Nonprofit versus For-Profit Healthcare and Organizations Abstract This paper explores articles and research conducted on nonprofit versus For-Profit Healthcare and Organizations. There are three types of entities that own hospitals‚ which are: nonprofit‚ for-profit‚ and government. However‚ it can’t be determined if they specialize in different medical services or how their service profits affect certain specializations. More than likely‚ the for-profits offer profitable medical services that
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States Health System Strengths Professor Rodriguez Introduction For-profit hospitals provide a service to make a profit which is returned first to organizations and then to their shareholders. Non-profit hospitals exist first to provide a service and second to accumulate assets which are returned to the hospital ’s community in the form of additional services (Consumers Union‚ 1998). Johns Hopkins Hospital is non-profit healthcare organization that provides many service to the Baltimore community
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amounts which are set aside out of the profits for a specific purpose e.g. provisions for bad debts‚ doubtful debts or depreciation‚ etc. These provisions are made in view of some expected events. Any expected loss in the future relating to the current accounting period must be charged (i.e. debited) to the profit and loss account of the current period. Similarly‚ any expected gain in the future relating to the current year must be credited to the profit and loss account of the current year. N.B.
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Profit Determination Prepared by John Hoggett and Clare Innes Measurement of Profit • Cash basis • Cash income received - Cash expenses paid – Revenues recorded when received – Expenses recorded when paid • Accrual basis • Profit = Income (incl. Revenues) - Expenses – Revenue is recognised when the anticipated inflow of economic benefit can be reliably measured – Expenses when the consumption of benefits can be reliably measured 2 Adjusting Entries • The need for adjusting entries-
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Comparing Not-For- Profit and For Profit Colleges Colleges and university have slowly become one of the stepping stones into the working world today. People go to colleges for higher education with the intention of earning degrees in which they can use in their respective fields. Some example degrees that people pursue are Medical‚ Law‚ Business‚ Accounting‚ and Science Degrees. Through the years the idea of college was that it was optional and it was a door for better life and job. However in
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you ever wondered how not-for-profit organizations are not-for-profit? Or how not-for-profit organizations can operate at an accounting profit but still be considered a not-for-profit organization? Over the year’‚ not-for-profit organizations have had many changes in rules and regulations set forth for not-for-profit organizations to abide by. There are three major financial statements involved with not-for-profit organizations and one voluntary financial statement‚ plus four key governmental and
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other. Each player tries to guess which the competitor is trying to do. There are usually a small amount of large firms and they usually control the market. Competitive firms will use the firms marginal cost to produce the price. The price of the good must be lower than the cost to produce it. To maximize the profits is when the price is equal to the marginal cost of production. The competitive firm must be producing at the point where price equals marginal cost. In monopoly firms they cannot just
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M3 Interpret the contents of a trading and profit and loss account and balance sheet for a selected company explaining how accounting ratios can be used to monitor the financial performance of the organisation . Profit and Loss account. The P&L will not tell you about the underlying health of the business‚ such as how much money it owes or is owed and what the value of its assets are. It shows how much money did business made in a year. It records two things sales and cost/turnover.
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earnings is the profit generated by a company that are not distributed to stockholders (shareholders) as dividends but are either reinvested in the business or kept as a reserve for specific objectives (such as to pay off a debt or purchase a capital asset). A balance sheet figure shown under the heading retained earnings is the sum of all profits retained since the company’s inception. Retained earnings are reduced by losses‚ and are also called accumulated earnings‚ accumulated profit‚ accumulated income
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additional gaming revenues. Terrence Wei‚ the new property president‚ feels that his department managers appear to be in conflict with each other. The managers of each department have expressed concerns when it comes to running their department under the profit center approach. Overall‚ complementary costs and allocated overhead included in the direct costs pose more of a problem in determining the amounts to allocate. More specifically‚ the hotel manager complained about capacity constraints. It is difficult
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