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BSA 500 All Assignments For more course
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Week 1 Individual Business Systems Table BSA 500
Week 2 Individual Business Processes BSA 500 Week
2 Team Business Study Paper, Part 1
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BSA 500 Entire Course (May 2020) For more
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500 Week 1 Discussion Business Types   BSA 500
Week 1 Assignment Aligning Solutions to Business
Needs   BSA 500 Week 2 Discussion Factors
Influencing Business
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BSA 500 Week 1 Assignment Aligning Solutions to
Business Needs For more course tutorials
visit www.newtonhelp.com     Calibri an online
clothing retailer with over 1,000 employees has
experienced rapid growth over the past 18 months.
This growth has strained its IT capacity, and
leadership suspects that some of its IT solutions
arent scalable and wont support the company
going forward.  
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BSA 500 Week 1 Discussion Business Types For
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Respond to the following in a minimum of 175
words    Consider 2 to 3 business systems that
you have seen, are interested in, or have been a
part of.   Review the Week 1 section in
the Course Notes, which lists common types of
businesses in the U.S. sole proprietorship,
partnership, limited partnership, limited
liability partnership, limited liability company,
corporation (Inc.), C-corporation, and
S-corporation.
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BSA 500 Week 1 Individual Business Systems Table
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m     BSA 500 Week 1 Individual Business Systems
Table Create a table in Excel or another tool
that compares and contrasts your search on the
Internet for examples of the types of
technologies currently used in the field or
industry that you work in or plan to pursue. For
example, if you are planning a career in
accounting or finance, you should become familiar
with financial systems such as Oracle Financials.

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BSA 500 Week 2 Assignment Business Process
Re-engineering For more course tutorials
visit www.newtonhelp.com     Note You will be
referring to this completed assignment later in
the Week 3 assignment.   For this assignment, you
are a business IT consultant. You have been
contracted by a nationwide taxi service called
Carz. The company is looking to modify its
service delivery to be more competitive. They
want you to examine the feasibility of adopting
elements of the Uber and Lyft delivery
services, and produce a business process
re-engineering plan.  
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BSA 500 Week 2 Discussion Factors Influencing
Business For more course tutorials
visit www.newtonhelp.com     Respond to the
following in a minimum of 175 words    Read the
Week 2 section in the Course Notes, which lists
various influences on business due to economic,
governmental, legal, and environmental factors.
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BSA 500 Week 2 Individual Business Processes
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m     BSA 500 Week 2 Individual Business
Processes Review the Business Process Model
Diagram for Taxi Service.  (Figure 2.2
in Business Driven Information Systems). Write a
1- to 2-page paper addressing the following
questions assuming this diagram needs to be
modified to represent an online transportation
model (such as Uber) What swim lanes need to be
added to the diagram?
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BSA 500 Week 2 Team Assignment Ethics in IT For
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Ethically questionable or unacceptable use of
information technology includes individuals who
hack into others systems and steal information,
organizations that collect and use information
without checking its validity or their right to
use it, and employees who destroy or steal
proprietary information.
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BSA 500 Week 2 Team Business Study Paper, Part 1
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m     BSA 500 Week 2 Team Business Study Paper,
Part 1 Select a publicly-traded information
technology company with available financial
information to use for the Team Assignments in
Weeks Two through Six. Suggested business types
include software product companies, IT related
professional services and consulting, and
technology solution providers.
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BSA 500 Week 3 Assignment Applying Business Data
and Intelligence Strategies to Business Systems
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m     Note This assignment builds on the
assignment you completed in Week 2.   For this
assignment, you are part of a data auditing team.
In anticipation of adapting their process to be
more like Uber/Lyft (and less like a traditional
taxi service), Carz has retained you to analyze
the data associated with the re-engineered
business process you submitted earlier.
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BSA 500 Week 3 Discussion Software Application
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m     Respond to the following in a minimum of
175 words    Many software applications are
moving from a download-and-own model to an online
subscription model. For the business consumer,
what are the advantages and disadvantages of this
new model? Is the model more suited to some types
of applications or uses compared to others? Why
or why not? 
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BSA 500 Week 3 Individual The Value of Data For
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BSA 500 Week 3 Individual The Value of
Data Write a 2- to 3-page paper that addresses
the following Provide an example of the type and
nature of business data (for your current
employer or projected industry career you want to
pursue) that fits each of the five common
characteristics of high-quality information (see
Ch. 6 of Business Driven Information Systems).
Types of data should be broken out into
functional areas (for example, client
demographics, sales data, historical data,
service provider data)
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BSA 500 Week 3 Team Business Study, Part 2 For
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BSA 500 Week 3 Team Business Study, Part
2 Create a 1-page table or chart, using the
company that your Team agreed on, that lists the
companys business systems and identifies those
that should be integrated with the companys
accounting system. Note The final version of
this draft will be included in the Business Study
Paper due in Week Six. Submit your assignment to
the Assignment Files tab.
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BSA 500 Week 4 Assignment Analyzing and Aligning
Financial Systems with IT For more course
tutorials visit www.newtonhelp.com     For this
assignment, you are a financial IT consultant
asked to analyze financial statements and, based
on the data they contain, recommend IT solutions
that align with the companys financial and
related data requirements.   To complete this
assignment Use the University Library to locate
a balance sheet and an income statement from a
publicly traded company of your choice, such as
Facebook, Shutterfly, or another company.
