Theory of Human Development

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What should be the goals of counseling?  How does the counseling process facilitate desired change in a person? What is the role of the counselor?2 FULL PARAGRAPHS PER QUESTION/HEADINGCITE IF USE OF REFERENCEAPA

creating a thesis and an outline on The Role of Accounting in Serving Public Interest Versus Self-interest.

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I need help creating a thesis and an outline on The Role of Accounting in Serving Public Interest Versus Self-interest. Prepare this assignment according to the guidelines found in the APA Style Guide. An abstract is required. The public interest is the collective well-being of people and the institutions they serve. Failure to fulfill this mandate can have very serious adverse consequences such as what happened to the Arthur Andersen auditing firm for being complicit in the Enron scandal. This paper examines the role of accounting in serving public interest versus self-interest when accountants and auditors are engaged for their services. I will state the answer to the above question is in the negative in relation to the financial crisis brought about by the bursting of the real estate asset price bubble and the issue of stock buybacks within the context of academic research. Real life as used in this paper refers to actual business and economic conditions. regulations pertain to all the government orders issued to control the conduct of business to protect the public interest.

The accounting profession adopted a code of ethics and professional conduct for its members to guide them in serving the public interest. The foundation principle of public interest is contained in this code of ethics and yet only 62% of accountants in a survey were able to identify correctly that a formal definition of public interest can be found in their code of ethics. The accountants cannot be faulted because accounting services are contracted in private during service engagements (Thomadakis, 2009:3). Contracts are usually done in private and it is easy to forget public interest during the discussions and focus on self-interest only (Cohen and Eimicke, 2008:160).

The dilemma that most accountants face often is a conflict of interest between public interest and their self-interest. In conflict-of-interest situations, the tendency is to side with private firms that had engaged their services. The International Federation of Accountants (IFAC) was formed to guide members in 164 countries how to conduct themselves to resolve issues involving professional ethics in diverse areas like public accounting and auditing. The chief ethical dilemma of most accountants is what constitutes timely and full disclosure (Duska and Duska, 2003:7).

Discuss investigation of elasticity.

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Compose a 2250 words assignment on investigation of elasticity. Needs to be plagiarism free! Elasticity is the property of a solid material that defines the ease with which it returns to its original shape and size after the force deforming it has been removed (Physics.info, 2015). The deformation may be in the form of stretching, compression, or bending. An object that is easy to deform is more elastic. that is, it returns, to its original shape with ease. A material is perfectly elastic if it satisfies the following conditions described by (Kazimi 2001, p. 17).

The deformation and recovery are instantaneous when loading and unloading.

There is no permanent set left after unloading, t. that the recovery is complete and immediate.

The load-deformation curve maintains the shape when loading or unloading.

&nbsp.A rubber band will stretch and snap back to almost its original length when released. It is, otherwise, not as elastic as a guitar wire. Guitar wires are harder to stretch, but in reality, they are more flexible and rubber bands due to the high precision of returning to the original size. The cables can handle several strokes without much stretching, which might result in a loss of tune.

&nbsp.&nbsp.&nbsp.&nbsp.&nbsp.&nbsp.&nbsp.&nbsp.&nbsp.&nbsp.&nbsp. The theory of elasticity is a branch of continuum Mechanics dealing with deformable solid bodies having the physical property called elasticity (Wan, 1982, p. iii).

&nbsp.&nbsp.&nbsp.&nbsp.&nbsp.&nbsp.&nbsp.&nbsp.&nbsp.&nbsp.&nbsp. The concept of elasticity can be explained by studying springs. According to Bethell and Coppock (1999, p. 7), springs are useful because they stretch evenly when subjected to stress). Springs are elastic bodies whose purpose is to disfigure when loaded and to recover their initial shape when the mass is removed (Khurmi & Gupta, 2005, p. 841). They are used in various applications, including watches to store energy, automobile suspensions to absorb energy, retractable ball-point pens, playground toys, and in balances and engine indicators to measure forces. Their utilization depends on their type, either a helical, leaf or conical, etcetera (Gubeljak, Vejborny, and Prodan, n.d.). Springs have predictable behaviour when a stretching or compression force is applied. They exert a restoring pressure that brings them back to their original size after stretching. This behaviour is defined by Hooke’s Law, which states that the extension on the spring varies directly with the application of force (Beer, Johnstone & Dewolf, 2004, p. 56).

hardware and software standardisation.

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Compose a 750 words assignment on hardware and software standardisation. Needs to be plagiarism free! From a recent survey done by Symantec involving 500 global companies, it was observed that nearly 50% of those companies “still struggle to manage complex infrastructure built on different hardware and software from different vendors”. (Courtney) Upgrading and troubleshooting can be much easier with a standardised set of hardware. Configuring and installing patch upgrades to software also becomes simpler, easing the burden on network administrators. In a heterogeneous environment (i.e. one with many different hardware and software platforms) different expertise will be required for configuration and administration, thus increasing the complexity of administration.

Cost reductions are possible due to bulk purchasing. Hardware can be purchased at discounts when buying in multiple units. Software licensing costs can be reduced by applying for volume licensing. Instead of getting per-seat licenses, companies can negotiate for flat licensing schemes which do not depend on the number of seats. (Schweitzer)

End user training becomes much simpler with a standard set of software. The support staff finds it easy to troubleshoot queries from end users resulting in minimum disruption for work. Moving within divisions and branches will be without the pain of learning a new set of applications every time an employee changes location.