Your task is to determine the WACC for a healthcare organization. Your deliverable is a brief report in which you state your determination of WACC, describe and justify how you determined the number, and provide a relevant discussion of your findings. Cha

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Your task is to determine the WACC for a healthcare organization. Your deliverable is a brief report in which you state your determination of WACC, describe and justify how you determined the number, and provide a relevant discussion of your findings. Chapter 7 covers the basic concepts of WACC. Refer to the WACC formula at the bottom of page 341: WACC = Kd(1-t)(D / V) + Ke(E/V)

Company

HCA Healthcare (Stock Ticker Symbol: HCA)

Assumptions:

HCA has a cost of debt of 6%, a corporate tax rate of 40%, and a debt weight of 60%.

HCA has a cost of equity of 11.4% and an equity weight of 40%.

Submit the following:

Write a 350- to 700-word report that contains the following elements:

· Your calculated WACC. Describe how you used the assumptions to calculate the WACC.

· What does HCA’s WACC indicate? How could decision makers use this information?

· How would an increase in equity or debt impact the WACC?

· US corporate tax rates were reduced to 21% starting in 2018. Recalculate your WACC based on the new tax rates. Describe the impact of changes in corporate tax rates on HCA’s WACC.

· Is a higher WACC good or bad? Support your answer.

Include the math used for your calculations.

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Project #1: Interview with a health care system stakeholder.

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Project #1: Interview with a health care system stakeholder.

Identify a significant stakeholder in the U.S. health care system, contact him or her, and arrange and conduct an interview (in person, or over the phone). This stakeholder may be a hospital administrator, a physician, a nurse, a health insurance executive, a politician, a human resources manager at a company, or a consumer with significant knowledge of or experience with the health care system. (Note: We will discuss assignments of stakeholder type in class.) During the interview, pose the following questions (you may ask additional questions, as you have time):

  1. What are the major problems with the U.S. health care system today, from your perspective?
  2. What major trends do you see occurring in the health care system in the next 5 to 10 years?
  3. What changes would you like to see in the system, and how could they be brought about?
  4. What do you see as your role in improving health and health care delivery?
  5. From your perspective, what is the outlook for careers in healthcare management?
  6. What are top 5 skills or competencies needed for a career in healthcare management?

Write up and submit your interviewee’s answers to the foregoing questions. Do not omit to list the name, organization, and title of the person you selected for interview and why you selected this individual.

my question is on the requirements please flow

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Market research is a critical component when you’re launching a product, trying to improve your existing service, or when you’re just looking to be a step ahead of your competitors. It will provide you with all the information you need to make better business decisions. Market research and competitive analysis is crucial for a better understanding of your customers, competitors, and other important factors in the external environment, leading to better decision making and a higher probability of business sustainability.

Following what you’ve written so far, answer the following question as it relates to your personal business venture:

Who are your potential customers? Mention something about their demographics (i.e. age, income, lifestyle, etc…)

Who are your competitors and how are you differentiating yourself from them? What is your competitive advantage (i.e. cost, product/service differentiation, niche, etc…)

Finally, brainstorm potential internal attributes (i.e. strengths and weaknesses) and external attributes (i.e. opportunities and threats) as they relate to your venture.

Use what you have learned on marketing research and competitive analysis to answer these questions in narrative form. Again, your response to the above questions should be between a total of 400-600 words. You will be graded on accuracy of content/concepts used, feasibility, and finally the organization and presentation of the writing. Please refer to the rubric posted on Canvas for more detail on grading.

Please follow all the requirements and upload on time

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Using research of the current literature on the topic selected ( The impact that coaching has on management and the correlation to successful retention of employees) and that is relevant to organizational and executive coaching, prepare a 5–8-page prospectus response complying with the formatting and content instructions below.

