Response to the following:
Suppose the Atlanta Falcons purchased a new set of goal posts for $20,000 each. The Falcons expect the goal posts to have a useful life of five years and a salvage value of $1,000 each when they sell them to a local high school.
Required:
1. Compute the first years depreciation using the following methods:
a. Straight-line
b. Double-declining balance
2. Suppose the team depreciates the asset based on number of goals scored. The team anticipates goals to be 40 in the first year, 46 in the second year, 38 in the third, 50 in the fourth when they win the Super Bowl, and 45 in the fifth year. Compute their first year depreciation using the units-of-production method.
3. Which method do you think is the most representative of accurate depreciation of the goal posts?
Ethics and case study
Question 1. The primary goal of the psychological research is to trace the ways in which people have used science to try to control other people's minds. The research found out that the pursuit of control of the mind has brought about some horrific experiments thereby leaving behind many casualties (Kaku, 2015). Scientists have changed the behavior of law-abiding citizens and children.
Question 2. The ethical principles that apply to the current study of optogenics are based on behavioral genetics and how the mind is a powerful tool that can be manipulated by researchers to mislead the society. Policy implications of behavioral genetic basis are widespread in important realms of criminal justice, childbearing, education, and childrearing.
Case study:
Research question: why are patients below 35 years of age less responsive to calls regarding follow-up appointments and medication reminders?
The goal of the study will be to determine why patients under the age of 35 often do not care about honoring medical appointments and phone call reminders that relate to medical appointments. The study will also seek to determine why the patients below this age prefer using social media and text messages and rather not answer back missed calls (Carlson & Birkett, 2017). The study will then establish the reason for the patients below the age of 35 not caring so much about their health and medical follow ups.
The research will involve taking a representative sample of patients below the age of 35 years; a random sample of fifty patients from various hospitals. The selected patients can then be given questionnaires to answer the research questions before returning the forms at their pleasure. The study will ensure that the respondents give their opinions or fill the forms very independently without their views being influenced by anybody (Carlson & Birkett, 2017). The questions will involve seeking to know their attitudes towards medication and the reasons they care so little about honoring their medical appointments and follow-up calls from medical facilities. The research will be affected by ethical considerations in the sense that it would appear improper to ask certain questions to the respondents as far as societal code of conduct is concerned. This may limit the ability to get the exact personal opinions and views of the respondents (Carlson & Birkett, 2017). Cultural diversity will be applied in the research findings by appreciating that the manner in which people were brought up as well as the environment they live in will determine their response to medical appointments and health awareness.
References:
Carlson, N. R., & Birkett, M. A. (2017). Physiology of behavior.
Kaku, M. (2015). The future of the mind: The scientific quest to understand, enhance and empower the mind.
Moseley, M. (2010). Introduction to mind control: Into the mind. [Video file].