Describe motivational strategies that address team level performance.

Imagine that you have been charged with transforming the performance of a team at your workplace.  Specifically, it is under-performing, and your supervisor wants the team to be high-performing within six months.

  • Discuss reasons that healthcare teams under-perform.
  • Outline best practices for team performance.
  • Discuss the various organizational barriers that exist in your organization that affect team effectiveness.
  • Describe motivational strategies that address team level performance.
  • Present your team performance improvement plan making sure to include specific time-bound goals.

Provide examples from the organization and from current research to support your comments and ideas. Your presentation should meet the following structural requirements:

  • Organized, using professional themes and transitions.
  • It should consist of nine slides, not including the title and reference slides.
  • Each slide must provide detailed speaker’s notes, with a minimum of 100 words per slide. Notes must draw from and cite relevant reference materials.
Discuss three risks associated with the revenue and expense cycles focusing on online sales and payments.

Overview

Develop an audit plan from a business entity of your choice for the Revenue and Expense Cycles to evaluate management’s internal control schema. Focus on using data analytics such as CAATTs, GAAS, and ACL software.

Instructions

Write a 5–7 page paper in which you:

  • Discuss three risks associated with the revenue and expense cycles focusing on online sales and payments.
  • Discuss four internal control considerations including the associated  issues and risk mitigation strategies.
  • Recommend an optimal revenue and expense cycle to capture three types of online transactions, including documentation requirements. Provide a justification for your recommendation.
  • Develop an audit plan using CAATTs/GAAS and ACL tools to assess the internal control schema of the business entity.
  • Use at least three quality sources to support your writing. Choose sources that are credible, relevant, and appropriate. Cite each source listed on your source page at least one time within your assignment. For help with research, writing, and citation, access the library or review library guides.
  • Produce writing that is clear and well organized and applies appropriate SWS style. Writing contains accurate grammar, mechanics, and spelling.

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.

Describe detection risk as it applies to the misguided use of internal controls by management to cover up their fraudulent acts.

Overview

Management’s disregard for internal controls has created renewed concern among internal auditors and audit committees that cases of occupational fraud are rising. Without a monitored internal control system, inherent risks of fraud increase when a company has not developed a fraud detection risk plan.

Instructions

Research fraud detection risk plans using the ACFE 2018 Report to the Nations.

  • Describe detection risk as it applies to the misguided use of internal controls by management to cover up their fraudulent acts.
  • Identify the steps taken to determine how one would ascertain the company’s detection risks or devise a method that differs from what you researched that meets the standards set forth by the ACFE2018 Report to the Nations.
  • Apply these steps to a company of your choice and discuss how these steps mitigate the risk of fraudulent financial management activity.