...MY PROFFESSIONAL GOAL My professional goal is to become an influential healthcare provider and impact the health care field worldwide. Since childhood, I always anticipated being a doctor. Indeed through life experiences I have had, my dream of being a doctor has become even more vital. Furthermore, I have a passion of finding strategies for improving health care. I grew up in Kenya where health care was the worst people die needlessly due to persistent strikes by the health care providers. These on and off strikes leave the less fortunate dying like flies. Moreover, health care providers prioritize money than they value life. This breaks my heart. Furthermore, I have had a devastating experience my mum has been sick on and off and what...
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...Statement on Responsibilities in Personal Financial Planning Practice Copyright © 2010 by American Institute of Certified Public Accountants, Inc. New York, NY 10036-8775 All rights reserved. For information about the procedure for requesting permission to make copies of any part of this work, please visit www.copyright.com or call (978) 750-8400. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS Statement on Responsibilities in Personal Financial Planning Practice Task Force Clark Blackman II, Chair (PFP Executive Committee) and Past Chair Dirk Edwards, Chair John Connell Charles Kowal Jerry Love Randy Ryan Scott Sprinkle Ken Strauss AICPA Staff Mark Koziel, Director (Specialized Communities) Andrea Millar, Sr. Technical Manager (PFP Division) Teighlor March, Senior Manager (Legal, Legislative & Regulatory Affairs) Sarah Bradley, Project Manager (PFP Division) 2 Contents Acknowledgments .................................................................................................................................. 2 Foreword ................................................................................................................................................ 4 Exceptions From This Statement............................................................................................................. 6 Responsibilities of Members in Personal Financial Planning Services Engagements .............................. 7 Professional Competence .....................................................
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...Business Model and Strategic Plan Mission statements define the organization's primary objectives. Vision statements focus on its goals and aspirations. Value statements define how the work will be done. Vision, mission, and values are all important considerations when developing a strategic plan. These three factors work together to provide the business a well rounded strategic design. My business idea is a firm that manages projects. Strategic planning is a process of decisions made by an organization to set goals and to outline a course of action to achieve those goals, to grow the business and to help the business be profitable ("Dictionary," 2014, p. 1). Long term and short term goals contribute to the strategic plan. Description and Mission The business is a project management company called Properly Managed Projects (PMP) that specializes in knowledge, skills and techniques to execute projects effectively and efficiently ("Project Management," 2014). The target customer can be anyone with a temporary group activity to produce a product or service. Project management has five steps; initiating, planning, executing, monitoring and controlling, and Closing. Mission Statement Our mission is to provide professional planning on all projects. We only provide the best solutions to our customers’ situations. We make great efforts to be the most knowledgeable, skilled, and trusted company in the professional community. We seek to produce financial rewards to investors as...
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...PICTURE As the second chapter in the four-chapter section entitled “Part 1: Financial Planning,” this chapter introduces the processes and financial statements associated with financial planning and budgeting. The fundamentals of record keeping and statement analysis are discussed. Also introduced in this chapter are the financial ratios and how they are used to gauge financial health. These financial statements and formulas lay the foundation for understanding the overall picture of financial planning and Part II: Managing Your Money. An important message to students in this chapter is the importance of starting a financial plan early in the life cycle. Time is one of the biggest allies for a successful plan. CHAPTER SUMMARY This chapter establishes the importance of good record keeping and the use of financial statements. Balance sheets and income statements are the basis for most financial analysis, including the calculation of ratios to measure financial health. The financial ratios discussed measure liquidity, debt, and savings. Strategies for developing and using a cash budget are explained within the broader context of financial planning. The benefits of budgeting, whether for individuals in financial trouble or for those seeking more control over their money, are considered. Lastly, the role of professional financial planners, their services and their costs are presented. Financial planners can validate an existing plan or devise a financial plan. LEARNING...
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...of nursing and provide a basis for nursing activities. It endorses ethical values we hold as basic and bases our beliefs in theory. Nursing philosophy is based on both professional organization and individual definitions. Many factors both intrinsically and extrinsically influence one’s personal perceptions of the great profession called nursing. Every nurse is accountable for maintaining her own knowledge and education after completion of a nursing program. With a focus on personal professional growth that intellectually stimulates and promotes individual autonomy with her given specialty of practice, a nurse can greatly improve her self-confidence and professional motivation, thus providing a firm foundation on which to base her nursing judgment. Nursing Philosophy One strategy nurses can use to affirm that their practice is in harmony with their value system is to write a personal philosophy statement. This might be general in nature, such as a philosophy that relates to life values; it could be a philosophy statement related to beliefs about the profession of nursing; or it might be a philosophy specific to school nursing. In each case, this activity will encourage nurses to clarify their values and then examine how their philosophy fits with their professional practice. Articulating a philosophy statement is an intellectual activity that requires careful thought, because values need to be identified, clarified, and prioritized. As the profession of nursing is dealing...
