Based on your reading and analysis of the case study, post your response to the following:

What challenges does Brown, the CIO, face in creating a process-oriented organization?

What are the requirements for creating a process-oriented culture in an organization? To what extend does Pinnacle West address these requirements? Where is it lacking?

Is it necessary to push the process-oriented culture to the entire company, or is having a process-oriented information technology organization sufficient for driving value from business information systems?

What lessons can you learn from the Pinnacle West case, and how might you apply those at your organization? How effective is management at promoting a process-oriented culture? What could management do better or improve upon to create or implement enterprise-wide business information systems? Provide specific examples to support your observations.

Please be specific, and use citations and references as appropriate and necessary

Research Prime Company has been expanding rapidly and is now an extremely diversified company for its size. It currently owns three companies with manufacturing facilities, two companies primarily in retail sales, a consumer finance company, and two natural gas pipeline companies. This has led to some conflict between the company’s chief accountant and its treasurer. The treasurer advocates presenting no more than five assets and three liabilities on its balance sheet. The chief accountant has resisted combining balances from substantially different subsidiaries and has asked for your assistance.

Research the Accounting Standards Codification to see what guidance is provided and prepare a memo to the chief accountant with your findings. Include citations to and quotations from the most relevant references. Include in your memo at least two examples of situations in which it may be inappropriate to combine similar-appearing accounts of two subsidiaries.

Do Numbers Lie? The Other Side of Financial Statement Analysis

If you were to enter the banking industry you may find yourself approving or not approving loans. The following is a good example of a common event you may encounter.

Company X is looking for a $100,000 to purchase new equipment. The finance manager for Company X recently presented financial reports. Upon further analysis of the statements you, the banker, noted some window dressing of the financial statement. In this case, it seems Company X will delay payments to vendors in order to make their cash position look higher.

1. Do you see this practice a matter of ethical and or legal concern?

2. Do you think most all company’s “window dress” their data?

3. Please explain your decision to approve or disapprove Company x’s loan.

Please list any references used or in text citations

Module 04 Course Project - Part 1

Prepare a two to three page written assignment that includes the following:

Content:

• Introduction to the assignment (sections of the assignment; roles of the nurse, scope of practice, compare and contrast scope of practice)
• Describe the roles of the nurse for the program you are currently enrolled
• Identify the scope of practice for the nurse in the state where you intend to practice
• Using the Nurse Practice Act for the state where you intend to practice, compare and contrast the scope of practice for the LPN and RN
• Conclusion (reflect on the assignment including how you will use the scope of practice to support your role)
• Use at least two credible resources to support your findings. For example, one of the resources could be the State Board of Nursing website, and another resource could be a textbook. These resources must be integrated into the body of your paper using at least two in-text citations. Be sure to use proper APA format and style.

1. Net Present Value and Internal Rate of Return. Below are the projected revenues and expenses for a new clinical nurse specialist program being established by your healthcare organization. The nurses would provide education while patients are in the hospital and home visits are on a fee-for-service basis after patients have been discharged

Should the hospital undertake the program if its required rate of return is 12%?

Note: it must be assumed that the revenues and costs in this problem represent cash flows. Present value analysis is based on cash, not revenue or expenses. Provide a response to support the findings in the table listed below. Your response should be at least a half page long in addition to the table. Please include citations.

This week has focused on using several cost analysis tools to determine how well products contribute to a company’s profitability. However, all of these tools are internally used and not required to be published outside of an organization. Instead, external stakeholders rely on the three key financial statements reviewed in Unit 1:

• Income Statement
• Balance Sheet
• Statement of Cash Flows)

If a company’s CVP analyses showed it was not operating at break-even, where on the financial statements might one be able to see this impact (i.e., specific line items on the statements)?

As portfolio activities are to be self-reflective, please make sure to connect the portfolio assignment to:

• Your personal experiences
• Course readings and any external readings.
• Discussion forum posts or other course objectives that tie into your reflection.

Your entry should be a minimum of 500 words and not more than 750 words. Use APA citations and references if you use ideas from the readings or other sources.

In this written assignment, select one cultural factor such as health beliefs, language, perception of time, environment control, etc. (see textbook reading) and apply it to a selected ethnic group. The paper will include the following:

One impact on medication preparation. Explain.

Two impacts on medication administration. Explain.

Two potential adverse reactions. Explain with rationale.

One possible issue in adherence to medication regimen. Explain how this can be overcome.

The paper should be no more than 3 pages. Use APA Editorial Format for all citations and references used.

Submit your completed assignment by following the directions linked below. Please check the Course Calendar for specific due dates.

Save your assignment as a Microsoft Word document. (Mac users, please remember to append the ".docx" extension to the filename.) The name of the file should be your first initial and last name, followed by an underscore and the name of the assignment, and an underscore and the date. An example is shown below:

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Read about a number of health care delivery systems throughout the world. Using research with three evidence-based, peer-reviewed resources. IN A 3-4 PAGE PAPER,CHOOSE ONE COUNTRY (EXCLUDING UNITED STATES OF AMERICA) AND ANSWER THE QUESTIONS THAT FOLLOW.

PLEASE INCLUDE INTEXT CITATIONS AS WELL AS REFERENCE LIST

1. An introduction to the COUNTRY health care system you have chosen to evaluate (any country BUT the U.S.’s healthcare system) (3 paragraphS MINIMUM)
2. The COUNTRY'S population’s access to health care ( 2 paragraphs MINIMUM)
3. The type of health care delivery system THE COUNTRY HAS (i.e., publicly funded, private, single payer, etc.) (3–4 paragraphs)
4. The effectiveness of the COUNTRY'S healthcare system for the population (4–5 paragraphs)
5. A brief comparison OF THE COUNTRY'S HEALTHCARE SYSTEM to the U.S. healthcare system (may use a simple chart or table)
6. Conclusion (1 paragraph)

The responsibilities of product marketing manager include communicating a product’s value to the market. Product marketing managers create marketing materials for communicating product features, in addition to developing marketing tools and campaigns for attracting and keeping new and existing customers. A marketing manager is involved in long-term sale of a product through effective advertising.

With this in mind, pick any product of your choice and write a reflection on effective advertisement for the product. Also, provide answers to the following questions:

1.      In the short-term, how does a marketing manager encourage growth through sales promotions of the product?

2.      What are the similarities and differences between advertising and sales promotions for the product?

3.      What benefits and challenges are associated with each?

The Portfolio Assignment entry should be a minimum of 500 words and up to 750 words. Use APA citations and references if you use ideas from the readings or other sources.

This assignment is graded by the instructor.

We have covered several ratios in this unit that users of financial statements can work with to evaluate a company’s performance. However, not all ratios are important for or applicable to all organizations. In particular, service organizations have different business models than manufacturing organizations. Using the CPA Firm you worked with for your Unit 5 portfolio assignment, explain which financial ratios would be applicable to the company and which would not. State the reasons for your assertions.

As portfolio activities are to be self-reflective, please make sure to connect the portfolio assignment to:

• Your personal experiences. Reflect on how this assignment topic is applicable to and will benefit you.
• Course readings and any external readings.
• Discussion forum posts or other course objectives.

The Portfolio Activity entry should be a minimum of 500 words and not more than 750 words. Use APA citations and references if you use ideas from the readings or other sources.