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AJS/574: Finance And Budgeting In Justice And Security
A chief financial officer (CFO) is responsible for overall financial management in justice or security. The CFO oversees disbursements, accountability processes, and operational planning, budgeting, and analysis.
STEP 1: Imagine you are the CFO for criminal justice or a private security agency in your home state. You are tasked with developing and presenting an operating budget proposal to your agency director. Your starting point for the operating budget is the current year. You will then build an operating budget for the next year.
STEP 2: Select a state, local criminal justice, or security agency from your home state.
STEP 3: Research the most recent budget for that agency. Use the resource at the end of the assignment as an example of an operating budget and how to search for one online.
STEP 4 Write a 525- to 700-word budget proposal that contains operating expenses and revenue.
Include the following in your proposal:
Your total budget, including operating expenses and revenue. This can increase or decrease by 5 percent.
The total for your operating budget and special line items. If you include the special line items, they must equal the total of all your revenue sources, which is called a balanced budget. There should be no deficit or surplus budgeting.
Increase or decrease any expenditure or fund source you like. Any increase or decrease should be related to the issues you list in your summary.
Base your budget adjustments and issues on actual concerns your home state or local jurisdiction is experiencing.
STEP 5: Insert a table in the budget recommendation that includes columns for the current year (your starting point) and the next year (your recommendation). The table is not part of the summary word coun
STEP 6: Explain the issues that justify increases or decreases in the total budget.
STEP 7: Cite at least 2 outside references to support your assignment.
Step 8: Format your paper consistent with APA guidelines to include, at a minimum, the APA cover page, Introduction, level headers/titles for each required assignment discussion point, Conclusion, and Reference page.
Step 9: Run the paper through Safe Assign and ensure that Similarity Index is under 22%; double-check that all grammar and spelling are correct.
STEP 10: Submit your assignment.
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STEP 1: Imagine you are a capital budget analyst for the State Department of Corrections in Houston, Texas USA. You are helping develop the capital budget plan for the agency and are tasked with analyzing two options to deal with a growing prison population. You have two options to consider in dealing with this prison population issue.
Option 1
Construct 1,000 new prison beds in an additional wing at the state facility.
OR
Option 2
Contract with a private prison company to rent 1,000 prison beds.
STEP 2: Review the Capital Budget Cost Data resource, which describes both options.
STEP 3: Write a 525- to 700-word recommendation on which option you recommend, including in the capital budget, and explain why you recommend this option. Be sure to include the following-
Recommended Option 1 or Option 2 with the rationale behind your decision
Estimated Capital budget costs
Discuss the benefits and drawbacks of each option, including political considerations.
Identify short- and long-term cost considerations for both options.
Step 4: Format your paper consistent with APA guidelines to include, at a minimum, the APA cover page, Introduction, level headers/titles for each required assignment discussion point, Conclusion, and Reference page
APA. Law. 2 pages. #796. Sep 09, 2024
Practical assignment: Applying methods of machine learning
Practical assignment: Applying methods of machine learning
Task:
For this assignment, you will select a dataset and will apply methods of unsupervised and supervised learning. The goal of
the assignment is to develop students' skills to use machine learning algorithms and analyse the obtained results. The
deliverable is a report prepared by the student on the completion of the assignment.
To develop the assignment, the student must use the Orange tool.
Before starting to work on your assignment, you must find and choose a dataset on the web. Some of the well-known
repositories are the following:
When selecting the dataset, take into consideration the following aspects:
• select a dataset that is suitable for classification task;
• it is preferable to select a dataset that is already given in the format of .csv datafile;
• the dataset should be well-documented (there should be information about who created the set, when and what
the data source is);
• the dataset should be of reasonable size (at least 200 data objects);
• the dataset should be deeply annotated (there should be information about which features are stored and what
they mean);
• the number of features should be between 5-15;
• the dataset should be labelled;
• you should avoid datasets that contain a lot of Boolean types (true/false, 1/0, etc.) feature values. It is preferable
to use datasets with continuous and/or discrete (with more than 2 values) feature values;
• you should avoid datasets of unlabelled data (e.g. text corpora and raw images).
Part 1 – Pre-processing/Exploring the data
To complete this part of the assignment, you will need to take the following steps:1. Selecting and describing the dataset based on the information given in the repository/database where the dataset
was located.
2. If the dataset you have acquired from the repository is not in a format that is easy to work with (like a comma-
separated-values, or .csv, file), convert it into the needed format. Your dataset file should consist of an n×d table,
where d is the number of dimensions of the data and n is the number of data objects. Your columns should be
arranged in the following way: data object ID, the class label of the data object, and then the collected feature
values.
3. If the values of any feature are textual values (e.g. yes/no, positive/neutral/negative, etc.), they must be
transformed into numerical values.
