Payment Course Works Samples For Students

The Maastricht Treaty launched the European Monetary Union in the year 1992. The union comprised of two parts, which included the creation of euro the common currency and creation of the European Central Bank, which coordinates all monetary policies in the Eurozone. The treaty also created the rules for countries willing to join the union. The other element of the treaty was the national central banks of the 16 member countries. European Monetary Union creation has led to price stability and proper management of public finances (McKay Volz & Wolfinger 2011).The final phase of the single currency introduction ...

Finance

Based on the financial obligations of the first year, it would be more expensive to buy the condominium than to rent the house. The first year rent amounts to 9600 dollars. In the context of financial outlay, mortgages are relatively cheaper over a long period than rent. This value is a result of the fact that the mortgage payments do not continue to perpetuity. The present value of the mortgage is subsequently lower than that of the rent. However, in the short run, the rent presents the lower cost. In this respect, renting the property would be a viable option. Additional costs ...

In case, real GDP is lower than potential GPD expansionary policies are implemented in correcting contraction of business cycle. Expansionary Fiscal policy leads to increases in purchases by government, tax rate decrease and transfer payment increase to overcome contracting business cycle. Expansionary fiscal policy closes gap of recession, stimulates economy and decreases rate of unemployment.

Fiscal policy tools to stimulate economy are:

Government Purchases
Expenditures done by government sector for services and final goods come under Government purchases. Government purchases are part of GDP bought by the government. Government purchases include heavy cost expenses like highway construction and aircraft clips carriers to smaller expenses like ...

- This problem needs a structured and a step by step approach to solve this problem. First of all let us look at what is known and what is unknown. The interest rate is given, the monthly payment is given and since the five years have already elapsed the remaining time maturity is 20 years under the revised scenario and 25 years under the original scenario. This means that under the original scenario the total time period was 30 years.

- An important point in this problem is that since the loan payments are on a monthly basis we need to convert ...

Why do firms feel that liquidity is desirable even though it may mean that the firm does not utilize the investment capability of cash?

CASH IS KING! This was highlighted in the article and has become the popular slogan at the peak of the 2008 financial crisis. Indeed, this phenomenon is more apparent in bad times than in good times when businesses and households are somewhat oblivious of their accumulating debt and complacent which entail potential liquidity risks. If for anything, a financial meltdown reminds everyone again of the importance of being liquid.
So why is liquidity important? In ...

DOCUMENTATION IN MS-DRGS PAYMENT SYSTEM

A number of changes have been introduced in the medical services such as Medicaid and Medicare services. There is no doubt that these changes tends to bring social changes in the society. In analysis, when we talk about effects or impact of these technological inventions in payment systems, we always talk of its positive and negative effects in the society. One of the changes that has affected the payment system in the Medicare services results from the introduction of MS-DRGs payment system. These changes will oversee the distribution of hospital charges to all inpatient cases which get reported in ...

(a). Principal Documentation Processes and Records

Karla Kay plc payments should be in such a way that no single person controls the entire transaction alone. The procedure for payment should include a presentation of formal documents to the authority that sanction the payment. The authorities should have a limit on sanction powers such that some payment requires the top management of KK Company to sanction. The records and documents of payments must be properly recorded in the cashbook and maintained. Checks have to be pre-numbered and checked to avoid double payment. Checkbooks should be kept in safe custody. Internal audits of payment are ...

SEO and SEM both relate to marketing and search engines. Though both of them are similar in some ways, there are manifest variances between the two. SEO deals with those techniques that ensure the accessibility of a website by a search engine with good chances of the website showing up in the results of a query from the search engine. The definitive goal of any fruitful SEO campaign is the accomplishment of a high-ranking spot in the results returned by major search engine pages such as; Yahoo, Bing and Google. There are also other smaller search engines. After searching, most users on the ...

Souq.com is the leading online platform in the Arab world where there is free trade. The revenue model of www.souq.com leans towards both the commercial and the retail sectors. Since its establishment, it is today the largest online shopping mall in the Arab world. A large number of suppliers enable Souq.com to provide a variety of products to consumers. The company generates by selling numerous product varieties to clients. Some of the product categories that the company deals with include; electronics, baby items, perfumes and fragrances, phones and accessories, etc. The company offers several advantages to its clients including; free ...

