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Introduction Form 10-K is an annual report sent to the Securities and Exchange Commission within a specific period after the end of the financial period year, disclosing information about material facts relating to the company. The preparation of a report on Form 10-K usually requires the joint efforts of the managers of the firm, its lawyers, and auditors. Public companies must submit financial statements and other disclosures to the SEC on a quarterly basis. The company’s reports for the first, second, and third quarters of a financial year are called reports in the 10-Q form, and the annual report is called reports in the 10-K form. The Management Discussion and Analysis (MD&A) is an essential part of the annual Form 10-K due to it addressing a number of critical points regarding a company’s management issues. The given section must include information on executives analyzing the overall performance of the company by including key reports on risk, compliance, and future projects and goals. Overview Reports on forms 10-Q and 10-K include the financial statements of the company, as well as additional information that goes far beyond the scope of the financial statements. If the prompt presentation of financial statements does not cause difficulties for companies, the disclosure of additional information takes considerable time. Paragraphs are general SEC requirements that apply to all public companies. Companies in certain industries, such as the insurance and banking sectors, should disclose significantly more additional information in the notes to the financial statements. Information on certain types of activities is also disclosed, for example, the granting of stock options, business combinations, pension plans, and the use of variable participation enterprises (United States Security and Exchange Commission, n.d.). In addition to the points already noted, Form 10-Q should disclose the unregistered sale of equity securities and the use of proceeds from this sa
Introduction This paper will present a detailed sectoral analysis, which focuses on the luxury wine industry in the US. Russian River Ranches Chardonnay is the luxury wine brand that will be analyzed. The brand is manufactured and distributed by Sonoma-Cutrer in the US. Russian River Ranches is a luxury brand because it is made of high quality grapes and advanced brewing technologies (Sonoma-Cutrer 2014). As a premium product, Russian River Ranches is sold in luxury restaurants and hotels in the US. In addition, it was the second most expensive among the top 20 luxury wine brands in the US in 2013 (Sonoma-Cutrer 2014). Porter’s five forces model will be used to analyze the competitiveness of Russian River Ranches in its industry. Other elements of the brand that will be analyzed include price aesthetics, product, communications, and branding. Porter’s Five Forces Analysis Suppliers’ Bargaining Power The luxury wine industry has several suppliers, which include manufacturers of packaging materials, producers of labeling materials, producers of grapes, and shipping companies.
Muslim and British impacts on religious life in a modernizing India The British rule and the spread of Islam in India had several effects on the religious beliefs and cultural development of the country. Before the incoming of foreigners, the Indian society was characterized by complex systems of beliefs whereby people believed in the spiritual qualities of nature. The majority held the view that spirits controlled natural calamities, including diseases and earthquakes, but this view was changed with the advent of the modern world religions, including Islam and Christianity. Hinduism has always been the major religion in India and it is believed that it existed in prehistoric times. The British rule made Christianity one of the major religions in the country by building several churches and worshiping places. Christianity was able to spread faster than expected because of the activities of missionaries who offered goodies and social services to believers. For instance, the colonial administration offered missionaries adequate human and capital resources, which were utilized effectively in putting up social amenities, such as hospitals, schools, and social halls. It was mandatory that an individual would only receive services from these government-funded programs if he or she were a Christian. After the introduction of Christianity as one of the major religions in the country, the colonial government borrowed a number of laws from the bible, with the traditional beliefs being criticized. Consequently, women were given an opportunity to express themselves in society since they could enroll in some of the powerful courses in the institutions of higher learning. With time, the government made it mandatory for each person seeking employment to identify his or her religion. Islam had several impacts as well because it led to the split of the country into Hindu India and Islam Pakistan. Religious and political identities in the two villages in Khushwant’s “Train to Pakistan” and Raja’s Kanthapura novels In his analysis of the religious influences in India, Raja Rao presents the nature of life in one of the villages he refers to as Kanthapura, which is found in Kara province. He notes that the village is fertile because coffee, rice, and sugar are grown there. Additionally, the village is a business hub for major products and services since he describes it as a very busy center. Religiously, the village worships several traditional gods implying that Hindu is not the only dominant religion. Kenchamma is the goddess of the village meaning she controls every aspect of life. Moreover, she is believed to have killed a demon several years ago. The devil had a tendency of taking away young men for sacrificial purposes while women were kidnapped to serve as wives. Whenever any form of the disease affects a member of the village, the goddess is always requested to intervene signifying that traditional healing is still relied upon even in modern society. The goddess is both a spiritual and temporal leader hence anyone seeking a political office must have her blessings. The goddess has never let do
