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Financing an ExpansionOverviewAfter 12 years, your business is wildly successful, with multiple locations throughout the region. You are now ready to think really big. You want to purchase a huge competitor. (Note: You determine whether the competitor is a privately or publicly held company.) To expand, you will need additional capital from the debt or equity market, or both.InstructionsWrite a 5–7 page paper in which you:
Use one of the valuation techniques identified in Chapters 11 and 12 to calculate the value of the competitor you wish to purchase. Note: You will have to make assumptions; however, your assumptions need to be rationally supported.
Analyze the various financial tools available to you to determine which tools will be most helpful in assessing whether your company can afford to purchase the competitor. Support your response.
Imagine you can indeed afford to purchase the competitor; however, you will need an additional $100 million.
Examine the options available to you to finance the competitor through the debt market, recommending the best alternative as a result of your analysis. Provide support for your recommendation.
Examine the options available to you to finance the competitor through the equity market, recommending the best alternative as a result of your analysis. Provide support for your recommendation.
Conduct a cross-comparison of your debt and equity examinations to determine where to ideally obtain the additional $100 million funding needed to make the purchase and the approach that you would take to securing the funds. Provide support for your recommendation.
This course requires the use of Strayer Writing Standards. For assistance and information, please refer to the Strayer Writing Standards link in the left-hand menu of your course. Check with your professor for any additional instructions.The specific course learning outcome associated with this assignment is:
Determine whether to use the debt market or the equity market to obtain and secure funding for a major business purchase.
Response posts: include at least 2 scholarly sources of evidence, cited within the body of your discussion responses & at the end of your posting, at least 2 references
Evidence-based practice guides all aspects of clinical practice, such as the design of health care facilities and the development of organizational policies and procedures (Walden University, 2018). Evidence-based practice is a key principle of healthcare and nursing. This process includes collecting data from well-designed studies and research, reviewing and analyzing this information, and integrating the best findings to improve healthcare quality as well as clinical practice and environments which ultimately will improve the outcomes of our patients (Melnyk et al.,2014).
Scripps Health is a $2.9 billion private nonprofit health care system based in San Diego California. Scripps healthcare is ranked among the top 15 healthcare systems in the nation and serves about 700,000 patients annually. The system includes five hospitals and 19 outpatient facilities with more than 3,000 affiliated physicians and 15,000 employees (Scripps Health, n.d.).
In the analysis of Scripps Health’s website, evidence-based practice did appear throughout the platform. The organization spoke to their commitment to quality and safety and how their institution bases their information on these topics with the research and data of a chief quality officer, as well as a manager of patient experience and quality. The organization also states how they are involved with the Hospital Quality Institute (HQI) and provides information on how HQI supports patient safety and quality improvement. Scripps Health also provides a Quality Transparency Dashboard on their website this document provides outcome measurements for maternity safety, sepsis protocols and sepsis mortality, respiratory monitoring programs, central line-associated bloodstream infection (CLABSI), colon surgical site infection (colon SSI) nulliparous, term, singleton, vertex cesarean birth rate (NTSV) and 30- day readmission
Hospital-wide all-cause 30- day unplanned readmission rate of their five hospitals. Scripps Health also provides their annual report on their website, this report includes how the organization is tackling healthcare issues such as the opioid crisis and cancer. These sections include statistical research and data that has aided Scripps health in dealing with these healthcare issues (Scripps Health, n.d.).
As a previous employee of the organization, I have witnessed firsthand how Scripps health promotes many core values by using evidence-based practice. After the analysis of Scripps health, I still stand by the notion that evidence-based practice is utilized in all aspects of the delivery of care and empowered by providing education to healthcare staff. Scripps empowers their staff by facilitating many opportunities for their physicians and nurses to continue education.
These opportunities include annual conferences, live courses, and online enduring materials. By providing their staff with high-quality evidence-based and clinically relevant education they can promote cultural change. Through education, Scripps Health can create growth and development opportunities for physicians and nurses. Preparing healthcare staff to frame clinical questions and search for answers through research and literature (Crabtree et al., 2016). Reinforcing the notion that as nurses and future advanced practice nurse practitioners, we must stay current and relevant with the ever-changing evidence and best practices in healthcare in order to deliver safe quality patient care.
You are attending a primary care visit with your teenage female relative. The primary care physician asks if she is taking birth control pills. She is not, but is considering it. You hear the primary care doctor share the benefits, but not the risks. You begin researching risks to help with a fully informed opinion.
Initial Post
After reading the assigned article, answer the following question: “Would you recommend birth control pills to your teenage daughter or a best friend’s teenage daughter? Why or why not.
Be sure to support your positions with APA formatted in-text citations and references from the assigned resource.
Please use APA style formatting.
Question 1
For the pharmaceutical company in HW-3, were tasked to develop an access control policy for the company. Currently, you are performing an as-is analysis and assessing current security practices. You’ve found three critical problems with current practices. These are:
1) The accounts of the former employees are not always removed after the termination of the employment.
2) The database server is in the same network as the computer workstations.
3) Server administrators use the same “Administrator” account.
Download NIST Special Publication 800-53 from this URL:
NIST SP 800-53 is titled Security and Privacy Controls for Federal Information Systems and Organizations.
This publication helps federal agencies and contractors meet the requirements set by the Federal Information Security Management Act (FISMA). Review the document to familiarize yourself with its contents.
Go to TABLE D-3: SUMMARY — ACCESS CONTROL, which is in the Appendix-D of the document. Fill out the following table.
| Security Problem in Pharmaceutical Company | Control No and Control Name in SP 800-53 |
Question 2
Although your company is not a federal organization, explain how NIST SP 800-53 can help your organization in increasing security maturity as if you are explaining it to your CEO or another important non-technical person.