(a) How much did your company’s gross margin and gross margin as a percentage of revenue increase (decrease) over the past five fiscal years?

As per the report of Stock Analysis on Net on Starbucks’ profitability analysis, Starbucks’ gross profit margin was 55.75% in 2009, and it notably increased to 58.36% in the following year. However, the firm’s gross profit margin was decreased by 0.66% in 2011 reaching 57.70%. It was again dropped to 56.29% in 2012. According to the same report, in the last fiscal year, Starbucks achieved an improved gross profit margin of 57.14%. The recent increase in the company’s gross profit margin indicates that Starbucks is recovering from the shocks of the recent global recession. Similarly, the organization’ ...

There are five different insurance plans that are governed by federal, state, or local agencies. The first insurance plan is Medicare. Medicare is a health insurance program in the United States for people who are 65 years old or older. But there are some people who are younger than 65 that can qualify for Medicare. In order for this to happen, the person will have to have a disability or permanent kidney failure. Even though, the program helps to take care of some of the costs of a person’s healthcare, it is not going to cover all of the medical expenses. ...

Richards (2013, p. 1) first sets out to define the terms to gain a better understanding of the concepts. “Debt” is defined as “borrowing money from an external source with the promise to return the principal, in addition to an agreed upon rate of interest.” Though the terms here are often understood in the negative light, startups, or small companies just beginning to operate, often use debt financing to fund their operations. In fact, even companies with the most robust balance sheets will often times reflect some amount of debt within. In financing terminology, debt can also be ...

Introduction:

Credit Cards are the cards issued by Financial Instituitions to the individuals giving them option of a mean of short term financing at the point of sales. These institutions charge interest rates which are generally higher than other consumer loans. Credit Cards are one of the most popular method of retail payments in US because of its wide spread acceptance.

Part A)

Assuming, that bank will charge no other fees and on the basis of 2% minimum payment regulation, amount to be paid on $5270 will be:
Minimum Amount Due: $5270*2%= $105.40

Part B)

I have an American Express Credit Card that ...

Discuss the measures that a government can take to improve the balance of trade in the short- term

A depreciation in the value of currency exchange of a country should help boost oversees’ demand for U.S. exports because American firms will be able to supply more cheaply internationally (Keeler, 2007). A country can devalue its currency by a large margin in one or two installments in quick successions so that foreigners can find goods and services of a country cheaper to buy and boost exports rapidly.

Another method that a government can use to improve balance of trade over the short term is to reduce demand in the economy thereby reducing consumer spending in the economy. The government can use fiscal ...

Abstract

The paper is based on the notion of high commitment human resource management being of much interest in many organizations and research studies recently. The practices of high commitment human resource management are directly linked to high performance in employees resulting to good financial performance, greater productivity, quality service, and good customer relation experience.

Introduction

High commitment approach in human resource management focuses on increasing productivity and effectiveness by motivating employees to give their best and work towards achievement of organizational strategic goals. The approach revolves around policies that motivate employees and cause them to be committed towards their work. ...

Health Care: U.S Health Care Timeline

Drugs and life-saving medical operations and procedures provide to everyone a better, longer, and healthier living. In America, the uninsured people have it rough when it comes to having affordable health care services. It has been about a century since America started debates on health care reforms and adoption to have everyone included in the program. A U.S health care timeline allows one to see and learn how the congress has handled the issue of America’s health care cover for its citizens over the decades.
The year 1965 was the year that saw the signing in into law Medicare ...

1. The Georgia Open Records Act also known as the Georgia Sunshine Law is the statute of the State of Georgia which gives a definition of what is considered to be a public record and which should be made available to the public upon request. The statute defines public records to be documents that are generated by individuals or groups in public office in the course of public service. Public records also constitute items that are received and maintained by a private person or any other legal entity on behalf of a public office or agency.

