Introduction Research and the collection of data is one of the most important aspects of any respectable work. Through using various methods, useful information can be obtained to suit oneâs needs and goals. There is a number of research methods devised to accomplish a certain set of goals. Research allows...
Introduction In every successful organization, decision-making requires proper control and attention from the management; executive action and planning are the essential parts of this process. Since executives generally consider serious issues, the consequences of their strategic decisions depend on the ability to find a comprehensive approach to the problem. The...
For every business, it is essential to follow a clear and effective strategy that corresponds to its vision. A balanced scorecard helps develop such a vision and strategy that would be the most beneficial for a firm. The concept of a balanced scorecard was created by Kaplan and Norton (1997)...
Identification and Measurement of Critical Success Factors in Strategic Management An organization must build sustainable long-term growth, and it can succeed by implementing an optimal strategy for achieving the goal. Choosing a plan to utilize begins with an organization’s purpose determination and its goals over a long span. The mission...
Introduction The given paper will primarily focus on the theory of work-life balance in the high-tech industry. The reason for selecting the topic is that the high-tech industry is fairly new, but its impact is substantial. Therefore, it is important to have an academic understanding of employee relations within the...
Introduction Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) is a severe mental health condition imposing adverse outcomes both for patients and their families. Health care specialists and researchers have dedicated much time and effort to finding an effective treatment for this disorder. So far, dialectal behavior therapy (DBT) has been reported to have...
Introduction The primary focus of this DNP project is the implementation of a mindfulness meditation program for nurses. The underlying reason that encouraged the projectâs idea is that a nursing occupation is mentally and physically difficult, defined by several critical responsibilities and duties. On the one hand, nurse practitioners have...
Introduction Organisational performance is subject to several macro and micro factors affecting the business environment. Consequently, managers often strive to formulate strategies that would enable them to navigate these factors to improve productivity. Leadership is often used as a guiding tool for realising such changes and rarely has it been...
In recent decades, business sustainability efforts have been prioritized in the business sector as a pivotal element of successful and competitive company performance across all industries. Sustainability as a broad but very important concept implies the ability of a given business entity to lead a safe and productive economic performance...
Introduction The relationship between financial development and economic growth has been researched and developed over the years to try to determine its validity. The theory that financial growth facilitates economic growth can be proved by considering the effects of business transactions and channeling of transactions through the economy, factors that...
Introduction The recent financial crisis is the worst to have taken place since the 1930s. Though several crises have occurred in the past (for example the 1980s and the 1990s financial crises), the one between 2007 and 2012 was the worst to have hit the economies of several countries across...
Introduction Rise of globalization has caused tremendous growth in the financial markets. This is because there is increase in international trade. This has consequently resulted to an increase in number of international transaction. Financial assets trade at the financial markets. According to Newage Publishers, âinternational financial markets undertake intermediation by...
Introduction According to Roberts (14), interest rate parity is a process through which two countries engage in a business transaction that involves interest rates under no arbitrage conditions. These conditions will create a scenario of equality between two countries involved in forward exchange as well as spot exchange rates. Interest...
Introduction In the past two years or so, the financial markets, institutions, and world economies at large have been affected by a financial turmoil of unrecorded magnitude. The situation in the world financial market and other financial institutions has positively begun to improve. Nevertheless, there is a need for investigation...
Introduction The paper at hand is going to provide a critical analysis of formal strategic planning to prove that this approach is presently ineffective for dynamic and highly uncertain business environment. It must be admitted, however, that during several decades, the leaders of both small and large enterprises successfully implemented...
With technological advancements that allow users to access large data volumes, there is now an opportunity to resolve many problems linked to inefficient information. In many cases, auditors may find it beneficial to predict the occurrence of complex situations and act before they take place. Because of this, the predictive...
The Approach to Creating a New Evaluation System To be able to create a new performance evaluation system, the manager will have to discuss its basic principles with every worker (if possible). By doing this, the manager will ensure that all employees can get used to the new system and...
Introduction As a generic strategy for achieving a competitive advantage in the e-commerce industry, Amazon uses cost leadership. This strategy implies the minimization of operational costs in order to reduce prices for customers and thus be competitive against other retailers that also offer low prices. Amazon has invested in technological...
