How should this lease be classified by Mid-South Urologists Group and by Physicians’ Leasing?

Rand Medical – Direct financing and sales-type lease; lessee and lessor

Rand Medical manufactures lithotripters. Lithotripsy uses shock waves instead of surgery to eliminate kidney stones. Physicians’ Leasing purchased a lithotripter from Rand for $2,000,000 and leased it to Mid-South Urologists Group, Inc., on January 1, 2011.

Collectibility of the lease payments is reasonably assured, and there are no lessor costs yet to be incurred.

Required:

1. How should this lease be classified by Mid-South Urologists Group and by Physicians’ Leasing?

2. Prepare appropriate entries for both Mid-South Urologists Group and Physicians’ Leasing from the inception of the lease through the second rental payment on April 1, 2011. Depreciation is recorded at the end of each fiscal year (December 31).

3. Assume Mid-South Urologists Group leased the lithotripter directly from the manufacturer, Rand Medical, which produced the machine at a cost of $1.7 million. Prepare appropriate entries for Rand Medical from the inception of the lease through the second lease payment on April 1, 2011.

Describe a process where information might be handled better in your current setting, or a setting familiar to you

Describe a process where information might be handled better in your current setting, or a setting familiar to you. What would you change, if you could, to improve information workflow, and what processes and persons would you involve to make these changes?

Discuss how any violations of business ethics in the company might affect its investors, customers and employees, and ultimately impact the company’s overall financial performance.

3 – 4 pages Ariel 12 Double Space

Please make sure to read the two cases about Disney before you answer the below questions. Use either the Bloomberg terminals located at the Feliciano School of Business or other reputable sources such as finance.yahoo.com, morningstar.com or Wall Street Journal etc. for the financial data you use in your answers. You need to provide the references regarding the financial data you use at the end of the finance portion of the term paper.

Questions:

1. Opening a new theme park, such as the Shanghai Disney Resort (company’s fourth and largest theme park in Asia), is a major capital budgeting project for Disney. A project of this scale requires coordinated planning across all functions of a business that you are studying in your Integrated Core classes. Choose and discuss three items on the income statement that you think will be impacted by this new undertaking. Explain why you chose those particular items, and how those items are impacted by the marketing, management and operations decisions of the company.

2. Choose and calculate three financial ratios for Disney for the last two years. Make sure to select ratios that you think would be impacted by opening a new theme park in a foreign country and explain your reasoning. Identify a competitor of Disney and contrast the two companies’ ratios. Explain why you selected this competitor. Describe how the decisions made by management, marketing and operations functions of the company can impact, and hopefully improve, these financial ratios.

3. Disney is a company with a significant brand value that is closely tied to its family friendly image. Discuss how any violations of business ethics in the company might affect its investors, customers and employees, and ultimately impact the company’s overall financial performance. Provide examples, if you’d like, to support your answer

Create a chart in a Microsoft® program comparing how enterprise resource planning (ERP), customer relationship management (CRM), and business intelligence/decision support systems (BI/DSS) can help the business.

Phoenix Fine Electronics would like you to brief them on your system recommendation.

Create a chart in a Microsoft® program comparing how enterprise resource planning (ERP), customer relationship management (CRM), and business intelligence/decision support systems (BI/DSS) can help the business. Cite at least two sources within your chart. Compare the following information:

Elements of the system
How the system would support management
How the system would create successful partnership between the business and IT
Write an executive summary of your recommendation for PFE’s C-level management. As a general guideline, executive summaries are typically 1 to 2 pages in length, at 12-point font, and single-spaced.

Include the following in your summary:

An overview of the business needs and desired outcomes
The system comparison chart (from above)
Your system recommendation
Scope of project
References

Why are you a great candidate for your chosen profession or career field?

Primary Response: Within the Discussion Board area, write 200–250 words that respond to the following questions with your thoughts, ideas, and comments. This will be the foundation for future discussions by your classmates. Be substantive and clear, and use examples to reinforce your ideas.

For this Discussion Board, please complete the following:

The interview is an area of career planning where you can be very well-prepared. The idea is that you could spend some time practicing to answer common questions most employers will ask in an interview. These may include the following:

Tell me about yourself.
Why are you a good fit for this position?
Do you have any questions for us?
Now, think about the kind of career that you want to accomplish with your degree, and answer the following questions:

Why are you a great candidate for your chosen profession or career field?
What would you want to ask an employer to assure yourself that you would enjoy working for that company

The role real-time data plays in ensuring the success of businesses

In this assignment, you will explore the role of data visualization in presenting complex data to management. As you know, a graph is worth a thousand words (sometimes more); so selecting the proper visualization tool can aid managers in making the proper decisions.

Tasks
On the basis of your assigned readings for this week, discuss the following:

The role real-time data plays in ensuring the success of businesses
The role of data visualization in helping managers make decisions
The different data visualization techniques used to translate data into knowledge for managers

List the advantages of a single customer service center for RR Communications.

List the advantages of a single customer service center for RR Communications.

-Devise an implementation strategy that would guarantee the support of the divisional presidents for the shared customer service center.

– Is it possible to achieve an enterprise vision with a decentralized IT function?

Do you feel that countries and companies need explicit strategies for technology development

Do you feel that countries and companies need explicit strategies for technology development, given the tremendous amount of largely spontaneous creativity that occurs today, often in areas where new technologies are not expected to exert a great influence. Why or why not?

Please make your initial post and two response posts substantive. A substantive post will do at least two of the following:

Explain, define, or analyze the topic in detail
Provide an outside source (for example, an article from the UC Library) that applies to the topic, along with additional information about the topic or the source (please cite properly in APA)
Make an argument concerning the topic.
At least one scholarly source should be used. Use proper citations and references in your post.

What is a “forecasting error”? Why is it important to the analysis of capital expenditure projects?

Two Paragraphs each question

NPV #1

According to the text, the NPV rule states that “An investment should be accepted if the NPV is positive and rejected if it is negative.” What does an NPV of zero mean? If you were a decision-maker faced with a project with a zero NPV (or very close to zero) what would you do? Why?

FORECASTING ERROR (RISK) #2

What is a “forecasting error”? Why is it important to the analysis of capital expenditure projects

discuss in detail at least three ways that Marshall Islanders have been affected by the legacy of nuclear contamination

Assignment Description:

The book Bravo for the Marshallese, by Holly M. Barker, tells the story of how residents of the Marshall Islands have been affected by nuclear testing conducted there by the U.S. government during the twentieth century. In this essay, I’d like you to do three things. First, discuss in detail at least three ways that Marshall Islanders have been affected by the legacy of nuclear contamination. Next, discuss in detail three strategies that Marshall Islanders have used to cope with, mitigate, or gain redress from the problems caused by nuclear testing. Finally, reflect on what this case can teach us more broadly about inter-cultural conflict and how to manage it. Please use evidence from the book to support your argument.

Limit: 4 pages, double-spaced