How is understanding the breakeven point helpful for a manager in everyday operations management? How can Excel be used to automate the calculation process? What are some of the variables that can be changed in order to alter the breakeven point?

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Healthcare Finance

Bench marking for Decision-Making

Discuss the following example:

Your nursing home defines output as a patient day. The present volume is 18,000 patient days. The average cost per day is $95.00. Present revenues and costs are presented below.

Patient-Days

Amount

Revenues:

Charge Patients

6,000

$ 750,000

Fixed Price Patients

20,000

$ 1,800,000

Total Revenues

26,000

$ 2,550,000

$ 98.08

Costs:

Fixed Costs

$ 1,170,000

Variable Costs

$ 45.00

$ 1,170,000

Total Costs

$ 2,340,000

Profit or Net Income

$ 210,000

Discussion Prompt:

What is the breakeven inpatient days for this nursing home, assuming no profit is required? If volume goes up 10 percent to 28,600 patient days and payer mix is unchanged, what will net income be? Respond to the following questions:

Calculate the results.

How is understanding the breakeven point helpful for a manager in everyday operations management?

How can Excel be used to automate the calculation process?

What are some of the variables that can be changed in order to alter the breakeven point?

Discuss the breakeven analysis and question responses with at least 2 of your cohort colleagues.

Create a PowerPoint presentation based on your final recommendations for the company’s change management strategies.

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Mgmt619 powerpoint

Create a PowerPoint presentation based on your final recommendations for the company’s change management strategies. The presentation should have an introduction slide, as well as a reference slide(s) at the end of the presentation. There should be a minimum of 10 slides that briefly covers the content of the strategy manual. APA citing. Topic is the same as related orders as it is an ongoing project.

Identify the target customer in terms of age, gender, income, location, needs…etc. Have your customers’ needs changed over the years? Are all their needs fulfilled? Is there a gap between customers’ needs and market offerings?

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ENTERTAINMENT/MOVIES

You are a top executive in your corporation. After careful consideration, you were selected to work on a project to use Management Information Systems (MIS) to change the way business is run.
1. History and Background (provide detailed information about the industry, past and present business model/practices, the industry’s strengths and weaknesses)
2. Target Customer (identify the target customer in terms of age, gender, income, location, needs…etc. Have your customers’ needs changed over the years? Are all their needs fulfilled? Is there a gap between customers’ needs and market offerings?)

Critically discuss the role of ethics, environment and sustainability for a business and their implications on company performance and strategy.

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Answer the questions (Managerial accounting)

Q1: Critically discuss the role of ethics, environment and sustainability for a business and their implications on company performance and strategy. (8 marks)

Note: It is expected that students actively use external sources such as latest reports,academic and business articles, books, news etc. Minimum 8 sources for each question. You are also encouraged to use company examples to support the discussion.

Q2: Choose one option from the following:

Option 1: Critically discuss the role of management accounting for managers in key areas decision making and how its role is changing in 21st century in managing and running a company. (8 marks)

Note: It is expected that students actively use external sources such as latest reports, academic and business articles, books, news etc. Minimum 8 sources for each question. You are also encouraged to use company examples to support the discussion.

Option 2: Critically discuss the impact of AI (artificial intelligence), machine learning, automation, smart systems and blockchain on the industries and their wider implications on a society. (8 marks)

Note: It is expected that students actively use external sources such as latest reports, academic and business articles, books, news etc. Minimum 8 sources for each question. You are also encouraged to use company examples to support the discussion.

Q3: Critically discuss key steps involved and relevance of strategic management framework for a business. Use a company example to apply 5 steps accordingly (8 marks)

Note: It is expected that students actively use external sources such as latest reports, academic and business articles, books, news etc. Minimum 8 sources for each question. You are also encouraged to use company examples to support the discussion.

Identify the most important issues in the article. Identify ALL stakeholders involved in this issue. Identify ALL interests of EACH stakeholder. Identify ALL powers that EACH stakeholder possesses. Discuss stakeholder alliances that might be created.

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Please See Instructions

Select an article related to any aspect of organizational change management from a journal such as The Wall Street Journal, OR The New York Times, OR Investor’s Business Daily.

Include a brief overview of the article and a comprehensive stakeholder analysis that responds to the following

 

  • Identify the most important issues in the article
  • Identify ALL stakeholders involved in this issue (Atleast 10, Must Think Outside of the box)
  • Identify ALL interests of EACH stakeholder
  • Identify ALL powers that EACH stakeholder possesses
  • Discuss stakeholder alliances that might be created
  • Apply 4 related Organizational Change concepts

How does the concept of servant leadership or stewardship differ from traditional leadership philosophies, does it affect quality in an organization or company, provide an example of a pros or cons.

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lesson 9 Discussion Man4520

In your own words, how does the concept of servant leadership or stewardship differ from traditional leadership philosophies, does it affect quality in an organization or company, provide an example of a pros or cons.

Discuss one of the problems described in the article. How could the correct allocation of human resources helped solve some of the problems in this case?

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Lesson 9 Discussion

Discuss one of the problems described in the article.
How could the correct allocation of human resources helped solve some of the problems in this case?

How does employee motivation, or the ability of healthcare managers to motivate employees, contribute to overall performance at the individual and organizational levels?

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Week 3 discussion question

Part 1
A happy employee is a productive employee, right? Maybe. Maybe not. Can a leader really motivate an employee or can the manager only create the environment for the employee to be motivated? Substantiate your post using at least one research article.

part 2
How does employee motivation, or the ability of healthcare managers to motivate employees, contribute to overall performance at the individual and organizational levels? Substantiate your post using at least one research article.

Is the industry attractive in terms of profitability (think about each of the five forces)? How does the external environment influence your company’s intended and/or realized strategies?

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Strategic Management

Apply Porter’s five forces model to the consumer electronics industry. Is the industry attractive in terms of profitability (think about each of the five forces)? How does the external environment influence your company’s intended and/or realized strategies?Strategic Management

Address these questions in an essay. Your essay should be within 3 pages (double-spaced, 1 inch margin). Organize and state your ideas clearly. When relevant, make sure to back up your judgment with strong, clear logic and evidence (data, example, quote, etc). If you make assumptions (e.g., about your company’s competitors), state them clearly.

What are the core problems and challenges presented in the case study? Describe at least 3 Management practices used by Accenture in the IT transition process from 2001 to 2008. Pretend that you are the CIO of Accenture – What decisions do you need to make beyond 2009? Does the case reveal any issues that the author might not have recognized or wrote about?

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Case Digest : Accenture IT transformation

Answer the following questions as part of your Case Analysis:

What are the core problems and challenges presented in the case study?

Describe at least 3 Management practices used by Accenture in the IT transition process from 2001 to 2008.

Pretend that you are the CIO of Accenture – What decisions do you need to make beyond 2009?

Does the case reveal any issues that the author might not have recognized or wrote about?