Infertility is one of the most common problems these days, and it means that a person does not have a chance to get pregnant for several health issues. Many couples in the United States may face this problem, and the causes can vary from congenital diseases to acquired physical or psychological trauma. This body condition does not always affect only females but also males can suffer from this issue. Genetics has a strong influence on infertility, and it may be connected to people of all ages and nationalities. Around 18% of women in the United States between the age of 21 and 52 stated that they had faced infertility in their lives (Mancuso et al., 2020). I believe that environment plays a significant role in this issue. People should be more cautious about their health to predict health problems that may cause the inability to become pregnant or impregnate a partner. The causes of infertility are diverse and might not be seen by non-professionals. For instance, age plays a significant role as the older males and females are, the more chances of receiving infertility. Moreover, hormones play an important role in pregnancy, and when any type of disbalance appears in the human body, problems with pregnancy might arise. Obesity or anorexia can also indicate infertility as the human body spends crucial resources on other areas to support life without giving a chance for women to become pregnant. Some physiological problems like anomalies of the uterus or ovaries may also become the main cause of the issue. The percentage of male infertility is not high compared to the opposite gender. Nevertheless, 7% of men suffer from this problem, and the causes of these cases are different (Krausz et al., 2022). Around 20% of those males who cannot impregnate their couples are suffering from genetic factors that were transferred throughout generations. When males check their health conditions and diagnose infertility at early stages, they have a chance to overcome this problem and protect the ability to procreate. Low sperm production may also happen due to psychological factors like depression or any type of disorder. The percentage of females suffering from infertility is higher, and it is usually related to diseases that cannot be treated. When women become diagnosed with several health issues which do not allow t
Introduction Sickness is associated with a certain disease or an infection that may cause one to be unhealthy. However, sickness leads to various consequences, some fatal and others minor. At times, sickness interferes with our day-to-day activities, in that we cannot operate effectively compared to when we are well. Physicians also advise patients to take some time off and rest in order to regain their healthfully as a way of being productive once again. Cancer is an illness that has an increased chance of being fatal compared to malaria or typhoid. Therefore, these patients have different types of medication and care. In addition, sickness may result in patients being exempted from some duties. Sometimes, sickness is viewed as undesirable in society, and the patients have to work towards getting better for the sake of their family and themselves. According to McQueen (2011), when individuals fall ill, some of them seek medical help while others prefer self-help strategies like taking painkillers. However, a small percentage of individuals are likely to ignore the symptoms. Hence, sickness is associated with a certain behavior from the affected individuals; however, these behaviors vary with age and gender. Indeed, women access medical services regularly compared to men. Normally, sickness is influenced by culture to the extent that some cultures disregard medical services and prefer their own beliefs, and thus discouraging their members to visit hospitals. Sick Role Memoir McQueen (2011) describes the concept of the sick role as one of Talcott Person’s works, such that he was concerned with understanding how the sick individuals relate to society and what their role is in the social system. Some time back, I suffered from cholera, which is a disease caused by an infection in the small intestines caused by the Vibrio cholera bacteria. Some of the symptoms that were evident in my case were diarrhea, dehydration, and vomiting, thirst, and muscle cramps. I also lost appetite for almost every food since my stomach would hold nothing at all. At first, I had ignored the symptoms and opted for some painkillers. However, when the symptoms became severe, my parents sought medical help and I was put under hydration to prevent the symptoms from increasing. Sincerely, I had a problem embracing my sickly situation as I felt like I was being denied my normal life. Just as parson’s theory of sick role, whereby a patient is excused from his normal tasks and roles, the doctors advised that bed rest for a couple of weeks was the best, as I took medication, towards gaining my health back. Parson’s theory further indicates that a patient is not held responsible for his illness and he/she requires assistance to get better. This proved to be partially right, as I would have not gotten better without the help of physicians, however, a little bit of my effort and determination hastened my recovery. Thirdly, the theory states that being sick is regarded as an undesirable state by some people; for instance, during my period of sickness, I realized that it was hard being around
