Happy Valley Hospital is a community-based facility with 288 acute care beds, a twelve suite family-oriented birthing center, a forty four-bed long-term care inpatient facility, and a fourteen bed inpatient rehabilitation unit. Happy Valley has a major competitor, GH, which has two hundred beds, a small cancer center, and a kidney dialysis unit.

Happy Valley’s director of internal medicine, along with the director of nursing for that department, are considering establishing a new hemodialysis service. GH has a small hemodialysis unit, but they do not have enough beds to properly accommodate the needs of this community.

The Happy Valley medical director has surveyed the six nephrologists with staff privileges at the hospital and has determined that all six agree that there is a need for more hemodialysis beds in the community. Moreover, these nephrologists all have staff privileges at both Happy Valley and GH and would prefer that the new beds be added to the GH unit. GH, however, has no plans to expand their unit for at least the next five years, and presently, new patients are being referred to a dialysis unit in another community thirty minutes south of Happy Valley Hospital. Those patients as well as their families find this alternative site and location to be unacceptable.

Based on your understanding of the above case, express your views on the following:

How should the medical director at Happy Valley try to convince patients now being referred to the dialysis unit thirty minutes to the south to switch their care to Happy Valley Hospital?
What steps should the Happy Valley medical director take to ensure that patients will get the proper care and facilities at the Happy Valley Hospital hemodialysis unit, when it is established?
Is the approach of GH for not having any expansion plans for the next five years for their unit justified, keeping in mind the interest of the community? Why or why not?

Review the Wiedmer article regarding workplace bullying (found in the reading section).

Develop a two- to three-page APA- formatted paper that responds to the following:

• Provide a review of the article. Describe the impact of workplace bullying on both the victims and the organization.
• Reflect on a time when you may have witnessed workplace bullying. Discuss at least two practices of workplace bullying addressed in the article that were applicable to your scenario.
• Recommend at least two techniques from the article that management should implement to provide a positive impact on workplace bullying. Support your response with additional information from the textbook or additional research.

Your paper must be two to three pages (not including title and reference pages) and must be formatted according to APA style as outlined in the approved APA style guide. You must cite two scholarly sources in addition to the textbook.

Finalize work on the Microsoft^® PowerPoint^® slide presentation, updating it with new information based on all previous feedback. Include 10 to 12 slides with speaker notes.

• A high-level discussion of how the system should be acquired and maintained
• A discussion of the strategic role the system will play in the company
• An executive summary of the project, succinctly summarizing the rest of the material in the paper
• Four to six references 

Present the completed presentation.

Note: Riordan Manufacturing is one of the Virtual Organizations. Please see the link under Academic Resources or on this entry.

Click the Virtual Organization link to access the Virtual Organizations.

Select one of the Virtual Organizations as the basis for this assignment.

Obtain faculty approval of your selected organization before beginning the assignment.

Access the information contained in your selected organization’s balance sheet and income statement to calculate the following:

• Liquidity ratios
  • Current ratio
  • Acid-test, or quick, ratio
  • Receivables turnover
  • Inventory turnover
• Profitability ratios
  • Asset turnover
  • Profit margin
  • Return on assets
  • Return on common stockholders’ equity
• Solvency ratios
  • Debt to total assets
  • Times interest earned

Show your calculations for each ratio.

Create a horizontal and vertical analysis for the balance sheet and the income statement.

Write a 350- to 700-word memo to the CEO of your selected organization in which you discuss your findings from your ratio calculations and your horizontal and vertical analysis. In your memo, address the following questions:

• What do the liquidity, profitability, and solvency ratios reveal about the financial position of the company?
• Which users may be interested in each type of ratio?
• What does the collected data reveal about the performance and position of the company?

Format your memo consistent with APA guidelines.

500 word APA style forum post with two references one bieng a peer review

 

1.  Compare and contrast Strategic and Tactical Analysis and its application to street crimes such as robbery and property crimes such as burglary.  In your opinion is one more suited in addressing criminal behavior?