Introduction The Federal Reserve was established by the US Congress to help study and implement monetary policy. The Fed was created to ensure stability in the market, especially in the financial market or banking system. The Monetary Policy of the Federal Reserve aims at reducing the cost of credit so...
Introduction The Islamic banking system is a system of banking that is mainly practiced by banks in the Muslim nations together with those targeting the Muslim population. Islamic banking is modeled on Sharia law, which is a set of laws that govern the Islamic faith. Under Sharia law, a Muslim...
Introduction Budgeting is one of the key processes involved in laboratory management (Tolzmann & Vincent, 2013). There are a variety of financial issues and responsibilities that laboratory managers have to address, and a thorough budgeting plan might help them in their work. Moreover, a budgeting plan is needed to transform...
Black Scholes (B&S) and Binomial Models are used for pricing options. Black Scholes allows determining the theoretical call price, which uses different determinants of price including âstock price, strike price, time remaining, volatility, and the risk-free rate of interestâ (CapiĹski and Kopp 61). B&S is based on the normal distribution...
Introduction Futures are a form of forward contract, which gives a fixed rate for a financial instrument, such as security prices, exchange rates and interest rates at a future date. Financial futures can be used to hedge against risks that appear in gilt prices, interest rates, foreign currency exchange rates,...
Introduction United Arab Emirates (UAE) is a federation that is comprised of 7 distinct emirates namely Abu Dhabi, Sharjah, Dubai, Ajman, Fujairah, Umm Al-Quwain, and Ras Al-Khaimah. Each of these emirates is governed under certain rules and regulations formulated by a hereditary emir who is the sheik of Abu Dhabi....
Adjusting Entries Following are the adjusting entries and narrations for each of the given cases: Inventory Value Adjustments Following are the adjusting entries for inventory items: Inventory Value Adjustments Journal Voucher $ “000” $ “000” Dr Cr Inventory Revaluation $ 1,760,000 Raw Material $ 1,760,000 Finished Goods $ 2,000,000 Cost...
GDP is the market value of all goods and services produced in a country in a given year. This value arises from summing the total value of domestic consumption, investment, government spending and exports fewer imports. This year I contributed to the overall GDP when I bought five computers out...
Introduction People have different views concerning intercultural communication. Some individuals believe that more interaction between communities of diverse nations would lead to a better understanding between the different cultures. Despite this, there are numerous challenges that exist in intercultural communication (Dupraw & Axner, n.d.). Dupraw and Axner (n.d.) believe that...
Making Eye Contact The article âBusiness and Social Etiquette â How to Make Eye Contactâ discusses the dynamics of making eye contact, including cultural and personal orientations, communication through making eye contact, as well as country-specific interpretations of this mode of communication. The article is clear that cultural and individual/personal...
According to Sherrie (2015), variable costing has become paramount in decision-making. Today, managers are using variable costing to make strategic decisions. Many managers argue that variable costing is the best in internal reporting. Variable costing does not consider manufacturing overhead when reporting items in the income statement. When making strategic...
Executive Summary In the last decade, national setters of accounting standards have become aware of the emerging need for efficient standards that can be used to regulate financial institutions. Countries within the Middle East such as Kuwait, Lebanon, Bahrain, Qatar, the UAE, Oman and Jordan have acknowledged the need to...
Competition has gone global and the market and industry dynamics have necessitated the need for companies to make concerted efforts streamlined towards ensuring that high-quality goods and services are offered in the market at competitive prices. This has resulted in the adoption and implementation of several tools and strategies geared...
The purpose of this plan is to identify all the tasks, activities, and phases that will be entailed in the creation of an e-commerce website. It will summarize the requirements needed to maximize outputs. It will also include constraints and assumptions in planning and a schedule for implementing all the...
Introduction This proposal relates to the development of an e-commerce site for Computerworld limited, a small enterprise computer hardware reseller. The company has a small capital base but with great potential as regards growth opportunities. There is great demand for computer hardware due to its usability in all aspects of...