BITTCORE.com is an IT product and services provider that has opened another office in the region of Scotland. I have held the position of head of the IT department in the company’s London office for twelve years. The company’s board of directors has promoted me to the regional director position with the head office in Scotland. The vacancy at the London office needs to be filled. The Human resources manager has asked me to prepare a job description, recruitment plan, selection strategy, performance evaluation, testing, and interviewing, and remuneration for the vacancy at the London office (Carmeli & Schaubroeck, 2005). The information technology sector remains competitive. The candidates for this position are required to match the demand and the dynamic nature of the job. This is in line with keeping the mission and vision at BITTCORE.com is to transform business processes through innovative solutions. This exercise is necessary because the expansion was taking place at BITTCORE.com in line with the five-year strategic plan. Generally, the board and the top-level management are in agreement that one area to focus on to drive the company’s profits will be human resources planning. This planning broadly covers aspects like employee recruitment and retention, selection procedures, staff appraisal, among other activities (Dessler, 2011). It is necessary to understand that this exercise will continue concurrently with the expansion process, and the cost of the exercise has been budgeted for to ensure that the process is competitive and the best staff is employed at BITTCORE.com. Job analysis If an organization has to survive, organizational functions like recruitment of staff must be justified. Generally, a job analysis process will help the company to justify the need to carry out a function like staff recruitment (Dubois, 1993). It is inevitable that the board of directors at BITTCORE.com has justified the recruitment process requiring the human resources manager to produce a resource plan. A job analysis will be carried out on the resources plan. This plan identifies the positions and roles of both the individual and the department. A resources plan as part of the job analysis process at BITTCORE.com can identify arising issues related to factors like the growth of the job holder, the value of the job, the effect of the job function, and the changes that have resulted in the need for the job function. It suffices at this point to draw a job analysis highlighting the competencies for the IT department manager. Perhaps to save on cost, it will be necessary to carry out this process and include an analysis of the staff required at the new office in Scotland. Therefore, a careful analysis of each position will identify the various competencies necessary for each task (McShane & Von Glinow, 2009; Robbins & Judge, 2011). This can be suitably documented using a table to highlight the job-specific, management, and corporate competencies. Job-specific competencies are those required to perform the given job effectively. Focusing on the IT department ma
Deductive reasoning involves the construction and development of cause-and-effect solid relationships. It is noteworthy that the connection is established either between two facts or a point and the idea of how it will affect the future (Besnard & Hunter, 2018). Thus, a judgment (logical expression) includes the first – the prerequisites, the second – the conclusion. In logic, an argument is valid only when it has a form that makes it impossible for the premises to be correct and the judgment to be wrong. According to the explained three types of deductive arguments, a valid statement does not need to have actually trustworthy premises. Still, it must have ones that, if they were accurate, would guarantee that the conclusion is proper. Example:  1. All metals are heavy  2. Tin is a metal  3. Tin is heavy A sound argument must have both a valid form and true premises. Valid arguments can be unsound, but they will have wrong assumptions. Example:  1. All dogs are cats  2. All mice are dogs  3. All mice are cats What makes this a valid statement is not that it has trustworthy premises and a proper conclusion but the logical necessity of the judgment, given the two assumptions. The argument would be just as valid if the premises and conclusion were wrong. However, it is essential to determine that the purpose of argumentation is to establish the truth of a judgment. An invalid argument does not achieve this goal, so it cannot be considered sound (Besnard & Hunter, 2018). A sound argument has a valid form and true premises; thus, it cannot be invalid in all cases. If the argument is invalid, then the beliefs thoroughly do not matter, and, in fact, only the conclusion remains. Therefore, this means that there is no argument in this case, especially a sound one. Reference Besnard, P., & Hunter, A. (2018). A review of argumentation based on deductive arguments. Handbook of Formal Argumentation , 1 , 436-484.
