A Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge

The principal article used from Student Accountant was from the May 2004 issue, titled: “How to approach performance appraisal questions” by Steve Scott. Reports The major sources of data that I used in my research project were the Annual Reports of Indus Motor Company Limited and Honda Atlas Cars (Pakistan) Limited. I obtained two of the latest annual reports of Indus Motors for financial years ended 2006 and 2007 from the Karachi Stock Exchange (KSE). However, for Honda Atlas, I…

In comparing the results from 1998 to 2009, the patient satisfaction mean rating dropped from an 88 percent to 85 percent.1 Areas that contributed to the decrease include quick relief of symptoms, knowledge of previous treatment and time in the waiting room. While there were some negative ratings, there were many ratings that increased including helpfulness of staff, access to convenient appointments and easy/available phone contact.1 In addition to…

NIST Special Publication 800-37 Revision 1 Guide for Applying the Risk Management Framework to Federal Information Systems A Security Life Cycle Approach JOINT TASK FORCE TRANSFORMATION INITIATIVE INFORMATION SECURITY Computer Security Division Information Technology Laboratory National Institute of Standards and Technology Gaithersburg, MD 20899-8930 February 2010 U.S. Department of Commerce Gary Locke, Secretary National Institute of Standards and Technology Patrick…

core curricula; the assessment aimed toward instructors is beneficial to classroom management and design by allowing the instructor to evaluate where students are exceling, or struggling and develop multiple efficient ways to teach a lesson. Teachers must also remember that it’s their job to prepare their students to easily excel in any assessment type by providing them with basic background information and study guide materials. I plan to equip my students with these materials by designing my…

This was the case when I was asked by management to take over internal verification for an experienced assessor and IV, as the lead IV for customer service had been signed off on long term sick. This person has 10 years experience in this route. When I examined the files and assessment decisions…

This project was very helpful in gleaning further insight about myself and how my personality tendencies can affect others and my organization. While this was a lot of data to consider the salient points from my perspective are about cohesiveness. My organization and the military writ large are full of Type-A personalities. If we all act on our natural instincts we would just fight and be counterproductive. By allowing the Holy Spirit to guide you one can actually turn the weaknesses into…

interest of the stakeholders, it is very important every penny invested in the company is property taken care and has been optimally utilized towards fetching better returns in the organization. An unethical behavior and account manipulation by the management in order to allure the stakeholder is a crime and this should not be encouraged at any level of the organization. So whistle blowing as an activity may be used to curb the fraud…

that goes. Not able to travel with the team across the country and even overseas, but I’ll be using that time of improving on the court in every way possible. With watching film on our competition, gaining weight, gaining strength through my whole body, physically and…

non-linear journey, weaving the places I lived, the people I’ve met, the things I’ve learned and the experiences I created into the fabric of who I am. From a young age, I had an affinity for art; envisioning ideas, creating through my hands, executing projects, there wasn’t some form of the fine arts that I didn’t dabble in. It wasn’t until my senior year in high school that I interviewed for the BOCES Cultural Arts Center in Syosset, a program that fosters the arts at the collegiate level for…

that I wanted to genuinely help them was a great strength. They didn’t seem stressed at all during the session and made a great effort to take part in it. I feel that if I hadn’t taken the time to reassure them then they wouldn’t have taken much knowledge from the lesson at all. Being able to sit and explain, not rushing through things was a good strength as well. I explained that when I was learning different things that the teachers I had always rushed through things and I didn’t really learn…