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What policies and processes should be in place to create an effective program?How will you measure the effectiveness of your program and your provision of health care services?

Feasibility study

Analyze the role of public policy with regard to your project. What policies and processes should be in place to create an effective program?

How will you measure the effectiveness of your program and your provision of health care services? Develop a microeconomic model that is responsive to the specific health care service demands of your target population.

For example, the current trend of the medical home model, which allows for the coordination of care, allows for better communication among service providers as well as convenience for patients. Is the population a market priority? How does your program serve a need for your target population?

What were the effects of commodity financialisation and why is this important for market participants as well as for policy makers?Who were the main market participants in commodity futures markets before commodity financialisation and after that?

Answer these queries specifically in the written answers to the above two questions.

Summarise the views presented in the two above research articles and link them to the views that financial industry holds about the effects of commodity financialisation for investment opportunities.

In the light of what you have learned in this course so far (especially of the Theory of Normal Backwardation and Theory of Storage), discuss how, in your opinion, commodity financialisation has affected the relation between spot and futures prices for commodities?

What does the term commodity financialisation represent?

What were the reasons for commodity financialisation?

Who were the main market participants in commodity futures markets before commodity financialisation and after that?

What were the effects of commodity financialisation and why is this important for market participants as well as for policy makers?

What value does the variance analysis provide to the organization?If you are the CFO, what questions would you ask? What is your primary concern with regard to the variance report? What action plan might you put in place to address the variance?

Healthcare 8.2

Provide a mock variance analysis for a healthcare organization of your choice. This may be a real or hypothetical organization. Include the following information:

Describe the components a 3-variance analysis for the organization. Explain each component.

What value(s) can a healthcare administrator control for?

What value does the variance analysis provide to the organization?

If you are the CFO, what questions would you ask? What is your primary concern with regard to the variance report?
What action plan might you put in place to address the variance?

Have you ever been involved in helping prepare a capital expenditure budget? Do you recall whether any of the four cash flow reporting methods were used?

Healthcare DB 8.1

Have you ever been involved in helping prepare a capital expenditure budget? Do you recall whether any of the four cash flow reporting methods were used? If you have not been involved in creating the capital budget, ask someone in your finance department to provide you with the directions they distribute each year when it is time to develop the capital budget for the coming year. Then, discuss what you learned about your organization’s capital budgeting process. ( work in a non-profit. We are looking into purchasing a building)

What are other important points related to capital budgeting that you might cite from the article?Was your article structured around a foreign market? What are the differences/parallels to American PCAs?

4-1 Discussion: Postcompletion Auditing in Capital Budgeting Decisions FIN 630

In your initial post, you can address the following guiding questions:

What article did you select, and why did you select it?

How does the article describe and analyze PCAs?

Why do companies use PCAs?

How do PCAs impact the company’s future capital budgeting decisions?

What are other important points related to capital budgeting that you might cite from the article?

Was your article structured around a foreign market? What are the differences/parallels to American PCAs?

 

 Examine agency costs and different ways to minimize them in order to maximize shareholder value.

4-1 Discussion: Minimizing Agency Costs FIN-660

Examine agency costs and different ways to minimize them in order to maximize shareholder value.

As you discovered in this module’s reading, agency costs are the result of managing the relationship and resolving differences between the shareholders and management, especially when there is a conflict of interest. Craft an initial discussion post in which you suggest effective ways to minimize agency costs, other than compliance with regulatory agencies.