1. What do retrospective and prospective mean as they relate to
Accounting changes?
2. Select a type of accounting change. Provide an example of how
that change might apply to your favorite company. What are the
financial statement implications of your change? Why?
design 3 cohort studies: one prospective cohort study, one
retrospective cohort study, one ambidirectional cohort study using
the example smoking and lung cancer and identify the following 1)
research qestion, 2) exposure, 3) outcome, 4) the placement of the
researcher ( is the researcher beginning the study after the
participants have developed symptoms or a disease? ; is the
researcher starting the study when participants are first
exposed?
Compare and contrast the concept of retrospective and
prospective in relation to reimbursement methodologies. Discussion
can include concepts such as who assumes financial risk under each
methodology, certain pros and cons of each, how reimbursement
differs under each methodology for a certain type of provider,
etc.
Retrospective and prospective study designs have advantages and
disadvantages. Compare and contrast these two designs with respect
to the variablees listed below:
Cost required to complete study
Times required to complete study
Size of sample required
Scope of results
Ability to classify participants accurately on experimental
(independent) variable
Problems finding comparable reference group
Problem of attrition
Value for establishing causation
Value for studying rare diseases (events)
Retrospective and prospective study designs have advantages
and disadvantages. Compare and contrast these two...