1. “YOU’RE THE ECONOMIST: Pulling Back the Curtain on Income and Wealth Distribution” in Chapter 12. After reading the above case, answer the following two questions: (1) What would happen to the Lorenz curve if it also included wealth distribution? (2) Do you think income and wealth are fairly or unfairly distributed? Should we be concerned with this issue? If you think we should be concerned with growing income and wealth inequality, what remedies would you recommend?
2. Read the assigned Scriptures and use them, or other relevant Scriptures, to discuss what the Bible says about the rich and the poor? What are the differences between the roles of the government in helping the poor in the Bible and the market economy?
Please access this specific link below and choose one other article on a topic that is mentioned within this one…for example, you could choose New Home Sales or Productivity, etc.
Your assignment is to write 6 total paragraphs (3 per article). First, summarize the Retail Sales Article noting what you consider to be the main points of the article. Then the remaining two paragraphs will require you to choose 3 or 4 concepts and make the connections to the information in the article. You are then to do the same thing with the second article that you are free to choose from what is mentioned within the Yahoo Finance article. (Be sure to note which other article you decided to choose!)
Critical Thinking: Saudi Arabian Riyal and the U.S. Dollar (110 Points)
While Saudi Arabia seeks to diversify its economy, the Saudi economy is dominated by the petroleum sector. In addition, the Saudi Arabian Riyal (SAR) is pegged to the U.S. Dollar.
In a critical essay, discuss the advantages and disadvantages of the pegged exchange rate. Indicate the main considerations Saudi Arabia faces from a currency perspective (e.g., currency values, interest rates, inflation, and trade issues) that ensue given two scenarios:
The second scenario is a dramatically increasing world oil price.
Directions:
Your essay is required to be four to five pages in length, which does not include the title page and reference pages, which are never a part of the content minimum requirements.
Support your submission with course material concepts, principles, and theories from the textbook and at least three scholarly, peer-reviewed journal articles. follow APA style guidelines.
In this assignment, you will continue your research and planning to design and implement a new product or service. Based on the innovative “big idea” and the vision that you developed in Assignment 1, you will now write a Launch Plan, in which you describe your launch strategy, business model, and financial plan. INSTRUCTIONS Write a Launch Plan Paper of no fewer than 4 pages. In this second assignment, you will complete the middle four sections of your Business Plan: Sections V, VI, VII and VIII in the template. You will follow ONE of the three Options below, depending whether you are planning your new venture as an Intrapreneur, Entrepreneur, or Nonprofit Leader. Make sure you work with the template that matches your chosen Option.
Option B – ENTREPRENEUR NEW BUSINESS LAUNCH STRATEGY
What objectives will you achieve if you get your funding?
What strategies would be used to meet those objectives?
What are the key resources and distribution channels – i.e., how will your customers access your product/service? REVENUE STREAMS Represents the cash a company generates from each Customer Segment (costs must be subtracted from revenues to create earnings).
For what do customers currently pay? (i.e., what are they buying from your competition?)
How are customers currently paying? (i.e., subscriptions, contracts, cash) o What are your revenue streams? (products, services, subscriptions)
How much does each Revenue Stream contribute to overall revenues? (these will be the numbers that go into your income statement) FINANCIAL STRUCTURE and COSTS
Summary Income Statement: provide a profit and loss statement summary by year and project the profit and loss data out three years. Use one of the ProForma Spreadsheets or the SCORE Projections Template in your Assignment 2 Resources.
HSA 510 The Convergence of Health Care Financing and Economic Trends and Forces
Note: Use the textbook, course readings, Strayer online library, and other reputable online sources to complete this assignment.
Prepare a 15–20-slide PowerPoint presentation with detailed scholarly speaker notes in which you:
Compare the three current health care financing and funding models (i.e., employee based, government-based, and individual-based) used with the health care delivery system of the United States.
Compare and contrast key economic goals of public and private health insurance plans. Evaluate the success potential of key economic goals in terms of populations covered, services included, financing arrangements, reimbursement strategies, and economic competition policies.
Analyze the key effects of labor market, insurance market, and competitive market factors on health care delivery requirements at your current or previous organization of employment.
Determine what changes are occurring in the economy or concerning labor and regulatory factors that must be considered in the future.
Suggest the key national trends that you believe currently affect competition and pricing initiatives. Justify your response.
Determine the main quality indicators that typically affect health insurance pricing at the local level. Justify your response.
Use a minimum of six reputable references sources including three sources from peer-reviewed journals.