2.  Is crime mapping an effective tool in combating crime?  Why?  Describe how crime mapping can be used to support tactical operations.

3.  What is CPTED?  Can CPTED be an effective means to reduce a criminals Modus operandi?  Provide an example.

Combine all elements completed in previous weeks (Topics 1-4) into one cohesive evidence-based proposal and share the proposal with a leader in your organization. (Appropriate individuals include unit managers, department directors, clinical supervisors, charge nurses, and clinical educators.)

Obtain feedback from the leader you have selected and request verification using the Capstone Review Form. Submit the signed Capstone Review Form to CONHCPfield@gcu.edu

For information on how to complete the assignment, refer to “Writing Guidelines” and the “Exemplar of Evidence-Based Practice Capstone Paper.”

Include a title page, abstract, problem statement, conclusion, reference section, and appendices (if tables, graphs, surveys, diagrams, etc. are created from tools required in Topic 4).

Prepare this assignment according to the APA guidelines found in the APA Style Guide, located in the Student Success Center.

This assignment uses a rubric. Please review the rubric prior to beginning the assignment to become familiar with the expectations for successful completion.

 

 

You are required to submit this assignment to Turnitin. Please refer to the directions in the Student Success Center.

Note:  All Capstone Projects are to be submitted to the College. Please submit the Capstone Project Copyright and Distribution Form as well as an electronic copy of the Capstone Project itself to this e-mail address:

⦁ Define “depreciation expense.” How is depreciation expense different from other expenses? What are the tax implications of depreciation expense?   Define “accumulated depreciation.” How is accumulated depreciation affected when a company disposes of an asset that had been depreciated? Describe how depreciation expense and accumulated depreciation are related.
⦁ What is a benefit corporation? What kind of corporation is most likely to seek a change to benefit corporation status? What role do current common stockholders usually play when a corporation seeks a change to benefit corporation status? Are publicly traded corporations likely to seek benefit corporation status? Explain.

What Is Rhetorical Analysis and Why Do It?
Rhetorical analysis involves examining “closely how [an argument] is composed and what makes it an effective or ineffective piece of persuasion” (Ramage, Bean and Johnson 156). Rhetorical analysis asks you to investigate how a text persuades its audience by identifying a writer’s argumentative strategies in light of contextual constraints and exigencies. These analyses come in many forms: political commentary, critical essays, opinion editorials, and case studies. What unites these various forms of writing is the recognition that arguments—regardless of their genre—work on audiences in complex ways and that, upon first glance, audiences are often unable to grasp fully the complexities of those arguments. Through concentrated, systematic analysis, however, we can watch an argument unfold in slow-motion and begin to understand the many ways a text works on various audiences.
Attending to arguments from a rhetorical perspective will heighten your sensitivity to writers’ persuasive strategies and in turn help you learn to construct your own arguments more effectively. Furthermore, rhetorical analysis will help you become a more critical (and thereby responsible) consumer of cultural texts.

Audience and Purpose
This writing project asks you to show readers what is happening behind the scenes of an argument so that we can understand how it persuades (or does not persuade) its audience. Paying close attention to the purpose, evidence, persuasive appeals, and other rhetorical strategies, you are to write a rhetorical analysis of an advertisement in order to make a claim about how the text functions as a persuasive argument and the degree to which that argument succeeds or fails.
To make a claim about the effectiveness of an argument, you must use the rhetorical analysis skills learned in class: identifying persuasive appeals (ethos, pathos, and logos), identifying an author’s claims, evaluating supporting evidence, analyzing the needs and expectations of an audience, and identifying common rhetorical gestures found in the type of text under scrutiny. Your job is to analyze how the argument’s rhetorical functioning contributes to its effectiveness.

Getting Started
First, you must select an advertisement of your choice. Once you have chosen an advertisement, your next step is to conduct some informal research to learn more about the author/company behind the advertisement and the time period in which the ad was published. This informal research should provide enough context to begin thinking more critically about the ad.

