Deliverable 2 – Using Visuals to Enhance Viewer Perception Business Finance Assignment Help

Assume that during the summer you are hired by a Pet store company named Durham House of Pets (DHP) to do an internship. Ms. Smith the VP for Information Technology (IT) at DHP has reviewed your resume and noticed that you took a course on Management Information Systems (MIS) at UNH and that in one of the course modules you learned how to develop web pages. She would like you to create a website for DHP.

Below is a description of what each page MUST contain.

About Us: (index.html)

History – Include a brief description of the company’s background e.g. when it was founded, by who, what products it sold in its early days, how it has grown over the years etc.

Why use us– Describe why your clients should do business with you. Try to think of a reason or reasons that distinguish you from other pet stores e.g. your experience your, products, your employees, your location etc.

Our Team: (employees.html)

Create a page that shows some of your employees. Be sure to include the following. A picture of each employee, their name, title, years working at your company, and phone extension.

Products: (products.html)

Dog Supplies (dogsupplies.html)

Dog Apparel – Products names and pictures

Dog Food- Products names and pictures

Cat Supplies (catsupplies.html)

Cat Toys – Products names and pictures

Cat Food– Products names and pictures

Fish Supplies (fishsupplies.html)

Fish Tanks – Products names and pictures

Fish Food– Products names and pictures

Policies: (policies.html)

Financing– List your financing policies

Delivery– Discuss your delivery policies

Return Policies – Describe your stores return policies

Contact us: (contact_us.html)

• Embed a map in the contact_us.html page that shows show the Corporate Office location.

• Include the following information at the bottom of the contact_us.html page:

Corporate Office

Postal Address- Head office location

Phone – Head office phone number

Fax – Head office fax number

E-mail – clickable email address which when clicked has the Head office email address and the subject line should read “Corporate Inquiry”

Regional Offices: – (You must have at least 2 regional offices)

Postal Address- Regional office location

Phone – Regional office phone number

Fax – Regional office fax number

E-mail – clickable email address which when clicked has the Regional office email address and the subject line should read “Regional Office Inquiry”

• Include a linked icon that goes to a Facebook or any social media page

All pages must have:

1. Appropriate Titles
2. Appropriate Headings
3. Appropriate details and descriptions
4. Appropriate graphics and links
5. Navigation through your sight must be intuitive
6. There must be no dead links
7. The design should be simple and clean

In your project you must make use of the following:

• HTML5
• CSS
• Colors
• Images
• Internal links
• External links
• Lists

Your project will be graded based on:

• Functionality: Whether or not all pages, links are working, can read the text, can navigation is easy.
• Content: Whether or not the content on each page makes sense
• Creativity: How creative you are in terms of content, design, layout of your website.
• Appeal of the website: Your website should look good
• Professionalism: It is a corporate website, not a personal website.
• Make sure you validate your website at: http://validator.w3.org Links to an external site.

Please note:

1. For this project, you will make up all the content.
2. You are not permitted to use the same layout that I used in the HTML Lesson video (Module 3 – Web Development: Lesson 3: Using HTML to Build a Website). Doing so will result in a grade of zero.
3. You should NOT send me any HTML files via email since this is a website and not just a collection of files. Websites must be published on Github pages. I will not grade any files sent via email. I will only grade work that has been uploaded onto Github pages.

TROUBLESHOOTING HTML

If you write some code that does not seem to work you likely have a simple problem. Try the following:

1. Remember that file names (HTML and images) are case sensitive. Make sure that you keep all file names in lower case(e.g. mypic.jpg and NOTJpg) . In your code, when you refer to a file make sure the code is typed in lower case(e.g. <img src = mypic.jpg>)
2. You may have forgotten to save your change or refresh the browser. To ensure you are viewing your latest modifications, save your file then refresh the browser.
3. Check the syntax of your tags very carefully. HTML5 is a very forgiving language, which means something will usually show up in the browser, but it may not be what you expect. Since you should be making small changes, saving and testing your file, it should be fairly straightforward to find any errors in code. Just go back to the last thing modification you made. The most common mistake made is forgetting to close a tag. You can validate your code by typing in the URL to your website into an HTML validator such as http://validator.w3.org/ Links to an external site.
4. Always check to make sure that you have used the extension “.html” to save your pages. Turn the file extension option on by opening any folder on your computer and clicking Tools>> Folder Options>> View. Make sure the checkbox for Hide extensions for known file type is NOT checked. This will allow you to see the file extension for all files on your computer. If you have accidentally saved your .html file as something like .htm.txt, simply right click on the file, select rename, delete the .txt extension, click enter.

For this assignment Please follow the instructions I have uploaded resources and a drop box link to help.There are 3 parts to this assignment. You must complete all 3 parts.

Part 1

Answer the following questions:

• Think back to your discussion board response to: “what does the word advocacy mean to you?” Now that you’ve completed this course, create your own definition of what it means to be an advocate for students. How will you apply this definition to your current practices? What changes will you make, if any?
• When you notice a student struggling academically or behaviorally/social emotionally, what do you do first? How would you advocate for that student?
• List what type of data collection tools you would use to collect data.
• What are the major differences between an IEP and 504 plans?

Part 2

Think about the student from the Authentic Tasks Plop attached expand to it. Complete the following tasks:

• Expand the PLOP for the student by adding all academic areas (math, reading & written language) and two social emotional or behavioral areas of performance
• Create a plan for the student. For the purpose of this assignment you will create the following parts of an IEP for a student.

1.Present Levels of Performance

2.Select Accommodations & Supplementary Aids/Services

3.Create SMART Goals based on PLOP (5 total)

4.Propose the type(s) of services you would recommend.

