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Consider a healthcare organization with which you are familiar with and explain the difference between cash and accrual accounting in healthcare setting

our Discussion postings should be written in standard edited English and should follow APA guidelines. Be sure to support your work with specific in-text citationsfrom this week's Learning Resources.  Refer to the Pocket Guide to APA Style to ensure that your in-text citations and reference list are correct. Initial postings must be 250–350 words (not including references). Choose one of the following:
  1. The income statement, balance sheet, and statement of cash flows are three major financial statements that present varying snapshots of an organization's financial position. For this topic discussion, consider a healthcare organization with which you are familiar with and examine the purposes and components of these documents. How they may be utilized within healthcare organizations?
  2. Consider a healthcare organization with which you are familiar with and explain the difference between cash and accrual accounting in healthcare setting. Be

Government Securities

Quantitative Exercises and Final Project 3: Government Securities   Part One: Quantitative Exercises   Barbow Enterprises, Inc., is considering an expansion in their operations. One of the first items they want to examine is their cost of capital. According to the accounting department, the following items and their respective costs have been identified:  
  • The cost of Common Equity: 15%
  • The before tax cost of debt: 12%
  • No Preferred stock
  They have also calculated the marginal tax rate to be 40% and the stock sells at its book value.  
Barbow Enterprises Inc.

Balance Sheet

Balancing the Benefits and Costs of Debt”

Please respond to the following:

  • Calculate the expected value of the high and low risk project to MarCher Industries’ stockholders if the firm remains unlevered. Predict which project the stockholders prefer. Justify your prediction.

  • Calculate the expected value of the high and low risk project of MarCher’s stockholders and bondholders, assuming the firm does borrow money to partially finance the purchase of the project. Predict which project the bond holders prefer. Justify your prediction. Predict which project stockholders would prefer. Justify your prediction.

Weighted Average Cost of Capital

Purpose of Assignment Students should understand the mechanics in calculating a company's weighted average cost of capital using the capital asset pricing model (CAPM) and its use in making financial investments.

Assignment Steps 

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

Scenario: You work for an investment banking firm and have been asked by management of Vestor Corporation (not real), a software development company, to calculate its weighted average cost of capital, to use in evaluating a new company investment. The firm is considering a new investment in a warehousing facility, which it believes will generate an internal rate of return of 11.5%.

Assignment 3: Case Study – Dropping Small-Group Insurance Products

Due Week 6 and worth 100 points       Read Case Study 9 from Multi-Sector Casebook in Health Administration, Leadership, and Management, and respond to the following:      
  1. Summary of the major facts
  Summarize the facts in narrative or outline form. Include the most important and pertinent incidents in the situation. (Do not simply restate the entire case.)      
  1. Problem(s)
  The facts of the case reveal one or more problems that require attention. Indicate at least three problems affecting GreenHealth and explain their importance.      
  1. Alternative Solutions and Probable Outcomes
  Analyze optional courses of action. This is one of the most important parts of the analysis. Remember that a decision not to act or to do nothing is always an alternative. However, doing nothing also has repercussions—sometime

Discussion: Coaching and Mentoring Skills

you have learned how important performance management is for both employees and organizations. You have also explored how important a well-designed performance management program is to ensuring an organization’s success. Part of its success also relies on the ability of the manager to have the skills necessary to effectively work with employees as a mentor (a relationship built on trust, focused on the person and his or her individual growth and career) and a coach (a method of training, focused on an employee’s performance, giving advice, and monitoring progress). Based on a manager’s personal style, there are guidelines available to help with mentoring and coaching employees to successfully meet the short- and long-term objectives in their development plans. These skills will help managers to ensure they are effective in providing the guidance, support, advice, and training necessary so that employees have the confidence to achieve the desired competencies.   Pos

Financial Research Report

Imagine that you are a financial manager researching investments for your client. Use the Strayer Learning Resource Center to research the stock of any U.S. publicly traded company that you may consider as an investment opportunity for your client. Your investment should align with your client’s investment goals. (Note: Please ensure that you are able to find enough information about this company in order to complete this assignment. You will create an appendix, in which you will insert related information.) The assignment covers the following topics:
  • Rationale for choosing the company in which to invest
  • Ratio analysis
  • Stock price analysis
  • Recommendations

Investment Returns & Risk Premiums Paper

Write a 250-word minimum paper in APA format that discusses average returns, arithmetic vs. geometric averages, and risk premiums. Also, explain how the average investor could benefit by knowing these concepts to assume the least amount of risk. Be sure to support your work with specific citations from the Learning Resources and any additional sources.   Learning Resources Ross, S. A., Westerfield, R. W., & Jordan, B. D. (2017). Essentials of corporate finance (9th ed.). New York, NY: McGraw-Hill Irwin.

Job Sharing Paper

Job Sharing Paper

FIN/370 Finance for Business

Complete the following Questions and Problems from each chapter as indicated.

Show all work and analysis. 

Prepare in Microsoft® Excel® or Word. 

 

A firm evaluates all of its projects by applying the IRR rule. If the required return is 14 percent, should the firm accept the following project?

For the cash flows in the previous problem, suppose the firm uses the NPV decision rule. At a required return of 11 percent, should the firm accept this project? What if the required return is 24 percent?

A proposed new investment has projected sales of $635,000. Variable costs are 44 percent of sales, and fixed costs are $193,000; depreciation is $54,000