Stephen Bork

Assignment 2 (Due November 5, 2021, 11:59 PM) – 15% This assignment uses the scenario in the appendix of the course textbook, Auditing: The Art and Science of Assurance Engagements, Canadian 15th edition, Pearson, Arens, Elder, Beasley, Jones. You will need to read the appendix of the textbook to complete this assignment. This assignment places you as an audit junior (assistant) within an audit team of Hillsburg Hardware Ltd. This assignment is expected to establish your critical think...

The History of GoldOn April 30, 2002, shares of Agnico-Eagle Mines Ltd. (AEM) of Toronto, Ontario, a Canadian gold  producer with more than 30 years of precious metals mining experience, had just closed at US$13.89  on the New York Stock Exchange, a decline of nearly a dollar from the previous day. Dan Acker, a  senior portfolio manager at National Securities Inc. (National) of Toronto, Ontario, reclined in  his office chair, stared at his computer monitor and contempl...

Cloud ComputingCloud migration is the process which involves the transmission of applications, data or additional business elements to the cloud computing environment. There are several benefits from the cloud migration. Major benefit is that it is capable of hosting the data and applications in an effective manner within the IT environment depended upon certain factors like cost, performance, scalability, flexibility and security. There are various types of cloud migration available in the m...

The Culture of Ron's RoofingWhat is the culture of Ron's Roofing? What is the impact of Ron's Roofing on a team? Is that a team of The culture of Ron's Roofing is that, at any instance, it employs about thirty roofers. Depending on the size of the houses, the culture of Ron's Roofing is that a team of between five to ten roofers work on the residential projects while the rest of the team work on the industrial Roofing. An onsite foreman leads all these teams. Also, Ron's Roofing has three m...

Background Information on Sustainable Supply Chain ManagementThe latest report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC, 2021) suggests that “it is unequivocal that human influence has warmed the atmosphere, ocean and land”. It also suggests that “global warming of 1.5°C and 2°C will be exceeded during the 21st century unless deep reductions in carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gas emissions occur in the coming decades”. Supply chain management...

TaskYou were recently promoted to assistant controller at Archie-Boy Dog Toy Corp. (“Archie-Boy”). Your employer manufactures and sells a single product, which is an ultra-durable dog toy that cannot be shredded or broken by a dog chewing on it. The first task you have been assigned in your new role is to prepare the master budget for the quarter ended March 31st, 2020. You have assembled the following information. Inform...

Task: During your design, identify and discuss skills you need to  communicate empower and promote behavioural change among the client group and make these clear within your poster.   During your design discuss health promotion/public health approaches and theory(s)  used to inform the design of your poster and why. (eg educative, skill based or structural).    During your design, examine some of the challenges/benefits in relation to chosen health promotion approaches, and how the nur...

In this task, you need to use Principal Component Analysis (PCA) to understand the characteristics of the datasets. Use Pandas to load both the training data set and the test set (1 mark). Show one scatter plot, that is, one feature against another feature on the training set. It is your choice to show which two features you want to use (2 marks). Normalise the training set and the test set using StandardScaler() (Hint: the parameters should come from the training set only) (2 ...

Question: The needs of the pediatric patient differ depending on age, as do the stages of development and the expected assessment findings for each stage. In a 500-750-word paper, examine the needs of a school-aged child between the ages of 5 and 12 years old and discuss the following:   1. Compare the physical assessments among school-aged children. Describe how you would modify assessment techniques to match the age and developmental stage of the child.   2. Choose a child betwe...

Task: Part of my study in the university is the (group discussion) which each student will need to write a small discussion (Max 200 words). Following is the questions:   For this class-wide discussion, complete the following steps:   1. Consider what you have learnt about valuations and the process that is followed to reach these values.   2. Reflect on the following questions:   • Do you think the valuations methods described so far are reliable and reflective...