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Company NewCo has hired you to advise its senior management on how to communicate a strategy for unleashing the firm’s creativity. You have eight weeks to put your recommendations together, which will be on the agenda of the company’s next Leadership Retreat.

Fortunately for NewCo, you have just completed a course on this very subject. After thinking about it for a while, you thought you should structure your project using material from the course you just completed, augmented by some additional research.

Your assignment this week is to define the ways that teams can be used to foster innovation at NewCo. How will teams be selected and structured? What leadership methods will be used to guide these teams? Base your use of teams on the work you have completed for previous components of the project.

In an attempt to strengthen the health system and improve health-service delivery, Zambia has been
gradually introducing RBF approaches to complement traditional input based financing in some of its
health programs and activities. Zambia was awarded a US$17 million grant in 2008 by the World
Bank through the Health Results Innovation Trust Fund (HRITF) to implement a RBF pilot project with
an accompanying Impact Evaluation (IE) led by the World Bank. Motivated by inadequate progress to
achieving MDGs 4 and 5 targets, the primary objective of the project was to catalyse the country’s
efforts to reduce under-five and maternal mortality in 11 districts in nine (9) of Zambia’s 10
provinces (except Lusaka) countrywide.

Perform a review of the Successes, Challenges and Opportunities of taking Results-Based Financing from scheme to system in health care financing.

You are a newly hired employee at the health department. Your second day at work, you are put in charge of a diabetes awareness program with pamphlets and lectures in a wide variety of target audiences. After speaking with other supervisors, you have been asked to develop a pyramid type program where you train a group of individuals who will then go out and train others. Clearly your knowledge of diffusion theory adoption categories is important.

What aspects of the innovation would be important to highlight in educating the public?

Outline how you would use adopter categories

Who would you expect to include in each of the groups?

How would you target these groups?

How would you evaluate your effort?

What specific factors would you examine?

What are your goals for the program? Why?

In an attempt to strengthen the health system and improve health-service delivery, Zambia has been gradually introducing RBF approaches to complement traditional input based financing in some of its health programs and activities. Zambia was awarded a US$17 million grant in 2008 by the World Bank through the Health Results Innovation Trust Fund (HRITF) to implement a RBF pilot project with an accompanying Impact Evaluation (IE) led by the World Bank. Motivated by inadequate progress to achieving MDGs 4 and 5 targets, the primary objective of the project was to catalyse the country’s efforts to reduce under-five and maternal mortality in 11 districts in nine (9) of Zambia’s 10 provinces (except Lusaka) countrywide. Perform a review of the Successes, Challenges and Opportunities of taking Results-Based Financing from scheme to system in health care financing.

Visit a local retailer and while you are there, you need to find a NEW product. It could be identified on the store shelf or on the packaging of the product, but be sure it is identified as NEW to the market. Then, please answer the following questions:

1. What is the name of the product? Do you think this product is increasing the breadth or the depth of the product line? Why did you choose your answers? Support this argument with course material.
2. Is the brand name of the product a good fit for the product? Why or why not? Again, support this argument with course material.
3. Did the maker of the product use packaging and labeling well? List and describe the packaging or labeling strategies you see being used.
4. Do you think this new product will diffuse quickly or slowly through the marketplace? Why? Go into detail using at least one of the characteristics influencing the diffusion of innovation (found in Chapter 12) to support your answer.

Team building

Select One
involves including qualified people in the venture
does nothing
is overrated
does not threaten the entrepreneur's autonomy

Entrepreneurs now view social/environmental issues as

Select One
global competition
part of the future of business
affecting only certail industries
a minor concern

The adverse impact of ___________ can be so destructive that individuals within the enterprise will tend to avoid entrepreneurial behavior

Select One
traditional management techniques
specific entrepreneurial strategies
informal meetings
innovative climate rules

In following the rules of innovation, a manager should do all the followings, except

Select One
encourage action
use formal meetings whenever possible
reward performance
punish failure

The most pro-active position for a corporation to take in regard to social responsibility would be termed

Select One
social obligation
social intensity
social decisiveness
social responsiveness

This maze project assumes that a cell is rectangular, and that there is an entrance into and an exit from the cell.  What if the entrance and the exit were closed doors and the user was to choose which door leads to the next cell?  What would be some pseudocode for this scenario?

