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August 29th, 2017 Uncategorized Comments Off on Financial Statements

Financial Statements

Financial Statements

Purpose of Assignment 

This activity helps students recognize the significant role accounting plays in providing financial information to management for decision making through the evaluation of financial statements. This experiential assignment requires students to use ratios to evaluate and analyze a company’s liquidity, solvency, and profitability.

Assignment Steps 

Resources: Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP), U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), resources: Company Directories and Financials 

Tutorial help on Excel® and Word functions can be found on the Microsoft® Office website. There are also additional tutorials via the web offering support for Office products. 

Select a publicly traded, U.S. corporation with which you are familiar or one where you currently work or have worked in the past.

Research the company on the Internet and download the Income Statement, Statement of Shareholders’ Equity, Balance Sheet, and Statement of Cash Flows.

Develop a minimum 800-word examination of the financial statements and include the following:

• Determine the net income for the current fiscal year (FY). Is this income up or down from the prior year? 

• Explain the relevance of changes in net income to investors.

• Determine the ending balance in shareholders’ equity. Why would organizations such as labor unions be interested in this?

• Determine the total value of assets. 

• Discuss the relevance of the total value of assets to potential creditors and why this is important.

• Compute the return on assets. Discuss the relative profitability of the company based on your results.

• Compute the working capital and current ratio. Evaluate the relative liquidity of the company based on your results.

• Compute the debt to assets ratio and the free cash flow for your company. Analyze the results and comment on the relative solvency of the company.

• Discuss how the financial statements are used in your current role or a position you would like to hold. How might these aid you in managerial decision making?

Show your work in Microsoft® Word or Excel®. 

Complete calculations/computations using Microsoft® Word or Excel®.   

Include the four financial statements along with your assignment.

Format your assignment consistent with APA guidelines. 

August 29th, 2017 Uncategorized Comments Off on PA582: Public Policy Formulation and Implem. Grad. course-FINAL EXAM

PA582: Public Policy Formulation and Implem. Grad. course-FINAL EXAM

TCO A) A hospital can be owned and operated either publicly (by a government) or privately (by either a for-profit entity or a not-for-profit entity). Administering the hospital may be quite different depending on whether it is publicly owned or privately owned. Please explain ways in which the hospital may respond differently to “The Market” (that is, market forces) if it is publicly held as compared to privately held.

 

(TCO B) Stabilization should be one of the goals of an effective public policy. Explain at least three of the actions that the federal government can take in times of economic crisis to try to achieve stabilization.

 

(TCO C) Statutes enacted by legislatures, whether the Congress of the United States or at a state level, often are vague. Hence, the policy mandates given to public administrators via the legislation are vague. This also shifts much of the policy making to public administrators. Explain the advantages to the public of the public administrators, rather than the elected representatives, making policy via rules and regulations.

(TCO D) Explain why it is critical for the effectiveness of a public policy or program initiative to be measured. Please also define, or otherwise explain, the terms “policy outputs” and “policy outcomes.”

 

(TCO E) As a public administrator seeking funding to achieve policy objectives, one tool that you may be able to consider is the use of dedicated tax revenue. That action would require the authorization of the legislative branch and would need to be signed into law. Yet you could initiate the request that legislation (or an ordinance at a local level) be passed that provides that specific tax revenue would only be used for purposes of your program and/or department. Provide one specific example at the federal level of such a tax. Provide an example in general of such a tax at a local level. What is one advantage of having a dedicated source of revenue at the local level?

(TCO F) Define the term “public-private partnership.” Explain at least two of the challenges facing the public sector and how this structure may help to alleviate those challenges.

(TCO G) As a conservation measure, your state has recently passed a law lowering the maximum speed limit in the state to 55 miles per hour. As a public administrator in charge of the implementation, describe the steps that you feel should be taken so that the policy can be placed in effect in a cost-effective manner.

 

(TCO H) A problem with government, some might say, is that once an agency is established to implement a new public policy, that entity may continue to exist year-after-year without evaluation as to its continuing relevance. A “sunset provision” when an agency is created may help to overcome this potential issue. Please define or otherwise explain the term “sunset provision” in the context of the creation of an agency. Also, explain how such a provision may help the public.

August 29th, 2017 Uncategorized Comments Off on Physician’s Practice Mgmt Week 8 assignment

