Author: chris

Assignment 1: Financial Statement Analysis

Due Week 4 and worth 200 points

Select one (1) of the following publically traded health care organizations: Universal Health Services (NYSE: UHS) or Health Management Associates (NYSE: HMA).

Suppose you are a newly appointed CFO of your chosen health care organization. One of your first tasks is to conduct an internal financial analysis of the organization. Conduct a brief financial analysis and review of the chosen company’s financial statements for at least three (3) consecutive years. After conducting the analysis, interpret the data contained within the statements.

Write a three to four (3-4) page paper in which you:

Based on your review of the financial statements, suggest a key insight about the financial health of the company. Speculate on the likely reaction to the financial statements from various stakeholder groups (employee, investors, shareholders). Provide support for your rationale.
Identify the current industry trend that has the most significant impact on your chosen organization’s financial performance. Indicate the trend’s impact on the financial performance of the organization. As the CFO, suggest at least one (1) way that you might minimize the impact of the trend on the organization.
As the CFO, suggest one (1) key strategy that you might use in order to improve the financial performance of the organization. Recommend an approach to implement the suggested strategy. Provide support for your recommendation.
Use at least four (4) quality academic resources. Note: Wikipedia and other Websites do not qualify as academic resources.

Your assignment must follow these formatting requirements:

Be typed, double spaced, using Times New Roman font (size 12), with one-inch margins on all sides; citations and references must follow APA or school-specific format. Check with your professor for any additional instructions.
Include a cover page containing the title of the assignment, the student’s name, the professor’s name, the course title, and the date. The cover page and the reference page are not included in the required assignment page length.

The specific course learning outcomes associated with this assignment are:

Pick and Discuss (Support) an Operating System + Discuss 2 Things Learned About Unix/Linux & Windows 2000 (2 Writing Assignments @ 300+ words each)

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Each assignment should be atleast 300+ words and follow the instructions correctly. I can provide the chapters for the 2nd assignment (10 and 11) on request.

ONLY QUALIFIED INDIVIDUALS BID! MUST KNOW SUBJECT AND WRITE/UNDERSTAND FLUENT ENGLISH!

1st Discussion Assignment

You are an IT support person who needs to have a good set of tools for making operating system decisions rather quickly. In this hypothetical, pick the desktop operating system you are charged with supporting (Windows XP, WIndows NT, Windows 2000, Linux, Mac OSX, or another of your choice.). In addition to the vendor site, locate three other web-based resources that you will use to support your chosen operating.

In your posting

· identify and describe the Operating System and version that you are supporting

· identify and describe the main vendor site that provides you with useful information

· identify , describe and rate three other web-based resources

2nd Discussion Assignment

Summarize two things you learned about Unix/Linux and Windows 2000 from reading sections from Chapters 10 & 11. Disclose any bias and state your opinion about the issues addressed in these chapters.

Your submission should be substantial (250 words or more), properly formatted, grammatically correct, and free of spelling errors.
Attachments:
application/pdf iconmodern_operating_systems_4th_edition.pdf

for the 2nd assignment (10 and 11) on request.

ONLY QUALIFIED INDIVIDUALS BID! MUST KNOW SUBJECT AND WRITE/UNDERSTAND FLUENT ENGLISH!

1st Discussion Assignment

You are an IT support person who needs to have a good set of tools for making operating system decisions rather quickly. In this hypothetical, pick the desktop operating system you are charged with supporting (Windows XP, WIndows NT, Windows 2000, Linux, Mac OSX, or another of your choice.). In addition to the vendor site, locate three other web-based resources that you will use to support your chosen operating.

In your posting

· identify and describe the Operating System and version that you are supporting

· identify and describe the main vendor site that provides you with useful information

· identify , describe and rate three other web-based resources

2nd Discussion Assignment

Summarize two things you learned about Unix/Linux and Windows 2000 from reading sections from Chapters 10 & 11. Disclose any bias and state your opinion about the issues addressed in these chapters.

Your submission should be substantial (250 words or more), properly formatted, grammatically correct, and free of spelling errors.

Propose a new product or service for the new company division. The division should be customer-focused with an innovative mission statement. Ensure that you are differentiating your product or service.

