Distinctive Competencies, Competitive Advantage,

Define value creation for customers and the components that can be used to determine value creation per unit. How value creation is related to competitive advantage?
What is a value chain? Why is efficiency so important in an organizations’ value chain activities?
What building blocks in value creation can an organization use to sustain competitive advantage? How best you can sustain competitive advantage?
What does internal analysis help a company to determine? How does this process contribute to the overall health (value creation, competitive advantage, profitability) of a company?
Why do companies fail? How does competitive advantage relate to failure? If competitive advantage is not maintained, what would be the consequence for a company?
CHAPTER 4 QUESTIONS:
What are functional level strategies? How they relate to competitive advantage of a company? How can functional level strategy contribute to efficiency?
Describe economies of scale and how it relates to competitive advantage. What strategic significance does economies of scale have for a company? What it does with the competitive advantage of a company?
How does innovation relate to competitive advantage? What can be done to sustain innovation in a company?
How does customer relations contribute to competitive advantage? What is the effect of customer relations on value creation and its components?

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Merger and acquisition/ strategic competitiveness

  1. Why are merger and acquisition strategies popular in many firms competing in the global economy?
  2. What are the strategic competitiveness outcomes firms can reach through international strategies, and particularly through an international diversification strategy?

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American Nurses Association Code of Ethics

  1. Describe the main points/highlights covered in this provision of the Code. Use your own words.
  2. Reflect on what you learned from reading this particular provision of the Code.
  3. Describe how you will apply the information and knowledge from this section of the Code to your clinical
    experiences in your current courses. **(You may use 1st person voice for #s 2&3 only). (This semester my
    clinical for Mental Health and Maternity is online).
    ANA Code of Ethics Paper Grading Rubric Part I:
    Main points of the assigned provision.
    Reflection on what you learned from the provision.
    Application of the provision to clinical experiences.
    Part II:
    Read the entire ANA Code of Ethics for Nurses, The National Student Nurses Code of Ethics, and the
    International Council of Nurses Code of Ethics. The following articles will also help you (links are found below
    the paper directions).
    *Mahony, D.L. & Jones, E.J. (2013). Addressing the social determinants of health in nursing education,
    research, and health policy. Nursing Science Quarterly, 26, 280-284. doi:10.1177/0894318413489186. (Note:
    the Mahony & Jones article comments on the 2001 version of the ANA Code of Ethics. You will see that the
    2015 revision of the Code of Ethics now incorporates discussion of the social determinants of health and
    nurses’ roles in addressing health disparities.)
    *Thurman, W. P.-L., M. (2017). Returning to the profession’s roots: Social justice in nursing education in the
    21st century. Advances in Nursing Science, 40(2), 193-194.
    Answer the following questions in the expanded paragraph style:
  4. Describe the target audience/scope for each of the three different Codes, and explain the purpose for each
    specific Code relative to the target audience.
  5. Specifically, describe how the concepts of health disparities and social justice are addressed in each of the
    Codes. Give an example from each of the three Codes to support your argument.
  6. Describe how these three codes will guide your professional growth and transition from a student nurse to a
    practicing Registered Nurse, to a global steward for nursing and health. (You may use 1st person voice for #3
    only).
    ANA Code of Ethics Paper Grading Rubric Part II:
    The target audience for each Code of Ethics and the purpose of each code for the specific audiences.
    Describe how the concepts of health disparities and social justice are addressed in each of the Codes with an
    example from each of the codes to support your argument.
    Describe how the codes will guide your professional growth/transition from student nurse to practicing RN to
    the global steward of health.
    These professional codes of ethics will be used for the ANA Code of Ethics paper and will be useful throughout

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Private Equity Funds

You work in the accounting department of an investment management firm and a portfolio manager has asked for your advice on estimating the fair values of the following asset classes

  1. Common Stocks
  2. Bonds
  3. Real Estate
    4.Timber Investments which receive cash flow from the sales of timber
    5.Private Equity Funds
  4. liquid asset-backed securities

Discuss what advice you would provide the portfolio manager on estimating the fair values of each of the above asset classes including how you would characterize the inputs you identify as Level 1, Level 2 or Level 3 assets. (Modified from Wahlen et al. 9th edition).
response needs to be (150 – 200 words).

2nd part (continuation of first part)…M3D2

After reading through your discussion the portfolio manager emails you the following note:

“Thanks for your input regarding estimating the value of the various asset classes. I have been examining the goodwill balance of one of the companies in my value index portfolio and I noticed that as the creditworthiness of the company improved the earnings of the company decreased and asset values decreased due to fair value accounting and changes in goodwill. I don’t understand how this would happen”. Write a response to the portfolio manager discussing the relationship between fair value accounting and changes in goodwill and asset values and corporate earnings.

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