Part 3

How would you work with school team members and families to ensure that the student’s plan is implemented effectively? In what ways have you grown as a special educator, general educator, school counselor or administrator in your approach to advocating for students? How do you feel about participating in the special education process? 504 process? Think about the student you completed this assignment for, what were your successes? Your pitfalls? What would you do next time to ensure the student is successful?

Drop Box link

https://www.dropbox.com/sh/eqltgieiu47efsv/AACjQyp…

Resources:

Use the following resources and the module presentations to support your work on the final project.

Creating Present Levels:

Present levels should include the following:

• Formal data
• Informal data
• Strengths
• Areas of Concern

Writing SMART GOALS:

• Goal Setting with your Students
• SMART GOALS – Understood.org
• WrightsLaw- IEP GOALS

List of Accommodations:

• Accommodations

Examples of Supplementary Aids and Services:

• MSDE: Guide to Supplementary Aids & Services

Analyze the scenario uploaded below (suggested length of 2–3 pages) by doing the following:

A. Discuss how the application of nursing-quality indicators could assist the nurses in this case in identifying issues that may interfere with patient care.

B. Analyze how hospital data of specific nursing-quality indicators (such as incidence of pressure ulcers and prevalence of restraints) could advance quality patient care throughout the hospital.

C. Analyze the specific system resources, referrals, or colleagues that you, as the nursing shift supervisor, could use to resolve an ethical issue in this scenario.

D. Acknowledge sources, using in-text citations and references, for content that is quoted, paraphrased, or summarized.

E. Demonstrate professional communication in the content and presentation of your submission.

Original Discussion: Bob, A cost accountant prepares a product profitability report for his boss, Tom, the production manager. Much to Bob’s surprise, almost one third of the company’s products are not profitable. He say, “Tom, it looks like we will have to drop one third of our products to improve overall company profits. It’s a good thing we decided to look at profitability by product.” Do you think Bob should agree with this approach? Why? What questions would you ask in order to make a better decision on dropping the products?

Requirements: Each reply should be 160 words, include 1 direct question and add to the discussion.

STUDENT 1: Wendy

Hello Class,

This week we are discussing product costing and whether or not products should be dropped if it is determined that they are unprofitable. After studying the textbook chapters and doing a bit of research this week, I would advise Bob and Tom to be very cautious before making the decision to drop any of the company’s products. According to Horngren, Datar and Rajan, “product under costing and over costing causes managers to focus on the wrong products” (2014, p. 152). Depending on the company’s costing process, the profitability report that Bob created for Tom may be very misleading because the “unprofitable” products may actually be over costed causing the low profits. At the same time, under costed products may look highly profitable when, in fact, they are not.

If the company is using a simple costing system, where all indirect costs are pooled together, they may be experiencing product-cost cross-subsidization. This occurs when cost is broadly averaged across several products without taking into consideration the differing level of required resources for individual products. Essentially, the profitable products are subsidizing the unprofitable ones. Activity based costing (ABC) is a technique used to avoid this over/under costing of products by creating several homogeneous activity-cost pools and activity-cost rates. While ABC is more complex and costly than simple costing, it gives managers a much more accurate picture of specific product costs and helps them make better decisions about product mix and product pricing. In addition to helping solve the over-under costing problem, Tsai and Jhong explain that using activity based costing can also “help companies to effectively control costs and increase productivity” (2019).

If Bob and Tom decide to drop the products that look “unprofitable” according to their current costing system, they may be dropping the very products that are keeping the company afloat. Before taking such drastic action, I would advise that they establish a more refined ABC system and reevaluate each product’s cost. If under the new costing system, they find that some products are indeed unprofitable, then I would have much more confidence dropping those products. However, I suspect that the “unprofitable” products don’t turn out to be so.

– Wendy

References

Horngren, C. T., Datar, S. M., Rajan, M. V. (2014). Cost Accounting. [VitalSource Bookshelf]. Retrieved from https://bookshelf.vitalsource.com/#/books/97813234…

Tsai, W., & Jhong, S. (2019). Production decision model with carbon tax for the knitted footwear industry under activity-based costing. Journal of Cleaner Production, 207, 1150–1162. Retrieved from https://www-sciencedirect-com.ezproxy2.apus.edu/science/article/pii/S0959652618328245

STUDENT 2:Amanda

Good afternoon everyone,

In my opinion, Tom should not just agree with the approach of dropping the products that are not profitable. There are things that should be considered first. For starters though, a product’s profitability is its sales price minus its cost. An important question that should be asked is why are these particular products not profitable? Are there ways to cut costs without decreasing quality? Is the selling price where it should be? Tom should look in to ways that could make these products profitable. One of the things Jesse Ness talks about in his article is that there are three groups that products can be divided in to: low margin, medium margin, and high margin (2018). One of the points that Ness makes is that there should be a balance of each category for the products being sold.

Another question to ask is how these products are being marketed. Is the marketing helping or hindering the sale of these products? Are they being marketed at all? Are they located conveniently in the store? A good marketing plan can be really helpful in increasing sales, but it is also an extra cost so it is a decision that should be really thought out considering these products are not currently profitable.

In this situation, I think that it would be a good idea for Tom to use the five-step decision making process. He has already identified the problem as certain products not currently profitable. Next, he should obtain information; I have mentioned above some of the information that would be good to obtain that would bring about options for Tom. Step three is to make predictions about the future. Based on the information gathered in step two, Tom and his team could make predictions about the options – to include dropping the products. How would each option benefit or hurt the company? Tom would then decide which of the options he would like to go with. Finally, Tom would need to implement the decision and then Bob can do another product profitability report to evaluate this change.

– Amanda

References

Ness, J. (2018). Why you should sell unprofitable products: profit margin in assortment planning. Retrieved June 19, 2019 from https://www.ecwid.com/blog/why-sell-unprofitable-p….