Physician’s Practice Mgmt Week 8 assignment

Assignment 2: Operations Planning for a Group Medical Practice Due Week 8 and worth 190 points Imagine that a group of physicians who are planning to open a single-specialty group practice has hired you as a consultant. Your job is to advise the physicians in creating a business plan that includes management strategies that will help ensure their success. The physicians have stipulated that the plan must promote medical excellence and limit their exposure to risks associated with the practice of medicine and the operational functions of the practice. In addition, they are aware that a public health emergency or natural disaster could have had a significant impact on their practice, and want to include a strategy for emergency preparedness as part of their plan so that they will be able to manage their patients and help serve the community as needed.  Write a four to six (4-6) page paper in which you: Compare and contrast the two (2) main levels (i.e., internal comparison and external comparison) of financial benchmarking. Next, analyze the strategic purpose of each level of benchmarking and specify the overall importance of benchmarking as a financial planning tool for a medical practice. Recommend a Health Information Technology (HIT) system that includes an Electronic Health Record (EHR) for the new practice to implement. Support your recommendation by determining three (3) main benefits of having this type of system for the practice.   According to the text (page 368), some of the main areas of risk exposure for a group practice include: property (general liability and safety), technology, and financial practices. Determine one (1) specific hazard associated with one (1) of these risk categories and propose a strategy to mitigate the impact this risk could have on the practice. Support your analysis with a real-life example. Determine the main functions of the practice that will need to remain operational before, during, and / or after a natural disaster or public health emergency. Next, suggest a strategy that the practice should take to maintain communication with employees and patients, secure patient and financial records, and ensure that resources will available to care for patients during a disaster or emergency. Provide a rationale for your response.

August 29th, 2017 Law Comments Off on Law Final Paper

Law Final Paper

Choose one of the topics attached.

The final version of your researched argument should be eight (8) to ten (10) pages in length, and should incorporate at least seven (7) sources.

In addition to fulfilling the specifics of the assignment, a successful paper must also meet the following criteria:

  • Viewpoint and purpose should be clearly established and sustained
  • Assignment should follow the conventions of Standard American English (correct grammar, punctuation, etc.)
  • Writing should be well ordered, logical, and unified, as well as original and insightful
  • Your work should display superior content, organization, style, and mechanics
  • Appropriate APA citation style should be followed.
  • You should also make sure to:
  • Include a title page with full name, class name, section number, and date
  • Include an introductory and concluding paragraph and demonstrate college-level communication through the composition of original materials in Standard American English
  • Use examples to support your Discussion
  • Cite all sources on a separate referen
  • ce page at the end of your paper and cited within the body of your paper using APA format

Your annotated bibliography should contain no fewer than seven (7) sources

August 29th, 2017 Uncategorized Comments Off on Critique of Argument

Critique of Argument

The purpose of the critique of argument is to convince the reader that the article is or is not successful as an argument by examining the criteria for good argumentation, which can be reduced to logos, ethos, and pathos. The writer of a critique may show that the article uses evidence, logical discourse, audience awareness, and emotion in appropriate ways; or, the writer may convince the reader that the article is not a successful argument by showing that the evidence is faulty (through your own research), that the logic is fallacious, that the writer is biased or has a conflict of interest, and/or that the writer uses emotional appeals in manipulative or unbalanced ways. It is important to i ncorporate data, inferences, evidence and reasoning to support your position.

As you saw in the last unit, when writing a critique, it is often best to begin with the body paragraphs. Each body paragraph should be focused on one of the criteria for a good argument:

Organize the paragraph by “____ does/does not meet _____ criteria.” For instance, an article attributing the cause of childhood obesity to fast food restaurants might succeed in meeting one of the criteria (showing that the problem exists), but fail in meeting another of the criteria (showing that fast food is the logical cause of the problem).

Discuss HOW the writer succeeds/fails/has mixed results in this particular area, and then prove that your assessment is valid by referring to specific passages and analyzing why these passages mean what you say they mean. To use the same example, the writer might have succeeded in providing evidence by using statistics from the CDC and WHO to document the rise in rates of obesity in children, but used fallacious reasoning by failing to take into consideration other causes of childhood obesity (sedentary lifestyle, genetic, and metabolic factors).

Once you have gone through these steps for all of the criteria that indicate proper argumentation, construct a thesis that reflects your overall findings. “Article X is a success/a failure/only a limited success because it achieves/fails to achieve/only partly achieves its aim to _____.”

In addition to following these instructions,

  • Clearly establish the viewpoint and purpose of your critique
  • Follow the conventions of Standard American English (correct grammar, punctuation, etc.)
  • Make sure your writing is well ordered, logical, and unified, as well as original and insightful
  • Display superior content, organization, style, and mechanics in your paper
  • Use appropriate APA citation style
  • Include a title page with full name, class name, section number, and date
  • Include an introductory and concluding paragraph and demonstrate college-level communication through the composition of original materials in Standard American English
  • Use examples to support your Discussion
  • Cite the article you are critiquing as well as any other sources used on a separate reference page at the end of your paper and cited within the body of your paper using APA format
August 29th, 2017 Finance Comments Off on two-stock portfolio

two-stock portfolio

Of the $10,000 invested in a two-stock portfolio, 30 percent is invested in Stock A and 70 percent is invested in Stock B. If Stock A has a beta equal to 2.0 and the beta of the portfolio is 0.95, what is the beta of Stock B?

August 29th, 2017 Uncategorized Comments Off on Why would halfway house residents escape when they have only a few months or less left on their sentences

Why would halfway house residents escape when they have only a few months or less left on their sentences

Why would halfway house residents escape when they have only a few months or less left on their sentences

August 29th, 2017 Uncategorized Comments Off on Variance in labour productivity

Variance in labour productivity

12. What is the amount of variance that is attributed to the change in labour productivity?

 

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