Category: Accounting

The effectiveness of Emergency Department Information Systems (EDIS)

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Using the knowledge and insights gained from the textbook, provide an overview of qualitative research as it relates to your compelling clinical question. What benefits did you find in qualitative research to answer your specific question? Cite the sources used to substantiate your discussion.

My Clinical question: which investigates the effectiveness of Emergency Department Information Systems (EDIS) in reducing ED wait time and overcrowding compared to a manual approach.

The PICOT question is “For emergency department (ED) patients (P), does implementing emergency department information system (EDIS) (I), compared to day-to-day manual approach (C), reduce ED wait time, and overcrowing (O), within three months.

Career Preparation Research

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Career Preparation Research
Project – The purpose of this assignment is to engage in a selected activity related to career
development. Write a paper (1,500 – 2,000 words) that includes the following:
• The career opportunities in the discipline which has the most appeal based on research.
• New knowledge gained through the research.
• How the information influences your studies and future career.
The paper may be written in first-person voice and must be grammatically correct. At least four
external sources should be cited in the paper. The paper must be written on an activity that has
been completed during this current course.

Understanding about debit and credit balances

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Assume you have been working for a small accounting firm, and you have been tasked with training a new intern. As you are trying to identify the intern’s level of knowledge and understanding about debit and credit balances, the intern says, “I believe that debit balances are favorable and credit balances are unfavorable; if total debits equal total credits in a trial balance, then it is free of errors.” Is the intern correct? Based on this lesson, reflect on how you would respond to the intern.

The Bill of Rights

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The Bill of Rights provides protection from unreasonable and arbitrary governmental interference for several civil liberties such as freedom of speech and press. If you were able to add an additional freedom to the Bill of Rights, what would it be? Explain the impact you think it would have on your life and those around you.

Auditing a company

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Consider and discuss the specific risks and nature of the company you will be auditing and create comprehensive work programs for the Acquisition, Payment, Property Plant, and Equipment (Fixed Assets), Notes Payable and Owner’s Equity accounts and cycles.

The closing process

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For this Discussion Board, please complete the following:

The closing process is a very important part of the accounting cycle. It is necessary for organizations to “close” their accounting books every accounting period. These periods could be monthly, quarterly, or yearly.

Identify 1 account that is affected by the closing process and 1 account that is not affected by the closing process.
Why is it necessary for organizations to “close” their books?
Part 2 Responses to Other Students: Respond to at least 2 of your fellow classmates with at least a 50–100-word reply about their Primary Response regarding items you found to be compelling and enlightening. To help you with your discussion, please consider the following question:

What differences or similarities do you see between your posting and other classmates’ postings?

Difference between audit, attestation, and assurance services

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What is the difference between audit, attestation, and assurance services? And how do the answers provide value to stakeholders?

How can auditors effectively plan an audit in a dynamic and uncertain environment? Provide an example to describe your answer.

In your opinion, what are the benefits of assessing the effectiveness of internal controls over financial statements ICFR to the audit process, other than being a requirement of PCAOB?

Probabilities from Normal Distributions

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Question 12 pts
The length of time a person takes to decide which shoes to purchase is normally distributed with a mean of 8.21 minutes and a standard deviation of 1.90. Find the probability that a randomly selected individual will take less than 6 minutes to select a shoe purchase. Is this outcome unusual?
Homework Help:
4VA. Calculating normal probabilities (2:18)
4DF. Probabilities from Normal DistributionsLinks to an external site. (DOCX)
Group of answer choices

Probability is 0.12, which is unusual as it is less than 5%

Probability is 0.12, which is usual as it is not less than 5%

Probability is 0.88, which is unusual as it is greater than 5%

Probability is 0.88, which is usual as it is greater than 5%

Flag question: Question 2
Question 22 pts
In a health club, research shows that on average, patrons spend an average of 42.5 minutes on the treadmill, with a standard deviation of 4.8 minutes. It is assumed that this is a normally distributed variable. Find the probability that randomly selected individual would spent between 30 and 40 minutes on the treadmill.
Homework Help:
4VA. Calculating normal probabilities (2:18)
4DF. Probabilities from Normal DistributionsLinks to an external site. (DOCX)
Group of answer choices

0.40

0.70

0.30

Less than 1%

St. Louis Federal Reserve Bank

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The data for this exercise are available through the St. Louis Federal Reserve Bank at https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/WTB3MS.

At the beginning of chapter 8, the events of May 1995, when the United States considered putting tariffs on imports of luxury cars from Japan. Specifically, on May 16, 1995, U.S. Trade Representative Mickey Kantor, announced that the United States would impose trade sanctions against Japan, targeting 13 Japanese import vehicles for 100-percent tariffs valued at $5.9 billion annually. Those targeted vehicles included all Lexus models and several Acura and Infiniti models.

To determine how U.S. interest rates reacted to this announcement, use the FRED database at the link referenced above and choose the weekly format.

a.) Adjust the graph to see what happened to the interest rate in the week including May 16, 1995. How does this movement in the interest rate compare with neighboring weeks, specifically the preceding week and the subsequent week? In your answer to this question, please include a copy of the graph.

b.) What type of retaliation by the government of Japan for the proposed tariff can explain this change in interest rates? Explain why Japanese retaliation would result in this change in interest rates.

c.) About one month later, President Clinton announced that the two countries had reached an agreement, which ended the threat of the tariffs being imposed. What happened to the interest rates during the month of June? In your answer to this question, please include a copy of the graph. Please explain why averting a trade war would have this effect on the movement of the interest rate.