Prepare a response in memo format, suitable for presentation to a senior level executive. All Excel work should be imported into the memo in table format (in the body of the document) or enclosed as an Appendix within the same document.
Question
1. What is the economic ordering quantity for SKU Number 53104 if the forms are ordered from Supplier A? From Supplier B? Round your answers up to the next whole unit.
2. How many orders should be placed each year if the hospital buys from Supplier A? If it buys from Supplier B?
3. Calculate the total inventory cost (the cost of ordering plus the cost of carrying inventories) that the hospital would incur under each supplier.
4. On the basis of the information developed, which supplier should the hospital use?
Category: Business and Management : Finance
Evaluate the following article and respond to the question provided.
Aquina Health (2018). Strategies for Managing Working Capital. Aquina. https://aquinahealth.com/2016/03/16/managing-capital/.
Question:
Managing working capital for the purpose of managing the overall capital strategy is critical for maintaining and expanding operations. After reading Aquina Health (2018), explain how you would optimize working capital to advance your current or future employer.
Prepare a response in memo format, suitable for presentation to a senior level executive. All Excel work should be imported into the memo in table format (in the body of the document) or enclosed as an Appendix within the same document.
Question
1. What is the economic ordering quantity for SKU Number 53104 if the forms are ordered from Supplier A? From Supplier B? Round your answers up to the next whole unit.
2. How many orders should be placed each year if the hospital buys from Supplier A? If it buys from Supplier B?
3. Calculate the total inventory cost (the cost of ordering plus the cost of carrying inventories) that the hospital would incur under each supplier.
4. On the basis of the information developed, which supplier should the hospital use?
Evaluate the following article and respond to the question provided.
Aquina Health (2018). Strategies for Managing Working Capital. Aquina. https://aquinahealth.com/2016/03/16/managing-capital/.
Question:
Managing working capital for the purpose of managing the overall capital strategy is critical for maintaining and expanding operations. After reading Aquina Health (2018), explain how you would optimize working capital to advance your current or future employer.
After reading Chapter 9.1, Case (pages 139-140) from the E-Book, Economics for Healthcare Managers, Fourth Edition by Lee, provide a response to each of the discussion questions for your initial posting:
What share of hospital costs do supplies represent?
Why would overordering supplies drive up costs?
Why would underordering supplies drive up costs?
Can you offer examples of Lean inventory management? Does it work well?
Can you offer examples of just-in-time inventory management? Does it work well?
Can you offer examples of supplies that have to be available at all times?
What are the main challenges to making accurate forecasts of supply use in hospitals?
How would you forecast supply use in the emergency department? Why?
How would you forecast supply use in hospital clinics? Why?
Would you use judgment in making these forecasts? Why?
Would you use statistical models in making these forecasts? Why?
How are supply chain forecasts different for hospitals than for retail? For manufacturing?
After reading Chapter 9.1, Case (pages 139-140) from the E-Book, Economics for Healthcare Managers, Fourth Edition by Lee, provide a response to each of the discussion questions for your initial posting:
What share of hospital costs do supplies represent?
Why would overordering supplies drive up costs?
Why would underordering supplies drive up costs?
Can you offer examples of Lean inventory management? Does it work well?
Can you offer examples of just-in-time inventory management? Does it work well?
Can you offer examples of supplies that have to be available at all times?
What are the main challenges to making accurate forecasts of supply use in hospitals?
How would you forecast supply use in the emergency department? Why?
How would you forecast supply use in hospital clinics? Why?
Would you use judgment in making these forecasts? Why?
Would you use statistical models in making these forecasts? Why?
How are supply chain forecasts different for hospitals than for retail? For manufacturing?
Read Case 16 (pages 97-101) from Gapenski’s Cases in Healthcare Finance – “Seattle Cancer Center.”
Create a presentation in Microsoft PowerPoint (PPT), suitable for presentation to a senior level executive. The final product should include a title slide with your name and the name of the case. Two or three slides per question (see below) should be sufficient to respond appropriately to the case prompts. Slide numbers should be included. Use of non-case related graphics is not required. All Excel work should be imported into the presentation in table format (in the body of the document) or enclosed as an Appendix within the same document. Use of external resources and articles is encouraged, but not required. References should be cited in APA format, either as a footnote on the slide where the information / data is used or in an appendix slide.
In your presentation, provide a response to the following questions from the case study:
1. Should the Center lease the equipment?
2. What is the maximum lease payment that the Center would be willing to pay?
3. What would be the NAL to the Center if tax-exempt (municipal) debt financing was available to the Center?
4. Would the availability of tax-exempt debt financing make leasing more or less attractive to the Center than before? Why?
As a baseline, assume all cash flows have the same risk; that is, ignore residual value risk and use the same discount rate for all lessee cash flows.
Evaluate the following article and respond to the question provided. Please develop your review in no more than two pages and apply appropriate APA paper format.
Read: Ayers, A.A. (2019). To Lease or Buy Medical Equipment: What’s Best for Your Practice? JUCM. https://www.jucm.com/lease-buy-medical-equipment-whats-best-practice/
Question.
Leasing versus purchasing medical equipment has been a longstanding argument in the medical finance realm. Identify the pros and cons of leasing and ownership of equipment relative to the cost of leasing versus ownership based on your understanding of Ayers (2019). Find a different article on this topic and discuss your opinion on if it is more cost-effective to lease or own medical equipment and why.
Topic: Resizing Citigroup
You should think from the perspective of the Citigroup’s Board of Directors, as a Board member, “is our Bank and our shareholders better served by repositioning the Bank into bigger financial institution option (more is more)”…
bigger by (i) extending or increasing our presence in a specific geographical region, or ii) extending or increasing one of our three legs of the stool, or iii) adding/acquiring a particular product line or service.
For the Bigger – More is More teams (address the following):
(i) from a global, strategy perspective, why big is better (e.g., globalization)?
(ii) from a competitive perspective, why Citibank is stronger,
outperforming its bank competition (e.g., Citi has the financial strength, product market share strength and/or geographical region strength to be that big bank)?
(iii) from an operational perspective, why Citibank itself (stand alone basis) is well positioned (e.g., think about a SWOT analysis, just the SO, the Bank’s strengths, opportunities for the Bank)?
(iv) from a recommendation perspective, what should Citibank do, wisely/productively, to make it bigger?
Read Case 16 (pages 97-101) from Gapenski’s Cases in Healthcare Finance – “Seattle Cancer Center.”
Create a presentation in Microsoft PowerPoint (PPT), suitable for presentation to a senior level executive. The final product should include a title slide with your name and the name of the case. Two or three slides per question (see below) should be sufficient to respond appropriately to the case prompts. Slide numbers should be included. Use of non-case related graphics is not required. All Excel work should be imported into the presentation in table format (in the body of the document) or enclosed as an Appendix within the same document. Use of external resources and articles is encouraged, but not required. References should be cited in APA format, either as a footnote on the slide where the information / data is used or in an appendix slide.
In your presentation, provide a response to the following questions from the case study:
1. Should the Center lease the equipment?
2. What is the maximum lease payment that the Center would be willing to pay?
3. What would be the NAL to the Center if tax-exempt (municipal) debt financing was available to the Center?
4. Would the availability of tax-exempt debt financing make leasing more or less attractive to the Center than before? Why?
As a baseline, assume all cash flows have the same risk; that is, ignore residual value risk and use the same discount rate for all lessee cash flows.