Introduction Economy is a rather complicated network of processes and human activities directed at increasing and preserving the social wellbeing and prosperity. Economy consists of various processes and phenomena that determine the development of the human society and include such notions as currency, inflation, employment, unemployment, Gross Domestic Product (GDP), and business cycle. The development of economy in the business cycle determines its current state and future potential for improvements. Therefore, this paper aims at defining the place of the United States economy in the business cycle at the current stage of its development, finding out the role of GDP growth rates, unemployment, and inflation rates in this place, and considering the implications of all the above factors for the monopolistically competitive firms. Basic Definitions Business Cycle Beginning the discussion of the today of the US economy, it is necessary to define basic terms to be used further. Thus, business cycle is the widest notion used in the paper, and according to MBA (2007), it is the process of fluctuations in economic growth that encompasses of “expansion of above average growth, a peak, a contraction of below average growth, and a trough, or low point” (MBA, 2007). Therefore, the business cycle is the natural process of rises and falls of economic activities conditioned by various internal and external factors, including politics, economic trends inside the country and abroad, etc. The graphic representation of the business cycle can be viewed in the following graph (Graph 1): Graph 1. The business cycle Monopolistically Competitive Firms Competition is the notion used to describe the relations between various market players in a market segment, the balance between the quality and prices for their goods or services, etc. However, Amos (2009) defines monopolistic competition as the state when numerous small firms operate the market with none of them being able to control the dominant market share. Four major factors, according to Amos (2009) characterize monopolistic competition; they include large number of small firms, relative similarity of their products, relative mobility of their resources, and extensive knowledge the buyers have on the firms constituting the monopolistic competition in the market. Thus, a monopolistically competitive firm is one of the many small firms operating in the monopolistic market. Economic Data GDP Growth for the recent 6 months THe current economic situation allows speaking of the monopolistic market in the USA, but the recent economic issues observed around the world demand closer consideration in this respect. Thus, GDP growth levels constitute the major factor to monitor the economic dynamics for a period. Thus, over the first quarter of 2009, the real GDP decreased by 6.4%, while the second quarter saw only 1.0% of decrease. In figures, the GDP for the first quarter of 2009 amounted to $14,178.0 billion, while the second quarter witnes
Introduction As it seems, the environment is constantly changing, and the world nations need more than a miracle in order to reverse the damages they themselves have caused. The atmospheric temperature of the world has constantly increased, and there are no signs of the reversal of this situation. This, in turn, has caused some devastating occurrences that make headlines all around the world. These changes, including floods, cyclones, depletion of the North and South Pole, and the daily expansion of the existing deserts, mark the beginning of what seems to be the end of the world. In other words, the environment’s degradation is the biggest cause of the loss of human life in this generation. However, there are a number of actions that we can take to halt, and eventually reverse the current situation. My Wish If I were given a magic wand that would grant me one wish, I would wish that the ozone layer would remain intact and retain its initial state before the depletion began. Industries will constantly emit Greenhouse gases, thus, as outrageous as it may sound, if there would be a magical replacement of the ozone layer every time it gets depleted, the earth’s internal balance will remain intact. The ozone layer assists in blocking the dangerous ultraviolet emissions from reaching the earth’s surface. One can only imagine the extent of the damage caused to the human body if these rays penetrate the human skin. Most projections show that such an occurrence would cause the emergence of cancerous infections, therefore, the ozone layer is a necessity for our survival. Over the past few decades, industrial emissions have depleted the ozone layer, causing some of the harmful effects that are currently being experienced. Greenhouse gases such as water vapor, carbon dioxide (CO 2 ), methane (CH 4 ), and Ozone (O 3 ) are the leading cause of environmental change. Home appliances contain ozone-depleting compounds such as chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs), and CFCs contain bromine and chlorine, and which accelerates the rate of depletion of the ozone layer. They are usually present in refrigeration systems and fire extinguishers, which are frequently used. Secondly, the ozone layer regulates the earth’s temperature. When heat rays penetrate through it, some of the rays that hit the earth’s surface do not undergo absorption, but rather undergo reflection back into the atmosphere. Over the last 20 years, the amount of industrial emissions has increased by an average of 1.99ppm annually, creating of a greenhouse effect all over the world. This has led to a large rise in global temperature all over the world, the effects of this phenomenon include the melting of the sea ice in the Arctic and Antarctic regions. Melting of ice in the Polar Regions has led to a rise in the sea level from 7 to 23 inches has continually caused massive flooding along many coastal strips around the world. Hurricanes, cyclones and storms are becoming stro
Introduction One can wonder why such inhumanity could ever happen on the face of the earth, more especially in the circumstances when a man rises against fellow man in the name of racial discrimination and boundaries 1 . Hatred can indeed lead to the death of millions within a very short time, one group of people feeling superior to another thus thinking of exterminating the less superior group, but first, what is this that makes people associated with some ideologies and backgrounds feel “more human” than others? What is this that makes one feel more important than another? Which criterion is used to gauge superiority? Who chooses where he or she is to be born? These and many more questions seek answers that no one will adequately and convincingly. Thesis “The holocaust to this day is considered one of the twentieth century worst atrocities to have ever occurred in human history, propagated by anti-Semitism ideologies, fear and also racism, hatred towards a minority group, the Jewish”. The targeted group Adolf Hitler, the mastermind behind the holocaust with his anti-Semitism ideologies, together