This course requires the use of Strayer Writing Standards. For assistance and information, please refer to the Strayer Writing Standards link in the left-hand menu of your course.
The specific course learning outcome associated with this assignment is:
Assess current U.S. health care financing and funding models, including economic goals, market impacts, economic and regulatory changes, and national trends.
How does the annual financial report of a governmental/nonprofit entity differ from the report of a for-profit entity?
The user of a for-profit financial report is usually interested in the bottom line, net income. What are some top interests of the user of the financial reports of a governmental/nonprofit entity?
PART 2
State or local government entities can engage in governmental activities as well as business-type activities. Provide two examples of each activity type. Discuss how and why accounting and financial reporting differs between the two types.
Locate a job description for a Financial Statement Analyst position. Assume you were to apply for the job and have been granted an interview for this position. As your initial post, provide the interviewer with an explanation about how the skills you have learned in this course prepared you for the position. Discuss in detail the specific skills that the position requires and how you learned those skills in this course.
Be sure to post an initial, substantive response by Thursday at 11:59 p.m. MST and respond to two or more peers with substantive responses by Sunday at 11:59 p.m. MST. A substantive initial post answers the question presented completely and/or asks a thoughtful question pertaining to the topic. Substantive peer responses ask a thoughtful question pertaining to the topic and/or answers a question (in detail) posted by another student or the instructor.
Locate a job description for a Financial Statement Analyst position. Assume you were to apply for the job and have been granted an interview for this position. As your initial post, provide the interviewer with an explanation about how the skills you have learned in this course prepared you for the position. Discuss in detail the specific skills that the position requires and how you learned those skills in this course.
Be sure to post an initial, substantive response by Thursday at 11:59 p.m. MST and respond to two or more peers with substantive responses by Sunday at 11:59 p.m. MST. A substantive initial post answers the question presented completely and/or asks a thoughtful question pertaining to the topic. Substantive peer responses ask a thoughtful question pertaining to the topic and/or answers a question (in detail) posted by another student or the instructor.
You have one semester left to graduate and you have the finances to do a maximum of four courses. Three of the courses are required courses. The last course slot belongs to an elective. You have narrowed down your choices to three electives, all of which are very popular and very useful courses that you are very interested in. Decide on the course you want to take. Then using at least two economic decision-making principles, explain why you are making this choice.
Develop a response that includes examples and evidence to support your ideas, and which clearly communicates the required message to your audience. Organize your response in a clear and logical manner as appropriate for the genre of writing. Use well-structured sentences, audience-appropriate language, and correct conventions of standard American English.
In your discussion post, select two of the following options to compare and contrast. You may visit the website for the two companies selected to learn more about the product.
Compare the two products that you’ve selected. What are the advantages and disadvantages of each?
How do they compare based on the survey results shown in Exhibit 4 in the areas of value, ease of use, customer support, updates, and reliability?
Your discussion post should be 200 to 250 words in length.
For this assignment, you will prepare a two-page paper in which you assess international tax concerns for U.S. taxpayers. Be sure to specifically address the following:
Must include an introduction and conclusion paragraph. Your introduction paragraph needs to end with a clear thesis statement that indicates the purpose of your paper.
Must use at least two scholarly sources in addition to the course text.
The Scholarly, Peer-Reviewed, and Other Credible Sources (Links to an external site.)table offers additional guidance on appropriate source types. If you have questions about whether a specific source is appropriate for this assignment, please contact your instructor. Your instructor has the final say about the appropriateness of a specific source for a particular assignment.
While Saudi Arabia seeks to diversify its economy, the Saudi economy is dominated by the petroleum sector. In addition, the Saudi Arabian Riyal (SAR) is pegged to the U.S. Dollar.
In a critical essay, discuss the advantages and disadvantages of the pegged exchange rate. Indicate the main considerations Saudi Arabia faces from a currency perspective (e.g., currency values, interest rates, inflation, and trade issues) that ensue given two scenarios:
The first scenario is a dramatically declining world oil price.
Your essay is required to be four to five pages in length, which does not include the title page and reference pages, which are never a part of the content minimum requirements.
Support your submission with course material concepts, principles, and theories from the textbook and at least three scholarly, peer-reviewed journal articles. follow APA style guidelines.
All hospitals serve patients, employ physicians and nurses, and adhere to the rules and regulations defined by the legal framework for clinical services. Although nonprofit and for-profit hospitals are fundamentally similar, there are significant cultural and operational differences, such as the purpose or mission for running the hospital, strategic approaches to scale, financial strategies, and operational discipline. The culture at for-profit hospitals is business driven, and at nonprofit hospitals, it is service driven. For balanced healthcare services, both are important.
