Benchmark

Introduction Sutter Health is a non-profit network, which comprises of community-based health care providers based in Northern Carolina. Sutter Health introduced an interface, which was targeting to improve revenue collection of the facilities from the self pay patient. Sutter Health recognized that conventional payment processing system had had shortcomings with limited access to correct information by the account representatives, unproductive performance measures and disjointed centers of…

Financial Statement Fraud Investigation Frisbey (2015) indicated that forensic accountants should be able to effectively communicate with the management and involved personnel as to the factors of the existence of fraud indicators, to be able to perform essential analytics and independent testing such as horizontal and vertical testing techniques to detect fraud or to examine the validity of evidence being investigated (p.8-9). Frisbey mentioned that forensic accountants should, for example,…

From sea to shining sea the United States of America is idealized as a nation that leads the world in every category imaginable, yet only places principally in three. The first being the amount of men, women, and children incarcerated per capita, the number of people that believe angels exist, and the United States leads the world in defense spending at 640 billion dollars, more than 20% of the yearly budget. Conversely, we are near the bottom in one specific classification that can lead to the…

When one thinks of education, we think of schools with organized classrooms, brightly decorated bulletin boards and students with the latest back packs lining the halls ready to start their day. But we cannot talk of education and schools without talking about assessments. Assessments are the means in which teachers determine if students have learned the intended objective. They are used for grade level placement, specific skill identification and even program and teacher evaluation. Formative…

This is called the illusion of invulnerability, which means the in-group drastically overrates its own intelligence and decision-making ability, because it sees no other benchmark to gauge itself. There are indeed benchmarks, but the in-group discounts or completely ignores information from the out-group. This produces an artificial strength that can trigger a dysfunctional dynamic. The in-group is not geographically isolated from the world, just…

Most Companies need to invest in wealth-creating assets in order to survive in the rapidly changing global business environment (Eljelly and Abuidris, 2001). The reason being is because capital investment functions to generate cash flows in years to come and also acts to uphold the profitability of existing business activities (Watson and Head, 2007). Normally, a company will need to use up a huge amount of cash outflows at the starting point of the projects. Later they will get cash inflows on…

Introduction: Special Education in the Individual Education Program The introduction begins with the definition of what is special education and individual education program. It also covers the various aspect of each component as has to how they are determined, the individual roles and functions. If your child receives special education services, he must have an Individualized Education Program (IEP). That’s the law. An IEP is an important legal document. It spells out your child’s learning…

When someone says the word business, what do you think about? Do you think about money, a big corporation or maybe the little bakery down the street? According to the Normative Foundations of Business case, “business is any organization in which private parties (sometimes referred to as “owners”) provide risk capital and have a claim on the net economic value that is created. Businesses are designed with the intention of being self-funding, acquiring resources through market exchange and…

For all the enthusiast driven, car fanatics and even for those who remotely follow the automotive industry; the heated debate about which Hypercar takes the podium position is nothing new. I’m talking about the bedazzling red LaFerrari, the immaculate McLaren P1 and the showstopper: Porsche 918 Spyder. In an age, where the Hybrid wars are characterized by relentless arguments about efficiency, CO2 emissions, the environment and what not, the addition of hybrid and electric hybrid technology…

CHAPTER FIVE CONCLUSIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS 5.1 Introduction This chapter presents the conclusions that are drawn from the results of the study. It also discusses some recommendations, as deemed fit, to be used as references for future studies that would be conducted on the same issue. 5.2 Conclusions This study was conducted to investigate whether investors are able to maximize their returns by investing overseas as compared to investing in the domestic market via unit trusts. For Malaysia,…