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A health care organization is comprised of different professionals who serve different functions. Their roles may determine how they view quality initiatives, including the different methods measurement and types of improvement tools.

Design a graphic organizer (such as a chart or table) that identifies a minimum of three quality measurement/improvement tools. Describe how they are used for measuring quality by at least four professionals in a health care organization. You must include at least one administrative health professional, one midlevel provider, one physician, and one auxiliary staff member.

There have been several mergers of large firms within oligopolies. In this assignment, you are to select one merger that has been approved by the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) in the last five years; describe and analyze the impact of those mergers, on industry, on consumers, and on society as a whole. Complete the following:

• Go to the Federal Trade Commission’s Web site and select 1 merger that the FTC has approved in the last five years.
• Write a paper that describes the principle firms, their industry, and that summarizes arguments in support of the merger and arguments opposing the merger. The paper should be approximately 2 pages in length, excluding the title page and bibliography.
• In addition to the 2 pages of content, include a title page, abstract, and bibliography.

Some Things to Consider: Industry Description

Consider the following:

• Describe the firms in the proposed merger. List their annual sales, and extent of their operations.
• From the firms’ point of view, what are some of the incentives to consolidate?
• Describe the competitive environment within the industry.

Some Things to Consider: Summaries

Consider the following:

• Explain whether the competitive environment in this industry benefits society or not.
• Is a high degree of market concentration a boon or threat to consumers? Explain.
• How would the merger benefit the firms?
• Would it benefit society or not? Explain.

You might use one or more of the following concepts: productive efficiency or administrative efficiency.

You are a junior accountant with Factional Ltd, a large, publicly-listed company operating in the high-tech sector. Factional Ltd has recently appointed a new chief Executive Officer (CEO), Mr Magnus Bouche, who is due to take up his appointment very shortly. Last night, at the invitation of a friend, you attended a prestigious charity function which, coincidentally, was also attended by Mr Bouche. At one point during the night, you found yourself standing quite close to (but unobserved by) Mr Bouche and overheard a part of his conversation with friends, including his comment that the first thing he intended to do as CEO of Factional Ltd was to “take a bath”.

You are not sure of what it means to “take a bath”, but the conspiratorial tone of the conversation and the fact that one of Mr Bouche’s friends responded to the comment by asking about the likely impact on Factional Ltd’s share price, while another laughed and said something (which you couldn’t quite hear) about Mr Bouche’s put options in Factional Ltd shares, have aroused your suspicions.

This morning, you spoke confidentially to your supervisor in the accounting department of Factional Ltd, Ms Betta Golightly, telling her about the overheard conversation and asking her whether she knew what it meant to “take a bath”. She replied that she had heard of the Big Bath Hypothesis and knew that it related to earnings management, but confessed that she didn’t know about any likely capital markets impacts. She then asked you to conduct some research and prepare a report for her, outlining the following:

1. Possible motivations for an “earnings bath”
2. How an “earnings bath” may be achieved

iii. Whether an “earnings bath” has implications for a firm’s share price

1. Whether an “earnings bath” has implications for the value of a firm’s stock options.

Your report will provide the basis for Ms Golightly’s decision on whether the matter should be brought to the attention of Factional Ltd’s audit committee (a sub-committee of Factional Ltd’s board of directors).

1.  Obtain a current events article related to a topic in this class. You can use any legitimate resource but make sure it is within the past 18 months – see external links for assistance.  The article can be about an issues or a recent case.  Remember this class also covers child abuse and elderly abuse so you can use those articles as well.

2. Write a 2-3 paragraph opinion the article and (really important) state how it applies to this class – and state where in your book it applies to this class.   Why is the article important,   Why did you feel that you should bring this to the attention of the class.  What “caught your attention?”

NO PLAGERISM ABOVE IS WHAT HAS TO BE DONE.

1. Possible motivations for an “earnings bath”
2. How an “earnings bath” may be achieved

iii.        Whether an “earnings bath” has implications for a firm’s share price

1. Whether an “earnings bath” has implications for the value of a firm’s stock options.

A health care organization is comprised of different professionals who serve different functions. Their roles may determine how they view quality initiatives, including the different methods measurement and types of improvement tools.

Design a graphic organizer (such as a chart or table) that identifies a minimum of three quality measurement/improvement tools. Describe how they are used for measuring quality by at least four professionals in a health care organization. You must include at least one administrative health professional, one midlevel provider, one physician, and one auxiliary staff member.

Question 1.

The reading focuses on disciplinarity. Post an insightful comment on the work you have done or will do in your discipline. You may want to consider the following questions: What does disciplinarity mean for you and your studies? Have you taken any courses in your major thus far? If so, what have you learned so far about the “shape of the discipline”? What do you hope to learn? If you have not had courses in your major, what do you expect to learn, or what do you already know from job experience about your major? If you have “real-world” experience in your field of study, how does that compareto what you hope to learn or what you currently are learning?(This is my first semester) (My major is Associate of Science in Health Information Science/Medical Coding Emphasis)

Question 2.

In a 100-200-word short essay, describe the approach to the essay examination as presented in your reading. You will want to summarize, paraphrase, and condense the information. You might consider organizing your response by glossing over the entire process or by honing in on a particular aspect of the reading.

Question 3.

In a 100-200-word short essay, address the following questions: When considering the whole essay in revision, how do you understand FACT? What is your definition of each of the letters of this revision strategy? What are some questions that you would ask of the text when considering each letter? How does this approach help to ensure that the essay has a holistic revision approach?

Question4.

Using what you have learned in this unit’s reading about writing in the disciplines, write a 100-200-word short essay that addresses some or all of the following: What is your major? What “discipline” does that major most easily fall into? Given what you know about your major so far, what types of methodologies are used? What kinds of evidence are considered permissible? What type of documentation format is most often used in that discipline? What kinds of questions does the discipline ask itself? What are some of the writing assignments in the discipline?

If you use outside sources, including ther textbooks, you need to use quotation marks for lifted language, as well as in-text and reference list citations

The Books used in the course are The Little Brown Compact Handbook with Exercises Second Custom Edition Jane E. Aaron and The West Encounters & Transformations Levack/Muir/Veldman Custom Edition Volume 1: to 1715

Research -using the library resources you have been introduced to and any other suitable sources- and write a ~ 1000 words essay about the engineering challenges your field of study is facing in the 21^st century. For example, assume that your concentration is Mechanical Engineering. Do a literature search and write about at least 3 engineering challenges facing the field of mechanical engineering in the 21^st century. Do the same if your concentration is chemical, civil or electrical engineering.

Your submitted work must include references of the sources you used to get information you are presenting.