Category: Accounting
Category: Accounting
Who should police the use and education of any caregiver?
Traditional medicine is policed by medical boards in each state. They have been historically conservative when it comes to new techniques or new uses for old medical practices. How can the profession help to protect the consumer from inappropriate practitioners while still allowing new practices to flourish? Specifically, how can
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Explain how cash and accrual accounting differs for each of the events listed in the above scenario and describe the proper accrual accounting.
BizCon, a consulting firm, has just completed its first year of operations. The company’s sales growth was explosive. To encourage clients to hire its services, BizCon offered 180-day financing – meaning its largest customers do not pay for nearly 6 months. Because BizCon is a new company, its equipment suppliers
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Do you think some consumers are just more prone to be loyal to companies and other consumers are not?
Are you especially loyal to any one brand? If so, what is it and why are you so loyal? When successfully building loyalty and community, trust seems to be the biggest factor. How can a company build trust and what is the best approach to do so (incorporating concepts from
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Describe the primary distinction between prospective payment and retrospective payment.
Is profit maximization the same thing as shareholder wealth maximization? Why or why not? Describe the primary distinction between prospective payment and retrospective payment. Why is the unreimbursed cost of Medicare most often not included as an element of community benefit?
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If Bad Boys, Inc. raises capital using 30% debt, 5% preferred stock, and 65% common stock, what is Bad Boys, Inc.’s cost of capital?
Bad Boys, Inc. is evaluating its cost of capital. Under consultation, Bad Boys, Inc. expects to issue new debt at par with a coupon rate of 8% and to issue new preferred stock with a $2.50 per share dividend at $25 a share. The common stock of Bad Boys, Inc.
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What are the issues of culture, politics, and special interests in the United States that have made health care reform difficult to achieve?
Currently, in the United States, an individual is not required to purchase a health insurance plan. However, according to Section 1501 of the PPACA, beginning in 2014, “Individuals will be required to maintain minimum essential coverage beginning in 2014. Failure to maintain coverage will result in a penalty of $95
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What are the advantages and disadvantages of using these 2 tools for e-commerce Web site development?
E-commerce Web site development requires many different technologies because an e-commerce Web site is not just for presentation of information. There are many tools that are available to create this type of Web site, and it is important to understand the options, the advantages, and the disadvantages of each prior
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Who makes strategies at the corporate level, and how this strategy is made?
Who makes strategies at the corporate level, and how this strategy is made? How would an organization with a multi-business model form their strategies? What would they target? Why would a company leverage horizontal integration as a strategy? What are the advantages and disadvantages of horizontal integration ? Why would
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What are the most common failures of businesses to properly prepare or consider when to achieve their prior calculated breakeven points?
M6D1: Where is that breakeven point? Breakeven analysis seems to be a pretty easy concept. People talk about it all the time as if it is straight forward and easy to understand. Often, there are cases where businesses, particularly small businesses, miscalculate and fail to make their easily anticipated breakeven
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Measures of Central Tendency: Mean, Median, and Mode .
There is often the requirement to evaluate descriptive statistics for data within the organization or for health care information. Every year the National Cancer Institute collects and publishes data based on patient demographics. Understanding differences between the groups based upon the collected data often informs health care professionals towards research,
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