This assignment will help you explore for-profit and nonprofit hospitals, including their purpose, strategy, and services. You will identify one for-profit hospital and one nonprofit hospital in the United States. You will conduct research and compare these identified for-profit and nonprofit hospitals to analyze the strategic similarities and differences between these two categories of hospitals. This assignment will prepare you for Project Two by helping you develop skills to analyze hospitals’ financial needs and their impact on health policies and laws.
Prompt
To complete this assignment, you will create an analysis report that includes a comparison table for for-profit and nonprofit hospitals. You will research for-profit and nonprofit hospitals, collect information about their financial strategies and malpractice guidelines, and then compare these two categories and analyze their similarities and differences. Then you will summarize your analysis findings. Last, you will recommend an appropriate justification for the need for both for-profit and nonprofit hospitals in the U.S. healthcare system.
You are required to cite a minimum of three sources overall to support your claims. However, your submission must cite at least two outside sources from your own research. You may cite no more than one source from the module resources in your submission. For additional help with completing this assignment, refer to the Shapiro Library Guide: Nursing – Graduate item in the Start Here module. You may also use the Online Writing Center, located in the Academic Support module.
Business Objective: Describe the business objectives or purposes of for-profit and nonprofit hospitals, including their general mission and vision. Consider the following in your response:
What are the core objectives of for-profit and nonprofit hospitals, and how do these influence their financial needs?
What are the key differences in the mission and vision of for-profit and nonprofit hospitals?
Financial Strategy: Analyze the financial strategies of selected hospitals, explaining if their financial needs are key influencers for their business objective. Consider the following in your response:
How does tax status impact for-profit and nonprofit hospitals?
Are the financial needs of for-profit hospitals and nonprofit hospitals different?
Provision of Uncompensated Care: Describe the concept of provision of uncompensated care. Consider the following in your response:
What is uncompensated care?
Is there any difference in the provision of uncompensated care in for-profit and nonprofit hospitals?
Liability for Malpractice: Analyze liability guidelines for malpractice and its financial impact on for-profit and nonprofit hospitals. Consider the following in your response:
Are liabilities different for for-profit and nonprofit hospitals?
What is sovereign immunity law, and how does it impact liability limits for malpractice in for-profit and nonprofit hospitals?
Recommendation: Using your analysis findings to support your claim, share your recommendation about the need for both for-profit and nonprofit hospitals in the United States. Consider the following in your response:
What are the key strategic differences between for-profit and nonprofit hospitals?
How do the financial needs or objectives of for-profit and nonprofit hospitals impact the policies and laws?
Is there a need for both for-profit and nonprofit hospitals in the U.S. healthcare system? Share your recommendation with appropriate justification.
Guidelines for Submission
Your submission should be a 3- to 5-page Word document, including your completed comparison table from the provided template. You must also include an APA-style title page. Use 12-point Times New Roman font, double spacing, and 1-inch margins. Sources should be cited according to APA style.
Requirements: I would say at least 3 pages long and then add the comparison table
Not sure if it went through or not but this table needs to be filled in as well.
The user of a for-profit financial report is usually interested in the bottom line, net income. What are some top interests of the user of the financial reports of a governmental/nonprofit entity?
PART 2
State or local government entities can engage in governmental activities as well as business-type activities. Provide two examples of each activity type. Discuss how and why accounting and financial reporting differs between the two types.
The purpose of this assignment is to build a basic operational budget for a new project.
Examples that you can use include a new Primary Care Practice, Outpatient Treatment Center,
Physical Therapy Practice, Public Health Program (mobile screening unit, added services on
site) or another type of healthcare program in an organization that you are familiar with
professionally. Please see the Budget Worksheet and Table samples available in Blackboard
noting that additional budget categories can be added or deleted as needed. The basic
categories listed below should be present in your budget.
The budget table should be 1-2 pages long. The budget narrative is a written description
justifying spending for each category. Using a new mobile screening unit as an example,
describe the services offered in 1-3 paragraphs as the introduction, then discuss how many
people would be needed to operate it, what are their skills and qualifications, and what salaries
or wages are needed to support them (based on market conditions). Depending on the number
of personnel, plan on writing one paragraph per position. Next, follow with a description of the
benefits (general statement- health, dental, vision? It may be helpful to use your current
benefits as a starting point). Continue through the budget categories describing each category.
The paper should be 5-6 pages in length to a maximum of 6 pages not including title page,
references, or appendices; and should follow APA Manual 7 th Ed. scholarly writing guidelines.
