In this course project, you will be asked to design an operating budget for a healthcare organization. For a for-profit entity, you can find the financial statements and any additional information on one of the many sites where such information is available, such as Zacks Investment Research, Yahoo Finance, MarketWatch, etc. For example, search the site with HCA Holdings’ ticker symbol (“HCA”) and then look for the “Financial” tab or section when you come to the sites HCA Holdings page. For the not-for-profit entity, you can locate a local, regional, or national nonprofit, religious-based healthcare system, and download and review the financial statements.Your project will have the following components:

• Title page
• Executive Summary
• Assumptions
• Financial and operational analysis
• Benchmarks and comparative analysis
• Operating Budget
• Conclusion
• References
• Appendix Section and as needed (not included in the required page count)

Project ObjectivesTo successfully complete this project, you will be expected to:

• Apply fundamental concepts and practices of financial management and accounting to a healthcare organization.
• Analyze financial statements and other reports to evaluate the overall operational and financial stability of a healthcare organization.
• Demonstrate an understanding of how financial indicators are used to make assumptions about future financial performance.
• Demonstrate an understanding of how operational indicators are used to make assumptions about future operational performance.
• Design an operating budget for a healthcare organization.
• Develop recommendations for a healthcare organization that are
• supported by financial and operational analysis and indicators.

The greatest value in a course comes from applying the concepts, theories, and principles explored during class. The operating budget project will be graded according to the criteria below and is worth 30% of your total grade. This project gives you an opportunity to select a healthcare organization with which you are familiar, analyze the operations and design an operating budget for the organization. Then, drawing on the concepts and principles from readings, exercises, current events, and class discussions, develop an operating budget project in which you:

• Introduce the healthcare organization (background):
• Define the operating and financial condition,
• Analyze the organization using financial and operational indicators,
• Search the literature for operational benchmarks of healthcare organizations and do a comparative analysis,
• Offer assumptions,
• Develop an operating budget to address financial and operational conditions; and
• Develop a conclusion

As noted above, your project must include, but is not limited to, the following sections:

1. Title Page: Include a title, date, your name, and the course name and number.
2. Executive Summary: In the introduction, restate your approach and assumptions, the necessary background to your approach, and how you intend to address the key issues.
3. Assumptions: In this section, you integrate the information from the financial and operational analyses, make assumptions about the current and future status of the organization, and provide the rationale and supporting data for each assumption. The presentation should provide the reader with sufficient information to understand and support the assumptions.
4. Financial and Operational Analysis: In this section, you provide an in-depth analysis of the financial and operational issues of the healthcare organization, supported by relevant operational indicators, analysis, and current high-quality literature sources.
5. Benchmarks and Comparative Analysis: Present what you discovered in your search of the literature for operational benchmarks of healthcare organizations. Do a comparative analysis based on the operational benchmarks and your financial and operational analysis.
6. Operational Budget: In this section, present your best estimate, based on current knowledge and assumptions, of the financial operations of the organization for the following year (Year 2), using the current year (Year 1) as the base year.
7. Conclusion: summarize your major findings and recommendations.

Back up your responses with at least ten (10) current sources (no older than three years), five (5) of which are peer-reviewed articles that must be obtained from the UC online library. You may use the course textbooks as prime references, but you may use other course readings. is a good venue to find your references and supporting sources. Submit a 10-12-page paper, not counting the title and references pages which you must include; and appendixes if needed. Format your paper according to the APA Requirements.

Select a professional or personal (e.g., vacation, wedding, home remodeling) project that requires planning. In Excel, provide a short explanation of the event, identify all stakeholders involved in the process, and create a project work breakdown structure.

Using what you have learned about your topic from your literature search, you are working towards formulating a research purpose and question. Note that in the Learning Resources for this week, the language of qualitative research is incorporated into how the research purpose and question is formulated. Here are some basic dos and donts.

 I need two reply topic  Identify some of the social, ethical, and economic reasons for addressing immigration policy reform. 

Minimum of two scholarly references in APA format within the last five years published

You must post two answers to your peers  peers of 200 words

Good research is driven by the synthesis of ones passion or interest with a topic that has been under-studied in the professional literature. Out of that synthesis emerges a gapan area in need of further study that is consistent with your intereststhat defines the research problem. Clarifying the research problem takes time, effort, and thought.

At UC, it is a priority that students are provided with strong educational programs and courses that allow them to be servant-leaders in their disciplines and communities, linking research with practice and knowledge with ethical decision-making. This assignment is a written assignment where students will demonstrate how this course research has been or will be connected and put into practice within your career.

Assignment:  Provide a reflection of at least 500 words (or 2 pages double spaced) of how the knowledge, skills, or theories of this course have been applied or could be applied, in a practical manner to your current work environment. If you are not currently working, share times when you have or could observe these theories and knowledge could be applied to an employment opportunity in your field of study. 

Requirements:

Provide a 500 word (or 2 pages double spaced) minimum reflection.

Use of proper APA formatting and citations. If supporting evidence from outside resources is used those must be properly cited.

Share a personal connection that identifies specific knowledge and theories from this course.

Demonstrate a connection to your current work environment. If you are not employed, demonstrate a connection to your desired work environment. 

You should not, provide an overview of the assignments assigned in the course. The assignment asks that you reflect how the knowledge and skills obtained through meeting course objectives were applied or could be applied in the workplace.

 I need 2 reply topic  On what policy issues might nurses lobby Congress? What strategies might nurse use to have their voices heard? 

Minimum of two scholarly references in APA format within the last five years published

You must post two answers to your peers  peers of 200 words

 Class, Developing in the mobile space can be a daunting task for developers.  Developers must figure out which platforms they should support for their apps, purchase the hardware, and join the developer programs for each platform.   PhoneGap is an open source set of tools which enables developers to create mobile applications for multiple devices by utilizing the same code. It is a hybrid mobile application framework that allows the use of HTML, CSS, and JavaScript to write applications which are based on the open standards of the web.  MonoTouch and Mono for Android rely on the Mono Framework to function. Mono is a cross-platform open source implementation of the .NET Framework.  Mono is a cross-platform open source implementation of the .NET Framework. 

• How is sharing code being one of the most appealing reasons to use MonoTouch and Mono for Android?  Explain
• How is the use of debugging tools helpful in resolving mobile application issues quickly?

• This is a required assignment and is worth 50 points.
• You must apply and use the basic citation styles of APA.
• Do not claim credit for the words, ideas, and concepts of others.
• Use in-text citation and list the reference of your supporting source following APAs style and formatting
• Do not copy and paste information or concepts from the Internet and claim that is your work.  It will be considered Plagiarism and you will receive a zero for your work. 

Unit 2: Discussion 2

Directions:

An important element in strategy development is attempting to anticipate how a competitor might respond to an organization’s changes in strategy(ies).

Select a company and a product you use/are familiar with that has a similar competing item made by another company (Under Armour versus Nike, Campbell versus Progresso, Allstate versus State Farm). 

Describe a strategic change one company might make; what response might the other company try to offset the competitors strategic change?  

Use concepts from the reading and additional source(s) beyond the reading for support.