2. The pre-World War I opinion by ...

Fraud and Abuse in Managed Care in America: An Introduction

The American government significantly knows more about health care reforms, and what requires to be put into practice to resolve the poor health care system. The major trouble the government is trying to deal with the considerable rise in health care expenditures that are creating a large number of patients that are registered all over the USA. There exist various factors that are linked to ...

- Access
The market based approach to healthcare financing is premised on the idea that healthcare is like other consumer products and should be sold in the open market. According to this approach, only those with resources have access to health care. Unlike the market based approach, the government-financed approach offers access to all the members of the population, though to a basic standard of healthcare (Rita & Michael 156).

- Coverage
The government-financed approached has more coverage compared to the market-based financing of healthcare. This has a lot to do with the fact that market-based approach to financing ...

1. WebAnalytics
Web analytics is can be defined as the process of collecting, reporting and analyzing web data to understand and optimize a website. Web analytics is a tool for analyzing the website traffic and is also very effective tool for market research. It enables companies to create campaigns and advertisements based on the analytics results. Web Analytics considers the unique visitors, site uptime, bounce rate, new and returning visitors, average page view durations, clicks.
An example of web analytics tool is Spring Metrics. It is a free analytics tool that provides robust web analytics for web data.

2. GA ...

Introduction

In this report, we will put into the use the bond valuation technique so learnt by us. In addition, for the purpose of valuation, we will use the excel spreadsheet as and when needed. In other part, we will discuss and compare the interest rate risk and re-investment risk followed by measures to manage each of them. We are hopeful that by the end of this report, we will be gaining a handful experience over the concepts of bond valuation and various risk associated with them.

Part A

Answer 1)

1.a) Using the Present Value function in the excel spreadsheet for cash ...

“Bribery and corruption in the public sector, is endemic and unavoidable in all societies.”

Introduction
In 2012, the biggest stories of corruption were the allegation against Wal-Mart regarding the payment of bribes amounting to US$24 million in its Mexican operations (Barstow, 2012). A year before, in 2011, a survey was carried out by the Transparency International in 30 countries for their views on corruption. “The results found that 27 percent, or more than one in four businesspeople surveyed, think that they had lost business in the last 12 months due to bribery” (Hardoon, 2012). Corruption is a multifaceted event that involves a wide variety of actions taken by individuals. A simple definition of ...

“Bribery and corruption in the public sector, is endemic and unavoidable in all societies.”

Introduction

In 2012, the biggest stories of corruption were the allegation against Wal-Mart regarding the payment of bribes amounting to US$24 million in its Mexican operations. A year before, in 2011, a survey was carried out by the Transparency International in 30 countries for their views on corruption. “The results found that 27 percent, or more than one in four businesspeople surveyed, think that they had lost business in the last 12 months due to bribery” (Barstow, 2013). Corruption is a highly complex phenomenon; which ...

Criminal Law

1. Parol evidence rule refers to the evidence of previous or simultaneous oral rule that written contracts may not be varied, contradicted, or changed by any previous or contemporaneous oral declarations. Parol evidence is admitted when a written contract does not include or contradicts the oral understanding reached by the parties. Under the parole evidence rule, when the court finds that that written contract has represented the final and complete statement of the parties to an agreement, it will no longer allow either party to submit parole evidence (Miller, 2011, p.187).

2. The statute of frauds refers to the requirement ...

There are different means of payment for physicians, which are offered. Some of the payment methods depend on the number of patient that a doctor is able to attend to while others depend on the quality of services provided. All this methods have their own advantages and disadvantages.
This paper compares two models, the Capitation and Fee for Service model.

Capitation model is a compensation model that is population based. The compensation offered is calculated before delivery of services and does not consider the health status of the patient. Fee for service is a different method; physicians in this model are ...

Assignment

Property can either be intangible or tangible, the ownership of property will differ, and it may be a person, a corporation or a group of people. The owner of the property has every right to utilize it in the manner they like. As such an owner can sell, consume, rent or transfer the property at will. An owner of a property has an interest or a legal title on the property. There are various types of properties. However, the most recognized types are; real property, intellectual property and personal property. Each of this types of property are distinguished by various characteristics (Troisi, 2007)

Real ...