Notice that " switch case " statements are used for this project along with " if " statements.  Can they be interchanged and still produce the same results [ i.e., make the switch case statements into if statements, and the if statements into switch case statements ] ? Support your answer!

Reference source code for more information:

public class Maze

{

  static Scanner sc = new Scanner(System.in);

  // maze movements

  static char myMove = '\0';

  // cell position

  static int currentCell = 0;

  static int score = 0;

  static boolean advance = true;

  static boolean checkThis = false;

  public static void main(String args[])

  {

   // the local variables declared and initialized

   char answer = 'Y';

   displayMenu();  

   while(answer == 'Y' || answer == 'y')

   {

            displayMovement();

            makeYourMove();

            checkThis = checkYourMove();

            mazeStatus();

            System.out.println("move again(Y or N)?");

      answer = sc.next().charAt(0);

  }

   System.out.println("***************************");

}// end main() method

static void displayMenu()

{

   System.out.println("");

   System.out.println("***************************");

   System.out.println("----The Maze Strategy---");

   System.out.println("");

}// end method

static void displayMovement()

{

            if(currentCell == 0)

            {

                        System.out.println("You have entered the maze!!");

                        System.out.println("There is no turning back!!");

                        currentCell = 1;

                        mazeStatus();

                        advance = true;

            }

      System.out.println("make your move (W, A, S, D)");

      System.out.println("W = up, A = left, S = down, D = right)");

}// end method

static void makeYourMove()

{

            myMove = sc.next().charAt(0);

            score++;

            switch(myMove)

            {

              case 'W': { MoveUp(); break; }

              case 'A': { MoveLeft(); break; }

              case 'S': { MoveDown(); break; }

              case 'D': { MoveRight(); break; }

            }

            // end program menu

}// end method

static boolean checkYourMove()

{

            if(currentCell == 1 && advance == true)

            {

                        if (myMove == 'W')

                        {

                                    advance = false;

                                    System.out.println("try again");

                                    return advance;

                        }

                        if (myMove == 'A')

                        {

                                    advance = false;

                                    System.out.println("SORRY, there is no return");

                                    return advance;

                        }

                        if (myMove == 'D')

                        {

                                    currentCell = 2;

                                    advance = true;

                                    System.out.println("continue through the maze");

                                    return advance;

                        }

                        if (myMove == 'S')

                        {

                                    advance = false;

                                    System.out.println("continue through the maze");

                                    return advance;

                        }

            }

return advance;

            // end program menu

}// end method

static void MoveLeft()

{

   System.out.println("you moved to the left");

}// end method

static void MoveRight()

{

             System.out.println("you moved to the right");

}// end method

static void MoveUp()

{

            System.out.println("you moved up (forward)");

}// end method

static void MoveDown()

{

            System.out.println("you moved down (downward)");

}// end method

static void mazeStatus()

{

            System.out.println("current position: cell " + currentCell);

}// end method

}// end class

Williams-Santana, Inc., is a manufacturer of high-tech industrial parts that was started in 2009 by two talented engineers with little business training. In 2021, the company was acquired by one of its major customers. As part of an internal audit, the following facts were discovered. The audit occurred during 2021 before any adjusting entries or closing entries were prepared. The income tax rate is 25% for all years.

1. A five-year casualty insurance policy was purchased at the beginning of 2019 for $35,000. The full amount was debited to insurance expense at the time.
2. Effective January 1, 2021, the company changed the salvage value used in calculating depreciation for its office building. The building cost $600,000 on December 29, 2010, and has been depreciated on a straight-line basis assuming a useful life of 40 years and a salvage value of $100,000. Declining real estate values in the area indicate that the salvage value will be no more than $25,000.
3. On December 31, 2020, merchandise inventory was overstated by $25,000 due to a mistake in the physical inventory count using the periodic inventory system.
4. The company changed inventory cost methods to FIFO from LIFO at the end of 2021 for both financial statement and income tax purposes. The change will cause a $960,000 increase in the beginning inventory at January 1, 2022.
5. At the end of 2020, the company failed to accrue $16,400 of sales commissions earned by employees during 2020. The expense was recorded when the commissions were paid in early 2021.
6. At the beginning of 2019, the company purchased a machine at a cost of $720,000. Its useful life was estimated to be ten years with no salvage value. The machine has been depreciated by the double-declining balance method. Its book value on December 31, 2020, was $460,800. On January 1, 2021, the company changed to the straight-line method.
7. Warranty expense is determined each year as 1% of sales. Actual payment experience of recent years indicates that 0.75% is a better indication of the actual cost. Management effects the change in 2021. Credit sales for 2021 are $4,000,000; in 2020 they were $3,700,000.

