(1) DISCUSSION BOARD (TOPIC: Capital Budgeting & Projections) 250 WORDS Based on your past experiences and the knowledge gained during your coursework, consider the following question and post a...

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DISCUSSION BOARD (TOPIC: Capital Budgeting & Projections) 250 WORDS


Based on your past experiences and the knowledge gained during your coursework, consider the following question and post a substantive initial post:


The success or failure of hospital profitability in the coming years will depend on a continued fluctuation between revenues and costs. What are your thoughts about the impact of cash flow forecasting in hospitals based on utilization, physician competition, technology, cost of providing care, and hospital spending on organizational success?



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Assignment Description (INDIVIDUAL PROJECT) > (TOPIC: Capital Budgeting & Projections) 1500 WORDS


Perform an internet search for a current health care organization of your choice (preferably publicly traded for-profit organizations because these organizations must report all financial data and make it available to the public). In your search, select and evaluate the report of the financial information from the past 4 quarters or more. Complete the following for this assignment:



  • Predict the effect of changes in all financial metrics to changes in a proposed strategic plan in your chosen organization for the following 3 scenarios:


    • Payer mix changes from 50% Medicare and 5% Medicaid patients to 70% Medicare and 10% Medicaid patients in 1 year.

    • Professional turnover goes from 5% annually to 10% annually.

    • Demand for services increases 20% in 1 year


  • Search course materials including your text and the Internet for assistance in completing applicable financial calculations for this assignment.

  • Using the statements that you located, provide a financial plan that will do the following:


    • Create projected financial statements to analyze effects of alternate operating assumptions on the firm’s financial condition

    • Determine the projected financial requirements that will be needed to support each of the 3 sets of alternate operating instructions

    • Forecast the financial sources that might be needed to support your alternative assumptions

    • Assess the projected results using a financial condition analysis to the forecasted data


  • Provide appropriate spreadsheets such as Projected Income Statement and Projected Balance Sheets to validate your projected assumptions.

  • Consider the effect of the following factors to justify the changes that may be needed to the strategic plan as a result of your analysis:


    • Validity of data in the decision-making process

    • Revenue growth rate

    • Capacity

    • Rate of turnover



The body of the resultant paper should be 6 pages and should include at least 5 relevant academic or professional references published in the past 5 years.



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Answer To: (1) DISCUSSION BOARD (TOPIC: Capital Budgeting & Projections) 250 WORDS Based on your past...

Sanjukta answered on Jan 28 2021
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Capital budgeting
1) Introduction
It can be said that the profitability of the hospitality sector in the coming years will be depending on the continuous fluctuation between costs and revenues. Hospital must have a system for forecasting the cash flow based on the competition of the physician, utilization, cost of providing care, technology, etc. Furthermore, in terms of being able to
establish the cash flow forecasting impact has on the company’s success, it is quite important that one needs to understand what cash flow originally is. The forecasting of the cash flow can be regarded as a document that tend to help in approaching the amount of hard cash that will be moving out and in of the firm (Richter & Muhlestein, 2017).
The cash flow forecast may tend to assist an individual for being able to make the sound decisions for the future. These decisions can include:
· It enables an individual to plan in terms of meeting the obligation of the tax
· Dealing and predicting with the upcoming cash shortages as well as surpluses
· It has the effect in terms of identifying if there is a business loan need
On the other hand, some of the impact that the forecasting of the cash flow that may have on the success of a company:
· It tends to build the confidence of the investor
· It improves the growth of organization’s technological sector
· It also showcases any issue that is assumed to take place in providing the care services
2) INDIVIDUAL PROJECT
The present healthcare firm that is considered for this particular assignment is
This is a report that will evaluate the financial statistics from the previous four quarters or even more a chose US-based, publically exchanged medical care association. The medical services association that I have chosen for this report is UnitedHealth Group Inc.
It can be said that UnitedHealth Group Inc. is one of the most prominent healthcare firms in the America. Furthermore, this is incorporated as a profit company that can be located in Minnesota. This firm tends to offer insurance services and healthcare products. In the year 2019 and can be regarded as one of the second largest firm by the revenue of $243 billion, and the largest insurance firm by Net premiums. The main mission of the firm revolves around helping the individuals for living healthier lives and making the health system work excellently for everyone. In this firm they tend to celebrate the ideas, people and experience that tend to create a culture where all of the workers are equally appreciated. Number of workers associated with this company till last year is approximately 321,000 and they have five main fundamental values such as innovation, integrity, compassion, performance as well as the relationships.
UnitedHealth Group Inc.’s evaluation report in the previous 4 quarters
It can be said that as per the findings, the financial year 2020 fourth quarter of UnitedHealth Group Inc. ended in the 31st of December. The below-mentioned segment is the review of UnitedHealth Group Inc.’s GAAP (Generally Accepted Accounting Principles). It is defined as the collection of daily followed laws of accounting and the advantages for the financial accounting.
Gross profit- There have been significant result that is reported for the fiscal year 2020 as the gross profit reported in the quarter ending 31st December 2020 is $15.763 Billion, it is almost 4.30% enhance year-over-year.
Revenue- The entire year’s revenue of UnitedHealth Group Inc. in 2020 was $258 billon grew almost 16% or 75 over the year that highlighted the growth of broad-based revenue across the businesses.
Effective tax rate- It has been observed that the effective tax rate of the firm decreased in the 3rd quarter of 2020 when contrasted with the past year that is 23.5% below the average Effective tax rate of the firm.
Operating expenses- This organisation’s operating expenses for the quarter...
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