1. How is international financial management different from domestic financial management?

International financial management is similar in many ways to domestic financial management. However, there are several key differences. In domestic finance, the issue of exchange rates is not common. However, international financial management involves use of exchange rates considering the fact that different currencies are used in this market. Managers should be aware of implications of exchange rates in their managerial activities. International financial management involves being aware of the risks associated with exchange rates. This is not the case in domestic financial management where there are no exchange rate risks (Brigham, 2011).

International financial management involves acquiring capital ...

Minimum Wage

Perhaps, the issue of minimum wage legislation is among the most controversial issues surrounding the labor market. In many a country, minimum wage is determined through collective bargaining rather than through the determination of the law. Instead of using statutory regulation in the determination of minimum wage, governments intervene by following an arbitration procedure. Minimum wage often covers employees engaged under private contract and employees in public enterprises. Categories of workers covered under the minimum wage include full-time workers, part-time workers, piece workers, casual workers, freelance workers, and agency workers. Minimum wage regulations gives exceptions to workers such as the ...

In 2009, the US healthcare system is said to have made transactions worth over two trillions US dollars/ year . There are various ways that an individual can pay for healthcare services. The purpose of this paper is to discuss the various forms of insurance payment such as the private, government and self pay system.
The self-pay for healthcare includes both those that have money to pay out of pocket and those that do not have healthcare insurance coverage at all (Finn et al., 2009). The authors state that there are as many as “46 millions Americans,” that our ...

Medicine: Medical Services Reimbursement

DRGs is an acronym for Diagnosis Related Groups, which begun in the 1980s in New Jersey. They were developed for the Financing of Health Care Administration as a scheme to classify patients to provide a means of relating the cost a hospital incurs after treating a given type patients. Despite the fact that most patients’ exhibit uniqueness, a group of patients may have common therapeutic attributes, diagnostic, and demographic, which determine their treatment or resource needs. In both outpatient and inpatient setting, DRGs are used in hospital payment and discharge cases. The system establishes an effective Health care plan for payment and reimbursement of ...

Part I: A Problem Exists

In the past few decades, the debate regarding payment for college athletes has become a pressing issue for higher education, necessitating a deeper look into the consequences of paying college athletes such high amounts for their playing. Currently, the NCAA’s rules and regulations regarding student athletes’ compensation include a no-pay rule; NCAA member colleges are forbidden from sharing revenue with athletes, leaving the payment and budget to go to coaches and faculty (Edelman, 2014). However, the possibility of paying student athletes raises many different arguments. Some argue that the emphasis on athletics in the higher education experience has left other departments ...

P and I Rule Book. According to the American P and I Club Rule Book, there is a clause about claims that are payable at the discretion of the Directors. Section 20 of the Rule book, titled “Ominbus” clause outlines that there may be circumstances where the Directors may choose to pay on claims that they collectively decide should be paid.

If the liability is not excluded elsewhere in any of the previous nineteen clauses, then the Directors can choose to pay a claim. This seems to be a fair way for the organization to establish that there may be unusual ...

Question 1:

Scope

This commercial website, argos.co.uk, specifies in selling every sort of everyday products to a wide geographical area. It sells general retails goods of all types. The company has over 34000 employees worldwide. The company has a unique of selling their goods. They catalogue their goods so that they are able to categorise the goods in different categories. The customers will select the goods that they are interested in, pay for these goods, and collect them. It has over 800 retail stores world wide. The company is the leading retail store in the United Kingdom and Ireland. ...

Introduction

Auditing is a crucial aspect of the business in seeking to ensure that business standards and procedures are followed for the purpose of enhancing business continuity and performance management. In that view, auditing could take different approaches and entails considering several factors that play a crucial role in determining a business going concern capacity. In that respect, this analysis seeks to demonstrate an external audit’s operation by analyzing Carpetright financial reports for the year 2012-2013. To begin with, the analysis provides an explanation of the risk based external audit approach in addition to identifying the factors that may lead the auditor ...

