Define 2 changes in the U.S. Health Care Services delivery system that have led to a decline in hospital inpatient days and growth in ambulatory (outpatient) services.
Are Ambulatory services important for hospitals? Why, or why not?
In: Economics
What are two changes to the market for health services you would recommend to increase efficiency in the market for health services and make the market more competitive?
In: Economics
Technological changes have decreased the cost and
increased the speed of information dissemination in security
market.
As the Technology is agile and keep on evolving day by day so, the
impact of it may affect the security price. Technology has made
possible the fastest means of the communication and data
dissemination in all the fields. In order to know the price of the
security then open your connection start surfing for it, you will
have the value for your searched security.
As in the field of finance the information dissemination is very
important and it cost in terms of some values. Due to the
technology, the speedup of the process is there. Online processes
are more clear and concise.
It is the matter of one’s suspect that firms following the
traditional approach to invest management would find it
increasingly difficult to identify and acquire under-priced
security in this environment. This is so because the traditional
approach is not automated one so humans are involved so there might
be error in valuing the security manually. The traditional approach
has evolved with the effect of technology. As in the growing world
one is paying for the worth of the services of the technology with
the security market investment prices so he/ she will be more
concerned about the investment. Under-priced security has not
generating much profit or wealth creation for the customer’s
investment. There is less security in the world of technology but
it is far more less in the traditional approach. The asymmetry of
the information dissemination is there
Evaluate the strength and weaknesses of each of the
two approaches presented
above. Recommend and justify an alternative process [or asset
allocation that
draws from the strength of each approach and corrects their
weaknesses
In: Finance
In: Psychology
Actuary and trustee reports indicate the following changes in
the PBO and plan assets of Douglas-Roberts Industries during
2021:
| Prior service cost at Jan. 1, 2021, from plan amendment at
the beginning of 2018 (amortization: $6 million per year) |
$ | 42 | million |
| Net loss—AOCI at Jan.1, 2021 (previous losses exceeded previous gains) | $ | 130 | million |
| Average remaining service life of the active employee group | 10 | years | |
| Actuary's discount rate | 7 | % | |
| ($ in millions) | Plan | |||||||||
| PBO | Assets | |||||||||
| Beginning of 2021 | $ | 700 | Beginning of 2021 | $ | 500 | |||||
| Service cost | 48 | Return on plan assets, | ||||||||
| 8% (10% expected) | 40 | |||||||||
| Interest cost, 7% | 49 | |||||||||
| Loss (gain) on PBO | (8 | ) | Cash contributions | 95 | ||||||
| Less: Retiree benefits | (29 | ) | Less: Retiree benefits | (29 | ) | |||||
| End of 2021 | $ | 760 | End of 2021 | $ | 606 | |||||
Required:
1-a. Determine Douglas-Roberts's pension expense
for 2021.
1-b, 2. to 4. Prepare the appropriate journal
entries to record the pension expense, to record any 2021 gains and
losses, to record the cash contribution to plan assets and to
record retiree benefits.
In: Accounting
Why do you think that one of the biggest changes in financial reporting occurred during this past year with the voluntary disclosures of critical audit matters, or CAMS, in accordance with a recent standard from the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board? (In your answer, provide a definition of what are included in CAMS.)
In: Accounting
Consider the daily percent changes of McDonald’s stock price and those of the Dow Jones Industrial Average for trading days in the months of July and August 2014. (obtain all graphs and calculations from excel, but provide manual calculations):
|
MCD |
DJIA |
|
1.12 |
0.47 |
|
-0.29 |
1.41 |
|
0.83 |
0.7 |
|
0.58 |
0.69 |
|
-0.52 |
-0.69 |
|
0.2 |
-1.38 |
|
-0.12 |
-2.34 |
|
1.16 |
1.44 |
|
0.1 |
-0.24 |
|
0.53 |
0.47 |
|
0.52 |
-1.18 |
|
-0.89 |
-1.19 |
|
-0.8 |
0.72 |
|
0.09 |
0.72 |
|
0.07 |
0.95 |
|
0.54 |
0.94 |
|
0.35 |
0.93 |
|
1.04 |
0.92 |
|
0.78 |
0.92 |
|
1.1 |
0.45 |
|
0.18 |
0.23 |
|
-0.58 |
-1.35 |
|
-0.41 |
-1.14 |
|
0.78 |
2.08 |
|
1.07 |
3.17 |
|
-0.09 |
-0.66 |
|
1.69 |
1.99 |
|
1.69 |
3.03 |
|
-0.42 |
-0.84 |
|
0.83 |
1.48 |
|
-0.23 |
-0.63 |
|
0.56 |
2.31 |
|
-1.7 |
-0.21 |
|
0.42 |
-2.06 |
|
1.54 |
0.84 |
|
0.1 |
0 |
|
-0.46 |
-2.08 |
|
0.94 |
2.34 |
|
0.76 |
-0.21 |
|
-0.99 |
-1.67 |
|
-1.33 |
-2.33 |
|
0.89 |
1.08 |
In: Statistics and Probability
How would you expect the following changes to affect the prevailing wage and employment of servers in restaurants? Explanation and graph for all.
a. The pandemic reduces demand for restaurant meals.
b. New techniques reduce the amount of time servers need to take each order.
c. In order to raise more revenue, the government imposes a new payroll tax on restaurants. (That is, the government requires that restaurants pay some amount of money to the government for each worker they employ.)
d. Worse job prospects elsewhere in the economy cause more people to want to become servers.
In: Economics
How do you think social and economic changes will shape the CPA profession in the next decade.
please provide at least 2 paragraph explanation. and reference also.
In: Accounting
In: Economics