Marking Criteria Maximum
Grade
Grade
Earned
Content
Completed a budget worksheet/table and justification for each
category including (minimum categories required): (12 pt)
o Salaries & Wages (Personnel)
o Benefits
o Supplies
o Utilities
o Space Related Costs (rents, maintenance, overhead,
costs not accounted for elsewhere)
o Purchased Professional Services (Consultants:
Accountant, Legal, other)
o Equipment Related Expenses
o Other Costs
Funding/Operating Revenue (3 pt)
15
2
o Source of funds (grants, private pay, insurance) and
projected revenue
Format
Organization
Used appropriate sources to inform assignment. (1 pt)
Provided clear and focused budget and narrative. (1 pt)
Organized paper in a clear and systematic manner using the
budget worksheet categories as headings (1 pt)
Included sub-totals and totals in budget worksheet/table where
appropriate (1 pt)
Followed all assignment directions (1 pt)
5
Presentation Style
Assignment was written in a scholarly format with title page,
appropriate sentences, paragraphs, and headings. (1 pt)
Included an effective introduction and conclusion. (1 pt)
Adhered to APA Manual 7 th Ed. scholarly writing guidelines. (1
pt)
Work was free of grammatical and typographical errors. (1 pt)
Length of presentation did not exceed 6 pages not including title,
references, or appendices. (1 pt)
Write not more than a four-page, doubled -spaced 12 sized Arial font report in which you detail the evolution and implementation of Keynesian Macroeconomic policies and your understanding from having read the final chapters on Fiscal and Monetary policies discussed in the textbook. Cite historical examples of effective Keynesian policies as they have been enacted -from the Great Depression and the Great 2007-09 Recession of the financial system.
Compare vs contrast why Keynesianism did not particularly work during the 70’s stagflation. Why do you think Keynesian policies proved not to be effective at the time and the economic reasoning behind this that vindicates Keynes.
Include at least 3 sources in your reaction paper outlined on a third ‘Works Cited” page-APA style.. Hint-think in terms of Keynesian spending to stimulate AD when the nation undergoes a short run fluctuation in GDP and employment due to the onset of a recession/depression or high inflation. Try to follow your reasoning logically in relation to what the fiscal policy tool-expansionary or contractionary aims at achieving in the macro economy in terms of FE levels of GDP and employment. You may use in—text citations or footnotes in your narrative. You might want to show graphically episodes of expansionary and contractionary fiscal or monetary policies to support your arguments via the Keynesian AD_AS Model
Requirements: 4 pages
Author: Greg Mankiw Textbook: Principles of Macroeconomics, 9th edition.
For Section 3 of the Final Project you will create a guide for these areas that nonprofit boards and executive directors can use to maximize their chances for success.
Section 3 should be 4-5 pages and include these Headings:
Explain the board’s legal and ethical responsibilities and why they are important for the organization’s success.
Include your assessment of an organization’s responsibility to bring about positive social change regarding the underlying problems that the organization exists to address.
Explain the responsibilities of individual board members regarding fundraising and the board’s responsibilities for financial oversight.
Submit the draft of Final Project Section 3 for scholarly writing faculty review. Your draft should be 4–5 pages, contain a minimum of 5–6 specific, evidence-based best practices, and utilize proper APA formatting.
Resources
BoardSource. (2010). The handbook of nonprofit governance. San Francisco, CA: Wiley.
Chapter 7, “Legal and Ethical Responsibilities” (pp.127–144)
Hopkins, B.R. (2013). Wiley nonprofit authority: Bruce R. Hopkins Nonprofit Law Library: Essential questions and answers. Somerset, NJ: John Wiley and Sons.
Chapter 5, “Conflicts of Interest/Self-Dealing” (pp.127–157)
Reissová, A., Žambochová, M., & Vlčková, M. (2019). Fundraising as an Opportunity for Non-profit Organisations – Possibilities and Limits of Individual Fundraising. Czech & Slovak Social Work / Sociální Práce / Sociálna Práca, 19(1), 5–22.
