However you have identified a potential market for your products; unfortunately it is located in a country that does not have a good track record for adhering to the legal and ethical guidelines concering foreign owned companies. Assess the risk involved, and decide weather you should recommand  doing business in this type of legal settings.

1. Use the internet and library to find at least 2 examples of how international laws could protect your intersts as a foreign based business and what legal ramifications you could pursue if your rights were violated. Explain and document your findings.

2. What kind of impact can countries with poor track records of adhering to the laws of international business proactices have on global economy? Explain.

However you have identified a potential market for your products; unfortunately it is located in a country that does not have a good track record for adhering to the legal and ethical guidelines concering foreign owned companies. Assess the risk involved, and decide weather you should recommand  doing business in this type of legal settings.

1. Use the internet and library to find at least 2 examples of how international laws could protect your intersts as a foreign based business and what legal ramifications you could pursue if your rights were violated. Explain and document your findings.

2. What kind of impact can countries with poor track records of adhering to the laws of international business proactices have on global economy? Explain.

For this assignment, you will refer to the financial information you collected for the FP and NFP in M1: Assignment 2. You will also refer to the information on the fictional facility, Sakasegawa Memorial Hospital (SMH), for which financial data is supplied.

You will use ratio analysis to conduct a review of each organization’s financial information. You will carry out an analysis of the key components of the balance sheet and income statement. Then, you will address the differences in the accounting statements of NFPs and FPs, including an examination of operational issues.

Here are some questions you can use to direct your review:

• Which organization is bigger? Consider assets, liabilities, and equity.
• Which organization has more debt? Consider debt and risk.
• Which organization is making money? Consider patient care revenue, patient days, and hospital beds.
• How much money comes from sources other than patient revenue? Consider contributions and research.
• How does the structure differ between FP and NFP facilities? Consider organizational type and overall structure.

Write a 3- to 5-page paper in Microsoft Word format. All written assignments and responses should follow APA rules for attributing sources. Use the following file naming convention: LastnameFirstInitial_M1_A3.doc.
By Friday, March 8, 2013, submit your assignment to the M1: Assignment 3 Dropbox.

Voluntary Discussion

As you work on your course project, you may want to discuss your work with your classmates. The Discussion Area below will be available throughout the week where you can share your thoughts about your project, seek your classmates’ views on it, and offer feedback on their work. This activity is optional and not graded.

For this assignment, you will refer to the financial information you collected for the FP and NFP in M1: Assignment 2. You will also refer to the information on the fictional facility, Sakasegawa Memorial Hospital (SMH), for which financial data is supplied.

You will use ratio analysis to conduct a review of each organization’s financial information. You will carry out an analysis of the key components of the balance sheet and income statement. Then, you will address the differences in the accounting statements of NFPs and FPs, including an examination of operational issues.

Here are some questions you can use to direct your review:

• Which organization is bigger? Consider assets, liabilities, and equity.
• Which organization has more debt? Consider debt and risk.
• Which organization is making money? Consider patient care revenue, patient days, and hospital beds.
• How much money comes from sources other than patient revenue? Consider contributions and research.
• How does the structure differ between FP and NFP facilities? Consider organizational type and overall structure.

Write a 3- to 5-page paper in Microsoft Word format. All written assignments and responses should follow APA rules for attributing sources. Use the following file naming convention: LastnameFirstInitial_M1_A3.doc.
By Friday, March 8, 2013, submit your assignment to the M1: Assignment 3 Dropbox.

Voluntary Discussion

As you work on your course project, you may want to discuss your work with your classmates. The Discussion Area below will be available throughout the week where you can share your thoughts about your project, seek your classmates’ views on it, and offer feedback on their work. This activity is optional and not graded.

Early in their existence, many businesses handle their activities internally. As businesses mature and grow, they often find competitive advantage in the specialization provided by outside firms. This trend is particularly frequent in industries such as information technology (IT) and healthcare.

The U.S. federal government delivers healthcare through its two main insurance programs: Medicare and Medicaid. In these programs, private healthcare providers are reimbursed by government insurers for health services delivered to insured citizens.

• Visit the Web sites of Medicare and Medicaid programs for more information about them.
• Review the article, “Outsourcing: Assessing the Risks and Benefits for Organizations, Sectors, and Nations” by Harland, Knight, Lamming, and Walker (2005). The conceptual framework in this article shows how corporate strategy is influenced by regulation under the decision node of policy issues (p. 844).

Based on your analysis of the article and the Web sites, address the following:

• Identify the main stakeholders in the US federal healthcare system. In your view, what are their respective goals, wants, and needs with regard to public health?
• Analyze the current status faced by the federal government in terms of the strategy being used in its healthcare system.
  • Identify strengths and weaknesses of the strategy as well as opportunities and threats (SWOT analysis) present in the external environment.
  • Propose a new policy to be implemented for optimizing the use of outsourcing in healthcare services to private hospitals and healthcare practices in order to provide medical services to the bulk of the US population. This policy should include the following objectives:

Course Project Task 4—Analyze Cost Behavior and Calculate Breakeven Analyses

In this assignment, you will carry out a profit analysis for the SMH facility. Focus the analysis on a specific product line. You will develop a cost-volume-profit template to help measure costs and changes to variable and indirect costs using SMH data. Through this assignment, you will become familiar with the concepts of breakeven point, contribution margin, and operating leverage.

You will prepare a report that compares your findings on costs and changes to variable and indirect costs. Include the potential financial benefits the facility might realize if it incorporated changes to the revenue or cost structure.

For your analysis, you can use the SMH data file, which you had downloaded from the Doc Sharing area.

Using the SMH data file you will do the following:

• Develop a template of costs. You should separate expenses into variable and fixed expenses. The SMH data file contains a template to provide some guidance.
• Calculate the breakeven point in patient days.
  Note: Breakeven point = Total fixed cost / (per patient day revenue – per patient day variable expenses)
• Calculate the breakeven point assuming a 5 percent increase in clinical salaries and a 4 percent increase in officer salaries.
• A physician wants to add a new procedure that will increase direct patient care expense by $200 per day. What is the impact on GP and the breakeven point? Provide your comments.
• The hospital is considering hiring a physician. This will increase annual costs by $250,000. However, with the addition of this physician, it is anticipated that patient days will increase by 6 percent. Is this a good move for the hospital? Provide your comments.
• Many times it is difficult to determine if a cost is variable or fixed. In addition, costs may be variable, but only in a relevant range. Do you agree with the categorization of costs as they are presented on the template in the SMH data file? Would you recommend changes? What additional information would help you analyze the data? Provide your comments.

Write a 3- to 5-page report in Word format. All written assignments and responses should follow APA rules for attributing sources.

Discuss contract negotiation results

1. Fixed price, cost reimbursable, and time and material contracts are all potential agreements that could be reached between organizations. Describe each type of contract, and explain the range of risk for each of these types of contracts

2.  To achieve your desired contract negotiation results, you need not only a strategy, but also tactics and counter tactics. Give an example of two tactics, and state why they help you achieve the desired result

1. Fixed price, cost reimbursable, and time and material contracts are all potential agreements that could be reached between organizations. Describe each type of contract, and explain the range of risk for each of these types of contracts

2.  To achieve your desired contract negotiation results, you need not only a strategy, but also tactics and counter tactics. Give an example of two tactics, and state why they help you achieve the desired result