Finding Out What to Say
In class we’ll explore questions and heuristics for generating ideas for your analysis. These resources will provide a good starting point for your critical investigation.

Drafting Your Rhetorical Analysis
A rhetorical analysis:
identifies the text under inspection and summarizes its main ideas
presents key points about the text’s rhetorical strategies for persuading its audience
elaborates on these points, emphasizing various points and de-emphasizing others depending on your larger claim
arrives at some new knowledge about the effectiveness of the argument based on the analysis
You must, then, have strong background knowledge of the article as well as be relatively fluent with regard to the article’s key points. Note that evidence for your claims will come directly from the article itself, so be sure that your draft is rich with direct quotations and references to the text.

Grading Criteria:
student presents an effective summary of the ad
student makes a claim which argues for or against the ad’s effectiveness
student includes sufficient supporting evidence drawn from the source
student applies rhetorical analysis terms and strategies learned in class (Note: while this assignment asks you to use the specialized rhetorical terms discussed in class, this is not merely a demonstration of your knowledge of those terms. In other words, you must apply these terms to come to a new understanding of the ad under scrutiny.)

Other Requirements
1500 words (roughly 6 double-spaced pages)
MLA OR APA format

 

Please be reminded that in order to get the full points for the questions, you need to provide the correct answers, with relevant working (calculation(s) and explanation(s) etc.).   Please read the Case Study – Assessment Rubric which had been re-posted to Modules > Weekly Lessons on Canvas for Week Four (Week of September 14) before you work on this case study.  Your case report (including the answers to the questions and the summary of the case background) should be well-typed using MS Office 2013 – Word and should be submitted to the corresponding tab under Assignments on Canvas by the deadline. All your work must be submitted in a single MS Word file. Up to 25% of the case study possible points (i.e. 40 points) will be deducted if you submit your work otherwise. An embedded Excel file in your MS Word file will be considered the same as a separate Excel file submitted. So, if you embed an Excel file in your MS Word file, the same penalty will be given. All the answers as well as the case background summary, except the formulas, must be in your own words. Copy and paste sentence(s)/paragraph(s) from any source, except your own source, is totally unacceptable. Answers submitted in such a way will be subject to heavy penalty.

For this case study, please study the Minicase of Chapter 4 on Page 123 of the textbook (can be accessed from the eBook tab on McGraw-Hill Connect) and the answers to the questions of the minicase (already posted to Modules > Weekly Lessons on Canvas for Week Four (Week of September 14).

The minicase is a VERY CLOSE example for this Case Study 1. Please print the minicase from eBook on McGraw-Hill Connect and its solution from Modues > Weekly Lessons on Canvas and study them well before you work on this case study.

Requirements: You have to provide  (i) a brief summary (must be 350 words or more) (10 points) of the case background description (in your own words) of this case study in the next two pages and  (ii) the answer (in your own words) to each attached question.   You should write up the summary before you work on the answer to any of the questions in this case study.

For the summary, I expect you to write in your own words summarizing what are presented in the case study. I want to make sure that you understand everything in this case study and what you are asked to do about it. Only when you understand what are presented and what you are asked to do, then you can do well. Right?

I do not require you to mention anything about your findings (that is, your answers to the questions) in your summary. You are not expected to add anything new (such as your opinions, explanations etc.) to your summary. I just want to see whether you understand the case study and whether you understand the requirements or not. Therefore, you are expected to restate or summarize in your own words (350 words or more) the background description of this case study including what you are asked to do about it only. In your summary, you need to cover the information contained in the paragraph above the income statement and balance sheet, what information you see in the income statement and balance sheet (please do not copy and paste the income statement and balance sheet from the case study to your summary), the information contained in the short paragraph below them, the information contained in the questions and what you are asked to do by the questions. Thank you!