Answer 1

Spot and forward market

Foreign exchange rate is the means of expressing the worth and the value of the economy by the value of its currency by the value of another one. The normal market usage is to in quoting the exchange rate to spot value. It, therefore, means that for spot date, the delivery for two business days from the trade date, the payment is always done two days after delivery except for Canada versus US where it is two days. The two business days are usually essential in order to allow the trade information between the counterparties involved being agreed upon ...

There is usually a thin line when determining between legal and ethical issues. In marketing, the strategies used are mostly informed by legal and ethical considerations. The same is true when considering product safety and intellectual property. This means that there is a close relationship between law and ethics; however, it is the existence of the law that makes ethical values enforceable. In general, therefore, ethics are those values or rules of conduct that are created so as to guide a particular group of people while legality is something that pertains to the law. Ethics, in other words, should be contemplated within ...

Strategic Compensation

Question 1

Payment structures in an organization are crucial as a component of effective compensation that assists in ensuring the level of pay for certain jobs remains competitive. This competition can occur both internally and externally with the presence of equity. Pay structures with proper designing allow for rewarding by management in regards to skill and performance development while the overall base pay remains under control (Martocchio, 2010). This control is provided through caps on the range of payments on certain jobs or locations. In the several pay structures that exist, varying limitations and benefits exist such as enabling creation of a streamline ...

Abstract

The Purpose of this report is to analyze and evaluate various services of The Edge Restaurant and prepare exiting and potential blueprint of the services. The services of The Edge Restaurant are evaluated and determined on five dimensions of quality.

Introduction

Restaurant business is continuously growing at a fast pace. Change in consumer habits and preference towards eating out is fueling the growth of industry. Development in restaurant business also attracts new entrants in the industry. Continuously increasing competition increases customer’s expectations in terms of excellent services at affordable prices. Restaurant business is completely service based; hence it is essential ...

Introduction

There are many contracts between different people regarding different contexts, which range from implied to express contracts. These are agreements between two parties regarding a specific action which are based on legal obligations thus enforceable by law. Contacts are based on several principles which should be satisfied by all the parties to ensure it passes as a legal contract. The absence of any of these elements can lead to the disqualification of the credibility of the contract thus making it illegal.

The benefit of a contract is to ensure all the parties are willing and aware of the basics thus acquisition of ...

Growth in output per capita and in population growth

According to the report published by the World Bank in 2012, the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) per capita growth in Saudi Arabia was estimated to 4.36 percent. However, in the third quarter of 2012, the GDP in this country expanded to 5.87 percent. This growth rate is according to the report released by the Saudi Arabia Monetary Agency. The growth is associated by the country’s 20 percent possession of world’s proven reserves of petroleum. On the other hand, the average yearly percentage change in the Saudi Arabia population as a result of surplus/deficit in the economy is estimated ...

Introduction

Debt in developing countries remains a big challenge even after the IMF and World Bank efforts to cut down these debts to a manageable level. This study aims at identifying some of the factors which have contributed to the increased debts in developing countries. The purpose of selecting the issue is to carry out an investigation as to why the debts in developing countries persist even after the IMF and World Bank efforts to cut them down. Developing economies are characterised by with low GDP, high inflation rates, high interest rates, and low per-capita income hence have unstable economies (Toussaint, 2012). ...

Introduction:

This paper will examine the .Net framework developed by Microsoft. It will examine the architecture of this framework and relate it to business system design for the C-Hopper. This paper will examine in depth the .Net architecture and offer illustrations of how the different architecture can gain application in the design of the C-Hoppers system. Lastly, the concepts of coupling and cohesion will; be examined. The paper will focus on how these concepts relate to the application architecture as well as the Entity Framework.
The .Net framework is a software framework that runs on Windows reporting systems. Microsoft developed ...

Executive summary

Royal Dutch Shell PLC commonly known as the shell is second largest energy company in the world whose registered office is in London. It is oil and Gas Company operating in various parts of the world; to stay relevant to climatic and environmental changes it engages in both renewable and non renewable energy. In addition, it is a vertically integrated oil company which engages in all oil activities from exploration to refining and marketing. Apart from its core activities, it has entered into partnership with various international organizations to preserve the environment. The company shares are listed in London stock ...