4. If some data objects are missing values of features, it is necessary to find a way to obtain them by studying
additional sources of information.
5. Representing your training dataset visually and statistically:
a) you must create at least two 2- or 3-dimensional scatter plots illustrating the separability of classes in your
dataset based on different features; the student should avoid using the data object ID as a variable in the
scatterplot;
b) you must create at least 2 histograms showing the separation of classes for the features of interest;
c) you must show 2 distributions for the features of interest;
d) you must calculate statistics on your data (at least the central tendency and the dispersion of the feature values).
Include the following information in the report:
• description of the dataset (providing references to the sources of information used):
- title, source, author and/or owner of the dataset;
- description of the problem domain of the dataset;
- licensing regarding the dataset (if any);
- the way how the dataset was collected;
• description of the content of the dataset (providing references to the sources of information used):
- the number of data objects in the dataset;
- the number of classes in the dataset, the meaning of each class and the way of representing classes
(explanation of the labels assigned to classes); if the data set provides several possible data
classifications, then the report must clearly identify which classification is considered in the assignment;
- the number of data objects belonging to each class;
- the number and meaning of features in the dataset, as well as their value types and ranges (this
information should be presented in a table consisting of the feature representation, its meaning, value
type and range of values available in the dataset);
- a snippet of the structure of your datafile in which the columns of your datafile and class labels are
shown together with some data objects;
• conclusions coming from the analysis of scatter plots, histograms and distributions (from Step 5 in Part I) about the
separability of your classes (remember to include your graphs in the report). Try to answer the following questions:
- Whether classes in your dataset are balanced, or is one class (several classes) prevailing? It is determined
by how many data objects belong to each class.
- Does the visual representation of the data allow the structure of the data to be seen? It is a question of
whether data objects belonging to different classes ar
. Computer Science. 1 pages. #799. Sep 22, 2024
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This is due in a few hours, and is based off of the U.S.A laws
A financial specialist oversees fiscal management for the government or security agency. The financial specialist performs audits and maintains compliance.
STEP 1: Imagine being a financial specialist for Houston, Texas U.S.A. Your agency director has received an audit report discrepancy that identified the agency was using a mixture of cash basis and accrual accounting methods. Your director wants to implement only one method and has asked you to develop a recommendation.
STEP 2: Write a 525- to 700-word recommendation in which you:
Summarize each accounting method (cash basis, modified, and accrual accounting), including the advantages and disadvantages of each method.
Identify which accounting method you recommend the agency you selected from your home state or local criminal justice agency should implement—cash-basis, accrual, or modified accrual—and explain why you selected that method.
Identify at least two fiscal management strategies and explain how your chosen accounting method aligns with those fiscal management strategies.
STEP 3: Cite at least 2 outside references to support your assignment.
Step 4: Format your paper consistent with APA guidelines to include, at a minimum, the APA cover page, Introduction, level headers/titles for each required assignment discussion point, Conclusion, and Reference page.
APA. Law. 2 pages. #793. Sep 02, 2024
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***This assignment is due in a few hours and is based on U.S.A. laws and regulations****
Budget Request Proposal
A precinct commander instructs members of his or her command regarding the unit's fiscal management strategies, goals, and objectives.
STEP 1: Imagine you are a precinct commander, and your Police Chief requests your help in submitting a budget request for five additional patrol officers in response to rising crime rates. Budget analysts will challenge the Chief’s budget request, so your task is to develop the following to justify the request-
at least - 3 input measures,
at least - 3 output measures, and
at least - 3 outcome measures
STEP 2: Write a 525- to 700-word proposal of performance measures for funding the five officers that will support the budget request. Your measures must be a mix of input, output, and outcome measures and will help measure the success of adding the officers. Specific inputs should lead to specific outputs, resulting in desired outcomes.
For your proposal, be sure to:
Explain what input, output, and outcome measures are in general.
Include at least 3 examples of each measure (Input, Output, Outcome).
Describe each measure in detail as it applies to your request for the additional five officers.
Identify how each measure relates to and supports the budget request for the additional five officers.
STEP 3: Cite at least 2 outside references to support your assignment.
STEP 4: Format your assignment according to APA guidelines to include, at a minimum, the APA cover page, Introduction, level headers/titles for each required assignment discussion point, Conclusion, and Reference page.
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STEP 1: Imagine you are a capital budget analyst for the State Department of Corrections in Houston, Texas USA. You are helping develop the capital budget plan for the agency and are tasked with analyzing two options to deal with a growing prison population. You have two options to consider in dealing with this prison population issue.
Option 1
Construct 1,000 new prison beds in an additional wing at the state facility.
OR
Option 2
Contract with a private prison company to rent 1,000 prison beds.
