Evaluate, discuss, and compare whether to purchase the new equipment or overhaul the old equipment.

Overview

Shoals Corporation puts significant emphasis on cash flow when planning capital investments. The company chose its discount rate of 8 percent based on the rate of return it must pay its owners and creditors. Using that rate, Shoals Corporation then uses different methods to determine the most appropriate capital outlays.This year, Shoals Corporation is considering buying five new backhoes to replace the backhoes it now owns. The new backhoes are faster, cost less to run, provide for more accurate trench digging, have comfort features for the operators, and have 1-year maintenance agreements to go with them. The old backhoes are working just fine, but they do require considerable maintenance. The backhoe operators are very familiar with the old backhoes and would need to learn some new skills to use the new backhoes.The following information is available to use in deciding whether to purchase the new backhoes: Old Backhoes New BackhoesPurchase cost when new$90,000 $200,000Salvage value now$42,000  Investment in major overhaul needed in next year$55,000  Salvage value in 8 years$15,000 $90,000Remaining life8 years 8 yearsNet cash flow generated each year$30,425 $43,900

Instructions

To complete this assignment, write a 3–5 page paper in which you address the following items:

  1. Evaluate, discuss, and compare whether to purchase the new equipment or overhaul the old equipment. (Hint: For the old machine, the initial investment is the cost of the overhaul. For the new machine, subtract the salvage value of the old machine to determine the initial cost of the investment.)
    • Using Excel, calculate the net present value of the old backhoes and the new backhoes.
    • Discuss the net present value of each, including what the calculations reveal about whether the company should purchase the new backhoes or continue using the old backhoes.
    • Using Excel, calculate the payback period for keeping the old backhoes and purchasing the new backhoes. (Hint: For the old machines, evaluate the payback of an overhaul.)
    • Discuss the payback method and what the payback periods of the old backhoes and new backhoes reveal about whether the company should purchase new backhoes or continue using the old backhoes. Calculate the profitability index for keeping the old backhoes and purchasing new backhoes.
    • Discuss the profitability index of each, including what the calculations reveal about whether the company should purchase the new backhoes or continue using the old backhoes.
  2. Identify and discuss any intangible benefits that might influence this decision.  
  3. Answer the following: Should the company purchase the new backhoes or continue using the old backhoes? Explain your decision.

This course requires the use of Strayer Writing Standards. For assistance and information, please refer to the Strayer Writing Standards link in the left-hand menu of your course. Check with your professor for any additional instructions.The specific course learning outcome associated with this assignment is:

  • Analyze the financial condition of a company using vertical, horizontal, and ratio analysis to make informed decisions.
Team assignment: organizational performance management presentation

As a team, discuss and compare your chosen organizations selected in this week’s individual assignment, Organizational Management Performance Table, to complete this presentation.

As a team, create an 8- to 10-slide Microsoft® PowerPoint® presentation (not counting the title or reference slides) with detailed speaker notes of at least 100 words per slide in which you compare and contrast the organizations selected by each learning team member.

Your presentation should: 

  • Describe ways each organization will communicate with leadership to ensure alignment of organizational goals and gain buy-in from staff to achieve compliance with the standards and requirements issued by regulatory and accreditation bodies.

I only need 2 to 3 slides excluding the title, intro, and reference. Please add reference and speaker notes. I have attached the 5 worksheets from the team to reference.

Outline four (4) key factors contributing to the HIMS failure or breach.

You are the Information Officer at a large hospital and it has been brought to your attention that there is a possibility a significant information technology failure or breach has occurred within your hospital. Using the Internet or the Strayer University library database identify another health care organization or healthcare provider that has recently had a significant information technology failure or breach. You will need to create a news brief  or memo to your staff letting them know about the failure or breach and how it has affected other organizations.

