Student life does not generally afford a great deal of free time to pursue your personal interests; however, at one point, you may have considered turning a personal interest or hobby into an official enterprise. Today, you have finally decided to turn that hobby into a business but have realized that you need start up capital from a lender or investor.

To obtain funding, you need to convince a lender / investor that your business is more than a hobby. You need to demonstrate that you have a firm grasp of your business, the accounting practices that impact your business, the controls needed to safeguard assets, and which accounting system will produce accurate and relevant financial information.

Write a six to eight (6 8) page business plan in which you:

1. Describe the type of business you have created including: 
   a. The product or service, and general staffing plan. Provide a rationale for your plan. 
   b. The form of your business and the benefits it offers your particular business,
   c. A chart of accounts specific to your business, including a rationale as to the selection of each account. (Note: The chart of accounts is a blueprint of your business for the lender/investor. It should report the expected resources that you will consume in your business (assets), the sources of those resources (liabilities and equity), the sources of revenue, and expenditures that you expect to incur to earn those revenues. You may build a detailed chart that includes business units, divisions, product lines, etc.)
2. Based on the form of your business, analyze whether or not you will be required to use Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP) or International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) accounting methods and how the IFRS / GAAP convergence will impact your business. Suggest how you will incorporate any changes into your books and records. (Note: You need to demonstrate to the lender/investor that you have recognized possible changes to GAAP that may impact the accounting and reporting of your accounting events.)
3. Prepare a pro forma balance sheet and income statement providing the assumptions made and support the valuations assigned. 
4. Considering the value of assets (assigned per your balance sheet) used within your business, recommend two (2) specific internal controls that you will implement to protect your company’s assets and resources, justifying how each will provide assurances to management. (NOTE:  Safeguarding assets and protecting personal data are paramount to ensuring the viability of a business.  Demonstrate to the lender/investor that your assets will be safeguarded and customer information (if applicable) will be protected.)
5. Based on the internal control recommendations that you made, suggest how you will implement each within your business environment, indicating how challenges or resistances will be overcome.  
6. Evaluate the impact of the regulatory environment, including the Sarbanes Oxley Act and other regulatory requirements, on your business venture, giving considering to how you intend to comply with the requirements and the general impact to decision making within your business.
7. Use at least four (4) quality academic resources in this assignment. Note: Wikipedia and other Websites do not quality as academic resources.  

Task Name:	Phase 3 Individual Project
Deliverable Length:	1,000–1,500 words
Details:	Weekly tasks or assignments (Individual or Group Projects) will be due by Monday and late submissions will be assigned a late penalty in accordance with the late penalty policy found in the syllabus. NOTE: All submission posting times are based on midnight Central Time. Complete your reading of chapters 21–31 in To Kill a Mockingbird.  To begin preparing you for the next step toward your key assignment, write a thought piece answering the following questions: Summarize the main messages of the book as you see them, and discuss the message Harper Lee wanted readers to take away from it. Speculate about her motivations for writing this particular book. What in her life experience might have been the catalyst for this story? What is the climax of the story? In the final section of the novel, which you just read, two seemingly separate threads of the plot come back together: the trial of Tom Robinson and the mystery of Boo Radley. How do the final events bring these two stories together and exemplify the title of the book? Make a chart of the characters in the town, List those that represent justice, reason, empathy, tolerance, and good (topped by Atticus Finch), those that represent evil and prejudice (topped by Bob Ewell), and those who fall into the ambiguous category. Discuss the meaning of the title phrase “it’s a sin to kill a mockingbird.” Who are the mockingbirds in the book? What do you take this to mean for your life? Discuss the symbols and motifs Lee uses as metaphors and powerful images throughout the book.  Hint: Examples would be the mad dog incident, or the items Boo Radley leaves for the children in the tree. Articulate the life lessons that Scout gets through the events in the book. What is the role of her father, Atticus Finch, as the moral center of the book?  Many readers testify that this book made a real difference in their lives. How did it affect you, and what will you take away with you as a result of reading it? Comment on literature’s ability to mirror life and provide lessons and self knowledge. What is happening in today’s world that this book still speaks to?

If the perimeter of the rectangle is 72in find its area.

Impacts of a borderless society

We live in a world where geographic boundaries cease to exist when it comes to goods, services, and even food. We think nothing of having freshly squeezed orange juice or kiwis for breakfast, even if we live in New York City with 10 inches of snow on the ground in the middle of January. We live in an age where everything and anything is available for consumption year round at your local grocery store. Convenience comes with potentially major ecological and economic impacts that are both positive and negative. For example, the coffee you drink may come from beans imported from Columbia, the sugar you use may come from India, or the steaks you sear on the grill may have come from Argentina. How much fuel was spent transporting these products across the ocean? Were any pesticides used? If so, was it done in a sustainable fashion? Were forests cleared to make room for grazing herds or larger agricultural fields? These are just a few of the many questions we should be asking ourselves when we make our selections at the grocery store

Explore the following resources in the Kaplan Library, along with the link from the United States Department of Agriculture, to learn more about the foods we rely on and the variety of ways in which we can acquire them.

Roosevelt, M. (2006). The Lure of the 100 Mile Diet. Time, 167(24), 78.

Cosier, S. (2007). The 100 Mile Diet. E: The Environmental Magazine, 18(5), 42.

Cooper, C. (2007). 100 miles and counting. Food In Canada, 67(3), 7.

Macpherson, C. (2007). You are where you eat. Ascent Magazine, (33), 46.

Source: United States Department of Agriculture. (2012). The people’s garden. Retrieved from http://www.usda.gov/wps/portal/ usda/usdahome?navid=PEOPLES_GARDEN

For this assignment, you will write an essay in which you analyze a meal provided to you by your instructor in the weekly announcement. Address the following questions as you write your assignment.

This essay should be a minimum of 1,000 words in APA style format. Provide appropriate citations and references for any information you use in this paper. Your paper should include a minimum of five sources. These can include those provided within the project directions and the course materials. Be sure to avoid copying and pasting large sections of text from any given source. For help with citations, refer to the APA Quick Reference.

The last paper you wrote needs t be revised per the instructor.  Comments stated you present the information you found well.  You do, however, need to strengthen your conclusion.  Bring back some of the ideas from your introduction, remind us how important having a budget is.  I have attached the original letter to this for these revisions to be made.  Thank you for all of your help.