  • Minimum of 5 pages and maximum of 8 pages, double spaced, not including title page and reference page
  • Times New Roman 12-point font
  • Left justified only
  • One-inch margins
  • Current APA format
  • Numbered pages
  • Minimum of 10 scholarly journal references; each reference must be less than 10 years old
  • Show block quotations for more than 40 words:
    • Single spaced with double space separating quotes
    • Indented 5 spaces from left-hand margin
    • No quotation marks
  • Reference page in current APA format, including active, permanent/stable URL links (not included in page total)
  • Double space between references and single space within the reference
  • A title page that includes:
    • Course number and name
    • Case name
    • Student name
    • Date submitted
    • Respectfully submitted to: (instructor’s name)
  • Abstract
  • Concepts from the literature synthesized into the prospectus format with the following sections required:
    • Problem Statement
    • Purpose Statement/Research Questions
    • Conceptual Framework
    • Hypothesis/Hypotheses (supported by literature review citations and based on level of empirical knowledge gained from the review of the literature)
  • Selected research approach/rationale for this approach:
    • How the data will be measured
    • How the data will be collected
    • How the data will be analyzed
    • How conclusions will be drawn
    • What limitations exist
  • Expected contributions of the research and expected outcomes
  • Summary

Wk 3 – Apply: The Product Life Cycle (PLC) [due Mon]

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  1. Scenario: You currently work as the marketing manager of your favorite company/organization and manage the success of one of its products or services. Your responsibility is to monitor the stages of the Product Life Cycle (PLC) and adjust the marketing strategies as needed for your product so that it can thrive for as long as possible. At each stage, you assess changes in the target market, determine changes that you need to make to the product or price strategy, and review the competition and profitability.
    Create a 10- to 15-slide (not counting cover slide or reference slide) Microsoft PowerPoint, Prezi, or Microsoft Sway presentation with speaker’s notes that covers the following criteria:

    • Develop a slide that establishes the theme and goals of the presentation.
    • Define and discuss the PLC concept and its importance to marketing managers.
    • Discuss why the PLC is important to marketing managers, and provide examples of the possible implications if the PLC is not monitored.
    • Describe the selected company/organization, product/service, the target market for this product, and how the product/service is presented to the selected target market.
    • Describe how brand equity can be used to create a positive customer image of your product.
    • Describe each stage of the PLC, and analyze the implications that each stage may have on pricing, product definition, competition, and profitability for your selected product/service.

Wk 2 – Apply: Five Step Marketing Research Approach

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  1. Scenario: You are the marketing manager for a local nonprofit charity whose funding is derived from membership fees. You have noticed a severe drop in new memberships and a decline in repeat memberships, which is threatening your organization’s ability to survive and grow. You have decided to implement the Five-Step Marketing Research Approach to help clarify the problem and develop strategies for implementation.
    Create a 10- to 15-slide Microsoft® PowerPoint®, Prezi, or Microsoft® Sway® presentation with speaker notes on the Five-Step Marketing Research Approach in which you detail the steps you will use to address the membership issue that the local nonprofit charity is facing.
    Address the following in your role as marketing manager:

    • Define the Five-Step Marketing Research Approach and discuss the importance of research in marketing.
    • Describe each step of the Marketing Research Approach in detail and create a plan of attack to explain how each stage should be implemented.
    • Define the target market that you are striving to bring into this organization and describe the methods of research that you will use to identify these groups of people.
    • Define service differentiation. Provide an example that illustrates how the local nonprofit charity in the scenario can use differentiation to help increase the target market’s interest.
    • Explain how differentiation will help position the charitable organization within its defined market.

The purpose of this assignment is to allow the students to become familiar with and practice the measurement of Net Present Value (NPV), payback, and Weighted Average Cost of Capital (WACC) using Microsoft Excel.

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Purpose of Assignment

The purpose of this assignment is to allow the students to become familiar with and practice the measurement of Net Present Value (NPV), payback, and Weighted Average Cost of Capital (WACC) using Microsoft Excel.

Assignment Steps

Resources: Microsoft® Excel®, Capital Budgeting Decision Models Template,

Calculate the following problems using Microsoft® Excel®:

  • Calculate the NPV for each project and determine which project should be accepted.

Project A Project B Project C Project D

Inital Outlay (105,000.000) (99,000.00) (110,000.00) (85,000.00)

Inflow year 1 53,000.00 51,000.00 25,000.00 45,000.00

Inflow year 2 50,000.00 47,000.00 55,000.00 50,000.00

Inflow year 3 48,000.00 41,000.00 15,000.00 30,000.00

Inflow year 4 30,000.00 52,000.00 21,000.00 62,000.00

Inflow year 5 35,000.00 40,000.00 35,000.00 68,000.00

Rate 7% 10% 13% 18%

  • Your company is considering three independent projects. Given the following cash flow information, calculate the payback period for each. If your company requires a three-year payback before an investment can be accepted, which project(s) would be accepted?