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Richmond Coffee, Inc. was founded by Gail McCornell and his wife in 2010 in Richmond, Indiana. Due to the lack of the related expertise, the company has not been using much financial planning for its investment needs. Therefore, RC is currently undergoing some hard times resulted in some severe cash flow problems. In addition to losing sales, RC is also falling short of profit to pay salaries to the founders. So, there is an urgent need for the company to prepare a financial plan for the next year to cope with the anticipated investment requirements.

Richmond Coffee, Inc. 2015 Income Statement Sales  $6,854,000  Cost of goods sold  5,231,000 Other expenses  472,000 Depreciation  186,000 EBIT   $965,000  Interest  124,800 Taxable income   $840,200  Taxes (40%)  336,080 Net income  504,120 Dividends $201,648 Add to retained earnings 302,472

Richmond Coffee, Inc. 2015 Balance Sheet Assets  Liabilities and Equity Current assets   Current liabilities       Cash $282,000       Accounts payable $265,000      Accounts receivable 342,000      Notes payable 168,000     Inventory 650,000          Total current liabilities  $433,000           Total current assets  $1,274,000     Long-term debt $2,080,000 Fixed assets        Net plant and equipment  $2,854,000 Shareholder equity        Common stock $450,000        Retained earnings 1,165,000            Total equity  $1,615,000    Total assets  $4,128,000 Total liabilities and equity $4,128,000

RC is looking forward to a growth rate of 14 percent in 2016 (i.e. its sales is expected to increase by 14%). The firm has decided to hire you as a financial consultant to fix all the cash flow problems for them.   1. You are expected to calculate the internal growth rate and sustainable growth rate for RC, and explain to the founders what these numbers mean. (20 points) 2. RC is currently operating at full (100%) capacity. Gail McCornell, one of the founders of the company, would like you to advise them on what amount of external financing will be needed (EFN) for 2016 and whether RC’s sales can rise at this particular rate of growth?

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Please be reminded to include the necessary assumptions, pro forma income statement and pro forma balance sheet in your answer in addition to other workings. (50 points) 3. RC’s fixed assets can only be acquired in multiples of $1,500,000 (i.e. adding a new product line will call for an additional investment of $1,500,000 in new equipment) once RC has reached its full operating capacity. Gail is eager to know what the new external financing needed (EFN) should be as the firm is now already operating at its full capacity. In addition, he also asks you to estimate the new level of capacity utilization of the fixed assets for RD in next year when the new production line has been implemented. Please be reminded to include the new pro forma income statement and pro forma balance sheet in your answer in addition to other workings. (50 points)   4. Gail is interested in knowing as well how the firm’s ROE will change from 2015 to 2016 according to the projected growth rate (subject to the condition that the firm can only acquire the required fixed assets in multiples of $1,500,000, the owners are not going to put in more capital and the firm’s payout ratio remains at the 2015 level). You are expected to do a Du Pont analysis comparison between the two years. For the Du Pont analysis, you must include both the calculations and the explanations. (30  points)

Important Reminder “If you choose to turn in a late case study, you will lose 25% of the points for each day pastdue for that case study. Penalty will be given immediately after the deadline. As I need to return the case studies and post the answers to the case studies, no case study will be accepted for grading after 4 days past-due” – 4-day penalty rule. It is your own responsibility to make sure that you do turn in the case studies and submit the right case study files when you turn them in. You are required to save frequently at least one backup copy of your case studies before you submit them. Past-due submission because of computer crash, misplacing of your memory stick (jump drive) or failing to submit the correct file by the deadline will be penalized according to the above-mentioned 4-day penalty rule.    After you have made your submission of the individual case studies, you should see a short message immediately under Assignments telling whether you have submitted your work successfully or not. It is your responsibility to make sure that you have turned in your work files successfully before you leave the Assignments webpage. If you fail to do so, your subsequent submission will be subject to the 4-day penalty rule mentioned above.

 

 

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