Csongrádi, G., Reicher, R., & Takács, I. (2018). Latest Trends and Technologies at the Field of Non-Profit Fundraising. International Journal of Contemporary Management, 17(4), 43–62. https://doi.org/10.4467/24498939IJCM.18.036.10022
Becker, A. (2018). An Experimental Study of Voluntary Nonprofit Accountability and Effects on Public Trust, Reputation, Perceived Quality, and Donation Behavior. Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly, 47(3), 562–582. https://doi.org/10.1177/0899764018756200
Dale, E. J. (2019). Reframing Nonprofit Organizations: Democracy, Inclusion, and Social Change: A. M. Eikenberry, R. M. Mirabella, and B. Sandberg (Eds.). Reframing nonprofit organizations: Democracy, inclusion, and social change. Irvine, CA: Melvin & Leigh Publishers, 2018. Administrative Theory & Praxis (Taylor & Francis Ltd), 41(4), 434–437. https://doi.org/10.1080/10841806.2019.1643623
For Section 3 of the Final Project you will create a guide for these areas that nonprofit boards and executive directors can use to maximize their chances for success.
Section 3 should be 4-5 pages and include these Headings:
Explain the board’s legal and ethical responsibilities and why they are important for the organization’s success.
Include your assessment of an organization’s responsibility to bring about positive social change regarding the underlying problems that the organization exists to address.
Explain the responsibilities of individual board members regarding fundraising and the board’s responsibilities for financial oversight.
Submit the draft of Final Project Section 3 for scholarly writing faculty review. Your draft should be 4–5 pages, contain a minimum of 5–6 specific, evidence-based best practices, and utilize proper APA formatting.
Resources
BoardSource. (2010). The handbook of nonprofit governance. San Francisco, CA: Wiley.
Chapter 7, “Legal and Ethical Responsibilities” (pp.127–144)
Hopkins, B.R. (2013). Wiley nonprofit authority: Bruce R. Hopkins Nonprofit Law Library: Essential questions and answers. Somerset, NJ: John Wiley and Sons.
Chapter 5, “Conflicts of Interest/Self-Dealing” (pp.127–157)
Reissová, A., Žambochová, M., & Vlčková, M. (2019). Fundraising as an Opportunity for Non-profit Organisations – Possibilities and Limits of Individual Fundraising. Czech & Slovak Social Work / Sociální Práce / Sociálna Práca, 19(1), 5–22.
Csongrádi, G., Reicher, R., & Takács, I. (2018). Latest Trends and Technologies at the Field of Non-Profit Fundraising. International Journal of Contemporary Management, 17(4), 43–62. https://doi.org/10.4467/24498939IJCM.18.036.10022
Becker, A. (2018). An Experimental Study of Voluntary Nonprofit Accountability and Effects on Public Trust, Reputation, Perceived Quality, and Donation Behavior. Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly, 47(3), 562–582. https://doi.org/10.1177/0899764018756200
Dale, E. J. (2019). Reframing Nonprofit Organizations: Democracy, Inclusion, and Social Change: A. M. Eikenberry, R. M. Mirabella, and B. Sandberg (Eds.). Reframing nonprofit organizations: Democracy, inclusion, and social change. Irvine, CA: Melvin & Leigh Publishers, 2018. Administrative Theory & Praxis (Taylor & Francis Ltd), 41(4), 434–437. https://doi.org/10.1080/10841806.2019.1643623
Complete the Chapter 18 Mini-case on page 788 in your textbook. After reading the case, you will complete questions A through D only. In addition to your textbook, please provide at least three scholarly sources to support your answers.
Use at least three references from outside the course material; one reference must be from EBSCOhost. Text book, lectures, and other materials in the course may be used, but are not counted toward the three reference requirement.
Cite all reference material (data, dates, graphs, quotes, paraphrased words, values, etc.) in the paper and list on a reference page in APA style.
References must come from sources such as scholarly journals found in EBSCOhost or on Google Scholar, government websites and publications, reputable news media (e.g. CNN , The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times) websites and publications, etc. Sources such as Wikis, Yahoo Answers, eHow, blogs, etc. are not acceptable for academic writing.
Mini Case
Randy’s, a family-owned restaurant chain operating in Alabama, has grown to the point that expansion throughout the entire Southeast is feasible. The proposed expansion would require the firm to raise about $18.3 million in new capital. Because Randy’s currently has a debt ratio of 50% and because family members already have all their personal wealth invested in the company, the family would like to sell common stock to the public to raise the $18.3 million. However, the family wants to retain voting control. You have been asked to brief family members on the issues involved by answering the following questions.
What agencies regulate securities markets?
How are start-up firms usually financed?
Differentiate between a private placement and a public offering.
Why would a company consider going public? What are some advantages and disadvantages?
4-1 Discussion: Employers and Reporting: Financial Risk Mitigation
Chapter 10 covers corporate accounting and finance. Based on the readings and your experience, explain how employers put themselves at potential risk with reporting on issues that lead to financial risks. Offer at least two ways they can avoid or mitigate this type of risk.