Project D Project E Project F

Cost 205,000.00 179,000.00 110,000.00

Inflow year 53,000.00 51,000.00 25,000.00

Inflow year 2 50,000.00 87,000.00 55,000.00

Inflow year 3 48,000.00 41,000.00 21,000.00

Inflow year 4 30,000.00 52,000.00 9,000.00

Inflow year 5 24,000.00 40,000.00 35,000.00

  • Using market value and book value (separately), find the adjusted WACC, using 30% tax rate.

Component Balance Sheet Value Market Value Cost of Capital

Debt 5,000,000.00 6,850,000.00 8%

Preferred Stock 4,000,000.00 2,200,00.00 10%

Common Stock 2,000,000.00 5,600,000.00 13%

week 6 Operations Management

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This assignment is designed to align with specific program student learning outcome(s) in your program. Program Student Learning Outcomes are broad statements that describe what students should know and be able to do upon completion of their degree. The signature assignments may be graded with an automated rubric that allows the University to collect data that can be aggregated across a location or college/school and used for program improvements.

Purpose of Assignment

The purpose of this assignment is for students to demonstrate mastery of operations management concepts and tools.

Assignment Steps

Develop a 700- to 1,050-word memo to a prospective employer outlining your credentials, including: taking this class, all of the projects you have done for this class individually and with your team, and their impact on the businesses you have engaged with so a senior manager reading it would want to hire you as either an operations consultant or permanent employee.

Summarize the business case for each project.

Outline what you specifically accomplished, assuming these projects were implemented, and their estimated impacts on the business.

Utilize the learnings from Week 6 to highlight your skills in global sourcing, procurement, and outsourcing which can also be of benefit to your target firm.

Format your assignment as if you would be giving a presentation to senior management.

Research Proposal

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The topic should be on Pay/Compensation Inequity. You can reframe the topic but should be related to ethical issues and corporate social responsibility; and involves both types of actors – leaders and followers and their styles. of a chosen organisation

Organizational Leadership and Ethics

  • Team Research Topic:
  • Name and brief description of the Organization (e.g., type of industry, number of employees, management levels, code of ethics, and CSR policy)
  • Methodology:
  • References:

The topic is organizational leadership and ethics related issue that your team would like to work on. For example: Wells Fargo Fake Account: A Case Analysis of Organizational Leadership and Ethics. Select a topic that helps you to cover aspects related to ethical issues and corporate social responsibility; and involves both types of actors – leaders and followers and their styles.

Give brief description on how your team plans to collect data (e.g., employee interview, grey literature, books, company website, industry reports, published academic or trade literature, and popular media coverage – magazines and newspapers).

This is a research report and report should include at least 10 different published sources of information. At this initial stage, provide references for at least three published sources that you may use in preparing your research project (Avoid listing Wikipedia and other generic sources).

final project submission 1

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. Cost StructuresA. Prepare an overview diagram of the job-costing system at the SRS Educational Press. [ACC-207-01]

B. In a spreadsheet, prepare journal entries to summarize the 2017 transactions. For your final entry, dispose of the year-end under- or overallocatedmanufacturing overhead as a write-off to the Cost of Goods Sold account. Number your entries. Explanations for each entry may be omitted. [ACC-207-01]

C. In a spreadsheet, show posted T-accounts for all inventories and the cost of goods sold, the manufacturing overhead control, and the manufacturingoverhead allocated. [ACC-207-01]

D. How was the SRS Educational Press performance in 2017? Should the company continue to have in-house press production? Did SRS accurately budget formanufacturing overhead costs? Support your answers with relevant data. Also, briefly explain how the firm can dispose of under- or overallocated overheadcosts. [ACC-207-03]

E. Name at least two other products that you are familiar with that would benefit from job order costing, and briefly explain how they would benefit. [ACC207-01]

Guidelines for Submission: Complete the overview diagram for Item A of Section I using a program of your choice. Then, copy and paste it into the appropriate tab of theFinal Project Part I Student Workbook in Excel. Compete items B and D in the workbook. Submit a 1- to 2-page response to Item E as a Word document.