STEP 2: Review the Capital Budget Cost Data resource, which describes both options.
STEP 3: Write a 525- to 700-word recommendation on which option you recommend, including in the capital budget, and explain why you recommend this option. Be sure to include the following-
Recommended Option 1 or Option 2 with the rationale behind your decision
Estimated Capital budget costs
Discuss the benefits and drawbacks of each option, including political considerations.
Identify short- and long-term cost considerations for both options.
Step 4: Format your paper consistent with APA guidelines to include, at a minimum, the APA cover page, Introduction, level headers/titles for each required assignment discussion point, Conclusion, and Reference page
APA. Law. 2 pages. #795. Sep 09, 2024
Non profit paper
The textbook, Politics of the Administrative Process, Chapter 1 Accountability and Politics explains governmental policies and the decisions which policymakers make to ensure that they are consistent and effective.
Before a policy can be created, a problem must exist that is called to the attention of the government. Illegal immigration, for example, has been going on for many years, but it was not until the 1990s that enough people considered it such a serious problem that it required increased government action. Another example is crime. American society tolerates a certain level of crime; however, when crime rises dramatically or is perceived to be rising dramatically, it becomes an issue for policymakers to address.
Consistent and effective policies at the federal level are critical to the success of government and nonprofit organizations. What factors determine a successful vs. ineffective public policy?
Instructions
Use this template to write a 3–4-page academic paper and include the following:
Provide a thorough background and history of your chosen policy.
This should include what underlying issue the policy was intended to address.
Who the major influencers were in creating the policy, and when it was officially adopted.
Title this section: Background and History.
In your opinion, was the policy a success or failure?
Why do you think this? Be sure to list at least one positive and one negative outcome of the policy.
Title this section: Outcomes.
Defend your position with three (3) professional resources and statistics.
Title this section: My Position.
Follow these formatting requirements:
This course requires the use of Strayer Writing Standards (SWS). The library is your home for SWS assistance, including citations and formatting. Please refer to the Library site for all support. Check with your professor for any additional instructions.
Use at least three current, quality academic or authoritative sources in this assignment.
Choose sources that are credible, relevant, and appropriate.
Cite each source listed on your source page at least one time within your assignment.
Note: Wikipedia and similar websites do not qualify as quality scholarly and/or authoritative sources.
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Financial analysts guide governments and security entities in decisions about the budgeting process. Imagine being a financial analyst for your home state or local (municipal or county) budget office. Do not use the federal government—it must be a state or local public sector agency only - do not use any private sector organizations.
STEP 1: Write a 175- to 350-word MEMORANDM to a new incoming group of legislators to describe the budget process. If you are unfamiliar with the MEMORANDUM template- please review this site: Sample Memorandum.
STEP 2: Include the following in your memo:
An opening statement indicating your position and the purpose of this memorandum
A description of the steps of the budget process, including when the fiscal year begins and ends
The timeline and key milestones of the budget process, from budget submission by agencies/departments to the final budget
A closing statement with any follow-up or contact information for the new legislators.
For those unfamiliar with the styling of business memorandums, you may visit this resource for a sample Memorandum.
***Please remember that this is not a formal paper but a Memorandum and must be drafted as such to comply with assignment instructions.
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***THIS IS BASED ON THE U.S.A. LAW AND POLICIES *** 2 SEPERATE ORDERS
In the simplest of terms, a strategic plan can be thought of as:
Where are we now?
Where are we going?
How will we get there?
The county/city manager has hired you for a special project where you have been tasked with developing a new 3-year strategic plan outline for a county/city in your state that you select.
Develop a 700- to 1,050-word strategic plan annotated outline that discusses the approach to the development, implementation, and assessment of a new 3-year strategic plan in the county/city of your choice.
Address the following in your outline:
List and discuss the key components that will guide your development of the new strategic plan.
Describe the process for analyzing the operational and tactical approaches in the plan.
Explain how you will garner organizational buy-in for the new strategic plan.
How will stakeholder feedback be integrated into the plan?
Include critical implementation and assessment strategies in your plan:
Key implementation strategies and supporting examples.
Strategic plan assessment strategies, including:
Empirical assessment strategies
Assessment timelines
Benchmarking
Evaluation of plan feedback to guide strategic plan adjustments
Cite at least 3 outside references to support your assignment.
Format your assignment according to APA guidelines.
***THIS IS BASED OFF OF THE U.S.A. LAW POLICIES***
Respond to the following in a minimum of 175 words:
Select a criminal justice/security organization and discuss how operational and tactical planning approaches were integrated into the strategic goals within the strategic plan.
Identify and discuss at least 2 strategic management systems that can be applied to criminal justice/security organizations to formulate and assess their organizational strategic plans.
Use APA guidelines to cite any outside reference sources used.