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BSA 500 Week 4 Discussion Choosing an Information
System For more course tutorials
visit www.newtonhelp.com     Respond to the
following in a minimum of 175 words    Its
extremely important for organizations to choose
information systems that support their
accounting, financial needs, and processes so
they can understand and use those systems and
train employees effectively.   In what ways can
irregularities in financial reporting
(intentional or unintentional) cause problems for
a business?
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BSA 500 Week 4 Individual Balance Sheet and
Income Statement Commentary, Part 3 For more
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500 Week 4 Individual Balance Sheet and Income
Statement Commentary, Part 3 Resources Course
Notes and the Internet Select one of the three
publicly traded companies you chose in Week 2.
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BSA 500 Week 4 Team Assignment Analyzing
Financial Documents For more course tutorials
visit www.newtonhelp.com     Read the Week 4
section in the Course Notes, which includes a
section on how to access and interpret financial
information for any publicly listed company of
your choice.   Imagine your team has been asked
to determine the financial health of a specific
company and present your findings to the
companys leadership.  
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BSA 500 Week 4 Team Business Study Paper, Part 3
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m     BSA 500 Week 4 Team Business Study Paper,
Part 3 Complete a 1-page summary of the teams
selected companys balance sheet and income
statement. Note This analysis will be included
in the Team Business Study Paper due in Week
Six. Submit your assignment to the Assignment
Files tab.
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BSA 500 Week 5 Assignment Exploring Enterprise
Solutions For more course tutorials
visit www.newtonhelp.com     For this assignment,
you are a systems consultant who has been
contracted by Entertainment2U a streaming media
company. In its infancy, Entertainment2U offered
clips of movie trailers along with discussion
boards curated by film critics and experts.
Visitors to the Entertainment2U site contributed
reviews and ratings used to construct
demographic-specific recommendations with payment
tiers.
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BSA 500 Week 5 Discussion SCM Software For more
course tutorials visit www.newtonhelp.com     Resp
ond to the following in a minimum of 175
words    SCM software allows companies to
integrate business systems for the acquisition of
raw goods all the way through to the manufacture
and distribution of products made with those raw
goods. What do you think the benefits of a
dedicated SCM solution, such as Halo or Logility,
are compared to solutions that integrate SCM with
other functions, such as SAP SCM?
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BSA 500 Week 5 Individual Calculate Key Financial
Ratios, Part 4 For more course tutorials
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Individual Calculate Key Financial Ratios, Part
4 Resource Any two of your selected
organizations, located in Ch. 17, Understanding
Accounting and Financial Information,
of Understanding Business. Calculate the current
and past five years financial ratios for the two
selected companies and compare them to another
company in the same industry.
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BSA 500 Week 5 Team Assignment Aligning
Enterprise Solutions with Business Needs For
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Enterprise information systems, sometimes
referred to as enterprise-wide information
systems, is a relatively broad category of
software applications designed to support
organizational goals that cross functional
boundaries. For example, CRM affects functions
ranging from marketing and customer acquisition
to sales, production, and accounts receivable, so
CRM, solutions fall into the enterprise
information system category.
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BSA 500 Week 5 Team Business Study Presentation
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m     BSA 500 Week 5 Team Business Study
Presentation Your team has been asked to prepare
a presentation for the executive leadership of
your selected company. Create a 6- to 8-slide
multimedia-rich presentation of the data you
gathered in the team assignments in Weeks Two
though Five. Include the following An
introduction slide The information prepared from
Weeks Two through Five
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BSA 500 Week 6 Assignment Applying Project and
Risk Management Strategies For more course
tutorials visit www.newtonhelp.com     For this
assignment, imagine that you are preparing to
interview for a job with a consulting firm that
specializes in IS project management.   You have
been asked to author a Frequently Asked Questions
(FAQ) list to bring to the interview. The purpose
of the FAQ is to demonstrate to the hiring
manager that you Understand key project
management concepts and strategies, including the
role project management plays in risk management
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BSA 500 Week 6 Discussion Project Management
Approaches For more course tutorials
visit www.newtonhelp.com     Respond to the
following in a minimum of 175 words    Two
popular project management approaches are The
waterfall approach Best suited for well-defined
projects with scope and details that arent
expected to change, such as a project to upgrade
existing hardware for all customers The agile
approach
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BSA 500 Week 6 Individual Project Management
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m     BSA 500 Week 6 Individual Project
Management Choose one of the following options
for your individual deliverable this week Option
1  Write a 2- to 3-page response to the following
situation Assume you are preparing for an
interview for a job with a consulting firm that
specializes in information systems project
management. One of the key questions you need to
prepare for is be prepare to explain why
managing a project plan is critical to a
projects success. In a Q A format please
address how project
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BSA 500 Week 6 Team Final Business Systems Paper
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m     BSA 500 Week 6 Team Final Business Systems
Paper Review the materials from the Team
assignments from Weeks Two through
Five. Consolidate and submit your completed work
from previous weeks and include a 1-page
executive summary of the organizations financial
state.
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