Summary There are numerous lessons that can be learned from Islamic finance/economics that are relevant to the recent financial crisis. In this context, the recent global financial crisis fronted numerous challenges to various organizations and countries. Consequently, lessons emerged on how organizations react to the ever-changing economic environment. Most institutions...
Introduction Visual stock exchange has been instrumental in aiding the understanding of key trading strategies that facilitate effective portfolio management. Evidently, Spring-2013 is a visual trading game that is executed with the philosophy of achieving best results or returns. This explains why students should adopt quality and viable trading strategies....
Reasons for Absorbing Overheads on Pre-Determined Bases Overhead cost per unit is based on estimates. Therefore, it is almost unavoidable that at the end of the accounting period an under-absorption or over-absorption occurs in the overhead actually realized. The estimated cost of overheads and level of activity may not match...
Herding is a term that literally means acting or moving together as a group without any definite direction. It could apply to a group of animals, people, or even objects. In finance, the term is used to describe investors and/or fund managers who get into ventures that are risky without...
This analytical paper attempts to carry out an evaluation of the research studyâs hypothesis. Analysis will be based on an evaluation of performance and efficiency of 18 banks in the year 2011 (Cooper, Zhu, & Seiford, 2011). Efficiency will be measured using the Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA). The method is...
Introduction A perfectly competitive market can be identified as a market characterized with many competitors that are free to enter or leave the industry. An industry that deals in bread production and supply is an example as identified in California in this study. Some of the suppliers of bread in...
Introduction This assignment is a discussion on the topic of organizational culture. In the discussion, I have explored the topic in terms of national and organizational culture using theoretical models of organizational culture and Hofstedeâs dimensions of national culture. The discussion also pays attention to the relationship between management and...
Introduction This analysis involves conducting surveys and studies on the situation analysis and future marketing plan of Kinect Xbox 360. It is necessary to determine the consumer decision-making process and the potential of the product influence on the consumers. The product is in a position to face competition and challenges...
Introduction IBM is one of the leading companies in Information Technology. It embraces an enormous pool of employees from diverse backgrounds. Recently, it has embraced the adoption of the Human Resource Service Centre, HRSC, in North Carolina (Mello, 2006). This Human Resource Strategy aims at improving both the strategic operation...
Introduction Business intelligence is referred to as computer-based procedures that are used in scrutinizing trade information, extracting, and in classification. A variety of business intelligence schemes are prone to backfiring of their expectations. To evade this, organizations ought to implement techniques and benchmark other organizations. To evade ordinary drawbacks that...
Wal-Mart has earned itself the enviable position of being the largest retailing company in the whole world. The companyâs unprecedented success can be traced back to the founder of Wal-Mart. Sam Walton opened the first Wal-Mart store on September 1, 1945. Those were hard times. It was the period of...
Introduction The United States is arguably the most culturally diverse nation on the planet; this situation is, additionally, becoming more pronounced as more people are seeking to immigrate to countries with bigger economies, such as the American one. The healthcare system, which was designed in areas where the population was...
Wilby, M.L., (2005). âCancer Patientsâ Descriptions of Comforting and Discomforting Nursing actionsâ. International Journal for Human Caring, Vol. 9, No. 4. Practice Theory Explanation The comfort theory described by Katherine Kolcaba is the middle range theory that has been adopted here. We learn that the cancer patients who are in hospital require...
Executive Summary Job discontentment is accepted to be very high in the nursing profession. Apart from countless other issues, nurses express their unhappiness which relates to some major concerns, that involves staffing, deference and appreciation, and earnings, and this disappointment is to a large extent is taking a toll on...
Objectives Ensure 75% of our target market is aware of our offering within a period of 10 months. Ensure that within 12 months, 60% of our customers prefer our product to other brands in the market. Ensure that 80% of our core customers are retained in our business and understand...
Leadership Philosophy The concept of leadership is associated with the idea of acting together as a team and with the idea of directing the company to further progress. My personal leadership philosophy depends on the approaches to manipulating my personal traits in order to achieve definite results. The focus on...
Lewinâs change model conceptualizes behavior in terms of a dynamic balance between two conflicting forces. These include driving and restraining forces. Driving forces lead to change by motivating members of the organization to adopt the desired behaviors. By contrast, restraining forces discourage change by encouraging resistance to proposed behaviors. In...