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... Having the courage to do the right thing D. Not subordinating professional judgment to others 2. Ethical relativism can best be described as a: A. Point of view that morality is relative to the norms of one's culture. B. Concept that holds that integrity should be maintained in the face of pressure by others. C. An ethical reasoning method that holds one should always act out of self-interest. D. An ethical reasoning method that holds one should always consider the effect of one's actions on others. 3. When is it appropriate to contact the audit committee about a difference of opinion with the CFO over an accounting or financial reporting manner? A. If the CFO does not agree to correct the financial statements B. The CEO supports the CFO and does not agree to correct the financial statements C. The external auditors support the CEO and do not agree to correct the financial statements D. The audit committee should always be the first to be informed about such a difference of opinion 4. An internal accountant should always take the following step after exhausting all avenues of appeal within the organization when there is a difference of opinion with top management on an accounting or financial reporting matter: A. Inform the SEC B. Terminate employment with the entity C. Seek legal advice before taking any action D. All of the above 5. The Public Interest Principle in the AICPA Code of Professional Conduct recognizes: A. The importance of integrity in decision...
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...Professional Career Action Plan Kara Jenkins HCS/449 January 2, 2015 Instructor: Michael Jones Professional Career Action Plan It is agreed upon by many that the pathway to achieving success involves the establishment of goals. Through this paper I will outline my professional goals and the job I would like to obtain in the health care field. I will also address skills that I have currently acquired and skills that I would like to acquire and skills that I need to change or alter. In closing I will review my plan to achieve these goals, I will identify the organization(s) that will help me achieve these goals, and I will identify how a career action plan outline will benefit my goals. The key to setting career goals begins with having a clear vision of the end state you are trying to achieve. This needs to occur before you can take actions to reach that goal. With that being stated, developing a vision statement for your career path is the first step in reaching your career goals ("Berkeley HR", 2015). My personal vision statement is to become a human resources manager, but not to just become a human resources manager. I want to become a manager with integrity, trust and respect for all persons that I encounter. I also want to be an encourager and one who empowers my staff to the greatest extent possible. Once I have clearly defined my vision statement, I must then give serious consideration to how I plan to make that vision a reality. In setting my goals...
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...Professional Development Plan Student: Phanuel R. Mubamba, phanuel.mubamba@waldenu.edu Student ID # A00262074 DDBA 8005-6 Foundations for Doctoral Business Administration Studies Program: Doctor of Business Administration Specialization: Entrepreneurship Walden University September 19, 2010 Professional Development Plan Professional Development Plan (PDP) is a short planning document that examines my current Continuing Professional Development (CPD) needs, looks at how these might be met and lists objectives for the future. It helps to structure and focus my training needs and should address the following points: • Where am I now? • Where am I going? • How am I going to get there? (http://www.ciht.org.uk/en/education--training/continuing-professional-development/professional-development-plan.cfm). Nowadays, with significant changes in government policies and priorities affecting our industry and profession, the need for training to ensure that our skills are up to date and ready to meet these challenges is ever more important (http://www.ciht.org.uk/en/education--training/continuing-professional-development/professional-development-plan.cfm). The planning process for writing a PDP ensures that educators remain deeply committed to professional growth and will keep places that motivate and engage all students. Writing a PDP allows the educator to direct his or her own professional growth and determine how...
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... The second part of the proposed athletic apparel company will consist of a SWOTT analysis. SWOTT is an acronym for strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, threats and trends. One of the strengths for JC's athletic apparel is location, location, location. South Texas, particularly Corpus Christi Texas, is currently a hot bed for all kinds of sports and prospective customers are all over the place. Customers range from toddlers all the way to high school aged athletes, not to mention the older fans and supporters that will no doubt purchase apparel to support the team. It has been said to strike while the iron is hot and now is the time for JC's to take off and attack the market. Strength for the company is the demand for professional grade athletic apparel here in the coastal bend. Many customers have been forced to either make bulk purchases online and pay an arm and leg in shipping or travel to another town in order to find reasonable quality athletic gear. Unfortunately with strengths there are also weaknesses. Although there is a high demand in the city for athletic apparel it is a particularly small city and additional businesses in the same market could cause saturation of the market which could decrease demands and force us to lower prices. JC's prices could be perceived as another weakness since we have chosen to remain steadfast in not lowering our prices in an effort to provide continued high quality products. As previously mentioned if the market becomes...
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...stockholders or creditors; however, her focus was the internal accounting services and needs of the business’s management. Mrs. Jones confirms there is a difference between managerial and financial accounting. Her career choice was managerial accounting which specialized in helping gather and communicate the information needed to set the company’s long term objectives and goals for cost control, revenue strengths and weaknesses, and profit data statistics within in local departments, regional and often territorial plants. At times, Mrs. Jones found herself working with certain data regarding customer groups and how they would be affecting that business segment in the future. This differed from financial accounting in that the latter would handle the matter from a historical account of the numbers taking past records and data to make future goals relevant and this type of accounting is necessary for certain external report to comply with the generally accepted accounting principles, GAAP, guidelines and the international financial reporting standards, IFRS; whereas, the managerial accounting professionals do not need to follow GAAP or IFRS(J. W. Jones, personal...
