finance (7th ed). Sudbury, MA: Jones & Bartlett Learning.

Week 1 – Assignment —- Ownership Forms of Health Care Organizations

Review Chapter 1 of your course text and formulate a response to the following topic:

You are an external consultant with 10 years’ experience in your field.  Fifty doctors are trying to get together to form a health care organization, and they come to you for suggestions on developing the ownership form for the organization.  It is your job to advise them on what common ownership forms are available for the organization and provide an example of each. Additionally, you must discuss the following:

• The advantages and disadvantages of each ownership form.
• The ownership form would you would recommend as being most appropriate for this particular organization as well as why it is the most appropriate.

Your paper must include an introduction, thesis, and conclusion. Your paper must be four to five double-spaced pages in length (excluding title and reference pages) and formatted according to APA style as outlined in the Ashford Writing Center.  Utilize three scholarly and/or peer-reviewed sources that were published within the last five years. Cite your souces within the text of your paper and provide complete references for each source used on the reference page.

Week 2 – Assignment  — Anti-Trust

Prior to completing the assignment,  review Chapter 4 of your course text.

You are a manager with 5 years of experience and need to write a report for senior management on how your firm can avoid the threat of a Federal Trade Commission investigation if you were to merge with other health care organizations. Research on your own to select a health care organization in the United States that has been charged with an antitrust action within the last five years and use this information as the basis for your paper. In your report

• Summarize the charges and rebuttal or mitigation of charges used by the health care organization you researched.
• Discuss lessons learned and propose actions that can be taken by your management to avoid similar anti- trust actions in your proposed merger.

Your paper must include an introduction, thesis, and conclusion. Your paper must be four to five double-spaced pages in length (excluding title and reference pages) and formatted according to APA style as outlined in the Ashford Writing Center.  Utilize three scholarly and/or peer-reviewed sources (excluding the course text) that were published within the last five years. Cite your sources within the text of your paper and provide complete references for each source used on the reference page.

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Week 3 – Assignment    — Financial Ratios Analysis and Comparison Paper

Prior to completing this assignment, review Chapter 10 and 12 in your course text.

You are a mid-level manager in a health care organization and you have been asked to prepare a report, with appropriate exhibits, for the senior financial officer.

• Discuss the roles played by financial ratios in general and analyze the commonly used financial ratios by categories.
• Additionally, select a local hospital and compare its financial ratios for the most recent three years against the national norms for this type of institution. Include analytical comments and how the organization compares to the national norms as well as any suggestions as to how results could be improved.

Your paper must include an introduction, thesis, and conclusion. Your paper must be four to five double-spaced pages in length (excluding title and reference pages) and formatted according to APA style as outlined in the Ashford Writing Center.  Utilize three scholarly and/or peer-reviewed sources (excluding the course text) that were published within the last five years. Cite your sources within the text of your paper and provide complete references for each source used on the reference page.