One of the main premises of successful operations management includes the availability of as many resources as is required for the normal functioning of a business organization. In particular, it shapes the basis for the competitive advantage of a company over a series of both tangible and intangible resources that...
Basics Marketing Concept Reflectively, marketing involves the process of designing, reviewing, presenting, and analyzing the response of a market towards a product. The Apple Company will adopt the five stage process in order to assess the business because customers are unresponsive to poor quality products. The Apple Company marketing team...
Introduction The success of an organization is determined by employeeâs efficiency and productivity. An employee must understand the organizational culture, policy, competitors, history and job description. New employee orientation training is a practice that assists and welcomes new employees in the organization. New employee orientation training is a socialization process...
The healthcare system of the United States is believed to be a âparadox of excess and deprivation” because of the huge amounts of expenditure by the American government, apparently much more than many other developed nations and countries including Japan, the United Kingdom, and Canada, and the high numbers of...
Introduction Adult & Teen Challenge Ohio is an organization aimed at assisting women and girls with substance misuse issues and providing students with education opportunities for counseling and psychology studies. Presently, the Adult & Teen Challenge Ohio is experiencing challenges in sustaining its operations due to the lack of efficacy...
Executive Summary Tesla is one of the high-tech companies that hopes to revolutionize the way the planet addresses the problem of climate change and sustainability. To achieve its mission, the company has had to continually innovate. The current business environment has been analyzed using PESTEL (political, economic, social, technological, environmental,...
Introduction Chevron is among the largest oil and gas companies globally, making it a highly compelling organization to conduct a case study. The company realizes that it is a major energy provider, which can cause devastating pollution and environmental damage if it does not set and adhere to certain standards....
The effectiveness of the organization is largely determined by the joint activities in groups. However, to achieve effective results of team working, it is necessary to correctly form the group and ensure the presence of the skills of teamwork in all its members, as well as the ability to combine...
Marketing: Process or Philosophy? Marketing is a multifaceted and complex concept that involves numerous theories, models, techniques, values, and business management approaches. Given such complexity of this issue, marketing is commonly addressed as a process and as a philosophy. On the one hand, marketing is approached as a process that...
Outline This paper analyses the impact of the uninsured or underinsured population in America. By evaluating the situation existing in an organization named Walmart, the paper attempts to present the historical effects of the condition of this organization, its community position, and the difficulties faced by the organization. Discussion This...
Businesses operate in dynamic environments comprising of both biotic and abiotic factors. These factors affect how businesses operate thereby affecting their profit margins. Since profit maximization is the single most objective of setting up a business, the integration of these abiotic and biotic factors must be considered at all levels...
Wal-Mart is one of the largest retail companies in the world and has operations in 15 countries across the world (Johnson 2006, p. 1). Wal-Martâs remarkable success is attributed to the adoption of information systems (IS) as early as 1966 when Walton (the founder) joined an IBM school in New...
Introduction The objective of accounting is to provide both financial and non-financial information which is necessary for decision making. Accounting is a very broad field covering fields such as cost accounting, management accounting and financial accounting. However, all these fields interact with one another so as to provide useful information...
Last Name The payback period is a simple calculation of the total time required by an investment to payback the initial outlay. The concept is simple, but it ignores several important factors, and any decision made on the basis of payback period can be harmful, if other factors are taken...
Introduction China is a country that is very lucrative for foreign investment. It is a country that receives huge foreign capital. China attracts foreign investment because of its strong economy and low transaction rates. It has a strong capital market and an environment that is easier for the transportation and...
Introduction Chinese economy is characterized by the liquidity nature and good production environment which enhances business. Chinese government has been encouraging locals and international producers and service providers to locate in the country by providing good and conducive political and financial environment where all can freely trade. The working culture...
The most common accounting systems in the manufacturing process are job order costing and process costing. These two systems have some similarities and differences as well (Jamal, 2007). One similarity between the two systems is that they have the basic purpose of allocating labor, raw materials and overhead costs to...