Question 1

Discuss the concept of granting “Golden parachutes to executives”. Explain how this practice could be in line with shareholders’ best interests. Do you see how this practice could possibly be taken advantage of by the executives?

Upon employment, senior executives are entitled to a certain payment either in monetary value, or in equity should their contract be terminated ‘without cause’ before the end of their contractual tenure. This payment is normally referred to as a “Golden Parachute.” Golden parachutes have often raised concerns of abuse and claims that the management elite of the company could be taking advantage ...

A contract is a legal agreement entered by two or more parties all having legal responsibility to undertake. Once two or more agree to perform an agenda, they either put themselves into an oral or written obligation. Failure to meet the agreement known as a breach has a penalty that the breaching party incurs. Oral contracts are used for social agreements such as preposition bets where the obligation is not serious. Written contracts on the other hand serve as a crucial document when it comes to businesses, governments and unions in which have significance impact on the parties involved. This is because oral ...

Introduction

Counseling is a core part in the development of the society as a whole. Counselors have the responsibility of guiding members of a society through the hard times that they face and they should do so with the minimum financial objectives. Therefore, counselors are put in tight spot where they need to earn a living and at the same time offer professional counseling services that is beyond reproach. However, several counselors have faced law enforcing punitive measure as they performed their counseling duties. This has led to several counseling professional bodies to come up with guidelines as to the code of conduct in ...

The Horizontal Analysis

In the horizontal analysis of the company, one considers the various line items in the income statements and the balance sheet with similar items in the previous years. Looking at the year 2008, the company did not perform well. In terms of sales, there was a decrease in the sales compared to the year 2007. There was a decrease of $ 897,000 which is 15% of the sales revenue.
As a result of the low sales, the company suffered a loss in the gross profit. The profit reduced from $1.6M to $1.4M. When analysing the expenses, the website creation and maintenance is a ...

1. In order to decide whether to engage into trade with a foreign country, business usually assesses market for their products, access to resources needed, the opportunities for making distribution systems and production more efficient and the ways to reduce the dependence on one economy, thus spreading business risks.
Participating in the information economy on a global scale requires the consideration of the large number of people, who are currently employed in the local industries. It is necessary to understand the internationalisation of the information economy and to the increase of the labour force in the foreign countries with lower ...

Medicaid Program in the United States

Medicaid is a program for people and families with few resources and low income. Both the states as well as the federal government fund it. Medicaid services are states managed. They are only offered to United States citizens and individuals who are legally permanent residents of the United States of America. The targeted individuals are adults of low income, their children, as well as the disabled. This service is the greatest funding source to medical and healthcare services for the low-income earners in the United States. It is a federal funded social insurance program, which focuses entirely on the disabled elderly ...

Accounting Cycles

Adjusting Entries: These are entries made at the end of an accounting year usually at the end of year. These are journal entries to ensure incomes and expenses are allocated in the period that they were earned and incurred respectively. The money may not have been received or paid out in the particular period but the expenses and income are accounted for in the particular year they were earned or incurred. This is known as accrual accounting. It is also the principle of matching principle since revenue and associated costs are accounted for in the same accounting period. There ...

Labor cost

Effect of the World Economy as China commodity increases
Chinese has employed wide use of the mass production as a manufacturing strategy. This has lowered the price of commodities compared to other markets in the world. The Chinese product has been more competitive in the entire market and contributing largely to the economy of the country.
The exported products to the international market from china have a competitive advantage due to the low cost. In comparison to other markets the Chinese products such as DVD player and sweater among others, are cheap and hence attracting consumers. United States has ...

Financial risk of an enterprise can be defined as the probability of adverse financial consequences in the form of loss of income and capital under uncertainty conditions for its financial activity. Financial risks have a great variety and for the implementation of effective management are classified by several main features that will be considered below.
Financial risks arises in the process of enterprise relationships with financial institutions (banks, financial, investment, insurance companies, stock exchanges and others). Causes of the financial risk are inflation factors, the growth of bank interest rates, reduction of the value of securities and others.