Required:
For each situation:
1. Identify whether it represents an accounting change or an error. If an accounting change, identify the type of change. For accounting errors, choose "Not applicable".
2. Prepare any journal entry necessary as a direct result of the change or error correction, as well as any adjusting entry for 2021 related to the situation described. Any tax effects should be adjusted for through Income tax payable or Refund—income tax.

Prepare any journal entry necessary as a direct result of the change or error correction, as well as any adjusting entry for 2021 related to the situation described. Any tax effects should be adjusted for through Income tax payable or Refund—income tax. (If no entry is required for a transaction/event, select "No journal entry required" in the first account field.)

Case 1: Primary Care Financial Management

            The Health Center Program provides grants to nonprofit private and public entities that serve designated medically underserved populations and areas and vulnerable populations of migrant and seasonal farmworkers, homeless individuals, and public housing residents. These grants are commonly referred to as “section 330 grants.”

Under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, P.L. No. 111-5 (Recovery Act), enacted February 17, 2009, HRSA received $2.5 billion, $2 billion of which was to expand the Health Center Program by serving more patients, stimulating new jobs, and meeting the expected increase in demand for primary health care services among the Nation’s uninsured and underserved populations. HRSA awarded a number of grants using Recovery Act funding in support of the Health Center Program, including Health Information Technology Implementation (HIT), Capital Improvement Program (CIP), New Access Point (NAP), and Increased Demand for Services (IDS) grants.

Neighborhood Care, is a nonprofit organization that operates community health centers in San Antonio, Texas, and the surrounding area. Neighborhood Care provides medical, dental, and mental health services and is funded primarily by patient service revenues and Federal grants. During fiscal years 2010 and 2011 (February 1, 2009, through January 31, 2011), Neighborhood Care received approximately $9.8 million (Federal share) in section 330 grant funding to supplement its health center operations. For project periods ranging from March 2009 through May 2012, HRSA awarded Neighborhood Care funding for five Recovery Act grants totaling $7,518,980: $4,024,697 under two HIT grants, $1,447,420 under a CIP grant, $1,300,000 under an NAP grant, and $746,863 under an IDS grant.

OBJECTIVES

Our objectives were to determine whether:

(1) The costs that Neighborhood Care claimed were allowable and

(2) Neighborhood Care had adequate controls over its financial management system.

SUMMARY OF FINDINGS

Of the $16,020,116 that we reviewed, $3,417,461 was allowable. We could not determine whether salary and fringe benefit costs totaling $12,543,068 that Neighborhood Care claimed were allowable because Neighborhood Care did not maintain personnel activity reports for employees who worked on its section 330, HIT, NAP, and IDS grants and because the accounting records for the section 330 and NAP grants did not separate expenditures related to the Federal grants from those related to other funding sources. Neighborhood Care recorded additional potentially unallowable costs of $50,240 for compensation increases and $9,347 for interest expense.

Neighborhood Care did not have adequate controls over its financial management system. Specifically, Neighborhood Care did not draw down funds based on the cash needs for each project and did not prepare and complete bank statement reconciliations in a timely manner. Also, Neighborhood Care did not have adequate procurement procedures to ensure that it obtained reasonable pricing when procuring goods and services.

QUESTIONS

The Health Center Program provides grants to health centers. What is a health center and its purpose? Who can receive services at a health center?

As a designated health center, patients cannot be denied care regardless of their ability to pay. How are fees for services determined at a health center?

Provide 2 recommendations that Neighborhood Care should implement to tighten up the financial management of the practice?