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...FROM: Student XXX DATE: October 22, 2012 SUBJECT: Professional responsibilities of a CPA and the difference between a review and an audit. Difference between a review and an audit. An audit expresses an opinion on the financial statements. Its primary goal is to see if the financial statements contain material misstatements. In an audit, the auditor would sample and test transactions, confirm receivables and more to check internal controls and accounting procedures. A review only expresses a limited assurance that the financials have been put together properly. The primary goal of a review attestation engagement is to express limited assurance that no material changes should be made to the financial statement in order for them to be in conformity with general accepted accounting principles. During the course of a review, the auditor would perform limited procedures and inquiries, less than a formal audit. An example is performing analytical procedures on the financial statements. The reviewer would compute the traditional ratios for liquidity, solvency, turnover, and profitability to see if they have changed from the prior year or expected relationships. If they have, the reviewing auditor would ask about why and see if the explanation made sense given the rest of the data available and their understanding of the activity during the period. Professional responsibilities as a CPA I am responsible to exercise professional judgment to determine allocations, valuations, performance...
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...|[pic] |MAN 385: Leadership Development | | |Fall 2011, #04693 | Professor Deidra Stephens, Ph.D. Office CBA 5.133 Phone 232-3780 E-Mail deidra.stephens@mccombs.utexas.edu Course Web Page via Blackboard Class Date/Time/Location Tuesdays, 3:30-6:30 p.m., GSB 5.154 Office Hours By Appointment Course Description & Objectives The Texas MBA program is designed to develop influential business leaders. The MBA Program has identified four fundamental and broad pillars of leadership: knowledge and understanding, communication and collaboration, responsibility and integrity, and a worldview of business and society. This class is designed to help students develop a deeper understanding of their leadership capabilities in the context of business. During the first year of their Texas MBA program, students engage in co-curricular programs, services, and leadership roles that are designed primarily to develop their skills. These activities are meant to introduce students to a wide variety of topics, help them hone in on their own strengths and weaknesses, and provide them with a foundation from which they can further their leadership development into their second year. The task during the...
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...prevention of infections. Johnson and Johnson are of the leading pharama company. According to different survey reports Johnson and Johnson is stood at the top of the list. It provides a wide range of household names of medication, first aid medicines and specially a variety of baby care products. People blindly trust on the products of Johnson and Johnson. The baby care products are attracts the attention of mothers in all over the world. Even in developing countries mothers mostly prefer Johnson and Johnson baby products for the appropriate care of their babies. The company is also well-known for its other products as well. Mission statement of Johnson and Johnson It is the core and central responsibility and desire of the organization to provide the safe and most reliable products and services to our consumers, employees, medical professionals and stockholders. The continuous growth of market and increasing competitive advantage across the regions will guaranty the improving ratio of profit and it is come true because of the...
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...My Approach to Writing I have three educational goals of this course. I want to gain a bachelor’s degree in Business Administration. My next goal would be to get a job within my field such as a Public Relations Specialist or an Office Administrator. My third goal of this course is to pursue my education to a master’s degree gaining even more knowledge about my field. In expect to use writing in my university career writing reports and essays, summarizing, and researching. In my professional life writing plays a major role especially in business. Business fields such as marketing, finance, and research need excellent writing skills to properly convey ideas and concepts. Types of writing in professional careers include resumes, company communications, emails, presentations, reports and visual aids. Professionals use factual statements, evidence and reasons for statements they made, which encourages readers to agree with them. Keeping a journal since junior high trained me to be more observant. Instead of paying attention to the negative side of things I pay attention to the positive side. Have you ever lost train of thought? My memory is improved by writing down my ideas in my journal. In my personal life writing also helps me express my thoughts. Sometimes I write down things from a lesson in my journal to help write more detailed statements. In writing an academic paper my goals are to write a paper that will be acceptable. Some papers are poorly written, which makes it harder...
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...Nursing Practicum Goals Introduction As the last course of the RN-BSN is now underway, the author of this paper is ecstatic to be near the end and is genuinely impressed with the material that has been learned of the past year. The nursing practicum and capstone course serves as a closing to an extremely fast paced and exciting program. This is when everything that has been taught up to this point now makes sense and hopefully is shown in discussions, lectures, written assignments, and class participation. The purpose of this paper is to discuss how Broward Health North and Nadine Phillips were chosen as the location and preceptor for the capstone project and to successfully develop three professional measurable goals that integrate and reflect the RN-BSN program objectives. Broward Health North Broward Health North is the location in which the nursing capstone hours will be taking place. Broward Health has been providing service to South Florida for over 70 years and encompasses more than 30 healthcare facilities, Broward Health North (BHN) being one of their main hospital locations (browardhealth.org, 2013). BHN is a 409 bed level II trauma hospital located that has been serving the Deerfield Beach area since 1961 (browardhealth.org). The reason this particular location was chosen for the student to complete the capstone project is because the student has been employed at this facility since 2007 and has seen the rapid changes and improvements accomplished at this hospital...
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