Write a news brief or memo for your staff in which you:

  1. Outline four (4) key factors contributing to the HIMS failure or breach.
  2. Analyze three (3) ways that the HIMS failure impacted both the organization’s operations and patient information protection, privacy or personal safety.
  3. Diagnose the leadership team’s reaction to the failure, and indicate whether or not you believe the leadership took sufficient measures to deal with various stakeholder groups impacted by the failure. Next, consider whether the organization had significant resources in place to prevent this occurrence and if not identify where most of the contributing failure occurred.
  4. Suggest three (3) outcomes for the facility and express whether you agree with the overall verdict or violation.
  5. Recommend at least three (3) best practices that your hospital can adopt to avoid such a HIMS failure or breach in the future. Provide support for the recommendation.
  6. Provide one (1) current government requirement requiring all healthcare organizations to ensure that health care and patient information is secure and information breaches and technology failures are minimized.
  7. Use at least four (4) quality resources in this assignment. Note: Wikipedia and similar Websites do not qualify as quality resources.
You are the CFO of a rural hospital. During a recent review of the organization’s financial status, the hospital was deemed “at risk” for closure

Scenario

You are the CFO of a rural hospital. During a recent review of the organization’s financial status, the hospital was deemed “at risk” for closure. Several factors contribute to the at-risk designation, including the state’s decision to opt-out of the Medicaid expansion program, the aging population which requires more expensive care, and the changes in reimbursement from Medicare. These challenges have resulted in rural facility closures across the country. As part of the strategic management team, you are charged with reviewing various facility units and making recommendations that may avoid closure. You determine that based on the profitability reports, the OB/GYN unit of the facility is underperforming in several key financial areas.

Instructions

In a written proposal to the hospital CEO, Administrator, and CMO, discuss the following:

  • Identify potential challenges related to the OB/GYN unit’s performance.
  • Explain potential trends in the community impacting health consumer utilization patterns.
  • Explain the potential benefits of reorganization within the unit and how reorganization could improve its financial status.
  • Recommend a course of action and the implications that those actions will have for patients, providers, and investors (i.e., how might closure affect the community or how might new service offerings, such as midwife services, improve profitability).
International Strategic Alliance Exploration

Strategic alliances can create new opportunities for expansion for businesses. Your task in this exploration is to find your own example of a currently existing (active within the last year) international strategic alliance, and examine the impact of the pros and cons for the companies.

  • In your initial post please briefly introduce the strategic alliance you found (no more than one paragraph), and then discuss the pros and cons.
  • Your initial post should be 300–400 words.
  • You need to conduct research for this assignment. All source material must be cited, and cited using APA citations (this is the standard for the business discipline; if you are unfamiliar with how to cite or how to cite using APA please see the information in the optional Credo Information Literacy module under the Modules tab).
What is your considered view on hedonism?

After reading the material from Shafer-Landau concerning the appeal of hedonism and the potential objections to the theory, what is your considered view on hedonism?  Is it true or false as a moral theory?  Do the  advantages of hedonism outweigh the difficulties raised against it, or are the objections to hedonism fatal to the theory? 

Design a Strategy Map (data table) using Microsoft Word

Scenario

After reviewing the new proposed vision from Healthy Dynamics that includes updated mission, focus area, and objectives, the CEO has decided to contract a project manager. The project manager understands the importance of identifying stakeholders early in the strategic planning process. The project manager will be responsible for the successful start of the planning strategy, implementation, review, control, and evaluation of the strategic plan. Other tasks include: gathering feedback from stakeholders, identifying areas of improvement, and making recommendations.

The project manager has asked you to provide a strategy map, identifying key stakeholders involved in achieving the objectives of the defined focus area. Some of the major stakeholders in the healthcare industry are physicians, employers, insurance companies, pharmaceutical firms, government agencies, and consumers (e.g., patients and employees). You will also need to make a list of relevant questions to solicit feedback from the stakeholders that will allow you to see where stakeholders stand when evaluated by the same key measures (survey questions).

Instructions

Design a Strategy Map (data table) using Microsoft Word that includes:

  • Identifying the key stakeholders.
  • What business or health industry does the stakeholder represent (e.g., wellness, pharmacy, health plans, non-profit, academia, etc.)?
  • What are the stakeholders’ roles and responsibilities as it relates to the strategic plan?
  • Indicate how often you will meet with the stakeholders.
  • What type of power (e.g., financial, providers, users, influencers) will the stakeholder have in the success of the strategic plan?
  • Include a timeline to show when you will engage each stakeholder.

Create a Stakeholder Survey that includes:

  • Key questions to solicit feedback from stakeholders after your first meeting (both quantitative and qualitative) to identify potential solutions to anticipated issues that may be raised by the stakeholders?
  • Questions should be aimed at how to improve the effectiveness of the stakeholder meetings and the satisfaction of the stakeholders during the planning process?
  • Your assignment should include a title page, a reference page, and a minimum of three scholarly sources, two of which must be retrieved from the Rasmussen Library.