Introduction of Dentistar and the problem Dentistar‚ Inc. was formed in 1985 to provide dental and orthodontic services to subscribers of their prepaid dental plans. This report examines the western region’s office‚ located in Los Angeles‚ and its issuance of excessive manual checks that resulted in multiple bank overdrafts. Results indicate that only minimal efforts have been made for internal control measures in this office and companywide‚ and that weaknesses have allowed the Finance Coordinator
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Unit 6 Project Case Study Questions 1. The original model was not diversified thus the company would continue to lose value‚ market share and reduced profitability as a result of consumers shopping with the competition that has more items and competitive pricing strategies to offer. Presently eBay seeks new opportunities for growth expansion and business ventures in order to become the world’s most multifaceted entity in the world of e-commerce. eBay would be unable to maintain a competitive
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investments with the smallest daily returns out of the six stocks‚ it performed consistently‚ however‚ was the only stock in the portfolio that finished the time period with a smaller daily return compared to a year prior (3/1/12). To begin my project I first found the daily prices for my 6 stocks from March 1st 2012 – March 1st‚ 2013. To find these I used the Bloomberg Terminal as a search engine and then also found the S&P 500 historical futures prices for the same period as for the 6 stocks
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so that you should approve my request to leave Blue Shield Health Insurance. Since my left hand crooked‚ I experienced making an end meet every month. In addition‚ I have only worked a part-time job for Orange Unified School District for 18 years as an instructional assistant. Especially‚ I stop believing in Blue Shield Health Insurance for the following reasons: 1) Mr. Chien Ngo ineffectively handled my case of health insurance; 2) Blue Shield mailed the bill too late. First‚ necessity underlies
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1. Critical reflection of the validity of the Belbin’s self-perception inventory Nowadays team working is becoming a fundamental concern for many organisations. Whereas there are a number of factors affecting a team/group performance‚ significant attention has been given to the effect of the diversity of team members regarding roles that are played in a team. A popular team role model which is being used internationally in research on team environment as well as in practice at work is Belbin’s self-perception
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The Mental Research Institute (MRI) was founded by Jackson. He was heavily influenced by Bateson and developed the Brief Therapy Project. Nichols (2013) noted “What emerged was an elegantly brief approach based on interrupting vicious cycles that occur when attempts to solve problems only make them worse. Unlike today’s therapies‚ which are brief by default‚ the Palo Alto approach was brief by design. (p. 100). The MRI group believed that families make logical‚ but misguided attempts to solve their
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Mock Buying Project: Report #2 Style Style trends for women’s sportswear/ athletic wear vary little year to year. Based on our research the primary changes for the trends of Spring 2015 wear slight modification to the design and fit of athletic wear. For group 1‚ we decided that tight-fitted base-wear‚ tight-fitted layers‚ looser-fitted outerwear‚ color-blocking patterns‚ and geometric patterns will best meet the needs and wants of the consumers targeted. The women in group 1 are in their
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The principle visual difference between Shield volcanos and Stratovolcanoes is the shape‚ which is due to the composition of the magma. The Magma in most shield volcanos is basaltic and far less viscous than that in Stratovolcanoes. A shield volcano consists of a Caldera‚ central vent and magma reservoir while occasionally there are side vents or fissures. The caldera‚ which is Spanish for cauldron is at least a mile in diameter and is a depression in the cone of the volcano. It is built out of the
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Excellus Blue Cross Blue Shield is a New York based that is involved with the delivery of finances‚ health care services and long –term insurance countrywide. Excellus Blue Cross Blue Shield revealed that the company had learnt of an apparent breach against their system where hackers were able to gain illegally access to its customers’ information on September 10‚ 2015. According to the company’s spokesperson‚ the information accessed included claims and financial payment information; names of clients;
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Chapter 4 MARKET AND DEMAND ANALYSIS 1. We have to estimate the parameters a and b in the linear relationship Yt = a + bT Using the least squares method. According to the least squares method the parameters are: ∑ T Y – n T Y b = ∑ T 2 – n T 2 a = Y – bT The parameters are calculated below: Calculation in the Least Squares Method T Y TY T 2 1 2‚000 2‚000 1 2 2‚200 4‚400 4 3 2‚100 6‚300 9 4 2‚300 9‚200 16 5 2‚500 12‚500 25 6 3‚200 19‚200 36 7 3‚600 25
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