Profit margin

The solution to addressing the issue of for profit healthcare organization to turn a profit from its paying customers while meeting its ethical obligation to provide care to the not able to pay customers can be done by forming a new type-of corporation called the benefit corporation. To be set up as a benefit corporation a healthcare organization must be set up with a dual purpose. 1) Create a general public benefit by creating value for its stakeholders- Such as the local community, local and…

Combined Ratio: Loss Ratio + Expense ratio The sum of Loss ratio and Expense ratio is called combined ratio. It shows the profitability of the insurer. The loss ratio measures the efficiency in underwriting and the expense ratio measures the management competency and efficiency. The loss ratio is calculated as the claims that are payable to the earned premium in percentage, and expense ratio is calculated as a percentage of the operating expense to the earned premium. It is better if the…

Price-earnings ratio for the year 2005 is -0.018 times while in year 2003 is 0.021 times. Since earning per share is below zero in the year 2003, it is considered as loss per share and results in negative price-earnings ratio. Price-earnings ratio can be negative mathematically but it is financially not acceptable. Therefore, price-sales ratio is used to compare between the both years. Price-sales ratio in year 2005 is 1.45 times which is lower than 1.80 times in the year 2003.The lower the…

3.1. Comparison between Mike and Harvey’s motivation: The two most common forms of motivation that people would have within a business are monetary motivation and nonmonetary motivation. Monetary motivation is a form of several reward systems that are all financially based, such as project bonuses, commissions etc. Monetary motivation, however is not all ways ideal as this form of motivation can easily encourage complacency within the employee as they would rather perform the task in a way that…

I had the pleasure of interviewing Mr. Mark, an 87-year-old Caucasian male, living in a nursing home in Ontario, California. This man seemed full of life and definitely made it clear that love is what has played a huge factor in the person is today. This man was born a nuclear home in Chicago in 1929. He was surrounded with loving from his parents and an older brother. However, during his high school years, he and his family moved to Arizona due to the drastic weather in Chicago and his father…

overall increase in competition within the Greater Toronto Area (GTA) has generated concern as to whether the ROM night event can sustain their popularity. Their objective is to attract at least 3,500 visitors with the goal to increase revenues and profits by the grand opening date on October 9, 2015. The new marketing plan made by Martin will be put into effect to accomplish these goals and ensure…

An important parameter that can help assess the performance of MGNREGA using the official data is the average person days generated by state in a year. The average days of employment generated per household should be calculated on the basis of total number of households provided employment rather than the total number of registered households. We believe that average person days created per household who demanded employment is an important indicator of MGNREGA performance, because employment…

impress Gerald and the fact that Mr Birling is trying to almost be like Geralds father Mr Croft, shows that he knows who his superiors are and all he wants is the marriage of Sheila Birling and Gerald Croft so he could move forward financially and profit from the marriage.…

gross profits reached $73,500 • We met our objective of keeping operating expenses under 60 percent of the gross profit with them only representing 52 percent of gross profit • The year’s net profit before taxes reached $32,290 • We saw a 100 percent increase in total revenues between the first quarter and fourth quarter • We maintained a steady and sufficient current ratio and working capital In 2013, we managed to generate sales that resulted in a gross profit of $73,500 in gross profit. After…

According to Bennet patents give exclusive rights to the manufacturing and selling of that particular product or service for a particular limited time period (Bennet, 2002). Patents also helps companies exclude competitors thus it leads to maximum profit making for a company and also its market share increases. People within a firm do attempt to gain such kind of power. For example an employee would do anything to reduce competition for his job maybe by going for training or by going to the…