Consider a healthcare organization with which you are familiar with and explain the difference between cash and accrual accounting in healthcare setting.

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Your Discussion postings should be written in standard edited English and should follow APA guidelines. Be sure to support your work with specific in-text citationsfrom this week’s Learning Resources. Refer to the Pocket Guide to APA Style to ensure that your in-text citations and reference list are correct. Initial postings must be 250–350 words (not including references).
Choose one of the following:
1. The income statement, balance sheet, and statement of cash flows are three major financial statements that present varying snapshots of an organization’s financial position. For this topic discussion, consider a healthcare organization with which you are familiar with and examine the purposes and components of these documents. How they may be utilized within healthcare organizations?
2. Consider a healthcare organization with which you are familiar with and explain the difference between cash and accrual accounting in healthcare setting.

Should policy simply be to provide “treatment” and surgery for these individuals?

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DQ7: Please share your research, experience, and thoughts: In today’s society, we are dealing with a New Era, health care access and coverage for the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender (LGBT) Community in the United States are on the rise. While these changes are expected to increase health insurance coverage and access for LGBT individuals and their families, many challenges and questions remain, including:
What will be the impact of state policy choices on access and coverage?
How will new protections against discrimination be translated into practice and where do gaps remain?
Now that gay marriage is legal in most states, is the more conservative institution of healthcare positioned for this change?
Should this group become a protected class under law?
**Note that some states are designing legislation to abolish counseling for transgender individuals–which tends to always fail. Should policy simply be to provide “treatment” and surgery for these individuals? Recently a transgender teen threw herself in front of a bus and died because her counseling had failed–and surgery seemed farther away.

Explain what you believe to be the most appropriate level of transparency for an organization.

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Discussion: Appropriate Use of Transparency in Organizations
Consider the following two scenarios:
Scenario 1
Employees work in an atmosphere of distrust and fear. Leaders make decisions behind closed doors. Changes to processes and staffing often occur unexpectedly without warning or explanation. A few select people are given information and guard it jealously. Most employees do not get an opportunity to give input or feedback.
Scenario 2
Employees work in a small company where everyone knows everything about everyone and the rumor mill runs rampant. Leadership gives both praise and reprimands in public. They frequently discuss employees’ personal affairs.
These scenarios illustrate two extremes of transparency in business. Maintaining the right degree of transparency is a challenge for many organizations. Some leaders operate their organizations with an open-book management style. Others believe in carefully maintaining the security of information. Leaders must determine the appropriate level of transparency necessary for their organizations to stay healthy.
To prepare for this Discussion, consider your experience with transparency of information and decision making in organizations of which you have been a part, such as businesses or schools.
By Day 3
Post your evaluation of the appropriate use of transparency in an organization. In your analysis, be sure to address the following:
Explain what you believe to be the most appropriate level of transparency for an organization.
Identify any instances in which transparency would not be a good strategy.
Explain how a leader might exert influence-using transparency.
Be sure to support your work with a minimum of two specific citations from this week’s Learning Resources and one or more additional scholarly sources.

Explain how these steps will influence each of the challenges you face and the mitigation plan to eliminate the challenges.

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Assignment: The Role of Leadership in Shaping Organizational Culture
Recent researchers stated that “[c]ompanies with an established organizational culture that includes strong capabilities for change, a commitment to innovation and a high level of trust have a significant advantage” (Eccles, Perkins, & Serafeim, 2012, p. 44) when attempting to adopt a strategy of broad-based corporate sustainability. In fact, according to the National Business Ethics Survey (ECI, 2013) results, building strong corporate ethics cultures are paramount and leaders must continue this work to ensure progress.
Organizational leaders should have a strong incentive to identify and address any disparities that exist between their organization’s current culture and a productive, healthy one. They must understand the impact they can have as leaders in facilitating an organizational culture, determining the necessary steps to build that culture, and taking the necessary action to create a healthy organizational culture. Leaders must also be able to utilize principles of positive social change to enhance both their leadership styles and overall organizational culture.
For this Assignment, you will continue to familiarize yourself with Dr. Craig Marsh’s challenges and those things he must consider as he builds a new corporate culture. Imagine again that you have similar challenges, but before building a new corporate culture, you must become familiar with relevant research to make the appropriate decisions.
To prepare for this Assignment, review the “Leading a Virtual Organization” videos and Case Study Guide in this week’s Learning Resources, and consider the insights gained by Dr. Marsh in his journey as an organizational leader.
By Day 7
Submit a 7- to 10-page comprehensive scholarly analysis of the role leadership plays in establishing an organizational culture that includes a focus on positive social change. In your analysis, do the following:
Analyze Dr. Marsh’s challenges and their influence on an organization’s culture.
Summarize the leadership style you would adopt to influence the organization’s culture and why.
Explain the organizational change or cultural change model or steps you would take to change the culture.
As a global change agent, explain how you would infuse positive social change into your leadership style and organizational culture.
Describe the incremental steps you would take given your selected model to ensure success.
Explain how these steps will influence each of the challenges you face and the mitigation plan to eliminate the challenges.
Delineate the key concepts you would include in your vision statement.