Describe how the division addresses customer needs and achieves competitive advantage.

Create a vision and a business model for this new division that clearly demonstrates your decision on what you want your business to become in the future.

Explain how the vision, mission, and value of the new division align with the company’s mission and vision.

Summarize how the vision, mission, and values guide the division’s strategic direction.

Define your guiding principles and values for your division in the context of culture, social responsibility, and ethics.

Propose a new product or service for the new company division. The division should be customer-focused with an innovative mission statement. Ensure that you are differentiating your product or service.

Describe how the division addresses customer needs and achieves competitive advantage.

Create a vision and a business model for this new division that clearly demonstrates your decision on what you want your business to become in the future.

Explain how the vision, mission, and value of the new division align with the company’s mission and vision.

Summarize how the vision, mission, and values guide the division’s strategic direction.

Define your guiding principles and values for your division in the context of culture, social responsibility, and ethics.

Propose a new product or service for the new company division. The division should be customer-focused with an innovative mission statement. Ensure that you are differentiating your product or service.

Describe how the division addresses customer needs and achieves competitive advantage.

Create a vision and a business model for this new division that clearly demonstrates your decision on what you want your business to become in the future.

Explain how the vision, mission, and value of the new division align with the company’s mission and vision.

Summarize how the vision, mission, and values guide the division’s strategic direction.

Define your guiding principles and values for your division in the context of culture, social responsibility, and ethics.

Privacy Issue

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Privacy Issues

What are some states and/or the Federal government doing to ensure privacy of your computerized records? (California is the state with the toughest laws).
What are some issues dealing with privacy and who has control of your data (hint: think of issues with data sharing, like grocery stores selling your information to credit card or insurance companies).
Pick another country (or area of the world like EU) and analyze how it handles computer privacy factors differently than the US.

Privacy Issue

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Privacy Issues

What are some states and/or the Federal government doing to ensure privacy of your computerized records? (California is the state with the toughest laws).
What are some issues dealing with privacy and who has control of your data (hint: think of issues with data sharing, like grocery stores selling your information to credit card or insurance companies).
Pick another country (or area of the world like EU) and analyze how it handles computer privacy factors differently than the US.

It would be easy for you to take an existing job description and turn that in. That will have no learning value for you. In a world where work is changing, the ability to identify and skillfully describe a job is a marketable skill. This job description will also be utilized for some future application assignments. You are free to use your own job, if you are employed, but I would prefer if you would use another job. Here is how the assignment would be ideally done.

1. Identify a job you are interested in knowing about. It would be good if there is a person in the job who is willing to talk to you about the job. However, you could opt to define a new job, one that does not exist (although the assignment will be slightly more difficult), if you prefer.
2.Using the job analysis approach discussed in your text, conduct an interview with the person in the job (or ask these questions about the job you are considering for this assignment). They may offer you a copy of their job description—that is ok, but do your own version first—if you want to compare afterwards you can. But turn in what you have done. The ideal situation would be to find somebody who doesn’t have a job description and would like one.

3. Use the information you have collected and the tips in section 4.1 of your text to help construct the job description. At the least, you are to have the following items:
·Title
·Department
·Reports to
·Duties and responsibilities
·Terms of employment
·Qualifications needed

4.Submit both your job description and job analysis to the assignments area in Word format

Describe the difference between common fears and a phobia.

Part 2:

In a given situation, when an individual is faced with a potentially harmful situation, they may react by confronting the threat, escaping from it, or freezing in place (fight-flight-freeze response). Fear is actually part of our normal response to certain life stressors. It subsides when the cause is no longer present. We often adapt improving our coping skills.

Explain the difference between what was just described and a person whose behaviors would be considered dysfunctional or even related to an anxiety disorder.
Go to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) website and review the available information on suicide (Google: CDC Suicide Prevention). Describe the current definition of suicide. Explain the difference between completed suicide, suicide attempts, and suicidal ideation. Describe the gender and age differences in suicide and suicide attempts.

Justify your answers with appropriate reasoning and research from your text and course readings. Comment on the postings of at least two peers, and provide an analysis of each peer’s postings while also suggesting specific additions or clarifications for improving the discussion question response.