The Impact of Social Science on Healthcare Practice Discussion

Science

Discuss how social behaviors displayed during face-to-face interactions affect the practice of your medical occupational specialty on a daily basis. Your analysis should include:

  1. Four face-to-face social behaviors and/or interactions experienced in your daily work.
  2. Examples from the literature or from personal experience that illustrate how those behaviors influence patient care or leadership practices.
  3. A discussion of their impact, i.e., how being capable of analyzing patterns of behavior help you to model leadership in your occupation through developing trusting relationships and establishing respect with peers and/or patients.

You may illustrate your response with actual or hypothetical situations. Any actual situation should be presented as a hypothetical one, with any names and other identifying information changed for anonymity.

The following requirements apply to this assignment:

  • 2–4 pages in length, excluding any title page, references, appendices, etc.
  • Logical flow from beginning to end to exhibit well-ordered and unified expression, with your viewpoint and purpose clearly established and sustained throughout the document.
  • Original and insightful thought.
  • Seamlessly integrate research to support your ideas on the topic.
  • Adherence to established conventions of Standard English, e.g., correct grammar, punctuation, and spelling.
  • Adherence to APA formatting
  • Inclusion of a title page.
  • Inclusion of a reference page, as appropriate.

Analysis of Adopting IFRS

Business Finance

Competencies

  • Evaluate the reasons business combinations occur and the accounting implications of such transactions.
  • Critique the development of International Accounting Standards and the implications for US corporations.
  • Measure the accounting for foreign currency and its translation.
  • Assess the proper accounting for transactions with respect to deferred taxes and leases using the accounting codification and other accounting research tools.
  • Justify the proper accounting for transactions with respect to accounting changes and error corrections using the accounting codification and other accounting research tools
  • Evaluate the proper accounting for transactions with respect to interim and segment reporting using the accounting codification and other accounting research tools.

Scenario

Swift Cycles is a publicly held, mid-sized manufacturer, with $40 million dollars in annual revenue. Swift has been producing high-end custom cycles currently in the US for the past ten years. Swift has decided to start operations in various locations in Europe in the next five years. In a recent board meeting, the CEO and CFO faced difficult questioning from outside members of the board regarding the impact that adoption of International Financial Reporting Standards might have on the company. Both officers lack a depth of knowledge on the subject and their preparedness for the changes that may be presented.

The CFO has asked you as the Controller to do some preliminary research about the possible transition from US GAAP principles to IFRS standards. The company is publicly held; therefore, it must follow all reporting requirements of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC).

Prepare an analysis and presentation of the impact that adoption of International Financial Reporting Standards would have on the company’s financial statements and its investors. Also, prepare an analysis and operational plan of how this adoption may be accomplished by the company.

Instructions

Analysis of Adopting IFRS:

Create an executive summary that analyzes the impact that adoption of International Financial Reporting Standards would have on Swift’s financial statements and its investors. For your analysis, consider that IFRS will be adopted in their current form. Consider the effects on each of the account groupings (such as foreign currency transactions, deferred taxes, and leases in different countries) for each of the financial statements (balance sheet, income statement, change in equity statement, and statement of cash flows). Explain the implications of consolidating reporting to the parent company versus segment reporting over major areas of the company.

Operational Plan:

Within the executive summary, write a proposal that provides an operational plan of how this adoption may be accomplished in the company. Consider the following in your Operational Plan:

  • Resources.
  • What policies and procedures should be modified in order meet IFRS requirements?
  • How the project should be managed.
  • What organizational structures, policies, or procedures should be in place to ensure that the implementation is ethical and compliant with all IFRS requirements?

Presentation to the Executive Board:

For the executive leadership team, create a PowerPoint presentation, 5-10 slides, including slide notes to summarize the essential information regarding the impact of the adoption of IFRS on financial statements and investors of the company, which includes the information from the operational plan. At the end of your executive summary, give your strongest recommendation on the convergence to IFRS.

Use the FASB Codification and IFRS to address all technical accounting issues presented in the questions, being certain to reference the applicable sections of the Codification and IFRS in your report.

Any other sources used to support your responses should similarly be properly documented. You should have other credible sources in addition to the Codification and IFRS.

Write a letter

Business Finance

You have just received an order from an Internet retailer for some equipment you need for a business presentation. Unfortunately, some of the equipment is damaged. Write a letter to the retailer in which you explain the damage, express your dissatisfaction with the shipment, and describe what you want the retailer to do to fulfill your shipment.

Develop a response that includes examples and evidence to support your ideas, and which clearly communicates the required message to your audience. Organize your response in a clear and logical manner as appropriate for the genre of writing. Use well-structured sentences, audience-appropriate language, and correct conventions of standard American English.

Geology Writing Assignment

Science

Essay Questions (100 points total).

Note the attached PDF of this assignment…

1. Explain thoroughly how it took 55 years (from 1915 until 1970) for the hypothesis of Continental Drift to develop into the theory of Plate Tectonics. Your answer should be no less than 500 words. (50 points)

READ THIS! – In other words, use the theory of Plate Tectonics to show how the Scientific Method was used to “flesh out” the hypothesis of Continental Drift put forth by Wegener, by adding new data provided by new technology and people until general buy-in was obtained in 1970, when the term “Plate Tectonics” was coined. (Chapter 1, especially 1.3, The Nature of Scientific Inquiry; and Chapter 2, especially 2.1 through 2.3, and 2.9, “Testing the Plate Tectonics Model”). Do not spend time discussing what came before 1915! Wegener did a great job of laying out the evidence he had available at the time. After your introductory paragraph, I do not expect to see the name “Wegener” again.

Be sure to explain:

  • WHO were the key players?
  • WHAT were the key observations and conclusions?
  • WHERE were the observations made?
  • WHEN were the key discoveries made?
  • HOW were these discoveries accomplished, including fields of study, equipment, etc.?

2. Use plate tectonic theory to explain the origin of Mount St. Helens (and by extension, the Cascades and all Andean-type mountains). Your answer should be no less than 500 words. (50 points)

In your answer, include a discussion of:

  • the plate tectonic process involved
  • the origin of the magma and rocks
  • the composition of the magma and rocks
  • the type of eruptions that occur there
  • other geologic features associated with Andean-type mountains.