Financial risks are roughly divided into two types:

1) ...

P1: Marketing is a social process, which identifies, forecasts and satisfies the needs of the customers in a profitable way. Marketing strategies are overall plans, which fulfill the needs of the customers . Marketing techniques ensure the effective delivery of a market plan. The three marketing techniques available are growth strategies, survival strategies and branding techniques. The four categories of growth strategies are “market penetration, market development, product development and diversification” . Market penetration refers to increasing the number of consumers buying the product. Market development refers to marketing an existing product to a new market. Product development refers to selling a ...

U4D1 -RESEARCH UTILIZATION AND EVIDENCE-BASED PRACTICE

Nursing is a field that has seen many changes over the years. Research is the backbone of nursing and it helps nursing in the development of new concepts and technology. Nurses devote part of their time in conducting research in different areas of nursing. Nursing research has seen development of new knowledge that leads to improvement of healthcare. Nursing practitioners engage in research about various diseases. The research has incorporated technology. Technology is dynamic and nurses need to have the current technology to carry out their research well. The current leadership in nursing has led to implementation of evidence-based practice. ...

- In today’s health care environment is it better to approach the future with a compass or a map? Explain and defend your choice.

Maintaining one’s health should be both affirmative and exact. It is always necessary to know the things that should be dealt with prior to making decisions and actions. Health care had greatly evolved for the past decades and individuals seeking for health care assistance must know these differences. The advent of globalization and the innovational breakthroughs had pushed many health care providers to make maximum offers to the customers. To be able to know ...

Propose three (3) ways that a manager can cope with any negative emotions that may accompany an employee layoff.

Outplacement services are an important way that helps both the manager and the employees in coping with negative emotions resulting from layoffs. This involves using professionals to assist employees who have been laid off in dealing with the trauma. According to (Noe et al 2012),outplacement services are better provided by an outside firm (pg 276). This is because they are professionals in that area and providing such services is their core business unlike the manager. The manager can develop negative emotions during layoffs as he had developed a working relationship with his employees unlike the outside firm. The employees ...

Introduction

The population of the world is increasing rapidly and so is the influence of the technology on the population is increasing. Technology is changing every facet of the human life. It has evolved rapidly in the past few decades and has left an influence on every field of the walk. The population is also increasing at a very fast pace. This year more than 150 million newborn will witness the changing trends of this earth. They all will be under the influence of the technology as well. Even it is not possible to record their births without using sophisticated electronic ...

Answer 1)

Bonds are an attractive investment assets and are appealing for any investor because of fixed interest income option which is not available in stocks. Furthermore, certain bonds as Treasury and Federal Agency bonds also offers tax advantages to the investor. Thus, such distinctive feature makes bonds an appealing investment class.

Some of the bonds which are currently available are:

- Treasury Bonds
- Agency Bonds
- Municipal Bonds
- Corporate Bonds

Below are some common investment objectives that can be fulfilled through investment in Bonds:

i) Fixed Income Security:
Since bonds are fixed income securities, they are known to offer a certain interest income depending on the type of bond purchased by the investor. This feature is not available in ...

- The difference between common and preferred stock

Common stock, also called ordinary stock, are part of equity stock, which earn variable dividends. The amount of dividend they receive depends on the company’s performance and the decision of the board of directors. Thus, the dividend varies from annually and in some years, they may not receive dividends. Furthermore, common stock has residual claim on dividends after preferred stock have been paid. Common stock have an ownership stake in the company, accompanied by voting rights either in person or by proxy. They can, therefore, participate in some aspects of decision-making such as board membership, stock splits or ...

According to Maslow, human needs are hierarchical; this means that there are particular needs that must be fulfilled first before considering the next. One’s need highly influences his or her motivation towards work. When one is motivated to work, the productivity of the company will go up. Money is the only way an employer can motivate the employees. When the workers are well paid, the money discussion will get away from the table. Instead of discussing money, the employees will dig deep into work increasing the productivity of the company. Money and incentives are, however, not the only ...