Introduction Acute otitis media or AOM is one of the most common infections encountered by children, parents, guardians, school administrators, and health care workers such as physicians and nurses (American Academy of Pediatrics, 2004 p.1451). It is also one of the most common ear infection for which antibacterial agents are...
Introduction There has been an increased appreciation of palliative care in the recent years. It is viewed by many as the act of keeping Patients Company or at times the act of controlling the patientâs symptoms. Such descriptions are an injustice to a palliative caregiver professional. Organizations such as the...
Introduction Health and wellness is important to us since it enables us to function properly. It is important to have the right knowledge on how to remain healthy because some of us unknowingly engage in habits that put our health at risk (Corbin et al, 2009, p. 27). This paper...
Healthy children are happier, peaceful and do much better in school (Eberts and Gisler 108). They are also willing to play and exercise their hobbies while participating in available recreational activities. They also effectively interact and enjoy being with their friends and families. In this case, childrenâs mental, physical and...
Public Health Surveillance is an ongoing methodology used for collecting, analyzing and interpreting health related data that are essential for the process of planning, implementation and evaluation health practices (Herman 2007). Public Health Surveillance mainly serves as a warning system for the public regarding need for health emergencies. It also...
Introduction An optimal health status ensuring fulfilled physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual aspects of life is a desire for every single human being. This reports aims at investigating the various dimensions of health and wellness and the relevant measure essential in ensuring optimal health levels. The lack of wellness instigates...
After implementation of the educational program that aims at reducing the prevalence of nosocomial infections in the ICU, evaluation is necessary to assess its effectiveness. Successfulness of the programs is dependent on the ability of the stakeholders to evaluate âperformance measures and outcomes that are defined, valid, and reliableâ (Chelluri,...
Dissemination of the evaluation findings of the educational program is essential so that other researchers in the nursing field can apply the findings or modify the application of the educational program as an intervention of reducing incidences of nosocomial infections in a critical environment. Song et al. (2010) state that...
Introduction Implementation of Hospital Information System (HIS) is considered an organizational process achieved towards information technology within healthcare. There are different user groups within healthcare community which include; physicians, nurses, administrators, managers, researchers amongst others. All these provide required expertise and skills utilized in the effective management of health care...
Pathophysiology is the study of the observable body conditions resulting from a disease. It involves the observation of the physiological mechanisms or processes happening within an organism. In fact, it is the union of pathology and physiology. This paper discusses the pathophysiology of diabetes mellitus 2 and its effects on...
Introduction According to Antony (2011), it is surprising that there is a large population of anemic people in developed nations like the United States and Europe, especially due to poor diet. According to Goldman and Schafer (2011), factors that lead to a decrease in the number of red blood cells...
Abstract In every nursing process, assessment is considered as very vital. It is useful in inter- ethnic linkages created between healthcare professionals and patients. While attending to patients in health care institutions, there is a need to comprehend cultural differences and similarities among human groups. The Purnell model is very...
Electronic medical records were identified in the previous section as the most viable solution to help reduce the problem of poor communication among healthcare professional. This section provides a detailed EMR implementation plan to guide the project team during the implementation and commissioning process. Methods to be used to Implement...
Jean Watson wrote her first book on human caring in 1985. Since then, she has gone ahead to publish many articles concerning nursing care. In Watsonâs works, she articulates the idea that nurses should be caring in their interactions with patients. Watson views human beings as unitary, subjective, and unique;...
Introduction Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Service has experienced growth in terms of regional coverage of the Maningrida region of North Australia (Longbottom & Shannon 2004). Strength for the Community Controlled Health Service is that its services have high demand (Allan, Ball, & Alston 2007). The major sources of funding for...
The current changing dimensions in the world of health care have provided new challenges for medical practitioners, particularly nurses (Cherry, and Jacob, 2011). For nurses to be well-positioned in health care, they need to be well acquainted with the necessary management skills (Blizzard, Khoury, and McMurray, 2010). This will make...
This study looks into issues of childhood pedestrian injuries, in Oakland and its neighborhoods. It seeks to unveil the causes of childhood pedestrian injuries and provide a remedy to the problem. It begins from the premise that massive traffic in Oakland state and the high population within its neighborhoods account...
