What is your current understanding of accounting in the health care industry? How would you describe it to a friend?
Category: Accounting
SME operation in Bangladesh : A case study of the AB Bank Ltd.
Analyses of the SME operation in Bangladesh : A case study of the AB Bank Ltd.
Curriculum Development/Design/Implementation
Directions:
1. Identify an exemplary Curriculum Leader working now or has worked in the recent past in Curriculum Development/Design/Implementation that you know or know of by reputation. (Ms. Reynolds)
2. Create no less than 10 and no more than15 original questions that you have created from your reading and research to ask this interviewee regarding their direct experience and perceptions of designing, leading, and implementing curricular initiatives or programs.
o Design your questions to identify key elements of curriculum design and change leadership and to elicit in-depth information based on your readings to date.
o It is important to plan your questions in advance, however, you may wish to revise the order, or some of the questions during the actual interview based on the dialog that ensures. Offer to send the questions to the interviewee in advance so they can prepare
their answers thoughtfully.
3. Reflect on both the interview experience and the information you received in order to respond thoughtfully to the guiding questions
4. Write and submit a synopsis of the interview following the format below and including the subsections outlined. Respond thoughtfully and with citations from your text and other readings to the guiding questions:
✓ Cover Page
✓ Introduction:
o Who did you interview (District Curriculum Coordinator)
o Why did you select this interviewee? (Accomplishments and
reputation)
o Describe the location and circumstances of the interview (The interview took place at the district office)
o How did you feel about this interview?
✓ Summary:
o What did you learn?
o Include key quotes from the interviewee
Were the responses congruent with what you anticipated?
o How did this interview influence your perceptions of change leadership?
o Based on the interviewee’s responses, what is this individual’s philosophy of change management, with reference to the essential topics that serve as weekly topics for our course.
o What did you discover that surprised you?
o What did you discover that confirmed your understanding of change
management?
o What did you discover that changed/impacted your viewpoint of leadership
during times of change?
o Was there anything the interviewee said that concerned you? If so, please
describe.
✓ Comparative Analysis:
o How did the interviewee’s beliefs and comments confirm/align with
materials presented in course readings?
▪ Be specific and cite the comparison with information in your text or
supplemental material
o How did the interviewee’s beliefs/comments differ with the materials
presented in the course readings?
▪ Be specific and clear with citations.
✓ Conclusion:
o Summarize what you learned from the interview
o Summarize what you learned from the interview process.
o Conclude your overall perception of Change Management and Leadership
✓ Reference Page : Be sure to include the Interviewee as a reference
✓ Appendix :
o Include the List of questions used
o Include any correspondence between you and the Interviewee
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Reasons that foreign manufacturers of products as diverse as automobiles
Using a graphic organizer of your choice, create a visual graphic that explains your answer to the question below. Respond to at least one other peer’s assignment responses.
In June 2017, BMW announced plans to spend $600 million to expand production at its South Carolina plant. The new investment would allow BMW to prepare for the new X model of SUVs. BMW apparently felt it would be better able to compete and create value with a U.S.-based facility. In fact, BMW expected to export 70% of the vehicles produced in South Carolina. Also in 2017, noted Taiwanese iPhone supplier Foxconn announced plans to build a $10 billion plant in Wisconsin, and Chinese tire manufacturer Wanli Tire Corp. announced plans to build a $1 billion plant in South Carolina.
What are some of the reasons that foreign manufacturers of products as diverse as automobiles, cell phones, and tires might arrive at the same conclusion to build plants in the United States?
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Financial Accounting.
You may consider using the same company and annual report that you chose for your Week 1 – Discussion Forum, Reading and Using the Annual Report Case Study discussion forum. This choice will work only if the company is using the straight-line depreciation method. The company’s choice of depreciation method can be located in the notes to the financial statement in the annual report. If the company does not use this method or does not have long-term assets, you will need to choose another company. Select a company that a fellow student has not already posted.
Using your selected company’s financial statement,
Calculate the average life, average age, and asset turnover ratios. Be sure to show your calculations. Discuss what each ratio tells you in the context of your chosen company.
Calculate the accounts receivable turnover ratio and convert that ratio into days. Be sure to show your calculations. Discuss what each ratio tells you in the context of your chosen company.
Sources of equity capital
Explain both the historical and the forward looking approaches to estimating the market risk premium.
What are the two primary sources of equity capital?
Should the weights used to calculate the WACC be based on book values, market values, or something else? Explain.
Average cost of capital, WACC
What is the weighted average cost of capital, WACC? Discuss in details its financial importance and value.
Discussion 5.2
What is capital budgeting? Discuss in details its financial importance and value.
Reimbursement methods
Identify 6 major third-party payers who provide revenue to healthcare providers. Analyze at least 2 provider incentives and risks under each of the following reimbursement methods:
Cost based
Charge based
Per procedure
Per diagnosis
Per diem
Bundled payment
Capitation
Fee for service
The Journal of Accounting identified key areas of research in accounting
The impact of financial reporting and disclosure on stock prices;
The economics of auditing, enforcement and audit oversight;
The use of accounting information in contracting in debt, labor, supply, and other markets;
The role of accounting in compensation and in corporate governance;
The role of managerial accounting on internal decision making such as budgeting, costing, and transfer pricing;
The real effects of financial reporting and disclosure (e.g. on firm behavior);
The economics of regulation of financial reporting and disclosure, including bank regulation;
International differences in financial reporting and the role of reporting standards in international capital markets;
The political economy of standard-setting;
The use of accounting information in public finance and macroeconomic statistics;
The impact of tax regulation on transaction structuring;
The role of transparency in markets and society;
Choose one of these areas and give a summary of some of the current research themes (last 5 years). Finally, identify questions the researchers have identified as needing further exploration in these areas.
Provide a 600 to 800-word summary (formatted according to APA guidelines) of the new
research in this area from a minimum of five new peer reviewed journal articles and identify
questions that need exploring in future research.
Your discussion should be organized in a three-paragraph format:
Introductory Paragraph: gives an overview and definition of the topic you chose. At the end of
the paragraph it gives an idea of how your forum is organized.
Current Trends Paragraph: In this paragraph, you will discuss the themes that you found in
the research from the 5 articles related to your topic. This paragraph should be a synthesis of the
research and not just a listing of annotated summaries.
Future Research Paragraph: In this paragraph, you will discuss areas of future research by
referencing the 5 articles that you identified. The future research areas should be based on the
findings of the authors of those articles rather than general ideas you may have.
Long-Term Liabilities and Equity
You will continue your industry research by evaluating long-term liabilities and equity using industry examples. Using the financial statements (located in Appendix A: American Eagle Outfitters, Inc., 2020 Annual Report of the required textbook: Financial Accounting), review and compare the liabilities and equity of each company. Consider the following questions:
What are the significant liabilities of each company? Are they current or long-term?
What types of financing does each company rely on?
What is the equity structure of each company?
Address the questions above, and consider their implications to American Eagle Outfitters, Inc.