantages.
5. Develop the ability to work independently and contribute as a member of team employing appropriate interpersonal, professional and technical communication skills.
6. Interpret the legal, ethical, social and cultural issues that affect the use, design, and implementation of e-business systems.
7. Build e-business prototype solutions using open source technologies.
Assessment Task:
This is your major assignment and can be done in a group of 3 members. The aim of this major assignment is to give you the opportunity to practice and demonstrate the knowledge that you have gained in this course as well as your skills and experience by developing a prototype website solution for an SME. Hence, this assessment gives you the best opportunity for you to learn by doing and working in a team environment. Today it is a fact that e-business websites are an integral part of any business operation for competitive as well as survival reasons. We have high expectations of you and therefore as a future ICT professional you need to be able to show your intellectual capability by providing a prototype website solution for an SME of your choice in any industry type. This is critical, so you can use cutting edge and state of the art technologies available on the Internet as open sources to carry out your required work. So, there are two parts in this assessment:
Part-1: E-Business Website Prototype Solution (20 marks; 500 words)
You as a group need to develop an e-business prototype website solution using open source (Joomla CMS) in any industry of your choice for an SME (small to mid-size business). You will be required to design, configure and populate your proposed E-business web site using the Joomla CMS via the URL in the cloudaccess.net .
To open a Joomla free student account, please go directly to: http:// www.cloudaccess.net/products/school-program.html
Once opened it, scroll down on this web page, and read Step-1 and Step 2 and simply follow the instruction. Please click on free Joomla hosting link (under Step-1) and it will take you to: http://www.cloudaccess.net/free-joomla-hosting web page. Each group need to create one account for their proposed Website solution.
In this part of the assessment, you are required to configure your Joomla site and design homepage using Cloud access URL created by your group for your proposed E-business. You are required to add extensions like catalogue, shopping cart, contact us, customer registration and any other extension appropriate for your business model such as calendar, social web, maps and weather, please see http://extensions.joomla.org/ for more information.
Show Site Map of your proposed E – business model:
• Briefly describe your group project reflections (some of the challenges encountered) in designing your e-business website (250 words).
• List and explain the resources you had researched or used for designing your e-business website as a group (250 words).
You are encouraged to use critical thinking, innovative ideas, and your imagination to produce your e-business prototype solution.
Part-2: E-Business Report (30 marks, 3000 words)
As a group you need to choose and propose e-business of your choice, approved by your local lecturer (or course coordinator for distance students). So please discuss your proposal with you teacher in advance.
This group assignment relates to your understanding of the technological infrastructure and functional requirements of a small to mid-size e-business and to allow you to demonstrate your ability to research, analyse, synthesise and evaluate, and specify the requirements of a proposed e-commerce website in a report. You are required to use at least 12 sources including 6 academic to write a high quality report.
It is expected that you will demonstrate your learning, integration and incorporation of the knowledge that you have acquired during this course to produce a high quality e-business report.
Marking Criteria for the Report:
• Report cover page (course name and title, report title, group details, due date),
• Executive summary,
• Table of contents,
• Introduction (including aim, objectives, scope and limitations of the report),
• Background of the report topic (including e-business proposal/planning, e-business strategies),
• Discussions of proposed solution including but not limited to;
? e-business model(s),
? e-business marketing,
? e-business infrastructure (such as hardware, software, resource requirements),
? e-business payment system(s),
? e-business legal, security, privacy and other issues, and
? e-business benefits that will be derived from the implementation of your, e-business prototype website solution,
• Conclusions and Recommendations,
• References (at least 12 sources including 6 academic), Appendices (if needed).

BANKS Industries has experienced rapid expansion in the past several years. However, it appears that the HR department is just now catching up by revising policies and rapidly implementing changes. One of the new policies outlines the requirements of a new dress code, which is stricter and more formal than the previous requirements.

Using the module readings, the Argosy University online library resources, and the Internet, research the concepts of communication and change management. Then, based on the above scenario, respond to the following:

• As a manager, what is your role when it comes to communicating policy changes to employees, especially when the policy is not one with which you necessarily agree (for example, policies regarding personal cell-phone use in the workplace)? As a manager, how would you communicate such policies?
• How will you accommodate multiple cultures when communicating these issues to employees? As you prepare to address this question, take into consideration the following communication concepts: To be a successful cross-cultural communicator you must remember the following:
  • There are no universal gestures.
  • You should be sensitive to verbal and nonverbal communications or behaviors.
  • It is important to be open-minded to cultural views of others and their ways of communicating. For example, a frown could mean concentration in some cultures, whereas in other cultures, it is interpreted as anger or disappointment.

By Friday, February 3, 2017, post your response to the appropriate Discussion Area. Through Monday, February 6, 2017, review and comment on at least two peers’ responses.

Write your initial response in 300–500 words. Your response should be thorough and address all components of the discussion question in detail, include citations of all sources, where needed, according to the APA Style, and demonstrate accurate spelling, grammar, and punctuation