Introduction The method used in collecting information in the study entailed the use of datasheets. The information was gathered in a statistically appropriate manner by employing techniques such as the asthma inventory for children (AIC) and asthma belief study (ABS). These inventories provided enough data to be analyzed in the...
Introduction Organizations deploy employees as the most crucial tools for attaining organizational competitive advantage. To achieve organizational goals, objectives, and aims, businesses have to ensure that they recruit the most qualified staff to carry out their functions. Apart from recruitment, an organization sets appropriate remuneration packages and benefits, seeks mechanisms...
Identifying situations that might lead to unethical practices and behavior in accounting Various situations have been identified to lead to unethical practices and behavior in accounting. One situation which has been identified is undue pressure to meet unworkable objectives within a constrained time limit. This may make the accountant unaccountable...
The concept of work ethics is traditionally discussed in connection with work commitment and moral principles and values shared by the employees in their everyday life and at work. From this point, the role of work ethics as a complex notion is significant in relation to creating a positive atmosphere...
Introduction In nursing, balancing the food intake has been an imperative measure. Nutrition relates directly to a healthy life as well as human growth and development. Balancing nutritional intake must therefore be adhered to in each meal being consumed. Besides, the nutritional habits and components of all meals significantly contribute...
Introduction According to Ayieko (2011), infections are triggered by infectious microorganisms such as bacteria, virus, and fungi among others. Evidently, they distract the well being of the host organisms. Normally, the affected organism is regarded as colonized by these foreign cells. However, this kind of colonization is considered as an...
Qualitative research method has been proposed for the research study because it allows the researcher to get the opinions, attitudes, and beliefs of the subjects under study (Williams, 2007; Russell, 2005; Prat, 2006; Runciman, 2002). In addition, the research study shall be conducted in a social context which makes qualitative...
Managed care is also known as managed healthcare entails the provision of quality healthcare services to the community at a reduced cost. Managed care is a program in the Health System of the United States of America. Its main objective is reducing unnecessary costs incurred by US citizens on healthcare....
Introduction A profession is defined as an occupation that an individual chooses voluntarily, which requires adequate training and formal qualification for success to be attained. Therefore, professionals are supposed to act and behave with respect to the requirements of the nursing profession without compromise. Nursing is a field in which...
Introduction According to Lotz, Moses & Pories (pp. 5-33), cancer is a condition that is characterized by atypical growth of cells that tend to increase in an uncontrolled way, and in some cases, metastasize (spread to other parts of the body). There are over one hundred strains of cancer that...
The global business environment is filled with dynamism and change with globalization and technological changes affecting many businesses. Due to these changes, it is necessary that firms establish the best strategies that can sustain their objectives to the future rather than making them quit the market. Following these challenges, firms...
Introduction Financial statements of a company are accessed by various users such as potential investors, customers, suppliers, government, and debt providers for various reasons. Financial statements as they are provide users with a narrow insight into the financial strengths and weaknesses of a company. This calls for the need to...
Introduction Capital budgeting techniques refer to the methods used by a firm to appraise its projects. These capital budgeting decisions are essential to an organizationâs success because they involve huge cash outlay; when committed, a project becomes sunk cost. Secondly, a firm must decide on the most viable project to...
Different mammals have unique and distinct sleeping patterns. For example, rodents such as rats have short frequent sleep intervals while primates such as baboons sleep deeply for lengthy periods (Bryden &Harrison 1986). On the other hand, aquatic mammals such as dolphins exhibit unihemispheric sleeping patterns (Akamatsu, Tadahiko & Yoshimi 1995)....
Introduction The rates of crimes committed daily have triggered security agents to come up with methods of tracking and apprehending criminals. Among them is intelligence-led policing, which is a style of policing whereby risk management model and risk assessment are used to identify crimes, their patterns, where they occur, and...
Introduction In the industrialized world, consumers are provided with alternative choices with regard to goods and services.1 Consequently, governments have faith in the marketâs ability to meet the tastes and preferences of consumers. As a result, such nations highly rely on market mechanisms rather than the regulations set up by...